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Show • .i*. Tour des Suds: it's all about the outfit City*Weatber Tour des Suds wraps up mountain-biking season with food and fun. Page B-1 Temperatures are expected to warm up through the weekend. See B-2 for a complete forecast The or For some kids, their home is their school VISITOR GU1D1L he Kimball Art Center presents Last Fridays Arts T & Eats Gallery Stroll from 6-9 p.m. An opening reception for the Utah Arts Council Statewide Annual Competition will be held from 6-8 p.m. at the KimbalL For details, call 649-8882 or visit www.kimball-art.org. Park Record ^•^^^ ^m ^ H ^ ^ k Serving Summit County since 1880 500 H VOL. 124 • NO.65 Wed/Thurs/Fri, September 22-24, 20Q4 lakin' it to the streets Osguthorpe, Elliott to face off at forum State House candidates will also field questions at Thursday debate By PATRICK PARKINSON GRAYSON WEST/PARK RECORD Christi Landis (right), 7, does her schoolwork at home with her twin sister Debbie. Faith, academics prompt some to keep kids home By JARED WHITLEY Of the Record staff While most 7 year olds are climbing in a bus or car to get to school, twins Christi and Debbie Landis just walk from one room to another. Their mother, Marci Landis, is their teacher, which Christi says is "fun." "You get to stay with her most of the time," she said. Christi told her, "I like home schooling because I stay with you." In the Park City School District, 38 students are registered for home schooling, according to Tim McConnell, who coordinates that for the district. Of those, 20 are dual-enrolled, meaning they stay at home for part of the day and go to school for another part, such as a band or drama class. Parents, both nation wide and locally, choose to educate their children at home for a variety of reasons: mostly spiritual and academic. But if kids have special needs, that might prompt parents to keep them home. One common denominator among homeschooling parents is they really care about their children's education. "I had kids to raise them and be a part of their lives," Marci said. "That's my job: I'm their mother." Home schoolers are typically members of a coop of like-minded parents. A popular one in Park City is Utah Christian Homeschoolers, or UTCH. UTCH member Jennifer Price said about home schooling, "There's people who are very positive toward it and there are some people who are a little negative maybe because they don't understand it...People can have a lot of strange thoughts." Faith matters For many, the decision to keep their kids home is a decision of faith, but not all. "We have people in our group who are home schooling for academic reasons,1' Price said. "(At home) they can just choose and accomplish more." Faith was a large part of choosing to home school for Karen Ellis, whose husband Joe is a pastor at Calvary Chapel of Park City. "My whole purpose in that really is because I want them to see a world view that comes from God's hands," Ellis said. "I just believe strongly that God does have a purpose for each individual life." But Ellis shows her children other world views, such as evolution, "We want them to be familiar with everything that's out there. It's important to understand the world they live in," she said. "They're not sheltered by any means." Michelle Natali is in the sixth year of home schooling her 14-year-old daughter. She and her Please see Faith, A-2 3 SECTIONS • 52 PAGES Agendas Automotive Business Classifieds Columns Crossword Editorial Education Events Calendar Letters to the Editor Legals Movies Professional Services Restaurant Guide A-10 C-14 B-9 C-10 A-14 C-4 A-15 A-13 C-2 A-15 C-17 C-4 B-12 C-7 Sports B-1 TV Listings Weather C-9 B-2 ™ParkRecoixL Serving Summit County since 1880 www.parkrecord.com 8 %4937 00001 SCOTT SINEJPARK RECORD Cesar Barragon, drum major for the University of Southern California Trojans, leads the marching band and fans down Main Street to City Park for a pregame rally. The Trojans trounced the Brigham Young University Cougars Saturday night in Provo. Of the Record staff Local poll watchers agree it's a watershed year in Summit County politics.. When Park'ite Shauna Kerr, a Democrat, retires from the Summit County Commission Dec. 31 her successor will surely sway the board politically one direction or the other. Citizens can pepper with questions the two candidates vying to replace her. Democrat Sally Elliott of Park City and Snyderville Basin Republican Stephen Osguthorpe Thursday during a candidate forum at St. Mary's Catholic Church at" 1505 .West White,Pine Canyon Road between 6:30 and 9 p.m. Also fielding residents1 questions from a moderator during the meeting will be state Rep. David Ure, R-Kamas and his Democratic challenger for Utah House District 53, Laura Bonham, of Coalville. Ure currently represents most of Summit County. State Rep. Scott Daniels, D-Salt Lake City, represents portions of the Snyderville Basin in House District 25 and won't seek another term. Salt Lakers Joshua Bennett, a member of the Constitution Party, Democrat Ross Romero and Republican Martine Smith will speak Thursday in the Basin about their plans if elected Nov. 2. Citizens Allied for Responsible Growth is the forum's sponsor and residents should