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Show ireless is Nearly Wired Park City Community Wireless is nearly wired, the station has received its official of-ficial call letters from the NFCB and its fund account grows by the week. What the station needs now are trained volunteers. Toward that end, Wireless Board of Trustees President Blair Feulner and Program Director Jay Meehan have been holding Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., training sessions at the station, located above the Memorial Building gymnasium. gym-nasium. "The first thing we tell people who come to the training sessions, is that we're not trying to turn them into "golden-voiced announcers,' announ-cers,' Feulner told The Newspaper in describing the sessions. "To be on a community com-munity station, you don't have to have a '10-ball' voice, as we say in the trade. It's your neighbor, or the drunks from Digger's Dungeon, that you hear on community stations. "Besides, if you're spinning spin-ning records." Blair continued, con-tinued, "your efforts go to putting music together, not trying to be clever or funny between records ... if you want to be clever or funny, we'll give you your own commentary or talk show." Still, Feulner said the Wireless Committee will try to put together a class on voice and diction at some point irrthe future. While some would-be-volunteers hesitate enlisting as a station aid for fear of popping their P's into the mike, others mightJeJn-.-timidat,ei-tey--what they -erroneously believe to be an unconquerable array of electronic elec-tronic gadgets and wires. "Most of all we don't want people to be intimidated by the technical aspects of what goes on in a control room." explained Feulner. "The station has been designed with volunteer operation in rrind. it's a very simple-setup." So far the station boasls two turntables, two reel-to-reel rings (capable of playing professional and home-style tapes) and four mono cartridge machines, good for instant replay and station or program ID recordings. The most complicated com-plicated part of the master control board has to do with the miking system. It allows a lot of patching in of outside mikes, so that, say, a panel discussion program held in the adjoining room can be played live. The versatile patching system also allows Juslabum--mylwmetapr " system to be jacked in; that way the guy that owns some vintage, obscure make of tape deck can let all of Park City listen to his vintage, obscure ob-scure musical tapes. Feulner commented that the Wireless Committee is seeking all types of volunteers! volun-teers! "We're especially in H-o-o-p-e-r Spells Relief terested in attracting people that have an interest other than to just spin records," he said. "If you have a particular par-ticular program in mind whether it's on history, health, trivia, book or play reviews, whatever we welcome your ideas. People should look on the wireless as a hobby; something fun that everyone has a chance to experience." The training sessions cover non commercial station rules and regulations and "hands-on" equipment handling (including how to cue up a record there is a -definite righTWay fo Ho iirA spiel is given on how the individual in-dividual volunteer fits into station operation and programming. "Actually the training sessions arc more of an orientation, the real training will come on the air." Feulner pointed out . Feulner noted the training sessions will he continued f until the end of Mav. .V.V.V.V.V.V.Vtt ":v:::: a a JfflF The Newspaper Thursday, April 24, 1980 Page 9 Thanks to soaring interest rales and Kevin Hooper, Park City Planning Director Bill Ligety may be able to catch his breath this summer. sum-mer. The high interest rates are expected to put a damper on new construction in the area this summer. And Kevin Hooper is expected to relieve the backlog of work which was part of the job description descrip-tion long before Ligety arrived. Hooper, a city planner in the Salt Lake City planning , office, started work in Park City April 16. He is expected to relieve some of the load on Ligety by helping him to review upcoming projects before they are presented to the Planning Commission. Hooper is a native of Salt Lake City, but his family comes from the Park City area. He said he is looking forward to the change. "It's a much better experience, ex-perience, job-wise," he said. "There's so many variations in what's going on in Park City." While in Salt Lake, Hooper's specialty was public facilities. "But I did . have extensive experience in all kinds of planning activities," ac-tivities," he said. School Board to Add Another Member? Next school year Park City School District may have the only school board in the state with more than five members. mem-bers. Summit County Clerk Reed Pace, who is in the process of redefining the school precincts pre-cincts in the district in preparation for next November's Novem-ber's school board election, sa.ys.Park Cjty .would havca six-member, , board if , the current board's vice-president, Anne Prince, decides to serve the remaining two years of her term. Because Park City district assumed last year a portion of South Summit School District