EMIGRATION CANYON -- It tickles Cindy Furse to see the old Pink Garage standing sentinel at the entrance to tony Emigration Oaks. Rumored as a one-time house of ill repute, the dilapidated shack is an Emigration Canyon icon. Its flagging pink siding marks a stark contrast to the stylish stone and stucco mansions in the exclusive hillside subdivision.
Emigration Canyon residents will get a new fire station, but it's going to cost much more than county officials had planned. The Salt Lake County Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a $760,000 budget adjustment for the project. The council had already approved $2 million for the station, bringing the grand total to nearly $2.8 million.
-- LeGrand Young, Brigham Young's nephew, in 1907 built a narrow- gauge electric line from Salt Lake City to Pinecrest in Emigration Canyon. Initially constructed to haul sandstone to the valley, the Emigration Canyon Railroad Co. later offered passenger service until its demise in 1917. -- The Swiss chalet-style Pinecrest Inn, built in 1913, served as a hotel, nuns' retreat, polio training center, LDS Church girls' camp and a hotel again before being dismantled in 1949. The rubble caught fire two years later, igniting rumors the inn had burned down.
Ruth's Diner, founded in 1930, is presently closed to accommodate a remodeling that will see the addition of new kitchen space, Americans With Disabilities Act-approved restrooms, cosmetic improvements, modernization of all systems and the installation of a modem septic system designed to add significant ecological benefits.
The Kostopulos Dream Foundation will kick off its 40th residential summer camp with a family fun day Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. at 2500 Emigration Canyon. Activities will include a climbing wall, rope courses, swimming, horseback riding and fishing.
Utah Open Lands plunked down a deposit for 190 acres of open space in Emigration Canyon on Wednesday after a down-to-the-wire fund-raising campaign for the $1.4 million price tag. I have been nervous for the past six months. This was an intense campaign with a lot at stake," said Wendy Fisher, executive director of Utah Open Lands. "I can finally sleep.
After the rapist carried the 22-year-old woman's body in the dark 300 yards up the still-frozen slopes of Emigration Canyon, he dropped her in the snow. That's where he left her blue jeans.
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SALT LAKE CITY -- The skimming, pumping and recapture of thousands of gallons of sticky crude oil are set to continue Monday along a hard-hit stretch of Red Butte Creek and the petroleum- polluted waters of the pond at Liberty Park. While Saturday's leak from the Chevron pipeline in Emigration Canyon has been capped, the hard work left by the spilled oil will continue on Day 3 of the cleanup and beyond -- a process that will likely take weeks.
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