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Show ..CALENDAR SCENE/Cl SHARE YOUR EVENT: GO TO WWW.PARKRECORD.COM/ EVENTSUBMISSIONFORM & YEARS LATER, BIKERS BRANCH OUT INTO MANY LIFESTYLES BUSINESS, A-7 BUILDING-SUPPLY COSTS ARE DOWN,- SO IS BUILDING The PARK CITY, UTAH LARRY WARREN WANDERS WYOMING'S WIND RIVER RANGE Park Record. w A Serving Summit County since 1880 Fireworks allowed on the Fourth COLUMNS, A-l 8 R D . C O M R VOL. 129 • NO. 41 Wed/Thurs, July 1-2, 2009 500 No, Basin dwellers, you can't Slip sliding away Be cautious as hillsides dry, fire Two have inquired about mayoral bids warden warns By JAY HAMBURGER Of the Record staff By PATRICK PARKINSON Of the Record staff Fireworks are for sale in the Park City area despite woods that are primed to burn. Parkites may not purchase or launch aerial fireworks, which are prohibited by state law. But the ones sold in Utah can travel about 10 feet in any direction when lit. In the past, elected officials in Summit County have banned the sale of even those fireworks that are legal in the state. "We haven't had any recommendation this year from our fire warden or sheriff that they would like I to see us do something," Summit County Councilwoman Sally Elliott said. "Without a recommendation, I kind of doubt, that we would do any sweeping sort of change." The County Council has not discussed a ban this year, she said. "With all the rain we've had the fuels will be growing, but I doubt that we will [ban fireworks] this year," Elliott said. Light snakes in the gutter; let kids hold sparklers; but remember that bringing more spectaculaf Roman candles, bottle rockets and lady fingers into Utah from neighboring Wyoming is a crime, Summit County Fire Warden Bryce Boyer said. "It's not so much that we go and confiscate them," Boyer said. "We typically see the ones that are 20, 30 or 40 feet in the air. So we just kind of watch that area and wait for the smoke to start." State law allows stores to sell safer class C fireworks for three days before and after New Year's Day, Chinese New Year, July 4 and July 24. Boyer says about a third of the calls he receives each summer are fireworks related. "With this hot weather, there are a lot of dead grasses underneath the green that can ignite," Boyer said. "And even a green field will burn." Despite lower wildfire danger than in the past, the Please see Fireworks, A-2 3 SECTIONS • 48 PAGES Basin ess : Classifieds Columns ..A-7 C-8 A-18 Editorial Events Calendar Legals Letters to the Editor iMovies.... 'Restaurant Guide A-19 C-6 C-11 A-15 C-4 A-11 ; Sports B-1 Scene Weather C-1 . B-2 t - ! .. .. . I DAVID RYDER/PARK RECORD Emily Manilla, 3, flies out of the slide at the Racquet Club's pool on Monday to her waiting mom, Christy. With highs surpassing 80 degrees this week, it appears that summer has finally arrived. Eastsiders celebrate 4th Campgrounds at state parks are already full By PATRICK PARKINSON Of the Record staff On Saturday, Kamas resident Tom Snyder will think about his father who fought in the Pacific in World War II. "He was on a ship when they bombed Japan," Snyder said. "He was there, and he remembered actually diving off a ship to save one of his comrades who was injured. He put his own life on the line to save a buddy." Snyder's father died about 18 years ago. "We better appreciate what our ancestors did for us so we can live how we live today," Snyder said. "Americans are spoiled and We take it for granted." Snyder helps host a pig roast each Fourth of July in Francis to remember America's military veterans. "The true meaning behind it, I think we have really lost," Snyder said about the patriotic holiday. "It's not just another big celebration where we get the day off." Everyone is invited to the dinner, which begins on 1000 East at about 4 p.m. "It's just a big feast. Usually we get somewhere between 100 to 200 people," Snyder said. "We might not know them personally, but bring them. We don't care." Meanwhile, weekend warriors driving to the Uinta Mountains flocked Tuesday into Weller Recreation in Kamas. "We get a lot of people who have cabins up Weber Canyon who have ATVs and motorcycles," said Mike Sanderson, parts