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Show 0xniY-3st Cor; . 11 3.522 So. 3fi . ast Salt Lao City, UT 4115 Twenty J j .n.n .::s h&iwarj mamMmmtmmfmBF7mm7Zm'mmmmm Volume Four Thursday, May 31, 1979 Number Thirty-Seven Bob ASTA Convention Called A good time was had by all was the general consensus of the 31st Western Regional Conference of the American Society of Travel Agents held in Park .Cityjast week. After nearly a year of organizing the event down to the minutest detail and worrying over those best laid plans that sometimes go awry, the ASTA committee pulled off an event that left the 600 attendees with a warm spot for Park City. Several of the people responsible for making the event a success reflected over the hectic four-day convention that began Sunday, April 20 and ended the following Wednesday. Wed-nesday. Ski resort assistant marketing manager Laura Thomas, who took the ASTA bull by the horns in the negotiation stages 13 months ago, was pleased with the overall event. "My feeling is the ASTA people really enjoyed their stay here," Ms. Thomas remarked. "We heard a lot of comments about how great the local participation was and how friendly Park City people are. They felt they could really 'set back and relax'." On the slightly negative side, Ms. Thomas said there was a mix-up with sightseeing buses that created a few problems, and the attendance was not quite the more than 1,000 people expected. "I thought that for the town to appear ap-pear as though it was in the midst of a busy ski season added greatly to the convention and the opinion of the tour operators," Ms. Thomas said. Although final figures are not in, Thomas estimated the cost of the convention will be in the area of $40,000. Advertising fees for the specially-produced ASTA program, matching grants from Mountainlands, Summit County Travel Council, plus fees from the trade show booths, "J I 1 t "c Caaiiii mmmt ........ " ; . rr f2 Wells on his way to a $100 spill. A Big Success and money pooled by local lodges will help defray those costs. . "It was definitely worth it," Ms. Thomas said emphatically. "Many good ideas came out of this convention. conven-tion. The city purchased the tent that now can be used for other events, plus the design of the Merchant's Stock and the dynamite sticks urging people to "Have a blast in Park City." The lodges will continue to use them for promotion. Terry Hogan of The Print Shop put together a program that many said was the best they've seen. "Opening night of the convention, the tent looked absolutely gorgeous," Thomas continued. "The flower arrangements were beautiful in antique an-tique containers. Gov. Matheson was the guest speaker and was very impressed. im-pressed. All in all, this convention showed that Park City is capable of doing a successful overall town convention, con-vention, which will benefit us in the future." Park City Convention and Visitor's Bureau Director Jack Douglas bellowed a hearty "great!" when asked his impressions of the convention. "I was most impressed that the city was able to organize an event of this size and show so many people a good time," Douglas said. "The exposure ex-posure to the travel industry and travel media will prove very beneficial to Park City, especially in boosting our summer tourist trade." Chamber of Commerce Director Amanda Peterson was hard pressed to find anything that went very wrong throughout the four days. "Park City's professionalism showed during their first town convention," con-vention," Peterson said. "We had a total obligation to do it right, and we did. Now we have a good reputation in the travel market. The thing that really pleases me is that we have I Page 5 The Park City Muckers got off to a slow start Saturday but a late game surge pushed them past the University of Utah. Photo: Blair Feulner shown that we have the ability to handle crowds during the ski season and the Arts Festival, and we have shown once more that Park City has tremendous finesse in that area... that we don't lose our flavor during those times. The complaints we heard were very small problems that you'd expect ex-pect to hear, like keys that don't fit and things of that nature. It was a great job." Among the many scheduled events that took place during the convention, conven-tion, the rodeo Wednesday at Ernie's arena at Kimball Junction ranked among the top favorites with locals and visitors alike. Ms. Peterson said a Park City team of ASTA supporters sent out a challenge in the early hours of the convention to any visitors who wanted wan-ted to band together in teams