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Show A-1 5 WEDNESDAY. MAY 17, 2000 Mam EDITORIAL' In our hearts and on Main Strest hey! where isau - THE PARK RICQRD Viewpoints. III I Hi IMI II Mil will aillUMM III lMtlMlii iWIWMlTOiin r We pay tribute this week lo two Park City legends for their roles in ensuring Park Gtv's success. Former United Park City Mines Companv President Jim hers III will be laid to rest this Sunday after skill fully guwmg me community tnrough its transition from mining town to ski resort. Coiividentallv. last Saturday. Ascendents of Sam Raddon, publisher of The Park Record from 14 to 1947, gathered to share their memories mem-ories of this feisty character who championed the rebuilding effort following the Great Fire of 1898 and tallied citizens' spirits in the face of two World Wars imi two depressions. Both are immortalized on Main Street, though each would have downplaved the distinction. Last summer, Ivers was coerced into posing for a bronze statue of a miner. His credentials included everything from hauling ore by horse team to serv ing as msne company boss, but he made every effort to deflect the honor onto all of the miners who labored underground. under-ground. At the unveiling of the statue on Main Street last Miners Day. Ivers spoke humbly of the sacrifices they made which eventually paved the way for today's pro ,ienty. But it was hers who deserves much of the credit for fiing the initial nod to the Park City ski area. Without the mining company's support, the project would never nave gotten off the ground. Under his direction, the t PCM granted the fledgling resort permission lo install lifts and ski runs on its property . The decision turned LETTERS TO THE EDITOR out to be a hfesaver for the mining company but for many years, it was UPCM that kept the ski area afloat. Across Main Street from the bronzed miner is a new ly installed plaque honoring Sam Raddon. Raddon was the archetypal community newspaper publisher - outspoken, hardworking arid motivated solely by commitment to the community. He ran the paper at a time when there were few telephones and no television. As a result, citizens counted on their local newspaper to fill many roles: government watchdog, business booster, social registrar, gossip purveyor, historian his-torian and lifeline to the rest of the world. Raddon s Record fullfilled all those expectations and more. Residents affectionately referred to him as -Dad," and kids were said to follow him down Main Street because they knew his pockets were fuD of candies. Down in the Salt Lake Valley, though. Raddon was considered somewhat of a heretic and a rabble-rouser a reputation he privately enjoyed. He often took opposing stands on statewide issues and he took pride in cementing Park City's distinction as a cultural anomaly anom-aly in Utah. Raddon's perseverance and individualism are st ill evident evi-dent in Park City and The Park Record owes its longevity longevi-ty and its integral role in the community to the example he set. Now. with their memories preserved on Main Street, Jvcrs and Raddon may rest in peace. Their legacies will live on. jonn msou meow Successful Evening of Excellence Editor: On Thursday. May 11. the Park City Education Foundation's Third Annual Evening of Excellence was held at the Etcles Center for the Performing Arts. This year's cetebration included the annual annu-al teacher and volunteer recognition awards, along with over 70 scholarship a ards to graduating seniors of Park City High School. On behalf of the Park City Education Foundation, we would like to thank our corporate sponsors. Deer Valley Resort, Park City Mountain Resort and The Cantons, as well as our scholarship donors, business partners and Evening of Excellence committee. The generosity of this community was once again graciously displayed in supporting this evening, and it providing these well deserved teaching excellence awards and scholarships for PCHS seniors. ' A special thanks to our master of ceremonies. cere-monies. Merlin Olsen. who hosted a wonderful won-derful evening filled with warmth and personal per-sonal reflections on the importance of education m tils life and cafeeT.4 The evening was kicked off with a per-amance per-amance bv the Park City Hieh School Hard-winning jazz band, directed by Bill Ku.inke Then a delightful slide presenta-firn presenta-firn of nominees for the evening's awards. ikilsd by Debbie Walsh, set the stage for fite rest of the evening. Martha Crook wJicated the evening and our program to Linda Singer Bcrrett, long-time Park City resident and Prk City School District administrator, who passed away on the morning of May 11. Linda