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Show Page 6 Thursday, August 21 1980 I ho Newspaper Mormons Leave Town But They Will Return The Advantage is with NANCY i Six years active involvement Six children in school district Supported by teachers and parents Motivated Innovative Dedicated ( V - Vote KYES For Nancy McComb for School District No. 3 . ,v . 1 . ;-"V Bea Kummer Jmria;fj)m - . Proposed new Park City Ward Chapel to be constructed near the high school. GLUMJH Bea, Chamber Offer New Tours Claimjumper Restaurant ? JAYS i WEES S 10 WEIKDSYS S 11 WEEKENDS Main Street 649-6051 For years, conventioneers have received VIP I regiment, regi-ment, lots of exercise, ami .1 vast amount of knowledge when they have had the foresight to schedule a Historic Walking Tour with Bea Kummer. Return overnight guests or friends of those who have taken Bea's walk frequently request impromtu tours. Up until now, Bea's schedule hasn't permitted such flexibility. flex-ibility. Public demand and increased popularity has prompted the Chamber of Commerce and Bea to combine com-bine efforts, providing weekly week-ly walking tours for the general public. Tours will originate Wednesdays outside out-side the Memorial Building (427 Main Street) at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Tours will cost $1.00 per person, last 1-2 hours, and respond to the interest of the individuals in the group. Included in the personalized weekly tours offered by the 'The biggest street walker 111 Park City,' will be local points of interest (City Hall and it's dungeon, and the evolution of local buildings), local architecture, highlighted highlight-ed by tid-bits of history not always found in the history books! Historic Main Street merchants who have unique historical decor and who would welcome Bea's groups to visit their establishment are encouraged to contact the Chamber of Commerce. Merchants and residents are encouraged to tell customers and friends of this new community service Bea will continue to schedule sche-dule convention, group, and school tours tor a nominal fee. Individuals who visit Park City other than on Wednesday- are invited to pick up a tree Walking Tour brochure at the Chamber of Comnmenv (Room 103, Holiday Inn am! take a self-guided tour il 'lie Main Street district. It's been a tumultuous century cen-tury for Mormons in Park City. There was a time when Mormon men were expelled from the mines if they made their religion known. There were in the past mobbings of LDS meetings. Church members lost a brand new chapel in the fire of 1898 and had to meet for awhile in the Jefferson School. Of course, there have been good times for the Park City Ward, too. Times have been so good recently the ward has grown so fast that the Mormons have found it necessary to move to a larger meetinghouse. This week, the Park City Ward will move to its temporary home at Kimball Junction while waiting for a new Park City Ward Chapel to be built. Last Sunday, August 17 saw the last official meetings held at the LDS Church at 1113 Woodside. It was a sentimental and somewhat sad day for the congregation, especially for those longtime Park City residents who had helped construct the Woodside Chapel some 40 years ago. It took some sacrifice to build during the Depression, and the building symbolizes heroic efforts of Mormon Parkites over the years. The old building, now up for sale, has seen a lot of history. But it no longer has the classroom, chapel, or parking space to accommodate accom-modate churchgoers. The new facility, with its 25,000 square feet of space, has many features to make the move worth the trouble. The building will be the official of-ficial home of the Mountain View and Snyderville wards. But the Park City Ward will use the new chapel only until a new meetinghouse can be constructed on its property at the corner of Monitor and Lucky John Drives near the high school. Hopefully, funds for the new building will be L -i f 1 nt. : i . . 1 ETONIC CLEATS 40 OFF Also: Nike Waffle I, reg. $29.95, Sale $23.96 Nike Waffle II, reg. $33.95, Sale $27.16 Brooks Vantage, reg. $32.95, Sale $26.35 20pff allTopsiders 50 off assorted athletic shoes ji.ixiwj syngas mwnwwgsm' , ' ' - 1 X . s - , "& 11 v t " , " A v Xi 4 10-6 Daily, Sun. 628 Park Ave. 6 iitiiier NkiVNiM il MOTHEKLODE' condominium: AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ... 