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Show A-2 : The Park Record, &' Servine Summit County since 1880 l£! ' > ~ * • . .'j!: ^ Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, January 23-26, 2010 The Park Record Consolidate offices? • By PATRICK PARKINSON HOME DELIVERY § | j NOW AVAILABLE Tho Park Record, Park City's No. 1 source for local news, opinions and advertising, is now available for home delivery in Summit, Wasatch, Salt Lake, Davis and Utah counties. Single copies are also available at 116 locations throughout Park City, Hober City, Summit County and at Murray Printing in Salt Lake City. -SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ' In Summit Counfy (home delivery) ; $42 per year (includes Sunday edition of Sail Lake Tribune) Out of Summit County (home delivery avail in Wowtch, Salt Lake, Davis, :' Weber and Utah counties, all other addresses will be mailed through the U.S. . Postal Service) $70 per year Of the Record staff ?^j • •'• , . 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Phone [435)649-9014, t fax (435) 649-4942 or * email circulation@parkrecord.com. Published every Wednesday and,. Saturday.. Hoping to save money and increase the efficiency of government, the Summit County Council is considering combining several elected offices in the County Courthouse. Councilpersons might vote Jan. 27 to combine the offices of the Summit County clerk and treasurer. They may also decide to assign the duties of the county recorder to the Office of the Summit County Assessor. For the new positions to appear on the November ballot the County Council must approve an ordinance to combine them by Feb. 1. According to County Manager Bob Jasper, consolidating the elected offices could save money by eliminating some redundant positions. By combining the offices backers of the plan say salaries would decrease. Including pay and benefits the treasurer and recorder each earn about $120,000 per year. "There may be some immediate cost savings," said Brian Bellamy, director of human resources for Summit County. Still, Summit County Assessor Barbara Kresser said mixing the duties of her office with those of the Summit County recorder would be a mistake. State law says anyone who wants to serve as assessor in Summit County must be a licensed appraiser in Utah, Kresser explained, which requires passing an exam and attending about 150 hours of schooling. By combining the offices "you are limiting the field of candidates and I think you're doing an injustice to the recorder's side," Kresser said, adding that there are no requirements for serving as recorder. Kresser said she • Continued from A-1 Punk rock meets Islam see that I don't have a Mohawk. I'm a guy in a sweater." But Yusef, an engineering student, discovers lots about himself when he moves into a building off campus. During the day the house doubles as a mosque. At night it's a site for raucous punk parties. And it is a massive understatement to call Yusef's Islamic roommates unorthodox.-"That character is pretty much the average Joe," Zalira explains. "We're all willing to give everyone a chance and I think Yusef not running out of that house after he figured out what was going on, it showed that he wanted to see different expressions of what it is to be an American Muslim." Growing up Muslim in America was difficult after the Sept. 11 attacks, he said. "Some people had to change their name from Jihad to Jim. That's the reality," Zahra said. "A lot of these people were sort of pushed to another place because of their background and what people linked them to being." "The Taqwacores" was published about three years after the attacks. "When I finished the book I felt really good about me being an American Muslim and my identity," Zahra said. "These issues that barrage us every day in the media and on the news, as an American Muslim you have to take these on and deal with them." has not decided whether she will campaign for another term in 2010. Meanwhile, Summit County Recorder Alan Spriggs said he intends to campaign this year even if the offices are combined. Combining the work of the recorder and the assessor makes sense, he said, adding that his office maintains all land records for the county. "Could we cut expenses? I think we probably could," Spriggs said about consolidating the offices. TVeasurer-Clerk Supporters say combining the duties of the treasurer and the clerk makes sense this year since incumbent Summit County Treasurer Glen Thompson says he will retire in 2010. When reached Thursday Thompson said he is not opposed to councilpersons consolidating the offices. Summit County Clerk Kent Jones said he will run campaign this year regardless of whether the offices are combined. However, with the treasurer responsible for investing the county's available cash, haphazardly assigning that important job to the county clerk would be a mistake, said Snyderville Basin resident Henry Glasheen, an investment adviser who chairs the Summit County Republican Party. "You're inviting the notion that this is somehow for pushing paper," Glasheen told councilpersons in a meeting Wednesday at Kimball Junction. "The county treasurer and their investment adviser have an enormous amount of latitude." The discussion about consolidating the elected offices began last summer. Officials have experimented with combining offices in most of the counties in Utah. For its Islamic actors, "The Taqwacores" was an opportunity to portray somebody besides terrorists. "They saw this as an opportunity for not just playing a dynamic colorful character, but rather putting a piece of themselves into the character," Zahra said. Still, some Muslims who see the film may call it "haram," an Arabic word meaning forbidden. "But at the same time I really feel just as many people are going to champion it and say that it is not haram," Zahra said. "When you are a kid growing up as a Muslim, I remember specifically there was this book that I found at an Islamic convention and it was called, "The Haram List." Pretty much every single food that I liked was haram. Bubblicious, Starburst, even