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Show "L 1 mm m a Hard way W Doc's makes house call h Sports B8 to move a plane New Identity at Resort Marketplace A1 3 Limelight B1 Feature A11 f3" I U J XTTV jTJk XTT" T ly-rX' 1 i w w muum T J; 5 - ; , y J N LJ 4? Inn July 24 schedule how do you celebrate today's state holiday? Here's a suggestion: sugges-tion: A town celebration is scheduled during the morning with a free breakfast, some foot races and a kids carnival to commemorate the day the Mormon pioneers came into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. The celebration is being sponsored spon-sored by the LDS Church, and local member Linda Martin says, "A lot of people have the day off and don't know why it's celebrated, so the entire community com-munity is invited to attend. Hopefully that will explain why the 24th is celebrated." All events will be held at the LDS chapel on Kilby Road the 1-80 south frontage road that runs from Kimball Junction to the Pinebrook area. Activities begin at 8 a.m. with a one-mile "fun run" and a childrens 800-yard dash. Breakfast will be served until 10:30 and will cost $2.50 per person per-son or $10 a family. A kids carnival car-nival with games and rides will also be held from 9:30 to noon, at a cost of 25 cents a ticket for the games and rides. Thief is captured A suspect in a Park City jewelry store robbery, who was also wanted on California charges, was apprehended Tuesday Tues-day afternoon in Downey, Calif. Park City Police Chief Frank M. Bell reported that James H. Linden, Jr., was arrested for charges in that state and for the June 28 robbery at Sutton's of Park City at The Resort Center. The 32-year-old is presently being held in a Los Angeles County jail and must face a number of charges there before being transported to Utah to face robbery rob-bery charges. Bell said bail for Linden has been set at $50,000 for the Park City incident. Warrants for Linden's arrest had been posted earlier this week through the Summit County Attorney's At-torney's Office, based on information infor-mation that had been developed in the case by Detective Pat Pir-raglio Pir-raglio of the Park City Police Department. Bell said composite drawings published in the Park Record two weeks ago, along with eyewitness reports, pointed to Linden as a suspect. He was last known to have lived in Southern California. The jewelry store was robbed by the lone gunman who forced a store employee into a closet at gunpoint. The suspect then removed jewelry and gemstones from the store, and escaped on foot. Bell said none of the stolen items have been recovered, but the police department is exploring explor-ing leads on the whereabouts of the jewelry and gems. Bluegrass in Deer Valley Jay Bundy, special events coordinator coor-dinator for the Park City ChamberBureau announced this week that Deer Valley will host a Bluegrass Festival on Aug. 24. Scheduled to appear at the festival are the New Grass Revival, the Tony Rice Band, the David Grisman Quintest and John Hartford. Bundy said that Jerry Douglas and Mark O'Connor may also appear ap-pear at the festival ! - 1 1 SnirnonQ mm I 1 Madonna wins Madonna Harris throws her arms in the air as she crosses the line in first place at the Wheat Thins race on Park City's Main Street last Saturday. The race attracted at-tracted some of the best bikers in America. (See story page B-6) City asks The city asked some people to grow grass for them this spring, and so far it just hasn't happened. Nothing illegal mind you, the city wanted plain old garden variety grass. Grass with roots that would help hold down the expensive new topsoil in Propector Square. But the grass isn't growing and the weeds are and the city is withholding $30,000 from the contractor until the job is done and done right. According to city engineer Eric Dehaan, the special improvement district for Prospector Square contracted con-tracted with Gibbons and Reed to seed all vacant lots and unland-scaped unland-scaped property in the area. G and R then subcontracted out to Perry Nursery to do the actual seed work. Because only weeds and few grasses have grown where only grasses should be the city has demanded the contractor re-seed the area. That re-seeding said Dehaan should take place in August. "Our contract states we won't accept ac-cept the job until 80 percent of the Vol. 107, No. 24 " 3 Sections, 42 0 . 1 ' 5 f n Neal Palumbo at home contractor area nas nad seed germanation," said Dehaan. "It's clear we're not anywhere near that level yet." Still crews have been mowing the weeds this week and Dehaan says many area residents are glad just to have some growth covering the tailings. tail-ings. The special improvement district had been formed after tests in the area showed high mineral levels in the top soil. To date, Dehaan says city has spent $490,000 on the improvements in the area. About half of that money along with a $250,000 grant from the Community Impact Board went to replacing rock work along the stream bed, helping flood control. Another large portion of the money said Dehaan has gone to putting put-ting six inches of topsoil on the 15 million square feet of unlandscaped land in the development. "The contractor and I share the hope we will have grass in the area by next spring," said Dehaan. i - j r? 1 J 11 I ' f 1 j:, 3 j Pages Thursday, July 24, 1986 Leavitt cleared of by RICK BROUGH Record staff writer Federal charges against Kamas businessman (and Summit County Commissioner) Stan Leavitt have been dismissed in federal court in Salt Lake. A federal grand jury indictment in May charged Leavitt