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Show Special section Scene Tfie Park Record's Winter Sports and Recreation Guide. Dance group brings Nutcracker Ballet to Park City. pa -»T ,--*t T be Park City Performing Arts Foundation presents Celtic musical artists Leahy tonight at The George S. and Dolores Dord Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, 1750 Kearns Blvd., at 7:30 p.m. Tickets range from $15$50. To purchase tickets, call 655-3114. '••) PARK CITY, UTAH The www.parkrecord.com ^•^^^ ^M V- ^H ^ ^ k Serving Summit County since 1880 Park Kecoix _ . _ . 124 • NO.90 , December 18-20,2004 .' - " " . ' . " v'?~«"-TU" T T T " Peace House brings joy to families in need RAP Tax grants to exceed $500K in 2005 Bump 'n jive KPCW eligible for the first time after Ure and Feulner worked to change state law By PATRICK PARKINSON Organization expands efforts community-wide By MATT JAMES Of the Record staff For most of the year, the Peace House organization provides refuge for families fleeing from domestic violence. But during the holidays the non-profit organization expands its charitable reach within the community. "We do holiday helpers," said the group's interim executive director, Jane Patten. "Our interest started to provide for our own clients for the holidays." Originally, the drive to collect presents started with a small scope - to collect presents for the residents of the Peace House who could not provide for themselves during the holiday season. But the response to the drive was so overwhelming that the Peace House began to include all of the needy families it could find in the community. "I don't think I've ever seen a community that has given as much or as freely as this one," said Patten. "We've just had an incredible number of people and organizations donate," said Tina Kohfield, case manager at the Peace House. Kohfield was responsible for going out into the community to find donors for the presents. "I called up people and set up programs," she said. "I'm kind-of like the middle man." According to Kohfield, items have come from numerous local schools, companies, nonprofit organizations and individuals in the community. The response has been overwhelming," she said. "We're flabbergasted at how much we've received. We really need to thank the people of Park City." Some organizations and individuals have adopted whole families to provide presents for them. Others provided specific items; one area school donated quilts, for example. And people from around the community have been continually asking how they can help. Most of those presents are going to the needy families ail-across the Park City area. "The shelter residents are miniscule compared to the community," said Laura "Pepe" Grimaldo, who is in charge of community outreach for the Peace House. For the holiday drive, it was her responsibility to find the families to receive the holiday help. "My part of the job was to find people who really needed it," said Grimaldo. She noted that many Latino families in the community for their first winter are often unprepared for the snow, wind and cold temperatures indigenous to the season. And for those families, the items received from the Peace House drive - things like boots, coats, warm hats and gloves - are invaluable. Of the approximately 90 families the organization is helping out, Grimaldo estimated that between 80 and 90 percent of them were Latino. She visited their homes to find out the degree of their need and make sure the community's help would go to those who had least. "When I wonl to their homes, they were very Please see Peace House, A-2 4 SECTIONS • 62 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-22 B-11 C-17 A-16 C-4 A-17 A-11 C-2 A-17 C-25 C-4 B-10 C-7 B-1 C-14 B-2 ™ParkRecoixL Srrving Summit County since 1880 ) 4 9 3 7 00001 SCOTT SINE;'PARKRECORD Landon Keizer competed in the Paul Mitchell FIS moguls competition at Park City Mountain Resort last weekend. Keizer recently landed on the U.S. Ski Team. Of the Record staff The Summit County Commission next week is expected to grant half a million dollars to 18 local non-profit organizations and deny no requests for culture-related RAP Tax completely. Previously ineligible to receive funding, the local public radio station, KPCW, is among organizations recommended to receive Recreation, Arts and Parks (RAP) Tax money, generated each year by sales tax. The RAP Tax Cultural Advisory Committee recommended the radio station receive $36,750 for 2005. "What they did was specifically exclude public radio and television," said Blair Feulner, co-manager of KPCW, about the way the tax legislation was originally drafted. Salt Lake arts organizations that drove the bill, wanted most of the money and neglected funding media because most public broadcasters in Salt Lake County receive millions from the state, he adds. "They're thinking that KUER and KUED are already getting huge subsidies ... why should they get [arts tax]," Feulner said, adding that KPCW isn't associated with a state university and receives no state tax dollars. And KPCW's federal funding since 1980 has dropped 80 percent, he said. "The state of Utah is subsidizing