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Show GUIDE Scene Sports Olympians to be Grand Marshals for 4th of July parade. p Francis looks to try his luck at Soldier Hollow for State Am. p B-1 The PARK CITY, UTAH www.parkrecord.com H eber Valley Powwow and Mountain Man Rendezvous will take place from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. at Soldier Hollow June 24. Grand entries start at 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Admission is $5, ages six and under are free. ParkKecor ^^^^^ ^m ^ B ^ ^ ^ Serving Summit County since 1880 500 NO.34 11,2006 .-v -M Beauty all a-dangle A goal to serve the children Candidates try to woo GOP votes Ure and Van Tassell want support outside their home counties By JAY HAMBURGER Park City soccer camp coach Randy Farris poses with some of the Dominican children that benefit from the Kids Alive charity. Soccer coach's cup runneth over with soccer and service By APIA WALDBURGER Of the Record staff Soccer, summer and service just seem to go together for Randy Farris. The lovable soccer guru will be in town to run his 28th annual soccer camp for Park City Recreation, and not much has changed. He is still offering college-quality soccer instruction to aspiring young soccer players. A portion of his camp earnings are still going to Kids Alive, a service organization that supplies housing and education to orphans in the Dominican Republic. And once again, he will be departing from Park City to run a soccer camp and service mission to the Dominican Republic and would love it if the community would support Kids Alive both financially and with clothing and supplies. Farris, a kinesiology professor at St. Mary's College in Moraga, Calif., was a former soccer coach at St. Mary's College witl,i Parkite Bob Martin. The two began holding soccer camps in Park City in 1979. They also ran a similar camp in Aspen, until recently, when Farris took over the program. Farris finds that kids love to attend his camp year after year and he always tries to offer them something new to build upon. "A lot of kids come year after year and are proud of their camp T-shirt collections," Farris laughs. The camp is for kids ages 7-15, and Farris along with other camp coaches, try to teach important points of soccer in a fun game-type environment. He also uses his time in Park City to continue collecting items to help his orphan friends at Kids Alive. Kids Alive is a Christian-based organization that serves children in Third World countries. Leslie Troutwein, a former participant in the camp, and her husband Vic, are directors of the Dominican Republic arm of the organization and asked for Farris' help many years ago. Farris visits the country often to help build homes and schools, bring supplies and lead soccer camps. Kids Alive now has four sites in the Dominican Republic - Arrellano, Jarabacoa, Constanza and Monte Plata - with housing developments, orphanages and schools to help care for the orphaned children. Every summer Farris travels to Jarabacoa to visit the kids, and teach them soccer skills. Every January, he travels with a group of college students from St. Mary's during a special term to visit all of the sites, work with the children and run soccer camps. The Jarabacoa site houses 60 kids from all sorts of family backgrounds. Farris speaks of a recently rescued family of five children where the mother was trying to starve her children to appease a boyfriend. Neighbors were trying to sneak food to the children and were finally able to get them into Kids Alive housing. The children arrived starving and dehydrated, but are finally adapting to their new, safe surroundings. Please see Camp, A-2 3 SECTIONS » 56 PAGES Agendas Automotive Business A-7 C-18 B-11 Classifieds C-12 Columns Crossword E<iitorial Education Events Calendar Letters to the Editor A-16 C-4 A-17 A-9 C-6 A-17 Legals C-15 Movies Professional Services Restaurant Guide Sports O-4 B-12 C-7 B-1 TV Listings C-10 Weather B-2 ™ParkRecoixL Serving Summit County since 1880 www.parkrecord.com 94937 00001 GRAYSON WEST/PARK RECORD Ever Armendariz, of the Park City Parks Department, hangs flower baskets Wednesday along Main Street. The baskets are generally put up in June and come down in the fall. There are over 200 planters and hanging baskets around Park City. Of the Record staff David Ure and Kevin Van Tassell were strangers to voters in certain parts of District 26 in the Utah Senate when campaigning started. But since the spring, the two Republicans have tried to introduce themselves to the disparate parts of the district, running from resort-driven Summit County to the rural reaches of the Uintah Basin. The two men on Tuesday will vie for the GOP's nomination for the Senate seat, which the retiring Beverly Evans, a Republican from Altamont, now holds. The campaign between Ure and Van Tassell, like lots of others so far this year, has featured few political fireworks, likely a result of the primary being held in the summer, when many people are not as interested in politics. The winner in November faces Roland Uresk, a Democrat from Roosevelt, and Constitution Party candidate Sonya Ray, who is from Vernal. Ure, who is well known in Summit and Wasatch counties from his long career in the state House of Representatives, acknowledges that, to win the nomPlease see Republicans, A-2 Democrats vie June 27 for county, state offices Ewing, Johnson spent more than combined $38K in House primary By PATRICK PARKINSON Special to the Record Democrats aggressively vying to represent portions of Snyderville and Salt Lake City in the state House of Representatives are wooing voters before the June 27 primary election. Utah lawmakers included portions of western Summit County in House District 25 when they redistricted the state several years ago. Grouping