touched the lives of hundreds of Park City people, and she will be greatly missed. Kudos to Kerby Avedovech, Mary Kay Becker, Kathy Black. Marion Boland, Kim Carson, Linda Ferguson, Jerry Fiat, Tammy Gonsalves. Kay Grimmc, Dale Hart. Shaunna Hood, Chris Kecler. Gerry Maack, Elaine McTigue. Mary Morrison, Theresa Nichols. Claire Perricr. Kathryn Rommel, Larry Sheldon, Betsy Shotwell-Smtth. Shotwell-Smtth. Bob Slizeski. Ann Sturgis, Debby Turkington, Debbie Walsh and Jane Washington, who collectively spent thousands thou-sands of hours lo make this evening happen. hap-pen. And finally, thanks to Brad Olson at the Eccles Center for going above and beyond to accommodate our needs; to the Rosch family at Copy Depot for always "making it happen;" and to Rich Levi and Debbie Katz for their contribution in video taping the teacher awards in the schools. What a wonderful community we live in. Thanks to all of you who lent a hand to this year's event! Grateful in Park Citv, Luann Flanders and Ttri Mai'oney Co chairs, 2000 Evening of Excellence Award recipient says thanks Editor Although I was honored as Volunteer of the Year for Ecker Hill Middle Schooi, I wanted to thank all the great staff, teachers, teach-ers, office personal and PTO presidents at Parley's Park Elementary Schooi. Jeremy Ranch Elementary School. Treasure Mountain Middle School and Ecker Hill GUEST EDITORIAL it's rape, plain and simple by JIM SCHEFTER None dare call it rape. So I will. Park City and Summit County are being environmentally raped by developers. The people who are supposed to protect us our elected politicians dent seem to care. ' The facts are certainly obvious and the numbers are astounding: ' Our air at 7,(XK) feet is 14 percent less dense than sea lcveL It gets dirtier from truck and car pollution, arid hotter from reflected heat, than air does down below. Rising heat that would be meaningless at sea level turns into strong breezes and winds up here. We arc in a geographically unique altitude alti-tude site, only 15 miles from a wide and arid desert Park City is a geologic cul-de-sac. SnydcrviUe is a $f mi-and mountain valley. 1"Hose facts magnify the rape. The politicians compare us to Aspen. But Aspen's air is cooled by 200 miles of mountains. moun-tains. Our air comes over the Wasatch after being heated by 500 miles of desert. That heat mates our thin atmosphere even more fragile. Then there are the trucks. So many, many trucks. Ev ery day. 1 1 -000 trucks cross Summit County, border lo border, on i-4L Each of those trucks spe ws diesel or gasoline gaso-line exhaust into Summit County's fragile air. There is nothing we can do about this ongoing rape. ' But we can do something about local truck traffic Every work day, 14,000 truck-trips truck-trips most of them involved in construction construc-tion move to and from Kimball Junction and Park City, Another 5.000 trucks-trips move along U.S. 40 between 1-80 and the Park Cty cutoff at S.R. 748. Each trip contaminates con-taminates the air, adding to a growing smog and heat problem. " Trucks pollute more than cars. They're allowed, by federal law. i - Summit County air quality is deteriorating. deteriorat-ing. One dav soon, our cars will be required to get emissions inspections befor new license tags are iswed. Tae cost to county resident m time and money for that alone ill exceed $2 million per year. That cost will be your time to get the inspection and your money that will pav for jt The way lo scop truck traffic lo slop condoning environmental rape aka construction con-struction projects. Then there' heat. Since 1990. more Shan 5.000 meadow acres of Park Citv and Snydemlle Basin have been covered by commercial and residential structures, and by concrete and asphalt parking lots and streets. There's a lot more to come, thanks to our county commissioners and city council coun-cil members. Solar energy (heat) that was absorbed by those meadows is now reflected Irom windows, win-dows, roofs and asphalt back into our thin air. Our average daily temperature is going up and, in winter, that means less snow, less of what we once were famous for. Development is killing the golden goose. The last few years of late snow are no aberration. It's a'result of dev elopment and it's going to get worse. Question for the World Cup Do you know how jo say -Colorado?" Now a village center is coming to Kimball Junction. Stupid, stupid, stupid! What's realty coming is vnore asphalt, more concrete, more trucks, more reflecting windows, win-dows, more furnaces and fireplaces, more pollution, more rape. Add to that the commercial space that will sit empty for months of yean just as it already does throughout Park City