manager at Weller Recreation. Many customers are off work the whole week, he explained. "With the holiday on Saturday, most people have Friday off, and a lot of them are just incorporating that right in and taking the whole week," Sanderson said. "It makes me wonder if anybody has a job sometimes." But the economic downturn forced some families to rethink vacation plans, he said. "Maybe their vacation before would have been out of state and now they're saying, 'Let's stay home and just go to the cabin,'" Sanderson said. Julie Blazzard Duke said July 4 is her favorite holiday. "It's better than Christmas," Blazzard Duke said Tuesday. Historically, the Blazzard name is synonymous with logging in eastern Summit County. "Our family always has a Fourth of July chicken fry usually Please see Fourth, A-2 When the filing window opens on Wednesday for City Hall's elections, a huge bloc of people in the Park City area will not be eligible to mount a campaign for the mayor's office and two Park City Council seats on this year's ballot. They live in the unincorporated Snyderville Basin, the huge swath of the West Side of Summit County that borders Park City. People who live in the Basin generally have postal addresses listing them as living in Park City, and they typically call themselves Parkites, but the area does not fall within the municipal boundaries of Park City. Cindy LoPiccolo, who is City Hall's elections official, said she has received two inquiries from Basin people in the past few months about potential mayoral campaigns. She informed them of the residency requirements. One of them stopped by her office and the other called her. LoPiccolo declined to identify them or disclose the Basin neighborhood where they live. "They were honest people that were, not concerned, but wanting to be a part of the community and government," LoPiccolo said. "Sometimes they get confused where the Park City limits are." There have been misunderstandings for years about where the Park City limits end, and some people in the Basin are under the impression they live inside Park City. In 2008, as an example, a man who lives in the Silver Summit neighborhood of the Basin applied for a position on the Park City Planning Commission assuming he lived inside Park City. He was not eligible to serve on the panel, though, since he lived outside the city limits. Please see Basin, A-2 Ditched SUV pushed down a mountainside Owner had reported it stolen By JAY HAMBURGER Of the Record staff Someone rolled a Chevy TrailBlazer down a mountainside in the rugged Guardsman Pass area south of Park City early Monday morning, the authorities said, dramatically ditching the sport utility vehicle as the owner, a Salt Lake City woman, reported it stolen. 8 94937 00001 l The white Trailblazer was found right-side up at the bottom of a steep, rocky slope off the Guardsman Pass road that connects Park City with Big Cottonwood Canyon. It stopped between 300 and 500 feet below the road, close to a stand of trees. It was found in Wasatch County, about 200 yards from the Salt Lake County line. Investigators said nobody was inside the vehicle when it went off the road. A medical helicopter and law enforcement officers searched the surrounding terrain for victims, but they did not find anybody injured in the wreck. Travis Jensen, a Wasatch County Sheriff's Office deputy who responded, said the authorities received a report of the vehicle at 6:06 a.m. from a passing driver. He said the Trailblazer rolled at least one time before it came to rest. No blood was found to indicate somebody was inside when it crashed. Jensen said it appears the vehicle was intentionally pushed off the edge of the road. "There was nobody at the scene. There were no witnesses," Jensen said. Please see Ditched, A-2 LET'S RODEO DAVID RYDEH/PARK RECORD State trooper Trent Percy works with Park City Towing's Roy Kenter and Joe Cole to recover the vehicle Monday. The 74th Annual Oakley Rodeo & 4th of July Celebration is July ! - 4. It features a professional Rodeo, horse shows, barbequcs, and more. The rodeo starts each night at 8 p.m. with a fireworks display to follow. Tickets are $15 and often sell out. |