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Show Sat/Sun/MonyTues, June 11-14, 2005 The Park Record A-14 PARK CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET HEARING Public notice is hereby given that the Park City School district Board of Education will hold a budget hearing on the revised budget for the fiscal year 2004-2005 for the Park City School District. The public hearing will be held on June 21, 2005 at 7:00p.m. at the District Office located at 2700 Kearns Blvd. Adoption of the tentative budget is expected at the meeting on the 21st and setting of a date for a truth in taxation hearing. The Truth in Taxation hearing is scheduled to be August 16, 2005. A copy of the tentative budget is available for review in the Business Administrators Office, 2700 Kearns Blvd. during regular business hours. OPENING JUNE 13th What's better than dinner at an award winning restaurant? 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She can drive it back pages of the paper because it is customary to to Mars and produce about the same amount of air have at least one news story on a page that is othpollution as a lawn mower on a typical suburban erwise comprised entirely of real estate ads. lot. After a week like this last one, I wish she had According to the Associated Press, the number one bought a Hummer instead, and maybe left it idling "song" on the British singles chart was a downloadable cell phone ring-tone. in the driveway until the snow stops. The band Coldplay assumed its new single would For crying out Christmas, it's the middle of June and I've still got the furnace raging in the base- hit the number one spot. But they were edged out ment. After a comparatively mild winter, I was by "Crazy Frog Axel F." It wasn't even close. actually a little ahead on the propane purchase. But "Crazy Frog" was a 4-to-l favorite. So what is this not anymore. It's been just cold enough in May and haunting melody that has captivated the young Brits? It turns out to June to keep the furnace on, but not quite be a "singer" imitatcold enough to build the sound of a • • I've run through another tank of ing a fire in the woodtwo-stroke motorcystove (not to mention propane and will have to re-fill for the sum- cle engine revving up. that there is some"Vrooom, vrooom." thing morally wrong mer or resort to cold showers. Nothing Because everybody about building a fire says June in Summit County like an $800 wants to have a disin the woodstove in tinctive, cool, individJune). So I've run heating bill." ualized and absolutely through another tank M W M ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^^^^^mmmmmmm^m^^ unique ring-tone on of propane and will their phone, millions have to re-fill for the of them have installed summer or resort to cold showers. Nothing says "Crazy Frog Axel F" on their phones. Imagine getting to listen to that in the cinema and at the pub all June in Summit County like an $800 heating bill. Tuesday's blizzard was a real treat. The roads night. The ring-tone is sold over the Internet for got just slushy enough to make for one of the worst downloading, but just in case you can't hear a lame days of winter driving since, well, since winter. The imitation of a motorcycle engine revving often optimists out there had taken their snow tires off enough (because, after all, why would anybody for the season, and replaced them with their high- want to call a person who would have something performance racing slicks for the summer Formula- that obnoxious as a ring-tone?) it is also available 1 races on 1-80. Rumor has it that there were about on CD so you can play it over and over again. a dozen Audis launched into outer space in Parley's Sadly, the technology available to us now does Canyon on Tuesday when they hit the slush at not allow the cell phone to emit a choking cloud of Lambs Canyon at 90 mph. blue two-stroke engine exhaust fumes every time Wednesday morning I was out in the pasture the phone rings. But I'm sure it's only a matter of turning irrigation water. There was ice on the pond time before the Japanese figure out how to have by the house, and ice in the field at the edges of ring-tones replaced with ring-odors. They won't where the irrigation water was running. If the sun stop until answering a cell phone becomes more ever re-appears, it will turn into a jungle in a mat- complicated than the moon landing. ter of hours. For now, nothing is growing. I feel like I have to admit that I'm still in the dark ages a fool out there irrigating in the rain, snow, and when it comes to cell phones. I finally got one, but cold. But I've only got the water for a few days the coverage is so bad out in the hinterlands that it before the neighbor's turn. By the time my next isn't much use. More often than not, when it rings I water turn comes along, things would have really stand there with a puzzled look, wondering that dried out. So I'm irrigating in the snow. I actually that noise is, without answering the call. And I've put a ski hat on the other morning. The guy who got a pretty standard telephone ring on mine. I irrigates most of the farm has reverted to his winter can't imagine what would happen if it sounded like Elmer Fudd hat. It was cold enough on Wednesday a snowmobile roaring up on me, or made some wild morning that he was going flaps down. That's really animal noise. I'd be running for cover with the unprecedented - ear flaps down in June. phone right there in my pocket. One of our litigious developers has sued the Of course, with my earflaps down, I probably County Commission, claiming that this miserable wouldn't hear it ring at all-.