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Show A-2 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, May 10-13, 2014 The Park Record The Park Record. Serving Summit County since 1880 The Park Record, Park City's No. 1 source for local news, opinions and advertising, is now available for home delivery in Summit, Wasatch, Salt Lake, Davis and Utah counties. Single copies are also available at 116 locations throughout Park City, Heber City, Summit County, Salt Lake City. 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Published every Wednesday and Saturday. Sex abuse counts filed Continued From A-1 Trails work planned Former Kamas teacher touched four girls, the prosecutors claim Photo courtesy of Rena Jordan Private easement obtained Basin Recreation received a crucial easement from the Bywater family in Silver Creek that will grant trail access through their lot for the upcoming Wasatch Trail to be built later this year. The Wasatch Trail will connect public trails in Glenwild to the I-80 underpass on the east side of Silver Creek, running along a 1.5-mile path adjacent to Wasatch Way. Jordan said that easements obtained from Glenwild and The Preserve were also important in helping to secure the construction of this trail. The trail will be four to six feet The Snyderville Basin Special Recreation District and the Bywater family reached an agreement granting the district an easement for the Wasatch Trail. wide with construction expected to run from mid-July to mid-October. The section that runs through the Bywater property will be named the Chris M. Nielsen Trail in memory of a late family member, according to a Basin Recreation release. "This is a huge example of private property owners giving us easements for what was the final, crucial link for a trail connection," Jordan said, who emphasized that more contracts for trails are yet to be awarded. "We'll be spending close to $3.5 million on all trail projects this year." Continued From A-1 library.org. Move out booked Tenants relocating The two tenants occupying space in the Park City Library and Education Center will move out during the work and return afterward. The Park City Cooperative Preschool will relocate to space at the Park City Ice Arena for the summer. The preschool will operate at the Recreation Building at City Park during the 2014-2015 school year. The Park City Film Series will screen its movies starting in September at The Prospector on Sidewinder Drive. They will be in the same space Sundance uses for screenings. The Film Series will return to its usual venue, the Santy Auditorium at the Library and Education Center, in February. The Film Series will share office space in Prospector with the Park Silly Sunday Market while the work at the library is underway. upgrade to the Santy Auditorium. A digital projection system and a new sound system will be installed. City Hall, Sundance Film Festival organizers and the Park City Film Series will split the cost nearly evenly. The upgrades to the Santy Auditorium are expected to be completed by the time Sundance starts in January. The auditorium is a screening room during Sundance. More information is available on the library's website, www.parkcity- Continued From A-1 A Wildcat returns looked at counseling networks," he said. "Because I've been working in K-12 with the K-16 Alliance, [becoming superintendent] just seemed like a really natural fit." He credits the suggestion and the idea to apply for the position of superintendent to his friends and colleagues. When Walker announced his retirement, Sorenson said he received several phone calls and text messages encouraging him to apply. After a couple of weeks, he said, he was convinced he should. Now that he will be taking over for Walker in July, Sorenson is hoping to put a strategic plan for the district in place after meeting and talking with the faculty, staff, school board and community. "I think it's so important to involve the community and look at these questions: ‘where do we want to be in five years? Where do we want to be in 10 years?'" he said. "Then we identify that road map and start looking at the current curriculum, educational tools and devices we use, everything we have in place that will help us get there and everything that might need to be adjusted." A citizen's committee, including about 12 people from the community, helped make the selection. Employees from the district were also invited to be part of the committee. Each applicant received a score that was tallied and ranked, and the school board interviewed the top four candidates. "We were impressed with the number of quality applicants and were very pleased by the level of community involvement throughout the process," said South Summit School Board President Craig Hicken. Superintendent Walker announced Sorenson as his successor at the school board meeting Thursday night and said he couldn't be happier with his replacement. Sorenson's contract begins in July, and he said he and his wife are excited to move their family from Midway back to where he grew up. He has two sons and two daughters that will all become students in the South Summit School District, and he said he is happy they will be a part of the district that helped shape him. "This just felt like the right opportunity for me to work with the outstanding faculty and staff," he said. "This is kind