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Show The Park Record A-4 AIRPORT PARKING Valet Open $8.00 www.diamondparking.com FREE Car Wash AIRPORT IAMON ^PARKING SINCE 50 S. Redwood Rd. Salt Lake City, Utah 355-PARK (7275) Self Park Per Day Compare to $6/Day Expires 1/31/05 24 Hour Shuttle Tues/Wed/Thur, December 28-30, 2004 County opens West Side shortcut Transportation officials in Summit County hope this extension of Highland Drive between Bitner Road and the Basin Recreation Field House will help decongest traffic on Interstate 80 and S.R. 224 near Kimball Junction. Residents in Silver Springs, Trailside, Highland Estates and other eastern Snyderville Basin neighborhoods can now drive to the Junction on Highland Drive without having to access the freeway. GRAYSON WEST/PARKRECORD Recotri counts down year's top stories the company would not honor reservations and it would not refund the Oakley boy's father. "It was deposits for vacations that had blown out of proportion basically. In already been booked through High Salt Lake, terroristic threats are Mountain. made everyday in the schools and McEntire told The Park Record you never see it in the paper ... a ter- in March that he did not understand roristic threat is basically saying that the business when he became T m going to get you after school.1" involved in High Mountain and that Court proceedings for the Kamas he was not benefiting from the debaboy were confidential. The court- cle. room was open when the Oakley boy "I certainly did not take advananswered a felony drug charge and tage of this situation. I am personally Summit County prosecutors dropped a victim," he told the newspaper. all charges related to the alleged The ramifications were widethreats in exchange for a guilty plea ranging, with some ex-High from the boy to drug distribution. Mountain employees filing police The judge ordered the defendant reports complaining thai they were undergo a 45-day mental evaluation. not able to cash their paychecks and the state complaining that the com7. High and dry pany did not contribute to a Utah At the height of the ski season. agency for unemployment insurance. High Mountain Properties, a Park Some stranded tourists also filed City lodging company, closed its reports with the Park City Police doors, leaving people who booked Department. vacations through the company with"Basically, they amount to people out places to stay when they arrived. saying 'I arrived, they won't give me a In a city that relies on tourism, key, they won't give me my money High Mountain Properties, which back, they say I'm out of luck." Police filed for bankruptcy on Feb. 20, sent Chief Lloyd Evans said in February. ripples through Park City. The comSally Elliott, who owns a Park pany's owner, Bart McEntire, said in City reservations company, related February that aggressive action was an experience of one of her clients, taken on federal and state tax liens, saying the person reserved a twoforcing him to shut down the busi- fredrpqm condominium and had : ness. ' ' " already paid a $926 deposit. The •• He announced that month that clienliost the reservation arid was not • Continued from A-5 refunded, Elliott told the newspaper. Other lodging companies and the Park City Chamber/Bureau rallied to help the tourists who had booked vacations through High Mountain. not a bar. It's a place for networking," said organizer Ellen Huang, a bisexual filmmaker from Los Angeles. But during film-festival week, a local doctor wrote a letter to the edi6. A 'Queer* year tor to The Park Record criticizing In what may have been the sur- the Queer Lounge, calling it a "new prise news item of 2004, gay issues homosexual hangout here in Park resonated throughout 2004, from City to give perverts and other January's film-festival week to degenerates a place to 'network' during the local filth festival." The Election Day in November. Given Utah's conservative lean- letter sparked mass protests from ings and a gay population believed to people disgusted with the authors be quite small, that gay issues were so comments. The Queer Lounge plans prominent likely shocked many in an encore appearance during the 2005 edition of film-festival week. the state. Early in the year Park City Later in the year, in November, became a hotspot for gay issues in Utah's voters weighed in on gay Utah as the inaugural Queer Lounge issues, overwhelmingly voting to opened its doors during film-festival amend the state's Constitution to week. It created a stir, or buzz as the define marriage as only between a entertainment industry would call it, man and a woman. The vote, oppoeven with the Hollywood and New nents said, struck a blow to both gay York crowds who descend on the city and heterosexual rights in the state, for Sundance and the rest of the but the supporters argued that the week s slate of festivals. amendment was needed to preserve With rented space in the Gateway traditional marriage. Center on Heber Avenue, organizIn Summit County, voters turned ers drew more than 4,000 people to down the amendment, with 61.4 perthe Queer Lounge for networking, cent casting 'Nay' ballots, but were socializing and panel discussions. vastly outvoted by the rest of the Lots of straight people stopped by to slate. check out the scene as well. ll l had publicists come up to me The Record s picks for the lopfix •e and say this was a good place to take stories of 2004 wiif appear in ' the a meeting. Its not a restaurant. 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