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Show A-2 The Park Record Wednesday, November 11, 1998 Murder suspect surrenders ; Former Parkite Pinder turns himself in to police and then claims innocence r. by Kevin M. Schultz OF THE RECORD STAFF Z Former Park City resident John "R. Pinder turned himself in to Wasatch County authorities Sunday, after being charged with the mur-V. mur-V. ders of two employees in Duchesne County. The 40-year-old Pinder had been ;;on the run from authorities since Wednesday, Nov. 4 after a grizzly statement recounting the double ; homicide was released by Duchesne County attorney, Herbert William - Gillespie. Gillespie has charged Pinder with two counts of aggravated murder and one count of tampering with evi-; evi-; dence; in Utah, aggravated murder is legal grounds for the death penal-: penal-: ty. After surrendering, Pinder con-; con-; tinued to plead his innocence, saying that he had been framed for the '. murders. ! He also has said that he chose to ; seek refuge in Wasatch County after ; fearing for his safety from Duchesne - law enforcement. '. Pinder, however, remained rela-! rela-! lively quiet during the arraignment lire to push 2002, open space : Continued from A-1 ; - that the 2002 Winter Olympics, of ; i which approximately 40 percent of the events will occur in Summit . County, will not tax the citizens of .Hhe county. ; "My concern for Summit County ; js to make sure we can provide ser- yices for the Olympics without going into debt," Ure said. He said a dialog between the ; legislature and venue governments 3s necessary and he will promote ' xbmmunication. ; -; "I plan on spending a lot of time ; Ayith Summit County and Park City . Z-. ," he said. "I expect they'll be ' jlown at the capitol, too." Ure sees coordination between ; 3aw-enforcement agencies as critical, las well as coordination of medical Rally may boost the shoulder season 'Zf. Continued from A-1 The race would run from S.R. 224 near "Top Stop onto Thaynes I-Canyon Drive to Three Kings Drive ;6 Silver King Drive to Empire ':venue and back to S.R. 224. On 'xpurse straight-aways, racers could !-gravel in excess of 100 mph. The closed roads would be 2 -Opened once an hour to allow residents resi-dents access to their homes. A temporary tem-porary bridge spanning S.R. 224 Jvould be constructed. Z The Utah Department of Transportation has already jnformed the city that it would not .Oppose the closing of S.R. 224. I- A motocross course would be rocated at Park City Mountain Resort, near the bottom of the Jesort's ski hill on dirt and grass. The festival would also use the Heber -Fairgrounds as a venue for a flat- Locals design showcase home ? Continued from A-1 : ion, supporting local libraries has Z jbeen one of her passions for over 20 years. ; I "My grandmother was blind, so 3ny mother had to learn everything ; T jrom books in the library," she I explains, adding trips to the local library were a regular occurrence ; Iwhile growing up. ; -1 Most of the Friends' fund raising Z Tvork comes down to making Z inoney for library items that might SalomonSmithBarney A Member of TrovelersGmupT Salomon Smith Barney cordially invites you to attend an Investment Strategy Seminar: The Great Boom Ahead A refreshingly positive and understandable discussion of the Future in: Personal Investing Business Strategies Jobs ; Real estate Guest Speaker: Harry S. Dent, Jr. Date: Tuesday, November 17. 1998 Time: 7:00 p.m. Place: Salt Palace Convention Center 100 South West Temple Salt Lake City, UT This seminar is free.but seating is limited. Please reserve your place today. 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"He (Ruiz) and possibly someone some-one else could be involved. They used our equipment (in the murders), mur-ders), it's on our property and he had full access to the explosives." The sordid statement quoted in Pinder's charging document comes services and food inspectors. "I think we're going to have to do some legislation saying we're going to do this and this and this," he said about Utah law enforcement. The next legislative session, he said, will include a large amount of Olympic-related debates, he said. "We cant wait until 2001 to go to the drawing board," Ure said. But Ure will not ignore other issues to further Summit County's Olympic planning. He expects that open-space legislation will be a contentious con-tentious issue between the Legislature's Republicans and Democrats. The two parties recently unveiled their plans for open-space preservation preserva-tion in the state. Each has its nuances and the two parties have begun garnering support for their track oval course and a motorcycle exhibition will be conducted. The Yarrow Hotel and ' Conference Center on Park Avenue would be the base for the festival. Wednesday's information session will address the course, the schedule of events and the history of the event. A video of past festivals in Steamboat Springs will be shown. The race may have support among Park City's elected officials. Mayor Brad Olch, and City Councilmen Roger Harlan and Paul Sincock count themselves as motorcycle motor-cycle enthusiasts. Each owns one. "I dont see any more problems than crowd control," Sincock said. But, he admits that the festival will be heard in Park City's Old Town. "Old Town will probably get a little lit-tle noise," he said, comparing the level to that of PCMR's snowmak- otherwise not be affordable. For example, the money raised by the Friends last year was used to purchase pur-chase items on a "wish list," including includ-ing books, tapes, videos, and funding fund-ing for the weekly children's