Cheryl Fox, executive director of the Summit Land Conservancy, wrote a letter to the editor which appeared in the Sept. 27 Park Record wherein she offered the following suggestion concerning the 5-acre Bonanza Park parcel owned by the city: Develop it, but only as a park. Another letter in the Aug. 9 edition from Jeri Benoit, visiting from Phoenix, described the town as “Park City unfolds like a well kept secret. This place is something special.”
While these letters may seem to portray different perspectives, they actually have something very much in common: a deep deep appreciation of the privilege of living here.
In Cheryl’s case, like many of us, her story is the classic tale of coming for a temporary stay and never leaving. But let’s face it. Some of the qualities that make Park City