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Show H::Jvx1 lLetttteiPS ttn , Tl T Bg' children when motorists do not stop for a stopped school bus. I would be happy to give you any and all information necessary for some help on this matter. Thankyou. Sincerely, - Mark C. Simmons, Ph.p. ,-J't director of support services Park City School District f" ministration to address those issues. There is nothing so urgent that cannot can-not wait. The three remaining councilmen, Messrs. Doilney, Horrigan and Shellenberger have the power to hold the line. These three gentlemen ; will be held accountable for the ac-; ac-; tions . of - the present city council. ' They should take heed to respect the will of the electorate. The lame duck triumvirate of Green, Wells and Coleman Col-eman has been given a stinging rebuke. These individuals should also be sensitive to the will of the-people. the-people. My congratulations go to Mr. Taylor, Mrs. MacQuoid and Mrs. Rogers, who I fully expect to heed the message given by the people of Park City. Sincerely, Charles G. Latterner Honest in all dealings Editor: During an election," political v rhetoric often becomes heated and . sometimes the truth suffers. Partisans Par-tisans become excessive in their zeal to help their candidates. There is no excuse for this kind of excess to continue after an election. I am deeply disturbed by continuing conflict of interest rumors about Bill Coleman and his role as city councilman. coun-cilman. I wish to go on record attesting that no one has served Park City more sincerely and more energetically than Bill Coleman. I have known Bill Coleman since he came to Park City. Indeed, I was instrumental in starting him on his real estate career. I have always known him to be honest in all his dealings. Bill and I do disagree over some matters of public policy, particularly particular-ly over the RDA in Park City. Hopefully, from our disagreements can come some useful action. As Park City's new mayor, I will seek Bill's counsel and the benefit of his four years of public service. Hal Taylor Park City mayor-elect Intelligent voters Editor: As a new resident to Park City this year, I went to the candidates' debate at the Egyptian Theatre Nov. ' 3 to become acquainted with the candidates can-didates and their platforms. I found each of them articulate, witty and well-informed. Even by standards of national politics, our politicians have a superb public presence. I was also impressed with those in the audience who posed difficult and direct questions. I am certain that they all cast intelligent and considered con-sidered votes. Whereas democracy erodes into impersonal publicity campaigns in large municipalities, in Park City the candidates and the public know each other on a first-name basis. No doubt, political participation does not end at the voting booth in Park City but continues in the council chambers. Parkites should be proud of the quality of their political life. David Partenheimer Lef s work together Editor's note: Newly elected City Councilwoman Kristen Rogers sent this open letter to the Park Record. To Park City: Thank you for your support and for your trust. I intend to represent you as fairly and as conscientiously as I can. Thanks to all who worked for the cause especially to Debbie Axtell, campaign manager and friend extraordinaire. I especially want to thank my fellow candidates for a clean, informative campaign. I have come to respect them all and to believe that Bill Coleman, Bill McComb, or Steve Dering would also have served Park City very well. The voters' choices, I hope, were made on the basis of the issues, not on unfair or inaccurate charges. The campaign is over, but the challenges facing Park City are not. I am still open to your input; let's work together to make a great town even better. Kristen Rogers Sincere thanks Editor: The family of Wayne J. Van-Wagoner Van-Wagoner wishes to say thank you for the many expressions of caring at this time of shock and grief. Ours is indeed a community filled with special people. Pat VanWagoner and family Library solution? Editor: Parents, do you want your kids to read? We know that you support your kids in school and we know that you encourage your kids to read. Those kids who live in the Snyderville Basin do not have free access to the Park City library, the only full-service library facility in Summit County. The time is at hand to solve the problem of user fees for non-city residents at the Park City Library. The Summit County commissioners commission-ers have proposed the creation of a Snyderville Basin library Service Area. The proposed service area would have the power to levy a tax on property in the Snyderville Basin. According to county estimates, the tax would range from $6 to $10 per household per year. It is our understanding that this revenue would entirely eliminate user fees for Snyderville Basin library patrons. The public hearing will be held Nov. 20 at 7 p.m. at Parley's Park Elementary School. We encourage you to consider this issue thoroughly and to present your feelings to the county commissioners at this hearing. hear-ing. As our nation this week celebrates National Children's Book Week we hope you will affirm your desire for your children to read by supporting Letters to A5 L Voters