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The Record's website also hosts interactive entertainment, restaurant and lodging listings, multimedia features and community Wog forums. Readers may also purchasereprintsof photos taken by The Record's award winning photographers by logging on to http://parkreconj.mycapture.com/ For I more information call 649-9014 of photoQparkrecord.com •''" Sundance wants 'focal point' Peace Corps group reunites • Continued from A-1 holding concerts there, among other possibilities to attract Parkites and people visiting for the festival. She said festival sponsors would also be involved. "It would help us create a focal point," Pearce said in an interview, adding that doing so would widen Sundance's official presence on Main Street, where films are screened at the Egyptian Theatre, Sundance concerts axe held at the Star Bar under the Music Cafe moniker and a technology center is set up in the Main Street Mall. Meanwhile, Pearce said Sundance and the owners of the Town Lift Plaza, which sits just off lower Main Street, have reached an agreement to make the plaza an official festival location. Details about activities planned there were not discussed, but Pearce said afterward the plaza would be used for hosting sponsors. Main Street draws big crowds of revelers during the festival, with the opening weekend being especially busy on the street, and corporate interests without ties to the festival frequently rent storefronts for exposure. A move by Sundance onto lower Main Street would offer their own corporate sponsors high visibility as a counter to the others on the street without sponsorship deals with the festival. The effects on traffic in Old Town if a portion of lower Main Street is closed have not been detailed. Sandy Geldhof, the executive director of the Main Street Business Alliance, a merchants group, said in an interview after the meeting traffic closures on Main Street "always have repercussions." Geldhof, who did not attend on Thursday, said she had spoken to Pearce about the idea previously. , Geldhof said she plans to talk to each of the merchants on lower Main Street She said the businesses on that part of the street could benefit, but the merchants group has not considered the idea yet. "I think ft kind of opens up the exposure the lower Main Street merchants have to the crowd," she said. SUNDANCE FUCK: FREE FOR PARKTIK Parkites will have a screening to themselves during the Sundance Film Festival in January. Festival organizers on Thursday said they plan to show a free movie for Park City residents in the Santy Auditorium at the Park City Library and Education Center. Sarah Pearce, who directs the festival operations, told the Park City Council the screening will be scheduled midweek during the festival. She did not provide details, including-what time the film will be shown, the date and how Sundance will distribute tickets. The film will be shown in one of Sundance's longstanding screening rooms. The Santy seats 448 people for Sundance screenings, according to the film festival's 2008 film, . schedule. •&$&'$?$[ Sundance offers preferential ticket-buying chances to Utah residents, but there are complaints each year of Parkites unable to obtain the prized tickets. Sundance officials said on Thursday 44 per- * cent of the festival tickets are sold nationally, 40 percent are sold to Utahns and 16 percent are allocated to filmmakers and sponsors. Meanwhile, Pearce said additional ticket packages will be available to people from Summit County in 2009. Sundance hopes to ensure ticket-buying time slots are available to each person from Summit County who wants one during a Utah-only presale, she d Kerr challenges city project fiction." In an interview afterward, Kerr said the work force housing plans for the site are Commission approval. The neighbors are worried that the counter to City Hall's desire to preserve buildings will be too tall and the project open space. She said the Snow Creek land is would be built on land that is now open best kept undeveloped. It is close to the police station and the post office, she noted. space, among other concerns. "I think we're demanding too much of Kerr on Thursday night spoke to the elected officials and the architect designing that land," Kerr said, adding, "That land is the project, taking notes on a legal pad as tired and should be left to rest." Meanwhile, Craig Elliott, the architect she listened. She asked questions about the length and width of driveways, whether designing the project, provided the elected rooms in the units could be converted into officials a preview of the blueprints. He said another bedroom and parking on the street. the houses would vary in style, and each of In one exchange, Kerr called City Hall's them will be