those pretzels with the cheese in them." Actress Noureen DeWulf plays Rabeya in the film and said she appreciated acting in such a controversial role. She wears a Muslim burka throughout most of the movie partly as a satirical statement about Islamic society. "I just love the idea of making your whole life a testament to the very thing you oppose," DeWulf said about the character. "It's not easy being a Muslim woman in this country post 9/11 and everybody has the right and the ability to create who they are." "People like to associate Muslims with a certain type of behavior and that is usually not punk rock behavior," she said. "The Taqwacores" screens Jan. 24 at 5:30 p.m. at Prospector Square. The film also screens at Holiday Village Jan. 26 at 11 a.m., Jan. 28 at 11 p.m., Jan. 29 at noon and Jan. 30 at 3:30 p.m. • Continued from A-1 Sundance returns to rebel roots the festival is focusing its spotlight right where it's meant to be: on the filmmakers. What he hopes people will take from the festival, Redford said, is not the escapades of people like Paris Hilton, but the fresh ideas and visions that come from the films. As for the next decade, Redford said he couldn't predict the direction of independent filmmaking but is confident in its future. "My belief is that independent film will always • Continued from A-1 Snowstorms line up Drive and Park Avenue between 9th Street and 10th Street to load the snow into dump trucks for the haul out of the city. The workers were scheduled to start hauling the snow from Main Street at 2 a.m. on Saturday. "We're trying to get ahead of it,: • Continued from A-1 Artsy graffiti discovered removed the graffiti on the shed on Wednesday, Rick Ryan, a Police Department captain, said. The appearance of the graffiti came as Sundance officials announced that Banksy would show his "Exit Through the Gift Shop" during the festival, billed as his first feature film. Its first screening is scheduled at 8:30 p.m. on Sunday at the Park City Library and Education Center. The name of the film for that time slot and the filmmaker had been guarded. Ryan said the Police Department was made aware that Banksy might have a film in the festival a month ago. But he also said the police had been told Banksy copycats might come to Park City at the same time. Sundance officials told the Police Department before the festival Banksy had pledged not to put up graffiti while he was in Park City, according to Ryan. "At this point we don't know who is responsible. We will not attribute it to Banksy unless we have evidence specific to him being the one responsible," Ryan said. Ryan said people caught putting up graffiti are typically charged with criminal mischief. The seriousness of the charge depends on the cost of the cleanup. The graffiti was the buzzedabout topic on Wednesday and Thursday as Sundance organizers, corporate interests and festivalgoers were preparing for the Thursday evening opening of survive," he said. "How it's treated' is an evanescent thing. It's alwaysbeen in a battleground," ". Redford echoed programmingdirector Trevor Groth's sentiments about the new decade initiating a! golden age for independent film.". With the new opportunities for self-', distribution, "I think it's a very optimistic time, especially for independent filmmakers," he said. And as long as the festival is able to create opportunities that bring filmmakers and audiences together, "That's a good reason to keep going," Redford said. With that, the 2010 Sundance Film Festival was underway, with more than 100 feature films and 70 short films from 41 different countries slated to screen over the next week. For more information about the festival, visit www.parkrecord.com/filmfestivalweek2010 and http://festival.sundance.org/2010. keep roads as wide as we can," Robinson said. In Prospector midmorning Friday, Mike Shannon, a delivery driver for Mount Olympus Waters, Inc., was amid what he described as a "very challenging" route as he distributed the water. He said he encountered pedestrians in the road on streets like Kearns Boulevard and had to switch lanes to avoid them. Sidewinder Drive was also difficult to navigate on Friday, he said. "A lot of people walking on the streets . . . therefore being dangerously close to the vehicle," Shannon said. Sundance. There was lots of chatter on the Internet about the possibility Banksy made the pieces as well. People promoting Sundance films or movies in other festivals running at the same time have long employed unorthodox techniques to create buzz for their films, but the amount of publicity that Banksy and his film are receiving as a result of the graffiti is unusual. At Java Cow, Lucia Bisbee, the manager, said she discovered the graffiti on Tuesday morning as she arrived at work at around 7 a.m. She said Java Cow did not grant anyone permission to put the graffiti on the building. The piece was painted onto a south-facing wallShe said she was slightly disappoint-' ed at first because Java Cow did not have information about the graffiti, but the coffee shop is considering keeping the graffiti on the building. The idea of keeping the piece had not been thoroughly discussed by Thursday, though, Bisbee said. "At first, I knew it was something Sundance did. My first reaction was it's Sundance," Bisbee said. Bisbee said the graffiti on the Java Cow building quickly received lots of coverage in the media, and people familiar with Banksy's work have started calling Java Cow asking that the piece be kept. The piece on the Java Cow building has also caught the attention of many passers-by who are stopping and taking pictures of the graffiti, sometimes with someone posing with the piece. At midday on Thursday, Danielle Cubis, who is from Melbourne, Australia, snapped a photo of the graffiti at Java Cow, saying she has seen pieces attributed to Banksy in Melbourne. "I just know he's a famous graffiti artist," Cubis said. "Who knows how long that piece will last?" BUY/TRADE • APPRAISALS * CONSULTATIONS DIRECT IMPORTEROF THE WORLD'S FINEST RUGS EXPERT RESTORATION. 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