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Show Scene Sports Art auction, Gallery Stroll highlight ArtsFestrunup. P a g e C-1 Former South Summit player, coach returns to lead Wildcats. p a B - 1 he Hope Alliance will hold a benefit concert featuring the alternative rock band Bless id Union of Souls at T 6:30 p.m. at Suede tonight. Tickets are $45 and there will be food and a silent auction. For tickets, call 658-1852. 500 Park Record. ^•^^^ PARKCTTY THTALJ V ^ B ^ ^ k Serving Summit County since 1880 H VOL. 125 *NO.5I Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues,July 30 -August 2, 2005 SUITE l SttLl scouts look to technology for safety More than 40,000 left without lights Baiting the big one Failure at Salt Lake transformer trips up Park City substation By PATRICK PARKINSON COURTESY OF MARSHALL RADIO TELEMETRY Radio telemetry equipment will help leaders track the boys By PATRICK PARKINSON Of the Record staff Scout leaders in Northern Utah can now track their boys in the Uinta Mountains with the help of transmitters and high-tech radio receivers. Along with mosquito repellant, sleeping bags and tents, some troops this summer may pack electronic equipment to help keep track of Boy Scouts backpacking at 10,000 feet. A Scout can wear the transmitter from a cord around his neck. The devices emit beeps for each boy that leaders can monitor on a separate channel with handheld receivers that resemble pistols, said Kay Godfrey, a spokesman for the Great Salt Lake Council of the Boy Scouts of America. "They are primarily for our units that are not going to structured summer camps," Godfrey said. "They have a little antennae on them. They're quite unobtrusive." Monitoring Scout troops that frequently camp along the Mirror Lake Highway east of Kamas can be a challenge, evidenced by the recent disappearance of Brennan Hawkins, who was found by a volunteer searcher after being lost for about four days near Christmas Meadows. Utah County resident Garrett Bardsley, 12, who was last seen in August during a Scout trip near Cuberant Lake, is still missing. "We have a lot of folks who are really interested," Godfrey said about the radio telemetry technology. "People are catching onto our needs ... we don't have the finances to go out and buy all of this stuff." The transmitters cost about $200 each and a 15-channel receiver is $800, he adds. Marshall Radio Telemetry, a company in North Salt Lake, and others, recently donated 200 transmitters and four receivers with a range of more than 100 miles to the Great Salt Lake Council, Godfrey said. Marshall produces radio telemetry equipment for falconers tracking birds and sportsmen who hunt with dogs. "They used these things to find a dog trapped 15 feet underground between layers of rock," Godfrey said. Scoutmasters in Summit County belonging to the Great Salt Lake Council are able to check out the equipment and receive instructions about how to use it before embarking into the Uintas, Godfrey said, adding that the BSA has not utilized the technology in the past. During a demonstration this month in Millcrcek Canyon a man quickly found a boy hidden in the woods, he said, "He went right to him. It was really pretty cool," Godfrey said, adding that Scouts could be Please see Receivers, A-2 5 SECTIONS • 56 PAGES Agendas Automotive Business Classifieds Columns Crossword Editorial Education Events Calendar Letters to the Editor Legals Movies Professional Services Restaurant Guide Sports TV Listings Weather A-8 C-20 A-19 C-13 A-10 C-4 A-11 A-15 C-3 A-11 C-19 C-4 A-22 , C-7 B-1 C-10 B-2 ™Park Record Serving Summit County since 1880 wvww.parkrecord.com GRAYSON WEST/'PARKRECORD Carlos Quijano, Jr. and his brother Orlando, of West Valley, spend Friday afternoon casting from Rockport Reservoir's shore. The Quijano family tries to make it to the reservoir once a week, citing the trout fishing as being 'pretty good.' Of the Record staff More than 40,000 Utah Power customers were left without lights Wednesday afternoon when substations in Salt Lake and Park City failed. "Thankfully, crews restored power pretty quickly," said Utah Power spokesman Jeff Hymas, adding that concern was elevated by the large number of people affected by the outage. A glitch at a transformer at a substation near the Cottonwood area in Salt Lake County at 2:03 p.m. caused the subsequent outage in Summit County, he said, adding, "we have a loop that runs up Parleys Canyon." "An outage that affects that many customers in Park City and Salt Lake doesn't happen often," Hymas said. And hooray for that, says Misty Fitzgerald, a supervisor at Dan's Foods in Park City. The grocery store was forced to dispose of melted ice cream and some produce that may have spoiled during Wednesday s power outage, she said. "We have to order in extra dry ice and we have to gel all the cold stuff in the freezers out and put dry ice underneath," Fitzgerald said. "Our generators run our lights and Please see Outage, A-2 Sky Lodge donation to PCPAF might total $500k New property will give portions of unit sales, hotel stays to non-profit By MATT JAMES Of the Record staff This past Tuesday on the patio at Easy Street, Bill Shoaf, managing partner of The Sky Lodge, made a big announcement to a group of realtors and Park City Performing Arts Foundation board members. Shoaf said that for each of the 176 units sold in The Sky Lodge, the company will donate $1,000 to the Performing Arts Foundation. For every room night stayed at the hotel, the company will contribute $15 to the organization, and each customer will get the chance to match that donation or contribute more. The gift could potentially amount to $500,000 over five years. "What Bill is going to do is going to set a new level of giving in Park City," said Teri Orr, executive director of the Performing Arts Foundation. Shoaf said that he chose to make the donation to support the arts in Park City and because he believed the Performing Arts Foundation events