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Show VISITOR GUIDE Scene Sports Wildlife takes the spotlight at the Eceles Center. Page C-1 Anthony Bello brings thunder from Down Under. R a g e B_., Th« PARK CITY, UTAH www.parkrecord.com *T>his Saturday, the Kimball Art Center invites fam| A ilies to participate in "Free Family Art Saturday" from noon to 4 p.m. at the KimbaU Art Center. The event is free and includes art education, activities and knacks with a Latino twist. Call 649-8882 for info. Park Record. ^^^^^ ^M ^ B ^ ^ k Serving Summit County since 1880 • 500 VOL. I 2 7 * N O . I 8 Wed/Thurs/Fri, April 11-13,2007 7- Record takes top honor for its coverage Raising some Hell I IB A 001'- new job Abdul Rasool will likely leave the district before end of school year By FRANK FISHER Of the Record staff SARAH MJSE/PARK RECORD SARAH AUSE/PARK RECORD The Record won first place for news. Housing, protest stories are among the award winners The Park Record won blue-ribbon honors for its overall news coverage in its circulation category from the Utah Press Association, a key win in the industry group's annual awards. The first-place finish in the best news coverage category went to the paper's staff and was based on three editions published in 2006, in March, August and December. The prize honors newspaper-wide coverage. The Record's Sports section, edited by Adia WaJdburger, was honored with a third-place award, as was its Scene section, edited by Dan Bischoff and Matt James. Meanwhile, Record staffers won individual honors in the circulation category. The newspaper's two veteran reporters, Jay Hamburger and Patrick Parkinson, each were winners. "The UPA awards serve as a nice annual recognition, but the truth is: our news department does an amazing job every day . . . . " Nan Chalat-Noaker, the papers editor, says, noting awards for Hamburger, Parkinson and Scott Sine, the papers longtime photographer. "They offer our readers a wealth of experience and a real passion for journalism." Judges found a Hamburger-written story about seasonal workers and their difficulties finding housing in Park City the best general news story. The December article, "Workers pay big bucks in brutal rental market," details the stories of two people faced with finding accommodations in Park City's resort-driven rental market, which last winter was seen as perhaps the tightest ever. The article is one of many that The Park Record has published in recent years about the scarcity of affordable housing in the city. "I agreed to live with lots of other people just because I want to pay less... I don't want to work just to pay my r e n t . . . I can do (that) in Brazil," a 22-yearold seasonal worker from Sao Paulo, Brazil, told Hamburger as she described her living arrangements - eight people in a two-bedroom apartment. Hamburger finished third in the feature-story category. Parkinson won a third-place award in the breaking-news category for his coverage of Parkites who participated in a large Salt Lake City demonstration for immigrant rights. The demonstration coincided with others around the country. Parkinson followed the demonstrators as they marched from the City-County Building to the Capitol and back. His coverage included people participating in a counterdemonstration. Chalat-Noaker took third place for a February edi- Hayley Caddes, age 12, at right, gets her big break Saturday at The Canyons singing along with the Hell's Belles at the Forum. The free concert celebrated Rossignol's 100th anniversary. Near the end of the show the all-female AC/DC cover band invited anyone under the age of 16 to join them onstage. ^ParkRecoixL Please see Coordinator, A-2 Plan irks No. Summit Developer sues Park City But new guidelines could preserve 'flavor' By PATRICK PARKINSON Of the Record naff Houses in Coalville that belonged to actor Tony and renowned photographer George Beard are among historical buildings that should be preserved, citizens said in a public hearing Monday that drew a crowd that nearly filled the chambers at City Hall. "Tony Geary was raised here. He's probably one of the most prominent citizens we've raised," former Coalville Mayor Merlyn Johnson told city councilors in the discussion that was testy at times. "When I go down to Old Town in Philadelphia there is no question where Betsy Ross's house is." Geary, 59, is from Coalville, according to imdb.com. The actor is best known for playing the role of Luke Spencer on the soap opera "General Hospital." Now the house where Geary grew up is situated within the boundaries of a proposed historical district where officials hope a new set of planning guidelines could help maintain Coalville's rural character. But the district is too big, critics complained. "It ought to be a couple of blocks along Main Street," Johnson said. "I think we need to use a little sense." By consulting Coalville planners before they change signs, existing doors and windows, paint colors, fencing, roofing or light fixtures, property owners in the historic district could preserve Coalville's smalltown appeal, Summit County Community Development Director Don Sargent explained. The guidelines aren't mandatory, however, people who build in the historic district without consultation from the city could be fined more than $200 or see their cost for a building permit double, according to a version of the ordinance debated Monday. Along with much of Main Street the proposed historic district includes the entry corridor in Coalville and residential and commercial properties east and west of downtown. "It's offensive and it's discriminatory," said Coalville resident Albert Clark, who criticized the plan. "We're taking a certain section of town and putting additional restrictions on them." Houses do not belong in the district, opponents insist. "I can't go out in my front yard and plant a new grass. I can't paint my house. I can't put a new roof on it," Clark objected. "On the one hand you talk about this being suggestions and not mandatory, but on the other hand you're going to fine me $200 and $10 a day for every day I'm not in compliance. Which is it?" By simply conferring with city officials the requirements of the new law could be met without having to implement any of the recommendations, Please see Many, A-2 claim. Park City officials