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Show B-14 The Park Record Saturday, April 15, 2000 BB9 Ipl Ute youths visit to tribe's old home 2 FOR 1 SPECIAL Biing in this ad to receive a FREE entree with purchase of an entree ot equal or greater value. Not valiJ with .inv other ottcrv No lit chivks with this titter. Expires April 2TnJ. Reservations 647-032 Lpen luesliv - undv Serving from 5:30 p.m. 5 0 8 M A IN ST P A R K C I T Y STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) An outing over the weekend with Olympic skier Billy Kidd was a homecoming of sorts for 17 Ute Indian children. Kidd invited the youths to the ski area when they attended a ceremony ceremo-ny last fall for the dedication of a Ute memorial in a Steamboat Springs park. The Ute Indians were forced out of the Yampa River Vallev in 1881 and relocated to Utah as Europeans expanded westward. The northentral Colorado area is sacred to the Ute Indian Tribe. kidd and the Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp. invited the Indian youths to return to ski as part of a "Future Olympians" program. "I want to plant the seed in their minds that maybe they will go to the Olympics; if not in skiing, maybe in track. It just puts it in their minds." Kidd said. The youths, ages 8 to 18, and chaperones arrived Friday night from Roosevelt, Utah, and stayed at Kidd's home and Holy Name Catholic Church. All their ski passes, pass-es, equipment and lessons were donated by the ski company. "It's pretty fun," 13-year-old Jackie Murray said. "It nice to get a chance to be taught by the pros." "Our kids donl get these opportunities. oppor-tunities. Rarely do they get opportunities oppor-tunities to get out of Roosevelt." Sabra Barta said, an adviser at Roosevelt Junior High, which manv of the students attend. The ski trip is part of efforts to build a relationship between the Utes and the Steamboat Springs community, said Kirby Arrive, a member of the tribal business committee. "We just want to take it slow," he said. "We want to have a relationship based on a good foundation." Nearly $1 00 million spent on Provo Canyon road PROYO. Utah (AP) Nearly $100 million has been spent on widening the Provo Canyon Highway, a project proj-ect started 30 years ago, and only nine miles of the 24.5-mile project is complete. The next 5.3 miles is expected to be the most expensive and Utah Department of Transportation officials offi-cials are not sure how much more time and money it take before it is complete. Dan Nelson. UDOT project manager, man-ager, researched all contracts, studies, stud-ies, tests and other cost factors he could find, and estimated about $100 million has been spent so far. "1 know some things fall through the cracks," he said. He said no more exact figures were available. The Provo Canyon project was begun in 1970. Originally, the design included improvement of a two-lane highway with passing lanes. That was later revised to a four-lane highway. Over the years, UDOT has worked on two major US-IS projects. proj-ects. The first involved widening the highway to four lanes between 1-15 and the mouth of Provo Canyon. The section from the mouth of the canvon to Murdock Diversion dam was two miles. The section from Murdock Diversion Dam to Vivian - 5.8 miles - is complete and the 13-mile section sec-tion from Vivian Park to Wildwood (the Sundance turnoff) is nearly complete; The next section is the 53 miles from Wildwood to Deer Creek State Park. An environmental re-evaluation re-evaluation was approv ed in 195 and the preliminary design is complete. The Deer Creek State Park to Heber City section is only at the conceptual stage. The section from Wildwood to Deer Creek State Park is one of the most complex sections. It would depart from the existing alignment at Horseshoe Bend and rise to the saddle sad-dle below the Canyon Meadows subdivision. sub-division. From there it would rejoin the alignment at the Heber Creeper Railroad overpass and traverses the face of Deer Creek Dam. Melony Buck, UDOT informa-Jion informa-Jion officer, said a new study must be conducted on this phase of the project proj-ect because of possible changes in design, construction and traffic use since publication of the original 1989 impact statement. The original highway design ws announced in 1970 and drew extensive exten-sive objections from citiens and environmental groups who were concerned about damage to the canyon. Gov Calvin Rampton then ordered the project placed on hold. While it was on ht4d, the National Environmental Protection act was passed by Congress and that mandated man-dated major changes in the highway design. Construction was halted in 1986 when a civil action against UDOT w as filed in the U.S. District Court by the Provo Canyon Committee and a conyrtium of environmental organizations. Since the settlement of that suit. UDOT has faced other court actions. 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