about 1,300 square feet. The parking requirements "legal fiction." living space will be "more than adequate," Phyllis Robinson, who directs the local gov- Elliott said. He said young people and retirees might ernment's housing programs, responded, saying, "with all due respect, it's not legal be interested in buying houses. * Continued from A-1 -r>r:, - M t o D r : H - ) i i <L "ft • •• ' - l u u j -Mi -• Budget shortfalls are projected Contents of The Park Record ore copy-; right , 2004, Utah Media Inc. All rights reserved. No portion may be , reproduced in any Form without written consent of the managing editor or -. publisher. The Pork Record (USPS 378-730) ' {ISSN 0745-9483) is published twice weekly by Utah Media Inc., 1670 Bonanza Drive, Park City, Utah, ; ' 84060. Periodicals Postage Paid at ! Salt Lake City, Utah, 84199-9655 and ! at additional mailing offices. 1 Postmaster: Send address changes to • The Park Record, P.O. Box 3688, Park City, Utah, 84060. Entered as secondIclqss matter, May 25, 1977 at tfie Post Office in Park Ciry, Utah, 84060 under the Act of March 3, 1897, Subscription rates are: $42 within Summit County, $70 outside of Summit County, Utah. Subscriptions are trans-1 ferable: $5 cancellation fee. Phone ) (435) 649-9014, fax {435)649-4942 or email circulationOparkrecord.com. Published every Wednesday and Saturday.. * Continued from A-1 Van Tassel said he's optimistic since the legislature previously set aside money for this very reason. "By leaving that out (of the budget), it's not going to be as big an impact," he said. Van Tassel said he's not sure what will happen with education, but predicts that during the next legislative session increases in education funding are not going to be as large as in the past. But he said he had "a feeling they would be able to keep education whole." Johnson said she has a great concern for how the meeting might affect the entire state in regard to education and some of the programs dependent on state funding for under- represented individuals. She said she wished she knew more about the agenda. "It's like being told, 'Come to a party at my house on Saturday,' but I have no idea what to bring or what will be served," she said. In the past, special programs are sometimes the first to be cut and she's not sure what majority's intention is for the meeting, she said. The good news is that many projects already received funding in July and it can't be taken away. Johnson said she's not sure how the meeting could affect Summit County. Rep. Mel Brown from Coalville was unavailable for comment. Silly Market to end with a bang : Continued from A-1 and circus acts will be on hand to entertain visitors, organizers say. asking people to acknowledge that they've Musical performances on the main stage had 15 free Sundays with us this summer," include Brian Ernst, a one-man band with Jewels Harrison, fundraising director, 17 instruments, Celtic music by Swagger demurred. and bluegrass singer Victor Barnes. "Most other nonprofits have a ball or a New for the 2008 Oktober Silly Fest is silent auction," organizer Jaimie Atlas The Solar Saucer, a 14-foot tall mobile and added. "We're going big on the 28th until 10 fully functioning art piece by Scott p.m." Whittaker, which will be providing solar Sidewalk chalk artists, puppet shows, a power to the main stage and to the market petting coral, fire performances at sunset for the entire day. • Continued from A-1 wasn't afraid to stroll in Africa alone. "I was never afraid to even go out at night," she said. Lawrence Hunter, another group member in Park City for the reunion, described traveling overland to Freetown from Dakar, Senegal in the early '60s. "There was no fear ... A woman could have traveled anywhere safely," Hunter said. "It'd be much more dangerous today than it was way back." The capital city became a hub when the friends were assigned throughout Sierra Leone. "People from up country would come in occasionally on weekends and we would gather in big parties," former Peace Corps volunteer Doug Van Nostran said. Sipping on wine in Park City Von Nostran said he took valuable lessons home from West Africa more than 40 years ago. "They're more free-wheeling in the way they do things* We're just so uptight and everything ha* to be timed and synchronized and orchestrated - where's my iPod with my BlackBerry," Von Nostran said, adding that America is "over-organized." "I think it took me 20 years after I came back to get over the experience." Ex-Peace Corps volunteer Lawrence Hunter shows off a pin he received from the government for being one of the first 5,000 Peace Corps participants in the 1960s. A call to serve "We were a lot more naive then and Kennedy just captured our imaginations. It was like, 'Yes, let's do that, let's join the Peace