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Show A dogs' eye view of Park City Children's book set in Park City follows the adventures of a tiny dog. y 6 Page C-1 'he Eccles Center will host "Echoes of Earth and ViiTMitrrimSj'nilttiV Sky" at 2 and 6 p.m. today in the Blue Box Cold spell through the Theater. The family-geared Pillow Theater perform weekend. Temperatures ance showcases a wide variety of Native American culture. cul-ture. For more information, call 655-3114 or visit www.ecclescenter.orn CSS: A should warm up beginning the week For more Info turntoB-Z TheTTD, 500 I II Serving Summit County sin tv7 W S t U t PARK CITY, UTAH www.parkrecord.com VOLI22-NO.I0 SatSunMonTues, March 2-5, 2002 f cL c-'L r ) 1 Kr 1 IWF;IMltltWIWWIWi UMUll II Local Dems seek party's nomination Two from Park City eye a ticket to Washington this November By JAY HAMBURGER Of the Record staff Two Democrats from the Park City area want their party's congressional nomination, a required nod before either can challenge a Republican for a ticket to Washington. Cole Capener. an attorney and president of an African-aid nonprofit who lives in Pinebrook, and Donald Dunn, a Park City resident resi-dent who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2000, are each seeking the Democratic nomination. nomina-tion. Joining the duo from Summit County is Greg Sanders, an attorney from Kaysville. Utah Democratic Party executive director Todd Taylor likes his party's chances, especially since the Democrat will probably not be running against an incumbent. "It's still a Republican-leaning district but it's an open seat. There are real chances for a Democrat to be elected," Taylor said. The upcoming election remains clouded. Currently, Summit County voters would be casting ballots in Utah's 1st congressional district, dis-trict, which is represented by Jim Hansen, the retiring Republican incumbent. That scenario creates the open seat that Taylor talks about. Should Utah win its census lawsuit and gain -another congressional district, though, Summit County would remain in the 3rd congressional district, which is now represented by Republican Chris Cannon. Of the three running Democrats, Dunn is the best known politician. Although he was defeated defeat-ed in 2000. Dunn, who is now 30, became a prominent Democrat in northern Utah. He fared well in Summit County in 2000, beating Cannon 57 percent to 39 percent, but was trounced in more conservative parts of the district. "I think it's a race we can win. We dont see an open seat very often. The timing could be right," Dunn said about the 1st district. Dunn declined to offer details of his 2002 platform, opting to discuss those planks later in the campaign. He remains optimistic about the government, however. "I still believe there is more good than bad in politics," Dunn said. In 2000, Dunn's platform included increasing the federal minimum wage, gun control and helping young families with children. Dunn teaches a political science class at the University of Utah and is the development director at the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the university. Capener, meanwhile, moved to Pinebrook a year ago. He is an attorney and president of the Please see Democrats, A-2 3 SECTIONS 40 PAGES Agendas A-8 Business B-9 Classifieds C-7 Columns A-14 Crossword C-4 Editorial .A-15 Education A-11 Events Calendar C-2 FYI ......B-11 Letters to the Editor A-15 Legals C-1 3 Movies C-4 Professional Services B-8 Restaurant Guide C-8 Sports B-1 TV Listings C-7 Weather B-2 Kids design their playground dreams I. 05" J" If i- I tr: ) 41 National Ability Center to have fully accessible playground available by june By JASON READE i-- j " - : . X. t",', . .-i:4 "'.'1 Picking up a few tips SCOTT SiHBPARK RECORD Otto the Otter, the 2002 Paralympic Winter Games mascot, visits with Jon Peay and Kapena Clark during the playground design day at the National Ability Center. The students created their designs for the perfect playground, which KaBoom, a Washington, D.C.-based company that specializes in handicapped-accessible playgrounds, will use to craft a children's recreation recre-ation area specifically for the NAC. The playground will be built during a one-dsyJLbjtro raising" rais-ing" in late June. The Home Depot is funding the project, which will total about $70,000. Schifferli will not run for second term Six-year commissioner says it is someone else's turn to lead By TIM SULLIVAN Of the Record staff Summit County Commissioner Eric Schifferli, long the peacemaker of the county's highest governing gov-erning board, announced Thursday he will not run for another term. Schifferli, a Park City Republican who has spent six years on the county commission, said simply that it was time for someone else to take over the county's reins. "It's time for some new blood," Schifferli told The Park Record. "I feel good about what I've done but it's personally and emotionally draining. I think it's appropriate now for someone else to do it." Schifferli, the county commission's senior member, mem-ber, was appointed to the board in 1996 after then-commissioner then-commissioner Tom Flinders resigned. In the six years since, he's seen the county continue the high rate of growth it began