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Show Ctaniw33i Cor;. U 3322 So. 3ri Eaoi Salt Lalo City, -UT -1115 Twenty-Five Cents Park City Volume Five A varez Showing strong support throughout the city, Helen Alvarez paced all candidates in the City Council primary election held Tuesday. Joining Alvarez Al-varez on the November 6 general election will be Tom Shellenberger, Bill Bertagnole, Tina Lewis, Eleanor Bennett and Greg Lawson. Prosposed Liquor Bans Seen As Threat To City Proposed changes in advertising regulations by the Utah Liquor Control Commission could have serious economic impact on Park City, it was revealed at Thursday's City Council meeting. Councilman Bob Wells said the proposed changes would prohibit advertising alcoholic beverages, except ex-cept light beer, by any electric sign or billboard; promoting the use or consumption of alcoholic beverage, including light beer, by sponsoring or underwriting events; or providing samples of alcoholic beverages. "I think all three of the regulations would interfere severely with the economy of Park City," Wells said. "Especially prohibiting the sponsorship sponsor-ship of events that would mean no more NASTAR program or the Paul Masson celebrity event." Wells said a public hearing concerning concern-ing the proposed advertising regulations regula-tions is scheduled for October 24 at 1 p.m. in Room 303 of the State Capitol Building in Salt Lake City, "I would like to request the City Council to authorize the mayor to write to the liquor commission in opposition to the adoption of the regulations and to authorize the attendance of any member of the council at the hearing." The council unanimously agreed and Mayor Jack Green commented, "This could jeopardize many events in Park One-Way Main Street Is 'Optimum' Solution? One-way traffic on Main Street is seen by redevelopment agency planners plan-ners as the "optimum solution" to the commercial area's traffic flow problems. prob-lems. Noting that one-way traffic was tried several years ago only to be abandoned due to complaints from Main Street merchants, Richard Chong, of Muir Chong and Associates, said Tuesday, "There will be a big educational program involved. This idea is going to meet a lot of resistance." "We have gone through a lot of different alternatives and we have what we believe to be the optimum solution to the vehicular traffic problem," Chong told the redevelopment redevelop-ment steering committee. He stressed that the plan is the "optimum," not the "ultimate" solution. Muir Chong and Associates has been commissioned by the city's redevelopment redevelop-ment agency to formulate a plan to revitalize the historic commercial area and solve parking and traffic problems. Chong said the basic concept of the traffic flow is a "one-way couple" with cars traveling south up an improved Sweede Alley and then down Main Street. Traffic consultant Wayne Van-Wagoner Van-Wagoner noted that the new circula r -f "55 TED Eliminated in Tuesday's balloting, which narrowed the field from 11 candidates to six, were Anne Burnett, Diana Harding, incumbent Dick Shoff , Bill Traeger and Hank Verrone. Alvarez handily carried the older section of town and finished strong in the newer parts to amass 309 votes. City. And what we're talking about with these events is the sponsorship and advertising, not the consumption of liquor." One member of the audience supported the council's decision, noting that many youth and adult sports leagues in Park City have had special events sponsored by liquor companies that now could be dropped. On Wednesday, Chamber of Commerce Com-merce Director Amanda Peterson said she wanted to consider all the angles before blanketly condemning the liquor commission. "Sure, this could have a big effect on Park City, but it isn't a threat yet," Mrs. Peterson said. "I want to find out first what it is the liquor commission is after, or who." The director said she recently spoke to Colorado Ski Country, the state's ski association. Colorado recently had similar liquor advertising restrictions imposed, but research indicates the ' move was to control consumption, not sponsorship. Mrs. Peterson said the Colorado association pointed out that last winter several underage youths were killed in a car accident after leaving a liquor-sponsored ski event, and the state liquor commission cracked down. "It doesn't appear the new laws are aimed at getting the ski areas, because they would prohibit the sponsorship of other events includ tion route would not be implemented until the new state highway is completed. According to Chong, the plan would increase the capacity of Main Street and decrease congestion, especially at the turnaround at the toD of the street. "We want to bring people