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Show TTTTTTTT THE PARK RECORD A-15 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1997 BUSINESS EDITOR Bruce Lewis 649-9014 ext 1 1 3 .Business. Briefs Larry Bywater promoted by Wells Fargo Utah native and new Jeremy Ranch resident Larry M. Bywater has been named Utah regional manager for the Wells Fargo Private Client Services Division. Bywater, a vice president with Wells Fargo since 1994, is a 1978 Utah State University graduate. He will supervise all personal per-sonal trust, investment management, private banking and retail brokerage activity for the bank's division. For the last 42 months, Bywater was based in Phoenix, serving as regional sales manager fof Wells Fargo Securities, Inc. Steve Gibson earns GRI designation Steve Gibson of Park City has joined the ranks of other top producers produc-ers in the residential real estate industry indus-try by earning the Graduate, REALTOR REAL-TOR Institute (GRI) designation. The GRI designation sets its recipients apart from other practitioners because designees have an educational educa-tional foundation upon which to base the services they provide. Gibson, of Jess Reid Real Estate, earned the GRI designation by attending at least 90 hours of classroom instruction on such subjects as contract law, professional profes-sional standards, sales and marketing, market-ing, financing and risk reduction. Bremer Public Relations adds three Nina Green has joined Bremer Public Relations, Inc. as a public relations rela-tions counselor, and Elizabeth Summerhays and Connie Hill joined the firm as account coordinators. Green most recently was director of communications for the Utah Girt Scout Council. Summerhays was a communications communica-tions intern for the Utah Junior Golf Association, and Hill worked as a freelance editor for Action West, a quarterly film, broadcast and multimedia multime-dia journal. SUNDAY NIGHT THE BEST in tow: ipuNinw iui.iiiiii.numi i.iiiii. i jj SINCE Jr" V 1972 N jBjBO Dinner specials served fri. - sun. from 5:00 pm 317 main st. 649-8284 Lodging forecast looks strong for coming winter Last year's early start may be helping this year by Bruce Lewis OF THE RECORD STAFF "I'm sure that what we are seeing is confidence that early skiing will be good this year," said Diane Glaser. "We're ahead of where we were at this time last year in terms of lodging reservations." Glaser is the general manager of Park City Mountain Holidays, which changed its name from Park City Ski Holidays when the ski area became a "Mountain Resort" earlier this year. Glaser said that lodging bookings are strong through almost the entire ski season. sea-son. Deer Valley Lodging's Frankie Fleming echoed Glaser's perception of the upcoming season. "We opened for bookings July 1st, and the number of calls really increased just after Labor Day," Fleming said. "We have a few small units and hotel space available during the Christmas holidays December 24th through about January 4th. The first to go are always those closest to the ski areas," Glaser said. "It's a little unusual to see the bookings start to fill up this early." "We're swimmingly ahead, more than 50 percent ahead of this time last year," Fleming reported. "There are a very few places left for the Dec. 26 through Jan. 4 period. All the ski-inski-out places are gone for that period." She added that President's Day weekend and the traditional tradi-tional spring break periods are also nearly full. Fleming said that Deer Valley Lodging's properties are filling rapidly throughout the ski season. "The first part of February used to be slow, but our Group Sales department has done a good job of filling the historically histor-ically slow periods already. "We still have a number of rentals available for Dec. 20 through the 27th," Fleming said. The 1996-97 ski season saw the sec Ski areas must build their own software and systems Programmers join snow makers in resorts' ranks by Bruce Lewis OF THE RECORD STAFF It's a huge industry. Millions of people visit every year, to ski, snowboard, participate partici-pate in other activities, or just to relax. Ironically, it seems that managers of ski resorts are on their own when it comes to finding integrated computer software to help them run the areas smoothly and meet or exceed guests' expectations. A major part of the problem lies in the numbers not of guests but of ski areas. The numbers have dropped steadily since the 1970's, when nearly 100 were in operation. Also, almost 