- weather is part of their ongoing conspiracy to turn Tom Clyde is a former city attorney and author of his property into a useless wetland and prevent him "More Dogs on Main Street. "He has been a columnist from building another dead Kmart store there. The forThc Park Record/?/- 18years. friend of mine was so concerned about globA al warming that she just bought a Toyota Prius hybrid car. She was on a waiting list for weeks WRITERS ON THE RANGE By Gary Wockner Can billionaire philanthropy save the Earth? Wirth is president of the UN Foundation, which was created by billionaire Ted Turner. 1\irner has also created the Better World Foundation, the of environmentalism" paper and its call for the Turner Foundation, and my favorite, the Turner environmental movement to connect more to issues Endangered Species Fund. Simply put, all billionaires are not created equal -- some do enormously involving social justice. My opinion, I told my friend, is that it's not envi- good things with their money. ronmentalism that's dead. There's just no future in As my friend and I went back and forth about the regular work. The future lies in capital, connections pluses and minuses of billionaire philanthropy, my to it and then wielding that power. I concluded: friend focused on the dark side of what's been "Billionaire philanthropy is the only thing that can called greenwashing, while I tended to see mostly save the Earth." light. What we need, I believe, is to turn this into a I thought my argument made sense. Our national and international economic systems increasingly game. We know these folks are fiercely competisupport massive aggregations of wealth. And now, tive, well-connected and have abundant cash, so it is mainly by the benevolence of a small portion of let's get them competing for the good of the Earth. all those millionaires and billionaires that most Think of it - the Walton clan versus Ford versus environmental organiRockefeller versus zations stay funded. T\irner -- the great Think Rockefeller, alpha-male battle to • • What we need, I believe, is to save Hewlett-Packard, Ford the planet, an and of course, Ted turn this into a game. We know these anti-Armageddon Turner. And now, Walof eco-titans. folks are fiercely competitive, well-con- clash Mart. I picture myself With much fanfare, nected and have abundant cash, so let's camping on the the Grand Canyon get them competing for the good of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon at Trust recently the pristine, free and announced that Wal- Earth." Mart has donated $1 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ spacious Wal-Mart million towards the campground. A purchase of two ranchnoiseless helicopter es near the Grand Canyon's North Rim that will flies past, giving free rides through the canyon, its create a much-needed connection between the side emblazoned with the Rockefeller Foundation park's wildlands and nearby national monuments. logo. And then a clean-fuels shuttle bus passes This connectivity will create several million acres of through the parking lot, its side covered with the protected lands that can, among other things, be Patagonia insignia. used to bring wolves back. Wal-Mart, moreover, Later in the day, I walk down to a canyon oversays it intends to start protecting one acre of land look and sit in the lavishly appointed Ben and for every one acre of land it develops. The Grand Jerry's pavilion. I'm offered a free set of Ford Canyon wildlands expansion is the beginning of Foundation binoculars, and I peer through them that effort. hopefully. After a bit of searching I spot what I've So now I ask myself: Should I shop at Wal-Mart come to see, a pack of Mexican wolves, a subspecies or not? Should I support its program of capital recently reintroduced to the park. accumulation, worldwide human rights abuses, low The wolf pack traverses across an open meadow pay in the United States, inadequate health insur- about 1,000 feet below me, and I zoom in for a look ance and the ever-increasing amount of plastic junk at their leader, the alpha wolf. His brown and tan that they sell? Is this a fair exchange for its efforts coat bristles in the sunlight; his yellow eyes shine. to save the environment? And how will Wal-Mart The sun briefly catches the metal on his large radio use this politically; could Wal-Mart now exert pres- collar, and I can make out the name on his tag -sure through environmental groups to get union TXirner Wolf No. 293. organizers to back off? C'mon you rich boys - are you man enough? It's a capitalistic conunarum, but it's not always Who's gonna save more of the planet? that sticky. Recently, former Colorado Sen. Tim Gary Wockner is a contributor to Writers on the Wirth spoke in Fort Collins, Colo., about U.S. ener- Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). gy policy, the war in Iraq and his foundation's cam- He is a writer and ecologist and in Fort Collins, paign for an alternative energy program. Colo. few days ago, I was commiserating with a A friend about the sad state of environmental affairs. 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