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Show B-12 The Park Record WedThursFri, June 30-July 2, 2004 How We Live Is Very Much Influenced By Where We Live. Park CityDeer Valley provides room to ski, hike, golf, bike, fish, roam -or in other words, live life to the fullest. We offer properties that let you explore all of life's possibilities in the Wasatch Mountains. LiveWelL ; i --ii -i nr m T JUL ' 1 f v , ,.AV; -7-. :rrtyyhie treking west from the wilds of Georgia to the 1 mountains of Utah our frog friend has disappeared. (In all honesty, he has been known to exhibit some eccentric behavior.) If you spot our friendly frog please contact the Redstone Gallery in the Redstone Center. We love you Frogums, Come Home! H! ir l t . 1 Do Si redstone gallery ' Km i; ii it Mark Sletten, realtor Mobile: 435.640.0930 Robin Sletten, realtor Mobile: 435.640.0218 Office: 435.647.8080 Fax: 435.655.7745 www.slettenrealestate.com Our (jffice is located at Park City Mtn. Resort Center, Park City, IT 84060 Prudential Utah Real Estate Ead) Otticr lnlqxfidrnthr Owned And Operated n I, I V -4 MOUNTAIN TOWN NEWS Banff permits moped rentals in downtown By ALLEN BEST Record guest writer BANFF, Alberta - Banff's planning commission has approved rental of mopeds in the downtown core, despite the warning of the town staff that the two-stroke engines that power the mopeds will make lawnmow-er lawnmow-er or chainsaw-type noises outside out-side hotel and restaurant windows. win-dows. The commission reported being concerned by the noise, but was mollified by the applicants argument that the mopeds will be using a new synthetic oil that emits no smoke, reports the Rocky Mountain Outlook. The applicant also argued, apparently persuasively, that if the federal government permits mopeds, who was Banff to do otherwise? Canadian standards group to take up skiing helmets VANCOUVER, B.C. - The Canadian Standards Association will create standards for helmets used in skateboarding, in-line skating, skiing and snowboard- Eco-terrorists strike By MATT CANHAM MediaNews Group Wire Utah's legacy of activism in the name of earth, plants and animals reaches back to the earliest ear-liest days of Edward Abbey's lament against the construction of roads in the desert and Sierra Club leader David Brower's fight to stop dams on the Colorado, Yampa and Green rivers. Those were gentler days. Last week's arson at a West Jordan, Utah, lumber company, supposedly because the Earth Liberation Front ' was upset at the pollutants emitted by fork-lifts, fork-lifts, was the most recent in a decade of violent attacks on Utah establishments, including animal farms, leather shops and fast food restaurants. Beginning in the 1990s, animal ani-mal rights extremists in Utah began releasing hundreds of penned creatures in the dead of night and tossing pipe bombs and Molotov cocktails. TheW domestic terrorists are part of a multi-national movement move-ment advocating a violent revolution revo-lution to stop animal testing, sprawl and deforestation. While most environmental and animal activists are peaceful, the ELF, and its sister group the Animal Liberation Front, have convinced a steady stream of young Utahns that letter writing and picketing aren't enough. "They transition to a higher level of violence in order to achieve their objectives." said FBI Supervisory Special Agent Ray Mey, who has watched the rhetoric grow more dangerous. While the ALF has claimed responsibility for attacks as far t t 1 r nr tt t? 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The child was wearing a helmet, but it had not been certified certi-fied by any recognized safety organizations in North America. Creating a set of standards will take 12 to 18 months, as researchers will have to define the risk to users of existing helmets, hel-mets, and create standards that the helmets can be judged by. Another bar hops on nonsmoking non-smoking wagon JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. Bars and restaurants in Jackson Hole continue to jump onto the no-smoking-allowed bandwagon. back as 1991. the ELF is a relatively rela-tively new phenomenon in Utah, first striking in September 2001 by disrupting scientific equipment equip-ment at a southern Utah oil and gas exploration operation. In 2002, ELF supporters damaged a West Jordan construction site, leaving behind graffiti that referenced refer-enced Abbey's famous work of fiction. "The Monkey Wrench Gang." which described a band of four environmentalists "liberating" "liber-ating" portions of Utah and Arizona from miners and developers. devel-opers. The June 14 lire, which caused $1.5 million in damage, was by far the largest direct action taken by environmental guerrillas in Utah, though in other states the ELF has claimed-responsibility claimed-responsibility for tens of millions of dollars in damage to ski resorts. SUV dealerships and timber companies. Leslie James Pickering was the last official ELF spokesman before he left the group to join a broader-based revolutionary organization. He said the ELF follows the standard guerrilla warfare model of individual cells operating on their own, without any knowledge knowl-edge of others involved in the movement. The ELF has no leadership structure and encourages sympathizers sympa-thizers to take direct illegal actions against those who abuse the environment. 'Die ALF operates in the same fashion. 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Smoking was already banned in the dining room and in guest rooms, but the general manager told the Jackson Hole News & Guide that health considerations for employees and patrons drove the decision. Racks encourage bicycles in Jackson use of JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. -Jackson has a problem with traffic traf-fic congestion. But now, the town is actively aiding those on bicycles bicy-cles with installation of two sets of bike racks in the downtown area. Among those who ride bicycles is the mayor. Mark Barron, who rides to and from work, reports the Jackson Hole News & Guide. Allen Best has edited mountain town newspapers for 20 years. He has served as managing editor at four different mountain town newspapers news-papers and is now living in metropolitan metro-politan Denver. in Utah "The way the world works is that you have to force change cause economic damage, so they can't cause the destruction of the earth any more." Nonviolent environmental activist Lawson LeGate, who works with the Sierra Club, says the ELF has "no foundation for that point of view." "These people are not environmentalists, envi-ronmentalists, they are arsonists," arson-ists," LeGate said. "Anytime somebody commits an act such as this and invokes a cause, that obviously takes that cause and besmirches it." But eco-terrorism has gained traction among some young Americans. The typical ALFELF member mem-ber is a white, upper-middle class male between 16 and 25 years old. who is well educated, passionate pas-sionate about his cause and aware of basic police investigative investiga-tive tactics, according to Mey. Utah authorities have had some success in busting ALF members, with arrests made in the 1997 bombing of a fur-breeders co-op in Sandy and the arson of an under-construction fast food restaurant that same year. No known ELF members have been arrested in Utah, although investigators have made some headway in the latest case. The FBI seized a fax machine which someone used to send a message to a Salt Lake City radio station claiming the ELF started the West Jordan arson. So far. investigators have interviewed inter-viewed more than 100 potential witnesses. Mey promised a "methodical investigation" into this "pretty cowardly act of terrorism." . 4 , ,-1 11.11.1 mi IJL . T T Scott yumggio (435) 647-8039 (800) 553-4666 |