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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, November 4-7, 2006 *The Park Record A-24 "We elected Bob to stand up for what we value - open space, quality of life, and a securefitture.He has done his job. Now let's do ours. Vote fir Bob on November 7th." - CHARLIE and MARY WNTZER- Show You Care! Vote! PA5>fmBYTH£ TU ftmDOB'CAWMOiCOH&TTZC Spectacular Summit Park! GREAT BUILDING LOT • .41 ACRES • $186,000 Most resort town are not 'sustainable' ored of the result, least of all pedestrians. • So, despite the about 8,000 people last year. With $700,000 spent on the sculpture, adjoining areas, the population is the town several years ago stored the rocks and installed innocuous expected to hit 44,000. Growth patterns are reflected in landscaping. This too, pedestrians schools. Enrollment in the Basalt- have ignored. And then yet anothCarbondale-Glenwood schools is er idea, an obelisk with some water projected to increase from 5,100 fountains, was also shot down. Now, if business owners along students to 8,100. Schools serving the Rifle-Silt-New Castle area are Bridge Street succeed in raising projected to jump from 4,100 stu- $122,000, the town will spend altogether $672,000 for yet another dents to 17,000 students. vision: water in a fountain that •Fancy-shmantzy next up for jumps and cascades, intermixed by cloud-bursts of fire. The idea was plaza in Vail conceived by the same company VAIL, Colo. - Maybe third time that created the fountain at the will be charmed at Vail's Bridge Ballagio Hotel & Casino in Las Street, where town officials have Vegas. struggled for nearly a decade with In an interview with the Vail the what to put into the middle of Daily, one of VEUTS best-known figSeibert Circle, the plaza named ures, hotelier Sheika after resort founder Pete Seibert. Gramshammer, herself once a The debate goes back to 1997, dancer in Las Vegas, poo-pooed when Seibert was still alive. Some the idea. "We are not an Olympic thought he needed to be acknowl- village," said Gramshammer, a edged with a statue. Others native of Austria but 40-plus year demurred, and so the town enlisted resident of Vail. "We are getting Jesus Morales, a well-known sculp- too pompous. Everything has to be tor, to create stoneworks that big and expensive. Why not keep it metaphorically represented the simple." landscape of the Gore Creek The "this-is-the-place" Seibert Valley. sculpture, meanwhile, has moved a Nobody was particularly enam- short distance, to the base of the • Continued from A-22 SUMMIT COUNTY PROPERTY TAX NOTICE 2006 PROPERTY TAX The 2006 Current Property Tax may be paid, until 5:00 p.m., NOVEMBER 30, 2006 at the following locations: FOR PROPERTY THAT FITS YOUR LIFESTYLE, CALL... Sheldon Richins Count Services Bldg. 6505 N. Landmark Drive, Kimball Junction. (Summit County DMV Office) Key Bank of Utah, Kamas TERRY&LANNIE SCOPES.. Your Home Team! Terry 435-640-1591 • Lannie 435-640-0741 www.4yourhometeam.com Summit County Treasurer's Office, Coalville (435)615-3268, 336-3268 or 783-4351 ext. 3268 Payments are current if postmarked on November 30, 2006 ty," in fact virtually none are remotely sustainable. From the tourists who arrive by jet planes to the big logs hauled hundreds of miles to create the "natural" look BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. - in homes, life depends on using Although woefully behind what it vast amounts of fossil fuels. Somewhat overlooked in this should be, alternative energy is gaining some currency in Summit energy equation is the amount of County. First, ground-source heat fossil fuels used to deliver food, pumps were installed in a combina- something noted by the Telluride tion Conoco gas station and Ecology Commission. The blame Wendy's restaurant in Frisco. Now, cannot be simply assigned to the the first residential home Summit coal-fired power plants or gasCounty, a house in Breckenridge, is guzzling vehicles, points out Colin Hubbard, who sits on the Ecology using the same technology. That technology is based on the Commission. "We're a really long way from idea that in Colorado, the ground stays at about 48 to 52 degrees. our food," said Kris Holstrom, a That heat can be tapped during local organic grower, who noted winter and, through high-tech that the average meal travels exchangers, used to heat homes or more than 1,500 miles. Agribusiness consumes 10 even water. Conversely, that same differential can be used to cool calories of fossil fuels to create one calorie of food energy, houses in summer. The geothermal technology at Holstrom said. Industrially manuthe Breckenridge house is expect- factured meat, which depends ed to reduce energy costs by 50 to upon growing corn and other 60 percent a year, reports the grains to feed cattle, has a ratio of Summit Daily News. Given current. 1 6 t o l . cost of energy, the upfront capital costs of the system should be i 'Giant harpsichord to be crerepaid in eight or nine years - less, ated on ski run if the cost of natural gas and other JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. - Bill fossil fuels continue to rise. Tax credits can reduce the costs even Close was making musical instrum&ntals in the early 1990s when more. Colorado has 250 such geother- hcjcame across a quotation attribmal heating systems, including at uted to famed architect Frank high-end homes in Aspen and Lldyd Wright. Architecture, he said, is "frozen music." Beaver Creek. Something clicked in the mind Encouraging use of such alternative-energy technologies in of Close, who expanded the conPitkin County, where Aspen is cept beyond traditional architeclocated, is a program called REMP, ture. The result is an ongoing or Renewable Energy Mitigation effort to\take music to the landProgram. That program takes aim forms, which in June will include at homes larger than 5,000 square the smalllski area on the outskirts feet or with energy-sapping fea- of Jackson called Snow King tures such as outdoor swimming Mountain., pools or heated driveways. Owners There, Close intends to lay can either install solar panels or strings from the mountain base up other such devices, or pay in-lieu a ski trail, anchoring the giant fees that are then used for energy- strings and then tightening them. saving technologies elsewhere, In this mannar he intends create such as in the community recre- something ofta giant outdoor ation center. harpsichord. TThis is being spon : sored by a J^ckson-based nonUsing the Aspen program as a model, a group in Summit County profit called Vista 360, whose goal called the High Country is to connect mountain communiConservation Center is working up ties. Two years ago, notes the a proposal for consideration by Jackson Hole News&Guide, the elected officials in several local group sponsored a trip to the Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. towns. ski mountain. •'_ \ •Breckenridge home will tap ground heat \ •Connecting the dots between food and carbon TELLURIDE, Colo. - While there is a great deal of vague talk in mountain resorts of "sustainabili- Allen Best has edited mountain town newspapers for 20 years. 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