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Show A-7 The Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, February 26 - March 1,2005 MOUNTAIN TOWN NEWS A Roundup of news torn other Western ski RIGHT ANGLE PICTURE Similarities of immigrants and second-home owners By ALLEN BEST Record guest writer BASALT, Colo. - Latino immigrants are like second-home owners, except that they're at opposite ends of the economic spectrum. That was one analysis at a recent meeting of the Basalt Town Council, which met with a task force that hopes to get better help integrating the Latinos in the Roaring Fork Valley into the more established communities. Both second-home owners and Latinos haven't been permanent residents, and local governments would like to see more engagement from both in the community, notes The Aspen Times. •Sun Valley hopes to finally capitalize on Hemingway wracked by mental illness as well as other health problems, he committed suicide in in Ketchum. The Idaho Mountain Express says the festival would have been held last year, but the chamber of commerce organizers could not come to terms with the owner of the name Ernest Hemingway. Now they have. •Silverton hoping to get snowshoe spider listed SILVERTON, Colo. - A century ago. newspapers in little mountain towas sometimes saw themselves as entertainers, where fiction was as much fair sport as was fact. Among the best in the old mining towns was Leadvilles Orth Stein, who offered fantastic tales of giant, glistening caverns, giant footprints found in the snow, and other such fare to tempt the gullible. Carrying on that tradition is a story in The Silverton Standard, which reports of the capture of the reclusive snowshoo spider by a skier near the old Juan Mountain mining town of Eureka. And since a representative in Wyoming Is trying to adopt the jackalope as Wyoming's official mythical creature, San Juan County might try to do the same for the snowshoe spider, reports the newspaper. SUN VALLEY. Idaho - At long last the people of Kelehum and Sun Valley will hold a festival lor the writer who was called "Papa." For five days next fall there will be an Ernest Hemingway Festival, and there will be lectures and panel discussions, a tour of places where he hung out, and even a short-story contest. The writer arrived in Kelehum just before World War II, not long after the Sun Valley ski area was opened, and he some good years there. He hunted in the forests, and he cast his flies into the silvery waters •Eagle thinking inside the big of the Big Wood River, and he even box on tax revenues wrote portions of several books. It was a good place to be when the EAGLE. Colo. - Eagle's town monsoons were wreaking havoc on leaders are thinking long and hard his other homes in Cuba and in the about the virtues of big-box retailers. Florida K.eyes, he said. 'Hie problem is that population In all, he spent parts of 22 years in growth, which hit nearly 16 percent Kclchum until finally, in 1961. last year, is outpacing lax revenues. Located 30 miles west of Vail. EagJe Is something of a typical downvalley town. It had cattle drives on its streets even within the last decade, but today has a new golf course, neoViclorian homes, and a few streets of New Urbanisl-style homes. Out along the highway there are the fastfood joints. 'Hie population is still only 4.500, but at the current pace could hit 9,000 in a half-dozen years. Right now. everybody seems happy, but town manager Willy Powell can see storm clouds on the horizon. It sounds like that old computer game called SimCily. Traffic at several pinch points, which is merely annoying now during rush-hours, could congeal. New water and sewer plants will bo needed soon enough, with a collective price tag of several tens of million dollars. Meanwhile, the growth in taxes has been like a green ski trail. In Colorado, property owners pay very little in the way of residential property taxes. Only 7 percent of town's revenue comes from property taxes, and much of that is from commercial properties. Sales taxes provide nearly 63 percent of the town's revenues. Powell notes that small businesses generate relatively little in the way of taxes. People spend most of their money in larger stores. Aside from places like Vails Bridge Street and Aspens Hyman Avenue, retail Sides per square foot are much higher in larger stores like Bed, Bath & Beyond. Gart Sports. Target, and other mid- and big-box retailers than they are in small businesses. As it so happens, a proposal for a commercial complex that would likely include Target or some other bigbox retailer is now before the town board. Town trustees have not said yes, but Mayor Jon Stavney says the town cannot afford to sentimentally look backyard. "Nobody comes to Eagle to buy; and most Eagle citizens shop elsewhere for everything but groceries." he told the Eagle Valley Enterprise "All that has to change." west of Salt Lake City, but on Thursday lost two final contentions before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board. The site, to be operated by Private Fuel Storage, is intended to be a temporary dump for spent nuclear fuel rods before they end up permanently in the proposed Yucca Mountain facility in Nevada. The board in March 2003 stalled construction by ruling the chances of a fighter jet from Hill Air Force Base crashing into the storage pad made the project too risky. Besides the probability of a jet crash, the attorney general's office also argued that the Department of Energy wasn't obligated to transport the waste lo Nevada, and it would end up permanently in Utah. Assistant Utah Attorney General Denise Chancellor said her office would continue to fight the planned facility- either through 2 DAY SPA SALE! PHOTOS • PRINTS • FINE ART Qualily art and lop quality wrvice lo meet all your Framing needi Park City's most unique collection ofpre-made frames! •Forest Service ends the sledding at old ski area BERTHOUD PASS. Colo. -'Hie U.S. Forest Service is clamping down on sledding at the former Berthoud Pass ski area. 'Hie agency took the stance recently after learning lhat an 8-ycar-old child had suffered spinal injuries. The child apparently slid across a berm of snow and into the windshield of a parked car. As well, there have been a broken arm and other injuries. "'Hie injuries were almost a weekly event." Brad Orr. a Forest Service employee, told the Winter Paik Manifest. "'Hie speed at which they were coming down the hill, over the bcrm and into the parking lot, we had no choice but to close it down before somebody got killed." In a somewhat parallel case, the Forest Service closed down a popular sledding area near Vail, at the former Meadow Mountain ski area, after being sued as the result of a sledding accident. A private operator was recently given a concession to institute order and address safety - but at a price. RIGHT ANGLE PICTURE FRAMING • 1240 IRONHORSE DR. 649-3640 Right next door to Windy Ridge Caf6 Bill -Hufferd's mefly of +he "Riverho Allen Best has edited mountain town newspapers for 20years. He has served as managing editor at four different mountain town newspapers and is now living in metropolitan Denver. 5\30pw\ to close Nuclear licensing board OKs waste site SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Reversing a previous decision, a nuclear licensing board decided Thursday the risk of a plane crash into a proposed nuclear waste site was not significant enough to halt the facility, sending the proposal to the full Nuclear Regulatory Commission for final approval. The state of Utah has long fought the proposed nuclear waste dump on Skull Valley Band of Ooshute land about 50 miles south- FRAMINS Validated another appeal to the board, in court or in front of the NRC itself. "We'll pursue every legal avenue available lo us," she said. As planned, the storage pad would hold up lo 4.000 casks filled with depleted nuclear fuel _ about 10 million rods _ across 100 acres of the Skull Valley, 'Hie waste would be shipped over rail lines, mostly from reactors cast of the Mississippi. 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