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Show Saturday June 22,1996 The Park Record A-9 MP '. 'r. " : . W ' Briefs PC Rotary Club elects new officers . The Park City branch of Rotary Club International recently ' announced the results of its 1996-97 board of directors elections. The Park Record Publisher Andy Bernhard was chosen to fill Alison Child's position as president-elect as Child takes over for past president Jess Reld. The other members of the 1 996-97 996-97 Rotary Club of Park City Board of Directors are: Tom Clyde, club service ser-vice chair; Sally Elliott, vocational service chair; Norm Nelson, Treasurer; Jess Reid, membership chair; Kerry Snow, Secretary; Ted War, international service chair; Meechie White, community service chair, Child, Nelson, Reid and Snow are repeat board members. The election results become official offi-cial on Tuesday. "It's going to be a big year. A big, big year," said Child. "I think our board is going to be building on the things that Jess's board has done." She said specific projects the new board will focus on include a Rotary "how-to book, so we're not repeating the same learning process each year. We want to improve the way we work so we can do more work." Child also said the board will try to "agree on a location for a new Rotary Park," probably either in Plnebrook or the Snyderville Basin. The Park City Rotary Club is comprised com-prised of 71 members, ail individuals from the local business community. Mountain Fuel requests rate decrease Mountain Fuel Supply Co. has asked the Utah Public Service Commission (PSC) to approve a $469,000 decrease in its state natural gas rates. The change is requested to .take effect July 1, 1996. If the decrease is approved by the PSC, it will reduce the annual bill for the typical residential customer (those using an average of 1 15 decatherms per year) from $490.42 to $489.96., a decrease of 46 cents or .09 percent, according to the company's figures. This will represent the 1 1th consecutive consecu-tive pass-through rate decrease Mountain Fuel has implemented in its Utah service area, and will result in the lowest rates for Utah residential customers in more than 13 years. Bolinder bought by Dublin company Oldcastle, Inc., the U.. S. subsidiary sub-sidiary of CRH pic of Dublin, Ireland, recently announced the acquisition of Bolinder Companies through its Utah-based Utah-based Staker Paving and Construction and Jack B. Parson Companies. Oldcastle entered the Rocky Mountain aggregates (sand and gravel, grav-el, hot mix asphalt and ready-mix concrete) con-crete) and construction markets In July 1995 through a stock merger with . Staker Paving and Construction, Inc., followed by the acquisition of the Jack B. Parson Companies in March 1996. Anticipated annual revenues of the Rocky Mountain Oldcastle Materials Group for 1996 will be in the $200 million mil-lion range, according to company projections. pro-jections. Bolinder operates sand and gravel business in Park City, Tooele County, Dugway, Lehi and Heber City. Most employees will remain with the organization, orga-nization, according to an Oldcastle press release. , ; ,.f We've just given you a wake '94 XJS CONVERTIBLE 16,500 MILES $39,999 "93 XJ6 Sovereign, $0 down and ftnanct rat oac Otto Summit Co. yet to receive single Lone attempt by county to exploit state development funding rejected By Adam Elggren OF THE PARK RECORD It's only for lack of trying. Summit County has yet to receive Local Economic Development Initiative (LEDI) funding, which is disbursed each year to Utah counties by the state Division of Business and Economic Development. About $445,000 is available annually for the taking, said Jonnie Cellular for The National Ability Center of Park City was the recipient of a free cellular phone from AT&T Wireless Services as part of the company's Cellular for the Community program. Salt Lake City Mayor Deedee Corradini (1) was on hand at the City Council Chambers in Salt Lake last week as Becky Aivazian . . " . r ?n r t i - - '' -' Stock Performance Utah company stock performance for the week of June 17-20, 1996: Name Close 620 Close 617 Name Close 620 Close 617 ALTAGLD 3.81 3.69 MONROC 5.12 5.19 AMSTORES 38.62 38.62 NATRSUN 23.00 25.75 ANESTACP 12.37 14.25 NOVELL 14.00 13.62 BALLARDM 19.37 19.75 PSTVANS 4.12 4.06 CENTMINE 1.66 1.53 QUESTAR 3.00 33.00 CROWNENG .810 .750 RESRCHMD 21.87 24.00 COVOLTEC ' 11.00 10.25 SIMONTRK 12.88 13.62 CYCL03PS 2.75 2.62 SKYWEST 17.88 18.00 DAWTECH 5.00 5.12 SMITHSFD 22.25 22.37 DELTAAIR 83.25 80.25 SOSSTAFF 11.50 12.50 DYNATEC 3.87 3.87 SOWSTAIR 27.37 27.62 EFIELEC 1.34 1.31 SUMITFAM 5.00 4.78 EQUITYOL 5.00 4.87 SURGTECH 6.87 6.75 EVANSSUT 23.00 23.69 TELSCORP .78 .78 FIRSECCP ' 23.75 23.87 THERATEC 20.12 22.50 FRNKQUST 21.25 21.00 THIOKOL 38.87 39.75 GENVSTL 5.37 5.75 ' UTDPKMIN 14.00 14.13 GULLLABS 5.25 4.69 UTAHMED 13.62 13.87 INTRLNRE 3.81 3.81 ZIONBKCP 77.88 77.75 INTLAUTS 40.000 46.000 IOMEGACP 30.87 37.00 Dow Jones averages IONLASER 19.37 21.12 LARDAVIS 10.00 11.63 30 INDUS 5659.43 5652.78 LUCASIND 3.50 3.55 20 TRANS 2196.32 2190.90 MARKERIN 7.75 7.75 15 UTILS 209.12 207.31" MERTTMED 9.87 10.56 MITYLITE 7.50 . 