to compete for top honors at the rodeo. Five teams emerged. In addition, an individual challenge was issued by Bob Wells, who offered convention chairman Dave Smith $100 in silver dollars if he could stay on a bull longer than Wells. Smith accepted. The ante was upped by Continued On Page 2 New 7 - "I don't know what you can do to make me go for it." That comment by Planning Commissioner Com-missioner Rusty Davidson was echoed by fellow board member Mike Vance at last Wednesday's meeting as traffic congestion at least temporarily tem-porarily tabled further discussion on the proposed new 7-11 store. The proposed site of the convenience convenien-ce store is the southwest corner of the Empire-Park Avenue intersection. intersec-tion. The existing 7-11, just one block south of the new site, will remain in City Officials Sued A. if Tuesday's cold weather was not rude enough, Park City officials were served a summons in connection connec-tion with a $450,000 law suit filed by Sail Lake Transportation Company. S:t!t Lake Transporation had operated the city's public bus system for t'..'o years before the city initiated its O'.vn system this year. The transportation trans-portation company is seeking damages in connection with the termination ter-mination of its contract, which still had one year to run. Salt Lake Transporation names eleven individuals in the suit, claiming they conspired to: appropriate ap-propriate no funds to pay for the third year of the contract; void the transportation agreement; and institute in-stitute a publicly-owned bus service. All of those named in the suit are present or former members of the City Council or members of a now defunct public transportation committee. com-mittee. The defendants include: City Noranda To Decid Echoing mining sounds may once again be heard in the tunnels under Pa-k City if an option agreement with a Canadian company is exercised exer-cised by mid-August. At a United Park City Mines Company Com-pany annual shareholders meeting held May 22 in Salt Lake City, the option op-tion agreement was explained by president Clark L. Wilson. Noranda Mines Ltd. of Toronto has paid $300,000 to Park City Ventures, operators of the Park City mine and mill, for the right to inspect the property. If Noranda exercises their option to take over the mine operation, it will pay an additional $203,000 to Ventures. After that, Noranda will pay Ventures $3 million in $1 million annual installments. The total payment, then will be $3.5 million. Park City Ventures closed operations, ironically, on Friday the 13th of January of 1978. A difficult water problem that left tunnels untouchable un-touchable created an economic burden bur-den that far outweighed mining profits. Ventures had, during their tenure there, spent about $28 million on improvements of the mine and construction of a mill, in addition to paying $35,000 quarterly to UPCMC in advance royalties. Ventures is a two-thirds, one-third partnership between the Anaconda Co. and Asar-co Asar-co Inc., with the two companies owning about 31 percent of UPCM's outstanding shares. At the meeting two weeks ago, 11 Caught operation, having been labeled the busiest 7-11 in the state. As presented by Mike De Griselles at the May 16 meeting, the plans call for store space plus three commercial commer-cial rental spaces and gasoline pum ps in the front. Gasoline pumps on the busy intersection caused commission com-mission members to request Griselles to confer with traffic consultant con-sultant Wayne VanWagoner before returning to last week's decision session of the Planning Commission. In a letter addressed to the 7-11 Page 12 There is now a vacant lot on Main Street where the Cozy once stood. The local bar has been demolished to make way for a new restaurant. Gary Kimball remembers some nights from the past. ver Bus L Marnier Wayn-? Matthews, former Mayor Leon tiriarte, former Councilman Coun-cilman Jan Wilking, Councilman Steve I)ti:ng. Mayor Jack Green, Councilman Richard Martinez, Councilv. oman Eleanor Bennett, Cour.eiiman heb Wells, committee mernkT Kay Johnson of the Park City Ski Corp., committee member Lloyd Sf evens, owner of the Claim-jurnper Claim-jurnper restaurant and committee member George Casparac, a fuel oil distributor. In 1370 the city commissioned Salt Lake Transportation to operate a municipal bus svsfem for three years at $52,2(i5 annually with five percent increases in the second and third years But prior to the third year of operation toe city had the contract voided in district court. On February (',, District Court Judge I.ieaa Comior ruled the contract con-tract violated a state law prohibiting city officials from incurring a debt in Until August i The Mines 8. sioi ; kho'dei - were informed that the $35, (mo per ijii.irfcr advance royalty payments will in- continued by Noranda ;f the option is exercised. In addition, I I ".t would get one third of any net profits by Noranda from the mining operation, after consideration con-sideration of the total advance royalties already paid. Noranda's genera! manager, Malco'm .Slack, commented that the Canadian co:r.;.