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Show Park Record A-2 Wed/Thurs/Fri, March 28-30, 2007 Cottages called Sundance Canyons moves the par 3 Designer acknowledges no connection with festival but says name is marketable ed for 1450-1460 Park Ave. Bloxom wants to rehab two houses on the Of the Record staff properly and build two new ones. An Old Town designer, acknowl- He hopes to build them in 2007 and edging he wants to generate buzz 2008, calling them "big nice housfor one of his projects, has dubbed es," and expects the owner will the small development The make them available for rentals for Sundance Cottages, harkening to two years. He plans to build home the famous film festival that brings theaters inside. scores of visitors to Park City each Bloxom says the property owner January. provided the name and he says Don Bloxom, the designer, says other projects in Park City use wellSundance is a marketable name and known names in their own. Deer claims people are interested in pur- Valley is used in names other than chasing real estate in Park City so Deer Valley Resort, for instance, they have a place to stay during the Bloxom says. He indicates the word film festival, when lodging usually is 'Sundance' is from American tight. Indians and was established before "I'm getting as (many) calls for the institute adopted the name. houses for the Sundance Film Bloxom says the name of the project Festival as I am for skiing or any- would be changed if it is necessary. thing else," Bloxom says. The Park City Council on He says the project is named Thursday is scheduled to consider after thefilmfestival and says he did combining the lots needed for the not visit with officials at the project to proceed. Such votes are Sundance Institute, which organizes typically procedural in nature and the festival, before choosing the do not draw much interest. name. The Planning Commission earli"We're not partnering with er recommended that the combinathem. Why would I approach tion be allowed. More approvals them,11 Bloxom says, describing the would be needed before the develname 'Sundance' as a "big word out opers are allowed to start constructhere." tion. Bloxom says officials have not The Sundance Cottages are slat- questioned the name. By JAY HAMBURGER A Bend, Ore., firm owns the property, which is valued at a combined $717, 840, according to the Summit County Assessor's Office. Patrick Hubley, a spokesman for Sundance, says officials there are not aware of the cottages. "We're not very familiar with this project and it has nothing to do with the Sundance Institute," Hubley says. The festival and the institute's other programs, a cable-television channel, a catalog and a mountain resort in Provo Canyon are within the Sundance family but each operates separately. The word Sundance is seen in other industries and a search of the World Wide Web shows spas, boats and a Palo Alto, Calif., steakhouse using the word Sundance in their names, Sundance, which is#scheduled during (he last third of January each year, is seen as the top domestic marketplace for independent films and one of the most prestigious film festivals on the world circuit. The festival is lucrative for many Park City businesses. The institute in 2006 moved its Utah headquarters to a renovated mining-era building in Silver Star, a development on the edge of Thaynes Canyon. Rec magazine out on March 29 • Continued from A-1 pull-out calendar with the program referenced by date a corresponding page to find more information. Residents may notice that some junior and adult programs have changed, but Miller says that many new ones were added in their place. They will also notice that the Ice Arena section is far more comprehensive with specific program descriptions and registration information, as opposed to as simple list of offerings last year. Miller says that she expects the guide to arrive in resident's mailboxes on Thursday, March 29. Any person with a Post Office Box in the Park City School District will receive the magazine. Copies may also be found at the Park City Racquet Club, the Basin Recreation Field House and Trailside Park. Freestylists fare well in Vermont • Continued from A-1 women's dual moguls. Nationals, perhaps in freestyle more than any of the other sports governed by the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association, is a chance to make a move toward the national team. A podium at the championships can have a huge impact on an athlete's career in freestyle. It can open the door; the athlete, though, has to walk - or ski (or flip) - through it. A look back as things wound down on the 2007 U.S. freestyle skiing season: Thursday (haJfpipe) - Ski cross made the Olympics for 2010, but it's halfpipe, which is the so-called "new school" event at nationals. Every major ski area - and Killington, which recently was bought by Powdr Corp., is on the podium for major areas east of the Rockies has a halfpipe. Hudak, the daughter of a computer science professor at Yale, said she moved to Park City "for the training opportunities" - yet she claims the Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club as her club program. She won with 34.6 points to 29.6 for Sophia Schwartz, who hails from Ketchum, Idaho, but trains at Watcrville Valley, N.H., with Kim Sharp third (26.5). "I skied here a lot when I was younger." the 20-yearold Hudak said. "Killington always had a great 'pipe." The men's event went to David Wise, Lake Tahoe, who edged Tucker Perkins out, 43.7-42.9. Friday (moguls) - Haga, 23. has a compelling ingredient