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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, Julu 26-28, 2006 fhe Park Record A-16 Whistler wires upforwinter Olympics creeks in the Crested Butte area such as Oh-Be-Joyful, Slate River, one. Town attorney John and Coal Creek. Before the mining Worscester, driving in a car one day, era, such streams supported populistening to radio talk guy Rush lations of the native fish, cutthroat Limbaugh rail about the global trout. But, reports the Crested warming nuts, had an idea. Why, he Butte News, cutthroat have been wonders to himself, shouldn't the obliterated. town of Aspen use its platform as Efforts to restore the streams arguably America's best known continue. In the Gunnison Basin, resort in an attempt to direct atten- state water officials have agreed to tion to the issue? a more stringent standard for two As an affluent resort, Aspen is pollutants, cadmium and zinc. and always has been a major con- "Anywhere there's historic mining tributor of greenhouse gases. in the state, the fish populations are Travel is a huge cause of green dampened," explains Steve Glascr, house gases, and jet travel especial- a water activist from Crested Butte. ly so. At the same time, the comIn the Crested Butte area, a fedmunity has been notably ambitious erally funded cleanup of- the in the last'20 years in attempting to Standard Mine is likely under the curve dependence away from fossil nation's Superfund legislation. fuels. Also, as permits arc given for water Still, any place so dependent on treatment centers, they will be travel is bound to be an energy hog. required to improve their treatA study undertaken by the town ment, to release fewer of the heavy found that Aspen residents and vis- metals. As well, grants have been itors account for twice as many received for cleaning up old mine greenhouse gases per capita than is tailings, such as was the case at the the average for U.S. residents. Peanut Mine near Crested Butte. But while Aspen is doing small But the problem of old mines is things to mend its ways, such as nothing if not complex. Under curencouraging more use of hybrid rent federal law, anybody tackling vehicles, it still sees its primary remediation at abandoned mine value as being a platform. To that sites risks getting assigned perpetuend, a major conference is sched- al responsibility for cleanups. This uled for Oct. 11-13 that is being has discouraged action in many pitched to other resort towns and cases. gateway communities. It's not Both the mining industry and something for the light-of-wallet, the environmental groups have though. The base price is $600, not vetoed solutions for the last six or including lodging. seven years, but new bills before Congress may have bridged the gap about between the two. •Promising news cleanup of gold mines The Summit Daily News reports a promising bi-partisan agreement CRESTED BUTTE. Colo. - between two Colorado congressThe old silver and gold mines of a man. Democrat Mark Udall and century ago continue to make news Republican Bob Beauprez. in the Rocky Mountains. The trickAltogether, Colorado has 17,000 le of water laden with heavy and abandoned mines, and a good hence toxic metals from the mines many are in Summit County, where does in some cases reach levels that the most attention at the' "good threaten human health. More com- Samaritan" legislation has most monly, however, the polluted water prominently been focused. is found in concentrations that Mines also litter the hillsides harm aquatic, not human, life. above Interstate 70 and Clear A case in point are several • Continued from A-15 FRLL DINNLK LNTKLL When you purchase another entree off equal or greater value. Best Aslan/Pactflc Fine Dining WINNER Limit two coupons per party or table. Not valid with other coupon or offer. Dine In only. A 18% gratuity will be applied based on the original amount Payment must be made with a credit card. Valid through July 31st, 2006. \S\ Mil • i •>{ I \ i I 1 I I \> I BEST OFJTATE UTAH 2006 CLUB MON5OON Specially Priced Appetizers $4.99 All you can eat Pad Thai $9.99 Available all night at Club Monsoon. 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Among thefirstin the West, if not the very first, was mountain guide Vail, which after great community BANFF, Alberta - People in the anxiety installed a roundabout in Canadian Rockies were grieving 1995. Now, at least 134 exist in the loss of Hans Gmoser, described Colorado. Although sometimes called trafas "a father figure for a whole couple of generations of young moun- fic circles, road engineers say the modern roundabouts are different, tain guides." Born in Austria in 1931, Gmoser because traffic enters the circles at arrived in the Bow River Valley in a slant, instead of being perpendithe early 1950s, when he was in his cular to the circle. This allows young 20s, and began working as a smoother merging, they say, But the Durango Herald notes mountain guide. In 1957, he founded Canadian Mountain Holidays. that not all drivers are enamored of Later, his company began offering roundabout. Some find the lowhelicopter-assisted skiing in the level anarchy exasperating. Too, truck drivers find them difficult to Bugaboo and Cariboo mountains. "In these parts, he's as great as navigate. Roundabouts reduce colthey get," said Marty Von lisions by slowing drivers and elimNeudegg, an official with the com- inating some conflicting traffic, pany that Gmoser had founded. He such as left-hand turns, experts say. was 75 when he died of what the Rocky Mountain Outlook reported • Crested Butte unhitches was a road-bicycling accident near itself from dog-post idea Banff. He had remained a strong, avid roadbiker and Nordic skier to CRESTED BUTTE. Colo. the end. Based on a report from Telluride, Crested Butte is abandoning the •Whistler getting wired for idea of dog "hitching-posts" at public places such as near the post Winter Olympics office. WHISTLER, B.C. - Whistler is "I talked with the Telluride getting wired up for the 2008 mayor, and he said people get bit Olympics. Bell Canada, one of the all the time," said Crested Butte key sponsors, is laying a fiber optic Mayor Alan Bernholtz, citing a line from Vancouver, with 144 sep- similar idea implemented in arate fibers. A company official Telluride. told Whistler's Pique that the line The issue arose when the U.S. will have enough "to carry the Postal Service, citing federal regentire Internet traffic for Canada." ulations, ended the habit of peoWhy so much capacity? That ple tying up their dogs when in was not fully spelled out, but at the post office to transact busileast part of the reason is that the ness. As is the case in many smallOlympics broadcasts will be avail- er towns, there is no street delivable for high-definition television, ery of mail in Crested Butte. The which has four times the resolution idea of the town-sponsored hitchof normal television broadcasts as ing-posts was proposed to replace well as higher rates of frames per the post office tie-up arrangement. second and digital audio. Bell Canada beat out Telus, the Joan Windsor, the local residominant telecommunications dent who proposed the hitchingcompany in Western Canada, to posts, said she believed the town become the national partner in a council was going overboard. deal valued at $200 million. The "There are dogs - and then there cost to install fiber optic from are dogs," she said, pointing to Vancouver to Whistler is estimated her dog. at $32 million. Allen Best has edited mounCreek, a major water supply for a portion of metropolitan Denver. The Summit Daily tellingly points to a mine that is issuing 20 gallons of water per minute. 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