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Show Wednesday, March 2, 1977 Chamber iuWtc &otitt Page 2 -.,, A ; .V JBti .:. IV sA " v . . , Made Submitted By The Park City Chamber Of Commerce Park City Chamber of Commerce board member Laura Thomas, Chairman of Communications, Secretary of the Lodging Association, Marketing Committee member, and Assistant Dir-tor Dir-tor of Marketing at Park City Ski Corporation reports on the current "Umbrella Concept Con-cept formulating in Park City. Financial advisors, marketing experts, and key businessmen in the community com-munity are working hard to establish unified goals that will best serve the total needs of the community. It is felt that by pooling efforts and dollars, it may be possible to avoid waste and duplication therefore, producing pro-ducing maximum efficiency from the Park City community. com-munity. Competent coordination between be-tween central reservations, central information, market-ting market-ting and financing will begin, it is hoped, to promote a unified concept of Park City which will better sell and preserve the quality of life-style and the unique atmosphere of Park City plus increase the visitors on a daily and overnight basis. It is hoped that these committees, currently brainstorming brain-storming and examining the needs of the community, will develop a comprehensive, workable and compatible program to these ends. Vail Assoc. Names New Chairman Harry W. Bass, Jr., of Dallas, Texas, and Vail, Colorado ' was j elected chairman of the board of Vail Associates, Inc., (OTC 7.00, 7.75) principal developers and operators of the Vail ski resort, by the firm's board of directors last week. Bass is president of Goliad Oil and Gas Company of Dallas, Texas which acquired a significant interest in-terest in Vail Associates through a tender offer completed com-pleted in September, 1976. Vail Associates' former president, Peter W. Seibert, was elected vice chairman of the company. Seibert, president from 1966 to 1970, and chairman since 1970, said he looked forward to r THE BEHIND Ik Editor. Steve Dering Feature Writer Hank Louis Business Manager. Jan Wilking Office Manager Janet Gilchrist Graphics. Mary Van Siclen Contributing Photographers..... Nick Nass, Pat McDowell, Scott Nelson Publishers : Wilking, Louis, Schirf and Dering Pictures, news and advertising may be submitted prior to Wednesday publication at our oflice, 419 Main Street, Park City, Utah 84060, by mail. Box 738, at hv csllino 649-9592. Publication material must be received by Monday afternoon for Wednesday r 1 IMUIIWUVIi. pardhj Progress is good and finite information will be forthcoming. forth-coming. "The Life and Breath" Ski-a-Thon sponsored by the Utah Lung Association and assisted by the Park City Chamber of Commerce, the Park City Ski Corporation, Bob Marsh and the Park City Ski Club and Bob Kassow of the White Pine Touring Center will be held in Park City Friday, March 18, 1877. This event is for the purpose of getting high school students stu-dents with an interest in skiing involved in the Utah Lung Association's fight for life and breath. It's a way for those who breathe easily to help children who have to struggle for their breath by getting sponsors to give donations, while at the same time enjoying themselves in a competitive ski activity. Students will enter the Ski-a-Thon in teams of 10 from high schools throughout through-out Salt Lake, Weber, Davis, Summit and Utah Counties. The event will be limited to 25 teams, a total of 250 persons divided into 125 Nordic and 125 alpine skiers. Park City's Ski Club and the White Pine Touring Center will supervise and tabulate the winners for both competitions. compe-titions. Trophies will be awarded for race times as well as raising the most amount of monies for the Lung Association. playing a more active role with the company in his new sltiorf w The Vail board of directors also accepted the resignation of Andrew D. Norris, vice president, real estate and treasurer of the company, effective April 30, 1977. Chairman Bass expressed his appreciation of Norris' accomplishments during his three year tenure with the company, noting particularly par-ticularly his efforts in organizing and implementing implemen-ting the sale of development of Vail Associates' Gore Valley real estate inventories. inven-tories. Norris headed up the firm's highly successful Nor-thwood's Nor-thwood's condominium project in Vail. STATE Ed Simmons Steve Roessigngh Tani Snyder Park High Students Oil KSL By Cammi Glad Seven outstanding students studen-ts from Park City High School will be featured