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Show vIE, O l PICK A DATE UPCOMING CHILDREN'S FAIR FEATURES GAMES, ACTIVITIES AND . . . LIZARDS BE READY TO SHARE THE ROAD WITH MORE THAN TOO PEOPLE ON BICYCLES I COLUMNS, A - l 4 ROOSEVELT, NIXON: OUR GREATEST 'GREEN' PRESIDENTS? The PARK CITY, UTAH POST YOUR EVENT ON: WWW.PARKRECORD.COM/ EVENTSUBMISSIONFORM BUSINESS, A - 7 SMITH'S WANTS TO OFFER MORE SPACE FOR ITS SHOPPERS Park Record. W W W . P c o R K R E C O R Wed/Thurs/Fri, June 1-3, 2011 Serving Summit County since 1880 VOL. 131 • NO. 33 World War II vet still has wings ABBQ you can bark at SoCal trip slated in studio talks County leaders will join City Hall officials to learn more about Raleigh Studios Money raised will go to the Friends of Animals BY JAY HAMBURGER Of the Record staff NAN CHALAT-NOAKER/fW/Wf RECORD Park City resident Max Miller was one of several World War II veterans honored by the Utah Wing of the Commemorative Air Force at the Heber Aero Museum on Saturday. Miller served as a U.S. Army Air Corps sergeant pilot in the fiercely contested Pacific Theater during the war and was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross. After a ceremony for the veterans, Miller climbed aboard one of the museum's vintage aircraft, a Beechcraft C-45 Expeditor, just like the one he flew above New Guinea. TYLER QOmPARK RECORD Friends of Animals Utah executive director Claudia McMullin, left, and Barking Board president Hailey Whipple discuss options for the upcoming Barking BBQ. Fraud cases drop sharply dropped from the 99 reported in 2009 and Following two-year spike, police plaints the 90 that were filed in 2008. report does not detail the nature of the say the number of new reports fraudThereports. The cases were initially filed under the fraud category, and are tallied as such in the started to ease in 2010 annual crime report, but they later might have been BYSC0TTIWASAK1 Of the Record staff Appetites are in order when the Barking Board presents the Barking BBQ at the Friends of Animals Utah Rescue and Rehabilitation Ranch on Saturday. June 4. Hamburgers, hot dogs and bratwurst will be on the menu, as well as games, ranch tours, jazz music by Treasure Mountain International School students and a silent auction. The money raised will benefit FOA. This is the first event presented by the Barking Board, which is comprised of Treasure Mountain International School leadership class students, said teacher Julie Hooker. "The leadership class has visited various nonprofit organizations and learned the what the purposes of an advisory board is in Park City and Summit County," Hooker said. "In years past, the class was run as the student council and I was fortunate to be drop kicked into advising it." Hooker found she couldn't teach leadership, because the kids were too busy making posters and trying to convince people to do well on their state core tests. So she took it upon herself to create the leadership class and its curriculum. "The class gives students an opportunity to get to know our city, our county and community non-profits and understand how leadership BY JAY HAMBURGER Of the Record staff The spike in the number of fraud complaints reported to the Park City Police Department during the recession eased slightly in 2010, the department said in its annual crime report, but the caseload remained significantly higher last year than it was in the years before the economic turmoil. The Police Department last year fielded 67 complaints about some sort of fraud, an average of more than one every week. The total was the lowest since the 46 that were reported in 2007. The 67 com- They don }t want beavers to be killed in Park City area BY SARAH MOFFITT Of the Record staff 3 SECTIONS • 38 PAGES Restaurant Guide A-7 C-7 A-l 4 .....A-15 C-6 C-9 A-15 C-4 B-1 C-1 [Weather B-2 [ NAN CHALAT-NOAKER/PAffK RECORD South Summit High School seniors Brayden Powers and Levi Thompson acknowledge their fans as they enter Wildcat Stadium Thursday for graduation ceremonies. Please see page C-5 for additional photos of the ceremony. A ISMediaNews Group NEWSPAPER 9493700001 7 Please see Studio, A-2 Rob Karz has been driving past the beaver trap signs for three years. Finally unable to stand the thought of the animals being killed any longer, he has started a campaign to stop the lethal trapping of beavers in the Park City and Synderville Basin area, devoting hours to finding out how the beavers and neighbors can live in peace. Last year, when Karz looked into the beaver trappings, he found that the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources