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Show Fifteen Cents Volume Three A newly formed corporation has purchased the resort golf course and driving range from the Park City Ski Corp. Park City Country Club Corp. plans to solicit 400 local equity memberships member-ships to opefate and own the facility. The course was reportedly sold last May for an estimated $2 million, although ski corporation president Ray Johnson would not confirm a dollar figure. He did say the sale price was arrived at by estimating the cost of installing a new golf course and adding ad-ding the real estate value if the driving range were subdivided into lots. The golf course area has been a controversial con-troversial subject since Johnson indicated in-dicated several months ago he had preliminary plans to build a hotel on the driving range. The course itself is protected by a 25-year covenant restricting it as a golf course. Embittered homeowners argued that elimination of the driving range and erection of a hotel would reduce the value of their frontage property as well as the quality of the golf course. On July 6, the City Council created a new Recreation and Open Space district, which, among other areas, is proposed to be applied to the golf course and driving range. If approved, ap-proved, the new zone would preclude any building on the driving range or golf course that did not specifically relate to their functions. According to Johnson, the golf course cour-se will continue its present operation until 200 members are accepted by Park City Country Club. At that time . an elected board of directors will announce an-nounce the new maintenance Imagine that you can placidly sit in a dentist's chair and have a wisdom tooth pulled without Novocain and feel no pain. Or that after nicking yourself with a razor, you can will the blood to stop so you don't have to walk around with a piece of tissue on your face all day. Or that by simply touching three fingers together and vividly imagining yourself parking your car in the exact space you desire, you can be sure that parking space will be vacant when you arrive. These are not sleight of hand tricks by Harry Houdini or upcoming plots in the continuing adventures of the bionic man. According to Wally Min-to, Min-to, they are very real results that can be attained by anyone willing to spend six days in his Alpha Awareness training. Minto currently is teaching a two-week two-week post graduate course in Alpha Awareness to 40 previous students from all over the country at the Treasure Mountain Inn. Minto's training has evolved through ten years of lecturing and studying positive thinking, cybernetics, cyber-netics, motivation, goal-structuring, awareness, meditation and extrasen Alpha Awareness IT 9 i 11 T Tr u s Jill in i : o I Z !f. Jm i:;.h.:. OBNIWEST CORPORATION Box 208 SLCt UX 64UQ procedures. As part of the sale agreement, the private club has the option to resell the course and driving range to Park City Ski Corp. in 1980 for the current purchase price. Asked if the sale of the course and driving range offset the projected profits of the proposed hotel, Johnson responded, "The thinking behind the hotel was not to make a profit. We felt the town needs a luxury hotel on the golf course. The Holiday Inn helps, but there is no first class resort hotel in Park City. Our main concern was not making money but to help the town in both summer and winter. " "The idea of building a hotel was not worth fighting for," Johnson continued. con-tinued. "My main business is running a ski area, not a golf course. Selling it was not a big business deal. I just started talking golf with some people and we said this ought to be done or that ought to be done. I just want what's good for the town." According to local resident Hank Verrone, who is treasurer of Park City Country Club Corp., the new owners plan to maintain operation of the course and driving range regardless regar-dless of any new zoning. Verrone expects the majority of the projected 400 voting club members to be Park City residents. He said there has been good response from homeowners surrounding the course and indicated the membership was open. The treasurer estimated the equity bond to be $5,000 to $6,000 per member. "As a stockholder in a private golf club, I wouldn't vote for anything that would change its function," Verrone OUT sory awareness. Alpha (or beginning) Awareness is a melding of these theories into a training session that author and founder Minto claims will teach anyone of any age to direct and control their life with success, happiness hap-piness and peace of mind. "Alpha Awareness training is in no way designed to give you any more knowledge, but rather to help you understand un-derstand and gain enlightenment from the knowledge you already have," Minto said. Sound impossible that you already have the ability to stop hemorrhaging eliminate pain at will and control your dreams? According to Minto, his training will teach you to expand your awareness into the subconscious mind and tap the information that will allow you to learn to control your mind, your body, your life and your environment en-vironment through enlightenment. "If you are wondering what enlightenment really is, englighten-ment englighten-ment is the ah-hahs you experience in life," Minto said. "When you are doing something and suddenly you say, 'Ah-hah, now I understand,' . that's enlightenment." Minto explained that, according to participants at the Treasure Mountain Inn. Wednesday, said. "The sale of the property protects protec-ts the driving range for at least two years until there are enough members to fully own it." Other officers in the Park City Country Club are: Weston E. Hamilton of Salt Lake City, president ; John K. Kealy of Oakland, Ca., vice president; Molly Laramie of Park City, secretary; and Earl Staten of Salt Lake City, legal counsel. ommission Silver More than 100 people gathered at Park City High School Tuesday night to voice their opinions on the Silver Springs development, currently before the Summit County Board of Commissioners seeking a zone change. Although it listened to almost three hours of debate on the 1,400-acre project, the county commission will not make a decision on the zoning until un-til its meeting next Tuesday. For the most part, arguments aired for and against Silver Springs were