Corps and go off and save the world,'" Gatewood said. ""The nation is just a lot more cynical now and the younger people are more apathetic." The self-described group of former "wild-eyed idealists" was in the Peace Corps in West Africa from 1963 to 1965. The reunion today in Park City is the group's fifth. "I think we all sold out to a certain extent," Gatewood said admitting he couldn't identify Sierra Leone on a map when called to serve. Group member Freddie Liebermann described being in Sierra Leone when she learned Kennedy had been assassinated. "They loved him," Liebermann said. Sadly, "materialism seems to have taken over politics," ex-Peace Corps volunteer Harriett Marquis said. "I think there was an idealism of a sort that took us to Sierra Leone but I think we came back and faced reality. We got jobs, we got mortgages," Marquis said. "We were privileged really to be able to go with the Peace Corps and fulfill these idealistic notions. It was an opportunity because I would have never gone trekking in Africa by myself." Gatewood added, "That's why I'm glad we did it when we did it." "Young people today are apolitical as opposed to nonpolitical. They don't think that politics is anything for them to get involved with," he lamented. SCOTT SWEJPARK RECORD Candidates are introduced • Continued from A-1 filling the important manager post. She said she is also concerned about planning those interests with the tourism-driven disputes on the East Side. "You listen and you communicate and economy in Park City. "I would try to encourage sustainable you don't impose your values on them," McMullin said about resolving the disgrowth on both sides," Pitt said. A current rift between county planners agreements. She faces Henefer Republican Grant and East Side landowners has many eastsiders demanding looser zoning codes Richins in the contest for council seat B. "We are going to make it good or make that allow them to earn money off the it bad," Richins said about the change. development of their land. But Shumway explained that the coun"This isn't that diverse of county ... We are pretty much the same," said Silver ty also needs more "open government." The third-party candidate pleaded Creek Democrat John Hahrarra'ri.0 K-i Hanrahan is campaigning for seat C with the crowd not to vote straight Republican or Democrat in November. against Republican Parkite Tom Hurd. "Around 33 percent of Summit County "[Eastsiders do] not want to become the Snyderville Basin," Hurd countered. voted straight party two years ago," Shumway said. "Each area "Vote for the perneeds to be able to son not the party." chart their own SUMMTT COUNTY COUNCIL CANDIDATES: Weinstein did not future." attend the event. His About 60 peo, '•':'• •'-."•;'1---' • S e a t A - ' '' : ' ; V : ; V . opponent, Ure, ple attended the served Summit Republican Bill Miles, ., ; meeting in Silver County for several Springs sponsored Democrat Sally Elliott years in the Utah by the Project For ••"•"•' SeatBHouse of Deeper Under•' : •' " " Republican Grant Richins, ,. standing, a nonRepresentatives. ''-'••; Democrat Claudia McMullin • profit, nonpartisan "I've worked organization. . . V •.'•.SeatC- •..- ";•,.•.;/;;. hard for tourism and also for open space," The form of . Republican Tom Hurd, Ure told audience government in Democrat John Hanrahan . ; •_ • members. "I know Summit County is what it's like to be in slated to change .'•:;••. • : • " • . : -;.K:; S e a t D - . \ - , - - > V " Republican Alison Pitt, Democrat Chris leadership." from the three-person commission to Robinson and Gary Shumway, a member And county gova five-member ernment needs more of the Constitution Party council/manager transparency, he , ' . '.' . \ '... next year and ush- ••' ;. . • ; , . - • > ; . '• S e a t E added. • Republican David Ure, : ering in a smooth "Transparency transition tops each •••-:• ' Democrat Steve Weinstein ' and open governcandidate's priority ment is the foundalist. tion [and] the thing The Summit County Council functions that everything in this room is founded on," as the legislative branch and will hire a Ure said. manager to oversee the government's execAfter the meeting Parkite Bob Winders utive duties. said he better understood positions of the *Tve seen ajot of changes and I want to candidates. be a part of the historic transition we are "I know some of them but I didn't know embarking on," Hurd said. all of them," Winders said. "I haven't made Basin Democrat Claudia McMullin decisions but I think I learned a lot insists a nationwide search is critical for tonight. It was very interesting." } BLIND DOG RESTAURANT & SUSHI BAR STEAMED WHOLE 1 POUND F MAINE LOBSTER RED POTATOES, SWEET CORN ON THE COB, BLUEBERRY COBBLER CELEBRATING A DECADE! 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