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Phone (435)649-9014, fax (435) 649-4942 or V ; ^ i email circulation@parkrecord.com. ^ Published every Wednesday and ! Saturday.. .-••, • Continued from A-1 Erickson for mayor? By JAY HAMBURGER Of the Record staff Candy Erickson, the popular Park City Councilwoman serving her third term, said in an interview she will consider campaigning for the mayor's office this year if the incumbent mayor, Dana Williams, does not seek re-election. Erickson said, though, she would not challenge Williams, who is in his second term and has not said publicly whether he intends to seek a third term. Erickson won a City Council seat in 1999 as a newcomer to City Hall politics, drawing votes from a wide range of Parkites. "I would be incredibly proud. This town has been my home for 26 years now," Erickson, who is 53 years old, said. Erickson lives in Park Meadows and works at Cole Sport. She moved to Park City in 1983. Erickson's interest in Park City's highest office comes as election season approaches. The midsummer candidate filing window remains two months away, but two people have already announced they would campaign for the mayor's office. Former Mayor Brad Olch wants to return to the job and Diania Turner, who owns a shuttle company, has also said she will be a candidate. Erickson will wait for a decision from Williams before she would commit to a campaign. Williams has deflected questions about his intentions for months. He has said he will not make public his decision until it is time for candidates to file. Erickson said she has not spoken to Williams about his plans. If he does not run for re-election, Erickson said she could pick up some of his votes, saying that they have similar political leanings and that they have "a lot of the same fan base." When he won in 2001, Williams drew on a populist groundswell • Continued from A-1 Egyptian aims for a busier season Restructuring the theater's economic and artistic model will allow the Egyptian to put on smaller shows with fewer dark nights and bring the community back en masse, he said. A fundraiser, originally scheduled for May, has been postponed pending feedback, and patrons responded positively to the idea of canvassing and cold calling to raise money for the Egyptian. Groy assured ticket holders that the theater will stage four musicals in the next year, the first being "High School Musical 2" in September. The cancellation of shows made financial sense for the theater, but it also prompted worry from people who had purchased seats based on the existing lineup. Waving tickets in the air, one season ticket holder bemoaned the lack of communication between the board and theatergoers. Board members assured that if patrons aren't happy with the new calendar of shows, they can get a refund. The that easily put him into office in a highly competitive campaign that unfolded in the weeks after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and as the 2002 Winter Olympics neared. He was unopposed when he won re-election in 2005, a rare instance of a candidate in Park City not having a challenger. Erickson is seen as closer to the political center than the left-leaning Williams. She champions the resort industry but also has been in office as City Hall has undertaken an ambitious set of upgrades to Old Town streets. But there is rarely significant disagreement between Williams and the five City Councilors. If Williams does not win and Erickson mounts a campaign, it is likely her platform would have some similarities to the one that the mayor has crafted during his administration. Williams has especially been interested in City Hall's green programs, sometimes known as the city's sustainability efforts, which are meant to lessen the local government's effects on the environment. The City Council has supported the efforts as the mayor has championed the programs. Erickson said she has "gotten a few" words of encouragement from her supporters as she has talked about the prospects of a mayoral campaign. "It's people who have voted for me for years," she said. Erickson's interest is more evidence that this year's mayoral campaign will likely be a return to the competitiveness of most of the past 20 years. There was a series of tough contests since the late 1980s, but it is difficult to gauge whether this year's campaign will be reminiscent of those contests. If more than two people file papers to run for the mayor's office, a primary will be held Sept. 8 to reduce the field to two candidates for Election Day on Nov. 3. 2009-10 season will run from September to September, not from July to July as it has in years past. Main stage productions will be lower budget with fewer sets, smaller casts and shorter runs. Transitioning from a professional stage to one that puts on community shows won't lessen the quality of productions, Groy said, but it does lend flexibility to the stage. Community theaters pay fewer royalties than their counterparts choose from a wider selection, Groy explained. "At this point, we're only going to do shows that will at least break even," he said, even if few theatrical productions make money based on ticket sales alone. Park City High School seniors Rebecca Sands and Allison Robbins encouraged the Egyptian to host high school musicals for weekend runs. Staging would be inexpensive and '"high school kids don't care about money," Robbins told the board. "They just want the experience." Patrons responded enthusiastically to the idea of showing matinee and