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Show SEPTEMBER 1904 ors IMPERIAL HOTEL Enjoy the morning sun while your breakfast is served on the porch overlooking Park City’s Historic Main St. Summer lodging specials from $60 Face Lift Miners, ay P , && | ° AND BREAKFAS" \ 1996 we Escape to the cool mountains of Park City and spend a The 1930s vintage dam impounding Twin Lakes above Brighton gets improvements, The dam was built during the Depression by the jg ® Civilian Conservation Corps. weekend relaxing in the charm of a turn of the century bed and breakfast. Summer lodging specials from APPAPGRT APPIN: $55 800 648-8068 Pioneer Park and Theater of the Absurd By I.B. Rappaport + + + Credit and Noncredit courses Distance Education Lifelong Learning Youth Education Contact the Park City/ University of Utah at 1255 Park Ave or call 645-UofU (8638) or 585-7313 from Salt Lake CONTINUING EDUCATION ¢ UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Wasatch, other half of the group is going up. In fact, the neighborhood around Pioneer Park may be the next trendy spot in Salt Lake City. There are plans to turn the building once occupied by Bailey’s Firestone Tire store on the northwest corner of 300 South and 300 West into a hip restaurant and club for YUPPIES. Some city leaders think it could be a big step toward cleaning up the area. But there is a hitch — according to Utah law, no liquor can be served within 1,000 feet of a park. Solution: change the name of Pioneer Park to Pioneer Square. Then a liquor license can be issued. Then the restaurant can be built. Then the area can be cleaned up. Not so fast, says Salt Lake City Councilman Stuart Reid. Serving liquor near the park could jeopardize our children, who play in the park. PAGE 14 Is that just plain stupid? Well, if that isn’t stupid enough, half of the Salt Lake City Council is only too happy to play the Park-Square game, while the is worried that children could be adversely effected. Here’s some advice to Stuart Reid and the other council members: Put on some sunglasses, hop in your car and drive down 400 South Street under the viaduct between 300 West and 400 West any time after noon. Chances are, you'll be offered heroin and crack by the street vendors. Here’s some more advice: Wake up and smell the coffee, or whatever that is, down at Pioneer Park. Salt Lake City and America’s underbelly is showing. Changing the name from Pioneer Park to Pioneer Square might help clean up the area, but it won't solve the real problems that And make the park what it is today. that’s what the Salt Lake City Council should try around, rather than men on the’ Commission. @ to get its arms those nice gentleLiquor Control ee Autumn quarter starts September 25. Right on, Stuart. The heroin and crack being peddled openly in the park won't have an impact on the kids — or the drunks staggering around half blind. But that white wine served chilled in long-stemmed crystal could really whack out the youngsters. Wait another minute. You mean the Utah Liquor Commission won't issue a liquor license across the street from Pioneer Park, but will issue a license to the same _ establishment across from the same park if its name is changed to Pioneer Square? panes LEAF THROUGH OUR AUTUMN CATALOG AND PICK A CLASS! SALT LAKE CITY — Here, in the City of Salt, home of the 2002 Winter Olympics, is a place where drugs, like heroin, are dealt out in the open, drunks sprawl across summer lawns oblivious to the danger mingling around them, and where the homeless make their way in slow footsteps to the soup kitchen and Traveler's Aid shelter, hoping not to get stabbed along the way. This place is Pioneer Park. Roll over Brigham Young, this is the other Zion. Unfortunately for the drunks, derelicts and other homeless miscreants, the real estate around Pioneer Park, like everywhere else along the |
