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Show Sat/Sun/Mon>Tues, April 24-27, 2010 The Park Record A-3 CITY BEAT CiTY EDITOR: Jay Hamburger 649-90I4 ext.l 11 cicynews@parkrecord.com Time for new asphalt According to the information provided on the Web site, several high-traffic streets are scheduled to receive overlays of asphalt. They include: • Park Avenue from approximately the 1300 block to 10th Street, the longest stretch of road on the 2010 By JAY HAMBURGER schedule. Of the Record staff • Sidewinder Drive from S.R. 248 to Gold Dust Lane • Meadows Drive between The Park City Public Works American Saddler Drive and Department is preparing to Crestline Drive hire a firm to conduct regular • Heber Avenue between maintenance to a group of Park Avenue and Swede Alley. roads inside the city, including The Guardsman putting down slurry seals and Connection road is also schedoverlaying some streets with uled to have an overlay put new asphalt. down. The Heber Avenue work Similar work is typically done on a consistent schedule, could prove tricky for people with different roads being heading to and from Main worked on based on their con- Street. The road is one of the dition. City Hall has posted a key access points for the description of the anticipated street. work in 2010 on its Web site. Meanwhile, slurry seals are Bids are due April 26. slated for roads like Royal Information City Hall posted Street close to Centennial on the site indicates officials Circle, Silver King Drive expect the work to cost between Empire Avenue and approximately $604,000. the Glenwood Cemetery and Public Works lists the roads slated for upgrades in 2010 Aspen Springs Drive. The parking lot outside the Park City Library and Education Center is also scheduled to receive a slurry seal. Trails that City Hall plans to perform maintenance on include the City Park trail between the Old Town transit center and the City Park tunnel two sections of trail in Park Meadows and the trail along McLeod Creek between Snow Creek Drive and Saddle View Way. The information indicates the work must take place between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. City Hall will prohibit work on the streets Aug. 6-8, the dates of the Park City Kimball Arts Festival. The festival is normally one of the busiest weekends of the year in the city. The Public Works Department rotates work each year between different streets. There are typically frequent but short traffic delays during the work. The Park City Council will eventually decide which firm to hire for the work. Woman lost $5,500 in Paris Debit card used to loot bank account, the police told By JAY HAMBURGER Of the Record staff A Park Meadows woman claims someone fraudulently used her debit card while she was visiting Paris, the Park City Police Department said, indicating that $5,500 was removed from her account while she was in France s capital city. The police received the complaint from the person just before noon on April 15. Rick Ryan, a Police Department captain, said the woman said she used the debit card in a cash machine in Paris on March 29. On April 12, Ryan said, she noticed there had been a transaction made on the debit card that was not hers. The captain said the $5,500 was withdrawn from the woman's account over several days in Paris. Ryan said the locations in Paris where the money was removed from the account were not immediately clear, and the Police Department was unsure whether the debit card was used to take out money or purchase merchandise. The Police Department provided the woman a report to forward to her credit union explaining the situation in Paris. People who suspect they are victims of similar sorts of losses typically are instructed to file a police report. Ryan said people traveling abroad should be cautious with their debit and credit cards just as they would be while they are in their home country. The American Bankers Association, an industry group, suggests people protect their bank cards. Precautions the group lists include: • Keeping the cards in a safe place, in a similar fashion as cash, checks and credit cards are stored. • Ensuring that nobody has access to the bank card expect the holder and immediately contacting the bank when a card is stolen or lost. • Guarding the personal identification number, often called the PIN number, including not writing it down on the bank card itself. The association says people should take receipts and transaction records with them when they leave a cash machine and shield the cash machines keyboard while the PIN number is entered. The Police Department occasionally receives complaints that bank cards have been used without authorization, but it is uncommon for the local police to log a case in which the victim claims the activity occurred abroad. Construction ticks upward By JAY HAMBURGER Of the Record staff Park City's construction industry in March enjoyed its best month of 2010, City Hall's Building Department reported, indicating that alterations and additions to exist- ing structures pushed up the month-end tally. According to the Building Department, 41 permits valued at a combined $2.8 million were issued in March. The value topped the total of the January and February figures put together. Alterations and additions accounted for more than half of the monthly total, combin- ing for approximately $1.5 million, the Building Department said. The department, meanwhile, issued two permits for houses. They are valued at $1.2 million. Other permits issued in March included relocations or demolitions and signs, the department said. YEARS % DISCOUNT OF GREAT ON ALL DINNER LOCAL SUPPORT ENTREES! Please mention this ad to your server. 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