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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS News Trade Show and program envisioned here 4 could bring in million, Lake City developer, who noted he has been involved in condos at Brianhead. He had high praise for Kanabs potential. Continued from Page 1 Kanab has everything St. loRecreation Center George has and abetter climate, County cated east of the golf course, h e as serted. Kanab has a better including a new senior citizens future than St George in my center, a softball complex, a rodeo practice arena, an amphitheater, and a law enforcement training center. Lopeman said the softball complex could bring in over $2.1 million in' revenue. Were drawing the plans and applying for funding," he said, of the overall recreation center. Lopeman also referred to his Outlaw Movie Canyon" project that he hopes to develop in Dry Canyon, just north of town. He spotlighted the new emphasis of the county commission on improvingthe countys roads. Were going to fix up and pave 600 miles of roads in the county," he said. Were going to put signs on every entry to a road in Kane County. We want to welcome all visitors. If anyone can make the claim ofbeing the hub, it is Kane County. Wed like you to see it and use it. Were a jewel and were ready to be discovered. Resort Hotel Earl Milne of St. George, who said he represents a $16 million Salt Lake City trust, described the hotel project, which he said would be headed by Dale Clarkson. It would be a convention and resort hotel of approximately 300 rooms that would serve primarily bus tours and conventions. The trust has made preliminary contact with the Hilton hotel chain. "We want to determine the support or opposition we might receive from the local populace, Milne said. Ifthe group feels the local population is favorable, it is prepared to contract with Arthur Andersen & Co. to do a feasibility and target market study at a cost of $30,000. It will determine what the market is and should we proceed, and what amenities we should provide, the number of rooms, and this kind of information, Milne explained. RV Park The southern Utah area is gettingnational recognition, and we think theres an opportunity for a good first class RV park, said Woody Bachman, a Salt 2 MONDAY MAY 6, 1991 $11-$1- could be profit. of which One of the points in Randalls snappy presentation onhowin health and wellness activities are was thathealth is not an end in itself, but a tool to greater $8-$1- 2 asses" ITFrrtm f! opinion. Im sold more on Kanab than any other place. You have diamonds they just have to be dug out." Bachman noted that Kanab has been rated as among the top 1 00 RV destinations in the country. He pointed out that in Utah alone, there are 12,000 RV vehicles registered. Why should 1 m m i Dick Lowe shows a drawing of the proposed "Western Village and Heritage Museum. " $900,000-$970,00- 0. The debt would be around $100,000, he noted, and the facility is projected to generate a lot more than that in profit. Grants are available that Bachman in Kanab, mighthelp finance the museum, manently 18-Ho- le Golf Course You need an golf course because its the image of golf, asserted Buz Williams of Bountiful, who told the crowd hes been involved with golf in various ways for 50 years. Kanab can be a golfers destination resort," he said. This place is dynamite its open." Williams said the greatest need is for a driving range so people can learn to hit the ball." He said it would take only a few acres for a driving range, and suggested it could be paid for by making a sod farm out of it and using the grass for a city beautification program. Williams had some more general advice for the community in its effort to promote tourism. He said the road signs are OK, but service suggested. Clarkson explained later that the RV park would be located on 40 acres of land which he and Clark Lamb own, just east of town on the north side of Hwy. 89. The City Planning Commission voted to approve changing the zone from agricultural to highway commercial at its last meeing. or it is feasible to be done as totally a private endeavor, Lowe said. Concerning the projects potential, Lowe said tour buses would be a primary target Between 20 and 30 tour buses a day go through Kanab during the tourist season, dropping to five a day during the winter for an annual total of 225,000 people going through on buses, according to Lowe. Were talking about providing a facility to make the buses stop to make this a legitimate stop. It would provide some fun there are other signs that as well as culture. count," stressing the kind of welcome visitors to the area get. Center Equestrian I am going to locate an equesIve been involved in commutrian arts center somewhere in nities that would like to close southern Utah," asserted Stan the door, he said. This is the Allen of Roosevelt, who has pre- kind of place that becomes the sented his musical horse shows dinosaur of the future. The visitor has to be welat the Utah State Fair and elsewhere. There is great growth in comed," e said. That is a key the horse industry. I see a great par4 