on KSL TV-AM-FM for the program "What's Right With America." The students from Mr. Hal Smith's American Problems class all sent themes to KSL telling of something "good" about America. Of those sent in 7 themes were selected and the students were asked to shorten their theme to 27 seconds so the program may be taped. The seven students are: Tim Polychronis, Dennis Arko, Brad Goff, Mark Lindsay, Lin-dsay, Greg Pratt, Helen Byer, and John Lambert. The taping will take place Monday, March 7. The program will air approximately ap-proximately a week later. Steamboat Reopens The Steamboat Ski area in Steamboat, Colorado, reopened Saturday morning, February 26, on a limited basis, operating only the lower Mountain. Glen Paulk, President of LTV Recreation Developement Inc., announced announ-ced that the snowfall received the last week will allow the opening of the Christie, Basher, and Head-wall Head-wall areas. Lift ticket rates will be reduced to $5.00 for adults, and to $3.00 for children age 12 and under. Paulk further stated that additional areas of the mountain will open contingent con-tingent on sufficient snowfall to offer a quality skiing experience. ex-perience. Angeli At Library Mrs. Marge Angeli, lifelong life-long resident of Park City, will fill the newly created position at the library. In the near future the library hours will increase. jiiA 'W'm,Mi ' .ttJi Ira Sachs How About It ? How was skiing today and where did you find the best conditions? (Asked Sunday Afternoon) Ed Simmons - (Park City and Ocean City, Calif.) It was good snow today, particularly on Crescent, the Team Runs, and Blue Slip. Elaine Roessingh - (Switzerland) It was very good. I was skiing on the bottom. Steve Roessingh - (London, England) Double Jack was pretty good; Dividend and the Women's G.S. were also good. Karena Kolbuch -1 thought it was good early in the morning. In the afternooin it got a bit heavy. Ira Sachs - (Memphis, Tenn. and Park City) It was better than average for Park City. The Triple Chair was the best. Charles Brightwell - (Brightwell Tennis Ranch, Ran-ch, Junction, Texas) It was very nice. Of course, I haven't skied in a year before today. The weather was the best in the morning. Tani Snyder - Very sticky in the afternoon. Blue Slip was great! Greg Lawson - (Park City) The skiing was just fnatastic. It was like winter and it's a secret where the best skiing was. To Dam Or Sierra KimCrumbo Utah Wilderness Coordinator Sierra Club The Central Utah Project, hailed as Utah's salvation and damned as the worst environmental en-vironmental disaster since Glen Canyon Dam, is currently under attack by the Carter Administration. While water has never been a placid Western issue, the current drought has made the subject even more volatile. The Utah Congressional delegation has condemned the president. Surprisingly, few environmentalists have openly supported him. Most of us are concerned about the drought and generally there is little understanding of the Central Utah Project. The Bonnevile Unit of the CUP is a $762 million Bureau of Reclamation project designed to transport water from the Uinta Basin into the Bonneville Basin (Wasatch Front). The project involves 10 new reservoirs, enlargements of two existing reservoirs, 140 miles of aqueducts, tunnels and canals and three power plants. plan-ts. In spite of what our senators say, the environmental environ-mental impacts of the project will be severe. There will be a loss of approxiam-tely approxiam-tely 200 miles of high quality trout streams along with the destruction of thousands of acres of wildlife habitat. Beaver, moose, other mammals, waterfowl and fish spawning habitat will be disrupted. Portions of the potential High Uintas Wilderness will be inundated. inun-dated. However, environmental considerations have seldom faired will when water was an issue, and in light of the drought we can expect such tender thoughts to be even less appreciated. What threatens the CUP is not our love for moose or fish. The project is primarily a money loser. The President's Council on Environmental En-vironmental Quality (CEQ) has projected the CUP would provide about 90 cents worth of benefits for each dollar invested. Obviously the project is not an attractive investment even for Uncle Sam. , The economic liability of the Bonneville Unit lies with the projected use of the water. Of the 131,000 acre-feet acre-feet to be diverted from the Club Says NO Uinta Basin, about 120,000 will be used for irrigation,-While irrigation,-While farming may be a desirable and worthy ooi cupation, irrigation of Utah's marginal farmland