to his gold-medal tale. He's been a warrior, skiing the bumps each season and just missing the U.S. Ski Team. He ranked second this winter in the NorAm moguls and dual moguls standings but, more importantly, he learned earlier this month his twin brother, Win (as in Edwin), had been redeployed out of Iraq to Germany. An infantryman, he's expected to be home in the near future. "Knowing he was in Germany and safe, away from hand-to-hand combat, was one less thing to worry about," Haga said. "Gold medals are nice, but getting your brother home safely from combat trumps everything." Haga received 27.63 points for his final run with Roberts getting 27.22. Defending champion Dave Babic, a Vermonter, was third and Gardner, at 26.83, missed the podium by .17. U.S. championships in any sport (USSA oversees 15 teams in seven sports) can be tumultuous gatherings, but the euphoria surrounding Haga's triumph may have set an unofficial record for jubilation. Coaches, teammates, almost everyone but a couple of stray dogs, slam-danced together for photos, hugs and high-fives. Talk about your Kodak moments. In the women's event, Bahrke - sporting splashes of purple hair to go with her signature (but subdued) eye- By PATRICK PARKINSON Of the Record staff Landowners are anxious to move forward with construction of a golf course at The Canyons after bickering among some of the parties has delayed the project for nearly five years. By excluding from the plan properly owned by Wolf Mountain Resorts, The Canyons Resort Village Management Association, which represents around 20 property owners at the resort, hopes construction of the golf course can begin in 2008. "We're absolutely not shutting the door on letting people come in and sign up on everything as it exists today,." said Joanne Nadalin, director of The Canyons Resort Village Management Association. "Everyone else has agreed to everything except Wolf Mountain." To facilitate construction of the resort several land transfers must occur among the property owners, she explained. "Those land transfers have not yet happened," Nadalin said. "If everybody were to come to the table and finish signing the escrow documents that we had set up about a year ago, that would be great and we would move forward with the golf course as it was approved a year ago." But Wolf Mountain Resorts managing partner Kenny Griswold hasn't come to the table, she claims. . "We're trying to make sure that since Wolf Mountain has indicated they don't want to plat at this point, that we're enabling the golf course to move forward and enabling the other parties to move forward SCOTT SmEJPARK RECORD Projects emerging at The Canyons like Escala, shown in the background, will benefit from an 18-hole golf course planned for construction at the resort in 2008, officials say. with their development," Nadalin said. The new plan could mean a dispute between Wolf Mountain and The Canyons parent company, American Skiing Co., won't delay other development at the resort. "It appears people are operating on different timetables," she said. A par 3 hole approved last year at the course would likely be situated farther east near the corner of State Road 224 and Canyons Resort Drive. But before construction begins the Summit County Commission must approve the plan after- the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission hears from the Resort Village Management Association. "It depends on how long these processes take," Nadalin said when asked when construction of the course would begin. She is confident that crews could begin in the spring of 2008 should the resort secure money to finance the course. Wolf Mountain owns most of the ski terrain at The Canyons, which Griswold began leasing to American Skiing Company in the late 1990s. The specially planned area, or SPA agreement, brought together many landowners who agreed an 18hole golf course would complete the transformation of The Canyons into a 4-season resort. Legal snags along the way, however, have included the bitter lease battle being fought by Wolf Mountain and American Skiing Company in court. Still, Nadalin insists Wolf Mountain is not damaged by the new golf course plan. "They still have land adjacent to the golf course and they'll still benefit from the golf course," she said. Developers plan dump truck haul glitter - stuck her basic heli (360-degree vertical spin) and then a backflip-cross (a flip with her skis pulled up in the form of an X). She had 27.17 to Vogtli's 26.41 with been blamed on lost brakes caused by the steepness * Continued from A-1 Montanan Heather McPhie, the World Cup women's of the street. Rookie of the Year in moguls, in third place (25.88). The hauling rules require drivers to stop at a onto Kearns Boulevard. It's the end of an outstanding bounce-back season brake-check area at the top of the steepest part of City Hall will limit the work to 10 hours each day, for Bahrke, who was considering retirement a year ago. the Mine Road and the police plan to patrol the She had been on a nice roll - 2002 Olympic silver, 2003 Mondays through Saturdays, with no hauling route more frequently during the operation. allowed on Sundays. World Championships bronze medal in duals at Deer Park City officials contemplated whether to The crews must inform the local government Valley to go with her World Cup crown and four U.S. allow the Montage for more than a year before the what hours they will be hauling. titles in three seasons - until she broke her jaw in '04. City Council earlier in 2007 agreed to change a Eight trucks outfitted with trailers, known as The next year she tore a knee ligament. 