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Show SPORTS, B-l HOMETOWN HERO STEVE HOLCOMB WINS GOLD FOR 2- AND 4-MAN BOBSLED AT THE WORLD CUP BUSINESS, B-8 PARK CITY, UTAH CLASS HELPS HOSPITALITY WORKERS MANAGE STRESS The Park Record. VV W W . P A R K R E C O R D . C O M VOL. 127 • NO. 85 Wed/Thurs/Fri f December 12-14, 2007 Serving Summit County since 1880 Award goes to Mountain Trails man ; p H | EDUCATION, A - 1 2 'Shop' in the name of the law! 50£ Carbon monoxide sickens 8 Malfunctioning furnace in duplex is blamed By JAY HAMBURGER Of the Record staff KRISHNA EASTHAM/P/VW RECORD Director Carol Potter nominated Board member Greg Balch for REI's volunteer of the year. By KRISHNA EASTHAM Of the Record staff The group that has worked hard to connect Park City with a well-maintained system of trails has been recognized by REI in a reception honoring outdoor non-profits. Mountain Trails Foundation Board Member Greg Balch was honored last Wednesday at REI in Salt Lake City as one of four Wasatch Outdoor Volunteers of the Year. This is the second year REI has given these awards. Balch, who has been with Mountain Trails Foundation for eight years, believes they have been successful because the goals of the organization meet the needs of the active citizens of Park City. He also feels that the group, which started out just making trails, is expanding and diversifying. "We used to go cut trails in the mountains, but now we're connecting all these neighborhoods with the trails," Balch said. Mountain Trails, a member-supported organization, is continuing to grow and expand its mandate. During his time volunteering for Mountain Trails, Balch has initiated the AdoptA-Trail program and worked hard to lobby for the recent Walkability Bond. Currently, he is in charge of the Wheels to Meals Bike Rack Program, which is an effort to put bike racks in more places around town to make biking more convenient. According to Carol Potter, the Executive Director of Mountain Trails, they have a longstanding relationship with REI. They received a grant last year for the construction of kiosks with maps along the Rail Trail. "Mountain Trails Foundation has this incredible legacy of promoting muscle-powered outdoor recreation and bringing out the community to support their projects," REI Community Outreach Coordinator Eric Spreg said. "They stand out as an incredible success story. It can be a real effort to get volunteers out there." While the focus of the awards is on non-profits that work within the Wasatch Mountains, organizations frorr/all over the state were eligible. "For them to accept our nomination is a bigger deal than it going to me,'1 Balch said. "That Mountain Trails was received that way was a big honor." Volunteer of the Year awards were also presented to individuals at the Draper Trails Foundation, Ogden Nature Center and Bend-In-TheRiver. Grants were awarded to The Cottonwood Canyons Foundation, Trips for Kids, Volunteers for Outdoor Utah, and Nordic United. 3 SECTIONS • 52 PAGES Agendas A-8 Automotive C-19 Business B-8 Classifieds C-13 Columns A-18 Crossword C-4 Editorial A-19 Education A-12 Events Calendar C-6 Letters to the Editor A-19 Legals C-18 Movies C-4 Professional Services C-7 Restaurant Guide C-11 Sports B-1 TV Listings C-12 Weather B-2 SCOTT SMEJPARK RECORD Park City police officer Dustin Brewer helps nine-year-old Hector Mendoza select his toys. By TAYLOR EISENMAN Of the Record staff Twas the first big snow of the season Saturday, and all through Park City, not a creature was stirring, not even a ... well unless you count 85 children being escorted by a procession of police cars, sirens blaring, to Wal-Mart for the annual "Shop With A Cop" event. "It would take a lot more than that to call it off." Jim Brown, a deputy for the Wasatch County Sheriffs Department, said. Sure Santa had to come in a truck instead of a helicopter because of the weather. But he made it nonetheless. For more than 20 years, the Park City Police Department has participated in Shop With A Cop, an event that pairs police officers with needy children for a shopping spree at Wal-Mart. According to Bob Lucking, PCPD sergeant and president of the local Fraternal Order of Police, which organizes the event, donations from businesses and individuals help make the day possible. The children chosen this year were from Park City, Summit County, Heber and Wasatch County, and were recommended to participate in the event by the Boys & Girls Club, the state division of Child and Family Services, churches and victim advocates. "A lot of these kids wouldn't have anything for Christmas if they couldn't do this," said Norma Bates, whose great grandson, Mitch, was participating in the event. For Mitch's grandmother Michelle Bates, Shop With A Cop was a wonderful experience. "Since Mitch found out he was going to get to do this, he's been counting down the days," she said. "That little guy.couldn't sleep last night he was so excited. It was Jusl like Christmas Eve." Carbon monoxide sickened eight people Saturday in a Park City duplex, the Park City Fire District reports, a case that comes while Parkites are running their furnaces full blast as the coldest weather of the season settles over the area. The eight people suffered various stages of carbon-monoxide poisoning, but none of the cases is life-threatening, according