and Snyderville. Question for the politicians; Do you know how lo say "over-buiit?" Why dcA l the wuuty coiumu&toa and nty council require developers to deliver a detailed and accurate report on the environmental envi-ronmental impact of their greed? Why dont they factor in the increased truck traffic and emissions that each new project brings? Why dont they understand that the environment envi-ronment of Summit County simply cannot absorb another insult? Each new rape brings permanent damage It cant be fixed. Any development that adds to air pollution pollu-tion should be disapproved. Any development that is not beat neutral it should be designed to soak up as much heat as it reflects back into our air should be disapproved. Any commercial project that does not have at least 50 percent of its space leased in advance should be disapproved. We already have enough empty buildings to meet any foreseeable need. None of these measures is dtirooian. They'it simple, common seme. But unless our politicians stop suckiog ;p to developers, the rape will conttawe. And the rapists will swagger all the way to the bank. Middle School, with whom I have worked through the 10 years. I was honored and pleased to work with such a wonderful group of people. They ail have made this recognition a very rewarding and enjoyable enjoy-able experience. Thank You. Sue Brekke Unbiased reporting Editor Gene Cora pi w rote an editorial letter to the editor), published May 3 about onesided one-sided reporting. The Park Record published it and informed this reader you do print most editorials as submitted. I read it twice, then gave it to my wife to read, which she did. and said "It doesn't make sense." I read the editorial a third time, word by word, and determined a response would be too insulting to Gene Corapi for you to print, for he does confuse his reader. As a 30-year absentee owner in Old Town Park City. I read avidly pages one and two and Viewpoints of The Record and deeply respect vduAiribiased reporting. report-ing. The Record has published editorials on the L'UHN vs. doctors, emotional editorials, editori-als, financial editorials, local physician editorials. UUHN editorials and last, but not least, personal editorials. What else can you 4c Please continue your open edi'onal policy. pol-icy. Respectfullv submitted. C. Pierre DeLawter, M.D. Pasadena. Calif, and Park Citv first starched the golf course and then around our house. There w ere two sets of tracks in the frosty grass. Only one crash, so they threw together. The rocks were large, I 34 and three pounds. Several thoughts the rocks were large enough to cause death or severe injury. The people had no knowledge what or who was on the inside of the window, win-dow, and probably did not care. We have had mail boxes destroyed in the past, but this present incident is an escalation in damage. Perhaps the mail box bashers are into bigger damage. Another 10 years sad they may torch homes! The police mentioned that the rock throwers left a trail of damage. They tossed rocks into the garages of Three Kings Condos. trashed the glass on the bus shelter on Three Kings Drive. Further north, they broke the florescent tubes that illuminated the signs on the Three Kings Condos, and also put a large cumber of rocks on Three Kings Drive. We went to bed about 5 a.m. after cleaning glass, taping the broken window, win-dow, both to keep out the cold air and to keep more glass from failing into the house. There are also cracked tiles from the rocks, dents on the wall from the rocks and flying glass and some woodwork damage. dam-age. Roger and Jean Lahn The great debate Escalating vandalism Editor We were sleeping soundly at 1:15 a.m. on May 13, when we heard a crash, 1 turned on the lights and found that someone some-one had thrown two rocks through two w indows. I called 91 1. the police came and Editor: I've just returned from having lunch with my daughter. Ingrid, and a bunch of her fifth grade friends at Farley's Park Elementary Schooi Several of us at lunch had just come from the fourth and fifth grades district-wide spontaneous debate held earlier this morning (May 16) at The Canyons Grand Summit Hotel. I smiled as the girls continued the spirit of the debate, vehemently negotiating over w ho had the best trade in their sack lunches for today's coveted hot lunch side dish Tater Tots. I couldn't help but think about how really useful the art of persuasion can be. I'm so pleased that our elementary students stu-dents have been given the opportunity to GUEST EDITORIAL' Buckle up, America submitted by LOUIS De CAROUS, . National Highway Traffic Safety Administration As you may know from experience, automobile