e-mail questions for candidates in advance by visiting www.carg.org. In terms of local government, many eyes are on the County Commission race as voters choose between Osguthorpe, a farmer and rancher in western Summit County who's pledged to protect property rights from Please see Voters, A-2 Developers outline artsy part of Spiro project Artists will have space to live and work while in Park City By JAY HAMBURGER Of the Record staff Long touted as a blend of skiing and the arts, the developers of the proposed Spiro Tunnel project have outlined their plans to create an arts community within part of the development. Dubbed the 'Spiro Artist Coalition,1 the developers, known as Paladin, LLC, intend to create an artist-in-residence program beginning in May 2006 and funded by a fee of up to $420 per year charged through a homeowners association. The developers intend to offer space within the project for up to about a dozen artists to stay on site while they practice their craft. That, according to a summary of the program released this week by the Park City Planning Department, will provide the artists "a concentrated period for creativity and production of their work." Artists participating in the program will be expected to work with the community, as well, through mentoring, educational programs and public events, the summary indicates. Elizabeth Swank, the president of the board of directors of the Park City/Summit County Arts Council, says the program will be a "dynamite asset for the community." "Anything that the artist can do to contribute to the culture of our community will be wonderful," said Swank, who is a member of a committee that helped craft the program over five months. Swank said she hopes that the program will feature lectures and interactive classes with artists who are participating. The developers say that the artists wiil interact with regular Parkites. "People will come to go to classes or simply watch the artist work," Swank said. The summary outlines that the developers want the program to host new and established artists, scholars in the humanities and writers and that local artists will be given some preference. They will be housed at the project in the spring, summer and fall. Swank predicts that the publicity of program will help attract artists to Park City in the summer, a season when boosters are trying to increase artsinfluenced tourism in Park City. "If every summer you have artist in residency, the reputation expands," she said. The summary was released on Monday in anticipation of a Park City Planning Commission meeting during which the panel is scheduled to discuss a niimber of issues, including the artists program. The meeting starts at 5:30 p.m. in the Park City Council's chambers at City Hall, Last month, the City Council unanimously approved the annexation of the land needed to build the development and the Planning Commission is currently reviewing the project's details. The developers intend to build about 100 condominiums and townhouses and one single-family home on just less than 20 acres. They also plan to refurbish historic mining-era buildings on the site and link the project to nearby Park City Mountain Resort. The project won lots of support from the public as it proceeded through City Hall's approval process. Please see Developers, A-2 Peddling for warmth GRAYSON WEST/PARK RECORD Parkite Daniele Martell braves the elements Tuesday morning as she rides her bike past McPolin Barn. Temperatures are expected to rise later in the week. Candidates discuss potential conflicts of interest Osguthorpe's link with Canyons may exclude him from discussions By PATRICK PARKINSON Of the Record staff If elected to the Summit County Commission Nov. 2, how often will Snyderville Basin Republican Stephen Osguthorpe have to recuse himself from discussions about The Canyons? His family makes about $4,000 each year from easements they provide the ski resort for runs and infrastructure on about 50 acres, and Osguthorpe is a stakeholder in The Canyons specially planned area, he said. "That lease is between my dad and The Canyons," Osguthorpe said. The County Commission candidate also owns land in the Lower Village at the resort, where property owners and attorneys have been in lengthy, closed-door negotiations with Summit County trying to get one of the resort's commercial centers back on track. It's likely only two County Commissioners could attend many of those talks if Osguthorpe is elected. "I would just excuse myself and declare a conflict," he told The Park Record Monday Including about 20 acres he owns west of S.R. 224 across from The Colby School in the Lower Village helped move development at The Canyons forward, Osguthorpe said. "We have no plans to develop any of our land," the West Side sheep rancher said. "We want to continue to do what we're doing." However, his Democratic opponent, Park City resident Sally Elliott says a County Commissioner must be free of conflicts of interest in order to make decisions. ''[Osguthorpe] has large landholdings and if he wants to put them in agricultural easements t*hen I guess he doesn't have conflicts, but if he wants to develop them, then he has very significant conPlease see Candidates, A-2 |
