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Show - •jr.-K-vr* S j M i l i ^ Page B-1 When big hearts happen to tough guys, big money is raised for child abuse. This Friday, the Rocky Mountain Motorcycle Jam will raise awareness and funds for Bikers Against Child Abuse with live music and games. ark Record. W. UIMH (-'KbSB H ibci S'^m 3 bui it ShiLI LHKfc U l I V Ul P A R K R E C O R D . C O M VOL. 127-NO. 34 Tues/Wed/Thurs/Fri July 3-6, 2007 Serving Summit County since 1880 50(5 5 'Damn worried about the Fourth of July Star-span Rugby salutes Independence Wednesday T production of comedy; "Little Shop of ^ £his Friday, July 6, g 18 Steiner Egyptian at 328 Main Street, begin at 8 p.m. Call 435- SCENE Paged Randy Farris is a friend of kids around the world. He returns to Park City next Week to teach a soccer camp. He will then head to the Dominican Republic to share the wealth. The :- The Park City tradition returns to the pitch Parkites can celebrate with fireworks but firefighters are leery of holiday By JAY HAMBURGER Of the Record staff SCOTT SINE PARK RECORD FourrT The $25 --, Mounfai^uRun \ sfrratlon fee iricludesT-shir dni at www.parkcifyfji >re. 7 TO 10 A.M. SCOTT S\NEJPARK RECORD Park City Rugby player Rich White attempts to make a play. 11 A.M. By ADIA WALDBURGER Of the Record staff Parade and Air Force Fly-over It just wouldn't be the Fourth of July in Park City without rugby. Once again, the team will head to the pitch for another raucous afternoon at City Park. Only this time, everyone looks very familiar. With a midweek holiday, the Park City Haggis Rugby Football Club had some difficulty attracting out-ofstate opponents. Of course, canceling the game was out of the question, and so the team decided to split in half with the competitive side playing as the Haggis and the social side of the club playing as the Muckers. It seemed to make sense, said Park City team representative Robert Lopez, since the two teams, the Park City Muckers and the Salt Lake Haggis combined two years ago to form an elite Division I squad. The match will go on as planned on July 4 with a women's rugby game at 10 a.m., followed by an "Old Boys" game at 11 a.m. and the traditional at 12:30 p.m. game following the parade featuring Park City competitive vs. Park City social. And the rugby doesn't end there. Following the game, there will be trials for the Utah 7s Series to qualify for the national tournament at 2 p.m. The Fourth of July games will feature the usual grilling and merrymaking, with burgers and beverages available for purchase throughout the afternoon. Making things work has been a running theme for Park City after being locked out of Division I competition this year. The team was in the parking lot packed up to go to a game in Aspen in early spring, when they received a call from USA Rugby saying that the No-Cal and So-Cal leagues of California, whom the Muckers played with in 2006, decided that they didn't want Park City to be a Please see Rugby, A-2 4 SECTIONS * 64 PAGES Agendas Automotive Business Classifieds Columns Crossword Editorial , Education Events Calendar Letters to the Editor Legals Movies Professional Services Restaurant Guide Sports TV Listings Weather A-7 C-19 B-8 C-15 A-18 C-4 A-19 A-21 C-6 A-19 C-19 C-4 C-11 C-12 B-1 C-14 B-2 ""Rut Record Stniaf Summii Ctunty lout 1880 VAVw.parkrccord.com 8 94937 00001 Breakfast in Park City's City Park 10 a.m. Oakley's Fourth of July Parade begins at Center St and State Route 32. A Patriotic Program will follow at the City Park Building at 911 West Center Street Ryan Montbleau Band, an Americana blues, soul and folk ban3 plays at City Park Parkites can celebrate Independence Day but it is best that they not be caught with bottle rockets. Those, and lots of other types of fireworks, are banned. But City Hall was unable to prohibit all fireworks on the 4th of July, leaving the police and firefighters hoping the pyrotechnics do not cause a blaze in the current tinderbox conditions. People cannot use fireworks that travel more than 10 feet in the air or 10 feet on the ground, including popular selections like bottle rockets. A citywide ban starts on July 8 and runs until at least Oct. 1, according to Ron Ivie, Park City's chief building official and the fire marshal. The ban includes Pioneer Day, when fireworks are popular as Utah celebrates the arrival of Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. "I'm damn worried - the hot, dry days with high