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Show Wasatch Mountains do job, lure another one to Park City Park Record Thursday, July 31, 1986 PageAII by JIM SMEDLEY Record staff writer Jeff Murray decided to come to Park City for a winter to check out thesk'irg. He liked it so much that he decided to con-e back for another winter. And then he decided to cut out the traveling between Utah and Oregon and make Old Town in Park City his home. He loves the mountains and finds Park City well suited for his two favorite leisure activities skiing and mountain bike racing. "I lived in Bend (Ore.) to ski and go to Central Oregon Community College. And then a friend, Randy Steib, and I decided to come to Utah to check out the skiing," Murray said. "We sent applications to Snowbird and Park City and then came to Salt Lake City one weekend for interviews. "Snowbird was interested in hiring hir-ing us, as was the Resort. We decided decid-ed that living in Park City would be more fun, so we took the jobs at the Resort," Murray added. Murray and his friend worked here for the 1984-85 ski season. "After the ski season I was planning plan-ning on staying out here, but I couldn't find work," Murray said "I had a good offer from some people back in Bend, so I went back to Oregon. However, the guy I ended up working for went bankrupt and I decided to come back to Park City in the fall." Murray arrived in Park City in late October of 1985 and worked through the ski season as a lift operator for the Resort and for the Ski Connection. When the winter ended he took a job with Steve Gower Concrete. He is certain he will be laid off in the fall and plans to work with the Ski Connection again in the winter. In between work he finds time for recreation. In the past winters he has been alpine skiing and then mountain biking as soon as the snow melts. He said this winter he plans to New Neighbors NX 1 4 Jeff Murray came to Park City to ski and decided to stay. do more nordic and track skiing to put him in better shape for mountain biking. Murray is one of the top mountain bike racers in this area. Currently he is leading the Snug Series with two wins and a second-place finish. He and mountain bikes go way back, as far as the relatively young sport is concerned. "Six years ago we used to strip old Schwins and then take them off-road. off-road. There were no factory-made bikes then. When you consider that we had to get new wheels, gears and other things and that there was a lot of trial and error, the sport became expensive," Murray said. Two years ago Murray raced for Team Outback, sponsored by a bicycle bicy-cle manufacturer in Bend. That year he did well in a stage race in Crested Butte, Col., and then went to the Nationals Na-tionals at Lake Eldora, outside of Boulder. He said he was "right up there" until a breakdown forced him to dropout of the race. "I like mountain bike racing because it's so much like skiing. You have to deal with ever-changing terrain ter-rain and with things as they come up," Murray said. "Also, riding a mountain bike is more comfortable because you're upright when you're riding. The mountain bike is also not as demanding as road bikes and easier to ride." He said he also entered the Wasatch Runner mountain bike series and while he has been competitive, com-petitive, he has not won yet. He saw his best chance for a win go by the boards when he took a wrong turn just a couple of hundred yards before the finish line. Murray was leading by a good margin when he took a right-hand turn to travel down a hill and head toward the start line. To get to the race's finish line he would have had to take a left and finish uphill. He said not having knowledge of the course, because he never pre-runs pre-runs a course, is one of his weak points in mountain bike racing. He should learn from experience. He made a pre-run of Park City befors landing here, didn't he? Five plead guilty to DUI Five persons pleaded guilty of driving under the influence of alcohol during Fifth Circuit Court action last week. Garth Ford, 823 Prospector Square Hotel, pleaded guilty of DUI, was given a $200 fine, and was also sentenced with a $150 alcohol treatment treat-ment fee and a $100 victim restitution restitu-tion fee. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail, and all but two days were suspended upon payment of his fines. The court ordered him to serve two days of community service ser-vice work in lieu of the jail sentence, and he was placed on six months of court probation. David M. Pyne, 512 Pioneer Ave., Tooele, pleaded guilty to DUI and was sentenced with a $225 fine, $150 alcohol treatment fee and $100 victim vic-tim restitution fee. He was given a 60-day jail sentence, and all but 10 days were suspended upon payment PATCH postpones meeting All members of the Planned Approach Ap-proach to Community Health coalition coali-tion should be informed that the August Phase III and IV PATCH workshops have been postponed until un-til September 3 and 4. Bonnie Lochner, PATCH coordinator, coor-dinator, said due to the length and involvement with the gathering and editing of the data collected from the Summit County telephone survey, the meetings had to be cancelled. The September workshops will be held at the Summit CityCounty Courthouse in Coalville at 9 a.m. both days. Court Watch of the fines. Pyne was placed on six months of probation with Adult Probation Pro-bation and Parole. JameyB. Marcellin, 963 Empire Ave., pleaded guilty to DUI and was given a $225 fine, a $100 victim restitution fee and a $150 alcohol treatment fee. He was sentenced to do 20 hours of community service work, and was placed on one year of probation with Adult Probation and Parole. Joan B. Harling, 1451 Park Ave., pleaded guilty to DUI and was given a $250 fine, as well as a $100 victim restitution fee and a $150 alcohol treatment fee. She was sentenced to serve 30 days in jail, with all but two days suspended upon payment of the fines. She was ordered to spend the two remaining days in the Summit County Jail, and was placed on one year of probation with Adult Probation Proba-tion and Parole. John Hansen, 1776 Kearns Blvd., pleaded guilty to DUI and was sentenced to spend 30 days in jail. All but two days of the jail sentence were suspended upon paying a $200 fine, a $100 victim restitution fee, and a $75 alcohol treatment fee. 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