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Show "'ftfT Tuesday, December 21 T 1999 77ie Par Record A-5 )R COPY u CITY EDITOR: Jay Hamburger 649-90 1 4 ext ( 1 1 Cellular boost is souaht at Sundana Lines are overwhelmed during festival, so mobile cell site might be trucked in by Jay Hamburger OF THE RECORD STAFF Sundance Film Festival cliches abound. Head-to-toe black and a cellular phone at every ear are just two. The cellular-phone cliche1 might just be reality. Just ask Parkite Ira Sachs. Sachs claims that during the 1999 film festival, his usually reliable reli-able cell phone wasn't working normally. Cellulaf lines, nof his phone, were to blame, he says. Because of the influx of cellphone cell-phone users during Sundance, there were no available lines. Festival-goers apparently use cell phones at a rate that overwhelms the amount of lines in Park City. "All you get are 'The circuits are busy," said Sachs, who lives in Deer Valley. "The circuits are busy because of over capacity." Sachs, who uses his cell phone to slay in touch with his mother, wants the city and cellular providers to ensure there are enough lines during future festivals festi-vals to accommodate the increased users during Sundance. "There's a capacity problem with all of the carriers, therefore they need to alleviate the problems prob-lems on a temporary basis," he said. Cellular providers realize the problem and this year, they hope to offer more coverage of Park City during the festival, which is scheduled for late January. Sprint PCS for the first time is interested in boosting its coverage cover-age of Park City during Sundance, which is scheduled for next month. The telecommunications telecommunica-tions company and several others that provide cellular-phone service serv-ice are interested in setting up temporary cellular trailers during Sundance that would provide more service for Park City. "In years past during that time, Park City and the surrounding surround-ing area gets quite a swelling of people up there and a lot of them are wireless carriers," said Bob Kelly, a spokesman for Sprint PCS. The company is fc noughly 30 percent or the people u I a I iv ii k, , , ,, m.i i .i ....... with the who come rrom me natianas w we there is a city about mn. hawp nrnhlpm hrpathinn 1 3 r I e t for COWs to the staff. Kelly says COWs are com- m o n I y s e d hen bringing in a -ceiiuiar which means roughly Ju percent ot 1 n a on wheels contraption, contrap-tion, known as a COW.' K e I 1 y says a COW consists con-sists of a satellite dish-look- the 'People in Black' probably have draw lots some anxiety problems or breathing jfhocenne" problems. Therefore they need to users. Cnnrlinn i xL ; nnn Jr,u"6 nave um udfjauuy iu euuei uan au ui their shrink in Beverly Hills. " - Parkite Ira Sachs often require events, Kelley said MONARCH DOOR A Division of HOJ Engineering 4 Sales Co ALL YOUR GARAGE DOOR NEEDS SALES SERVICE INSULATED DOORS CUSTOM WOOD DOORS OPENERS Free Estimates Q r A America's Strongest, Safest Garage Doors! You want a Wavne-Dalton 's. door system.. IJiisttobe.nifc ) "1 1 90 days same as cash Police Blotter Winter-related driving problems busy P.C. police On Monday, Dec. 13 at 4:35 p.m., a three-vehicle traffic accident oh Deer Valley Drive brought police to the street. Police cited one driver for driving too fast for the conditions. Other incidents reported to the Park City Police Department last week included: On Saturday. Dec. 18 at 12:10 a.m., police were called to the 500 block of Park Avenue, where a fight was reported. Police arrived to find that the fight had already been broken up. But the fisticuffs continued later at a Main Street nightclub. By the time police arrived, the combatants were already gone. At 1:49 a.m., police arrested a motorist for driving under the influence influ-ence of alcohol or drugs on the 300 block of Main StrtdtiU' vimijm.nn-.i On Friday, Dec. 17 police were in frfltijetj Ihflt sbrhe tftfr wtft sjotep; ' from i store at 4:21 a.m. An officer:, responded to the report and found two suspects in a blue sport-utility vehicle. Officers arrested the driver for driving Under the influence of alcohol or drugs and a passenger for intoxication. At 9:01 a.m., a person reported to police that all four tires on his vehicle vehi-cle were slashed. The incident occurred on Homestake Road, police report. An hour later, a person per-son reported that tires had also been slashed on Kearns Boulevard. At 3:24 p.m., police responded to a report that a handgun has been stolen from a home on Norfolk Avenue. The incident was entered into a crime database. On Thursday, Dec. 16 at i2:15 a.m., police arrested a motorist for driving under the influence of alcohol alco-hol or drugs on S.R. 224 near the McPolin Farm. At 2:10 a.m. police and fire crews were called to the 300 block of Park Avenue, where a trash bin was reported to be ablaze. Firefighters extinguished the fire. , r. (t With snowfall last week, police and tow-trucb- crews toad;40- dear-with dear-with several illegally parked vehi- Please see Police Blotter, A-6 ing piece of telecommunications equipment on top of a trailer. Depending on the desired coverage cover-age boost, the dish can range from 18 inches to several feet in diameter. "We run into capacity problems prob-lems . . . Suddenly you get a lot more people there . . . The system, sys-tem, as it runs everyday, can't handle the surge," Kelly said. Sprint PCS is negotiating with several places to locate a COW during Sundance and the company compa-ny has not submitted an application applica-tion yet. Park City now requires that telecommunications facilities receive a conditional-use permit before being built. Requests for COWs, though, could be handled differently. Park City Attorney Mark Harrington said city staffers will ask the Park City Council to approve an ordinance that would give approval power luws. the Kose bowl in Pasadena, Calif., and the Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Ariz., are two events that have required Sprint PSC COWs. During New Year's, Sprint PCS is planning to locate a COW in Las Vegas to handle a crowd that could number 750.000. Sachs says he's glad that Sundance brings people to Park City and is not miffed at the cellphone cell-phone users at Sundance. After all, Sachs said, cell phones might be necessary for some. "Roughly 30 percent of the !eople who come from the flat-ands flat-ands to the mountains have a problem breathing, which means roughly 30 percent of the 'People in Black' probably have some anxiety problems or breathing problems," he said. 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