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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, March 14-16,2007 Jhe Park Record A-2 Remains found in Basin With an open heart your bones can tell you." Scientists agree the remains are between 100 and 150 years old. By examining the bones, a Siddoway said about the discol- forensic anthropologist may ored skeleton. "The slate arche-, determine when the man died ologist, in looking at [the bones], and if he had any diseases. believes they're Caucasian." "In some cases she can tell Investigators said Tuesday things like handedness and if this they believe the remains are of a guy was a real big guy or small man of European descent. fragile guy," Rood said, adding "We did find a human skull that obtaining the test results and I think that's what prompted could take four weeks. "With the the phone call," Edmunds said. discovery of these bones we can "A human skull is readily identi- now hear a little bit of this guy's fiable to pretty much everyone. story." But a lot of the other [bones], it's As a result of the discovery hard to differentiate between the Utah Division of State human and animal." History will research western Near the remains were animal Summit County, Rood said, bones that were sawed, Siddoway adding, "I'd be willing to bet you said. dollars to donuts that every person in Summit County right now has a notion about Anthropologists say bones uncovered at Kimball Junction belonged to white man By PATRICK PARKINSON Of the Record staff Human remains unearthed near Kimball Junction last week could belong to a pioneer from the 19th century. "The main ingress route into Salt Lake valley for the pioneers was what currently is the 1-80 corridor, after coming into Summit County as they came out of Wyoming," Summit County Sheriff Dave Edmunds said. "I suspect that we probably have a lot of burials, a lot of unmarked graves along the way." The partial skeleton was found Thursday by a construction worker excavating at / / a house on Glen wild f Drive in the Snyderville As the COUnty grOWS and 3S SUbBasin, said Aian divisions develop we're just seeing Siddoway, a Sheriff s office death investigator, more Amon« the bones and more , human . remains * «• of a person who lived here and we owe it to that person to find out as much as we can from these bones and perhaps even be able to figure out if he's got living descendents," continued Rood. "This dead person did not intend to be disby a backhoe, but he were a skuii, mandible being uncovered. and pelvis, but no human - Alan Siddoway tissue was found at the site, he said. Summit County Sheriff's Office "They were digging some footings and came With no sign of a casket and covered across the bones," Siddoway said. "As the county grows and as sub- because all the bones weren't was." Meanwhile, the Utah divisions develop we're just see- found, "it appeared to us that this ing more and more human probably wasn't the first time the Legislature passed a law this year remains being uncovered. bones had been disturbed," that would make it easier for the state antiquities department to Wherein, my first 15 years at the Edmunds said. Last week. Assistant State take custody of historic remains Sheriffs Office we never had this Archeologist Ron Rood took found on private land. type of call." possession of the remains. "You need to report those to Investigators found no arti"Bones do talk. They do tell a the police," Rood said adding facts like clothing or wooden casket remnants at the discovery last story of what your life was like," that he responds about 12 times Rood said in a telephone inter- per year when remains are week in Snyderville. "It had been there for a sub- view Tuesday. ""Everything from uncovered. "It's the legal thing to stantial amount of time," health to diet is reflected in what do, it's the right thing to do." Meltdown: snow will fade fast • Continued from A-1 fed by the snow. Mclnerncy says the amount of water contained in the snow pack at a measuring station in Thaynes Canyon, at an elevation of about 8,500 feet, is below normal and well below what was recorded in 2006. He says there are about 18 inches of water in the snow pack at the site, four inches below the typical benchmark. In 2006, there were 36 inches at the location and the level peaked in the third week of April. Expected warm weather will bring down the totals quickly, prompting his 50 percent prediction by April 1. "What that's going to do is decimate that number," he says about the temperatures. Still, though, the water situation this summer will not be dire. Mclnerney says there will be a "sufficient water supply," as reservoirs and ground water sources remain recharged from the previous two winters. At City Hall, Kathy Lundborg, the water manager, predicts the local government will request Parkites conserve water, as is the case normally. She says, though, it is unlikely City Hall will be forced to declare a water emergency. That would probably only occur if the city loses a water source, as happened in 2005, when two sources were tem- porarily shut down and the city build a reservoir pipeline, which they say would boost the water did not have access to another. Instead, the city will rely on supply and make the area less its normal rules, including ban- dependent on the snow pack. ning daytime sprinkling and limThe efforts, though, have iting sprinkling to every other been difficult but City Hall and day or every third day. Summit County recently reached "I expect we will probably be an accord to build a pipeline asking for a lot of conservation," from the Rockport Reservoir, near Wanship. Lundborg says. City Hall and state officials "There's always a concern in a usually organize a public-rela- dry year like this we don't have tions campaign meant to reduce storage. We don't get our water summertime water use. from a reservoir," Lundborg The city and Summit County says. "Our storage is basically officials have for years tried to the aquifers." SCOTT SINE/PARK RECORD Whitney