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Show THE PARK RECORD Business. www.parkrecord.com WED/THURS/FRI, SEPTEMBER 7-9,2005 Briefe The Canyons hosts public meeting on tourism The Utah Office of Tourism will host public meetings in northern Utah next week to get public input on a new brand to promote the state. The statewide Branding Listening tour will lead the office to a dozen Utah cities over the next month. Park City will be one of the stops on the board's list. The Canyons Resort will host an open forum Tuesday, Sept. 13 at the Grand Summit at 1:30 p.m. Library hosts small business class The Summit County Library is holding small business workshops beginning Sept. 8,15 and 22 at 7 p.m. Steve Peterson, who owns his own Certified Public Accounting (CPA) firm Peterson and Associates, will be addressing attendees about what he's learned along the way with his small business. The classes will focus on how to start and what types of entities are available and what to use as deductions, Peterson said. Peterson has been helping to get business up and running through his small business since 1985, ft and wants to give attendees hands-on •instruction and practical information to take home. The class is open to the public free of charge in the library auditorium at 6505 N. Landmark Drive. Call 615-3900. Park City Mountain Resort will extend its weekday summer operation of the PayDay chairlift through Sept. 18, 2005. The PayDay chairlift services hiking, mountain biking, Alpine Slide and ZipRider. The Legacy Launcher and additional activity located at the base of the PayDay lift will also be open. Beginning Tuesday Sept. 6, the hours of operation will be as follows: Monday through Thursday 1-6 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday 12-7 p.m. x Governor's office respondstogas prices The Utah Governor's Office of Energy says the escalating price of fuel is due to Hurricane Katrina's disruption of Gulf State oil production. Hurricane Katrina has disrupted 90 percent of the oil production in and along the Gulf Coast, reports the office. The Federal Government has responded to this by agreeing to release two million barrels from national oil reserves. Dr. Laura Nelson, energy advisor to Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. explained that Utah does have refineries which will help protect the state from any real shortages, but that the state cannot be fully insulated from the pressures of the national market. She advises Utah residents to be prudent in energy consumption by car pooling or limiting travel when possible. BUSINESS EDITOR: Anna Bloom 649-9014 ext I lOfjj business@parkrecord.com;! New visitor center closes seven-mile gap fark CHy Chamber/Bureau invites the County to celebrate relocation By ANNA BLOOM Of the Record staff The Park City Chamber/Bureau will christen its new log cabin hub near the Olympic Park on Monday, and is extending an invitation to all Summit County neighbors. The Chamber/Bureau moved its visitor center operations from Kearns Boulevard August 4 to nab more of the traffic from Interstate 80. and because the nonprofit organization includes businesses beyond Park City, according to Park City Visitor Services Manager Deborah Lewis. The county's transient room tax in fact funds a portion of the Chamber/Bureau's operations, she notes, thus the relocation better reflects the organization's interests. •'I think that one of the key reasons that the switch in location made really good sense is because we're a county entity," she explained. "The Park City Chamber/Bureau is really funded by Summit County tax dollars, so we better serve the county at Kimball Junction." The stand-alone facility is also more eye-catching, she notes, designed to target curious Kimball customers in the leaner shoulder seasons. "I think our ultimate goal is to try to get people to come off the highway who normally may have just gotten gas, or maybe have just had lunch at Redstone," Lewis said. "If they see our center and say 'let's drop in and see what else we can do,' our hope is that we'll be able to talk them into a full day stay maybe an overnight and increase our tourism revenue for our community. GRAYSON WEST!PARK RECORD. The Park City Chamber/Bureau hopes to catch some of the traffic Interstate 80 as well as the rest of the county. \ same, but we did design every cubby hole, every nook and cranny to make it work for us better with deep counter space so we can unfold maps," she explained. The new free-standing facility offers a extra amenities like free coffee to entice visitors to peruse brochure shelves a little longer. Chamber/Bureau Director