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Show Park City to host 1985 Special Olympics Park City News Thursday, December 23, 1982 Page A7 cfl After months of protracted negotiations, Park City has been named as the host site for the 1985 International Special Olympics winter games. Governor Matheson will make the formal announcement announce-ment today at a press conference at 9 a.m. in Salt Lake. According to Jim Murphy, executive director of the Utah division of the Special Olympics organization, hosting host-ing the games is quite an honor. "These games are held every four years much like the regular Olympics and involve 750 of the finest mentally retarded athletes from throughout the entire world," says Murphy. "Events will include ice skating, alpine skiing, cross country skiing and a wide variety of clinics, workshops and social activities designed de-signed to enhance the lives of Parley's Park principal resigns Robert Freeman, principal princi-pal of the Parley's Park Elementary School, has resigned re-signed to accept the position of principal of the Liberty Elementary School in the Murray City School District. School Superintendent Richard Goodworth told the Park City Newspaper that he received Freeman's letter of resignation Monday. It will become effective Jan. 7. "I think it's a loss to the district," Goodworth said. "I have been quite pleased with his progress and the progress pro-gress of the elementary school." Goodworth indicated that the Park City Board of Education had made no decision about looking for a replacement. "I think the first thing I will do is notify County looking for ambulances Summit County will advertise adver-tise for bids, early in January, to supply three new ambulances for the county. Health Director Frank Singleton said the money for the vehicles will come from a $105,000 loan from the state's department of Community Com-munity Development. The loan was made at 4',2 percent interest, he added. One vehicle would go to each ambulance company in Police n&ep Although his reasons weren't immediately clear, Eddie Rodriguez apparently needed a screen door. On Dec. 16, Susan Bluemel of 1027 Woodside was quite surprised to find Rodriguez apparently in the act of stealing her screen door. She phoned the Park City police. When Officer Witt arrived on the scene he found Rodriguez staggering out of Bluemel's yard with the screen door in his grasp. When Witt contacted the man, according to the police report he filed on the incident, "I smelled the strong odor of alcohol. I asked the subject what he was doing. He turned toward me, nearly falling, and muttered something I could not understand. The subject was unable to speak clearly nor could he finish a sentence." sen-tence." Rodriguez was placed under un-der arrest and transported to the Coalville jail. In other items : Three local juveniles were taken into custody on Dec. 16 after a shoplifting incident at Skaggs Alpha-Beta. Alpha-Beta. According to the store's security guard, Ed Pace, the three male youths were apprehended leaving the store with a bag of candy-worth candy-worth $1.50 which they hadn't paid for. All three were turned over to the Park City police before being released into the custody of their parents. Parkite Vicki Lynne Dickson's car was vandalized vandal-ized for unknown reasons by unknown persons on Dec. 17 at about 10:30 p.m. Her our handicapped citizens." The event will reportedly attract about 1,500 support personnel mostly volunteersas volun-teersas well as the 750 handicapped athletes. The event will be held March 24-29, 1985. According to Murphy, competition to host the games was fairly keen, with bids from Sun Valley and Shawnee, Pennsylvania also receiving serious consideration. considera-tion. "The acceptance of our bid," says Murphy, "came after no less than four onsite visits by the International Selection Committee and more than three months of thorough evaluation. "We have been striving for many years to bring the high degree of excellence to Special Olympics that the mentally retarded of Utah deserve and have now been given the marvelous yet somewhat overwhelming all the employees in the district," he said. He said the board may decide not to advertise for a permanent replacement until later in the school year. "I would like to see that it's advertised when we've got the greatest number of people who would be interested in-terested and available." Freeman has been the elementary school principal since August, 1980. He said he applied for the Murray job because it was closer to his West Jordan home, and because of the opportunity for advancement. Freeman said he had mixed feelings about leaving the Parley's Park school. "I think the staff is a good staff. I think the parents are exceptional. And you always get caught up in the kids." Summit: Holy Cross in Park City, North Summit in Coalville, and the South Summit firm in Kamas. Even if the vehicles cost less than $105,000, Singleton said, the surplus money will be used. "We have to order a couple of radios for them at $2500 apiece," he noted. The loan for the county was approved by the state at a December 2 meeting. windshield was smashed. Police have no suspects. There were several thefts in the area in the past few days. Some of the more prominent incidents included: in-cluded: A brown suede jacket valued at $200 was taken at the Cowboy Bar in the early morning hours of Dec. 18. Kjell Aasen, the coat's owner, reported that the theft occured while he was on the dance floor, having left his jacket hanging on the back of his chair. Inside the coat's pockets were his Norwegian driver's license and a Visa card. The suede, jacket was valued at $200. William VanderVeen of Park City also had a jacket stolen from a bar. His beige down jacket with his car keys and checkbook in the pocket was stolen from his place of employment, the Club, in the early morning hours of Dec. 19. Bryant Summers of Provo was victimized in the vicinity vicini-ty of the Three Kings lift at the Park City ski area about 4 p.m. on Dec. 19. Items taken included a leather bag, ski hat and a wallet containing contain-ing credit cards and a small amount of cash. Bonnie Perretti of Park City reports that a 19-inch Sylvania color TV valued at nearly $400 was taken from her unit at Lift Line Condos sometime between Nov. 24 and Dec. 9. Finally, somebodv took a no parking sign .alued at $120 on the night of Dec. 17. It had been put up, with the city's permission, only a day before by Jerry Shane of responsibility to share our state, our people and our programs with the rest of the world." According to Debby Sy-monds, Sy-monds, executive director of the Park City Chamber-Bureau, Chamber-Bureau, "The announcement that we're going to get the Special Olympics is fabulous. fabu-lous. I'm really pleased. It's going to be a great experience exper-ience for the whole town, something every segment of the community can get involved in." She notes that the event will require participation parti-cipation of local residents as host families to provide lodging for the athletes and volunteer workers. "It's been a lengthy nego City office hours City offices will be closed Friday through Monday, Dec. 24, 25, 26 and 27 for the Christmas holidays, and Friday through Sunday, Dec. 31, Jan. 1 and Jan. 2, for New Year's. Regular office hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. There will be no change in residential garbage pickup. However, commercial collection will not take place Dec. 25 or Jan. 1. There will be collections on the day before and the day after each holiday. For more information in-formation call G&F Disposal, 649-5049. The landfill site will be closed Dec. 24, 25 31 and Jan. 1. For information on city services during the holidays, call the public works office at 649-5912. tiating process to get these games here," she says. "Discussions began in the summer of 1981. We had to meet several times with the organization's national representatives. re-presentatives. They were very impressed with Park City." The Special Olympics organization or-ganization was created and is partly financed by the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation. The projected cost of putting on the games is $500,000. Much of the tab will reportedly be picked up by outside sponsors. The 1981 Special Olympics winter games were held in Smuggler's Notch, Vermont. in 7 I --V 3 -r'lY 1 fl L i .... , y- r f - - mi , . ' . ,- V. t , jW. ; r v, o. fm (i4J?C , 5U , a " """ ": t 1 The LOWEST-PRICED new condo in town! Luxurious Luxur-ious 2 and 3 bedroom condominium homes start at $85square foot! Additionally, your purchase can be linked to a 4 to 1 tax write-off program with a 668 internal rate of return. Price Waterhouse, accounting firm, has reviewed the program to ensure its integrity and accuracy. Come by our Main Street office or visit our Chatham model to inspect the investment package pack-age for yourself. Our model is open from 1-5 p.m. daily. Figures based on 50 tax bracket and 1982 purchase. 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