-any employes 40,000 people in firms that deal with mining, forest products and manufacturing. The cornpai, . has r.vnes in Timmins, Ontario, tiuu are similar to Park City's. Nearly eimat mines in the area produce gold and silver ores with copper byproducts. Slack commented that though thmr Timmins mines are wet. they do not present the problems that Park City's mines do. He noted, however. "We feel very much at home" in the local mines. Also dm inj the meeting, Clark expressed ex-pressed some concern that the construction con-struction of the Jordanelle reservoir could bring additional water into UPCM's-domain. On Tuesday, Park City Ventures general manager Bill Norem reinforced reinfor-ced that opinion. "Water problems from the Jordanelle Jor-danelle are a very distinct possibility," Norem said. "It alarms us greatly. If they don't move to an alternate location on the Provo River, they should buy the mine." Norem explained that for many years mining has been conducted in it y n I ie Iratric store and read at the commission meeting, VanWagoner noted, "There will be periods during the ski season when exiting ski traffic on Empire Avenue will queue beyond the Empire Avenue driveways and make access from Empire difficult. During these same periods, exiting traffic to Empire Em-pire will be virtually blocked, which will require the use of the Park Avenue Av-enue driveway as the exit point. Due to the close proximity of the Park Avenue driveway to the Empire Avenue intersection, the Park ontract excess of the taxes for the current year. Salt Lake Transportation alleges the City Council and the transportation transpor-tation committee were planning to have the contract voided while "they simultaneously informed plaintiff (Salt Lake Transportation) that it should prepare to begin its third year of service for Park City, even though they had no intention of having the plaintiff provide for such service for the 1978-79 year. In reliance on those representations, however, plaintiff incurred additional expenses in preparation for the coming ski season." The suit cites five causes of action and asks for a total award of $450,000 in actual and punitive damages plus court costs and attorney fees. Reportedly, the city will handle the legal defense of all those named in the suit. ore veins buried under gravel basins located in what would be the bottom of the proposed reservoir. He noted that these veins would become good watercourses, conducting water back to the mine area in Park City. "We have advised the government of the probability of this happening, and their financial responsibility if it does" Continued On Fage 2 oots If you want to put your roots down in Park City, the deadline for doing it at a reduced rate is next Monday. Monday is the last day for ordering trees as part of Park City's fourth annual Tree Day, Tom "Treeman" Ligare announced last week. Tree Day set for June 9 this year, offers local residents the opportunity to purchase a variety of trees at wholesale prices. This year's selec tion includes Norway maple, silver maple, white birch, poplars, mountain moun-tain ash, aspen, Austrian pine and Scotch pine. The deciduous trees will cost $9.75 and the pines will go for $28.50. Although the pines are more expensive, ex-pensive, Ligare noted that they provide year round greenery. "The pines go a fir way in sprucing up Park City during the winter," the treeman needled. Ligare recently completed a Continued On Page 2 Avenue drive should be used for right-inright-out operations only. I would expect that the 7-11 store would not contribute significantly as a traffic generator. During peak periods, I would also expect a decline of business due to ingress and egress congestion." City planner David Preece, however, recommended to the commission com-mission that the request for a conditional con-ditional use approval be denied, noting, "The purpose of the Land Continued On Page 10 Dry weather and warmer temperatures temp-eratures are expected through the weekend. Highs in the 70s with lows in the 40s. |