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Show Page A4 B Thursday, December 7, 1995 The Park Record D Section A ... & i it Sawyer Napa A i 1 r Lf 1 f Preseason promotion IkU) 1 Classic men's leather jackets and coats, 25 off! a, Distinctive Apparel and Accessories for Ladies and Gentlemen. 801-649-7767 Fax 801-645-8008 541 Historic Main Street 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mon-Sat 1 1 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sun Iliiftl 111 1 1 J For Busy Real Estate Firm Contact Chris Robertson 647-8002 CHRISTMAS LIGHTS See our expanded collection all Holiday priced. Tt fl Salt Lake 2970 Highland Dr. Mon-Fri 10-7 Sat. 10-6 467-2701 Park City 1890 Bonanza Dr. Mon-Sat. 10-6 645-7072 Can Snyderville ever break ice for rink? by JKNNIFKK TOOMER Record staff writer Something's missing in the Snyderville Basin, and it has nothing to do with mother nature. Although in Park City alone there arc two adult hockey teams and a hockey club at Park City High School, there is no ice rink in the county in which to practice or play. Instead, the players drive to Bountiful or Salt Lake City for ice, which is sometimes booked nearly near-ly 24 hours a day. "There is such a need for ice," Cindy Fischer at a Snyderville Recreation Board meeting Dec. I. Because her 14-year-old son plays hockey from 8 to H p.m. Sunday nights in the valley. Fischer requested an ice rink be built in the basin. She gave the board a notebook note-book filled with information about other ice rinks, hockey leagues and other locals to contact con-tact who may have more information. "It seems as if an ice rink is always on the back burner." she said. Thai's nothing new. But having a good opportunity to construct a local rink might be. The new middle school site, in the Snyderville Basin off Kilby Road, might be able to house a rink. The recreation board and the Park City Board of Education, in an October meeting regarding a joint-use swimming swim-ming pool at the middle school, briefly discussed dis-cussed the possibility. " It's a wonderful idea for the youth of the community." said Park City School District Superintendent Dr. Don Fielder in an interview. inter-view. "We're strongly supportive of that idea, but the school district doesn't want to interfere with the ice. board's business. We're not in the recreation business it's not our area of expertise, and we don't want to pretend it is or tell the rec. hoard what it should do." The school district, despite its support for an ice rink, would not be able to fund one without another bond election and the district dis-trict has had its fill of those. Fielder said. Perhaps the district could ask the taxpayers for more money for a rink, but not until several sev-eral years down the road, he added. "But as an advocate of the youth. I'm an advocate of an ice rink." Fielder said. "It's a good place for kids to go ... certainly we could tie it directly into school curriculum we think that would be super." And. he added, although he doesn't want to tell the recreation board how to spend its money, the middle school site might be a good place for a rink. Architect Gary Acord, who is designing the middle school, agrees. "It is my understanding that it would probably proba-bly make more sense to add a rink to the middle mid-dle school in the Snyderville Basin ... mainly because of the energy savings that can be realized," real-ized," Acord said in an interview. The mechanical equipment used to take the heat out of water to make ice is the same that can be used to heat a swimming pool, Acord said. "It could save tens of thousands of dollars a year in energy costs versus a free-standing pool and a free-standing ice rink," he said. "We 'We're strongly supportive support-ive of that idea, but the school district doesn't want to interfere with the rec. board's business. busi-ness. We're not in the recreation business it's not our area of expertise, and we don't want to pretend it is or tell the rec. board what it should do." Superintendent Dr. Don Fielder do them all the time. It will definitely work." In addition to annual energy savings, building build-ing a rink at the middle school would save overall construction costs, Acord said. Utilities would already be extended to the site, the land may be purchased less expensively expen-sively since there is already construction there, and if its construction were combined with the overall construction of the school, the large-scale project would cost less than a free-standing ice rink. "Still, an ice rink is an expensive facility to build, although this wouldn't be as expensive," expen-sive," Acord said. It would cost about the same amount as the recreation board's proposed pro-posed schoolcommunity pool well over $100 per square foot, he said. But the money situation could be handled, Fischer told the board. "There's a large group of people who would be happy to help with giving ideas and fundraising so we can get a facility ... for our children," she said. And, she added, it might be able to pay for itself. For instance, Bountiful's city ice rink charges $95 per hour for hockey and figure skating, and $3.50 for