2 bed room. 2 bath elegant Victorian style residences located in the historic Main Street area. For information call RSVP 649-6655 or Hal Taylor 649-8181. A development of the MacQuoid Company. raised by January 1, 1981. Meanwhile, ward members mem-bers will make use of the 20 classrooms, the carpeted basketball court, and the large, air-conditioned chapel with its plush padded seats and generous legroom in the new building at Kimball Junction. The dedication of the new-facility new-facility will be 3 p.m. Sun day. August 24th, with President Ezra Taft Benson presiding. Elder Benson is president of the Council of the Twelve, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The public is welcome to attend. at-tend. Since this transition time has stirred up memories for Park City Mormons, they nave decided to share their new history, and their meetinghouse, at an open house. The occasion will salute "Old Park City" and will be held Friday night, September 26, at 7 p.m. The whole town of Park City, residents and visitors, is invited in-vited to drive down to Kimball Kim-ball Junction that night and celebrate this milestone with the Park City Ward. IP Lloyd Stevens reported to police the theft of more than $3,000 worth of items from the Bucket on Main Street sometime between August 16 and 17. The thief apparently entered through a back window win-dow and took the computer entry system, teletype printer prin-ter and stand, a 19-inch color television and a microwave oven. Another robbery left a four-plex on Lowell Avenue without $4,000 worth of furniture fur-niture August 13. Missing were four color televisions, six mirror cube tables, seven director's chairs, and a three-drawer pecan chest. Police still are investigating both robberies. Ricky Blair of Park City reported to police that he struck a man hole cover August 11, causing extensive damage to his 1975 Ford four-wheel drive truck. Blair said he was driving on the road, which is under construction, con-struction, and sunlight temporarily tem-porarily blinded him, so that he didn't see the raised man hole cover. -Billy Nielson of Salt Lake City was robbed of his bicycle parked in front of McWilly's in the Holiday Village Shopping Center August 12! Police Chief Mike Crowley reminded cyclists that bikes should be secured with a padlock or parked in a conspicuous location so that the owner can see it. "People should understand under-stand that officers are just doing their job; they shouldn't take it personally," per-sonally," said Mike Crowley. The . police chief was referring to the fact that officer of-ficer Ray Benzon's home was egged August 14. The officer's of-ficer's home is on Park Meadows Drive, and apparently ap-parently his wife returned home that night to discover the dripping remains of eggs on the front door. It also appeared ap-peared as though someone had entered the basement, since a light was on that previously was not, but nothing seemed to have been stolen. Nolice to whomever has been ransacking the coin boxes in the laundry room of the Homestake condominiums: con-dominiums: the locks have been changed. The condo manager said the money has been disappearing on a regular basis, and it apparently ap-parently is the work of someone with a key. You'll have to find your own change now to do your laundry. sarlkeitpllaic Guidelines for Main Street a By David Hampshire The timing couldn't have been better. During the past six weeks Main Street merchants mer-chants have been trying to form an effective organization, one which will help the group to set some realistic goals for itself. As if on cue, a marketing survey has been released which should give the merchants some invaluable help in establishing a sense of direction for the group. Prepared by Bonnie Bedford, administrative ad-ministrative assistant at the Park City Chamber of Commerce,, the report summarizes sum-marizes the answers to questionnaires distributed to 186 visitors and 58 residents during the last ski season. A survey also was conducted among the Main Street merchants themselves : 27 responded. The questionnaire presented to tourists and residents focused on three general areas: why do you go to Main Street, what do you think of what's there, and what should be there that isn't? - In view of the number of restaurants on the street, it is no surprise that the most common reason given for visiting the area was "for a meal." The number two preference listed was "shopping." "When asked to indicate a time (for shopping), shop-ping), 43.2 percent stated they would shop between 3 and 6 p.m., while 33.3 percent indicated in-dicated they would shop after 6 p.m.," Ms. Bedford notes. Although about three quarters of those surveyed sur-veyed knew that Main Street is an historic district, few listed