COVID-19 News Coverage – Summit County and Wasatch County, Utah

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Local News Hour - July 12,2021

KPCW | By Leslie Thatcher

Published July 12, 2021 at 9:50 AM MDT

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On today's Local news Hour:

( 03:07) Sean Higgins story about a Memorial service held Friday for a Park City man who was killed in a motorized skateboarding accident over the Fourth of July Weekend.

( 06:46) Director of the National Ski Hall of Fame Justin Koski has details about three of this year's inductees – all from the Park City area: Holly Flanders, Hank Tauber and Howard Peterson.

( 20:51) Along with rising temperatures and drought, climate change has another side effect in the Wasatch Back: dust and the poor air quality that comes with it as Sean Higgins reports.

( 23:26) University of Utah Professor Daniel Mendoza has details on a new published study detailing how air quality changed in Park City during the COVID-19 pandemic – and one of his air quality sensors was on the KPCW rooftop.

( 35:24) The Wasatch County Sheriff's Office announced Sunday night that three men were arrested in connection with a 7-year-old, Zaydanielys "Zai" Rodriguez-Irizarry, who was shot and killed at the Wasatch Commons Apartments Friday night.

(37:28) Park City Education Foundation Ex. Director Abby McNulty has an update on programs offered by the foundation.