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Show SCENE, C-1 PICTURES ARE WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS: ART SHOW WILL HELP BRING BOOKS TO ORPHANS 1, B-1 5 EDUCATION, B-7 FOR LOCAL CLUBS, MEETINGS AND UPCOMING EVENTS PARK CITY, UTAH The Park Record. W W W . P A R K R E C O R D . C O M Park City Arts Fest goes Y2-5K VOL. 128 «NO. 40 50(5 Wed/Thurs/Fri,June 25-27,2008 Serving Summit County since 1880 Project on Landmark Drive will snarl summer commutes Social networking on the web, new footrace for 2008 BY PATRICK PARKINSON Of the Record staff By GREG MARSHALL Of the Record staff Organizers of the Park City Arts Festival say they need 200 volunteers to sell tickets, greet visitors and help artists set up booths. The Arts Festival takes place Aug. 1 to Aug. 3 and features 225 sculptors, jewelry makers, painters, photographers and craftsmen. New this year is an Arts Fest 5K on Aug. 2 at 8 a.m. The race starts and ends at the Kimball Art Center and includes the Poison Creek and Rail Trails. Participants receive T-shirts and admission into Saturday's festivities. Kimball intern Erik Daenitz came up with the idea of a 5K to attract a younger, more outdoorsy crowd to the Arts Festival. "Park City is a really active community," he said, "and we thought if we could just get some of the younger crowd and people who are active we would be able to remind people of what's going on." Daenitz graduated from Park City High School in 2005 and is entering his senior year at the University of Utah. The college student and a few of his coworkers encouraged the Kimball to use social networking Web sites such as The Facebook and MySpace to get the word out about exhibitions, classes, gallery strolls and the arts fest. Early signs of the Kimball's foray into the web have been promising, organizers say. "We have a younger demographic with our presence on Facebook and with the 5K," Julie Hooker Baker, a representative of the Kimball, said. Daenitz estimated that the Kimball Art Center group on Facebook has 90 members and gets a few new members every week. Volunteers can sign up for the arts festival and 5K at www.kimball-art.org or by logging onto Facebook. Erin Linder oversees exhibitions at the Kimball and helps select more than 200 artists from a pool of 929 applicants for the arts festival. "Our first priority is just to attract a high caliber of artists who are masters of their craft," Linder explained. She said switching to an online application for the 2008 festival increased the number of applicants dramatically. "They're from all over the U.S.," she said. "Half are from out of state. We've just continued to build our reputation. A lot comes down to word of mouth." Organizers expect 40,000 visitors to attend this year's Arts Festival. Tickets for adults are $8 for one day and $10 for two days. Children 10 and under attend for free and locals get free admission from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 1. Please see Arts Fest A-2 3 SECTIONS • 50 PAGES Agendas A-10 Classifieds C-13 Columns A-12 Crossword C-4 Editorial A-13 Education B-7 Events Calendar C-6 Letters to the Editor A-13 Legals C-20 Movies , C-4 Professional Services C-8 Restaurant Guide B-16 Sports B-1 TV Listings C-12 Weather B-2 Biz owners brace for construction Something to savor SCOTT $\NE/PARK RECORD Hundreds gathered on Main Street Friday evening to dine at tables provided by different Main Street restaurants during the first day of the Park City Jaz7 Foundation's annual fundralslng event, Savor the Summit. Major construction on Landmark Drive begins after the Fourth of July. Crews will install a roundabout west of the Sheldon Richins Building and realign the road at Kimball Junction through the existing Wal-Mart parking lot. The new stretch of road will connect to the existing Landmark Drive northwest of Arby's near the Best Western hotel. Arby's customers will still use the old Landmark Drive, which will be left in front of the store, to access the restaurant. But Arby's owner Rose Weixler says rerouting Landmark Drive through a roundabout will impact her business. "I would leave it the way it is," Weixler said. "Sometimes they make changes and they are worse than the way it was before. Not everything that city planners do is an improvement." But the Summit County Commission decided to proceed with the project even when the lowest bid from contractors was about 36 percent higher than traffic engineers expected. "We made our best guess. We were wrong," County Engineer Derrick Radke said. The county will not cut corners on lighting and Please see Biz, A-2 Vice-presidential nominee owns Deer Valley condo Vegas odds maker touts his 'freedom agenda' By