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Show A-15 www.parkrecord.com WED/THURS/FRI, JULY 28-30, 2010 Supporting the arts in Park City is a picnic, literally P ark City is a year-round cultural hub thanks, in large part, to more than a dozen local nonprofit arts organizations. But this summer, it seems, they have outdone themselves, offering a nonstop schedule of gallery strolls, concerts and fairs. From Sundance Resort to Kimball Junction, the calendar is building to a crescendo that has outof-town visitors, raving about the vast selection of musical, theatrical and artistic events. But you don't have to be a tourist to partake. Sometimes local residents need a reminder to get out of their work-a-day routines and take a fresh look at their surroundings. We suggest, first of all, packing a picnic and heading to one of the ski areas for an open-air concert. Mountain Town Music, the Park City Performing Arts Foundation, Utah Opera, the Utah Symphony and the Park City Chamber Music Society all host concerts throughout town and throughout the week at a variety of POLITICO LooKSX LOT venues. Joining in this month, Sundance Resort will be reopening its outdoor stage for a production of the musical "Big River." There is an enormous palette of fine art and fun crafts too. Many local artists and others display their work Wednesday afternoons at the Farmers Market at The Canyons and on Sundays at the Silly Market on Main Street. Local galleries also have planned special strolls and receptions to introduce their featured artists and, in just over a week the core of the city will be devoted to the annual arts festival. A friend recently posted an apt quote on Facebook: ?"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." It appears that Parkites and those who are visiting don't have to go far afield to bathe themselves in culture and inspire their own sense of creativity. For a more complete listing of entertainment activities in the area, log on to www.park record.com/calendar LETTERS TO THE EDITOR locals like to scoff at tourists, they pay for our wonderful lifestyle. Traffic enforcement is very important for safety concerns, control, and timely movement. However, it is my Editor: impression that something has Reading the Park City Police changed in this town over the 22 years Blotter can sometimes be illuminat- I've been here - not for the better. ing, but it could also provide more Surely our police can come up with interesting and pertinent data. For more positive ways of getting people instance, I'd like to see how many to obey traffic laws other than having tickets are written in this city every radar units on every corner. I haven't week and in what neighborhoods. Is it been ticketed - yet. But I can see the my imagination or has the police pres- day when the sun is out, the weather ence in this town grown in the last is glorious, and suddenly Led year? Zeppelin comes on KPCW and sings There are red lights flashing every- "Stairway to Heaven." As I sing where. I especially call attention to along, a Park City police officer zaps Highway 224 where the speed limit me $300 for doing 28 in a 25 mph changes eight times between Kimball zone. Junction and Park City. I'd also like to C'mon now, lighten up! highlight Deer Valley Drive up from the traffic circle where bicyclists often pass cars doing the speed limit. I have Bruce Dennis no issue with the Park City Police Park City enforcing the traffic laws but there must be a better way that we can get the message out other than just writing a billion tickets. How friendly is it to zap a tourist who budgets $10,000 to bring the family here for vacation, and their intro- Editor: duction to Park City is a $300 ticket We sincerely thank all who conon 224? Welcome to friendly Park tributed to the success of our City! Gee, why does it surprise us annual Summer Senior Picnic held when they take their money and go to on July 6 - Whole Foods Market, Aspen next year? As much as some Having a fine time at our expense Chamber picnic basket runneth over Park City Municipal, Wasatch Audio, Right at Home Entertains, musicians Eric and Alison Samuels of the Utah Music Festival, emcee Joel Fine (with AV assistance from brother Rich Fine) and the generous businesses who donated prizes. Nearly 100 summer senior visitors gathered in City Park, enjoying a welcome from Myles Rademan, picnic lunch, music, prize drawings and trivia quiz. This annual picnic is the highlight of the Chamber/Bureau's Summer Senior Program, which hosts the many senior visitors who come to enjoy our summer season, often staying for a month or more and returning year after year. This program is a cooperative with participating lodging properties who offer special monthly rates along with participating retail stores, restaurants, services and recreation providers who offer special discounts via the senior welcome packets. Thanks to all our partners! Editor: The Friends of the Farm would like to thank the Park City community for an extremely successful "Your Barn Door is Open" 2010 at the McPolin Farm. The event on June 26th was well attended, and we hope everyone enjoyed the fantastic food, wonderful music and entertainment as beginners and experts alike square danced in the shade of the McPolin Barn. We would like to send special thanks to Kumbayah Kitchens, The Blue Sage Band, Music Taxi, Nancy Hull and the Park City Library staff for all their work in helping put on this spectacular night of food and fun. Mark your calendars for our next event, our annual Scarecrow Festival, on Saturday, September 25, from 2 to 4 p.m. See you at the white barn! Thanks again, Park City Deborah Lewis and Pat Ball Park City Chamber/Bureau Tracy Knoeller 2010 event chair They danced 'til the cows came home LETTERS POLICY • 1 The Park Record wel-; comes letters to the editor! on any subject. We ask; that the letters adhere to| the following guidelines:: They must include the; home (street) address and; telephone number of the! author. No letter will be' published under an; assumed name. Letters must not contain libelous material. Letters should be: no longer than about 300, words (about 600 words for guest editorials) and should, if possible, be