story-time story-time sessions. Other items funded with contributions contri-butions from the Friends include books on tape, specialty reference books, CD roms, banners for the children's area, a globe, a new copier, copi-er, and money for a library history brochure. mainly from Ruiz and claims that Pinder and Ruiz kidnapped rancher Rex Tanner, 48, and his girlfriend June Flood Sunday Oct. 25. They then took the couple to a remote area in the Lake Canyon Lake area of Duchesne County and shot both victims in the chest. Seeking to hide the bodies from authorities, the document alleges that Pinder and Ruiz took explosives explo-sives from the ranch Pinder and his father own and operate and blew up the bodies. "They never should have lied to me," Pinder reportedly said. "They stole from the ranch and now they're vaporized." Rather than destroy the evidence, evi-dence, though, the explosion merely spread it over a larger area, so Ruiz and Pinder allegedly scoured the area, collecting, burying and burning whatever body parts they could find. At one point, the report says, Pinder held up a femur bone and said, "I'm going to make a bolo tie out of this piece." Ruiz, who is being held in a Duchesne County facility, has also been charged with the aggravated murders. Bond has currently been set at $1 million for Pinder, although a bond reduction hearing will be held in Duchesne County Nov. 30 at 11 a.m. plans. "We have gone through the last two legislative sessions without a major open-space bill," he said. "There's probably more of an opportunity of an open-space bill to come out." Ure said he favors open-space legislation that grants local governments govern-ments much control. "I'm against going to the state level," he said. "I don't believe a central cen-tral board in Salt Lake City knows where the critical lands are." Ure plans to propose legislation that will bring a level of oversight to the circuit and district judges of Utah, who, Ure argues, can operate carte blanche. "We have to find a way to protect the citizenry of Utah from a judge's (conduct)," Ure said. ing system. The festival, though, would be a significant blip in the city's fall shoulder season, which lacks large tourist events. - - "It will bring a significant number num-ber of people to a festival in the middle of September, which is traditionally tradi-tionally a slow time here," Sincock said. Festival backers have begun debunking myths about motorcycle festivals that the public may have, such as the Park City rally will draw large contingents of members of motorcycle gangs. "The demographics ... are in their 40s and 50s," Colburn said. "Many are retired . . . they come for the enjoyment." Sincock responds similarly. "You'll have all kinds of vintage motorcycles," he said. "Most of these people are 40,50,60 years old." Tickets for the 2nd annual Dickens Holiday in the Mountains, located at 2600 Meadows Dr. (west of S.R. 224) are available at La Niche, 401 Main St., the Park City Library, 1255 Park Ave., at the door of the holiday showcase home, and from friends of the library board members. Call Terry Moffitt at 649-8179 649-8179 for more information. Preview tickets for Thursday night's event are $25. All other dates are $5 in advance, $7 at the door. ?? River Runs Through It. Park City's most sophisticated, luxury apartment community. Canyon Creek is designed for those who appreciate the year round, active ambiance of Park City. Canyon Creek, conveniently located at Kimball Junction, is a beautiful 20 minute drive from Salt Lake City. Reserve your view now! Phase II and outdoor resort style pool opening Fall of '98. -J J , J J 900 5500 Sq Ft Clubhouse Indoor Resistance Pool Aerobic Studio Climbing Wall Basic Cable Apartments www.canyoncreekapts.com Graham -J.l i . 1 Members of the Park City Women's Business Network flank Lisa Armantrout, Candace Erickson, Utah Attorney General Bernadette Martinelli, Holly Carlin and Jackie Gordon. Local businesswomen work to break glass ceiling for a high school student by Nan Chalat-Noaker RECORD EDITOR If it were up to those who attended last week's Park City Women's Business Network annual annu-al scholarship luncheon, Jan Graham would be a shoe in as the state's next governor. The sellout crowd at the Yarrow Hotel applauded enthusiastically when a guest asked Graham, "How much support would women have to give you to get you to run against (Utah Governor) Mike Leavitt?" Graham demurred, saying Leavitt's 82-percent approval rating rat-ing would be impossible to beat. However, she said, Democrats need to begin searching now to find viable candidates for the elections elec-tions in 2000. Instead, she encouraged encour-aged members in the audience to think seriously about electing more women to the state legislature. "The state legislature is a black hole for women," Graham said adding that only 12 percent of its members are women. In terms of Developers Continued from A-1 , store," a "very 'significant restaurant," restau-rant," as well as Resort Theaters of America, which specializes in bringing bring-ing movie theaters to resort communities. commu-nities. The theaters will also have the potential to house small theater productions, as well as movies presented pre-sented during the Sundance Film Festival. The commercial project, said Swain, would cater to mid- to high-end high-end clientele. "This is not an attempt to address the needs of the shopping public of the Snyderville Basin," said Swain, "and this is not a Kmart shopping center... this will be a mid-range consumer con-sumer area for the residents of the village." The residential half of the