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Show ^^^k ^^El^R ill fllBJ^' Scene Sports Marc Raymond stars in Hollywood Rough start in region play: Miners try to get back on track. p a B mm - Page C-1 VISITOR GUIDE r TTie 2004 Sundance Film Festival documentary entry 1 "Word Wars," about champion "Scrabble" players, will appear at the Jim Santy Auditorium April 7 at 7 p.m. The film is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.parkcityfilmseries.com or call 615-8591. 61 UTf-lH PWLbS hibSlJLKl': I UN ^^T^^k 125 PARK CITY, UTAH y i-; A t< s www.parkrecord.com City provides Old Town grants OLD TOWN V ^ B ^ ^ ^ Serving Summit County since Park Kecoi S(AL\ Li4KL L I : V U: i ^ : VOL. 125 • NO.I8 Wed/Thurs/Fri, April 6-8,2005 A little slice of heaven P.C. man embarks on bike trek Wangsgard will ride about 2,800 miles to help deliver Turin message By PATRICK PARKINSON GRAPHIC BY MATT GORDON By JAY HAMBURGER Of the Record staff People in Old Town with fixer-uppers or even properties that are not in disrepair can tap City Hall for financial help for work on their houses. As it has since 1987, the local government continues to offer grant money for people with historic properties in Old Town. The grants may be put toward improving the historic structures and the program stands as one of the most popular City Hall has created in Park City's modern era. Lots of Old Town houses were improved with grant money, from new foundations to new paint. "You go up and down many of the Old Town streets, I think most of the historic structures you see are looking pretty nice. They're in a lot better shape than they used to be because people are taking advantage (of the grants)," said David White, the chairman of the city's Historic Preservation Board, the panel that oversees the program. The board considers applications for the grants as they are submitted, a change from in the past when the city would accept the applications once a year. The government wanted to make the program more flexible by allowing an open-ended application window. "People are able to come in leisurely, at their convenience," While said, adding that the yearround window allows the board more time to consider the applications, describing it as "more relaxed in the fact we don't have to judge everything in one day or one night." The Planning Department reports that, in 2004, the program received 16 applications and nine grants were awarded. The grants totaled $51,100. The department indicated this week that it has not received an application for an Old Town grant in 2005. Property owners must match the grants provided by the city. When requesting a grant, the owners must complete an application and submit a cost estimate, schematic drawings, color photographs of the building in its current condition and a history of the property. The application includes a sheet on which the applicant must detail his portion of the cost as well as what is requested from the government. Applications must be filed with the Planning Department by the 10th of each month in order to be reviewed at a meeting scheduled the following month. The city restricts the type of work that the grants can fund. Allowed work includes siding, windows, foundation work, trim and exterior painting. The grants cannot be used for work like additions, signs, repairing items that were not part of the original structure and interior paint. However, if a property that received a grant is sold within five years, the money must be paid back with interest. The amount that must be paid back depends on how soon the sale occurs after the grant is awarded. For more information about the Old Town grants, call the Planning Department at 615-5061. 3 SECTIONS • 52 PAGES Agendas Automotive Business Classifieds Columns Crossword Editorial Education Events Calendar Letters to the Editor Legals Movies Professional Services Restaurant Guide Sports TV Listings Weather A-8 C-16 A-9 C-11 A-16 C-4 A-17 B-9 C-2 A-17 C-19 C-4 B-8 C-7 B-1 C-10 B-2 ^ParkRecoixL Serving Summit County since 1880 www.parkpecord.com 00001 SCOTT SINE;'PARKRECORD Scott Graves, of Heber City, takes advantage of the spring conditions this weekend while carving up the slopes at Park City Mountain Resort. The resort will be closing April 10. Of the Record staff A Park City man embarked Monday on a roughly 2,800-mile bicycle trek to help deliver a message of inspiration from one Olympic host to another. "I'm going to be a courier. I feel like I'm lucky to be involved," said 48-year-old Marc Wangsgard. "I'm excited enough that I really haven't had time to think about being nervous." He mounted his anthracite Trek 5000 Monday in Salt Lake City and with Salt Lake resident Jeff Niermeyer, began pedaling south around 10 a.m. Wangsgard thought it only fitting that a Summit County resident participate in the ride to New York City. "I gave [Niermeyer] a hard time because Park City wasn't represented/' he said, about his friend from the valley. By riding, Wangsgard is helping carry on a tradition, which began when a similar "Peace, Youth and the Environment" message was delivered from Lillehammer, Norway, to Nagano, Japan, prior to the 1998 Winter Olympic Games. In 2001, the message was delivered by bicycle from Nagano to Salt Lake City. "The feeling I get, is it's a message to the youth of the world and it's a message of inspiration," Wangsgard said. "We are delivering a message from the 2002 Olympic host city." With the delivery, previous Olympic cities hope to encourage organizers in Turin, Italy, site of the 2006 