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Show Snnnmunmntt ttn Suommmmnit True karate tale will film in Ketchum KetchumSun Valley Karate expert and former resident Tom Tolliver announced that parts of his life story, "The Way," will be filmed in Ketchum in early,,;985. Tolliver said the $10 million picture, to star himself, Dennis Weaver and Chuck Norris, will trace the ups and down of his life. . Tolliver is a Vietnam vet and six-time world karate champion. He has never lost a match to a human being, though a Brahma bull in an exhibition match injured both his knees, broke both wrists and gave him a concussion. His tribulations include three divorces, a term in an Army mental ward and addiction to alcohol and pain-killers. Tolliver said the film, now shooting in Washington, shows how people can bounce back from tragedies. The Ketchum City Council pounded nails in the coffin of the $100 million proposed Greyhawk hotel and resort complex at the base of Bald Mountain, bv votinc to reject environmental scientist. He has received an $11,000 grant from the state of Colorado to establish guidelines in several sites around the state for aesthetic reclamation of mine land. Klite said landform earth sculptures have been done before, as when Robert Morris transformed an abandoned Seattle quarry into a grassy pavilion. Kli V ; in ii .i TAHOE WORLD" 41'- .) :)'. Lake Tahoe : Ketchum (see above) doesn't have a monopoly on movie activity. A crew for the film "St. Elmo's Fire" worked in the Prosser Lakeview Area here, using resident Dom Mosca's home for three days. The crew was pleasant, Mosca said, and even fixed a couple of broken pipes in his home. The crew also rented rooms in another home, in addition to leasing dump trucks, snowmobiles, space heaters and a mobile home. ' ' The movie is about the conflicts of a group of kids after graduation. The Tahoe scenes featured Emilio Estevez (son of Martin Sheen, and star of "Tex" and "The Outsiders") and Andie McDowell (Jane in the movie "Greystoke.") McDowell's stand-in was Cathy James, a 1974 graduate of Tahoe-Truckee High School. Explaining her function, she said. "They just need a body that fits for lighting and so forth ... I just sit around until they holler 'CJ.'" "- Legal rumblings in Tahoe struck a1 resort and a proposed resort. The Sunnyside Resort was seized by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation' FSLJC). Sunnyside co-owner "Mickey Lowell has been classified as missing since his boat was found adrift near San Diego. The" other owher'.'San Marino Savings after 'a probe'into questionable lending practices. Assets, including Sunnyside,;" 'were taken over for liquidation purposes. " Meanwhile; Sunstone International Internation-al filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition. The company intends to build a resort in Coldstream Canyon with 25 lifts, 6,000 units and a hotel. A Sunstone officer said the resort is still viable: ''The Chapter 11 is intended to give the company more time with anxious creditors while legal issues on the Coldstream resort are ironed but. THE&L TRAIL Vail . . Wanna buy a town? A local realtor, Frank Nelson, will sell you the frontier town of Wolcott, 20 miles west of Vail, if your price is right. The town was bought by John and Patti Latchaw in 1980, but now they say they're too busy running the post office, gas station, convenience store, liquor store, auto body shop, and seven-room cabin there. These are included in the sale, but the 17 residents aren't. A classified ad in the Denver Post wasn't drawing many callers but since the Post ran a front-page story on the sale, Nelson has been getting 20 to 30 calls a day from across the country. The Vail Heli-Ski company withdrew its application to conduct a helicopter skiing operation near Vail Mountain. The county planning staff expressed concern about an operation opera-tion within sight and hearing of the mountain. The planning commission voted to let the firm use another site, but the copters must not fly over the Vail or Beaver Creek ski areas, and must fly above 1000 feet except during take-offs and landings. it on five counts. The main objection was that the access, Warm Springs Road, was not able to handle the traffic. Council members also worried the project was too large. "It's just too damn big," said councilman Jack Corrock. v . Major Jerry Seiffert, a supporter of the project, responded that if Greyfjawk was too dense, the entire Wartti Springs area should be downzoned. The major also pointed out that Greyhawk developers had agreed to upgrade sewer lines, improve the road and provide a fire statfoty C,mwcUmanrTom .Held, .said ' the project had been before the city for three years and now, after all the trouble, it was rejected. During the long process, said the Express, one misunderstanding occurred oc-curred when the builders, Daon Development Corp. of Canada, agreed to pay $4.65 million in impact feesGiven that, they assumed they had a deal with the city. But city planner Linda Haavik said she reminded Daon many times not to consider the project approved until it came to a final vote. Government and community groups are banding together to operate an ice rink in the town of Hailey. It will be installed in the Delia View subdivision in conjunction conjunc-tion with the Blaine County Recreation District. A volunteer group headed by KSKI disc jockey Jeff Ballou will build it, and the rink will be maintained, in part, by a local Cub Scout troop. Hailey City will allow a hydrant to be used for the rink, volunteer firemen have lent an old hose to pump water and another group will repair any damage done to grass in the area. The president of a Seattle-based time-share company which operated in Ketchum said his company has beeii, unfairly targeted by Idaho's Better Business Bureau (BBB). The BBB said it was probing the Vacation Internationale company in Ketchum for potentially false advertising, sales 'misrepresentations, and nondelivery non-delivery of promised premium gifts. The office in Ketchum closed recently for financial reasons. Internationale's head, Bob Bums, said ft did not operate directly here but through a broker called R.G. and Associates. He was not informed of an investigation by either R. G. or the BBB,: he said, and only learned about it three weeks ago. He said he will rectify complaints about R.G. des-pite des-pite their tenuous relationship. A Sun Valley architect, James McLaughlin, has won a merit award from the National Association of Home Builders for his renovation of the J.C. Fox Building. The Hailey . structure was a hospital when it was built 60 years ago, later housed shops and offices and now is the location for Atkinson's Market. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. Chronicle Crested Butte You've perhaps heard of old mine sites becoming usable land again but can they also be turned . into works of art? The Peanut Mine site near here is being studied by Paul Klite, a Denver sculptor and |
