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Show Park Record Thursday, July 10, 1986 Paj?e A15 4 . Sflnraminmfiit it Suninminmntt DEER VALLEY You won't fill 'er Jacl:son Hale Guide Jackson Hole A Colorado firm is proceeding with plans for a local 7-11, but is leaving out the gas pumps that were an obstacle to city approval. The Wymodak Corporation, which operates 7-lls in seven western and midwestern states, had proposed a store with four gas pumps at the corner cor-ner of West Broadway and Glenwood Avenue. But the city rejected its application, ap-plication, since local code does not allow gasoline sales in core commercial commer-cial areas. The firm was going to appeal the decision to the Jackson Board of Adjustment. Ad-justment. But according to Town Planner Bob McLaurin, the firm has said it will submit modified plans with no gas pumps. Another snag for the store has been that its prospective site has been leased by the town for a parking park-ing lot. In May, a group of downtown merchants urged the Town Council to buy the lot and preserve it for parking. Mayor Bob Shervin denied a report in the Jackson Hole News that he said the town would buy or even condemn the site. "What was printed was trash, it was taken out of context," he said. Meanwhile, Wymodak officials have sought to defuse concerns about the store. They have offered to pay the town for its cost of building the parking lot on the site. They also said the store would include much-needed much-needed public toilets; and to answer concerns over 7-11 architecture, they said the store would conform to local architectural standards. Exxon appeals lease cancellation The Exxon Company has filed an appeal of a Bureau of Land )aii city GALLERY fiBTPE mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmimtJiM. I. J f V,!L. i - I Untitled oil KIMBALL ART CENTER The Kimball Art Center will be presenting the Park City Artists in the Main Gallery from July 6 through August 6, 1986. The Park City Artist Association consists of approximately 30 members who represent a full spectrum of mediums including glass, jewelry, ceramics, photography, sculpture, painting and fiber, The Lower Gallery will be exhibiting watercolors done by Doti Marden. The Kimball Art Center hours are: Monday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Sundays, 12:00 p.m 6:00 p.m. HALF MOON GALLERY A father and son show by Franz and Nate Johansen begins Sunday, June 22nd and runs thru July 13th. Franzs' current works are oil on masonite from the veil series. Nates sculpture is comprised of wood and rock. The gallery is open Tuesday thru Sunday noon to 5 p.m. Call 649-0442 or 649-2567 for appointment, 301 Historic Main Street. Management decision to cancel an oil and gas lease they bought in Buffalo Buf-falo Valley, near Jackson. The lease, straddling Highway 26 into Jackson, is controversial because the BLM issued it last December in violation of a earlier 1985 agreement with the Forest Service Ser-vice to stop leasing on the Bridger-Teton Bridger-Teton National Forest until completion comple-tion of a new forest plan. The lease was issued to a Denver man who later sold it to Exxon. The lease abuts the Grand Teton National Park in two places, which would be prohibited in the new forest plan. It also covers areas of grizzly bear and moose winter habitat. The decision to revoke the lease came from the Wyoming state office of the BLM. Exxon's attorneys say they bought the lease in good faith and the purchase pur-chase violates no law or regulation. Rather, their appeal document argues the lease "was cancelled because of the embarrassment of the Wyoming state office." Panel responds to bias charge The Teton County Committee on Oil and Gas added two seats on its panel in response to charges it had a preconceived bias against development. develop-ment. The seats were for an oil industry in-dustry representative and for a member of the Wyoming Heritage Society, which the Guide said is perceived as pro-development. The change came after criticism from Richard Robitaille, executive director of the Petroleum Association Associa-tion of Wyoming. He said the oil industry in-dustry would not help the committee gather data "as long as we perceive this to be a kangaroo court with a preconceived bias against oil and gas exploration." Environmental groups viewed the change in the panel cautiously. The on masonite to up at this Jackson Hole Alliance for Responsible Responsi-ble Planning scheduled a meeting to discuss it. Phil Hocker of the Sierra . Club said he was worried the committee com-mittee might be swinging away from the views of the people it was formed to represent. Board rejects four-day week The state Board of Education has rejected a proposed alternate calendar from the Teton County School District which would have included in-cluded 10 four-day weeks. In those weeks, the Fridays would have been reserved for activities and teacher in-service. District Superintendent Tom Cusack, announcing the rejection, said the state's reason for the denial was that it was given two alternate calendars. The state board did not want to choose between the two. Are trout beds in big trouble? The Army Corps of Engineers will be asked to save a section of Snake River bank to protect spawning spawn-ing beds for one-third to one-half of the area's cutthroat trout. A meeting on the problem drew 20 people representing landowners, conservationists conserva-tionists and county officials. Two critical spawning streams run through land on the Snake's east bank, near its intersection with the Gros Ventre River. During heavy spring run-off, muddy water encroached en-croached on both streams and may have damaged the cutthroat's spring spr-ing spawning. nnn tULjJQJ 1670 1 o in r q o Oc - - 7-1 1 Jackson Hole News Lodging tax hotly debated Jackson Mole As a special election approached, Jackson residents hotly debated the proposition on the ballot whether to impose a two percent lodging tax. The News weighed in with an editorial supporting the tax. It said the $400,000 generated by the bed tax would be used to attract tourists during dur-ing the off-season months of June, September and October. Local lodges need the business, it said. There are only four months of the year when lodging facilities in the Jackson Valley are over 50 percent per-cent occupancy. Other states such as Idaho, Utah and Colorado have a lodge tax. And it is not likely to hurt Wyoming residents, since a 1980 study showed they are only 8.8 percent per-cent of hotel occupancies. But the lodging tax was opposed by local businessman King Cavalier, who said promotion didn't bring visitors to the area in the past. Tourism in the 1970's, he argued, was spurred by the growth of industries in-dustries such as oil in the region. People moved to the Overthrust Belt, who were then visited by friends from other states. These became the visitors to Jackson and Yellowstone. The people of Wyoming had better construct an infrastructure, Cavalier wrote, "other than burn equity capital attempting to buy through advertising a patron as fickle as the tourist who was in Europe last year, Mexico the year before and Yellowstone now." 38 For each 1 year subscription or renewal, The Park Record will give away a FREE PASS FOR TWO to the Holiday Village Cinemas, (FREE PASSES FOR FOUR, for each 2 year subscription). 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