in the early 1990s. Schifferli said he's proud of the direction in which he and other commissioners have taken the county, though the difficulties of decision making in such a contentious con-tentious environment have worn on him. "I feel very positive about the direction we're going," he said. "But that's not to say there aren't frustrations." Schifferli, who said he has known for the last few months he would not run again, said he plans to duck out of the public light almost completely. Though he said he will remain in Park City, he said Please see Park, A-2 Of the Record staff The main design elements of the playground coming com-ing to the National Ability Center (NAC) in the early summer wont come from a group of MIT engineers engi-neers or architects well-versed in swing-sets and slides. How can they really design a playground if they aren't going to be the ones spending countless carefree hours on the equipment? No, this playground is being designed by its biggest patrons - kids. NAC, the non-profit organization that provides recreational opportunities for the physically- and mentally-challenged, has teamed up with the Home Depot and KaBoom - a Washington, D.C.-based company that builds children-designed playgrounds. About 20 local children took crayons to sheets drawing paper at the NAC's Quinn's Junction campus cam-pus Tuesday, creating their own images of the perfect playground. The "Design Day" turned out to be a playground party of sorts, as the children were joined by friends and family; representatives from the Home Depot and KaBoom; and Paralympic athletes Monte Meier, gold-medal slalom winner in Nagano in 1998, and Clay Fox, the 2000 Male Skier of the Year for the U.S. Disabled Team; and even Otto, the 2002 Paralympic Winter Games mascot. The kids seemed to know exactly what makes a great playground, from the functional to the w himsical. himsi-cal. Six-year-old Bailey included a "giraffe with spring to ride" in her colorful design. "It's a weird giraffe because it's purple," Bailey said. She also drew a "double slide," a rope swing, a pond, and a tunnel. Nine-year-old Sarah imagined a an interactive playground. "This is a ladder that lifts you up and down. ..you can crawl up and down to go to a slide," she said as she pointed to her crayon creation, w hich also included includ-ed a castle, a play horse, an airplane and a trampoline. trampo-line. The playground is especially unique because it Please see Dream, A-2 SCOTT SINEPARK RECORD Olympic Nordic skier, and local hero, Wendy Wagner gave a few skating lessons at White Pine Touring's cross-country track Thursday before heading out for the World Cup in Finland. Wagner drew large crowds of local fans at Soldier Hollow. It was Wagner's first Olympics and while she admitted to being disappointed with her performance, she enjoyed her Games experience. Visa billboard will stay through Paralympics Local businesses annoyed at county's 'double standard' By TIM SULLIVAN Of the Record staff Now that the Olympics are over, many Snyderville motorists driving by the Visa billboard in front of the Richins County Services Building at Kimball Junction are wondering when the thing is coming down. The answer? Not until the end of March, said Summit County Olympic Coordinator Robbie Beck. The sign will remain on county property through the Paralympics, and wont be removed from the property prop-erty until April 1. The sign came about through Beck's quest for a large amount of tickets for Summit County children. The county struck a deal with Visa that, in exchange for 5,000 tickets to Wasatch Back Olympic events, allowed the credit card company to put a billboard on its property along S.R. 224 during the Games. The billboard was a flagrant violation of the county's Olympic signage ordinance, but Beck convinced the County Commission to make a one-time exception. Though Beck said she received no calls about the billboard, some local business owners were heard to grumble that it wasnt right that a international corporation cor-poration could put up a huge sign while they couldn't could-n't even direct traffic to their locally owned restaurants restau-rants or shops. Kimball Junction Business Association President Steve Post said he heard negative comments and queries regarding the sign from business owners and citizens alike. "Some businesses have been annoyed by the fact that there's a double standard there," Post said. "That the county gets to do what it wants to do and the business owners are harassed." To many, said Post, the reward of 5.000 tickets was not enough. "That's a famous Utah quote." Post said, "It's for the children." Nancy Nickman, co-owner of the Sage Grill, didn't did-n't like the deal, either. "Twenty thousand cars are driving by that dont know about our business," Nickman said during the Games. Now, the Olympics are over, the dust is clearing, the kids had a good time and the Visa sign is still there. The sign will remain through the Paralympics, said Beck, because along with Visa's worldwide sponsorship of the Olympics comes its sponsorship of the Paralympics, even though no Paralympics events will occur within 25 miles of Kimball Junction. When it made the deal, the county gave Please see Billboard, A-2 f 60S. COPY |