Wallace, who serves on the board of trustees for Arts-Kids, is all smiles at the fundraiser Paint the Town, "Art: A Window to the Heart" Saturday at the Kimball Art Center. The evening featured live entertainment as well as live and silent auctions, refreshments and more. Claimjumper redo considered construction could start soon after. Lutz, the shop owner, worries about losing business during the construction at the ClaimJumper. He does not expect Livin' Life will be put out of business during the work but sales, he predicts, will suffer. "Not just my business, all the businesses on this side," Lutz says. ceedings. People who live on upper Park Avenue typically structure" while improving the question projects that stretch commercial space and adding the from the Main Street side to residential units. It notes their mostly residential neighClaimJumpcr property fronting borhood. Park Avenue will be developed There have not been widein the future but details are not spread public discussions about outlined. the project. Robinson predicts If the owners pursue a Park the developers could win the necAvenue-fronting project, neigh- essary approvals by the beginbors will likely monitor the pro- ning of the summer. If they do, • Continued from A-1 Judge sides with Summit County Therefore, Gillmor's lawyers contend commissioners engaged in illegal zoning practices to presince the 1980s roughly 15 developers who have vent the land near Round Valley from being built inquired about purchasing her property near Silver upon, contended lawyers for Gillmor. The type of "performance" zoning created by Summit Parkway have refused because they feared the county in the 1990s decreased Gillmor's propthey wouldn't be allowed to develop the land. After she donated land to Summit County for a erty value and violated her civil rights, her lawsuit road near Trailsidc Park. Gillmor claims the stated. The 1998, code included "the subjective, arbiSummit County Commission at the time promised she could build four units per acre on her property, trary, capricious, unpredictable, interminable and Kafkaesque application of hopelessly vague guideLubeck's decision states. In exchange for Gillmor's donation, former lines," Gillmor claimed. Still, Lubeck sided with county officials who say Summit County Commissioner Jim Soter and former Community Development Director Doug that before Gillmor filed the lawsuit the time she Dotson promised her that when she filed a devel- had to protest the code expired. opment application "there was no reason that she "We basically asserted that the statute of limitacouldn't get the same [four units per acre] that tions had run on the case," Thomas said. "The [Summit County) had allowed in the Trailside [sub- court agreed with that and the next lawsuit up, I division] across the new street on land with exactly guess, is the 2004 code." the same development characteristics such as The same group of attorneys has also challenged topography, access and infrastructure." the general plan and development code adopted in But the County Commission rejected Gillmor's the Snyderville Basin two years ago. "Our position has always been that the codes are attempt . to amend the Snyderville Basin Development Code to allow for construction of fine, they're not improper." Thomas said, adding more than 300 houses on roughly 318 acres near that the county will "aggressively" fight the next lawsuit. Trailside Park. • Continued from A-1 Governor, lawmakers get high marks SARAH AUSE/PARK RECORD With warm temperatures gripping the Park City area, the snow pack is expected to melt quickly, people are donning short sleeves and Parkites are heading to the Rail Trail, pictured. County mayors mull wind power wouldn't do it." Meanwhile, three large wind explained Sara Baldwin, commu- farms in Utah are planned for nity relations coordinator for the construction near Spanish Fork, Tooclc and Beaver, Baldwin Utah Clean Energy group. According to Summit County said. Commissioner Bob Richer. "We're surrounded by states "There is no reason why we with hundreds of thousands of • Continued from A-1 megawatts," she said, adding that statewide Utah uses about one megawatt of wind power. But thousands of dollars can be generated for ranchers with wind turbines on their property, Baldwin told the Council of Governments. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) If the survey is akin to a report card, Gov. Jon Huntsman and the Legislature are getting good marks after the annual 45-day session. A poll for the Deseret' Morning News found 28 percent strongly approve of Huntsman's performance and 49 percent somewhat approve, although he still has hundreds of bills and resolutions to consider. Eleven percent strongly approve of the Legislature's performance and 56 percent somewhat approve. The poll of 418 Utah residents was conducted March 7-8 by Dan Jones & Associates. It has an error margin of 5 percentage points. Lawmakers agreed to cut taxes by $220 million, half of it coming from the income tax. The poll found 75 percent "strongly" or "somewhat" agree. On another question, nearly 30 percent said they didn't know when asked if they favored or opposed the new 5 percent tax rate. Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been in favor of keeping a deduction for charitable The new tax system includes credit for donations and mortgage interest. The Jones poll found that 54 percent of those who said they were Mormon like the 5 percent tax rale, while 19 percent of LDS members don't like it. Utah's sales tax on food will drop to 3 percent on Jan 1. Asked if it should be eliminated, 55 percent said yes, 40 percent said no and 5 percent didn't have an opinion. Huntsman has said he wants the lax erased by the time he leaves office. He plans to seek a second four-year term in 2008. Don't like our editorials? Send us one of yours: editor@parkrecord.com Make a Difference in the life of a ChilcL f Your Own Comfort Tood with a Southern Hair! 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