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Show A-18 M The Park Record Carnitas OUNTAIN TOWN NEWS ARE BACK Mountain Town News $5 CARNITAS COMBO BURRITOS PRICE AND PARTICIPATION MAY VARY. SINGLE ITEM PRICE ON MENU BOARD. 1723 UTE BLVD., PARK CITY, UT ©2018 Del Taco LLC DTL-16997 1940 Prospector #114 A Roundup of News from Other Western Ski Resort Communities ALLEN BEST 2 FOR JUST LISTED Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, May 26-29, 2018 $179,900 1bd | 1ba | 510 sq ft LISA HOROWITZ | Realtor® 703.505.4440 | lisa.horowitz@comcast.net Grand Lake grocery plans to curb use of plastic bags GRAND LAKE, Colo. – A grocer in Grand Lake, at the west entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park, plans to phase out the use of most plastic bags this summer. “I have been talking about doing it for years. It was time to put up or shut up,” said Brenda Schoenherr, co-owner of the Mountain Food Market. She told the Sky-Hi News the response has been positive. “I would say 90 percent of people who see my little note about it give me fist bumps, high-fives, or atta-girls,” she said. Grand County has six towns, and none have taken action against distribution of free plastic shopping bags. Just the county’s two largest stores, a Safeway in Fraser and a City Market in Granby, together distribute two million bags each year, according to a 2016 study by the county. In Colorado, an estimated 2 billion disposable bags are distributed to shoppers. Lately, an activist group called Infinite West has been showing the film “Bag It!” and stared talking with local officials. Fraser, the old railroad town, might adopt only a 10cent fee, stopping short of a ban. Jeff Durbin, the Fraser town manager, said that a modest fee would encourage people to take their own bags. But for those who elect to pay the fee, that money could be used to help buy down the cost of recycling program in Fraser. Still a consideration is that the fee will encourage customers to instead buy groceries in Winter Park, 2 miles away, or in Granby, 14 miles away. The town naturally wants shoppers to buy their groceries at the store in Fraser, with the sales tax going to Fraser town coffers. Avon is the most recent Colorado town to limit distribution of plastic bags. Its ban went into effect May 1. Telluride was the first Colorado town, and it has been followed by Aspen, Boulder, Breckenridge, Carbondale, and Vail. Basalt’s elected officials adopted a ban. However, the ban was overturned by voters. The margin was 17 votes. Supreme Court upholds Aspen’s fee for paper bags ASPEN, Colo. – In 2011, the Aspen City Council adopted a law that prohibits grocery stores from providing disposable plastic bags to customers. Grocery stores may still provide paper bags to customers, but at a cost of 20 cents. Aspen adopted the fee after considering a San Francisco study that shows the cost of subsidizing the recycling, collection and disposal of plastic and paper bags there was 17 cents a bag. Aspen nudged the figure to 20 cents based on its distance to recycling markets, the smaller size of its waste stream, and community input. But is this fee in violation of Colorado’s constitutional amendment, called the Taxpayers Bill of Rights, or TABOR, that prohibits tax increases without direct consent of voters? No, the Colorado Supreme Court said on Monday in a 4-3 ruling that upheld a lower-court ruling. But there were dissenting opinions. “In all meaningful respects, Aspen’s ‘waste reduction fee’ is in the nature of, and functions entirely as, a ‘sin tax,’” said one of the dissenting opinions. Said another dissenting justice: “Tempting though it may be to provide a reprieve to local governments seemingly hamstrung at times by the strictures of TABOR, that policy decision is not ours to make. Because the bag charge is a tax, the voter approval requirement of TABOR applies.” Kochs ultimate owners of Aspen Food & Wine Festival ASPEN, Colo. – In liberal-leaning circles, the name Koch brothers inspire loathing and maybe fear. The billionaire brothers from Wichita, Kansas, distribute their money in ways designed to advance their conservative thinking. In liberal-leaning Aspen, the name Koch is already attached to a building on the campus of the Aspen institute. David Koch is a trustee at the institute and a familiar figure at the Aspen Ideas Festival held in late June each year. Now, the name Koch will be in the background of the town’s annual Food & Wine Classic. Food & Wine Magazine, owners of the eponymously named festival, has been sold to the Kochs as part of a $2.8 billion deal. Time Inc. had been the owner, but Des Moines-based Meredith Corp. now owns the magazine, and the Kochs bought the chain. A publicist for the magazine tells the Aspen Daily News that the change in ownership will not affect the festival in any way. The three-day weekend event each June attracts 5,000 at a cost of $1,700 each. It started as a home-grown event before being sold to American Express, which in turn sold its publishing arm to Time Inc. in 2013. Driverless cars coming. Are ski towns ready for them? WHISTLER, B.C. – Driverless cars will be coming soon. Is your community ready for them? That was the gist of a recent presentation at a conference in Whistler. 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