crashes happen without warning. warn-ing. Every 14 seconds, someone is injured in a traffic crash and every 14 minutes, someone is kilted. In an instant, a family's life can change No one can quantify the emotional cost of losing a loved one. But the financial and societal costs of crashes are both real and tangible: Crashes cost America more than $150 billion a year an average of $550 per person. How can we reduce these costs? It's simple: get more people to buckle up themselves and their children. The cost of unbuckled drivers and passengers pas-sengers goes far beyond those killed and the loss to their families. We all pay in higher taxes, higher health care and higher insurance costs. On average, in-patient hospital care costs for unbuckled crash victims vic-tims are 50 percent higher than for those w ho are belted and society bears 85 percent per-cent of those costs, not the individuals involved. Increasing national seat belt use from the current 9 percent lo 90 percent would save an estimated 5.536 hves. prevent pre-vent 132.670 injuries, and save America nearly S9 billion every year. To save hves and protect children, we must do more to raise adult seat belt use in this country. According lo national crash data, when a driver is buckled up. ctuidrea are buckled ? 94 percent of the time; however, when a driver is unbuckled, ctuidrea ctui-drea are restrained only 30 percent of the time. We know what works; Strong, primary prima-ry eniorcemeat seal belt laws those that allow pohce to stop and tkket a driver for not wearing a seat bell and stronger eaforcemtint of those lams. Stronger laws and enforcement get droits and their cfc3d passengers buckled up. Some wiS argue that it is a matter of "personal freedom' to drive unbuckled. But the fact is. in our society personal freedoms free-doms stop where other people are injured or kiDcd. This is especially true when it comes to children's safety. Crashes are devastating to unbuckled children. A child imresuained in a 30-rnile-per-hour crash ts tike a child dropped from a third story window. win-dow. Yet adults who do not buckle up are sending children a deadly message that it is all right not to use seat belts. Nobody is immune to the deadly and costly effects of unbuckled drivers. And the work to get everyone buckled up cannot can-not be done solely by individuals sud cotn-uviaity cotn-uviaity groups. Businesses, too, must get mvotatd. Traffic crashes are the leading cause of on-the-job fatalities. Qeshes drive up costs for health iod disability insurance und , increase workers compensation expenses for employers. Businesses can participate by creating mandatory seat be ll policies within their organizations and by using their resources and dout to help pan stronger laws and support seat belt and child safety seat enforcement efforts. , Buckling up is stiD the most effective and immediate way to save hves and reduce injuries from crashes on Aeaerkal roadways. road-ways. Unlike so many of the compki problems prob-lems facing America today, we have the solution. It is so simple just buckle up. And because we are all persooaQy affected when even one person does not buckle up, we aB must be a part of thesotuttofi. . You caa bcp solve the problem by making mak-ing sure everyone it always buckled up in your vehicle on every trip. Ptaa, to show 'a stipport for enforcemewt of seat bck acd dull safety seat laws, yun can complete com-plete and fas or aui the accoaapaoying Endorsement for EnforocaataL" it's tunc to Backk Up Aacncaf learn how to cirefuOy think through the pros and cons of a argument, how to take everything into consideration when they make a decision, how to organize their thoughts quickly and how to develop their fublic speaking skills. What a great event! would like lo thank Susan Grtlia al the Grand Summit Hotel. The Canyons Resort, for providing an outstanding fadl-ity; fadl-ity; Nancy DeFord and Merry Haugea at the Park City School District for making this opportunity aaiab!e: Jenny Papadakis for the students participation certificates; all the parent volunteers for helpinc the event run smoothly, and espe-oally espe-oally Barbara Lewis and Chris Founuer of the school district's PATHS Prograaj (that's the Program for Academically Talented and High-achievin Students) for orchestrating the whole event Be careful, parents, these kids are prepared pre-pared to debate anything from the benefits ben-efits of humsin cloning to which is a better trade. Oreo or Pokemon Fruit Snacks, for Tater Tots. Thanks to everyone involved. It was a great sucrcs!. Smcerelv. Kirtten Nilason P S. Pokemon triumphed, u ilwiys. 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