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Show Page A6 Thursday, May 7, 1981 The Newspaper f hadi hot Volunteers start work on Miners Hospital REMEMBER MOM? THE PLANT PLANT IS REMEMBERING WITH A SPECIAL MOTHER'S DAY SALE! I; FROM MAY 1ST - 9TH ALL MERCHANDISE 10 20 OFF WIDE VARIETY OF FOILAGE ORIGINAL WATERCOLORS SILK ARRANGEMENTS PLANTFLORAL COMBINATIONS LOCATED BEHIND THE GIFT STORE IN THE DESIGN COALITION BUILDING 610 MAIN STREET USE THE NORTH SIDE ENTRANCE. HOURS-MON.-SAT.: 11:00-6:00 649-6907 SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE The Miners Hospital is rich in memories, and not all of them are ancient. That was brought home to Tina Lewis and the small army that descended on the hospital Saturday. One of the workers wandered into a room and suddenly realized, "I was born here!" The hospital, moved in late 1979 from near the resort to a location east of Park Avenue, now is being considered con-sidered as a new library. Lewis and about 30 volunteers volun-teers gave it a spring cleaning on Saturday morningtearing mor-ningtearing off window boards, carrying out loose garbage, and removing old plumbing, bathroom fixtures (a soap dish with the soap still there!) and beds. Older residents watched the work, said Lewis, and reminisced about going into the hospital to have a leg mended or an appendix removed. Lewis said her crew of "rabid workers" has more work ahead of them. They must tear down several temporary walls (built when the hospital served as a flophouse in the '60s), tear plaster off to find the original walls, and remove the 8-foot ceilings to reveal the building's old 10-foot ceilings. "The floors had ten different coverings we had to rip off," she said. "There's a carpet, and eight to nine layers of linoleum." Some of the original walls will get new studs. Architect Wally Cooper watched as the workers removed the original wood moldings from the walls. They will be refinished, said Lewis, and put back in place. She also said the project had made a little over $100 selling the bathroom fixtures and dozens of old beds in the building. The proposed library will use some of the hospital's llSM 1! r n r TTfT" 1 i;iillllllli'r-t1 i " I . "IMHIIIMll . a... ' """J" L njm.-. jrVgrrilJt ., ,lm 'g'ig" n , f ilHillilli'iiy,.)fc,. "'f wmT Jt' --' 'JLxL zs&iS. Spring has sprung! This collection of old bed springs was dragged out of the Miners Hospital during Saturday's spring cleaning. original artifacts, Lewis said. An old operating table and embalming table will be exhibited. A doctor's dumbwaiter, dumb-waiter, operated by pulley wheels, would transport library books. "The top floor has dormer windows with windowseats," she said. "The windows are on rope pulleys, and they have transoms." tran-soms." Plans also call for the building to have enough modern conveniences to meet fire codes handicapped handicap-ped access, outside exits for each floor, and a sprinkler system. Lewis called the library a volunteer community effort. Even though a $500,000 bond issue for the building is being considered by the city, Lewis H f is. A s ' -J" "'-ro it v ' it - " 'I i'i y .i.t- sm jm$Hhh'3-w i-T-a.M;. D 5 said that will provide only the basics $100,000 for new books, $100,000 for furnishings fur-nishings and $300,000 for restoration. If they want a chandelier for the main lobby, lob-by, that must come via private donation. "Once the project gets going, we'll get pledges from all sorts," she said. "When I think of all the history that has walked through that building....", Lewis said. She called the project a bridge between old and new Park City. "It was originally built with donations and community effort. Now it's being restored the same way." Vet clinic wins zone change Plans for a new building for the White Pine Veterinary Clinic moved a step closer, to reality Tuesday when the Summit County Commission approved ap-proved a zone change for the site of Interstate 80. "The next hurdle is the financing of the project," veterinarian Dr. Keith Lund told The Newspaper. Lund said the Summit County Planning Commission Com-mission already has given its approval for the project. Plans fall for a 3.6000-square foot building to house a large animal clinic, a small animal clinic, an enclosed treatment area, a surgery room and kennels. The building is to be erected on a site adjacent to the clinic's temporary facility, one-third one-third of a mile west of Kimball Kim-ball Junction on the north frontage road. Lund said he hopes the new building will be completed com-pleted by September or October. Oc-tober. Still in question are the county's plans for a dog pound to be built in conjunction conjunc-tion with the new clinic.. "That's still being discussed," Lund said. "There's nothing firm on that. The veterinary clinic will be