only had resources in place for lethal trapping. In June of 2010, the Utah Beaver Management plan came out, allowing for live trapping and relocation as a means of dealing with beavers who were threatening property. But. so far, all the traps in the Park City area continue to be lethal. Karz thinks that lethal trapping is too desperate of a measure for a keystone species like the beaver and there are many other solutions that should be tried before killing them. "There is a company that makes devices which can make it so ponds are unsuitable for beavers, they also have wire cages you can put around trees and gritty paint, both of which deter beavers from chewing down trees on people's property," said Karz. The lethal beaver traps that have been set around the McLeod Creek Trail subdivision, Crestview, Ridgeview and Old Ranch Road are a response to what some residents call a major problem. One Silver Spring resident whose property abuts McLeod Creek complained, of being so tormented by the beavers that he finally got a permit to trap them himself. "I am concerned mostly with the fact that they are VISITOR 6UIDE A-11 Sports \ Scene Please see Fraud, A-2 Lethal traps spur the critics A final hurrah Please see Barbecue, A-2 Business Classifieds Columns Editorial Events Calendar Legal* Letters to the Editor Movies reclassified or have been found unsubstantiated, the police caution. Police Chief Wade Carpenter said it is typical for there to be an increase in fraud complaints during down economic times, a reason for the spike in 2009 and 2008. He said many of the cases reported as fraud in 2009 and 2008 - some involving the lodging industry - turned out to be civil disputes instead of criminal actions. The police chief said many of the fraud complaints filed in 2010 were within one of several categories, including: • credit cards • people paying deposits for bogus lodging • embezzlement at businesses A group of City Hall and County Courthouse officials is scheduled to visit Southern California this week for meetings with executives from the film studio interested in opening a facility in the Park City area. There have been discussions about situating Raleigh Studios in a private-sector development at Quinn's Junction, a location that has been worrisome to local leaders. The trip to Southern California will be the first chance City Hall officials have had to talk to people from Raleigh Studios. Park City Manager Tom Bakaly, one of the Park City officials scheduled to travel this week, said the group will visit the company's facilities in Los Angeles and Hollywood. Others from City Hall scheduled to attend were Mayor Dana Williams, City Councilman Alex Butwinski and Diane Foster, who handles the local government's environmental programs. The County Courthouse, meanwhile, is sending Summit County Council chairman Chris Robinson and Bob Jasper, who is the county manager. The group was scheduled to leave for Southern California on Wednesday and return on Thursday. Development ideas on the Quinn's Junction land have long been disputed, and the idea to build a Raleigh Studios facility at the site was unexpected. The land is just outside the Park City limits in unincorporated Summit County. The Raleigh Studios facility does not hold a Produce, straight from the farm itself being lethaliy trapped," said Karz. "I understand the city's position and their need to protect private property however I think that it's worth trying some of the methods proposed and try a non-lethal alternative." According to Craig Clyde, Wildlife Program Manager for the Central Region with the Utah Department of Wildlife, both killing and relocation are only temporary fixes since beavers reproduce and spread out quickly. "Once one family is moved from a location, another will move in. If there is a stream, sooner or later there will be beavers," said Clyde. "Beavers do lots of good things, but there are a lot of them and lethaliy trapping them helps control the population." Live trapping beavers and relocating them is not a suitable solution according to Clyde, it increases the spread of beavers and makes them someone else's problem. Karz would like to try a Please see Lethal, A-2 The 201 ] Park City Farmers Market will hold a grand opening on Wednesday. June 1. from noon to <S p.m. at Canyons. The market will be held eacli Wednesday through October, and will offer local produce, organic fruits, greens, fish, grass-fed beef, freshly hnkeJ pastries, locally made cheeses, home crown flowers and gifts. For more information, visit www.parkciLyfurmersmarkel.com or www.tlucajivons.com. \ |