evening films at the Egyptian to attract crowds. One patron recommended a twice-aday film chronicling the history of the Sundance Film Festival. For now, Groy and other board members, who will serve a twoyear term, are taking notes before they book shows. Park City Soccer Club School slated to reopen you don't have people congregating in large numbers," Timothy said. "The virus pretty much runs the course during the time the schools are shut down." Custodians on Tuesday wore masks and gloves while scrubbing surfaces in schools that students or teachers might have touched or breathed on last week. "They are wiping down, disinfecting and sanitizing any ... keyboard, doorknob, handles, chair rails, telephones, all those kinds of things," Timothy said. Meanwhile, some students will face difficult Advanced Placement testing when they return from the six-day break the swine flu scare caused ''They are so distracted right now." Hays said. "I want to get them back as soon as I can because I feel like every day we're out, it's just another day where they feel like they are in vacation mode, and they do not need to be in vacation mode right now." Paula Baltzan, who teaches AP world history at the high school, used Skype, an online calling service, to help students study while classes were canceled. "We have our test on May 14 and the review for the test is key to the test," Baltzan said Tuesday. "I think a lot of students will be happy to be back. It's been very hard on • Continued from A-1 Swineflucase is confirmed form of influenza behaves "pretty much like the seasonal flu." Nevertheless, he advised Parkites not to unnecessarily travel to Mexico. • Continued from A-1 Recession complicates budget talks market in the first year of the twoyear budget cycle and then gives a 2 percent salary increase in the second year. The proposal before the City Council reverses the schedule, meaning that the staffers would receive a 2 percent increase in the first year of the budget and a market-based increase in the second year. The budget talks are slated to begin at approximately 4:40 p.m. in Room 205 of the Park City Library and Education Center. A hearing is scheduled at a meeting starting at 6 p.m. There will be additional hearings through mid-June. The City Council is tentatively scheduled to adopt the budget on June 18. Park City Councilwoman Candy Erickson acknowledged that the Tryouts:May 18-29 "Take precautions in your personal health not to share the illness," Sundwall said. Tips from the CDC to avoid contracting swine flu include: 1. Avoid close contact with others 2. Stay home when you are sick 3. Cover your mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing 4. Wash your hands 5. Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth 6. Practice good health habits: get plenty of sleep, be physically active, manage stress and maintain a nutritious diet. budget talks will be difficult, but City Hall has options. She said the budget will be "tight." Erickson, however, said City Hall has been conservative with its budget over the years. "We're probably in better shape than a lot of towns," Erickson said. She said she would prefer not to delay construction projects since contractor bids have been lower during the recession than before. She said she had not closely looked at the budget by early in the week, saying she was unsure if projects could be delayed. Erickson said, though, she does not want improvements to Old Town streets delayed. City Hall has been redoing the streets at a steady clip in the last decade. Williams, meanwhile, said there might not be as much funding immediately available as previously forecast for Old Town streets and work at the Racquet Club. The mayor said budget cuts would be spread through City Hall. "I'm not anticipating it being devastating to any department," he said. "Everybody was somewhat anticipating and preparing that budgets will have to be trimmed a bit." 4 7 % off any single for more information, go to: www.parkcitysoccer.org Tryouts for 2009-10 Teams them. They don't want to get behind." : Students who pass AP tests receive college credit, Timothy explained. ;• "If they don't pass the exam, then they don't get the college credit," Timothy said. "The teachers who are teaching those AP classes tried to find any way they could to dialog with those students." The student in the Park City area who contracted the swine flu had recently returned from a spring break trip in Mexico where the illness has killed several people. "We know the other students didn't go to Mexico and they caught it from somewhere here," Timothy said. ", The superintendent expects this year's graduation ceremony to proceed June 12 as planned. Utah Board of Education officials will likely decide if students must make up the missed days, Timothy said. "We will have completed all of the state testing requirements and all of the AP testing [by June 12.] What advantage are we going to see by having to reschedule and extend that?" he said. "Everything that we have wanted to accomplish by June 12, we will have accomplished." Other schools that remain closed in the district could reopen Thursday, he said. "If we continue to see groups congregate in the community and we continue to get increased numbers of probable and confirmed cases, it may increase the time that we have to keep our schools closed," Timothy said. PIZZA Valid on dine in, to go and delivery. No! valid with any olher offer. Must mention 3d at time of order. 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