are the type that draw Sky Lodge customers to Park City. The event was the "official launch" of The Sky Lodge, a brand new high-end resort/hotel development scheduled to be built in what is now the Easy Street parking lot, behind the restaurant on the cor- ner of Heber Ave. and Main Street. According to Shoaf, construction on the development is scheduled to begin this fall, pause for the winter, and then resume next summer. The Sky Lodge's initial commitment to the Performing Arts Foundation will begin when the hotel opens, in 2007, and last through 2012, although Shoaf said the organization will likely be able to donate some of the funds-beforc tha.. "Basically there wilJ be some money coming in when we get the hard contracts," he said. The resort is just beginning the first part of its sales. It released its first 44 shared properties on July 4, and so far, Shoaf said 26 have sold. He said the idea for the gift to the Performing Arts Foundation came from his work at Sundance Resort. "I spent some of my career with Sundance and the resort there and learned a lot about the possibilities for synergy between resorts and non-profits," he said. So, he wanted to create a similar situation with this project. "When we were developing The Sky Lodge concept, we knew we wanted to create a vehicle to benefit the arts in Park City," said Shoaf. He considered the Performing Arts Foundation a logical candidate. "I've always admired, a great deal, what Teri has done and the consistency with which she has done it," he said. According to Orr, the gift will be the largest the group has received, since it has opened, and the sec- ond largest ever, behind the donation from the George and Dolores Dore" Eccles Foundation that allowed the organization to start. "It's just a ton of potential for us for funding our educational outreach and bringing in top-notch performers," said Jane Gendron, the director of marketing and public relations at the Performing Arts Foundation. The most significant benefit of The Sky Lodge gift, according to both Orr and Shoaf, is that the Performing Arts Foundation will no longer have to "start from zero," each year. Instead, it will have an existing resource available to book an unexpected act or improve the organization's regular scheduling. "It's about being able to book into a tour when we have an opportunity." said Orr. Formerly, she said the organization was not always able to take advantage of such opportunities. Orr said the donation came as a surprise to the organization when they first learned about it. "He really chose us," she said about Shoaf. He noted that the Performing Arts Foundation fit perfectly with The Sky Lodge. "The people who are going to purchase something or stay at The Sky Lodge Hotel arc the kinds of people who will support the arts." he said. "It's an honor that they would choose our organization to partner with," said Orr. "It's just an amazing honor," echoed Gendron. One the organization will benefit from for years to come. Icing on the rink, constructionforfacility on schedule Official predicts Quinn's Junction facility will make targeted debut By JAY HAMBURGER city warns the natural-grass fields to be ready in July 2006. Negotiations are ongoing between City Hall, the Park City School District and the Snyderville Basin Special Recreation District regarding how the new fields as well as existing ones will be used. Details will likely be discussed in the fall, Hilton said. Stacey Noonan, who is the general manager of the recreation complex, said a Friends of Ice group has been seated. The nine-person group will provide advice about policies at the ice rink and organize a promotional plan, Noonan said. Its first meet- Of the Record staff Skateboarding, not ice skating, rules during the summer. But with Parkites enjoying their favorite summertime sports, construction crews at Quinn's Junction are on schedule to complete an ice rink by the midwinter target, City Hall reported this week. The ice rink is under construction off S.R. 248, adjacent to the National Ability Center campus and Colin Hilton, who directs City Hall's capital projects, said in an interview this week that the plans to open the facility in February 2006 are intact. "Despite some challenging spring weather, we are still on target to hit a February opening," Hilton said in an interview on Wednesday. In his progress report, Hilton said crews have excavated the ice-rink site and the footings and foundation are complete. The workers are now assembling the ice rink's wails. The wails are on their sides and, over the next two weeks, the crews will put them upright, Hilton said. At that time, he said, Parkites will better understand where the ice rink will be located. "The walls going up will definitely give a perspective of where the building's going to sit in relation to the hillside," Hilton said. Trail detours in the vicinity are in place and Hilton said the city is not receiving complaints about the different routes. Hilton said the city remains on budget and the ice rink is expected to cost $4.8 million. A related playing-fields complex also is on budget, at $5.7 million, he said. The fields complex will house three softball fields and three rectangular fields for sports like soccer, lacrosse and rugby. One of the fields will be made of artificial turf. Hilton said the city hopes to seed the grass fields by Sept. 1. Hilton said the city expects to complete the artificial-turf field bv earlv March 2006 and that the The new Ice skntlnn rink «t Oiiinn'e . ing is Aug. 9. "Everyone I talk to is extremely excited," Noonan said about the ice rink, calling it, "a long time coming." Noonan said she is conducting a survey of other ice rinks and what they charge their customers. She is looking at rinks in Utah and those in mountainresort communities like Vail, Breckenridge and Aspen, in Colorado. She said plans are being developed to offer seaPlease see ice rink, A-2 GRAYSON WEST/PARK RECORD I© *«r (•« |