does not economically justify the construction of an expensive water diversion project. Since the farmer cannot afford water, the government must subsidize him. It is the municipal and industrial in-dustrial user (M&I) who can afford the real cost of such expensive water. However, only a small portion por-tion of the water diverted from the Uinta Basin is allocated for this use. The rest of the M&l water is to come from within the Bonneville Bon-neville Basin. The diking of Utah Lake and construction of the Jordanelle Reservoir on the Provo River will provide the M&I allotment. Construction of this portion of the project has not begun. This water involves less expense ex-pense and certainly less environmental en-vironmental impacts, and it requires no interbasin transfer tran-sfer of water. Also, the Department of the Interior estimates that as much as 100,000 acre-feet can be developed from ground water, the Wasatch streams and gradual conversion con-version of irrigated lands to urban use. Additional water could be provided by recycling waste water. While the technology exists for rendering such water fit for human consumption, consum-ption, there could be a few cultural hurdles to overcome. over-come. Since about half of the water used in Salt Lake is sprinkled over lawns, recycled water could certainly cer-tainly be substituted for pure Rocky Mountain water in this case. The grass won't care. The portions of the Bonneville Bon-neville unit currently under construction would do nothing to relieve the current drought problems of the most populated county in the Wasatch Front. Since political pressure has resulted in the development of the least economically and environmentally attractive aspect of the Bonneville Unit first, relief for Salt Lake remains years away. The CUP would not necessarily provide assurances of protection during future droughts. The purpose of CUP is to allow for continued growth by Elaine Roessingh if. Karena Kolbuch Charles Brightwell Greg Lawson allowing a substantial increase in-crease in water consumption. consum-ption. The CUP . would; provide'fnore watet for more users, not store emergency water for existing uses. In a future drought there would be more water brought to the Wasatch Front thanks to the CUP, but there would be a much vaster demand for that water. Rather than reducing the impacts of drought, the project could simply amplify the consequences. con-sequences. There are other economic problems associated with diverting water out of the Uinta Basin. The Bonneville Unit takes a substantial amount of the Ute Indian water. The tribe was told that they would get their water back after another project was built in the early part of the next century. Such a project would be very expensive today, not to mention men-tion in the next century. By diverting over 300,000 acre feet of high quality water out of the Colorado River Basin, the CUP will compound already serious salinity problems for downstream down-stream users. The Environmental Environ-mental Protection Agency estimates the project will annually cause $800,000 worth wor-th of damages to California, Arizona, and Mexican users because of the increased salinity concentrations. The Bureau of Reclamation has had to initiate a $500 million salinity control program on the Colorado River to make the water fit for agriculture and other uses. The CUP diversion will only compound com-pound this problem. So, what would happen if we let the water flow into the Colorado drainage? Politicians tell us the water will go to waste. That isn't the case. By not building the CUP we won't ruin over two hundred miles of trout streams. We won't destroy thousands of acres of important impor-tant wildlife habitat. The water will run through our white-water canyons to enhance the recreation experience ex-perience of thousands of people. That same water will flow through the turbines of existing hydroelectric dams to generate power, and then go to farmlands more productive than Utah's through existing reservoirs and canals. The water would do all this, and" it wouldn't cost us a cent. - - ' . LIKE TO SKI FREE? The Park City Ski Club needs people to work on local races. For each day the person works he receives a day pass coupon good anytime during the 1977-78 season. If you are interested, meet at the Memorial Building Sunday, iMarch 6, at 7:00 p.m. or contact Bob Marsh at 649-8749 or 649-9134. VOLUNTEER MEETING All volunteers and would be volunteers of the Pale fire Drug EducationPrevention Program are invited to the meeting Wed. March 2nd at 6:30 p.m. in the Memorial Building lounge. PALEFIRE