property. Park City must be divided into new precincts to give equal representation to residents of the added areas. Prince's precinct, number four, probably pro-bably will be changed, Reed said, and the precinct will have to elect a new representative. represen-tative. However, under Utah law. Prince can keep her position if she so chooses. If she does, the board will next year comprise six members Prince and a representa- Playground Benefit Nets $2,500 A Playground Benefit last Saturday evening co-sponsored co-sponsored by the Park City Jaycee Women and the Grub Steak Restaurant, put $2,500 toward playground equipment for the district's new Parley's Park Elementary Elemen-tary School. The benefit was held at the Grub Steak Restaurant. The Marsac School Committee Com-mittee is trying to raise $10,000 to buy the equipment, made by School Yard Big Toys of Tacoma, Wash. Models of the equipment sent by the manufacturer look somewhat like a Marine camp obstacle course in miniature. Built of smooth logs, rope and tires, the equipment is supposed to be among the safest on the market, as well as providing a wide variety of strength building exercises, according accor-ding to out going Jaycee President Fran Johnson. There are slides, tire swings, a horizontal ladder and a cargo net for school children to play on. Saturday's fundraiser will pay for nearly a third of the equipment costs, which can be purchased in sections. "The benefit was great fun and a success," said Shirley O'Kelly, treasurer for tlx' Jaycee Women. "There was a buffet, dancing and a raffle prize of a $UM) Alpha Beta shopping spree." tive from each of the district's five precincts. Of the five precincts, four will be up for election in November. Facing re-election in November are Gary Boyle, the current board president, and board members mem-bers Violet Terry and Hazel Gunderson. The three represent repre-sent precincts one through three,1 Precinct five' representative repre-sentative "Eugene Lambert has two years left in his term. Kevin Hooper Whadd'ya Know? Former Parkite Roger llaran is on the market again. Roger left Park City in August 1978 for the wilds of Vail to become director of the Vail Resort Association. According to the April 1 1 issue of the Vail Trail newspaper, the association and Haran mutually agreed to part company. In the story Roger commented, "I had been frustrated for some time over things typical on any resort association organization. Much of it is political, and I'm not a political person." Park City is in the news again, this time from the heart of the Massachussetts Berkshires: According to the Hampshire Gazette, "Up and Coming: The next big ski resort for the show-biz society crowd will be Edgar Stem's Deer Valley in Park City, Utah, to open in 1982. It will lie only 25 minutes, from the Salt Lake City airport, and Olympian Stein Eriksen is set as host and ski instructor ..." The Park Record's Teri Poison fell on hard times last week, or actually, she fell on her leg, and now is hobbling around on crutches. Teri, ever-anxious to keep up with the news, went on the DWR's Wallsburg Range Ride last Friday, but was rudely tossed from her horse, injuring her ankle. Is that what you call being horsewhipped? Hank Louis got Up Close and Personal with some corn snow last week on a Uintah Powder Bird helicopter adventure. adven-ture. The last run of the day, Hank must have espied something on the tip of his ski and on closer inspection, while traveling at breakneck speeds, the ski jumped up and smashed him in the face. Despite the 10 stitches it took to close the wound in and on his nose. Hank said he had a swell time. Parkite Jane Kimball made Dan Valentine's "Nothing Serious" Salt Lake Tribune colume Tuesday morning. Dan complimented her as being a "fine mother, wonderful nurse, good neighbor and valuable citizen," for her unselfish donation of time and energy to the sick, elderly, to the church, chur-ch, the PAT and other civic organizations. "An exceptional woman, loved by all and a Valentine to you, Jane Kimball." A year ago this week, Parkite Mary Lehmer appeared before the City Council to appeal a Planning Commission decision granting construction of the controversial Jack Johnston, Deer Valley 8-plex. The council denied that appeal; ap-peal; former President Gerald Ford, in a nationally televised interview, said the pardon of Richard Nixon "would have been far, far better accepted" is Nixon had apologized to the American people . . . Death of Local Woman Baffles Medics Christine Tieinblav . Ti. ol 015 Woodsidc. was reported dead on arrival .it the Park fit Faimh Health Center alter collapsing il her home Moii(la morning According t Park il point'. Miss livn.bkn ap parentis calmn break last about 11 a n. when she collapsed Her rood. male immediate l called lor an ambulance. 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SUBSCRlBEJj64Si9ai4 SUBSCRI SUBSCRIBE! 