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Show A-4 The Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, January 14-17, 2012 Town Lift tent TYLER COBB/park record Construction crews were busy on Main Street this week preparing for the Sundance Film Festival, including the workers who built a large tent at the Town Lift Plaza. The tent will be turned into the T-Mobile Village at the Lift, which will operate from Jan. 20 until Jan. 23, according to a media release describing the plans. It will mark a decade of the Town Lift Plaza hosting the Village at the Lift, which has become a celebrity draw that attracts large crowds of onlookers and media. Vehicle break-ins continue Police Department steps up overnight patrols in response By JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record The Park City Police Department has stepped up its patrols in the overnight hours in the northern reaches of Old Town in an attempt to solve a series of vehicle break-ins reported in the first week of January. Phil Kirk, a police captain, said the patrolling officers are on Park Avenue, the site of some of the break-ins, and other streets. He said the officers will be on nearby residential streets as well. "It's making sure our officers are well aware we're having some problems in the area," Kirk said. He acknowledged that the Police Department had not developed solid leads in the cases by late in the week. The police received reports of seven cases between Jan. 2 and Jan. 7. Five of those were reported on Jan. 7. Vehicle breakins are reported in Park City on a regular basis, but seven cases in such a short time is unusual. Kirk said another break-in was reported midmorning on Wednesday. The case occurred on the 1500 block of Park Avenue. Kirk said the break-in occurred in the overnight hours before the report. Kirk said the case was the second time the vehicle owner had been victimized in a short span of time. Before the owner could replace the window, it was targeted again, Kirk said. There was plastic covering the window at the time of the second case, he said. Skis, bindings and poles were taken in the second break-in, Kirk said. The earlier break-ins occurred on Park Avenue, Lowell Avenue, Deer Valley Drive and Norfolk Avenue, generally between the 1200 block and 1500 block. Some of the losses included two Global Positioning Systems, a radar detector, clothes and a digital music player. A wallet was taken in at least one of the cases. The Police Department encourages people not to leave valuables inside vehicles. People with information about the cases may contact the Police Department. The phone number is 615-5500. The department operates an anonymous-tip line at 615-5847 and an online tip form, which is available on the Police Department's section of City Hall's website, www.parkcity.org. Avoid the Sundance traffic City Hall suggests drivers time their trips wisely By JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record City Hall on its website has posted a set of tips geared toward Parkites who must navigate through the city during the Sundance Film Festival, including suggestions about avoiding the traffic. Dubbed a ‘locals guide,' the one-page document that was on the website midweek dates to the 2011 festival. The tips, though, are general in nature and apply to Sundance this year as well. "Sundance is a hectic and wild time in Park City," the locals guide says. Some of the tips include: • that drivers should attempt to avoid the intersection of Main Street and Heber Avenue, which the locals guide says "has a potential to back-up in any situation." It says the intersection is heavily traveled by pedestrians during the festival. The document suggests people driving to Main Street use Deer Valley Drive and Marsac Avenue. • that drivers should be aware of back-ups on Park Avenue, which the locals guide says starts to become congested at 3 p.m. each day. The traffic lasts until after 10 p.m., the document says, noting that Sundance operates a screening room at the Park City Library and Education Center on Park Avenue. The guide suggests drivers use Deer Valley Drive to head to Main Street instead of Park Avenue. • that there could be heavy traffic on Kearns Boulevard outside the Eccles Center, which is Sundance's largest Park City-area theater. The guide recommends people not drive on Kearns Boulevard at times when the movie crowds are entering or exiting a screening. The guide indicates traffic could be bad for up to 90 minutes at those times. • to avoid driving on some streets at the end of the ski day, roughly at 4 p.m. The guide says traffic could be bad as the skiers leave Park City Mountain Resort and Deer Valley Resort. It mentions the skier traffic could be heavy on Lowell Avenue, Empire Avenue and the lower section of Deer Valley Drive. • heading to the Main Street post office prior to 1 p.m. on days during the festival. • a suggestion that people call restaurants ahead of time to make reservations. The locals guide, though, also mentions that restaurants are normally packed or rented out during Sundance. It says someone might "look for restaurants off the beaten path (off of Main Street)." The locals guide is available on City Hall's website, www.parkcity.org. Select the ‘Get Sundance Information' option from the "I Want To..." dropdown menu at the top of the front page. 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