1 prior development deal regulating Empire Pass. 'pups. are expected to haul the material and the She returned a year ago, made the Olympics but was The Montage,.,with plans for about 180 hotel Utah Highway Patrol is required to inspect each disappointed in her skiing. rooms and another 90 condominiums, is envisioned truck before they start the operation. The city But Bahrke didn't want to retire on the frustrations a $10,000 bond and will draw from the as one of Park City's ritziest lodging properties, of an Olympic season, so she came back this year. She requires anchoring Empire Pass and turning the area around bond if the dump trucks are ticketed for speeding. won two World Cup events - including during the the Empire lodge into another teeming Deer Valley Mongan says he expects the dump trucks will Chevrolet Freestyle International at Deer Valley in locale. start in June or July, depending on weather, and the January - and was No. 2 in World Cup moguls points. The developers plan to break ground in 2007 and At the World Championships, she was duals silver operation will last between 10 and 15 days if the expect the Montage will open in the summer 2010. weather is good. medalist. A gold medal at nationals was soooo-weet! Park City Councilwoman Marianne Cone, who He calls the 2007 operation "relatively minor in Saturday (aerials) - Cook, who grew up in the lives on Prospect Avenue, near the Mine Road, scale" compared to 2005. Boston and graduated from Maine's Carrabassett says it is "annoying" that another operation is The material is now situated at the top of the Valley Academy, missed the middle of the 2007 season, planned and that "it seems like we were done with local watershed and the potential of the contaminursing a back problem. She returned in time to comthat." nants reaching the water was a key point as the first pete at the World Championships where she was sixth. She says City Hall staffers did a good job moniReturning to New England, she felt a big comfort fac- haul was considered. At that time, there were differing scientific opinions about whether the materitoring the previous operation but says if there were tor; her lone U.S. title had come at Watcrville Valley in al posed a threat where it was. an accident this year, the mood in the neighbor2001. Cook not only won, she did it with her highest The Marsac Avenue neighborhood was worried hood would change. personal score (185.04). Second place went to Schnoor "If a truck were to crash into anything and dump about the prospects of a dump truck losing its (146.59). its load, hazardous waste, it would be a whole difbrakes during its Mine Road descent. A series of Peterson slapped back on his "Hurricane" (five ferent siory," Cone says. accidents on the Mine Road going back years has twists, three flips) but still eked out the win with 186.15 points. Dylan Ferguson was second (166.99) with Amidan (166.52) third. Peterson, who set records for points on a jump and in a snowy competition at Deer Valley in January, was and they really start to ... experi- growing up, he contends. glad he could try his trademark jump in a competition • Continued from A-1 ence what it is like to be a gay "They can feel a little bit "because I want to get as many of these under my belts we are a pro-family organiza- kid in high school it is really nice more validated as human beings as 1 can. I'm still on the learning curve with it." 1 than they can with people who Sunday (duals) - An overnight storm left four or five tion," she said about the Utah for them to have a group.' The new law could mean don't necessarily understand, inches of wet, soupy snow on the Outer Limits moguls Eagle Forum. "The constituents or empathize," run, which was skied off by the competitors, but later we heard from were the ones school board members have sympathize who want to know what's going authority to more strictly regu- Painter said. "That's where I became slushy as the temperature went up. late clubs with which they dis- think the power of the GSA is." The women's finale was a duel between two Squaw on in all clubs in the schools." Still, the clubs provide a agree, Painter said. Kevin Van Tassell, a state senValley skiers, Bahrke and Shelly Robertson. While "I have trouble with the con- ator who represents Park City, Bahrke had a problems landing one of her jumps, haven for students struggling to Robertson tore away for the win. Third place went to identify their sexual orientation. cept of community standards of supported HB236. Rep. Mel Painter countered. decency," he said, adding, '"we Brown, a Republican who repreVogtli, who beat McPhie. Minutes later. Kashima and Discoe did their Keystone Kops routine, each of them "We wouldn't need gay and do what we can to actually advo- sents Park City in the State crashing on his final jump in an almost surreal conclu- lesbian clubs if the community cate against the community stan- House voted for the bill while Rep. Christine sion. Kashima got to his feet first and skied to the fin-standards were not so hostile dard because we think that the Democratic Johnson, who represents areas ish...and another gold medal. toward gay and lesbian people, community standard is wrong." Basin, Homosexuals lack positive of the Snyderville Versus network will have Killington highlights and organizations," he said. "When they get to high school role models in societv while opposed the legislation. Sunday at 1 p.m. New law: a threat to school clubs? 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