immediately imme-diately to the parking area," the planner said. "A lot of people hunt for places on Main Street and then drive away. When the state highway comes . through, Swede Alley will have direct access. We want to get people to park their cars first and then visit Main Street." Part of the program would be to encourage the development of store fronts on Swede Alley. In addition, the parking area would be expanded by 150 parking stalls and the thoroughfare thorough-fare would be widened. The widening of the travel lanes would be made possible through land acquisitions in the area. Chong said parking structures were considered but rejected at this time. VanWagoner said parallel parking would be retained on both sides of Main Street. In conjunction with the new traffic flow and expanded parking, six pedestrian walkways are planned . between Swede Alley and Main Street. The locations of the covered paths would be next to. the Silver Wheel Page 3 Scott Lomax, an enterprising en-terprising 8th grader, has come up with the winning entry in the Park City Name the Bus Contest. Thursday, October 1 1 , 1 979 TED dJLvura jl jl jLM.iia.jL y The owner-manager of the Timber-haus Timber-haus ski shop was the top vote getter in Districts 1, 2 and 3, which cover from 15 Street south, and finished second in District 9, the city's largest district. Her 309 votes indicates that more than 50 percent of the voters ing theatrical, scholastic, artistic, and scientific," Mrs. Peterson said. "Tourism is big business in Utah, and skiing certainly attracts most of the visitors, so the commission probably isn't out to get ski areas. "Actually, I don't mind controls placed on consumption," she continued. con-tinued. "I had 11 friends killed in Brighton Canyon in four years when I was in high school because of drinking. So I can see why the commission is concerned. They just don't want companies giving liquor away, or encouraging consumption at events. But I think if we do our homework and prepare ourselves for an intelligent discussion at the hearing, we may be able to come away with a workable regulation." The director noted that in Colorado, what seemed to be a debilitating law eventually was watered down to a compromise situation between the liquor commission, liquor companies and companies seeking sponsorship. Mrs. Peterson said she has been working on the liquor question for only two days, but in that time has discovered why liquor companies are so attracted by sporting events. "They look for high profile events that will get big media coverage," the director said. "And I don't think the commission wants that to stop, but I Continued On Page 13 Theatre, Mama Teresa's, south of the public library, north oftity Hall, next to the Kindersport and possibly one near Skyline Realty at the north end of Main Street. The pedestrian access north of City Hall would be designed for wheelchairs wheel-chairs and handicapped parking and a public restroom equipped for the handicapped would be constructed nearby. The walkway by Mama Teresa's is scheduled for completion by this winter with the others slated to be finished by next winter. Also scheduled to be installed by this winter are a variety of signs. Directional signs will point visitors to Deer Valley, Main Street, Swede Alley, the resort and Prospector Square. Directories will be placed at the Main Street walkways showing the location of various businesses and public buildings. Maps showing the location of activity centers such as Deer Valley, Main Street, the resort, Park West, Prospector Square and the Kimball Art Center also will be placed in each of these areas except Park West. Public hearings on the proposals will begin in December, according to Chong, and residents and merchants will be invited to supply input on the recommndathns. tJ i--! II V supported Alvarez. A total of 1,757 votes were received ; by the 11 candidates. Since each voter could support three candidates, approximately ap-proximately 583 residents turned out for the primary. Park City has about 1,500 registered voters. Shellenberger was the second highest high-est vote getter with a 267 total. His strength grew as the votes from the north end of town came in and he carried Districts 4 and 9. Shellenberger, Shellen-berger, who serves as chairman of the Park City Fire Protection District, finished seven votes behind Alvarez in District 3, which runs from 15th Street south to 8th Street. Finishing third, only 16 votes behind Shellenberger, was Bill Bertagnole. The former planning commissioner and local rancher ran a campaign loosely allied with Alvarez and his support seemed to parallel hers. Bertagnole also openly demonstrated that his candidacy is supported by controversial former councilwoman Mary Lehmer. Tina Lewis garnered the fourth highest vote tally with a 197 total. Active in many community affairs and director of this year's highly successful Arts Festival, Lewis gained her strongest support from the north end of town. Incumbent City Councilwoman Eleanor Bennett finished in fifth place t St ' 1 ( , , - ' Jr i " r-: ' ! I f-.