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This charitf benefits abused children ages 0-12 years. Special ends December I , "30 PARK CITY'S FAVORITE LUNCH BUFFET 6 DAYS A WEEK! MO U NTA I N TOWN HI W$ Vail backs away from By ALLEN BEST Record guest writer VAIL, Colo. - Vail residents have been increasingly annoyed about the growing din from the highway that bisects it, 1-70. Recently, town council members began gunning to prevent truck drivers from unnecessarily using the engine-compression brakes, commonly com-monly called jake brakes. But a truckers' lobbyist persuaded persuad-ed the council to postpone enacting a law to that effect backed by a $1,000 fine. Instead, the council is now talking about education of truckers, something that dissident council member Greg Moffet believes will be ineffective. Moffet, who lives within 100 yards of the highway, said nothing will change "without a gun to their heads," reports the Vail Daily. An issue for 20 years, highway noise in Vail has become an increasing increas-ing complaint in the last 5 to 10 years. The town continues to talk about erecting noise walls and also getting state authorities to reduce speed limits. Speed limits are officially offi-cially 65, which means that most people drive 75. As vehicles increase speed, noise from them Take a Break at Silver Come join us for our Winter Menu Lunch and Dinner J Days a Week 940.0800 7580 Royal Street East Silver Lake DINNER, RESERVATIONS SUGGESTED COMPLIMENTARY PARKING Fun...will stick to the program Comfortable, caring environment Achievable 22nd. 6:30am-l:30pm 3:30am -7:00pm FOR WOMEN Mimttt Rtnw & Weight Lots Ctntm ' war over jake brakes increases, in summer drowning out back-porch conversations. No surprise here: More 1-70 lanes 1-70 CORRIDOR, Colo. - This one was about as surprising as cold weather during winter. State and federal highway officials announced that they don't see any mass-transit options in the near future for steadily steadi-ly more crowded 1-70, a critical link between Denver and about two-thirds two-thirds of Colorado's ski areas. Instead, they want 1-70 to be widened to three lanes for about 40 miles, so that drivers from Denver will have three lanes all the way into Summit County. Key governments from Idaho Springs, Summit County, Vail and Eagle County had lobbied hard for a monorail or some other more environmentally friendly mass-transit device, even while conceding that such technology has not yet been proven. But several acknowledged that these lesser highway widenings were badly needed. Residents of Idaho Springs and other communities communi-ties where the highway is to be widened in an already narrow from Park City Lake t - , ' $ f 1 PREMIER ISSUE NOVEMBER 20. ALWAYS FREE alt arts events shopping counterculture rtOA were predictably not Passenger trains Revelstoke possible in REVELSTOKE, B.C. -Resumption of full year-round railroad rail-road passenger service between Calgary and Vancouver could begin on a trial basis next year, reports the Revelstoke Times-Review. VIA Rail has recommended the resumption resump-tion to three times per week in each direction. The trains would stop at Revelstoke. California team sinks money into Telluride TELLURIDE, Colo. - Joe Morita, the son of Sony founder Akio Morita, has hew partners at Telluride. After discussions with several suitors, including long-time ski industry executive Andy Daly and the Aspen Skiing Co., Morita has chosen Chuck and Chad Horning, partners in a real estate investment firm based in Anaheim, Calif. No changes are expected during this ski season, and it's not clear what the new joint venture may mean for Telluride, says the Telluride Planet. Also unclear is how much real estate is included in the deal. Morita in 1999 became a partner with Jim Wells and Ron Allred, who had been involved with Telluride since the 1970s. They eased out entirely in 2001, and Morita invested invest-ed $14 million in the Prospect Basin expansion. Advisors urged Morita to rebalance his sizable international internation-al investment portfolio. Booth Creek Ski Holdings, which operates six small ski areas, has managed Telluride in Morita's absence. Chris Ryman, president and CEO of Booth Creek, is negotiating negoti-ating with the new joint venture on his company's future involvement. Law intends to reduce fire risk to the interface WASHINGTON, D.C. - As Thanksgiving approached, Congress was nearing approval of a Healthy Forests Restoration Act. The stated intent of the law is to reduce potential harm to communities communi-ties near national forests and other public lands from wildfires A key sponsor of the bill, Rep. Scott Mclnnis, R-Colo., went so far as to describe the law as canyon pleased. COMING TO A NEWS STAND NEAR YOU NOTHING YOU NEED TO CCINJOW EVERYTHING YOU CAN'T 9jn)nj9)uno Sujddoqs s)U3A3 sjje e 33Ud SAVM1V '01 U3SM3AON 3DSSI U3IW3cJd X.NV3 IIOA ONI HX AW 3 A3 mora OX Q33N nOA ONIHXON VV3N QNVJ.S SM3N V OX 0NIMO3 A Rountep Of K?J!$ from cthsrtestsm ski "among the most important reforms to forest policy since Theodore Roosevelt first created the national forests nearly a century ago." Rep. Mark Udall, D-Colo., who is strongly tied to national environmental groups, had dropped his opposition, saying that the bill as modified promises to reduce severe wildfire damage to communities without gutting environmental envi-ronmental laws. The law more than doubles the amount of money available for forest for-est thinning project, and it also streamlines judicial review of thinning thin-ning projects. Environmental organizations had feared logging companies would be unleashed to plunder forests that posed no fire risk to communities. That fear was partially answered by a provision regarding old growth. How much will this law affect ski resort communities? Generally with less immediacy than other locations. Forests most at risk are low-elevation forests, such as of ponderosa pine, where burn cycles of 20 to 30 years have been suppressed sup-pressed for most of a century. Higher-elevation forests typically have burn cycles of 100 to 500 years. As such, the fire danger there tends to be not as high, although when fires will occur they can be intensely hot. In the Vail Valley, a plan was already underway to burn and cut 3,000 acres among a more general project area of 15,000 acres of lodgepole pine hit hard in recent years by bark beetles. Mears watch fob goes for $11334 DURANGO, Colo. - Otto Mears, who stitched the San Juan Mounts of Colorado with toll roads and narrow-gauge railroads during the late 19th century, one year gave 31 watch-job passes to friends, politicians, railroad executives and mine owners. One of those watclv fob passes was recently sold 01' eBay for $11,334. The Durango Herald says the watch-job was ong-inally ong-inally issued in 1890 to D.C. Hartwell, a founder of the town of Ridgway. ,' Allen Best has edited mountain town newspapers for 20 years. He has served as managing elitor at four different mountain town newspapers and is now fving in metropolitan Denver. (a |