of coming back home for me and having an opportunity to pay the school district back for the many excellent opportunities I had and hopefully move things forward." By Michael McFall The Salt Lake Tribune On Monday, a former Kamas middle school teacher accused of sexually abusing his students will find out if it's going to be a lot more expensive to get out of jail the second time around. Rory Bowen, 35, faces four counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a first-degree felony. Bowen was originally charged with only one similar count last month in 3rd District Court. He was arrested and booked into the Summit County jail, but was released shortly after by posting $20,000 bail. Powdr on a PCMR pass A new benefit offers lift tickets to other resorts By Jay Hamburger The Park Record People who purchase a season pass at Park City Mountain Resort for the 2014 2015 ski season will receive three complimentary single-day lift tickets at five other Powdr Corp. resorts, a new benefit highlighting an increasingly competitive local ski industry. The benefit is outlined in PCMR's marketing materials for season passes for the next ski season. It has not been widely publicized outside the marketing materials. PCMR season-pass purchasers who are 18 years old or older will receive the complimentary lift tickets to: Killington Resort in Vermont, Boreal Mountain Resort in California, Copper Mountain Resort in Colorado, Mt. Bachelor Mountain Resort in Oregon and Las Vegas Ski & Snowboard Resort in Nevada. Blackout dates are from Dec. 27 until Dec. 31, typically one of the busiest stretches of the year at a mountain resort. Season-pass purchasers at PCMR who are 17 years old or younger receive an unlimited number of complimentary lift tickets at the other resorts without blackout dates. Those who are 17 years old or younger will also receive discounts at Powdr Corp.'s four Camp Woodward action sports locations. The benefits will apply to season passes sold at the other resorts as well, meaning that someone buying at those locations will receive the complimentary lift tickets at the other resorts, including PCMR. Continued From A-1 Distracted? Don't drive and it's something we should all take very seriously," Edmunds said. "If you're not treating [the vehicle] with the respect it deserves, you can kill or maim people." 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Visit our showroom at 3267 South 300 west (1-15 Exit 303) Distracted Driving Facts (from the U.S. DOT): Group Lessons: Maximum of 4 kids & Private Lessons Sue Lipke (435) 901-1722 www.stoneunlimitedinc.com 801-487-8663 Andy Miller, a PCMR spokesperson, said season-pass holders who were 18 years old or older last season could purchase discounted lift tickets at the other resorts while the pass holders who were 17 or younger enjoyed a similar benefit as they will in the next ski season. Miller said the season-pass market in the industry has changed in recent years, giving pass holders more "reciprocal" options. He said the introduction of the Vail Resorts Epic Pass to the Park City market did not influence Powdr Corp. as it considered the new benefit. Vail Resorts is the operator of Canyons Resort. The Epic Pass, prized by skiers and snowboarders, offers holders access to Vail Resorts slopes in Colorado, the Lake Tahoe region and several international skiing destinations in addition to Canyons Resort. "No one pass program . . . I would say, motivated us to do this," Miller said. He also said the new benefit was spurred by "healthy, friendly competition" between the three Park City-area mountain resorts. Miller said Powdr Corp. officials began discussing the benefit in the past year or so. PCMR and other mountain resorts in Utah, meanwhile, are negotiating to offer season-pass holders at the individual resorts next season some sort of benefit at the others, Miller said. Complimentary lift tickets to other Utah resorts would be a similar benefit to one offered for the first time during the 2013-2014 ski season. The benefit was seen as an effort to blunt the impact of the arrival of the Epic Pass in Utah. The participating resorts in the 20132014 ski season offered season-pass holders three complimentary singleday lift tickets at each of the other places. The other three resorts were Deer Valley Resort, Snowbird Ski & Summer Resort and Alta Ski Area. Non-Members Welcome Granite Samples and Estimates Call: COUNTERTOPS, CABINETS & MORE But after three more alleged student victims came forward and prosecutors filed three new charges on May 1, the state requested that the court increase Bowen's bail to at least $150,000, a matter scheduled to go before a judge on Monday. According to the initial charges, a 13-year-old girl alleges that Bowen, her 7th-grade math teacher at South Summit Middle School, touched her inappropriately over her clothing on multiple occasions from Aug. 27, 2013 to March 17. The alleged touching occurred in Bowen's classroom when she asked him for help after class, according to the charges. The last incident occurred just shortly before Bowen resigned, the charges add. Three more girls in Bowen's math class, all ages 12 and 13, have similarly reported that the teacher touched them over their clothing one or more times during the same time frame. 3092 So. Highland Dr., Salt Lake City (801)484-6364 888.445.RUGS (7847) Mon.-Sat. 10 am to 6 pm |