history as the reason for visiting the street. "It appears then that historical appeal is an inadequate attraction for the psychographic skiing segment, or that the district is not being marketed appropriately as an historic attraction," Ms. Bedford concludes. Although "liquor" was not listed as a choice on the survey, it got several votes anyway. Fourteen people said their reason for visiting Main Street would be to go to the liquor store. Of this number, six were residents, eight were visitors. "The fact that these were write-ins by the respondents is a fairly good indication that a Main Street liquor store is a significant draw," Ms. Bedford notes. "Seven of the 27 Main Street business respondents indicated a need for a liquor store, once the decision to close Rosie's was made, and this concern is certainly justified." She recommends that the merchant association lobby for a package liquor store before the start of the 1980-81 ski season. A curious discrepancy occurred when Ms. Bedford asked both visitorsresidents and merchants to whom they felt the Main Street shops catered. In the visitorresident survey, only 6.6 percent said they felt the shops catered to the residents. However, a third of the merchants surveyed said they catered to the resident population. While she doesn't attempt to explain this difference in perceptions, she does offer this piece of advice: "Most important ... is the fact that by catering to (he resident population, the business person will realize a certain degree of free and valuable prumnlion. An endor senient of a local establisiniieiii uy a local resident will greatly increase the likelihood of that visitor patronizing a business. This social channel, characteristically known as "word of mouth" influence, is a major channel, especially in the consumer products area." A question about the attitude of personal in Main Street businesses produced a positive response. Eighty-eight percent of the visitor resident population saw the personnel as friendly and helpful. When asked what businesses were needed for Main Street, the respondents came up with a wide range of answers. On top of the list (with 29 votes) was a grocery or convenience con-venience store. (Remember these answers were provided before the Main Street Deli was expanded.) Second on the list was a clothing store ( 16 votes ) . Ms. Bedford also noticed a feeling about the need for more imaginative stores. "One individual commented, 'Main Street needs more artscrafts shops. Make old Park City a center for creativity.' This seems to be the general consensus among many of those surveyed." Among other types of businesses listed were places to go dancing, a drug store, a wine store, a fast food restaurant, a gourmet kitchen shop, a bakeryconfection shop, an auto parts store, a stereo store, and a store which sells and repairs shoes. As might have been predicted, transportation transpor-tation was seen as one of the city's major problem areas. There were a number of critical remarks directed at the bus system. Here is a sample: "For out-of-state visitors, the biggest impediments im-pediments to shopping, etc., is transportation. For outlying rentals (lodging), the transportation transpor-tation is impossible. Next time we'll need to rentacar." "Park City needs a better shuttle system comparable to AspenVail. This system, at present, is inadequate. It does not run on schedule and is inconvenient to use. Better shuttle will reduce use of cars." However, in spite of these remarks, less than a quarter of those surveyed (24 percent) listed the bus system as poor. Another third rated it as fair. Parking on Main Street was also seen as a source of problems. Almost half of the completed com-pleted surveys said parking was poor (48.2 percent) while another 30 percent called it fair. The general appearance of Main Street received a great deal of attention from the visitors. A number of complaints were lodged about the amount of litter. Several comments were focused on the need for longer hours for. Main Street businesses. "Retailers must examine whether hiring extra help might not more than pay for itself with extended shop hours." argues Ms. Bedford. "If the entire district were able to advertise consistent evening hours cooperatively, then the draw to shop would have a far-reaching impact." Ms. Bedford's conclusions have been presented to the Chamber's board of directors, direc-tors, and are offered to the Main Street merchants mer-chants as a guide for future planning and development. They, too. could have a far-reaching im-p.ict im-p.ict . |