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Show JANUARY 24, 2001 - WASATCH COUNTY COURIER To Bur: or Not to Burn? ast week, L as a haze and feds. Large sad: even small homeowners need to burn during the “spring cleanup”. For a few weeks in. capped the valley we were besieged by phone looks like a Ben & Jerry’s commercial. Burning, at the right time and burning to — occur? To add fuel on the fire (so to Sundance Welcome Z livestock. But with our new place in Ake: national and international spotlight, there to Salt Lake and Utah Counties! Yeah, image world. governing burning dur- — publicized declare no burn days or weeks, if, in the opinion of the legislative body, burning would detract from either the public health, or the visual quali- atwill spring, the entire valley smells like smoke, then miraculously, several weeks later the burned areas are place is a wondrous thing. It’s a natural phenomenon that beatifies the val- ley for farmers and homeowners ties of the valley. Seems sonable compromise.” like a rea- enail: dan@wasatchcountycourier.com — county who have to work City this week. in aters that are needed for these festi- underwrite every good old boy devel- parking and dinner reservations. They vals, the lost and KCPW radio was entertaining, there were more lost cell phones and. black attaches _ wish they could just go back to living their. pampered low. stress . Park City lives. Good forthem. — So, how og Business in this? Heber , Valley, while not bad, isn’t exactly booming. The e plain fact of the. these rich Hollywood types all had matter is we don’t have the population or go-fers that keep track of these acces_ sories for them. Imagine the stress of the demographics to support a healthy busi- than I knew even existed, I thought losing your cell phone and missing - that BIG call. It’s all too much to bear, poor souls. ‘Stress, Stress, ness community from within. In other words, even help bring Sundance back to its “independent” roots. Lord knows, there aren’t too many bigh_ 7 brows strolling the | streets of Heber. -we don’t have enough ‘people or money without erally cursing the festival it occurred Counties or over the hill from Park City. The day is coming when we can to me what a poor location Park City is for Sundance, or any festival of any size for that matter. It is a small town, ple up from Salt Lake eC peo- and Utah support our businesses with our native nopigakon, but it’s not here yet. Not by ‘them one. Hell, we start Special oper in the county. Can’t we start one that might actually benefit the resi- Park City is all out dents and businesses of the county? of: LAND. We have space to grow and As for rooms, with all the approved hotels (Zermatt, St. Moritz, etc) space to build and planned or being built, we'll soon have enough rooms to at least house the pleasant happy people who know how to work fora living and say “thanks” for your business. ~ Think dpoak it. You cant “@¥éip Sundance,.. tec .see much Timpangoos from Park City. Face it, Park City is over- built, OLLeSS.” While playing stop aie go tka gen- | aay but they _ can be built. And we have the one thing Being i in Hebep gnight ~ about Wasatch: landlocked, ENSUE Service Districts at the drop of a hat to Arts Festival. Well, what : : “We may not have the rooms and the- vocabulary.) However listening to found department on a theater complex, let’s build soon all the movie types stayed in Hollywood and didn’t tie up all the slipped from my lips (Gaye is a bad my need Park office near Adolph’s on Kearns Boulevard. Several curse worlds on ing the summer they bitch about the ing public funds to build facilities that promote private interests, but I’d make an exception for Sundance. If they ocals (meaning the rich folks who | actually live in Park City) would just as I made the mistake of driving to our Park City office this week. Took a half an hour to get from U.S. 40 to the influence a long ‘shot. Park City bitches and moans. about Sundance and then dur- % “Pity. the. ‘poor. ‘souls. ‘of our insanely cisely packed, with nopik ing and no. large meeting facilities, ‘save the Eccles Center. Further the PIRI ea mucky mucks. The second tier types can stay in Park City. Being in Heber - might even help bring Sundance back to its “independent” roots. Lord knows, there aren’t too many highbrows strolling the streets of Heber. Yeah, Sundance in winter and the Arts estore een’ f. Sundance Festival in summer (combine it with Swiss Days).” Throw, in a. Demolition ce esas it’s sta Sows sacred ou REELS sR OS aS a aie ae eae Farmers. need to burn their ditches: during need to show the world what a beautiful valley we live in. So we invite the county and the various cities to enact legislation giving them the ability to ing the year. The citizenry can burn Look, we’re not advocating a ban on agricultural burning in the valley. days or events, we need to put our best foot forward, sans smoke and haze. We or regulations agricultural we want to present to the Some reasonable bans on quality ; in Wasatch County. Well, it turns out. no rules should wait a burning are in order. During poor air into some brief sunshine near Park are we ley as ditch fires raze below. Not the ‘fly into Salt Lake’s haze, then break there are times week or two before lighting that match. Imagine the 2002 Olympics, the cameras panning across the val- Heber Valley, home of haze to rival City, then plunge back into the haze ing in the morning, it smells like vic- for many more. It’s part of our agricultural heritage, like the smell from Yy coNpiep A WHEN'S SUNDAKE OR? FSS Film. Festival starting in the area. or eee. 32 REMIND ME AGAIN... speak) we also had the World Cup the ae. To paraphrase an old movie line, “we love the smell of fields burn- tory”. If you move up here, you better get used to it, it been going on for decades and hopefully will continue calls asking why the county was allowing agricultural and hk with new growth jad the ie : Rodeo, Soldier ‘Hollow, a plethd golf courses and the three 4Helios | unfriendly and generally claustropho- and we'd have some world class . ‘pic. A terrible place for a. festival. (and employment) |” So Bob, why not make some long 2 tainment Wasatch County. Come on Bob, Hilfap term plans to dump Park City and PC and come over the hill. We love ya. move your festival a little closer to email: dan@wasatchcountycouriecom home? I don’t normally —_ spend- - Love us? Hate Us? Let. uss know. Send your ietter or commentary to the editor at: Wasatch County Courier — PO Box: 1030, Midway, UT ioe (435) 654-2531 fax. or email: letters@wasatchcountycourier.com | —=gqr Cae |