adults and $3.25 for children under 18 for public skating. Cottonwood Heights Recreation Center charges $125 per hour for rink rental, and Utah Lake State Park charges $75 an hour with a two-hour minimum rink rental and $3 for adults and $2 for children during public skating hours. Considering there are no ice rinks in the county, it would get used, Fielder said. "We're a ski resort without an ice rink, and more kids here would be inclined to ice than in other towns." The recreation board welcomed Fischer's comments, but is still working on its bylaws and how and in what form to receive proposals, propos-als, said Board Member Amanda Peterson. The board asked Fischer to find more public support for her cause and possibly alert those with her interests to apply for one of two seats on the board that will open up in early 1996. "Fischer's information packet is very interesting," but it lacks specifics about cost, land and other technicalities that would be part of a formal proposal, Board Secretary Melissa Call said in a later interview. "It is just a request." But not one to be dismissed. Call added. "This has been a serious topic of conversation around here," she said. "It is probably past due." Peterson said the board would let her know later what Fischer can do to formally propose an ice rink. "We will keep letting this group know to keep coming forward at public meetings," Call said. "It is critical for the public to be heard. Pine Meadows residents battle over year-round water system operation by NAN CHALAT-NOAKER Record staff writer Ever since the water was turned off, Oct. 31. Pine Meadows resident John Mackay says, collecting water down at the creek has been like hanging out around the office water cooler. "It's inconvenient." he says, "but most residents were prepared to haul their own water." According to Mackay there are now about 40 year-round residents in Pine Meadows, a 915-lot subdivision subdivi-sion in Tollgate Canyon north of I-80 I-80 and east of U.S. 40. Traditionally Pine Meadows has been a seasonal neighborhood made up of summer cabins and a few diehards willing to snowmobile to their properties during dur-ing the winter. But that has begun to change with many recent property buyers hoping to make Pine Meadows their year-round address. Therein lies the problem. Seasonal cabin owners are worried wor-ried the year-rounders will demand more services which would increase maintenance costs for everyone. Last September the seasonal cabin owners, who currently are in the majority on the homeowners association associ-ation board, drew the line at keeping the water on through the winter. That action angered many members mem-bers of the 17 households intending to hold the fort year-round. The controversy drew a record crowd to the annual home-owners home-owners Association Meeting in Salt Lake City Nov. 29. According to Association President Gary Bangcrtcr, "There was overwhelming overwhelm-ing support to keep it as seasonal recreation use." Bangerter, who is also the head of the Pine Meadows Service District, went on to say if they decided to keep the water on year-round for those 25-40 residents, resi-dents, the state would reclassify the system as a Full-time Community Water System. And, to maintain that "status;- Bangerter "said," the '"system " would have to be upgraded at a cost of $4 million to the residents. "The majority of the property owners do not support that. That's the bottom line," Bangerter said. " don 't want J ,ut fcord:ng i . Mac Kay, the $4 Pine Meadows to million figure is i "a scare tactic." become another He said the state would require additional testing but would not require the complete com-plete overhaul as i , . siuicu uy iViaCkay Bangerter. "I was very aisappoint- Summit Park." Pine Meadows Resident John ed. The meeting was very onesided, one-sided, it was an hour and a half of erroneous information." infor-mation." Mackay went on to say, "If what they said was true, I wouldn't be for it either." Mackay, who enjoys the unplowed roads and. rustic nature of the neighborhood added "I don't wanr Pine ' Meadflwnobecdrne another Summit Park. But it may be that neither Bangerter or Mackay will be able to stem the tide of change. According to the State Division of Drinking Water, as long as people keeping moving in, the system will have to meet more stringent requirements. Bill Birkes of the Division said, the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act requires any system which supplies culinary water to at least 15 connections connec-tions or 25 individuals 60 days of the year be regulated by the state as a public water system. Pine Meadows currently reports 97 residential resi-dential and 53 frost-free hydrant connections. The service district, however, does qualify for some reductions in storage and source capacity as long as the system is drained and turned off during the inclement months of the year. Ultimately, Birkes said, he believes the county, which created the service district, will have to be the one to decide whether the Pine Meadows water system should be operated year-round or not. 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