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Show WASATCH PARK MOUNTAIN TIMES CITY REPORT Park City Petition Drive Aims To Put Olympics on Ballot f\ fter one false start, Stephen C. ace and his Citizens for a Debtfree Olympics group, is set to start a petition drive that would put an Olympics funding question on November's municipal ballot in Park City. Salt Lake City, on the other hand, has blocked the petition. Pace has vowed to take Salt Lake City to court. Pace, an outspoken critic of Salt Lake City’s bid for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, says he wants to ensure that local governments in Salt Lake City and Park City don’t spend public funds on the Olympic Games or events that surround the Olympics. Park City officials blunted Pace’s initial effort by disallowing the sponsors of the petition because they had not voted in the last municipal election. But Pace now says he has the five qualified voters outlined by statute to sponsor the petition drive. About 450 signatures of properly registered Park City voters will be required before July 1 to get the initiative on the November ballot. “It is an up or down vote. It is the strongest signal you could send to the IOC that you don’t want the Olympics. Or conversely, I guess, that you do,” Pace said. Park City already has spent at least $15,000 on promoting the 2002 bid, according to city officials. And although a Park City petition drive may go forward, Salt Lake City is doing everything it can to stop a petition drive, Pace says. “In Salt Lake City, there apparently is not room for both the Olympics and the U.S. Constitution.” Salt Lake City may find a petition drive embarrassing just before the IOC makes its choice for the site of the 2002 Games. PUN a 4’. WOLF Seca ee MOUNTAIN Tickets available at all SMITH’STIX OUTLETS, Wolf Mountain, by phone 467-TIXX, 1-800-888-TIXX. Ne Meme CaelMGs ee MCC ema tel melmcl elie Crewe Ct MUM lms Bela ye Produced By United Concerts @ Indigo Girls to Sing at Wolf Mountain for Endangered Species and Peoples he Indigo Girls pop-music duet will sing in Park City as a benefit for endangered species and “endangered peoples.” The folk-rockers will play Wolf Mountain on May 19 — one of 21 stops nationwide in their “Honor The Earth” tour. The tour is sponsored by the Indigenous Women’s Network, said the “defense of homelands and ecosystems” include: Niiwin, a coalition of Wisconsin tribes facing off with Exxon Corp. to stop a large mining operation that would contaminate the Wolf River watershed; the Lubicon Cree’s efforts in Alberta to stop the largest clear-cutting lumber operation in North America; a cam- Winona erators near the Indian Lands of the Torres. Martinez band of Cahuilla LaDuke, in a telephone interview with The Wasatch Mountain Times. Proceeds from the tour will go into a special “Endangered Peoples, Endangered Species” fund, administered by The Seventh Generation Fund —,a funding and advocacy group for Native Americans and the environment, LaDuke explained. “The Indigo Girls have a long history of commitment to native people’s and women’s rights,” LaDuke said. “They put their money where their mouth is and practice their politics.” Proceeds from the tour will support native groups and projects under three categories: 1) The defense of homelands and ecosystems. 2) The protection of sacred Native American sites. 3) Rebuilding sustainable communities. According to the Indigenous Women’s Network, projects under paign to stop toxic dumps Indians Care, in Southern which is to stop Puget Power from gaina 40-year license to operate an expanded hydroelectric facility that would destroy sacred sites and decimate a salmon population; and the Native Action’s efforts to protect the sacred Sweet Grass Mountains Montana, where a moratorium gold mining expires in August. of on The tour also will support “Rebuilding Sustainable Native Communities such as: The White Earth Land Recovery Project, which seeks to recover and protect the original lands of the White Earth Indian Reservation; and the Hopi Foundation, which integrates Hopi values and cultural practices with alternatives technologies, such as solar energy, according to the Indigenous Women’s Network. @ and incin- California; working ing ing to Dine reduce clear-cutting in Arizona’s Chuska Mountains and fighting to stop construction of toxic incinerators on the Navajo Reservation; Eyak Rain Forest Preservation Fund to halt clear-cutting around Prince William Sound in Alaska; and the Innu of Quebec, who have been battling hydro-electric dam projects. Proceeds from The Honor The Earth tour also will be used for projects to protect Native American sacred sites, including: The Native Coalition for Cultural Restoration of Mt. Shasta, which is fighting to prevent Congress from amending the National Historic Preservation Act to allow clear-cutting of forest on Mt. Shasta and the construction of a ski lift and resort; Snoqualmie Falls Preservation Project, which is workPAGE Indigo Girls — Amy Ray (left) and Emily Saliers. 15 Mountain |