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Show — et AY WO eee 3 ite ares —- ~ seinigdeie Mtn ff Into the Saltiaee. Sundan ce May Go Or to Sunset | : ; ea ‘ future location is uncertain. lion to the state, the vast majority of it story in The Salt Lake Tribune on spent in Park City, where many business leaders expressed dismay at the possibility of losing it. “We have to find a way to pull together and keep it here,” said Jan Wilking, president of the Park City Chamber of Commerce-Convention & Saturday. “We have to always look at Visitors Bureau. COURIER PUBLISHER | _ before about moving, but city leaders . are still taking it seriously.. wh “For years they've been. ‘romanced by other cities, and anybody who gets anything knows there are lots of other places that would love to ‘4 | have aod Sundance,” said Melissa .Caffey,..special-events manager for Park City... _ City administrators have Souci a 4 multiyear contract with Sundance, but Guillemet said she won’t sign a long- deal until she has researching her options. | What’s going on here? We have 11 different gas stations in town, they all have the same price City’s Friends of Animals. In it Friends of Animal’s Michelle Hagen was quoted saying “they were out back shooting puppies .and what not.” Hagen wishes to clarify that . a ae finished | ——— — hearsay. The Courier apolo- Maverick, which is always $.02 a gallon less.) If the price of gas at one store moves up or down, all 11 stations in town adjust to that same price within a mater of hours. Do you know of any group of 11 grocery stores that charge the same price for a gallon of milk week after week after week? How are these pricing changes being so closely coordinated? Is it mental telepathy or are calls and/or personal visits made to set the “price du jour?” Something is going on here. | ! Price fixing is against the law: We want to know how this “rapid coordination” of. pricing is being 4 accom- plished. If you work or-have worked for a gas station or wholesaler, or just seen price setting in action’ first : hand, talk to us. Call the Courier at 654-2661 or the publisher at 503-2002 i = (local call.) PS: On the bright side, = the price of gas in Heber i is now aust. . i a penny a gallon more than in Park City, a vast improvement since | . January when it was a nickel a gallon More. 2 4 Rae | on Cre Nee gizes for any confusion. yet (except phone being ee ee NE aeI a BER RGR sgets OPINION BY DAN STEPHENS In the February 14 issue, “Business Buzz” featured an article on the relationship _ between the Heber Animal she did not witness the shootings personally, rather the characterization was from estimates, and another 7,500 from Utah, most of them Wasatch Front jes idents. ae Film festival officials have talked GAS WATCH NOTE Correction: Park The event draws 13,500 visitors from out of state, by the.institute’s ‘term Hugh Daniels, a bed-and-breakfast alternatives for the future, and that’s Shelter and pe ; ; 7 | OO a - “fm running a nonprofit here and all I’m doing is being a responsible (administrator),” Nicole Guillemet, vice president of the Salt Lake Citybased Sundance Institute and co-direc- tor of the festival, said in a copyright owner, said that _ in addition to President's Day weekend: and the Christmas holidays — Sundance. is one of the town’s “big three” cash-generating episodes. Se “This is a group of people who come into town with money, and they’re willing to spend it,” Daniels said. enim ee te Jee Sen Se i aE Si DOS ENA iN cata may be setting on the Sundance Film Festival’s run in Park City. The famous independent film showcase could relocate to Salt Lake City “ because of the increasingly high cost ~ Guillemet would not go into detail on her research into the move. of doing business in a resort town. _ The festival has been a January fix_ According to the institute’s applicature in Park City for 17 years, growing tion for grant money from Salt Lake from a collection of underground indeCounty’s Zoo, Parks and Art (ZAP) tax pendent films to an internationally program, the film festival’s annual watched event and a vital component budget increased from $5.9 million in of the town’s winter tourism economy. 1997 to $8.5 million in 1999, the latest The festival will remain in Park City year for which information has been next year, with an earlier run to avoid filed. conflicts with the 2002 Winter The Sundance Institute estimates that the festival brings about $36 milOlympics. But after 2002, the festival’s a 99 i all ’m doing — due diligence. High costs are not the only issue. Parking and the size and quality of auditoriums have been issues in Park City. ; ew SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The sun ~ set ; |\Gas Watch Wasatch County —sFEB.19.—Ss*FEB.26 400 N. Main, Heber 2001 s $1.419 S1. 419 | 1 : 1M any ine PRICES FOR REGULAR OBSERVED 02/26/01 Watch this space for weekly updates. tinh Neniae UNLEADED Trimart/Chevron at Midway | Summit County - Silver Creek Jct., PC. S419 >| $1.419 $1.419 i * | |- || 2S a $1.429 $1.409 ] - if a | | i ve ab ciaelach ies welll he techinnite hs ce - Apa i a tnrh ict : | Utah County 466 E. State, Pleasant Grove $1.219 scant ena | $1.379 ~ 12300 S. Minuteman, SLC Aa i Seta sini titi Mi . Salt Lake County 2100 S. 1300 E., SLC hentai neltiniat mien Lainie Pah esl Bells/Sinclair S1Ai9sae & |