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Show Nea Pris meters on Main Street in Park City? Hey, here's an idea, what if the election were held today instead of before the silly meters were installed? Look out Park City Council, no one is very happy about the so-called Europeanstyle meters that obviously were installed to keep locals off Main Street. That part is certainly working, anyway. But merchants aren’t laughing. They fear that parking meters, particularly this type, don’t make Park City’s historic Main Street a very friendly place. Of course, City Hall knows best, we are fold, and when the dust settles all you nay sayers out there are just going fo love the parking meters. You'll also love the towing bill if you fry to park on upper Park Avenue. P © Par Why would anyone want to run for City Council? Easy, so you can go around with your chest puffed out and get free trips to Europe and Japan. Mast recently, five of the seven members of the Salt Lake City Council said they would travel to Nagano Japan on the taxpayers ticket to check out the Winter Olympic Games. lt’s a must, they said, because they have to plan for the 2002 Games, here. Of course their journey will be a waste of money - number one because they aren’f in charge of organizing the 2002 Games, and secondly because they won't learn anything in the hubbub in Nagano. The Park City Council and Mayor Brad Olch and City Manager Toby Ross toured European Olympic sites at a taxpayer cost of $60,000. What did they learn? Who knows, because no formal report was forthcoming. @ ? Birdie OK, so you can’t drink champagne at the new Eccles Center for the Performing Arts in Park City. That doesn’t mean that the new facility isn’t just grand. Terri Orr and Ann MacQuoid, along with the 0 a a be< = a ) taal is e N kas <a Eccles Foundation and a whole lot of other volunteers and contributors have succeeded in building a center that the entire flown can crow about, Showing a lot of ingenuity, this group combined with the Park City School District to build more than auditorium at Park City High School. The new hall can accommodate symphonies, ballets, musicals and just about any performance you can dream of. It's a big addition to Park City and all of western Summit County. The Sundance Film Festival likes the large theater, foo. The State Board of Education played the stick in the mud by not allowing wine on the premises, bui original thinkers, like these, can handle that little restriction. We Survived the Good Ol’ Days hese days youre likely to see shots of Park City on Good Morning America or in USA Today or other national news media. Park City has the Sundance Film Festival, an Olympic Sports Park and will host a dozen events in the 2002 Winter Games, just for starters. No doubt about it, Park City is on the map. But things werent always that way. When this reporter hit Park City in June 1983 ina 55 Chevy pickup, it was a cute, lictle wannabe place. No Deer Valley, no Olympics, no glitz - hardly a Range Rover in sight. In those days the Park City Chamber of Commerce & Visitor's Bureau was promoting anything and everything it could get its hands on: Let’s have a hot-air balloon festival; lev’s have a snow sculpture festival; lets have an art festival; let’s have a film festival; let’s have a festival festival for cryin’ out loud, anything to bring tourists! It was quiet then. You could cross Park Avenue without checking for cars. The first stop light had yet to be installed. Park police officers nized locals and cut them a break traffic violation. City recogwould on a Same radio station, walking that fine line you have a ay Christopher Smart ethics wouldn't allow his staff to take free ski passes from the Park City Ski Area or else- acted out on the stage of the ancient Greek theater during the Golden Age. iy x I wey~ Oy Hampshire called him the best news man in town. Our goal: get our stories out on the street Thursday before Feulner could air him back. Then I'd spend all summer paying even it has changed - now it’s a private club. Stull, the old gang is around: Brough, who has always reminded me of a 40-yearold Charlie Brown, is now at KPCW and those drastic weekly Wednesday deadlines. may actually be the best news man in town. After a hiatus or two, and a baby, Nan is Thursday City back at The Park Record, making sure every- Council meeting at 3 p.m. That was the same period when Blair thing is photographed and recorded for his- time before the 5 \) 7 struck silver in 1849. Things have changed? That’s an understatement. The only thing that remains the same in Park City is the Alamo saloon. But ski twice-a-year slick tourist magazine, Lodestar. Hanskat and I, on the other hand, didn’t go with the community philosophy of journalism bit. Randy’s wit notwithstanding, So high... yeu and me, making it in Park City on $10,000 a year as reporters wasn't exactly easy - even back then. To Wilking’s credit, he'd buy our ski passes and we'd take the winter to pay was lishing scene, Hampshire still edits Wilking’s used to foolure on. them. Of course, things have changed, but even Feulner’s stiffest critics realize that his radio station has been one of the single biggest contributions to Park City since they little Main Street offices, drinking beer and gyrating to Motown into the wee hours on City today. With the exception of Feulner, we all came out of the Hampshire School of Journalism. Not completely out of the pub- J can remember where for that matter. For Nan Chalat-Noaker (now editor of The Record), Rick Brough, Randy Hanskat off my winter utility bills. Bur we had a lot of fun in our cramped, Its David Hampshire who you can credit or blame for the state of journalism in Park when you Were about thing at the bank and other spots around town. Boy, those days are long gone. At that time, Jan Wilking, who owned an outfit called The Park City Newspaper, joined up with Dick Buys, the publisher of The Park Record. Voila, the 100Record year-old Park weekly was reborn under Wilking’s tutelage. Wilking has since sold the paper to a chain, but back then The Records news department was run by David Hampshire - an editor's editor. His to walk when you do news in a small town full of strong personalities. They all seem to hold the notion that journalism is a community thing - a contribution, if you will, that binds the town together as did the comedies and tragedies Feulner gave birth to his brainchild, KRCW radio - a low-power, public FM station born on a shoestring in the old War Memorial Building that has morphed over the years into nightclubs and restaurants. Boasting a voice that could rival Walter Cronkite’s, Feulner soon had his "Volunteer Air Force" playing rock ’n roll 24 hours a day, while he supplied the news. \) i My t > Bogie How ‘bout those nice, new parking EDITORIAL tory and posterity. And Blair is still at the we saw ourselves as the truth tellers. Canaries in the coal mine, we thought it was our responsibility as the Fourth Estate to say the things that needed to be said no matter what the spin coming from City Hall, the Rotary Club or the ski industry. That belief eventually got Randy fired from The Record. It turned out to be a lucky break. He now plies his trade and talents at an ad agency in Deer Valley. I moved on to The Salt Lake Tribune, fertile ground where I could tell even more truths, making even more people irritated. I quit The Trib before they could fire me. It about cism. here. reminds me of an old joke or refrain people who can’t take a little critiBut I don’t think I should repeat it It might make some people mad. And we wouldn’t would we? @ want to do that, now "t |