Snyderville voters with heavily Democratic neighborhoods in Salt Lake City like the Avenues and Sugar House reinforced District 25 as a Democratic stronghold. Whoever wins Tuesday's primary between Democrats Josh Ewing and Christine Johnson will likely defeat Republican Kenneth Grover in November replacing Democratic Rep. Ross Romero in the seat, politicos say. According to reports filed with the state detailing campaign contributions and expenditures, a week before the primary, Johnson had outspent Ewing by more than $6,000. Johnson acknowledged $5,000 contributed to her campaign by the Spotted Frog Bookstore at Kimball Junction, adding that the woman who owns the store wants "gender parity in the Legislature." Her second largest campaign contribution was $4,000 from Orem resident Bruce Bastian. Bastian has also contributed $500 to Ewing - who pledged not to accept donations larger than that during the primary. Seven days before the primary Johnson had spent $22,257 and Ewing $15,906. Summit County Democratic Party chair Rob Weyher, who was recently charged with a misdemeanor in Salt Lake County Justice Court for allegedly offering Ewing money to withdraw from the race, was not listed among Johnson's contributors. GOP primary: closed, Democrats: 'anyone is welcome' With races slated on both tickets, Republicans and Democrats will hold primary elections Tuesday. Hang up, drivers told as Parkite requests law nance, they would request that the Legal Department draft one and then hold a hearing before it is enacted. The discussion in Park City is similar to those held in lots of other communities in the U.S. as cell phones become more popular and people complain By JAY HAMBURGER about them distracting drivers, even as headsets are seen more often. Of the Record staff "I just know that they're barely payTony Oros two or three years ago ing attention to their own car, let alone was driving a motorcycle in Southern another car," bicyclists or people walkCalifornia's San Fernando Valley when ing on a street, Oros says. a girl behind the wheel in a car, perhaps Rolayne Fairclough, a spokesperson a 17-year-old, abruptly switched lanes for the American Automobile at an intersection and then slammed on Association in Utah, says that cell her brakes as the light turned red. phones distract drivers and AAA sevOros, a professional musician in eral years ago wanted the Legislature Park City, could not avoid the teenager and crashed the motorcycle, bor- to pass a similar law to what Oros rowed from a friend, leaving Oros with requested from City Hall. The road rash and the motorcycle with Statehouse was not interested, however. $1,200 in damage, he says. "Things happen so quickly when The culprit in the accident, Oros you're driving," she says. "This can be says, was a cell phone that he says the incredibly dangerous." teen-ager was chatting on as she According to the National Highway switched lanes. After the accident, she Traffic Safety Administration, a federal did not hang up, instead continuing to agency, three states - New York, New gab and giggle, Oros remembers. Jersey and Connecticut - and the "I don't know if she changed calls District of Columbia by October 2005 and called her parents," says Oros, who recently approached Mayor Dana had enacted laws barring people from Williams and the Park City Council using hand-held cell phones while they regarding the prospects of City Hall were driving, A study conducted by the agency enacting a law prohibiting people from talking on cell phones while they are released in December estimates that 10 percent of drivers in the daylight hours driving. The City Council showed some were using cell phones in 2005. It finds interest in the issue and asked that City that, of drivers ages 16 to 24,10 percent Hall attorneys research such laws. Park were driving while holding a phone to City Attorney Mark Harrington says their ears, up 2 percentage points in that he expects in July that he will pro- one year. It is the age group with the vide the elected officials with a memo highest percentage of drivers using cell describing laws in other cities and how phones. The study finds that, in the West, 8 courts have ruled on the local-level percent of drivers had a phone to their laws. ear, up 2 percentage points from the Harrington says, however, he does year before. The percentage is tied with not plan to draft an ordinance for the the Midwest for the highest. City Council to consider. If the elected officials wanted to pursue an ordiPlease see Drivers, A-2 Of Summit County's 22,580 registered voters, 5,080 registered as Republicans and 2,570 registered as Democrats, Summit County Clerk Sue Follett said. According to Follett, traditionally about nine percent of West Side voters and 35 percent of voters in eastern Summit County cast ballots in primary elections. Only registered members of the GOP can vote Tuesday in the closed Republican contest between Kamas state Rep. David Ure and Vernal banker Kevin Van Tassell. The men are running to replace state Sen. Bev Evans, R-Altamont, in state Senate District 26. Evans intends to retire from the Senate after this year. Meanwhile, along with nominating a candidate in the District 25 race, Democrats will weed out contenders in races to oversee the offices of the Summit County clerk and assessor. Any registered voter can participate in the Democratic primary. Pincbrook Democrat Ron Perry will challenge incumbent Democratic County Assessor Barbara Please see Assessor, A-2 For the long haul A quarter of motorists pulled over are talking on phones, police say GRAYSON WBSVPARK RECORD Martin Drayton weaves through the slalom course Thursday evening In a parking lot at Redstone, Drayton, a longboard world champion, practices every Thursday with other longboarders from all over Utah. |