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Show C-1 B-1 TAKE A TRIP WITHOUT LEAVING ARMCHAIR BUSINESS, A-15 SPRING HOME INSIDE See The Park Record’s spring HOME for trends of 2018, broker-approved upgrades, and more! SOLDIERS TAKE AIM AT CHAMPIONSHIPS COLUMNS, A-20 Park Record. STATE DECLINES TO TAKE ANOTHER SHOT AT DUI LAW TOM CLYDE LOOKS TO LEGISLATURE FOR ENTERTAINMENT The PA R K C I T Y, U TA H W W W. PA R K R E C O R D . C O M Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, March 3-6, 2018 Serving Summit County since 1880 Deal inked on one side of PCMR | A shot at the title He displays a gun as two pets tangle along an off-leash route, claims self-defense JAY HAMBURGER ANGELIQUE MCNAUGHTON The Park Record Please see Deal, A-2 Resorts run test for ’19 ski worlds The Park Record PHOTO BY TECH. SGT. AMBER MONIO/U.S. AIR NATIONAL GUARD Army Maj. Daniel Morken, a member of the Utah National Guard biathlon team, competes in the individual pursuit event at the Chief National Guard Bureau Biathlon Championships in Soldier Hollow in late February. The Utah National Guard women’s team finished first in the overall competition. The men’s team took third. See B-1 for more coverage. Vail Resorts rings potential Winter Olympic bid regions Colorado firm has properties Deer Valley, Solitude in three places that may seek and PCMR prepare to the games as early as 2030 host championships JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record BEN RAMSEY The Park Record The conclusion of the Toyota U.S. Revolution Tour — a freeski and snowboard event at Park City Mountain Resort — marked the final test run before the 2019 FIS Freestyle, Freeski, and Snowboard World Championships, and one of the last hurdles in a six-year effort to bring the World Championships back to the Park City area. The Revolution Tour, which ended Friday, served as a way for organizers to try new ideas and make sure the venue was up to FIS standards. In addition to PCMR, Deer Valley Resort and Solitude Mountain Resort are slated to host World Championship events. “Our competition venues at Park City, Deer Valley and Solitude enjoy very good reputations among the international freestyle, freeskiing and snowboarding community, however we need to challenge ourselves to deliver the best possible events,” said Calum Clark, chief of systems and operations for U.S. Ski & Snowboard and the chairperson for the organizing committee for the 2019 World Championships. “Park City Mountain Resort’s Park and Pipe team and U.S. Ski & Snowboard have been working on a modified venue layout for the Slopestyle venue, so that it will be Please see Resorts, A-11 Vail Resorts could medal in any U.S. bid for a Winter Olympics. The Colorado-based owner of Park City Mountain Resort has properties in three of the places that are seen as contenders to become the bid city once the United States Olympic Committee mounts an effort to secure another Winter Olympics, perhaps as early as the event in 2030. Salt Lake City, Denver and the Sacramento-Reno-Lake Tahoe region of California and Nevada are three of the places that are considering a bid. Vail Resorts has properties in each of the three locations. PCMR would be expected to have an important role in a future Olympics in Salt Lake City, as it did during the Winter Olympics in 2002. It hosted skiing and snowboarding events in 2002 and is seen as a potential venue for snowboarding and freestyle skiing events in a future Olympics. There are also possibilities involving Vail Resorts’ properties in a Denver bid or a bid in California and Nevada. The Vail Resorts’ portfolio includes the Colorado mountain resorts in Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone. It seems almost certain a Denver bid for an Olympics would involve at least some of those resorts. They are accessible from Denver via an interstate highway and offer the terrain needed for skiing Business ............................... A-15 Classifieds .............................. C-7 Columns ............................... A-20 Crossword .............................. C-4 Editorial................................ A-21 Events Calendar ..................... C-6 Legals ..................................... C-9 Letters to the Editor ............. A-21 Restaurant Guide.................. A-19 Scene ...................................... C-1 Scoreboard ............................. B-5 Sports ..................................... B-1 Weather .................................. B-2 and snowboarding events. The firm’s holdings in the Lake Tahoe region include the mountain resorts at Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood. They are between Sacramento and Reno. A Vail Resorts representative said the firm would be “proud to be a part of hosting a Winter Olympic Games in any one of the three regions of Colorado, Utah or Tahoe.” Kelly Ladyga, the vice president of corporate communications, said Vail Resorts will work with Olympic efforts in any of the areas. “We will participate and coordinate with… Salt Lake City on its exploration into potentially pursuing a bid and expect that be considered again as a venue. Our understanding is that cities in other regions where we have resorts may also consider pursuing bids, and we will participate with them as well,” she said. The exploratory committee in Utah that determined the Salt Lake City region should pursue another Olympics did not include a representative from PCMR or Vail Resorts. The committee in Denver includes a Vail Resorts figure, Chris Jarnot, who is the