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Show salt it.'1 tit ' r- i I t V- I 1 ' The track 4i:v 'heats up '.p . ..;' . : Sports B7 CULLECTIO, Elks contribute A page of Utah: to Park City Limelight B2 Limelight B1 Uli HS1 '(Air.-' vl iN. Wfi .u, TTT IBB Charred by TERI GOMES Record editor Last year the Union Pacific Depot building celebrated its centennial with no fanfare. No fancy plaques or speeches by dignitaries recalled the train station's sta-tion's illustrious past. No one was reminded the one-time showplace of downtown cost just $5,000 to build in 1886. There wasn't a mention of how the place was first painted yellow and white, and was for decades the meeting place of Parkites. There was no celebration because there is little of the depot left to celebrate. Two years ago this week, someone lit a match to the historic structure, sending it into flames early on a Sunday Sun-day morning. Two police officers on routine patrol turned in the call, and by the time the fire chief arrived on the scene he said the entire south end of the building was engulfed. Firefighters put out the blaze, but because an excellerant had been used us-ed to speed up the arson most all that was familiar of the building was destroyed. Gone was the curly cue gingerbread ginger-bread woodwork arch on the second story. Gone was the graffiti scratched scratch-ed in the walls by generations of Parkites. Gone were the scalloped shingles. Gone was the pitched roof. Parkite under kidney transplant. by SENA TAYLOR Record staff writer Janet Ivory says she feels like a normal person again. For during the last several months of this 23-year-old's life, her kidneys have been failing, fail-ing, requiring her to undergo dialysis. But last Thursday she had surgery at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center to receive a new kidney, an operation that is especially especial-ly significant because it's National Donor Awareness Week April 26 to May 2. It's also Donor Awareness Year in Utah, following a resolution passed by the Utah Legislature in its 1987 session. "I don't feel sick," said Ivory, "I just feel so much better like a normal nor-mal person." She found out last September her kidneys were failing, and since that time has had dialysis each day a necessary thing that has required her to take four 20-minute blocks of time daily to cleanse her body of its toxins. Since that time she had to give up her job working at the Main Street Kiosk because she wasn't well enough. "Back in September I knew I'd need another kidney, but I had to go through a series of tests before I actually ac-tually could be put on a list to receive one. My doctor had told me that I might be on a list by April 23..." Little did she know April 23 would be the day she would receive a new kidney. "My mom and I went to Salt Lake for a doctor's appointment that day," she said, explaining that the people trying to contact her about her upcoming operaton were unsuccessful. unsuc-cessful. Messages were left around town at places where Ivory frequented, fre-quented, and one of those places was the Corner Shoppe, where Janet and and her mother stopped to buy a newspaper when they returned from Salt Lake. The manager of the Corner Shoppe, a friend of Janet's, informed inform-ed her the police had been looking for her. "I didn't know why the police would be looking for me," she said. "When my name came up on the list I didn't even know I was on it." But she soon found out that a kidney was available and that she needed to get back to Salt Lake for the operation. "I was really hyper on my way INDEX Business Calendar ii i JJraO, Depot -,,.7 5 tki i A' n 3 ff v. I 4 - At the time of the blaze the depot was in the process of being sold from Park City entrepreneur Randy Fields, to a California-based com- goes W9 J j f Janet Ivory back down, and I felt really weird about having the surgery," she said. "In one way it was a big relief knowing know-ing they had found a kidney for me, but I sort of didn't want to go through with it. I had real mixed feelings; I was both nervous and excited." ex-cited." She had surgery that same evening, even-ing, from 8 p.m. to 12:30 p.m., and immediately felt better the next day. Right now she's going through a rejection re-jection cycle, but according to doctors, doc-tors, that's to be expected. "The doctors doc-tors say it's normal to have three rejection re-jection cycles within the first six months you have a new kidney," said Ivory. "The kidney is flowing OK but I have to take special medications to treat the rejectidn." Janet's mother, Faye, says that although Janet "isn't out of the woods yet," the family is "really excited ex-cited about it and grateful for the donor. It was a really unselfish act by the family," she said, explaining that all they know about the donor was that she was a 23-year-old woman. Janet may get out of the hospital in a couple of weeks, but until then her mother says, "we feel she is in excellent hands here." (Janet's father is Robert Ivory, and the Ivorys have lived in Park City for a number of years.) After Janet goes home, she will have to have a month's bed rest during dur-ing which her visitors will have to be limited to her family. But the entire ordeal is well worth it, she says. "Dialysis was a pain," she says. "It will be nice not having to worry about that responsibility, and it will be nice to get involved in things again." ..A8 B5 ' , ft" 'r- Classifieds Columns Vol. 108, No. 12 3 Sections, 34 Pages Thursday, April is unchanged after two c ' ..... . 