of vnateveryoudo.Thatis need for this type of thing some- how everyone can participate." where. Hopefully it can be in the Williams went on to describe area of Kanab. Im looking for a both good and bad experiences place thats friendly and hospi- he himself encountered in table. Kanab. Recounting an experiAllen, who did a horse train- ence of a restaurant hostess who ing clinic here about three years greeted him by saying, Were ago, said he wants to develop a glad youre in Kanab, he said, facility where he can present his Wow, what a welcome, what a musical equestrian arts pro- sign!" Williams closed his remarks gram on a nightly basis during tourist season. He also plans an by saying, I am available for excusive horse training pro- consulting for a small amount gram," commenting there is a probably for nothing. need for training horses and Health and Wellness Prohorse people. He said farther gram down the road he envisions a Dave Randall of Kanab, rephorsemans lodge where people resenting the WHALE (W ellness come and stay with their horses. Health & Lifestyle Education) Allen currently is working program, which is headquarted with the City Planning Com- in Colorado and is opening a mission and City Council to try facility at Snowbird in northern to find a way to use a vacant lot Utah, gave an entertaining preat 71 S. Main Street this sum- sentation on the increasing inmer to try out his show on a terest in health and fitness. He temporary basis. The city is said studies have shown that mulling whether it can allow the two most important things a such a use in a residential area destination resort center needs and whether the horses can be are a golf course and a health stabled there on a temporary and wellness program. basis. He such the kind of facility , Dick Lowe, owner of the Four Seasons Motor Inn and Richards Restaurant, described a con- ceived museum, shopping, and theater facility. He showed plans for 18,000-20,00- 0 square feet of museum space to display artifacts from this areas three major cultures cowboy, Indian, and Mormon pioneer sur- rounded by 21 retail shops designed around a Western Village theme. Also included would be a food area and a repertory 0 theater that would seat where nightly melodramas 200-25- would be presented. Lowe said he has contacted both Southern Utah University and Dixie College about the possibility of their theater departments producing such a melodrama. Lowe said the facility could be built on under two acres for about The last presentation was by Dale White, a promoter and video producer who has a studio in Pasadena, Calif. He said he has been making films for 30 years and proposed thathe make about a video, called "The Canyons of Kanab," that could be widely distributed to advertise Kanab as the hub of the canyon country. Its been shown that eight times more is remembered when you see it, White explained. White cited a video he made 17 years ago about Bullfrog Marina, which he said has now been shown over 2,000 times on TV and has done much to publicize and popularize that area of Lake Powell. "Ive been called an influence peddler, "he said. "Were talking about a film that moves people and converts them to certain ways of thinking. In this video about the canyons of Kanab, I would weave subtly and care30-minu- te ! program director to provide things to do," he remarked. A side benefit of such a park would be that a lot of those who stay there would end up settling per- Museum & Western Village showed how lifestyle factors, which can be controlled, have become the greatesthealth risks in our modern society. Promotional Video you just let people drive through?" he questioned. Bachman said the planned RV park would start with 1 00 pads. It would emphasize amenities and activities for its guest, he said. We would have a full-tim- e enjoyment of life. Randall 18-ho- le fully the Kanab and Kane County story. White said he envisions advertising the video widely, in magazines like Sunset, which is popular in California, at a price of $4.95. When people order the video, they would get a coupon for $5 off at any of the major motels in Kanab, he said. I think it would work, he commented. White noted that, although heskepthis studio in California, he recently built a home in Bountiful. The concluding speaker for the presentations was Kanab Mayor Bemie Ripper, who described the citys current efforts to update its planning and zoning ordinances and lay out a blueprint for planned community growth. I hope this meetingtoday will help and get us pushing. Ripper said. We want to nave a . friendly and interesting community. We have the location and people to make it happen. Lets do it. Clarksons final remarks came back to the theme with which he started, the meeting. Political leaders and business leaders need to be harmony, and work hand in hand to meet the challenges," he had said in opening the meeting. In closing, he used the analogy of a flock ofgeese, flying in a cooperative V formation and benefitting from each others thrust Teamwork makes the dif- ference, he said. Do we have the sense of, a goose?. )Vill we stay in formation? t,; , ( |