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Show The Park Record A-3 City Beat You're In Good Company... CITY EDITOR jay Hamburger 649-90 1 4 ext 1 1 1 Three contenders, one spot Saturday, September 13, 1997 Editor's note: This is the first in a series of articles about Park City's mayoral may-oral primary, which will be -held on Oct. 7. Starting next Saturday, The v Park Record will be featuring the three candidates' answers to nine ques tions, with three answers being printed each issue through The Park Record's Sept. 27 issue. by Jay Hamburger OF THE RECORD STAFF A woman of the world Beirut, Lebanon, in the 1970's was quite the spot for a young woman raised in suburban Washington, D.C.i to land herself, But that's where Park City may- f i 1 f Qd Nikki Lowry oral candidate Nikki Lowry ended up for a short while. Lowry is quick to remind the curious that the Lebanese civil war was raging at the time and Beirut, as the country's capital, was one of the war's main battle grounds. i "The war escalated to the point where we were in and out all the time. We were being sent back and forth and evacuated and sent ; back" Lowry said, but she adds, "Those were the days before they were kidnapping and killing Americans. While it was not a walk in the park, we felt reasonably reason-ably safe." While she was in the Middle East (she also lived in Bahrain) she worked as a stringer for a financial newspaper, a job she got by telling the paper's editor how bad a job he was doing. i; A bold move for a foreigner. . i.."I-walked into the, office after having read this thing and threw the: newspaper down on the editor's edi-tor's desk and said 'You!1 desperately desper-ately need somebody who speaks English to write this,' because it was so awful. So, he hired me on the spot," Lowry said. r; But Lowry's time in the Middle East was not long lived. In fact, she left in the nick of time. "The last week we were there we were trapped in out apartment . ,. . There was this battle raging around us '; . . ," Lowry said. "After a week we ran out of food . . ': we walked down to our car we drove to this hotel . . . and on every corner there were neighborhood neighbor-hood militias." The militias quickly took over the hotel she had beenstaying at and subsequently murdered the hotel's manager. Lowry's first husband, whom she married soon after graduating from Ohio University, was in the Air Force, which is the reason she has lived in places such as Lebanon. Among other foreign places, she has also lived in Thailand and Germany. While living in the many corners cor-ners of the world, Lowry taught English as a second language courses. Lowry, though, has lived in the United States also. Her first job was as a technical writer in the city planning department depart-ment in Omaha, Neb. While writing writ-ing about planning issues, Lowry said she was able to learn much about the subject, a fact that has helped her acquaint herself with planning issues in Park City. Lowry and her husband learned to ski while they were living liv-ing in Europe. She said it was an early-'80s trip to a ski resort in Switzerland that hooked them on U skiftig an44heyvspon were skiing as much as possible, which brought them to Park City for the first time in March of 1983. "It was beautiful sunshine., We were here five days and bought a house," Lowry says proudly. Initially, the Lpwrys would spend summers and Christmas vacations in Park City but in 1987, her family fami-ly moved to Park City permanently, permanent-ly, at least for two years. It was then back to suburban Washington, D.C., to start a business. busi-ness. Lowry's idea was to put concierges in the lobbies of large office buildings. Functioning just as those in hotels, the business saw quick success. ""Within four years we were in 12 cities. This thing just exploded," explod-ed," Lowry said. In 1990, though, soon after her son's high school in suburban Virginia installed metal detectors, she and her family moved back to Park City permanently. "That's when I said 'let's go back to Park City,'" Lowry said about the metal detectors. Since her move to Park City, Lowry has been very active in the community. She is currently serving serv-ing her fifth year as a member of the Park City Board of Education, she has held many volunteer jobs, such as one involving arts in classrooms. class-rooms. Lowry has also been the managing director of the Egyptian Theatre and a member of the Park City ChamberBureau. When she is not playing her many roles in Park City , Lowry said she enjoys going to movies and skiing. She said she supports the Sundance Film Festival, but often goes into Salt Lake City to see movies. J'lr";J'J' r- . -Wl JyVtc Screenplays the outlet for J.B. Nelmark "I was mad at them for burning our flags," Park City Mayoral candidate can-didate J.B. Nelmark explains with a hint of agitation in his voice. In , the early '90s, most of the Western world agreed with Nelmark in his ' j J. B. Nelmark assessment with Iraq and its leader Saddam Hussein. That's why Nelmark said he joined the Army, to go and fight in the Gulf War. But Nelmark was stationed in Oklahoma during the war and never made it to the Middle East. After he was discharged, he moved to Park City, where he has lived on and off since, including the past two years straight. Nelmark says he is a pacifist now and is concentrating on his writing. Currently, Nelmark is focusing on writing screenplays and is attempting to sell his latest offering, a work titled Hicks, which is set in Heber. Nelmark's main influences are Ernest Hemingway, because of his style, and John Steinbeck, because he could identify with people through his writing. He is also a fan of P.J. O'Rourke, a frequent writer for Rolling Stone. Nelmark tells his life's story as if he were preparing to use it as the subject of a future work. In the early '70s, his parents operated a ski resort in Michigan, where Nelmark learned his first lessons about ski resorts. He said he worked as a dishwasher and bartender at the resort before leaving home to live in cabin, where he became a logger, a profession pro-fession that he stayed with for several sev-eral years. He said he got to be so good at it that he entered several competitions for loggers. When Nelmark was 14 years old, he started his own wood-delivery wood-delivery business. When Nelmark was 17, he opened another company, compa-ny, called Jake's Wood. But Nelmark had problems with his workers. "I hired my friends, who drank too much, and knew very little about logging. They often showed up to work late, and with nasty hangovers . . . Within two months they went on strike," Nelmark wrote in a brief autobiographical statement. But the small town of Ironwood, Mich., which, he said, is "full of miners and loggers and drunkards and hooligans" was not the place Nelmark wanted to live. He then enrolled at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz., where he graduated with a degree in finance. While a student, Nelmark said he ran for president of the school's student body "I didn't take it wholeheartedly seriously ... It was done out of anger to the university," Nelmark said about his run at ASU in a Recent interview.; After attending Arizona State University, and working as a stockbroker in Phoenix, Nelmark has lived in many ski resorts in the West. Nelmark has called Breckenridge, Colo., the Lake Tahoe, Calif., area and Jackson, Wyo., home over the past ten years. While he was in Jackson, Nelmark said he could not afford to buy food, so he had to fish for his meals. "Fishing is not a sport when your livelihood depends on it. When (I'd) lose a fish, I'd jump in the water after it," Nelmark said. Nelmark said when he first moved to Park City, he could not afford traditional housing, so he rented a "severi-foot-by-seven-foot furnace closet." The closet, though, was in a house where Eric Hoffman was living. Nelmark now lives in a house in Park Meadows with Hoffman, who is currently running for a spot on the Park City Council. Nelmark currently spends his time skiing and fishing. He also enjoys fine wines and wants to travel abroad sometime in the future. Nelmark said spending time with Park City's older residents resi-dents has brought him satisfaction recently. "I just like to go hang out with them . . . I just swing by their houses hous-es and get some background," Nelmark said. "The older persons have more character." 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