are the winners i. Editor: The American electoral process for this year has been completed. The victors are elated; the losers are deflated. The great winners are the people of Park City who went to the polls to register their opinions on a variety of issues which surfaced during the campaign. A clear dictum has been enunciated: enun-ciated: We've had enough of what has taken place over the past eight years. The time for change is now. As of the date of this letter (Nov. 6), eight Thursdays remain in 1985. That means there are eight chances for the present city councilRDA and the appointed staff to thwart the clear wishes of the majority of Park City citizens by pushing through agreements and deals before the end of the year. The current administration administra-tion should declare a moratorium on RDA activity and permit the new ad- Pleasestop! Editor: I am again receiving many reports from my bus drivers of motorists not stopping for flashing red lights on stopped school buses. It is state law that motorists stop for school busfs loading or unloading schoolchildren. Park City School District buses do not load or unload any student where motorists are not expected to stop both behind the bus and in the oncoming on-coming lane traffic. . We have the most serious problem on U-224 and with people not stopping stopp-ing in the oncoming lane of traffic. I have contacted Summit County law officers and Highway Patrol people, but I would appreciate an article in the Park Record to again remind people of the law and the danger to ::v ILettilen0 to ' had to correct them was in the paper that was published the week before the election. This year's election is over and the candidates who have been elected will get my full support, but I find it ironic that it is Mary who is saying "we should bind our wounds and go forward in the spirit of community" (Letter to the Editor, above) . This is ridiculous, coming from the most negative person I know and a person who has done more to destroy Park City's spirit of community than anyone else I've experienced in the 16 years I have lived here. It is a shame that the incredible amount of effort Mary Lehmer has spent in criticizing and attacking the people who have donated so much of their time and energy serving Park City could not have been spent in a positive manner. JanWilking publisher, Park Record The Park Record welcomes letters let-ters to the editor on any subject. However, we ask that those letters let-ters adhere to the following guidelines: They should be submitted to the Park Record offices at 1670 Bonanza Dr. or received in the mail (P.O. Box 3688) no later than 5 p.m. Monday. They must be signed and include in-clude the name, address and telephone number of the author, to allow verification of authorship. author-ship. They must not contain libelous material. No letter will be published under an assumed name. We reserve the right to edit letters let-ters if they are too long for the space available or if they contain statements we consider unnecessarily un-necessarily offensive or obscene. into Park City over the last six years after significant events had transpired before their coming. The public did not disappoint my faith in them, and I congratulate them on their willingness to evaluate, judge and act. : - The facts presented were primarily primari-ly the track records of three can-didates can-didates as they had established them and as our local newspaper and " history have recorded them. They, just as you and I, made their own records and have to live with them. Mr. Wilking refused to publish my 10-page statement containing these track records among other things and Bill Coleman's affidavit in full. I did the next best thing I knew how to present to the public a few of the most vital facts in my brief postal patron letter. The truth speaks for itself, despite Mr. Wilking's last editorial effort to serve as his friend's apologist. The editorial stated, "We (read, Jan) knew several aspects of the rejected re-jected ad were false and by publishing it opened ourselves to a lawsuit . . . and would hurt the people peo-ple who were unfairly libeled." The truth is this: When Jan made these statements to me, I told him to show me one false statement in the ad and I would delete it. He chose not to do this. He didn't lift one page to show me even one claimed false statement state-ment for deletion. Letters from A3 the Snyderville Basin Library Service Area, thus guaranteeing easy access for your children to the wide variety of books, magazines and materials available at the Park City Library. In the words of the great American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Long-fellow, "The student has his Rome, I his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, witain the four walls of his , library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one." Sincerely, Treasure Mountain Middle School ; Community Council Lynda FYerichs Sandy Hall Anne Jackman Michelle Sarazine Brian Schiller Clarification Editor: ' A statement in Ms. (Mary) Lehmer's mailer titled "Park Record Refuses to Print Political Charges" needs clarification. ': The city transportation director referred to in that statement resigned resign-ed her position on Feb. 26, 1982, and should not be confused with