firm’s executive vice president over the mountain division. PCMR, though, sent the Utah exploratory committee a letter expressing interest in further discussions about the role the resort could play in an Olympic bid. Colin Hilton, who is the president and CEO of the Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation and was a member of the exploratory committee in Utah, said the PCMR leadership has indicated Vail Resorts does not have a preference regarding which location may be selected as the bid city that is then forwarded to the International Olympic Committee to compete against the international field of candidate cities. “They’ve stated to me there is no favoritism. ... They are remaining objective,” Hilton said. A 64-year-old Park City man threatened to shoot a dog at the Run-A-Muk Trail near the Utah Olympic Park on Thursday while his dog was being attacked, according to the Summit County Sheriff’s Office. At around 1:45 p.m., a witness contacted the Sheriff’s Office to report the incident, which took place within the confines of the off-leash dog park. The witness told deputies the two off-leash dogs were fighting when the man lifted his shirt to reveal a concealed .380 caliber handgun tucked in his waistband. He then told the owner of the other dog, described by witnesses as a man in his 80s, “I’ll blow your dog’s head off,” Lt. Andrew Wright said. He said multiple witnesses observed the man brandish the firearm, but the man claimed he never threatened to use it against the person. The Sheriff’s Office did not release the name of the man who presented the weapon. Both men left the area before deputies arrived. However, they later located the man with the weapon in the Kimball Junction area near Landmark Drive. Wright said he admitted to the confrontation and threatening to shoot the dog. “He told deputies he was already frustrated because when he was in Utah County earlier that day his dog had been attacked by another dog,” Wright said. “He recognized after a long conversation with our deputies what his responsibility is as firearm permit holder. He realized he was in the wrong and his actions weren’t the best.” Deputies did not cite the man for the altercation or brandishing his firearm and he was released. However, Wright said the Sheriff’s Office plans to notify the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification of the man’s actions. The bureau is responsible for administering concealed firearm permits, among other duties. The other man involved in the altercation has not been identified or contacted the Sheriff’s Office to file a report. “In talking with the supervisor that was on patrol, it is one of those things where, without a victim, there is no crime so to speak,” Wright said. “Could we have gone down the road of disorderly conduct? Absolutely.” Wright said the man claimed his actions were in self-defense, but self-defense does not apply to animals. Utah is an open-carry state for valid permit holders. However, deadly force can only be used to prevent serious bodily injury or death to oneself or a third party. “When they asked the man who made the threat why he felt it was necessary, he said the other dog was about 100 pounds,” Wright said. “The opinion of the supervisor was that a dog is not going to present a life or safety risk to a grown man and a reasonable person would conclude that was not reasonable conduct.” Wright said it is the responsibility of the permit holder to make sure they are following the law and Please see Dogs, A-2 Legislator hungry to eliminate state food tax Rep. Quinn claims the added cost especially hurts poor families JAMES HOYT The Park Record 3 sections • 42 pages 50¢ Park City man threatens dog on Basin trail Little is made public about transaction at Canyons Village A transaction was reached several weeks ago involving interests on the Canyons Village side of Park City Mountain Resort, but the parties have declined to provide details. The transaction involved interests at the Canyons Village specially planned area. The parties were not named. TCFC Finance Co., LLC, which manages the property at Canyons Village, declined to provide details, including any role the Talisker Corporation had in the trans- Vol. 138 | No. 8 By his own definition, Rep. Tim Quinn, R-Heber, is a staunch conservative. But the Republican who represents Park City in the Utah House of Representatives is going out on a limb with a proposed elimination of the state’s grocery food sales tax. And for his idea, approved by the House, to have a snowball’s chance in the Senate, he needed bipartisan help. Quinn’s Democratic ally is Sen. Luz Escamilla, D-Salt Lake. Escamilla said that a policy such as eliminating the grocery tax is something she and her colleagues have been interested in for a long time, and that passing Quinn’s legislation would add an instrument to Utah’s toolbox in the ongoing fight against intergenerational poverty. “If some of my colleagues, they feel some of the entitlement programs are problematic, well, this is helping families stay off state entitlement programs,” Escamilla said. “If you make $100,000 a year, maybe (food taxes are not significant) ... Please see Legislator, A-2 PARK RECORD FILE PHOTO Paul Rodolf, right, sifts through apples at The Market at Park City. Rep. Tim Quinn wants to eliminate the state sales tax on groceries. Quinn’s bill won bipartisan support as the House of Representatives passed the legislation. The Senate must consider the proposal as well. 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