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Show 12ez Simmmmnmit it SanMmmfiit " " " "" j?srj Colorado ski resorts shatter records over Christmas and New Year holiday THE lL TRAIL Vail Colorado ski resorts broke records for holiday skier numbers over the Christmas and New Year holidays and are running well ahead of last season, reports the Vail Trail. The Trail quotes Colorado-Ski Country USA, the trade organization organiza-tion that represents 34 ski areas in the state, as saying the excellent holiday business included a record-breaking record-breaking day on Dec. 29, when 133,890 lift tickets were sold. From mid-October, when the first resorts opened for the 1984-85 season, until Dec. 31, Colorado resorts recorded the largest number of skier visits ever 2.1 million, up 16.18 percent compared with figures for the same period last year. Colorado's Front Range destination destina-tion resorts showed the biggest gains through Dec. 31, up 16.42 percent over the same period during 1983-84 ski season. The Front Range destination resorts include Vail, Beaver Creek, Arapahoe Basin, Breckenridge, Copper Mountain, Keystone, Ski Idlewild, Silver Creek and Winter Park. Other destination resorts Aspen Highlands, Aspen Mountain, Snow-mass, Snow-mass, Conquistador, Crested Butte, Cuchara Valley Resort, Monarch Powderhorn, Purgatory, Steamboat money will go to other groups such as the Red Cross. Local officials are hoping to adopt an African Village, which would receive funding from the drive for specific projects. Jackson Hsle Guide Jackson Hole Jackson is on the verge of losing one of its fastest-growing light industries to one of the several regional communities more willing to grant financial help to attract successful businesses. According to the Jackson Hole Guide, Brad Heckerman, diiector of marketing for Butler Creek Corp., acknowledged the company is seriously considering offers to aid in relocation to Montana or one of several communities in Idaho, Colorado and Lander, Wyoming. The Buttler Creek Corp., a manufacturer of shooting and optical accessories, needs a plant larger than the one it occupies south of Jackson, Heckerman said. "We're looking for a place to build a new facility this year," he said. "Once the word got out that we were looking for new facilities, we had offers from all over the region that included low-interest money and tax advantages." Heckerman said he had no idea if Jackson would attempt to keep the company in Jackson because, he said, Jackson is very wary of any industry. Jackson Hole News Jackson Hole Jackson Hole's representative to the Wyoming State Legislature, H.L Jensen, filed a bill last week that may increase fivefold the amount of state funding for tourism promotion in Jackson Hole. According to the Jackson Hole News, Jensen's bill, which already has won the backing of the state and local hotel-motel associations, would increase the ceiling for Wyoming Travel commission matching grants to $50,000, up from the current $10,000 limit. In the past, the commission has had $120,000 in matching funds to hand out in grants. Jensen's bill would increase that appropriation to $588,000, all to come from the state's general fund. Suzanne Young, director of marketing for the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce, said of the bill, "It would certainly be a move in the right direction for the economy of Teton County. It would make the dollars we already have twice as powerful because they'd be matched by the state." TAHOE WORLD Tahoe Construction of single-family homes on private lots and the future allotment of commercial space in the Tahoe Basin are at the root of the near impasse between the parties negotiating a settlement in the state's lawsuit against the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA), Tahoe World reports. According to Tom Martens, executive director of the League to Save Lake Tahoe, the TRPA proposal to settle the lawsuit calls for too much construction too fast. The League to Save Lake Tahoe is a party to the lawsuit on the side of the state's attorney general's. office. The lawsuit was filed in the spring of 1984 immediately after the TRPA adopted a 20-year regional plan. In June, federal court Judge Edward J. Garcia issued a preliminary injunction injunc-tion stopping implementation of the plan and virtually bringing a halt to all new construction in Tahoe Basin. No court date has been set for appeal by the TRPA in the U.S. Ninth District Court of Appeals in San Francisco against the injunction.Nor has a date been set in U.S. District Court in Sacremento on the original lawsuit by the state. Springs, Telluride and Wolf Creek-were Creek-were up 14.4 percent through Dec. 31. ' THE ASPEN TIMES Aspen A local drive to generate $200,000 for African nations suffering suffer-ing through a drought is drawing state and national attention, as it attempts to exemplify what individual indivi-dual communities can do to help the situation in Africa. According to the Times, Denver, ''Ulevision station filmed the Snow- mass Village restaurants "Save a Child Day" staged at Christmas. All of the Snowmass restaurants donated do-nated portions of their takes on that day to the Aspen-Snowmass Committee Com-mittee for African Relief. Most of the money raised will go to Africare, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit agency that concentrates on African nations. 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