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Show Smmmunmntt to SnrnmniMnit Food feud is looming in Ketchum Ketchum Sun Valley Ketchum may break out in Restaurant Wars between established eating places and a number of food wagons operating in the city. In contrast to Park City's solitary hot dog wagon, Ketchum has several food wagons, with names like Miko's Gyros, Macho Taco, and the Main Street Barbecue. Barbe-cue. The owners of larger restaurants contend the wagons are trashy. They make a minimal financial commitment, reap a quick profit, and then run, they say. "Ketchum isn't Coney Island. The city doesn't need that kind of atmosphere," said one owner of a large restaurant. The wagoneers admit they don't pay much to operate, but point out they don't make a large profit either. The owner of Main Street Barbecue Barbe-cue said he plans to set up a long-term business in town. And he said the angry reactions of the restaurant owners are "symptoms of a paranoia brought on by greed." The showdown between restauranteurs is expected to come at an August meeting of the Ketchum City Council, according to the Mountain Express. An era passed in Ketchum recently when tne Safeway chain purchased the Golden Rule Market not only the oldest grocery store in town, but the oldest in Idaho! It has operated independently since 1887. Robert Glenn, who sold the store to Safeway, was the third generation in his family to run the grocery. His grandfather. A.T. "Oly" Glenn, took over the firm in 1927. Glenn said he made his decision because the Golden Rule was beginning to face stiff competition and he wasn't sure he wanted to spend the rest of his life at the store. Safeway official Darrel Blevins told the Express no radical changes would be made at the store. Employees Employ-ees would not be required to wear uniforms, and Safeway brands will be introduced slowly. When you donated your money this past week to KPCW, you may have thought it was unlikely a media outlet in a major ski town could die out. But it can happen. Near Ketchum, the Channel Chan-nel 13 cable station signed off revenue than expected from cigarette and sales tax, and slow payment of property tax. Pitkin County will help finance housing for local employees. But it won't cover for them when they can't pay their loans on the residences. That was the decision of the County Commission recently. re-cently. They refused to come to the rescue of a condo owner in Hunter Creek who had failed to meet the terms of a mortgage issued from Aspen Savings and Loan. There is a risk the foreclosure foreclo-sure will take the condo off the employee market. But the commission ruled the risk was not great enough to set a precedent for Pitkin County to bail out individual homeowners. In the Aspen Times personal section, the done in natural colors to blend with the landscape, they promised. Vail Local inventor Gary Thomas, said the Vail Trail, is marketing a Sleeper Beeper to help those drivers who might get a little too drowsy on the road. The beeper goes in your ear (it weighs less than an ounce) and when the driver's head nods past a certain point, it sounds off an alarm. Sounds like just the thing for traveling or meetings of city government! In the battle between local residents and pine beetles, the score seems to be 1-1, according to the Trail. In Vail, the last of 60 trees infested by the beetles were cut down or chemically treated in late July. The town passed an emergency got to Vail was a meeting in Denver, 100 miles away. "You can say I'm shocked," said Paula Palmateer, president presi-dent of the Vail Resort Association. Lodge owner Dick Elias said he had heard that Colorado's "ski counties" coun-ties" are looked on by the board as fat cats who don't need help from the state tourist agency. The Trail's question of the week was, "What would you recommend doing while in Vail?" Most respondents mentioned horseback riding, picnicking, or people-watching. But the most practical response came from a lad from, yes, Salt Lake City. The thing to do in Vail, he said, was "spend money." Mammoth Lakes The Mammoth Mountain resort has closed its doors after a record 271-day ski the air in July after two-and-a-half years of operation. The station died, said sources, due to low advertising advertis-ing revenues. Aspen The problem of starving broadcasters also popped up in Colorado. The federal government's National Public Pub-lic Radio is suffering financial finan-cial distress, and that means trouble for its outlet in Aspen, Roaring Fork Public Radio. The local station's president, Sy Coleman, told the Aspen Times that NPR had suffered from bad management man-agement decisions a situation situa-tion now corrected, he added. The Aspen City finance office has reported that most of the major municipal operating funds wre doing less well than expected. Only the land and electric funds were exceeding expectations. expecta-tions. The general fund, it said, was in the worst shape it has been in 18 months. It was declining due to reduced fees in some departments (planning, (plan-ning, animal control) less 1 strangest item may be the news note which reads : "Greg Poschman is in Boulder, making a film on the Boulder police department... depart-ment... The film is being done with puppets and is about child abuse." Jackson Hole A proposal for a massive water slide two miles north of Jackson failed to gain approval from the Teton County Planning Commission. Commis-sion. In a 2-2 vote, the commission declined to change the area's zoning to commercial, and then voted 3-1 that a water slide was not appropriate for such commercial. com-mercial. A Jackson citizen said there was nothing growing on the slope proposed pro-posed for the site. "It will stick out like a sore thumb." According to the Jackson Hole Guide, the developer is a four-man corporation from Alberta which has previously previous-ly built slides in Montana, Montreal, and Australia. They promised that in building build-ing the slide, they would clean up and refurbish the area. The buildings would be ordinance that allowed its public works department to go on private property, even without permission, to treat or remove infested trees. But the U.S. Forest Service Ser-vice has stopped the neighboring neigh-boring town of Minturn from fighting the pine beetles in the Holy Cross Wilderness area. The town's mayor has appealed, saying a dead forest caused by the beetles will cause erosion problems and endanger the town's nearby water supply. Mud and hundreds of dead beetles will also burden the town's old water treatment plant, he says. A Forest Service spokesman, spokes-man, on the other hand, said the chemicals needed to fight the beetles are too risky to use around a town's water supply. Are Vail and other state ski resorts being ignored by the Colorado Tourism Board? It seems so. This July, said the Trail, the board held meetings to obtain citizen input throughout through-out the state. It convened in Grand Junction, Pueblo, and Durango, but the closest it season. Without a question, said the Mammoth Review, this was the granddaddy of all winters, as the resort stayed open from Halloween of last year to July 28. A record 573 inches of snow, nearly 49 feet, fell at the 9,000 foot level. The area logged between 1.1 and 1.2 million skiers this season. Mammoth resident Mike Graber recently returned from an expedition that ascended within 3,000 feet of Mount Everest. Graber and four other members ascended as-cended to 25,000 feet, but oxygen deprivation drove them back. The expedition was unique because (a) it took off from a base in Red China, and (b) the climbers did not use bottled oxygen. Graber didn't know if the oxygen would have made the full ascent possible. "Having oxygen would have made it easier." As if that wasn't exciting enough, Graber announced he would be part of a three-man film crew traveling travel-ing to Pakistan to film Afghan freedom fighters. |