typed. We reserve the right to edit letters if they; are too long of if they conj tain statements that are unnecessarily offensive or obscene. Writers are limits ed to one letter every seven days. Letters thank* ing event sponsors can list no more than 10 individuals and/or businesses. GUEST EDITORIAL Wolves: The debate is seldom rational By Wendy Beye, Writers on the Range Donald Molloy in Missoula, Coyotes seem to have no champiMont., is feeling that heat. The ons on the environmentalist side U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's of the issue, and ranchers take The wolf pot continues to boil decision to de-list wolves in coyote depredation in stride, viewin Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana, Idaho, Utah, Washing- ing it simply as a cost of doing Utah. Now, another state has been ton and Oregon before Wyoming business. But earlier, a report of a wolf added to the stew. In Oregon, pack killing four miniature horses environmentalists are protesting and chewing on an irrigation hose the piecemeal removal of wolves resulted in the pack being sumfrom the Endangered Species List, marily executed. Last year, hunters want less competition Vehicles bump off more wild Montana's Livestock Loss Reducfrom wolves, and ranchers comgame than predators do. But tion and Mitigation Board paid plain that wolves are killing their out $142,000 to ranchers who filed livestock. In eastern Oregon, I haven Y heard of any plans for wolf depredation losses - where there is only one known to eradicate cars or drivers." headline news! - while no reparabreeding wolf pack, a federal tions were made for losses from judge temporarily ^halted a kill coyotes, domestic dogs, mountain order on two of the pack's members. The Oregon Department of adopts an approved wolf manage- lions or eagles. In addition, the Fish and Wildlife had hoped the ment plan has been challenged by 56,000 sheep that died from nontargeted kill would "send a mes- Defenders of Wildlife, among predator causes went mostly unnosage to the pack to not kill livestock other groups. The stress level in ticed by the public. and change the pack's behavior." Molloy's courtroom on the day he It's obvious that wolves are not heard oral arguments was so high the only culprits here. The Meanwhile, in Montana, the Department of Fish, Wildlife and that one lawyer fainted, and the Associated Press reported that Parks announced the wolf harvest proceedings were suspended until invasiye weeds cause $415,000 in quota for the 2010 hunting season she could be revived. A decision is livestock production losses, plus would rise to 186, up from 75 last expected this fall, so the question undetermined reductions in wild year. The quota does not include of hunting quotas may become game populations each year on the increasing number of wolves moot if wolves are relisted as an Montana's Rocky Mountain Front shot for bad behavior - 145 in endangered species in all states alone. That information doesn't seem to bother either ranchers or 2009. Since the estimated number where they live or roam. Meanwhile, I continue to mar- hunters, nor has it corralled any of wolves in Montana is only 525, the state will soon see a reduction vel at our ability to ignore facts new money for weed eradication. in the wolf population if the hunt about wolves while jumping on Because many hunters remain goes as planned. When the public one bandwagon or another. A case convinced that wolves hurt huntwas asked to comment on the pro- in point: It was coyotes and noti n g success, Montana State posal to increase the total harvest, wolves that killed 23 Iambs on a University studied elk to discover 1,500 comments flooded in - a Bitterroot Valley ranch last why populations decline in some clear sign that wolves remain a hot month. The news article appeared areas and increase in others. The in only one local newspaper and findings were perhaps surprising: issue. Federal District Court Judge drew no comment from readers. Elk were more bothered by human activities - including hunting and residential activity - than by wolves. In any case, vehicles bump off more wild game than predators do. But I haven't heard of any plans to eradicate cars or drivers. I find that my sympathies are divided. In late winter, I walk daily on a lane that skirts a calving pasture on a local ranch. I've seen wolves crossing through the herd without even looking at the calves or cows; they're concentrating on pocket gophers and meadow voles for breakfast. The cows likewise ignore the wolves. The ranch manager worries that one day the wolves will sample a cute little black calf instead of their usual prey. I share his concern, but I also don't want to see another wolf killed. When I watch wolves in the wild as they go about the tough business of survival, I know that they belong here. They should never again be exterminated, as they were in the 1930s. No matter how difficult the process, I hope wildlife managers, hunters, ranchers and environmentalists find a balance so that we can continue to live together. i SEND YOUR LETTER TO: £ EDITOR@PARKRECORD.COM Iv^The Park Record Staff-} PUBUSHER Andy Bemhard 3£-K Editor Nan ChaJat-Noakeij Staff writers Jay Hamburger Pat Parkinson s^'V-' Joe Lair ?!iA''"''•••?' Andrew Kirk irk'*"" >"' Allsha Self Matthew Piper ;j4 ( Contributing writers Tom Clyde TeriOrr 'ff^p^^;.^ i * ' - * - , ^ ? . / . • •" y ' J a y M e e h a n &'»-'Y* L *'-•<' ^'••' St Larry Warren evePhi lips &^*0£0*' ' ! & & & * & ' Copy editor David Hampshire ADVERTISING Classified advertising Ashlee Thomas • Office manager Circulation manager Accounting manager Advertising director V- Adv9rt i n ' ' B sales Jennifer Lynch Lacy Brundy .Kale Fischer Valerie Spung Lori Gull Jennifer MuslaJ Erin Donnelly Pamela Graves Barbara Yarbenet,' Wendy Beye is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). She is an airplane pilot in western ;. >> --.^ Photographers Grayson West Montana who has tracked wolves t C - i ^ H ' W ^ ^N-'V ErikDaenitz since they first crossed the border Production dIractn*Matt G o ^ n between Canada and Montana in Production Scott SCTiinker the 1980s. Sarah Ely .' t Shv-J-'1-'i-^f ' , *-•>*."-s v ' Pat Hamaker - : " t ' |