built, regardless." Lund indicated he has two sets of plans, one incorporating incor-porating the pound, and one without the pound. He said the pound could be added at a later date. "But I would prefer to add it on when the clinic is being built." City studies tax break for senior citizens 1 Local senior citizens on fixed incomes have expressed ex-pressed concern recently that if a proposed city bond passes in an election, they won't te able to pay the subsequent sub-sequent increase in property taxes. But City Manager Arlene Loble said the city may be able to help. Loble said Monday that she has asked City Attorney Mike McCoy to research the legality of implementing a plan that was used in Helena, Montana, where she once served on the city staff. In Helena, she said, a pool was set up that paid for a senior citizen's bond assessment for city improvements. im-provements. In return, the city placed a lien on the property. "When the house was probated or sold, the money was returned to the city with interest," Loble said. "The city improvements could be made with literally no cost to those citizens in their lifetime. "In Helena, the seniors wanted the improvements," she continued. But, as we heard in the bond hearing the other night in Park City, they thought the projects were nice, but they couldn't afford them. This gets to the T can't afford it' group." Loble emphasized that "This doesn't mean we forgive them their portion of the taxes. The money comes out of the general fund until the property is sold and the money is returned to the pool." She commented that it could be possible to not require senior citizens to pay their share of the improvements, im-provements, but added that that would mean the rest of the citizens would be paying more. "If we could do this pool legally in Utah, it would be a good thing to do," Loble said. McCoy could not be reached to comment on whether Utah state statute would allow the city to offer tax breaks to older residents. Lawsuit filed by woman who fell from gondola A California woman who fell out of a moving gondola car more than two years ago filed a complaint in federal district court last week against the Park City Resort. According to Marylou Whipple, she was riding alone in the gondola from the Summit House to the base of the Resort on March 23, 1979. She said she was sitting on the edge of the seat trying to take a photograph out of the window when the safety Summit County Planning Commission May 12 Meeting, 7:30 p.m. Courthouse, Coalville 7:30p.m. Vaugh Bitner - Requests for Master Plan approval for Commercial area (Mobile Home Court and Motel) north of Interstate 80 between Kimball's and Silver Creek Junctions. 8:00 p.m. LaVar Engle - Wester International Corp. - Request for Conditional Use Permit for mining operation east of Prospector Square near Park City. 8:15 p.m. Jim Webster - Request for Conditional Condition-al Use Permit for Planned Unit Development De-velopment of Lot 16, Plat A, Parkwest Village Subdivision (PUD requested to allow construction of up to 6 units on a 3 acre parcel). 8:45 p.m. Jim Webster - Silver Springs Development Develop-ment - Preliminary plat approval, final fi-nal plat approval Phase 1-C Silver Springs Development (2 lots.) 9:00 p.m. Jack Roberts - Parkwest Development, Develop-ment, Inc. - EIS approval proposed Red Pine Lodge - Final Plat approval Phase 4 Red Pine Chalets Final Plat approval - Red Pine Townhouses. 9:30 p.m. Max (ireenhalg - Bagley and Co. Review of revised jeremy Ranch Master Plan. chain on the door broke and she fell out. She dropped approximately ap-proximately 60 feet and landed lan-ded in soft snow near the waterfall run. Shortly after the accident, Mrs. Whipple told The Newspaper that skiers in another gondola saw her fall, and reported it to the Ski Patrol. She was rescued about a half hour later, she estimated, and was taken first to the Resort Medical Clinic, and then to Holy Cross Hospital. At the time, no serious physical injuries were reported, although Mrs. Whipple told The Newspaper that she had suffered suf-fered psychological damage. According to Salt Lake City attorney Ralph Dews-nup, Dews-nup, he has filed suit against the Resort on Whipple's Whip-ple's behalf on five counts: negligence, liability for furnishing fur-nishing defective equipment, common carrier liability, breach of warranty, and punitive damages. In addition ad-dition to punitive damages, Dewsnup has asked that the woman be awarded compensation compen-sation for medical expenses and loss of income totaling $667,000. The Resort's attorney, Jay Jensen of Salt Lake, said he was not prepared to respond to the suit since he has yet to receive a copy of the complaint, com-plaint, which was filed April 28. He noted that once he receives the document, he has 20 days to respond. |