the current cur-rent city transportation director. being here to work for our election for a different result in a close election, elec-tion, and accepted personal blame for them not getting a gainsay in their government. I also protested the council deliberately dep riving me and other absent balloteers of our sacred right to vote. If you consider con-sider this whining and disapprove of my bringing voter disenfranchise- ment to light, then I hope you are alone in this community and I suggest sug-gest you read the Constitution of this wonderful country in which you are so lucky to live. If this is the way you think, I regret you have little children whose minds you are forming form-ing and directing, as they are the future on which our country will stand or fall. The same comments go for my postal patron letter containing acts and sworn statements of candidates running for office, presented for evaluation by the electorate who want to make the best choice for the best government of our city. Since you protested this, again, I say I hope you are alone in this community communi-ty in your thinking. And I trust you will be impartial and write equally gracious letters to everyone else whose unsolicited postal patron letters arrived in your mailbox. I think you owe Bill Coleman Cole-man two letters, as he sent out two, v not one, unsolicited letters to you and all of us. Instead, he switched to a statement state-ment that the real reason he didn't want to publish the ad was fairness it wouldn't be fair to publish the ad in the last issue of the Park Record before election where the persons named would have no opportunity to rebut and defend themselves. When he finished, I laughed and told him I found his change of heart amusing and reminded him that he thought it f auto au-to publish an absolute lie about me in the last issue of the Park Record before election the last time I ran for office and leave me defenseless. His double standard is intriguing and was doubtless invoked because he knows it is hard for anyone to defend de-fend against the truth. It is no wonder that he said in his editorial: "It will be said, no doubt, that we had other motives for our decision." His defense to that is his "degree of integrity shown by his past perfor-f perfor-f mances." What he1 did to me last week and eight years ago is part of that performance. I will stand my integrity in-tegrity against that performance anytime. ' The people have spoken. I trust the incumbent administration got the message that the people demand more sensitivity to their citizens' rights and wishes and pocketbooks. Our government rests on the premise that the people are masters of our government, not its slave. Let us bind up our wounds and go forward in the spirit of community, which has so lately finally been revived, and work together for a united prosperous, better Park City for all of us. My last wish is that the incumbents in-cumbents will accept the public mandate in good spirit and will not invoke their lame-duck powers before January to do such things as extending the RDA for another 16 or 18 years, as the RDA was indeed as issue in this election and deserves new, hard scrutiny. Park City is endowed with ample fine minds and good hearts to steer us in the future. My congratulations to the new candidates. May they and those who remain in office exercise wisely and well for us the powers we have trustingly placed in their hands. Mary Lehmer Ironic Editor: When Mary Lehmer brought me a 10-page statement she wanted to be published as a full-page ad in the Park Record the week before the election, I told her I would read her statements before accepting the ad. . After reading her statements and having them reviewed by our attorney, at-torney, I told Mary the Park Record would not publish her ad because it was libelous and because it would not be fair to the candidates to publish accusations like hers the week before the election. When she asked me to point out the statements I believed were false, I pointed out an accusation she had made about Mayor Jack Green and explained to her exactly why it was false. I said that I could go through her entire 10-page statement and show her each false statement, but told her that because of the fairness question, we were not going to publish it. Mary now claims that a Letter to the Editor I published in The i Newspaper eight years ago was un-s un-s fair to her. The letter in question corrected cor-rected false statements that Mary had made in her campaign I literature. The only opportunity 1 Sincerely, Kae Draper director, Park City Transit When the truth is told ; Editor: - . i I think publisher Jan W ilking had j good reason to be concerned about i ; the possibility of libel in the political i - ad Mary Lehmer wanted to run the week before the election. While I was the editor of the Park Record I received several letters from Mary. These letters routinely ' , : contained factual errors which had to be corrected in editor's notes. I As a lawyer, Mary should be aware that truth is a defense in libel ' . .cases only when the truth is told. I as Davidj Hampshire;BW MY ymm Jna-jji Talking back Editor's note: Printed below is an open letter written by Mary Lehmer, in reponse to a letter that was addressed to her and published in last