of Member Services Courtney Stern says the celebration Monday will include a ribbon-cutting ceremony and few words from Chamber/Bureau Our Ultimate JQOal is tO try tOJ qetpeOr President Bob Wheaton, Summit ' County Commissioner Bob Richer tO COme Off the highway Who normalThough whisper creek designed ly may have just gotten gas or maybe the log cabin itself, Lewis chose the / , o , / 0 ;,, c f AioW htnnh of Qariotnna tion centers, libraries and museums, Lewis determined the new center should have a central desk, ^^m rather than a one-way countertop. Lewis affectionately dubs the octagonal desk at the heart of the center "Mission Control," she says. The new configuration allows for speedier visitor assistance than the former location in the Jess Reid Building. "The square footage is about the and Park City Mayor Dana Williams, rved up with a barbecue from jb Steak Restaurant. "We're still keeping the Main Street location in the Park City Historical Society and Museum." Stern said. "So this is really a center the " interior. By photographing, meas- have just had lunch at Hedstone. uring and observing other informa- Park City Mountain Resort extends operations A-17 - Deborah Lewis V i s i t o r S e r v i c e s M a n a g e r that will be geared toward Summit ^Hi^i^i^Hi^HH^^Bi^HHi^ more convenient stop, since it closes the seven-mile gap between Park City and the highway, Lewis observed. Like the previous location, the center has phones to help guests book lodging and dinner reservations, but Lewis has also added County and our Olympic Legacy." The Chamber/Bureau may have changed one of its visitor center locations, but the mission is still the same one Lewis remembers since she began working for the organization eight years ago. She credits her hardworking and enthusiastic staff for going beyond the call of duty when it comes to serving vis-jj itors. A "[The visitor center staff] is really at' J the frontlines of the experience people* have of Park City and Summit County,*'she said. "Their job is really important,! because they set the stage." | The majority of Summit County's1 economy is based on tourism, and the! new center is money well spent, she! noted. | "Most locals understand, but some* don't. The reason why we enjoy the! lifestyle we do is because of our tourism-; based economy," Lewis explained. "I 1 think it stands to reason that that's why^ visitor centers exist in any community - ! it's that you hope to have that kind of a; sales impact on a visitor coming throughto get them to stay a day longer." ! Those who would like to be included] in the free lunch portion on Monday,* September 12, should R.S.VP by Friday,', September 9. Contact The Park City, Chamber/Bureau at (800) 453-1360 or (435) 649-6100. I Summit County bucks the wage-earning trends Women earn a lot, but men earn a lot more By ANNA BLOOM Of the Record staff Pam Perlich, senior research economist at the University of Utah's Bureau of Economic and Business Research may be surprised that the third largest wage gap between full-time, year-round men and women workers belongs to the state of Utah, but she calls comparable data for Summit County "eye-popping." The most up-to-date comparable information from the 2000 Summit County census indicates median incomes for both genders shoot far beyond national and state averages while the disparity between the median salary for men as compared to women exceeds the state's. For every dollar earned by men in the state of Utah, ACS reports women make 68.1 cents - ranking them just below Montana and Louisiana as far as "gender earnings gaps" are concerned. In Utah, the median earnings for 2004 full-time, year-round men was $40,317 in a year, while for women, the median earnings amounted to $27,471. But Perlich wouldn't call any of the information released by ACS last week a Earnings in 1999 of full-time, year-round workers* mm 331,570 US ^diflci earnings {dollars) Utah. Median, earnings (dollars) Summit Cpuily FamalB as aptircect of mala: US $27494 $37,017 J3&935 $21,872 $39,040 73.4peroenct 67. 2000 d^a courtesy Pam. Perik^, senor r e s e a t eeopuocfti5t fcrt^f ^rfsUQf p c o t j o ^ DATA COURTESY PAM PERUCK Please see Men earnA-18 Summit County may typically be an outlier in Utah, but census data indicates a large earnings gap between men and women. - .' BIG SAVINGS FOR THE LOCAL HERD. SHAREABLE LOCALS ONLY COUPON BOOKS - SKI FOR $4Q/DAY* One of the big advantages of running with the local herd is our Locals Only Coupon Books. They let you share with another designaled local with or without antlers. Share a book of ten. 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