POTLUCK The first bi-monthly Palefire Potluck dinner and discussion will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Friday March 11th in the dining room of the Memorial Building. This is an event for the entire en-tire community so come on out! Flicks will be shown at 8:00. Titles to be announced later. Get to know what the whole thing is about. PTSA SPECIAL PROGRAM Park City is in for a real treat next Thursday night, March 3, 1977 at Park City High School at 7:30 p.m. Dr. Hermon Peine is coming to speak on the subject "Making Parenting Fun." Dr. Peine has his Ph.D. in psychology and is with the Timpanogas Mental Health. His wife Louise and he have a little girl and boy and live in Springville. Dr. Peine promises to have a very informative and entertaining presentation. Along with Dr. Peine, the Sunshine Singers have prepared an exciting program to go along with the subject matter. The program will close with musical numbers from the high school students. It should be a very special program. Please plan to come. BOARD OF ADJUSTMENTS VACANCY The City Council is taking applications for membership on the Board of Adjustments. This Board is concerned with granting variances to the zoning in the City. They are also responsible to hear and decide appeals where it is alleged that there is error in any order, requirement, decision or determination made by the zoning administrator. , - , ; All persons interested in applying for membership mem-bership to the Board of Adjustment please make your interests known by sending a letter to the Park City Administrator, P.O. Box 1480, Park City, Ut. 84060. ...Not To Dam Sen. Garn Disagrees By Senator Jake Garn President Carter's exclusion ex-clusion from his budget of funds for the Central Utah Project is, at best, shortsighted, short-sighted, at worst, a gross blunder. It makes little sense that the President would, on the one hand, ask for nearly $6 billion for public works jobs, and, on the other, cancel can-cel vital public works projects. projec-ts. The jobs he is proposing would be little more than make-work positions; temporary tem-porary stop-gap measures to push unemployment statistics down. The CUP on the other hand, is a meaningful and necessary public works project which provides employment and lasting benefits. If the Bonneville Bon-neville Unit were in place today, our water problems would be much less severe next summer. As everyone knows, our winter snowfall has been light. The light snowfall means less water in the mountains this spring and summer. But the situation is worse than that. When the snowpack is thin, it melts quickly when warmer weather comes. Melting quickly as it does, it flows off quickly causing considerable con-siderable environmental damage on the way, and the much needed water is gone to the sea. It cannot be used for irrigation, for drinking, or for recreation. The normal nor-mal snowpack melts more slowly, and even in the absence ab-sence of impoundments, remains much farther into the summer, giving beneficial use to all concerned. concer-ned. If the dams were in place, the quick runoff we must ex pect this spring could be captured, cap-tured, stored and saved until later in the year. The little bit we have could be carefully husbanded, providing needed water well into the growing season. Now Mr. Carter tells us that not only will we not have the dams this year, but that in the future we will not be able to provide for ourselves. The dams are not to be built. The President does say that the decision is not final and that the Bonneville Unit is "under review." Well, we have been down this road before. The Bonneville Unit has been reviewed and reviewed, studied and studied. Congress has determined that it should be built, has authorized and appropriated ap-propriated money year after year. The Bureau of Reclamation, year after year, comes back for another request, to keep the work going. And did the Carter Car-ter Transition Team, which prepared the report on the basis of which the decision to delay was made, bother to speak with the officials of either the Bureau or the Project? Or the Senate? Need I answer? At best, this decision will mean more delay, perhaps another year without the dam. Another year with a drought like this year's will wreak untold damage on the agricultural environment, and on the population of the Wasatch Front. I will be working with the other members of the Utah delegation to reverse this unwise, and ill-considered decision. Luckily, we will have plenty of help, since the Transition Team has reached far and wide to cut reclamation projects. |