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Show Alta Town Board Votes Funds Washington-Tlie taste for honey is age-old, the National Nation-al Geographic Society says. Aristotle called it "dew distilled dis-tilled from the stars and the I Z. rainbow." In the Middle Ages, honey came into its own as a medicine good for grumbling in the guts" and "wambling stomach." cil to cooperate with the Utah Transit Authority and the Public Service Commission to provide effective transportation trans-portation for masses of winter win-ter visitors. Representatives from Saw warned that the town may be placing itself in the unwarranted unwar-ranted position of becoming mmKWW mm. its own public service board if it were to try and regulate public transportation. The matter was tabled and left at a gentlemens' agreement agree-ment pending further study and report by the Alta town attorney on definition and enforcement en-forcement of Alla's position. business, it was announced that the US. Forest Service Ser-vice in Alta is preparing a detailed study for the location loca-tion and funding of new gun towers in the Canyon for more effective avalanche control. Currently, the single 105mm, gun atop Peruvian Per-uvian Ridge controls most of the a valanche area' over State Highway 210 near Alta and Snowbird. Additional guns would reacli slide areas not now controlled by gunfire gun-fire such as Tanners and White Pine. Slides from these areas frequently close the road up the Canyon. When the Forest Service study is complete funds for any new gun mounts will be sought by the State Highway Department from federal monies. Next, the Town Board turned to the issue of Taxi and Shuttle service between Alta and Snowbird. The Salt Lake TfansDort-ation TfansDort-ation Company has removed remov-ed from service its shuttle pending resolution of conflicts con-flicts between them and Saw Transportation over service in the Canyon. Trustee Jim Shane warned that there was less need for an ordinance than for service ser-vice to lodge guests who aren't getting it now. The Alta Town Board of Trustees met last Thursday night in regular session with Trustee Al Kapp presiding ' in the absence of Mayor Bill Levitt. On amotion, the Board voted vot-ed to fund three members of the Alta Ski Patrol with $130 for the purchase of a training kit for first aid. The three-Patrolmen three-Patrolmen Barry Mathias, Onno Wenneger and Leon Sabine are conducting a course in First Aid Safety, free of charge for Canyon employees. Forty-seven students have enrolled in the course and are expected to go on to advanced classes. On the motion by Al Kapp, the Alta Town Board voted approval of the funds with the provision for participating participat-ing by Snowbird of up tofifty percent. The Board announced a hearing before the State Highway Commission, set - for December 19, to hear arguments for a proposed change in the motor vehicle code that would stipulate a six-month period when motorists must have their cars equipped with snow tires or carry chains in their possession to enter Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons. Can-yons. As of January 1st, the Al Kapp stated, "we stand at a gentlemens' agreement with regard to the situation as it now exists." He stated further the need for all shuttle vehicles in the Canyon Can-yon to be subject to rigid safety inspection. . Kapp proposed definition and franchisement of shuttle and taxi services. The shuttle would run during dur-ing daytime hours on a regular reg-ular schedule at a fixed fare. In the evening, a taxi service would be available to lodge guests on-call. Kapp stated that there should be absolutely no freelancing or solicitation of business by drivers, and he called for the creation of an intra-Canyon intra-Canyon transportation coun- Hellgate Condominium properties prop-erties will become part of the town of Alta through annexation. The annexation was sought both by Alta town fathers and owners in the Hellgate complex to provide Alta with sales tax revenue and mill levies generated by the complex, and to provide the Hellgate with Alta town services. At the Town meeting, it-was it-was announced that the Town of Alta and the City of Salt Lake had begun dialogue on the possibility of constructing construct-ing a cooperative-venture water system for Alta. Currently, Cur-rently, Salt Lake City has first rights to the water from heavy snowfall in Little Cottonwood Cot-tonwood Canyon, and Alta's water supply comes from springs and reservoir bulkheads bulk-heads constructed in old mining tunnels. In the past the mine wells have been known to dry up leaving lodges and guests without water in mid-season. Before turning to new |