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Show 3 DSH-I t-aidUdMdiibirn ,'URDMf hi 431,0; The Sacred Circle The First Nations Association plans for the future. Page B-1 Carving quickly PCMR is getting skiers snowboarding without the pain. Page B-1 0 Dan Hicks and the Acoustic Warriors will appear at the Celebrity Theatre at the Inn at Prospector Square on Sunday, Feb. 1 as part of the Wooden Dog Concert Series. Tickets are available at Dan's Foods in the Snow Creek Plaza or by calling 1-888-322-WDOG. ,dy sunpjl, palCfiy with moi i :VJ ... hi 44 Ld 2$c -.Utofkif cloudy and i&reaslnfc Winds frawded by WNt Weathemews'Chico, G P "TTS. Serving Summit County since 1880 The UTAH PRCOO ACGCCi'i' ..-'! 307 XGT 200 SOUTH :';UI1L 500C- o A IT LAKE CI TV UT U-U01 PARK CITY, UTAH www.newschoice.com T jti-HWin-iiMt y.-v-. . ,'. .'1 nor I itmml f ISbH t-sg twaa rsm tci rv SBf mum Relationships need annual check-up by Bruce Lewis OF THE RECORD STAFF "It's the same principle as with getting get-ting a physical check-up. You do this for your marriage's health," said Jonathan Sherman, counselor at The Counseling Center in Park City. The Counseling Center is offering free check-ups for relationships during the week of Feb. 9 - 13. This first-of-its-kind-in-Utah program will be offered annually, Sherman said, so couples can start with a "benchmark" of their relationship and compare the status in future years. The Counseling Center is located at 1910 Prospector Ave., Suite 200, in the same building with the Park City ChamberBureau. The phone number is 649-2426. Each member of couples who register reg-ister with The Counseling Center for the free check-up will fill out a 20-question 20-question form. A counselor will compile com-pile the answers and meet with the couple to explain the results. "The process will require a few minutes to fill out the questionnaire, and probably another 20 minutes or so to talk about the questions," Sherman said. . Typical questions are "I am pleased with my partner's personality, habits, behaviors and priorities" and "When we argue, neither my partner nor I end up blaming the other for the problem." One of three answers can be filled in: "most of the time," "some of the time" and "rarely." After the interview, the couple can take their questionnaires home for further discussion. The program is being offered statewide state-wide in selected Utah cities for the first time. Tennessee, Kentucky and Oklahoma have offered it in previous years with great success, Sherman said. "There is a high incidence of divorce in Utah slightly lower than the national average but high nevertheless," never-theless," Sherman said. "Many divorces are preventable if they are caught early-on." "I would like to see more pre-marital and early-marriage counseling," he said. "In this instance, too, an ounce of prevention is easier to deal with than the pound of cure." Sherman said the counseling community com-munity in general is seeing a gradual shift away from the stigma formerly associated with marital counseling. "There used to be a lot of negative perceptions about counseling," he said, "but acceptance has been steadily steadi-ly increasing." "We receive training in our general education, we receive training and assistance in preparing for our careers. Why shouldn't we receive training for the major relationships in our adult lives?" Sherman asked. A recent study he read had some surprising results, Sherman said. Many studies divided spouses into three major types: "validators," "volatile" and "conflict-avoiders." The difficulty in counseling often comes when dissimilar types are married mar-ried to each other, he said. "A con-Please con-Please see Give the gift, A-2 Park City unveils draft of city's plan for 2002 Closed schools, building moratorium could await city by Jay Hamburger OF THE RECORD STAFF With four yean left until the 2002 Winter Games and the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, only days away, Park City's preparations for its role in the 2002 Games are about to be brought into full swing. Preparations that, according to a 160-page rough draft of an Olympic master plan released by the city Thursday, will be massive mas-sive and, if implemented fully, will eventually eventual-ly transform the entirety of Park City for the duration of the Olympics, as well as before and after the Games. The plan, authored primarily by Park City Director of Olympic Planning Frank Bell and Director of Public Affairs Myles Rademan, sets the stage for four years of work that will culminate during the Games, scheduled for February 2002. It is made clear throughout the plan that Park City will work toward using the Olympics to better the community over the long term, but, to accomplish that goal, the Olympics and their legacy could end up costing Park City and the city should look into ways to generate revenue from the Games to offset the cost. "We do not intend to let the Games happen hap-pen to us," the report states on its first page. To that end, Bell and Rademan painstakingly painstak-ingly detail over 50 issues that the city will have to address over the next few years in anticipation of the Games. The Park City area, specifically Park City Mountain Resort, Deer Valley Resort and the Utah Winter Sports Park, just outside of Please see First draft, A-2 Farming the powder!!! mte & i 2 -r 1 V- '- mm ' few' ' h . fii v t- l Ti'jX ' ' "X. """ " " , , SCOTT SINEA4RK RECORO Jason Lance (left) and Jon Weidenhammer ski the freshles after hiking into the . back-country back-country near the Utah Winter Sports Park. According to the Utah Avalanche Forecast : Center (649-2250), as of Jan. 30 the avalanche danger in the Wasatch has lessened. Tourism budget is on chopping block Possible $3.8 million loss for Travel Council could hurt local ski areas