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Buses now run from 6:22 a.m. until 2:10 a.m. every day. Some popular spots on the system include Park City Mountain Resort, Deer Valley Resort and The Canyons. The bus system also runs to several commercial cores at Kimball Junction. For more information, call 615-5350. GRAYSON WEST!PARK RECORD 7OO SastJSfOO SoatJi (L'S/ext to iftxu*6ucft&) .#m?r//counts down year's top stories Later, the county attorney investigated Osguthorpe when Wetherton, 58, and her 39-year-old dogs guarding sheep on land he daughter Kim Beverly, during owns in the Basin allegedly September 2003, was also unsuc- harassed people and other anicessful. The women's remains mals. were found June 26 near the midSome attempted to divide the dle fork of the Weber River during debate along religious lines, chara search and rescue training exer- acterizing Elliott as anti-LDS. cise. Investigators believe the Others portrayed Osguthorpe as women died from exposure as a the owner of significant acreage in result of a snowstorm in area the western Summit County bent on day they went missing. loosening zoning restrictions in the Snyderville Basin. 2. Commission race gets ngly Both candidates rejected the characterizations. In one of the most heated and During the campaign, Elliott expensive commission races in was vocal in her support for the recent memory. Park City current Snyderville Basin General Democrat Sally Elliott defeated Plan and Development Code. Snyderville Basin Republican "If you wanted to live within Stephen Osguthorpe in the Nov. 2 election for seat C on the Summit the constraints of the General Plan and abide by the recommendaCounty Commission. tions of the Planning Commission The fireworks started when the ... you'd be happy to vote for me," Summit County Attorney's Office Elliott said during a debate. began investigating Elliott after a "There are lots of large landownRepublican operative complained ers who arc voting for me." about her use of a county logo on Osguthorpe countered that the her Web site. Basin development matrix is loo "subjective." "If I owned some property I'd like to know what I could do with it if I wanted to develop it," Osguthorpe said. "If I as a homeowner walked in the county today and there was a vacant piece of property next to me and asked them what could happen there, I don't think they could tell me." Osguthorpes ties to development in the Basin raised questions about potential conflicts of inter- • Continued from A-3 &u/*ohean On ^firemiises />/* a// of* t/ t Seeds 1-80 2100 SOUTH 700 • iEAST fcl uncf SXatinttm Come sec us at our new location after twenty years in Trolley Square Gold and Platinum Jewelry Repairs Fine Watch Repairs Estate &Vuluations and Services Insurance Appraisals und Replacement It's like growth hormones for your money. est and the man spent more than $39,000 while trying to overcome the perceptions. Elliott spent less than $20,000 on her campaign. "We had our butt handed to us," lamented Randy Ovard, chair of the Summit County Republican Party following the election. "They beat us ... [Elliott] was a better politician." The commissioner-elect defeated Osguthorpe convincingly but failed to win even one vpting precinct on the East Side. By contrast, Osguthorpe won no West Side precincts. In January. Elliott will replace outgoing Democratic County Commissioner Shauna Kerr. of Park City, who did not seek a second term. Kerr is the first woman ever to serve on the Summit County Commission. Webb frantically searched for his friend - a classmate of his at Thunderbird. a renowned Arizona international-management graduate school. He couldn't find DeLecour and snowshoed out of Empire Canyon to summon help. "I knew he was right there and just started digging. I dug and dug and dug until I couldn't dig anymore," Webb recounted afterward. "I went down four feet and couldni figure out why He wasn't there." A group of civilian rescuers, including Webb, found DeLecour under about six feet of snow but were unable to revive him. DeLecour was 34 years old when he died. "We didn't hear a thing. It must have come down in three seconds. I saw the snow cover his whole body," Webb said. "It was fast. I didnt know what happened. When he got 1. Death in the canyon covered, that's when I knew we were Jason DeLecour and Matthew in trouble." Webb planned to snowshoe into Afterward, Webb became an Empire Canyon for about 30 min- activist, pressing City Hall and the utes on Feb. 26, a day when Park Summit County Sheriffs Office to City had two feel of new snow. widen their scarch-and-rescue capaThey climbed about one mile bilities on the West Side of the couninto the canyon south of Old Town ty. He organized a petition, gathering more than 700 signatures askand were enjoying themselves. ing for a revamped scarch-and-resTragedy then struck. The unstable snowpack slid, cue operation in Park City and the causing an avalanche measuring 50 Snyderville Basin. feet long and 100 feet wide. The two The Sheriff's Office drafted a snowshocrs were caught in the number of new volunteers and, snowslide. 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