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Published every Wednesday and Saturday.. Continued From A-1 Trevino's perfect day kid who deserves to succeed more than him." Green, a former minor-league pitcher, said he has been tutoring Trevino since he took the reins of the Park City program a year ago. One of the major developments he's seen in the junior has been the improvement of his arsenal of pitches, and Tuesday was a prime example. Green said Trevino dominated the Union hitters with his breaking ball and was able to throw strikes in different parts of the strike zone. "Mark and I spent a lot of the time in the off-season together," Green said. "I was kind of the proud father after that one (Tuesday). I called (Mark's) dad on the drive home and told him, ‘I was a proud father.'" But Trevino's perfect day didn't come easy. Green said the defense was stellar as Trevino continued to rack up strikeouts and induce lazy fly balls or weak groundouts. He said TJ Mayo made a couple impressive plays to keep the perfect game intact, as did freshman Chandler Anderson. Fellow freshman, catcher Chandler Barkdull, who was vying for the starting job behind the plate just a few weeks ago, called what Trevino described as, "a perfect game." Trevino said once the bottom of the fourth inning rolled around, he had a hard time not thinking of the possibility of throwing a perfect game. As he stood one out away from an unblemished day, with the Miners holding their 20-0 lead, Trevino began to sweat bullets. That's when a Union batter made contact and rolled a dribbling grounder toward second base, manned by senior Ryan Stokes. Green said in Park City's 4-0 loss to Springville on March 24, Stokes had thrown away a "nubber," which looked exactly like the dying baseball rolling toward him in the bottom of the fifth in Roosevelt. Continued From A-1 School budget cuts about two students in primary schools and approximately four students at the secondary level. The School District wants an exceptional education for its students, he said, but it's getting close to the time where the School Board needs to make some tough decisions. "When 80 percent of the budget is tied up in personnel, this will impact people. To go to a 23-to-1 ratio, and adjust back to that, is hard to do," he said, "It's nice to have those smaller class sizes, but the question is can we afford those smaller class sizes at this point." In an interview with The Park Record on Thursday, Timothy said one misconception he wants to clarify is the nonrenewal letters the School District sent to about 15 teachers this week. About 5 percent of the teaching staff receives the letters each year. Teachers receive a non-renewal letter because they either didn't meet the state required teaching standards during their evaluation or due to enrollment numbers, those teachers' contracts cannot be renewed. Timothy said the state requires the School District to notify the teachers 60 days before the end of the school year, "I'm holding my breath, telling myself, ‘Not this play again,'" he said. "But Stokes got his feet set and threw the guy out perfectly. "I've never been part of a perfect game. It was great for the program. It's a moment I'll never forget the rest of my life." "The kid's a great defensive player," Trevino said of his second baseman. "He makes that play nine out of 10 times. I trust that kid with the glove. I was just hoping that one out of 10 wasn't going to happen again." Once the umpire confirmed Trevino's perfect day, he said he had a couple seconds to turn around before Green and his teammates mobbed him at the center of the diamond. "I like was like, ‘Oh man, here it comes,'" he said, laughing. "I got hugs from everyone on the team. That was probably one of the coolest baseball moments to ever be a part of." Trevino can also thank his teammates' bats for getting him off the hook after five innings. If the mercy rule hadn't been in force, he would have had to pitch two more innings to secure his perfect day. "I believe that I could have kept it going for two innings because my stuff kept it going," he said. "They never hit any of the balls hard. But was I happy to leave no more chances? Absolutely." "He was more dominant in the fourth and fifth innings than he was in the first and second," Green said. "His pitches were getting better every inning." When Green returned home Tuesday night, his wife asked him to explain what a perfect game was and the Miner head coach chuckled. "I've thrown multiple no-hitters, but I've never had good enough command to not walk a guy," he said. "It's a special thing." As for Trevino, the junior said he won't have issues keeping a level head the next time he steps on the bump as a starter. He said his approach stays the same every game, no matter the opponent or circumstances. "I'm not one of those guys who's hooting and hollering every time I go out there," he said. "I expect to win." He didn't just win Tuesday. He was perfect. a deadline that was this week. "People are thinking that these are tied in with the budget impacts. These aren't teachers we are firing because of budget cuts," he said. "That will have impact on the budget, but the decisions for these notifications were not based on budget cuts. If we had no budget worries whatsoever, we would still be making these notifications." In a closed-door session on Tuesday, the School Board also discussed trimming the Capital budget by $1 million in order to leave more money for major construction projects, Timothy said, adding that the Master Planning Committee's top three priorities include building six tennis courts near the high school, which would cost several hundred thousand dollars. The committee has also looked at options for developing property located in Bear Hollow near Kimball Junction. The School District could use the land for a new elementary school, according to Timothy, who said if the School Board decides not to use the property for a school, it might look into developing a professional development center or a learning center for students. Additional priorities include renovations at Treasure Mountain Junior High School, which would include connecting two hallways in the school, increasing lighting and renovating conference