69-9014 SUB Finding Low-Income Housing By David Hampshire How do you find reliable help when there's nowhere for them to live? Soaring property values in Park City gradually are putting the squeeze on the seasonal employees who are essential to the area's tourist economy. Lift operators, waitresses, maids and bus drivers can't afford af-ford to pay $600 a month rent for a house in Park Meadows. But they have little choice, especially during the ski season, unless they want to live elsewhere. , In spite of the high price of gasoline, many people are doing just that. There is a grow ing community of Park City refugees in Heber, 20 miles away, and many others commute daily from Salt Lake City, a trip of 25 miles or more each way. The shortage of employee housing in Park City is no secret. Proposals for tackling the problem have been tossed around for years. So far, few have seen the light of day. Until recently, the city stayed away from any direct involvement in the issue. But that posture is changing rapidly. Within the past few weeks, the city has created a local housing authority, appointed a board of commissioners", and taken steps to apply for Housing and Urban Development (HUD) assistance for low-income housing. Responsible for finding federal funding is Dennis Mansfield, director of the Park City Housing Authority. Mansfield said the top priority is housing for the elderly and handicapped, han-dicapped, but other low-income groups are also being considered. "I don't know what kind of funding they have right now," he said. "We're competing against the rest of the United States. There's only so much money allocated to each region. "I'd imagine we'd know within a month if there was anything available." Mansfield pointed out that many of the old-timers old-timers have been forced out of Park City already. , "We want to insure that they don't have to leave here because of economic reasons. Why should they? They made the town what it is." If HUD agreed to underwrite a low-income housing project in Park City, the local housing authority would act as the manager of the project, renting out the properly according accor-ding to HUD guidelines. But there are other ways to build low income housing using the init iat ive of private developers. One way is to use public funds to subsidise private projects. HUD provides a limited amount of money each year for such subsidies through its Section Kight program. The Farmers Far-mers Home Administration also will pay a portion of the interest on a developer's mortgage mort-gage if his tenants' incomes fall below certain cer-tain levels But. I here' again the supply of money is much smaller than the demand. . Jim Gaddis of Gaddis Investments announced announ-ced plans more than a year ago to build ion low-income unitsvon Iron Horse Drive. However, his plans have been held up largely because there is so little money available in these subsidy programs. He believes his chances of getting government assistance in the immediate future lie somewhere between "slim" and "remote." The present high interest rates on construe tion loans are making low -income units even more scarce. According to Mansfield, there are rumors that the Utah State Housing Finance Agency is trying to put together an "interim package" to reduce the burden on developers of such housing. But currently, the rumors are only that. Park City officials (and visitors too. for that matter) are fond of looking to other ski resort communities to see how they have bandied some of the same problems. In the area ol housing, the example of Aspen most often comes to mind. In a recent letter to Mansfield, Aspen Housing Director James Keents indicated that his community has stopped looking to Uncle Sam for help and is relying on its own resources. Reents said Aspen currently is developing 80 low-income units to be financed either with a general obligation bond or a municipal revenue bond. The income derived from renting ren-ting the units would be used to retire the debt and pay the operating expenses. The site for the project was provided by the city. Reents does not say in the letter how much difficulty the city has encountered trying to borrow money on the bond market. According to Reents, Aspen also is revising its land management code to give incentives to developers of low-income units. He mentioned men-tioned density credits and exceptions from growth management plans, but agrees that such measures may compromise the city's long-range planning goals. Reents suggests that Park City, as a first step, develop a program to acquire sites and possible revenue sources for low-income housing. Park City already is taking steps in this direction. Higher densities are allowed in cer- j Name. lain uisu icis iui low -lO-rnOUei alc lllLUOlc housing. It has been suggested that developers of large projects provide a certain number of employee housing units. There has even been some discussion about using city property for low-income housing. Some observers, such as ex-councilwoman Mary Lehmer, believe Park City should avoid getting into the housing market. But there are so few incentives for private developers, and the situation is becoming so severe, that the city is left with little choice. and stay informed of current happenings in the Park City area... n to The Newspaper r i Mail this form to: I I Hie Nntimir, P.O. Box 73, Park City, Utah &4O60 I j AddressCityState Zip l year $6 in-county $12 out-eountv 2 year 811 in-eounty 822 out-countv |