with three counts of mail fraud and false statement state-ment for allegedly supplying lumber to Hill Air Force Base under false pretenses in 1984. However, Judge Thomas Greene on July 14 granted a motion to dismiss all three counts. The motion was submitted by Assistant U. S. Attorney At-torney Peter Stirba, who said that investigation since the indictment showed "The evidence just flat-out wasn't there" to prosecute Leavitt. "I'm glad it's over," said Leavitt. "I'm sorry it had to come to this point." If the evidence wasn't sufficient suffi-cient to prosecute, he wondered, why wasn't that apparent at the time the government made its indictment. indict-ment. The charges became an issue at the Summit County Republican convention con-vention in May. Leavitt's re-election Rio Grande is allowed to stay open until 8 p.m. by TERI GOMES Record editor Last week owners of the Rio Grande bar and grill asked the City Council to extend the hours of their conditional use permit from the 6 p.m they had requested last winter to a sunset time of 10 p.m. The city split the difference and told them they could stay open until 8 p.m. in the historic residential neighborhood. However, they were ordered to cease playing any volleyball or horseshoes on the property pro-perty behind the Rio Grande until the city receives a letter from Rameco Corporation of Texas, owners of the land granting them permission to be there. Guy Hildebrand co-owner of the establishment argued that since City Park would not complete its volleyball courts until sometime this fall he was offering a service not elsewhere provided and therefore should be allowed to stay open until 10 p.m., like the park itself. Councilwoman Kristen Rogers said this was just another case of being be-ing a "Johnnie-come-lately" from the Rio Grande group who had told the council last winter if they would just grant a conditional use permit to use the old depot for a ski storage and snack shack, that 6 p.m would to reseed : , tVMi , Amber waves of weeds blow should be waving, not weeds. r .... . ;!, , 5!...,.;.,H,. . l: ' , v f , w . i -. , 1 J ; i ; v.f . s t - - , " ' - - . i , a. bid was rejected by delegates, who gave more than 70 percent of their votes to challenger Jim Soter. By state law, a candidate with that amount does not have to face a primary. Leavitt said that looking back, he doesn't feel good about the convention. conven-tion. "I explained my position and I thought the delegates would believe me and support me more than they did." The indictment said Leavitt's company, Leavitt Lumber of Kamas, had used quality-grading stamps issued by the Western Wood Products Association (WWPA) without permission. The stamps went on 25,000 board-feet of lumber sold to the Rolando Lumber Company Com-pany of Cloverdale, California. Rolando sold the lumber to Hill Air Force Base. However, Leavitt's attorney Robert Fillerup told the Record that the government had paid for the lumber at the time. Officials at Hill also confirmed, he said, that the lumber was the proper grade. Leavitt said he had verbally notified the WWPA that he was using the stamps on the material. be late enough. Rogers said when council members asked if the group wouldn't just be back in the summer to extend their hours they said they would not. There was also a problem Rogers felt with the intent of the zoning in that area. "The intent was to create a hotel district there, not a commercial zone," said Rogers. The area is zoned resort com-merical. com-merical. Community Development Director Direc-tor Mike Vance pointed out there had been numerous violations of the permit since it had been issued to the Rio Grande owners. Vance said the group was only before the council now because they had already violated the hours of operation, the rule against loud music in the residential area, and the building of a volleyball court without permission. permis-sion. It was a case of trying to get into compliance after the fact. Vance said he received complaints com-plaints from a few homeowners in the area about the music and the noise from the outside play. Rogers tried a motion not to change the hours of operation but it died for a lack of a second. Prospector . 'i;t ; in the vacant lots in Prospector charges -.1 4 t '1 V v i 7 r Commissioner Stan Leavitt Cnuncilmember Ann MacQuoid then presented a motion to extend the hours just until 8 p.m. and Tom Shellenberger gave it a second. Mac-Quoid's Mac-Quoid's motion also included putting a limit on the conditional use permit until April of 1988, and it stated the hours of operation return to 6 p.m. on Oct. 15. In addition, the motion said the group should cease playing volleyball until the city received a lotter from Rameco which gave the group permission for their recreational recrea-tional activities. All is quiet this week on the court although the city said they received information, after the fact, the courts were in use last weekend again. No letter of permission has been delivered to the city from Rameco. The letter which co-owner Hildebrand had said was just a formality, for-mality, claimed he had already been granted verbal permission from the group. In the meantime should the Rio Grande folks choose to resume play they could face more than just a fine from the city. The council could choose to revoke their business license or beer liconsc or even the conditional use permit altogether. For now it is side-out for Rio Grande. Square v.- i t Square. The problem is, grass INDEX Business A13 Calendar A17 Classifieds CI Columns A4 Education A16 Entertainment Bl Legats BlL' Letters A3 Sports B(5 Television Bid |