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They also noted comments from law enforcement officers of-ficers who Said the size of concert crowds was too large to control, and ..CI Education A6 ...All Letters ............ i..A13 .JR( 5& restaurantsaloon, To date, no arrest has been made in the arson case, but Park City Police Chief Frank Bell says it is "111 ' 5 5 i . f r t ' ,12 A it;-' Tiffany Burnett (left) the sun at the concern from area homeowners over damage during performances. Commissioner Tom Flinders told J.C. MacNeil of United Concerts in Salt Lake City : "We'd like to see you have a few less. Not cut them out. But we're thinking in the neighborhood of cutting in half what you had before." The commissioners called for an executive session and several minutes later returned to give their decision on the concerts. After several motions, proposing six, then eight concerts this summer, sum-mer, commissioners agreed on seven. When they initially proposed If; :'K1 , 'i 1 I" 1 ritrf.r..-. "-riiiTiticMi in ' - - 30, 1987 still an open file. "In hopes that we may get something out of this, we're changing chang-ing our attack from arson to fraud. We may never know who lit the match but we will know who profited from it," said Bell this week. "We have gathered a great deal of information infor-mation and interviewed a great many people. We just don't have a prosecutable criminal case.. .yet." For Lt. Lloyd Evans, chief investigator, in-vestigator, this has been more than just another arson case. His own memories of the depot include the countless hours he spent as a child playing upstairs in the building with his friend Marion Dearden, whose father, Faye, was the last station master of the depot. Some shoring up of the building has taken place in two years. And the interior chimney has been rebuilt, but no significant progress has been made in the renovation of the structure. From time to time city officials say the general partner of Landmark Land-mark Lane, Philip Boesch, is in contact con-tact with them with new plans for the building. But to date, no plans for the depot have received final city approval. ap-proval. And although Boesch has told The Record that for a year and half he was working with a specific California restaurateur on the project, pro-ject, just this month signs went up the depot that proclaim, "historic J t and Stacey Timmons, find their newly-completed playground at City Park. roll over for concerts six concerts both MacNeil and Jack Roberts, owner of ParkWest reacted strongly. "You don't want me to be there," MacNeil said, adding the financial impact of less concerts would be a "tremendous impact" on his company. com-pany. Roberts said, "My reaction to your comments today is it's time for me to move out of Summit County. "You tell us we can only have six concerts. It's very distressing and discouraging." Roberts also said he purchased ParkWest ten years ago with the idea of turning a "third rate ski Limelight ......... ....Bl Sports B7 v& .it, : years HiSTOiUC SITE AVAILABLE FINISHFO TO SUIT TFNAM M't-'l()4 site available... finished to suit tenant." te-nant." As part of the settlement and sale, Landmark Lane received more than $200,000 of insurance money for the depot. Boesch says he has spent more than half of that already on the project. However, city officials maintain little more than $30,000 could have been spent on the actual work done on the depot. The Record spoke to Boesch this week, who said drawings for the project pro-ject had been let "10 days ago" and he was just starting to hear from contractors. Boesch also said he had advertised for a "master craftsman" craft-sman" in the National Historic Trust publication, and he expected to select someone to coordinate the restoration work "soon." Boesch says the delays on the project pro-ject have been for a variety of reasons, including some confusion with the city over exact title to the land around the depot which held up construction for an entire season. Continued on A2 $Ti " " ;-'t A ! place resort" into one of the better ones in the country. "I haven't succeeded," he said because of lack of funds. The concerts provide vital money to the resort." He added, "I'm sick of running a third-class operation." Commissioners asked J.R. Chamberlain of Utah Department of Transportation what impact the highway construction would have on concert traffic. Chamberlain said that one lane both ways would be maintained throughout the construction construc-tion period beginning in July. Continued on A2 . , J, Television C6 . .' . nail - . a - m -a- - f'y. , - v |