And larger creditors, owed nearly $350,000, are preparing to sue SportsWest Productions for their out-of-pocket costs incurred while working for SportsWest's network.
Remote Broadcasts Inc., for example, is owed $75,000, Northstar Studios about $100,000, Netwest $80,000 and North American Communications about $32,000.
The larger creditors at one time were offered 10 cents on the dollar and scoffed.
The smaller creditors, who have been promised payment in full for months, got a pittance.
Albert Romero was owed more than $500 and received $20. Keith Carlson was owed $6,000 and received $325.
In the letter to the small creditors, Checketts explained the fractional payments were a way to liquidate the company without going through bankruptcy.
In the letter, Checketts promises to personally make those creditors whole by Aug. 31.
The larger creditors, because of the pending litigation, will have to wait for a settlement offer.
VIPs bump disabled: Following the Real Salt Lake vs. Real Madrid match at the University of Utah's Rice-Eccles Stadium on Saturday, a group of people in wheelchairs gathered at their designated spot at an elevator door on the second tier. The elevator stopped a couple of times, but the people with disabilities were not allowed to enter.
One man who uses a wheelchair asked the operator why they were being passed by.
She said she was ordered to accommodate all the VIPs who viewed the game from the skyboxes on the fourth tier before allowing others on the elevator.
The man then scolded the woman, telling her it was wrong, when one of the pampered VIPs yelled, "Somebody trip that idiot." Someone else pushed the back of his wheelchair. A former undercover cop before suffering his spinal injury, he whirled around and punched the man who had pushed him. Then he wheeled himself down a ramp to his car.
Double standard? A man who resides near 10400 South and 3200 West observes a South Jordan Police officer setting up a speed trap at that intersection every day.
The officer, whose patrol car number is 5675 and license number is 92547EX, pulls over numerous cars and gives them tickets.
But Friday, the officer pulled over a silver Pontiac minivan, then let the woman drive away without even asking for her driver's license.
She had a fire department logo on her license plate.
Check the mailing list: Ian Spencer, who lives in the southwest portion of Salt Lake County, received a letter from Congressman Chris Cannon recently that urged him to help elect Republican Carl Wimmer in House District 52.
The letter suggested Spencer could help by putting up yard signs, hosting neighborhood meetings, walking the neighborhood and recording a telephone message.
Spencer probably won't be doing any of those things. At least not for Wimmer. He is Wimmer's Democratic opponent.