- ..: tf I . 300 Disco For Wireless Well in excess of 300 persons turned out last Friday night for a Rock n' Roll Revival Disco to raise money to help put a community, noncommercial non-commercial radio station on the air in Park City. According to Wireless spokesman Blair Feulner, over $1,000 was. raised at the private party held at the Rusty Nail. "Once again, I think the most important im-portant thing is that this demonstrates demon-strates the town is behind the radio project," commented Feulner, who said the money would be used for the purchase of the station's antenna. The radio project has been underway under-way for nearly a year, with Community Com-munity Wireless of Park City, a not-for-profit corporation, being formed to obtain a license from the federal government. The group submitted a 157-page application for the station to the Federal Communications Commission Com-mission in Washington, D.C. five months ago. Page 11 Park High surprised Dugway last Friday, coming up with six interceptions in-terceptions and a convincing con-vincing victory. ((Park City's only locally owned newspaper &jljlwjliul4i iacs PRIMARY ELECTION RESULTS DISTRICTS Candidates 1 2 3 4 9 Total Helen Alvarez 62 59 62 13 113 309 Eleanor Bennett 38 42 43 13 57 193 William Bertagnole 59 48 48 12 84 251 Anne Burnett 4 3 7 1 10 25 Diana Harding 4 1 5 1 16 27 Gregory Lawson 24 30 30 11 88 183 Tina Lewis 22 25 29 15 106 197 Tom Shellenberger 36 30 55 16 130 267 Richard Shoff 13 7 21 6 58 105 Henry Verrone 13 5 17 1 20 56 with 193 votes. Bennett's constituency was fairly consistent in the south end of town but her support waned in important District 9. The final qualifier for the November 6 general election was Planning Commissioner Greg Lawson. Lawson accumulated 183 votes, 39 ahead of seventh place Bill Traeger, and his appeal was evenly spread throughout the town. While voter turnout was below 40 percent for the city as a whole, in District 9 an estimated 253 of 418 registered voters cast ballots. This Bill Bertagnole (left) and Eleanor Bennett aid "I know it s lougn lor people to understand un-derstand why its taking the FCC so long to reveiw our application, but that's just how things work in Washington," says Feulner. "The important things is that we know the engineering section has passed review and that this basically means we will get approval what we don't know is exactly when," he said, noting the group has spent several hundred dollars in long distance telephone calls trying to get a definite timetable from the FCC. "They have thousands of applications ap-plications on file back there and they just don't want to commit themselves on when they will give us approval," he says. In the meantime, Feulner said, the group will continue to work to raise the money necessary to get the station on the air, once FCC approval is given. "It would be foolish to sit back and do nothing until we get FCC approval.. ap-proval.. ..that would cost us a couple of Number Four computes to 61 percent. District 9 encompasses Thaynes Canyon, Holiday Holi-day Ranch, Park Meadows and Prospector Village. In District 1 (4th Street south) an estimated 32 percent of the voters turned out. The figure for District 2 (8th Street to 4th Street including Deer Valley) was 44 percent while District 3 (15th Street to 8th Street) had a 31 percent showing. The turnout for District 4 (the intersection of Highways 248 and 224 to 15th Streets was roughly 20 percent. their own causes months at least.' "If we can raise $10,000 by the time we get the approval, we will be in a position to put the station on the air in a very short period of time," he said. Feulner, who covers Wasatch and Summit Counties for the Salt Lake Tribune and works for a Salt Lake radio station on weekends, said Wireless currently is working on several grant applications and negotiating with Salt Lake stations on equipment donations. "If things go well the next couple of weeks, I think we aie going to have some very exciting announcements in the near future." And he concluded by asking residents to be patient during the FCC review process. "Myself and a lot of other people have invested one hell of a lot of time and energy in this project and we're going to see it through," Feulner said. "Park City will have a community radio station." Dry and mild weather expected through the weekend. High temperatures wiWbe in the 70s with lows in the 30s: |