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Show i Plastered Mammoth plower plunders mayor's drive the Mother Puckers. The Puckers lost two games a few weeks ago to the Denver Bandits, but the Aspen Times reported they bounced back by defeating Vail 4-1. Aspen's city council was asked to make their meetings more available to the handicapped by moving to the first floor of city hall. The request came from the Handicapped Handi-capped Accessibility Committee. Chairman Tom Isaac spoke to the council after being carried up the steep stairs to the second floor in his heavy, mechanized wheelchair. Council members were sympathetic, but postponed a decision until they consider a capital improvements budget. The Smuggler Mountain mine tailings should not be on the federal Superfund clean-up list, at least not yet, according to resolutions from the Pitkin County Commisison and Aspen City Council. The two groups said the EPA should not close off public comment or make a Super-fund Super-fund decision until all tests on the site are evaluated. A site qualifies for Superfund if it receives an EPA score of 28.5 based on toxicity ratings of ground and surface water and air. The EPA gave Smuggler a 44.78 score. But developers of the Centennial project, next door to the tailings, submitted a report saying the score should be 12.96. In November, the operators allegedly alleg-edly deposited over $50,000 in checks and money orders in Jackson State Bank, withdrew it the next day and left town. New York Express has its account in the same bank. Express co-owner Karen Kristin said, "The difference between us ... is that they had no computers, but we have sweaters." THE ASPEN TIMES Aspen If you held a contest for the most unusual name for a sports team, one likely contestant would be Aspen's all-female hockey team- support it. The 1 percent tax, as proposed, would pay for increased advertising, and for the World Alpine Skiing Championships, which local boosters are hoping to get in 1989. Hans Turnovsky, managing director dir-ector of The Lodge, opposed the tax by arguing, "We are entirely tourism dependent, and we're talking about hitting up the people who fep us alive." Turnovsky said the tax should apply to all VRA businesses, not just lodges. Lodge owner Bud Benedict said increased money should go, not to advertising, but a convention center. The local Lionshead Mall, recently renovated at a cost of $2.5 million, has been plagued by traffic and vandalism problems. Officials Mammoth Lakes Mammoth mayor Boyd Lemmon received special attention recently from a snowplow operator. But he would just as soon have done without it. A snow loader, driven by a drunken Mammoth resident, left more snow on Lemmon's driveway than it removed and destroyed a $150 chandelier hanging in front of the mayor's garage. The culprit, identified as Tim Gaylord, was tested at a blood alcohol level of .35. One policeman said that was one of the highest levels he'd seen in 14 years of law enforcement, (a .40 level would kill most humans, said the Review. ) Apparently, Gaylord had been drinking Yukon Jack, a whiskey liquer, straight from the bottle, then decided to borrow a friend's W-U loader and began a jaunt through town that had no rhyme or reason. At one point, he was driven away from a apartment building when the manager, man-ager, fearing for himself and his woman friend, brandished a pistol. Gaylord was handcuffed by officers after a short struggle. Mayor Lemmon said, "I was discomboobulated, to put it mildly ... I'm just thankful he didn't go through the garage doors." The proprietor of the Mammoth Tavern and Saloon has applied for a card room permit, which would revive gambling in the city. The request comes under the gambling ordinance of Mono County. (The town council of Mammoth, a newly-incorporated city, will decide whether to put the same regulation in its ordinances before the end of the year. ) Only one card permit has ever been issued in the county, and that has expired. The current applicant, Lance Morrison, said he only plans nickel-and-quarter poker games, and his tavern will make little money from the permit. An employee of the county parks department has been charged with falsification of county docu-, docu-, ments because he allegedly ailed to , ' keep proper test records on water ; , &t$?i0$Xt4.l MamM)uV' sheriff's substation. The defendant, Jack Cochrane of the Parks and Facilities Department, said he kept test results on personal scratch paper, and no one told him they were to be considered county documents. He did not record results for a time if the tests showed no problems, he said. The director of the Parks and Facilities Department, Raullie Holt, said the problem stems from county police lieutenant Bud Johnson. On the other hand, Johnson said, "Holt doesn't know the back of his foot from his behind." Mammoth Review editor Mike Yorkey was one of those who crowded into LA.'s Dodger Stadium for Michael Jackson's recent "Victory "Vic-tory Tour" concert. Unfortunately, Yorkey reported, the Jacksons were indistinguishable in their sequined outfits, the words to the songs couldn't