week's Record. To Jackie Phillips: ' Thank you for a big yuck I got out of your Letter to the Editor last week in which you thanked God you didn't know me and were tired of hearing me whine about everything, the ultimate being one of my whiney letters let-ters in your mailbox, all of which remind re-mind you of your little ones who are constantly tattling all day. For your one denigrating letter in 15 years, I have received thousands of thanks from my fellow citizens for speaking out for them. Almost everyone in tovn cannot speak freely free-ly (except at the ballot box) for fear of losing his job, fear of losing customers, fear of losing votes, and fear of a myriad of other reasons. I owe no one in town for my living and am not under the pressures the people peo-ple I speak with and for are under. I am willing to take the time from my personal life to be the town gadfly because of my concern for their and my concerns to right wrongs, to ex- '" pose secret deals, to better the com- munitylloVeandinwhichlhaveliv-' munitylloVeandinwhichlhaveliv-' ed more years than you have lived "on Earth. I don't keep copies of what letters I wrote nor am I vain enough to keep a scrapbook. I don't right now recall the subject matter of any but the two most recent letters I wrote. I ' remember well, though, the purpose 1 of every letter I have ever written ' and that has never been to whine about anything that has personally befallen me but has been for the enlightenment of the people and the betterment of this community as I and my many communicants ; perceive it. I regret that you apparently ap-parently read so superficially as to ' miss the gist of what you read or lack the analytical power to reason out the purpose of what you read. , I wrote a letter in July about police. brutality on a neighbor last Novem- ber which I eyewitnessed and on a U friend whose word I absolutely f? trusted. Despite my and the Park I Record's efforts, the city council I turned a deaf, insensitive ear, but jt bringing these facts to the attention , of the people produced an effect at the ballot box last Tuesday, I am 1 sure. ) When I came home from my trip after the primary election, I wrote to ' J: thank my and John's voters and sup- p porters, apologized to them for being away during the campaign and not Since you appear to have time to write letters making personal attacks at-tacks on individuals, may I give you the same advice I gave my own little daughter when I returned from work each night and she wanted to tell me everything all her little friends had said and done that day. I discouraged discourag-ed this practice by telling her: "Great minds occupy themselves with concepts and ideas, average minds deal with things, small minds talk about people." Mary Lehmer Disgusted Editor: I hesitate in writing this letter because I don't want to sound like a complainer, however five days after the election I'm still upset. The only ' thing Tve' ever found that' I didn't J like about Park City is the past election campaign. I would first like to congratulate Hal. Kristen and Ann. I don't know Hal, but I do know Ann and Kristen and know them to be talented, intelligent women who will do a fine job for our city. My concern is for the three candidates not elected and the abuse they took. Park City is a better place now for the contributions of Steve Dering, Bill McComb and Bill Coleman three people whose only fault was that they wanted to help make Park City a better place. It's obvious to me that the paid political ad which the Park Record refused to run in its last issue was from Mary Lehmer. In their editorial last week, the Park Record stated that the ad. was libelous and incorrect. Unfortunately, this didn't stop Mrs. Lehmer from sending a letter to each Park City resident three days before the election, conveniently too laie for any reply or defense. Everyone loves a fair fight, but Mrs. Lehmer's dirty tricks and ugly insinuations hardly allow for that! During the debates last Sunday, many of us were stunned when Mrs. Lehmer said about Tina Lewis and Helen Alvarez, "We took care of them, didn't we?" How can she talk of them that way? Tina and Helen gave so much of themselves to Park City, many things that are evident to each of us every day. . Since we moved to Park City seven years ago, I've been disgusted with the number of letters to the editor from Mrs. Lehmer and her incredible sense for finding the negative. She obviously never read Ken Blan-chard's Blan-chard's best-selling book, "The One-Minute Manager," where Mr. Blanchard talks of his powerful idea, "catch someone doing something right!" What is wrong with this woman? Her actions can be summed up best with a quotation by E L Magoon, "He is always the severest sensor of the merits of others who has the least worth of his own." Yes, I'm disgusted with Mary Lehmer, but I'm more disappointed in the intelligent people of Park City who listened to and were influenced by her cynicism and her anti-everything anti-everything attitude. Respectfully, Phil Thompson The people have spoken Editor: I have abiding faith in the electorate elec-torate to make the right choice when they are enlightened with knowledge of the facts. I did my best to presenl some of these facts particularly foi the use of many voters who moved |