8.00 This Utah stock report is provid - up call. EXEH Now at a new location: 543 South models In rock. Call or visit ut for details. Wilkinson, the LEDI grant coordinator, and some of it could be Summit County's if only they would apply more often. "I'm absolutely convinced that Summit County has great projects inp there," said Wilkinson. "I'd be more than happy to chat with the Board of Commissioners." Summit is the only Utah county that has yet to receive LEDI funds. Tooele County used to share that distinction, before officials there were awarded a grant following the LEDI Review Committee proposal meeting June 19. Summit County Commissioner Sheldon Richins submitted a proposal during that meeting which was rejected by the committee, the first proposal from Summit County in a couple of years, said Wilkinson. PHOTO BY Fotographix the Center (r) of AT&T Wireless presented the NAC's Barbara Clark with the free phone, which comes with unlimited local air time and a free pager. The Cellular for the Community program, now in its fourth year, also provided phones to five other Utah-based nonprofit non-profit organizations. ed by Paulson Investment Co., Park City. '95 XJ6 SEDAN 16,350 MILES $43,880 una Gn JAGUAR State Street Downtown Salt Lake Citv it fiw Richins' proposal was for development of a wood-waste recycling system, which would find ways to re-usc sawmill, woodworking wood-working and construction by-products. Wilkinson said the committee turned down funding for the project because a similar program in Wayne County was recently awarded with a grant. "They Wayne County may come up with some information that Summit County needs," said Wilkinson. "We don't want to duplicate any funding." Wilkinson said the LEDI committee is eager to involve Summit County in the funding program, for which more than $600,000 was available in new and held-over held-over funds this round. Grants are awarded twice-yearly, at the beginning and middle of each fiscal year. HomePC Ask Dr. PC By Sean Fulton "PC Program Pre-Empts My TV Episodes" QUESTION: I have a Compaq Presario CDTV 520, which includes a TV tuner. I can capture an image from the TV and save it as a .bmp file, but when I open the file in Windows' Paintbrush program, the image looks like a photo negative. What am I doing wrong? ANSWER: It sounds to me like you're probably using the standard 256-color 256-color Windows VGA driver to display images that contain more than 256 colors. col-ors. Also, Paintbrush doesn't support "dithering," a process that lets the PC blend colors in various combinations to simulate a richer palette in other words, faking it. As a result, the sharp video image captured from the TV would look rough on the PC screen so rough, in fact, that the colors could appear to be reversed. To put things right, you need to increase the number of colors your monitor is displaying. First, check your PC or graphics card documentation to find out how many colors the card supports. sup-ports. If it's an 8-bit color card, 256 colors col-ors is its limit. However most graphics Total 12,000 S . X : ,.-:, 11,000 , y 1 10,000 i 9,oo ' ; , I ' 8,00p -jr- yn 1 ' , ' "" 6,00d ; 5,000 , 4,000 V 3,000 , M ijj lsiw ifSon' Mon T; "Vur !t Jvbte: Each pillow in the sWk represents t visitor nijL ; & actual daily numbefc l?ye teen wt AearesHOO. . PM3TECTED LODGINGAU. .fgJsk . "'rXSk ' Jui39L996 KfW Total Visitor Nights 22,659 Fit This tally estimates lodging at 29 of capacity , "Tht visitor night 6 is empuiei by ' , ..' f w City per '94 Tel. (801) 297-7399 Toll-Free (800) 725 mt!mxiMxMt,m,,MmmmMA ill timi r inn i ril LEDI grant Any economic development project is eligible for funding, said Wilkinson, as long as it has county support. Ongoing programs and infrastructure-funding projects pro-jects are generally not eligible. Proposals should also be tied to a "county-wide strategic economic plan," said Wilkinson. "And if they don't have a strategic plan, we'd be happy to work with them counties to help develop one." "The program is very flexible in what we fund," Wilkinson added. "The most important criterion is. is this a good project?'" pro-ject?'" About $390,000 remains in LEDI funds this year for the second and final round of proposals in January. entertainment, education & productivity cards today support 16- or 24-bit color either of which let you display millions of colors. Assuming your card has 16- or 24-bit color capability, you'll need to adjust both the card's configuration and your Windows video settings. But before you even think about making any changes, be sure to refer to your documentation or call your PC or graphics card manufacturer manu-facturer for help; make an incorrect adjustment, and you could very well knock out your computer's video display dis-play entirely. If your graphics card has an 8-bit color ceiling, you can slightly improve the quality of the image you see on the screen by using image-editing software that supports dithering. Popular image-editing image-editing programs that fill the bill include Corel Photo-Paint, Adobe Photoshop and Micrografx Picture Publisher. "Light Has Me In the Dark" QUESTION: My PC runs Windows 95. When I'm ready to shut down the computer the hard drive light stays on even when I see "It's now safe to turn off your computer" on the screen. Is that a problem? ANSWER: Could be. Shutdown dif- Pleasesee HOMEPC A-10 Visitor Nights 22,659 Weekly High 3,57Ffi) ghtly Averag,z. ' adding tht number efviniort itt mglii prr jea XJ6 SEDAN 16.850 MILES $33,995 - 3741 |