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Show t Park City, Utah 25 Vol. VI, No. 30 Thursday, April 9, 1981 2 Sections, 24 Pages 1 1 1; rX!Til iiiiUr-" mi Kin 7 i ; v I What are you looking at , Bozo? See Park City's April Fools on page A10 TfoeFe eave "This was a time when something had to be done. But it has been done in a meat-cleaver way." Q: What is Major Jack Green talking about here? If you answered "federal budget cuts," move ahead ten spaces. You may not, however, collect $200. Money is scarce enough! Park City is beginning to learn how the Reagan budget-cutting program affects af-fects the city's ability to receive aid from the federal government. Two-thirds Two-thirds of the cuts will hit programs that are funded at the state and local level, Green said. Some cities will lose as much as 14 of their budgets. Green and City Finance Director, Ric Jentzsch, pointed out that the private developer will face hard times also, but he has options that government agencies agen-cies don't have. While the city must have revenue bonding or general obligation bonds approved by the voters, the developer has a borrowing capacity that is not dependent on an election, the mayor said. "He can put his assets up, and borrow on future revenues," he added. Green and Jentzsch went down the line, noting areas where the federal money tap is drying up, and or has been shut off completely: Money for sidewalks and housing. The city obtained $515,000 in August of 1979 through a Community Development Develop-ment Bloc Grant, said Jentzch. Of that amount, about $40,000 is left-enough for a block's worth of sidewalk construction. construc-tion. "If you made responsible application to the government, you usually could get the bloc grant," said Jentzsch. "But each succeeding year, they've made OS til rn off the faucet, Park City with the drips the criteria harder." The city applied for a housing rehabilitation grant to continue con-tinue the work started by the 1979 money, but lost the bid in a decision announced an-nounced this February. "They were hard enough to come by before," said Green. "But now, they propose to cut the bloc grants by 25." A new water pipe for main street. The lack of bloc grants also hinders this project, but Green said the City might possibly finance the construction through the Redevelopment Agency. Law enforcement. The city possibly could lose police grants which it has been receiving for at least three years prior to 1981, said Jentzsch. The last grant amounted to $18,900 and $16,000 the year before that. Water projects and street rehabilitation through the Economic Development Administration. Green said that an EDA grant, along with $600,000 borrowed from the Farm Home Administration, financed the one million gallon Empire Reservoir. Green said the chances for obtaining further EDA money is remote. Mass transit. As The Newspaper reported some weeks back, the city bus Stars will be falling on Park City slopes Talk about fodder for the National Enquirer. Park City will be bursting at the seams with celebrities this weekend as the town hosts the sixth annual United States Ski Team Celebrity Invitational. Leading the list of superstars will be World Cup champion Phil Mahre, fresh from his dramatic triumph over Inge-mar Inge-mar Stenmark at Laax, Switzerland. Also present will be the man most qualified to do a Phil Mahre imitation: twin brother Steve, who happened to finish fourth in the World Cup standings. stand-ings. Also present for the festivities will be Tamara McKinney, women's giant slalom sla-lom World Cup champion; Holly Flanders, Flan-ders, U.S. women's downhill champion; Doug Powell, U.S. men's downhill champion; and Cindy Nelson, U.S. women's slalom champion. Other members of the U.S. Ski Team expected for the fundraiser will be Abbi Fisher, Pete Patterson, Kerry Lynch, Jeff Davis, Joanne Musolf , Pat Eng-berg Eng-berg and Dan Simoneau. Also on hand will be Park City's Roxanne Toly. Okay, now for the movie stars. Listed as "possible" are Robert Redford and Clint Eastwood. Listed as probable are Barbi Benton, Susan St. James, Sam Melville, Susan George, Hal Linden, Adam West, Jimmy McNichol, Sonny Bono, Suzy Coehlo, Max Gail (Wojo from Barny Miller), JoAnn Pflug (Lt. Dish from the original version of MASH), "Lipquencher" model Maude system has obtained a grant for capital improvements. But the federal picture for future money is not rosy, said green. "Urban transit grants are being cut by $950 million and $100 million has been cut from mass transit operating subsidies." sub-sidies." What then is in the future for Park City, a city torn between predictions of phenomenal growth and the present need to tighten the belt? Jack Green could not say. He shrugged his shoulders, smiled wearily, and said, "We'll have to have more austere government operation." Adams, and game show host Chuck Woolery. Also listed as "possible" is Today Show host Tom Brokaw. His appearance appear-ance depends on whether the launch of the Space Shuttle goes as planned. Friday's schedule calls for race clinics and challenge races to be held on the Park City Ski Area's Claimjumper run beginning at 9:30 a.m. The Cowboy Bar will hold dinner and entertainment for the participants Friday evening from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. Challenge races will begin again at 9:45 a.m. Saturday on Claimjumper. A "Best of the Celebrities Race" is scheduled for 1 p.m., and a "Grudge Race" at 3 p.m. That evening's entertainment enter-tainment will wrap up the festivities at the Shadow Ridge Hotel. If the water don't get ya, the snowsnak es will Take a bunch of skiers, add a dash of imagination, and you'll end up with the strangest concoctions. Imaginative sportsmen have been known to combine skiing with just about anything. Take the biathlon, for example. The combination of nordic skiing and target shooting has such a following that it's now an Olympic sport. The Park City Recreation Department De-partment held its own version, a modified biathlon combining nordic skiing with snowball throwing, earlier this season. Then there's paraskiing. It takes a real flair to combine skiing with skydiving, sky-diving, but there's a group of about 200 people in