rooms. For more information about the budget or School Board meetings, visit www.pcschools.us. Honest snow reports Skiers use phone apps, websites, tweets to get powder updates DENVER (AP) The era of social media is bringing more transparency to ski resorts' daily snow reports, with skiers and riders using smartphone apps, websites, tweets and video to spread the word in real time, particularly if traditional reports are off. And the industry itself has been quick to embrace social media to get the word out -- especially skier raves that attract more customers when fresh powder blankets a mountain. One day in late February, Vail reported it had received a foot of snow on its renowned slopes. It didn't take long for early skiers to question it via Twitter and Facebook, and Vail retracted its report via Facebook -- a first for ski industry observers. Vail explained that a ski patrol did find a foot of fresh snow against a measuring stake, but that winds had left anywhere from that foot to 2 inches elsewhere across the expansive resort. It also posted a YouTube video showing good powder runs that day on the mountain. "We're not trying to inflate the figures. We want to be as transparent as we can be," said Vail Mountain spokeswoman Liz Biebl. The real-time revision prompted Denver architect Scott Parker to cancel his Vail plans that day. "These reports are too close together to vary as much as two feet like they have this year," said Parker, who relies on social media reports rather than traditional reports from Colorado resorts themselves. Still, with the season in North America now winding down, it highlighted the complexity of snow reporting under the best of circumstances. Traditionally, ski resorts measure snowfall by using yardsticks or posting National Weather Service reports that sometimes are based miles away. Even local reports can vary widely, depending on where snow is measured. That poses a challenge for larger resorts like Vail, whose terrain covers more than 5,200 Continued From A-1 Democrats diversify People like Salt Lake resident Alissa Wheeler, who describes herself as a devout Mormon and former Republican. She recently attended a local Democratic Convention in Salt Lake and found herself surrounded by likeminded people. "I attended Brigham Young University and served a mission," Wheeler said. "When I lived in Washington, D.C., I was conservative, but here in Utah, that word means something very different." Wheeler describes the Utah Republican Party as "one sided and radical." "There were a lot of things recently that really blew me away, including the Utah Legislature passing the sex education bill and them trying very quietly to pull the public schools' language immersion program," she said, adding that while that while she does feel like a minority due to her party choice, she is hoping other people will get over their fear and hesitation like she did and be- acres (8 square miles). Resorts say most snow readings are taken at 5 a.m. to give skiers time to get up to the slopes, and a lot can change by the time they get there. Many experts and skiers still rely on traditional early-morning reports. After all, a resort's credibility always is at stake, notes Adam Schmidt, editor of Snowboard Colorado Magazine. "If they lie, when they do get a good snowstorm, no one will come and they will suffer," Schmidt said. Independent scrutiny of the ski industry increased after two Dartmouth College professors studied snow reports from 2004 to 2008 across the United States and Canada. They discovered that resorts surveyed reported about 25 percent more snow on weekends than during the week, raising questions about their validity. Resorts questioned the report, noting it did them no good for them to over-report snow. But Jonathan Zinman, a co-author of the study, said the weekend discrepancies began to disappear in 2009 after new iPhone apps and websites began circulating. "We found that before social media began holding them accountable in 2009, resorts on the average were exaggerating their snowfall," Zinman said this week. Now there are dozens of apps and websites keeping track, including several that monitor the best conditions at nearly 2,000 resorts worldwide. SkiReport.com was behind one popular app lauded for its user-generated reports. It was bought last year by OnTheSnow.com publisher Mountain News Corp. -- a subsidiary of Vail Resorts Inc. OnTheSnow content editor Patrick Crawford said that resorts in Europe and North America file reports daily to the site. Editors check reports from neighboring resorts for any discrepancies before posting them online. If they find a problem, they call the resorts to verify, Crawford said. Jim Pringle, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Grand Junction, Colo., said resorts now have many tools for measuring snowfall, ranging from stakes in the snow to satellite recording stations operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that offer hourly reports. come politically involved. "I read over the Democratic platform and found that while I did not agree with all of it, it described a lot of things I feel and believe in. There was room for family and religion without it seeming forceful." Janis said many Mormons would feel this way if they explored the party. "The two most controversial things are abortion and GLBT rights [gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender]," he said. "And the thing is, the Utah Democratic Party's stand on these issues and the Mormon Church's are almost word for word. The Utah Democratic Party platform on abortion is that the decision should be made by a husband and wife, in faith, and rare. Their stand on LGBT rights is that agencies should be non-discriminatory. Also the Democratic Party is one of compassion and empathy, which is also a huge part of the Mormon identity." Janis added that the Democratic Party doesn't think that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a Mormon, will hurt their efforts. "Having Romney as a candidate may make a lot more Mormons go to the polls and become politically involved, which may lead them to rethink their choice of party, at least on a statewide level," he said. 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