25 percent of the surviving resorts are now owned by four major holders, hold-ers, each of which has their own way of managing man-aging its holdings. "There are a relatively small number of ski areas and resorts, and each seems to have Stock Performance Name 1023 1020 Name 1023 1020 Name 1023 1020 Name 1023 1020 ALTAGLD 2.37 2.37 DYNATEC 5.62 5.62 IOMEGACP 28.56 26.94 BAXTER 52.50 54.56 AMSTORES 25.06 25.81 EFIELEC 2.37 2.62 IONLASER 5.00 5.31 SIMONTRK 23.50 24.00 ANESTACP 23.62 24.00 EQUITYOL 3.44 3.69 LARDAVIS 6.87 7.37 SKYWEST 25.38 22.50 BALLARDM 23.12 23.87 EVANSSUT 32.62 33.25 MARKERIN 5.31 5.00 SOSSTAFF 20.12 19.13 BIOMUNE .44 .41 FIRSECCP 30.12 30.25 MERITMED 7.75 8.12 SOWSTAIR 35.31 34.75 CENTMINE .28 .31 FMEYER 26.00 26.50 MITYLITE 18.50 18.62 SUMITFAM 4.62 4.62 CROWNENG 1.70 1.81 FRNKCOVEY 23.87 24.50 MONROC 11.50 11.25 TELSCORP .38 .38 COVOLTEC 12.00 10.25 GENVSTL 3.37 3.44 NATRSUN 23.69 24.75 THERATEC 11.56 12.00 CYCL03PS 1.69 2.16 GULLLABS 11.00 10.00 NOVELL 9.03 9.06 THIOKOL 91.37 86.12 DAWTECH , 2.19 2.09 INTRLNRE .44 .44 PSTVANS 3.75 3.50 UTDPKMIN 27.00 26.75 DELTAAIR 106.88 105.50 INTLAUTS 2.25 2.50 QUESTAR 39.44 40.19 UTAHMED 8.62 9.06 BBQ Ribs, Chicken, Beef & Pork with RICE, BEANS, COLESLAW, BEER BREAD & BEVERAGE ALL YOU CAN EAT $10.95 1777 ond-earliest start in Park City Mountain Resort's history: October 26. Early cold weather enabled an early start to snow-making, snow-making, and a couple of early snowstorms snow-storms added to the snow depth. So far this season, snowmakers : : "rmrsz ! The cats appiue its own way of doing things," said Al Noble, director of Ticketing and Information at Park City Mountain Resort. "There are a few commercial programs which can be used for part of our needs like accounting or payroll. We can also use security-badging programs for our employee identification cards and guests' season passes." "But there is simply no commercial program pro-gram or group of programs which would work for us," Noble said. Tom Stecki, Information Systems manager manag-er at Deer Valley, ran into the same problem when he came to the resort to do some freelance free-lance programming work six years ago. He stayed on in part because the supply of off-the-shelf software hasnt changed since. "We have written almost everything in-house, in-house, unless we found something off-the-shelf," Stecki said. "And there have been few of those." Stecki, who this past summer converted Deer Valley's payroll system to a better pro-Please pro-Please see Computers, A-17 Utah if' . -lA il , a ' I j. I h U I'M ' Ifii j SriftuH v mm Li ,-V: ixilJ l md Born and raised in Utah, Larry E Urry, M.D. is a graduate of the University of Utah Medical School and is Board Certified in dermatology and internal medicine. Dr. Urry is pleased to be serving Park City and the Summit County Area. Larry E. Urry, M.D. Board Certified Dermatologist Located in the afexgfe MflAiifD i?(?B Win on Highway 224 Sun Peak Drive. Suite 150 haven't had an opportunity to do much more than "blow the porcupines out of the system," said Park City Mountain Resort's spokesperson, Charlie Lansche. Because lodging reservations are typically typ-ically made several months ahead, the beneficiaries of the early Park City skiing ski-ing last year were primarily locals. Six tons of new Bombardier-manufactured snow cat Inches its way down the ramp (below) as Deer Valley Resort took earlier this week. The machines retail for $170,000 each, and were trucked from the builder's plant in Canada. At left, Salt Lake City-based Bombardier representative Greg Clower removes the protective wrapping from the tank like treads. Nightly Lodging Tally Projected Tally for the week of October 2 1 -27, 1 997 Sun Mon Total Visitor Nights: 1 1, 1 77 Weekly High: 1,945 (Tue.) Daily Average: 1,597 Year To Date: 1,597,122 Nightly Lodging Tally Estimates Hrrnninry At I- I 14 Each window represents 1,000 visitor nights. Actual daily numbers U, have been rounded i to the nearest 100. company stock performance ii f t j I r it 1 1 Jr it I ho L if IL r l Ifil 1 !,'- j if - . w J L , i LmJ V i i lLt-jUj ( 0 r:pn. il ni i iriii I ! j i ' ' j : j j j cn I , ...... ...... , , , ; : , 4 i - i 1 L-J' LmJ 1 1 J ' LJ - L J 'ig r.Qa ODDODC i . j i- j y tWDOBSSDfflft' KKB life vU iff " ' Mi Indeed, if Glaser's experience is correct, cor-rect, people who booked their vacations later in the season last year probably remembered the very late start for the 1995-96 season. 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