project, pro-ject, which will sit on the south side of "Main Street," will also play host to a wide range of developments, said Wendy F. Smith of B.R.E. Properties, Inc., the entity responsible responsi-ble for the project's residential development. "We've tried to make the 21-acre plot as diverse as we could," she told the commissioners Monday afternoon. after-noon. "As you drive or walk down the streets, you will believe you are in a single-family neighborhood... and it might even remind you of being in the '50s." The development will feature single-family homes, town homes and an apartment complex, as well as the several units that will sit atop Bitner Road Park City, UT 4356556200 1,2 & 3 Bedrooms WasherDryer hookups AttachDetach Garages Mountain Views Exercise Facility inspires Utah women female membership, she said, Utah's legislature is ranked fourth lowest in the country and "the worst in the West." "We need to do better... and where do the next leaders come from?" she asked, gesturing to a crowd of high powered local business busi-ness women. "I urge you, if you don't want to run for office to get involved in a campaign, Republican or Democratic." Graham hinted that a good target tar-get for Democratic efforts in 2000 would be U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch's seat. "He's been in the senate sen-ate for 24 years! The opportunity is there. If we blow it, it wont come around again for another six years." As a Democrat she added, "We are tired of moral victories. We need to be more strategic." When she won the attorney general's post in 1992, Graham became Utah's first woman to be elected to state wide office and she credits Summit County with contributing con-tributing to the 6,000-vote margin plan theaters, bookstore the commercial buildings on "Main Street.;' . ,, ., As part of an agreement reached with the county's planning commission, commis-sion, the residential development will also feature 52 deed-restricted affordable housing options. "We will have affordable housing," hous-ing," said Smith after saying she and Phyllis Robinson, executive director of Mountainland Community Housing Trust, have become remarkably close business partners in the past year as affordable housing hous-ing negotiations have been in the works. "For a two- to three-bedroom town home," Smith continued, "or for the units above the commercial, we will charge somewhere around $115,000 to $120,000. That way, someone who makes $36,000 a year can afford to live there." Smith said the price could change depending on the number of lots the county opts to approve. . The Boyer project, as the entire development has been called, has been in the county planning mill since 1993. The developers spent the last five years with the planning commission, hammering out a deal that fits with the county's changing development codes. The two parties finally reached an agreement in August that allowed for 302 residential units, 52 of which must be deed-restricted affordable housing. The agreement also stipulated that the developers must donate ik)i: SM WA & SCOTT SINEPARK RECORD a role model. Pictured from left:' Jan Graham, PCWBN president that tipped the scale in her favor. ., In an inspirational speech, Graham detailed a career that;-included that;-included a stint waitressing to pur. . herself through college. "When you work for your edu-. cation it really means something,".-she something,".-she told the group who had gath-.5 ered to raise money for the . PCWBN annual high school schol-. arship. ; Graham also took time to address her top priority, domestic abuse. "From the beginning, I felt I . had a spiritual calling in my work' as attorney general... to take on directly and honestly the issue of , abuse in Utah families. Our biggest , hurdle is the perception that this cant happen in Utah - the family state." At the end of the luncheon,. Park City Women's Business-Network Business-Network President Bernadette" Martinelli presented Graham a framed painting of Main Street by local artist Judy Taylor. Martinelli said the proceeds' from the event came to approxU; mately $2,500, which will allow the"' group to double its scholarship, grant this year. For more information about PCWBN call 649-3312. $300,000 to the county for area improvemenjts, as well as institute 'a trail system, build parks and donate 24 acres of the 60-acre plot to Swaner Memorial Park. The developers devel-opers also claim that in property taxes alone, the project will generate gener-ate $500,000 a year for the area's schools. Now the developers must finalize final-ize a deal with the board of commissioners commis-sioners before construction can begin. ; ' The commissioners expressed various concerns about the project. "It has a nice feel," Summit County Commissioner Eric Schifferli said, before asking, "but does this really fit the idea of a real town?" Commissioner Sheldon Richuis quipped,"that would be the last place in the world I'd want to live." The Henefer-based commissioner commission-er expressed further concerns about some of the affordable housing options in the project. "I have a hard time understanding understand-ing why the planning commission would want something like that," lie said referring to the clustered development devel-opment of both residential and commercial buildings. Obviously concerned by the commissioners' discussion, the developers plan to return to the board several times over the nect few months. The next meeting between the two parties could be as early as next Monday, Nov. 16. Orcruds er wor treasures. ZvcHARys Garden; Mon-Sat8-6-Sun 11-5 1321 South 2100 East 801.581.1189 . otrt |