Please see Wangsgard, A-2 Whew! Avalanche guns won't strike Park City Hudachko, meanwhile, said UDOT has a stellar does not need a howitzer since the resort's terrain is accessible to the ski patrol. safety record with the howitzers. "We can get to the ridge tops either with a safe hik'The important thing to remember is we shoot about 550 rounds every year," he said, adding that ing route or chairRft," Weiss said. At The Canyons, spokeswoman Katie Eldridge said the recent mishap was the first such accident in 22 By JAY HAMBURGER the ski patrol uses hand charges as well. She said years. UDOT, he said, uses howitzers leased from the patrollers sometimes propel the hand charges with a Of the Record staff Parkites living nearby the local mountain resorts Army in steep spots like Big Cottonwood Canyon, device known as an 'ava-launcher,' but that they do not or highways need not fear a repeat of last month's Little Cottonwood Canyon and American Fork travel far distances. "We have nothing like that," she said, referring to errant Utah Department of Transportation how- Canyon. The errant round was launched in Provo itzer blast that hit a backyard outside of Provo Canyon but traveled 5 ? miles down the canyon, the howitzer that UDOT used. Eldridge said properties surrounding The Canyons landing in the backyard of a house in Pleasant Canyon. are not threatened. Grove. According to the mountain resorts and UDOT, "It's simply not possible," Eldridge said about the At Park City Mountain Resort, Deer Valley avalanche-control guns are not used in Summit County. The roads in the county do not require the Resort and The Canyons, officials said they do not potential of an errant explosive striking a property guns, according to the Department of launch explosives in the mountains ringing Park outside the resort. Christa Graff, the spokeswoman at Deer Valley Transportation, and the local mountain resorts City. All three resorts conduct avalanche control Resort, also said her resort's ski patrol only uses handwith explosives that are thrown into dangerous instead use hand-tossed explosives on snow-safety thrown explosives for avalanche control. The resort snow. rounds. David Weiss, the assistant snow safety director typically blasts problematic snow in Empire Canyon UDOT suspended the use of its Provo Canyon howitzer after what was described as a "breakdown for PCMR, said the resort typically uses explosives and the Mayflower areas of Deer Valley. Meanwhile, there is not a chance that an errant in the procedure that is followed prior to firing ava- in places like Jupiter Bowl, McConkey's Bowl, the lanche control shots from the 105mm cannon" and east face of Puma Bowl, Pine Cone Ridge and Ski shell can land in Park City from Solitude, a ski resort in Big Cottonwood Canyon, over Guardsman Pass Team Ridge. blamed the accident on human error. from Park City. Jay Burke, the director of sales and "All our shots are within the distance we can Tom Hudachko, a spokesman for UDOT, said the department does not conduct avalanche-control throw," Weiss said, noting that ski patrollers typically marketing for Solitude, said the resort mothballed its artillery gun about three years ago. When it was in use, work in Summit County. He said there are no state- can toss the explosives up to 100 feet. the gun was aimed at a spot known as Honeycomb Sometimes, he said, under dangerous conditions maintained roads in the county in potential avalanche paths, meaning that an avalanche could not patrollers may put the explosive in a sled, lower it into Canyon, which is in a part of the resort where the gun a bowl and then ignite the charge. Weiss said PCMR was aimed away from Park City, Burke said. reach one of the roads. Resorts don't have howitzers like the one that hit house Deputy killed in 1895 shootout honored in Echo About 60 people pack historic church to hear details of manhunt By PATRICK PARKINSON Of the Record staff When rain clouds broke briefly in Echo on Monday, Summit County Chief Deputy Dave Booth wondered whether former deputy Thomas A. Stagg had some "connections upstairs." Stagg was 63 years old when he joined a posse from Park City in July 1895, to help pursue two armed fugitives up Echo Canyon. The alleged outlaws, Park City residents Patrick Coughlin, 21, and 20-year-old Fred George, were wanted for stealing strawberries from a produce cart. On July 30, 1895, four lawmen surrounded the pair in a cabin in Rich County where a gunfight ensued. Stagg and Wyoming lawman, Edward Dawes, were shot and killed during the melee. "[Stagg] was someone who didn't need to go out and chase bad guys. This was someone who no one would have faulted by staying home with his wife and kids, or grandkids," Booth said. "He made a choice to go out and make Summit County a safer place and bring some bad people to justice. And by doing that, lost his life." About 60 people, including Stagg's granddaughter, 87-year-old Ruth Woods, of Davis County, filled a chapel in Echo Monday to honor the fallen deputy. "We have a duty to recognize his efforts, even though it was 110 years ago," Booth said. The chase began in Park City and intensified after Coughlin and George reportedly wounded a deputy and Summit County Sheriff John M. GRAYSON WEST/PARK RECORD Harrington during a gunfight near Rockport. "The outlaws, more or less, won that shootout," A photograph of Thomas A. Stagg is displayed Monday at a cemetery In Echo while a group honors the fallen deputy. Stagg was allegedly killed by Park City outlaws July 30,1895. Please see Ceremony, A-2 |