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Show A-14 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, June 21-24, 2014 The Park Record Continued from A-13 Mountain Town CELEBRATE THE OLYMPIC SPIRIT AT UTAH OLYMPIC PARK SATURDAY, JUNE 21 OLYMPIC PLAZA FESTIVAL 6:30 PM MEET THE OLYMPIANS 7:45 PM FREESTYLE SHOW + FIREWORKS 8 PM FOOD + LIVE MUSIC + ACTIVITIES + CRAFTS + ATHLETE AUTOGRAPHS SHOW TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE + AT VENUE: $15 ADULTS $10 KIDS (12 & UNDER) + SENIORS (65+) 2 & UNDER FREE UTAHOLYMPICLEGACY.COM with tourists, the money season for both towns. The highway, officially called U.S. 550, got its name in the 19th century when it was built, reputedly because of what was then an enormous cost. Whistler golfers get duo of holes-in-one WHISTLER, B.C. - Noreen and Mike Unsworth defied the golfing odds recently when they sank back-to-back holes-in-one while golfing at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler Golf Club. The hotel placed the odds of such a concurrence at 26 million to one. The feat was accomplished on a short, downhill par-3 hole. Pique reports that both members of the couple had notched the feat individually. Mike, who is 75, had notched his first four years ago. For Noreen, 73, this is getting to be old hat. She's had 13 in her duffing career. Keeping grizzlies off the railroad tracks BANFF, Alberta - Researchers with Parks Canada, the federal agency that administers Banff and other national parks, continue to tinker with how to keep grizzly bears and other wildlife away from the railroad tracks. From 2004 through 2013, at least 12 grizzly bears have been killed by passing trains along with 30 black bears, 8 wolves and more than 300 elk and other ungulates. Canadian Pacific Railway has provided $1 million to address the issue of wildlife mortality. The railway crosses Banff and Yoho national parks, often spilling grain as it does. But bears and other wildlife also find the railway corridor along the valley bottom an easier way to cover distances rapidly as compared to moving through the forested mountainsides. Too, there is forage available. "Every time these animals in- Concert on the Green Friday, June 27th teract with the railway, they are essentially exposing themselves to danger," explained Adam Sherriff, one of the agency's resource conservation officers. Fencing seems to work well in some situations. Only one grizzly bear climbed a fence to get onto the roadway. After being deterred by an electric mat, it didn't return, at least so far. Sheriff and other researchers have been further evaluating the effectiveness of electrified mats, which give bears a jolt if they cross them. Jasper church doing same-sex marriages JASPER, Alberta - The Jasper United Church is now welcoming same-sex weddings under its roof. The Jasper Fitzhugh reports that the congregation has voted to support a new mission statement that authorizes the pastor, the Rev. Dawn Hermann, to officiate at same-sex weddings. Hermann tells the Fitzhugh that she got an inquiry from a couple in 2002 that wanted her to officiate at their marriage. She had to turn them down, but that triggered her effort to seek change. "If Jesus ate with outcasts and sinners, why would Christians be the ones to lean so hard against the (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community)" she asked. Christianity, she added, is based on love and tolerance. Throwing a tender artist into battle HAILEY, Idaho - Hailey, as well as other towns in Idaho's Wood River Valley, usually enjoys getting press attention. This is, after all, the resort region better known to the world as Sun Valley. But the story of Bowe Bergdahl, the local boy who enlisted in the U.S. Army and ended up in trouble in troubled Afghanistan, has brought the world's press to get a better sense of the individual. Many descended on a coffee shop where Bergdahl had worked before enlisting. "Zaney's Café on River Street in Hailey provided a makeshift television studio for more than a week as ABC, CBS, CNN, Al Jazeera America, and other news networks lined up to interview locals in order to patch together an impression of the town where Bergdahl grew up," reports the Idaho Mountain Express. But Sue Martin, the owner of the coffee shop, closed the doors after getting telephone threats and unwelcome visitors. She then called Larry Schoen, the chair of the local county commissioners. He told the reporters it was time to back off and let locals get back to business as usual. The coffee shop has reopened now, and Martin tells the Express she'll do interviews again - but not with Fox News. The network's O'Reilly Factor featured interviews with Hailey residents in which the question was asked whether Bergdahl and his father, Bob, had become Taliban sympathizers. The elder Bergdahl let his whiskers flow, in the style of his son and also in the style of many followers of Islam. The Washington Post, however, delivered perhaps the most interesting story. The newspaper was given access to the soldier's journal that showed him as a "complicated individual with a fragile psyche and a deep concern about his place in the world," in the words of the newspaper. Kim Harrison, a close friend of Bergdahl's, had shared the journal. They met when Bergdahl began taking ballet and fencing lessons at an arts center she ran in Ketchum, Idaho, near his hometown of Hailey. Several days before Bergdahl disappeared from his patrol base in Afghanistan in 2009, he sent a box to Harrison containing his blue spiral-bound journal, his laptop computer, a copy of the novel, "Atlas Shrugged," and other items. Harrison told the Post said she wrestled with her decision to share the journal. She finally decided to do so with a reporter and newspaper she thought best equipped to capture what she considered to be Bergdahl's complexity and character. "I hope with my whole being that what I have decided to do will have the intended effect. Love and compassion. Understanding that you cannot throw a tender artist's soul into war, and then hold them accountable to the expectations of a media machine," she said. "Unfit for combat does not mean unfit for an inspirational and exceptional life. He is worth protecting. He is courageous and noble. He is loved." 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