by Kirsta H. Bleyle OF THE RECORD STAFF ' In an on-going battle for funding, the Utah State Division of Travel Development could be permanently stripped of the $3.8 million mil-lion in funding that serves as its operating budget. Earlier this week, the, state's Economic Development and Human Resources Appropriations Subcommittee voted to cut the Division's budget, effective July 1, the first day of the upcoming fiscal fis-cal year. But Travel Development, often referred to as the Utah Travel Council, will have one more shot at getting its funding restored next Friday, Feb. 6, when Travel Development Director Dean Reeder presents an argument to support the General Fund dollars the Travel Council receives. State Rep. Bill Hickman, (R-St. George), a member of the budget panel, has taken credit for the cost-cutting measure, which was passed in a four-to-two vote. Following the subcommittee's vote Reeder responded that he welcomes the chance to justify the existing budget during next Friday's hearing. "It's a legislature's right to review and scrutinize everything," he said, adding that it will offer Travel Development a chance to demonstrate that it does not "subsidize" the ski industry. According to Rep. David Ure, (R-Kamas), the Travel Council's budget was temporarily cut in an effort to force Travel Development to present the subcommittee with a report it failed to provide last year. Ure believes the $3.8 million will not be cut permanently, and said he hopes the risk of losing funding will prompt Travel Development to improve communications with the tourism industry representatives representa-tives it is designed to help. To some, however, the cut is an indicator that many legislators feel the apparently lucrative ski industry should not be subsidized by tax dollars. Des C. Barker, a lobbyist to the state legislature for the Park City ChamberBureau, described Hickman's position. "(Hickman) thinks that the ski industry is so strong that it doesn't need any help from the state government to attract destination ski tourists to Utah," Barker said, adding that he understands Hickman's position, as it often voiced by other representatives from rural Utah. Please see Ski Tourism, A-2 Park City departments get ready to take on the Olympics Temps, long hours and revenue predicted for 2002 by Jay Hamburger OF THE RECORD STAFF The working draft of Park City's Olympic master plan, passed through the halls of the Marsac Building over the past several weeks for input and released to the public on Thursday, has left many of the city's senior staff members with a full plate of issues that individual city departments depart-ments must now dig through. The report addresses dozens of Olympic-related topics on a broad-based scale, offering many question marks that will be up to individual departments to answer, with Director of Olympic Planning Frank Bell overseeing the entire process. "The big question is what the city wants out of the Games," Park City Finance Manager Tom Bakaly said. He added that his department will be most concerned with any tax revenues and business-license revenues that the Games create, was well as how much money the city will be able to secure from outside funding sources, such as the Salt Lake Olympic Organizing Committee. "The big financial question is: To what degree our Olympic-related expenses are reimbursed." reim-bursed." The draft alludes to the possibility of creating revenue for the city through Olympic-related endeavors, such as renting rent-ing out city facilities during the Games. Sales-tax revenue is also addressed in the report. Bakaly, though, said sales-tax revenue may not be enough to counter the cost of the Games, a theory that SLOC disagrees with. "I think their stand has been that sales-tax sales-tax revenues will cover expenses related to the Olympics," he said. Please see Olympic buildings, A-2 Signs, signs evervcihere... SCOTT SINEPARK RECORD Tom Johnson (left) and Gayle Weyher remove some of the last visible vis-ible remnants of the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. Feb. 14 means romance Citizen's Day is Feb. 9 Ski Utah snow report tkefMM ' The Friends of the Park City Library will celebrate Valentine's Day (and those long February winter nights) with a special sale of romance novels. Readers may choose from a gamut of romance genres, including novels featuring featur-ing strong women triumphing over great odds, sweeping historical romances, popular "bodice rippers" and Harlequin books. Books and undipped magazines are donated by library supporters and are sold at prices far below newsstand rates. Proceeds benefit special library programs. Utah Issues is sponsoring Citizens' Day at the Legislature, a one-day orientation orien-tation to the state political process on Monday, Feb. 9. The day begins at 9 a.m. with an introduction to this year's hot topics and some guest speakers. After a quick primer on citizen involvement, participants partici-pants will divide into legislative districts and have lunch with their legislators from noon until 2 p.m. The event is free and open to everyone. The registration deadline is Feb. 4. To register, call 801521-2035 or 1-800331-5627. As of Jan. 30 the Ski Utah Hotline reported the following base depths at the state's ski resorts. Most areas were reporting packed powder conditions. Alta: 97-inch base. Beaver Mountain: 86-inch 86-inch base. Brianhead: 57-inch base. Brighton: 91-inch base. The Canyons: 80-inch 80-inch base with discounted tickets through Jan. 31. Deer Valley: 83-inch base. Elk Meadows: 49-inch base. Nordic Valley: 75-inch base. Park City Mountain Resort: 75-inch base. Powder Mountain: 127-inch base. Snow Basin: 94-inch base. Snowbird: 96-inch base. Solitude: 84-inch base. Sundance: 78-inch base. 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