the competition," Feulner said. So he approached state Rep. David Ure, R-Kamas, and asked the lawmaker to change the statute to allow public stations in smaller communities to receive RAP Tax. "If they were to list where they got the largest in-kind donation, in terms of free public service announcements from us, we'd probably be the number one in kind/ 1 Feulner said, about services KPCW provides local arts organizations. He insists receiving a RAP Tax grant wouldn't affect the station s coverage of the news. "I don't think anybody's ever heard me do a softball interview with [Ure]," Feulner said. "And we'll still be covering the arts organizations the same way we cover everybody else." KPCW and a station in Moab are the only radio broadcasters affected by the law, he said, adding that in 2005 his station's budget is nearly $800,000. RAP Tax money would be used to improve KPCW's Web site and beef up the station's Spanish programming. "Blair informed me as to the highs and lows of being in the radio business ... it was for a radio station that offered the kind Please see RAP, A-2 Remains of five humans discovered in Coalville Archeologist: construction crew uncovered pioneer gravesites By PATRICK PARKINSON ered while installing water lines near the schools. "They just put the bones back in right beside the manhole, right beside my house here," Richins said, adding that those remains haven't been removed from the ground. "I always knew that they'd run on to bodies when they were digging the water lines up here ... I know where there's bodies that they never touched." The first set of bones was discovered Dec. 10, said Steve Carlsen, superintendent of the North Summit School District. "It was fairly obvious it was human," Carlsen s-iiu. Of the Record staff Please see Human, A-2 Coalville resident Marvin Richins, 85, isn't sure when the cemetery was moved but obviously bodies were left behind. He wasn't surprised when a construction crew unearthed the remains of five humans while digging last week near North Summit Middle School. The bones could easily date back to the mid-1800s, Richins said, adding that Coalvillc's original cemetery once sat atop a hill overlooking the city, now dominated by school buildings. "They decided to move it over to where it is now and when they did they figured they left some of the bodies," Richins said, adding that his late uncle told him his account of helping move the cemetery. "I can tell you where there's about nine of them around here." On Friday, one set of remains discovered at the site of the school expansion was still in the ground. Though Native Americans arc said to have camped on the hill as late as the turn of the century, the Utah Medical Examiner's Office determined the other four were Caucasian, a middle-aged male and three children perhaps of Scandinavian descent. Summit County Sheriff Dave Edmunds said. One skeleton was nearly intact. "They aren't Indians, because Indians didn't have shovels," Richins said. "These people that they've dug up had wood boxes." Richins has lived across the street from the construction site for about 50 years and claims he PHOTO COURTESY OF BIG D CONSTRUCTION watched an excavation crew in the '60s leave two sets Capt. Alan Sfddoway, a Sheriff's Office death investigator (right) examines a gravesite in Coalville. of human remains in the ground which they discov- Officials delay law regulating Monkey Bar dancers City Councilors wonder about the impact on other nightclubs By JAY HAMBURGER Of the Record staff Unprepared to render a decision, the Park City Council on Thursday night delayed voting on a code change regulating dancing aimed especially at the Monkey Bar, an establishment under scrutiny for allegedly allowing sexy moves inside. The elected officials were given an ordinance amending city laws but they had a number of questions and wondered if the proposed rule changes were too broad. They indicated that the law could have unwanted consequences in other Park City establishments, like disallowing belly dancers and barring musicians from jumping into the crowd to rock out with their fans. Park City Attorney Mark Harrington said he believed the change could be legally defended and said the alteration resembles a law in South Salt Lake. But the elected officials wanted more time to mull the change. Nobody from the general public commented and the public hearing was continued. The change will return to the City Council on Jan. 13 at the earliest. Some of the stipulations in the proposed change include: • That it is unlawful for an entertainer to perform in a spot in the crowd or anywhere but a stage or platform at least three feel away from the crowd. • That it is against the law for entertainers to touch someone or accept money from someone while performing. • That performers cannot perform or simulate intercourse or other sexual acts. The law, meanwhile, would require performers to be dressed in a manner that is not lewd or obscene. The law outlines that the performers must wear opaque clothes and that women entertainers musl cover their breasts. Under the changes, for instance, lap dances would be barred. Please see Monkey Bar, A-2 |