be heard in the stadium and a spectator had to watch the concert on 30-foot TV screens ringing the stage. "Michael Jackson ... put on a heckuva show. Too bad I had to watch it on TV," Yorkey said. say over loo cars nave driven illegally down steps, one crashed into a wall by the bus shelter, nine flags were stolen, phones have been ripped off walls, and equipment has been stolen. Building inspector Steve Patterson said he's surprised that no one outside of city employees has reported seeing the accidents. Battle lines have been drawn on an advisory board which advises the city and the local TV company, Heritage Cablevision, on operation of public access Channel 5. A "minority report" from two members mem-bers of the committee has been given to city council. It criticized the way board meetings have been run, proposed commercial fees to finance the station and asks for more involvement from Heritage. One dissident said the committee "... rules change at the whim of the majority." An opposing board member said the two dissidents were controlling Channel 5 with Heritage's consent, and another said the minority report is "slanderous." The majority report, issued last September, said Heritage should give more funding to the station, and hire a full-time general manager from outside Vail. Chronicle . Crested Butte ; : ;-A:local, school board t has , jiepeate44ife:)dedsi6n;;not to 'let-f 7th-grader Trish Hartley play football. foot-ball. In a hearing watched by local media and two Denver TV stations, the board's attorney, Fritz Russell, argued that no court decision requires that Trish Hartley be allowed to play on the Ruland Junior High team. He also said the Colorado High School Athletic Association limits contact, sports to males because of safety. He said the American Academy of Pediatrics advised against girls in football because they lack the muscle mass of . males and therefore risk injury. Trish's lawyer countered that Ruland Junior doesn't even belong to the state's junior high athletic association. He also cited cases of a girl playing hockey in Colorado Springs and a girl being allowed to wrestle, in New Mexico. The girl's father, Ernie Hartley, said he may go to court, but his lawyer said a legal fight could drag on. "The Hartleys could move to Kansas, New Mexico, or Iowa, where people have joined the 20th Century," he said. Jackson Hole News Jackson Hole An unscientific survey discovered dis-covered several reasons why skiers don't come to Jackson Hole. Suzanne Young, marketing director for the Jackson Chamber of Commerce, contacted 1,500 people who responded re-sponded to a Jackson ad in Ski Magazine. She wanted to know why people inquired about Jackson, but didn't come here. THEkt TRAIL Vail Over 150 homes in Vail are located in mud slide areas, according to a study done for the Vail Town Council. It also said a signif icant part of the town is subject to moderate or severe rock slides. The study said that of the 150 locations, 30 were areas where injuries or loss of life were a danger. . Town officials said the sites would not be named until maps are finalized for public hearings. The report was commissioned last June after Vail was hit by over three dozen mud slides. Researchers said the primary causes for the slides ' were heavy snowfall combined with a sudden thaw this May. The town council is expected to begin work on a new hazard ordinance that would restrict or ban building in dangerous areas. A proposal for a helipad next to Vail Valley Medical Center was withdrawn. The city planning director, direc-tor, Peter Patten, said there were noise and safety problems with nearby residents and the 134-room Crest Hotel, plus the chances for approval by the Federal Aviation Administration were slim. Another helipad now exists next to the town post office, but pilots have complained com-plained of safety problems there. The board of directors of the Vail Resort Association (VRA) has . unanimously endorsed a 1 percent bed tax, but the Vail Trail found a ! few lodge managers who don't The number one reason was the cost and convenience of transportation, transporta-tion, she said. In addition, other resorts are making their packages more attractive. Colorado and Utah resorts have an edge, she said, because travel time to those spots is reduced, and the public perceives those areas have more than one resort to visit. And finally, Jackson was rejected for the lack of ."apres-ski" entertainment, especially es-pecially because teenagers have nothing to do. It's usually good news when a company sends out advertising and its phones are flooded with responses. re-sponses. But not when it's the police calling. Unfortunately, the New York Express, a Jackson company selling hand-loomed designer sweaters, was entangled in a mail-fraud scam committed by another firm. The Express company mailed out brochures for its products. It asks for prepayment and guarantees delivery in three to five weeks. Last summer, a company in Jackson called Teton Digital Group used the same procedure in selling low-cost computer equipment across the country. But Teton Digital never delivered. |