winds," Ivie says about the potential of a fire on Wednesday. He explains state laws require extreme conditions for a government to ban fireworks. He would have had to make Please see Cops, A-2 Cone wont seek - another term NOON TO 4 P.M. Music, food and games in Park City's City Park (I.D. required for beer.) 12:30 P.M. City Councilwoman wants to spend more time'with her husband Junior Rodeo Sign-up begins at the Oakley Recreation Complex. By JAY HAMBURGER Of the Record staff 1 P.M. Junior Rodeo and Kids Activities will be held at the Oakley Recreation Complex. The Motherlode Canyon Band will play at Park Cify's City Park. 2 TO 7 P.M. Park City Farmers Market, in The Canyons resort Cabriolet parking lot. 5:30 P.M. Gates open for the Utah Symphony will play at Deer Valley with a "Patriotic Celebration" performance. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 for general admission, $50 for reserved seating, with discounts for families ' '•' and' students. ' ' Call (888) 451-2787 or visit utahsymphonyop era.org. 8 P.M. Oakley PRCA Rodeo begins. Fireworks will follow the conclusion of the competition. DUSK Fireworks at Park City Mountain Resort. Marianne Cone, a first-term Park City Councilwoman, will not seek re-election this fall, probably leaving one of the three slots on the 2007 ballot without an incumbent competing the position. Cone on Monday morning made public her decision not to campaign for a second term on the City Council. She is the last of the three incumbents to decide, with Candy Erickson and Joe Kernan previously saying they would seek re-election, Erickson to a third term and Kernan to a second. Meanwhile, Kernan and Liza Simpson Monday morning filed candidate papers at City Hall. Both had previously said they would run. Monday was the first day candidates could file papers. The window closes July 16. Cone, who is 63 years old and lives in Old Town, says she wants to spend more time with her husband, David Chaplin, Please see Cone, A-2 'Troubled camel' returns to home in Park City After injuring a manr Clyde will not march in the July 4 parade By PATRICK PARKINSON Of the Record staff About 10,000 years ago camels roamed Silver Creek where today there is just a smattering of camels in Northern Utah. The newest dromedary in western Summit County is a camel named Clyde, who returned recently to his home in Silver Creek after spending time in Colorado, where he nearly killed a man in a confrontation about a month ago. A fixture a decade ago in the Fourth of July parade in Park City, Clyde was sold by Charmian Wright when the veterinarian in Silver Creek sold her camel-trekking business, Park City Camel Ventures, in 2000. "We had the first camel-trekking business in North America," explained Wright's husband, Gordon Croissant. Clyde was their best camel, he added. He weighs nearly a ton but Clyde "was always the one who we put inexperienced riders on," Wright said. Sadly, Clyde faced death or spending the rest of his life in a zoo when he injured his previous handler in Colorado. "We don't know why. That's how he ended up back with me," Wright said. "He has some kind of history that we don't fully understand yet." Rarely are camels aggressive toward people, she said, adding that "they are really wonderful animals and they have great temperments." . "The last owner that had Clyde had an unexpected confrontation with him," Wright said. "Something happened in the last eight years that made him become dangerous." Wright isn't sure if the man mistreated the camel. "We don't want to give Clyde a chance to hurt anybody else," Wright said. "He's a troubled camel." Old World and New Camels are generally classified into two groups: Old World and New World. New World camels include llamas and alpacas. Clyde is a species of Old World camel called a dromedary. Dromedaries have one fatty hump on their back. The other species of Old World camels, called Bactrians, have two humps, Wright explained. Water, however, is not stored in the humps as the urban myth claims, she Please see Clyde, A-2 SARAH AUSEfPARKRECORD This dromedary camel named Clyde returned recently to his former home In the Snydervllle Basin. Sliver Creek resident Charmian Wright, who owns Clyde, Is a veterinarian who specializes In horse medicine. Wright first purchased Clyde In the 1990s when she operated a camel-trekking business In Utah. But the camel recently Injured a man In Colorado, so Wright finds herself again caring for the camel. |