restatements of views already made public at previous meetings. However, Snyderville resident Barbara Bar-bara Gurski did present a petition in support of the development, countering coun-tering a similar petition circulated by Ike Koleman and other opponents of the project. . Memorial Service Koleman, a Snyderville resident and candidate for the county com-, theory, the mind can be divided into three equal parts of a yardstick. The first twelve inches could be thought of as the area representing our waking state, or conscious mind, the second foot our subconscious mind, and the third portion our unconscious mind. Alpha Awareness training is aimed at exercising greater control over the processes that take place in the subconscious sub-conscious mind. These include creativity, habits, emotions and the autonomic nervous system, which governs such tings as heartbeat, respiration, blood pressure and skin temperature. Minto referred to methods used to alter that state of consciousness into the subconscious or unconscious mind, including drugs, hypnosis and various teachings and disciplines. However, he noted that in many cases the individual may be aware of the experience, but has no control over it. "In Alpha Awareness training we are not interested in altering the state of consciousness into the subconscious mind, but rather in a process of gradually expanding awareness into the subconscious area of the mind," Continued On Page 10 JSttYid July 19, 1978 t(so lows Springs Protest mission, led a "memorial service" Sunday as a demonstration of his group's opposition to Silver Springs. The service was preceded by an 18-car 18-car procession which traveled from Kimball Junction around Snyderville on the Old Ranch Road to U-224. Ike Koleman led a 'memorial Silver Springs development. With cows bellowing in the background, Koleman pointed to the large meadow behind him and said, "People, it's gone, it's going to die. That's why we're all here." . Koleman used a bullhorn to address a gathering of about 30 people wearing black armbands. Flanked by a mock tombstone and the American flag, he said, "We don't want another Salt Lake here in Summit County, and that's where we're headed." After stating that the purpose of the service was to "call attention to the rape of this land," Koleman asked for a moment of silence and urged the crowd to "think what you might do to stop this slaughter." Criteria Tuesday night's meeting was the final public input session prior to a commission decision. ' Silver Springs developers are asking that the 1,400 acres be changed from an agricultural zone to rural residential, allowing one living unit per acre. Prior to discussion on what commission com-mission chairman Alva Dearden said "will be an emotional issue," Assistant Summit County Attorney Terry Christiansen listed the criteria which must be applied before a zone request can be denied. Christiansen said the commissioners com-missioners could reject a zone change if: the zoning would be a detriment to adjacent property or out of character with the surroundings; it would create hazards to the public health. f . .-. it if) A mm " - ;, ,- j Fair skies and warm weather what's new?) are expected through the weekend with some possibility of afternoon thunder- showers. Highs will be in the 80s with in the 50s. f istens To safety and welfare; development un- der tne new zone would create a demand for more county services than it would pay for, diminish existing services or increase the county coun-ty tax burden; and if the zoning were being sought for purely speculative service Sunday to protest the purposes. The attorney asked opponents of the development to address themselves to these four points. Approval Reasons Outgoing County Planner Max Greenhalgh then listed the County Planning Commission's justification for approving the Silver Springs plan. The planner said approval was based on the developer's provision of : adequate roads; state approved water and sewer systems; a six-acre improved im-proved park; a 10.4 acre school site; a fire station site; "a generous amount of open space;" buffer strips; an additional ad-ditional seven mills in taxes to cover road maintenance costs; a minimum amount of cuts and fills on the hillsides; and public equestrian and bike trails. "We understand that some people don't want to see development," Greenhalgh told the audience, "but there are constitutional limitations. It's a very excrutiating game for those of use asked to be referees." Opposition to Silver Springs stemmed stem-med from objections to the planned unit development concept, densities, a no-growth philosophy or a desire to save the meadow in Snyderville, the planner observed. Greenhalgh addressed each point, saying: the PUD concept allows for preservation of open space; the densities den-sities involved are justified by the donations and environmental Continued On Page 3 , Number Forty-Four City May Purchase Park Land The purchase of an additional seven acres of park land will be considered by the City Council at its Thursday night meeting. The land acquisition would come in the form of a leaseoption arrangement with the city initially buying a one-acre parcel and leasing the remainder. The city would have the option of purchasing an additional parcel each year until it owns all four parcels comprising the 6.75 acres. The land, presently owned by the Royal Street Land Company, is located east of the Mt. Air Market near the existing seven-acre city park. The city also is negotiating for the purchase of an acre of ground adjacent to the Royal Street property which is owned by the Park City Ski Corp. A mobile Monroe cement plant presently is located on the site. If terms can be reached on both pieces of property it will double the amount of active park land owned by' the city. The purchase price for the first one-acre one-acre parcel will be about $70,000 with' the entire Royal Street property costing about $450,000, according to City Manager Wayne Matthews. This figure is based on the asking price of $1.50 per square foot. Matthews noted that the terms of the proposed leaseoption agreement would allow the city to utilize the entire seven acres immediately, ... - City councilman Steve Dering, who Continued On Page 10 INSIDE Hospital Demolition? Page 3 Ride 9 Tie Redford Page 7 See How They Run Page 8 ..it I.. ,ii""""aMr s i ! : |