to Tricia Hurd, a spokesperson for the Park City Fire District. The victims were nauseous, vomiting and complained of headaches. A child, said to be 7 or 8 years old, suffered the worst, Hurd says, with the child's awareness being affected. The child remained conscious, though. The Park City Police Department received a complaint from the 2000 block of Cooke Drive at 7:06 a.m., and initial reports indicate there was concern about a gas leak. Hurd says someone inside the duplex complained they were sick overnight. When an emergency crew arrived, they found the others were sick. Two ambulances took the eight victims to hospitals in the Salt Lake Valley. They were Please see Carbon monoxide, A-2 Park City Police Chief Lloyd Evans said the officers benefit from it more than the kids. "It takes them out of their element when they get to shop with them," he said. That was true for Park City Police Department reserve officer Doug Tangren. "This is a guaranteed 'We're happy to see you,'" he said. "It's things like this that make life worthwhile. These are the meaningful things." Tangren shopped with eight-year-old Ramon Nava who lives in ParkWest Village. As they were shopping. Nava placed the \ game Operation in his cart. At the shelf full of y Transformers, he rushed toward them, selecting one. Nava later picked out a Transformers watch, three Hot Wheels, a robotic panda, a MP3 player and the game of Connect 4. "Is that a good Christmas," Tangren asked. Nava says. "Yes." For Darwin Little, PCPD police officer, that's what makes Shop With A Cop an incredible experience. "Just to see the smile on these kids' faces, for me, it gets rid of the void of the hustle and bustle and let's us realize what Christmas is all about." Little was paired with seven-yearold Harlequin Caldwell. Sara Caldwell, Harlequin's mother, who had three children participating in Shop With A Cop ages four to eight, said that the event means a lot to her. "I'm a single mom. I work a graveyard shift," she said. "I was looking at a pretty scarce Christmas." Caldwell and her children live in Wanship. They visited the store a week Please see Shop, A-2 P. Parkite braces for war BUt father says he opposes 'immoral' operation in Iraq By PATRICK PARKINSON Of the Record staff Parkite Charles Bova was against the military draft of the 1960s. But today his youngest son sits on the verge of deployment to Iraq and a draft would provide the politicians who began the "immoral war" a reality check, the 58-yearold physician said in an interview at his Park Meadows home. "I thought we would have learned from Vietnam that war is a very serious thing and you don't go into it half-cocked," Bova said, adding that college deferments allowed him to skirt the Vietnam-era draft. "One of the problems is that the administration does not have any sons and daughters who are serving." His son, 20-year-old Chris Bova, is slated to be in Park City for Christmas. In April, Please see Dad, A-2 For snowplow crews, it was an 'excellent' performance Manager says all the streets in the city were cleared quickly and on schedule By JAY HAMBURGER Of the Record staff The City Hall official who manages snowplowing operations says his crews' performance during last weekend's snowstorm, the first of the season, was "excellent," maintaining most streets were plowed more than once by the Monday morning commute. Pace Erickson, who directs the operations for the Public Works Department, says all the city streets were plowed at least once by Monday morning, eight hours after officials say the storm ended. There have not been widespread public complaints about the snowplowing since the storm. Smv£ i = « , l O..ir» ii-vr l&SQ wvw/.par krecord.com "9 49 3 7 00 00 1 "We hit everything pretty hard. We got everything opened up," Erickson says, adding, "We had so many things opened up so quick, and we didn't fall behind." Erickson says eight workers were deployed, and they amassed about 20 hours of overtime each during the storm. On Monday and Tuesday, the crews expected to continue plowing, with plans to push the snow banks further to the sides of roads. The crews had not started hauling snow, but Erickson says that operation might start on Wednesday. He says the haul would begin on Main Street and lower Park Avenue, two streets critical to business. The snow is hauled to a spot near Quinn's Junction. On Main Street, which was busy over the weekend with the area's three mountain resorts open, Ken Davis, who leads the Main Street merchants, rated the work as "OK." He says Erickson's crews "handled it," and he is unaware of complaints from Main Street. "We got hit over the weekend, and they've got some removal to do. The street's OK," Davis says. Please see Snowplows, A-2 VISITOR BUIDE SCOTT SWEJPARK RECORD Demetrio Armendariz, part of the Public Works Department's snowremoval crew, had plenty of stairs left in Old Town to shovel on Saturday. T icket sales for local Utah residents 18 years and older will take place in person at the main box offices the weekend of Jan. 5-6, 2008. Registration is free and is divided between Park City and Salt Lake City resi> dents. Register online before this Friday, Dec. 14. Note; locals will be required to present a Utah driver^ License or - a Utah utility bill accompanied by a legal photo I.D. at the time of purchase. A*wto\ |