object to the terms of easements recorded on the land that reportedly could result in installation of a ski lift, according to the lawsuit. "The parties have not reached By PATRICK PARKINSON agreement on the specific terms and Of the Record staff conditions of the grant of a recreation easement that would have been The builder of exclusive real granted to IMA on the [property]," estate in the gated subdivision known the developer claims. Terms of a conservation easement as The Colony won't provide land he agreed to give the Marsac Building IMA agreed to grant have also not nearly a decade ago, according to a been extensively discussed, according lawsuil the developer filed in Third to the lawsuit. "Park City has not approved the District Court. In the four-page complaint filed specific location of the land that against Park City Municipal by Iron would have been conveyed to Park Mountain Associates, the firm devel- City under the [agreement]," the oping The Colony at White Pine complaint states. Because the parties can't agree on Canyon, claims there are "good and valid reasons" for not providing the the conditions, developers at The Colony won't give dedicated open land. A contract entered into by Iron space to the city, according to the Mountain Associates (IMA) and City lawsuit. The complaint asks Judge Bruce Hall in 1998 meant the developer would preserve about 600 acres of Lubeck to provide declaratory relief open space near the McPolin Farm, to The Colony by ruling to dissolve the agreement to relieve the builder the lawsuit filed March 30 states. At the time of the land deal. Park of its obligations to the city. This week Marsac officials were City Municipal also discussed providing water to The Colony, which is sit- not served with the lawsuit and haduated near the slopes of The Canyons n't formally responded to the complaint. resort, the lawsuit states. Attorneys for Park City and Iron "The [agreement] contemplated the conveyance of [land] by IMA to Mountain Associates did'not return Park City upon certain terms and telephone calls seeking comment conditions set forth in the [agree- about the case before press time. Meanwhile, in a news report, ment]," the complaint states. But the city has threatened to sue Keith Kelley, chief developer at The the builder, officials at The Colony Please see The Colony, A-2 Part of the confusion is because contract dates back a decade, he says Petition urges government to protect wildlife "Every time there's a development, wildlife gets displaced to some degree," says Dave Swenson, the conservation officer for the area for the 3 SECTIONS * 50 PAGES state Division of Wildlife Resources. Agendas A-7 Parkites are usually saddened when animals - generally moose, elk Automotive C-19 By JAY HAMBURGER and deer, locally - must be put down Business B-9 Of the Record staff after encounters with people. Lots of Classifieds C-14 Chris Oles was on patrol for the Parkites bemoan the widely accepted Columns , A-16 Park City Police Department Sunday idea that many of the animals that had remained in the area through the Crossword C-4 evening when he was summoned to a start of Park City's most recent boom grisly scene a little before 9 p.m. Editorial A-17 Someone had called the police to era, beginning in the early 1990s, Education , A-10 report that a moose was in the middle have since migrated to other places. But Jacqulin Fehr, who has lived in Events Calendar C-6 of S.R. 248, in the section known as the Cove, a neighborhood on the the narrows, just east of the Park City Letters to the Editor A-17 School District campus. edge of Park Meadows, for 6 1/2 years Legals C-17 When Oles arrived, he instead dis- after moving from Seattle, has asked City Hall to provide better safeguards Movies C-4 covered an elk carcass. The animal for wildlife. Since February, Fehr says had been struck by a car and killed on Professional Services C-8 the busy entryway, the police say, and she has collected about 350 signatures Restaurant Guide C-12 the body was removed from the road. on a petition suggesting the local govThe Sunday episode, similar to ernment assess migration paths and Sports B-1 other wildlife deaths on the roads in develop a protected path for animals, TV Listings C-13 and around Park City, dramatizes the among other requests. The petition Weather B-2 troubles animals in the area are hav- also asks that a task force be formed. "We're so tired of seeing the caring as Park City continues to grow. Developers are building on land nage on the highways," Fehr, who is where wildlife used to live, road in her 60s, says. "We're pushing the crews are paving places the animals animals away from Park City because of all the development." Sewing Summit County since 1880used to amble through and fences are The petition especially targets keeping the animals in or out of www.parkrecord.com places where they used to roam development near Round Valley, freely. Please see Protect, A-2 94937 00001 Please see Record, A-2 It took the Park City School District almost a year of wrangling with immigration to bring newlyhired International Baccalaureate coordinator Abdul Rasool into the United States from Mauritius, a little island off the coast of Madagascar. After completing 18 months of his two-year contract, Rasool has accepted a job in Saudi Arabia and likely will be leaving the U.S. with far greater ease than his entrance. Rasool recently submitted his resignation to the Park City School District, and, although he has not discussed timing of his departure with the principals of the two IB middle schools, or with human recourses, he said he will likely leave the IB program and district around the end of April. Rasool's two-year contract with the district and his U.S. visa were about to expire, creating uncertainty in his future. "My visa would have expired this December," Rasool said. ''Keeping that in mind, I had to seek out my possible next position, considering it took me one year to get here. Not being an American, I Development ruining places where animals roam, the signer say SARAH AUSE/PARK RECORD Jacqulin Fehr visits land where she says an elk herd spends its nights, near the Cove and the Park Meadows Country Club golf course. Fehr has collected about 350 signatures on a petition asking that wildlife be better protected. J |