PATRICK PARKINSON Of the Record staff A Vegas odds maker with a home in Deer Valley has a 25-to-l chance of becoming the vice president of the United States, betters in England say. "You could call it a long shot," replied the candidate, Wayne Allyn Root, in an interview Monday at his Deer Valley vacation home. "We're an underdog." The Libertarian Party picked Root to campaign alongside presidential nominee Bob Barr at its convention in Denver in May. "I'm sure we will emerge here with the strongest ticket in the history of the Libertarian Party," said Barr in his victory speech. Root said he became Barr's running mate when six rounds of convention voting determined he would not be chosen to run for president. The son of a butcher, Root owns WinningEDGE International, which determines odds for people who gamble on sporting events. "The more government does, the less happy citizens are in every country in the world," he said. "It's getting more and more big brother and nanny state every day. I want to fight against that." He insists the Libertarian ticket could ruin the race for Republicans not convinced their presidential nominee John McCain is conservative enough. "Our plan is win, period," Root said. He expects more Republicans than Democrats to defect to his party on Election Day. "Barry Goldwater-type, Ronald Reagan-type Republicans don't like John McCain," Root said. "As a Libertarian, I am fiscally right and socially left. We have a lot in common with both parties." The Libertarian Party formed in the 1970s as an alternative to the two major political parties. "They're both bribing the electorate. Democrats bribe trial lawyers, public teachers unions and they bribe the poor to vote for them," Root said. "Republicans bribe the rich, they bribe pharmaceutical companies and they bribe military contractors." Root touts himself as the first small businessperson on any presidential ticket and criticized politicians for not tapPlease see Nominee A-2 Power outages crippling Tuesday blackouts leave 900 customers without electricity for hours By JAY HAMBURGER Of the Record staff Power outages struck parts of Prospector through much of the workday Tuesday, leaving hundreds of customers in the dark for hours and interrupting business at some places in the busy commercial district. A spokeswoman for Rocky Mountain Power said the outages started before 9 a.m. Power then went on and off several times through the day. Margaret Oler, the spokesperson, said the first outage was reported at 8:38 a.m., when 122 customers were affected. She said part of a transformer failed, but it was not immediately clear where the transformer is located. The outage expanded at 9:49 a.m., leaving 900 customers without power. Oler said repair crews intentionally turned off power to the additional cus- ftuk Record U Cttinrj limit ISSO 9493700001 7 tomers to allow the workers to repair the transformer. Power was restored at 12:23 p.m., but it went out again four minutes later. The power stayed off through the afternoon for 395 customers. Power was restored at 3:37 p.m. The Park City Police Department said numerous alarms were triggered during the outage. Darwin Little, a department sergeant, said the number was "more than normal," but he did not have precise figures by 4 p.m. Little said it is common for alarms to go zff during power outages. City Hall offices on Iron Horse Drive lost power during the early out age, with the building housing the Planning, Building, Engineering and Finance offices dark until about noon. At Taco Maker, a fast-food restaurant on Bonanza Drive, the manager reported the restaurant probably lost $3,000 in sales on Tuesday. The outages struck during the busy lunch rush. "When we don't have electricity, we can't operate. Nothing works," Lloyd Gonzales, the manager, said in the Please see Outages, A-2 VISITOR _ T GUIDE » SCOTT SINE/fl4flK RECORD Wayne Allyn Root speaks In an Interview at his home at The Chateaux In Deer Valley. He Is the vice-presidential nominee for the Libertarian Party. The fabric of our nation DAVID RYDEFVPARK RECORD Polling place volunteer Mirla Homer (right) came prepared to knit during a slow day at the polls on Tuesday at Treasure Mountain International School. Fellow volunteers Gale Bace (left) and Lane Taylor waft with her. Results from the primary election will be available at parkrecord.com, as they become available. he National Mountain Bike Race Series, also known as NMBS, is being held at Deer Valley this weekend, with events from Friday, June 27 to Sunday, June 29. Events include cross country, downhill, super D, dual slalom, short track and a kid's race. Visit mtbnationals.com for registration information and an event schedule. |