the United States doing just that. So it should come as no surprise that someone has come up with the idea of combining skiing and sailing. Actually, the idea isn't new. Europeans Euro-peans have been holding ski-sail races for some time. And the concept was first unveiled in Utah in 1974. The two individuals who brought the idea to the Beehive State were Ulrich Holland and Bill Ligety. Holland has since moved back to Germany, but Ligety is now Park City's planning director. "It's something that's very popular in Reagan attacked for environmental stand People are still being poisoned, but coal is starting to get its civil rights. The new administration in Washington Washing-ton is turning its back on the environmental environ-mental ethic in favor of greater exploitation exploi-tation of the country's natural resources. re-sources. So said Miles Lord, keynote speaker at the third annual Park City Environmental Health Conference being held through Friday at Prospector Prospec-tor Square. Lord noted that the Carter administration adminis-tration had attempted to place some restrictions on the use of the country's resources. "All at once we've elected a leader of our country who moves in the opposite way, who says we must mine the coal, cut the forest, develop the oil." Lord said the change in government put the fox in the chicken coop. "The people who are in charge of regulatory agencies now, were once the worst enemies of those agencies." While acknowledging that energy development is necessary, Lord said the new administration is going to great lengths to argue its case for increased mineral production. He referred to the recent relaxation of controls on strip mining of coal. "Human attributes now go to coal," he said, "and in the eyes of the government, it has a right to be mined." Miles Lord is a S. District Judge in Minnesota, and is well known in that state for his stand on environmental issues. He handled the case in which the Reserve Mining Company was sued for dumping taconite tailings, which contain con-tain asbestos, into Lake Superior. He also preceeded Walter Mondale as Minnesota's attorney general. While clearly no admirer of Ronald Reagan, Lord was even more critical of America's large corporations for their lack of concern about people and the world they live in. Lord accused the country's corporations corpora-tions of putting the profit motive ahead of conservation and pollution control. He said that, until recently, life was not measured in monetary terms. "Today you have the cost-benefit analysis where you weigh how much a human life is worth. When you put a price on the priceless, all is lost." Too often, lie said, companies will wait until action is taken against them before cleaning up their act. He paraphrased para-phrased their attitude this way: "You can go ahead and poison the people. If it gets bad enough, the federal government govern-ment will take action. If it doesn't get bad enough, you can deny all responsibility." responsi-bility." Lord argued that corporations weed out the people- ;r. their own ranks who try to blow the whistle when they see environmental abuses taking place. "To me, it is sickening to see that code enforced in the highest moral, ethical and business circles." He said universities are not immune to this code because they are so depe ;nt in subsidies from industry. "Theio'sa erer deal of orientation, even in ace. .. a, toward the profit motive." There are too many cases where organized labor is willing to side with industry to protect the jobs of its workers. Lord said. "It's not easy to tell someone he doesn't have a job because he's producing poison." He accused the news media of devoting devot-ing too much time and space to criminal cases, and too little time to civil disputes, such as the Reserve Mining case, which have more far-reaching far-reaching implications. Europe, and that's where Ulrich got the idea for it," Ligety recalled. In its first few years, the race was restricted to two classes of sailboat : the Laser and the Hobie Cat "16." The competition involved ski racing at Snowbird and sailboat racing on Utah Lake. "In the years that I was involved with it, we held it on Utah Lake because the water was warmer there," Ligety said. "I think it had the potential for being a big national draw," he continued. "We promoted it pretty hard for about three years. We had competitors from Florida, New Jersey, Minnesota, all over the country." However, the drought put a damper on the event in 1977, and neither Ligety nor Holland were around to promote it the following year. "I think it has kind of lost momentum since then," Ligety said. "But Harry seems to be quite enthusiastic about it, and maybe it's back on the right track again." "Harry" is Park City realtor Harry Reed, who has been working hard to promote the ski-sail event this year, to be held Saturday and Sunday, April 11 and 12. Reed has added a few new twists this year: instead of at Snowbird, the ski races will be held at the Park City Ski Area. And instead of on Utah Lake, the sailing will be held on Deer Creek Reservoir. Dubbed the Park City Ski and Sail, this year's event has attracted interest from people throughout Utah and surrounding sur-rounding states, including Wyoming and California. Reed said he expects about 30 teams. As in previous years, Hobie Catamarans Cat-amarans will be well represented. But Reed also hopes to hold separate races forNacras (another type of catamaran) catama-ran) and for Windsurfers. Because of the temperature of the water at Deer Creek expected to be about 40 degrees all competitors will be required to wear wet suits. "But the Windsurfers have already been out there, and they say it hasn't been very cold," Reed said. As a precaution, rescue boats will be stationed near the course. The schedule calls for a welcoming party to be held at the Snowflower Condominiums in Park City on Friday. A skipper's meeting is planned for 11 a.m. Saturday at Deer Creek, with the races set to begin at noon. The ski racing will be held Sunday on the Clementine run, beginning at 11 a.m. "I've got some great news," Reed added Wednesday. "The weather report re-port says it's going to snow, so we're almost assured it won't." |