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Show Page 2-Wasatch Canyon Reporter, 8 February- 21 February 1995 EDTIORIA 7 [: OUR MISTAKES! We have made some mistakes....No it’s true, we have. | am here nyons Ski Reeports: Car e last minute we can before we put this fishwrapper to bed. Use this as a guide not a betting § table or bible. to. attempt to rectify some of these minor blunders. Let me clarify the situation. | failed “Intro. to Journalism” (one of the eleven courses that | failed during my decade of higher education). Sophomore year was three of my toughest years at Johnson State College. | never could get the knack of rising before lunch. The damage to my grades due to my spotty a.m. attendance was brutal. Had my professors been aware of the debilitating lassitude that struck me every day from sun up to noon, no doubt they would have done the honorable thing and kicked down the gentle- Alta Ski Lifts 801-742-3333. Alta Snow Report 801-572-3939 man’s “C.” Journalism was not only at 8:00 a.m., it was also taught by a very dull ~ Number of lifts operating Base Depth mid mountain Cost of an all area adult lift Ticket Cost of'a half-day adult lift Ticket Dercentage of area open man with bad breath. The combination was more than enough to keep me in bed until well past the whole, “who, what, where, when, and why” section of journalism. The professor’s description of my efforts was less than charitable. He said |, “lacked any understanding what-so-ever of the concept of objective writing,” and furthermore that |, “have an annoying habit of using whatever slang of the minute that (1) favor.” He did however suggest that, “beneath your childish demeanor, is an alcohol addled yet sharp mind that might one day be put to good use.” All this gave me a small warm feeling in my chest until | saw his less than generous “F.” So with his kind words of support to bolster my already titanic ego, | decided to start a newspaper...which is what leads us to this unfortunate typo problem we are dealing with today. For all his criticism he never bothered to mention the almost complete absence of proof reading skills that | possess. Had the good professor focused his laser of criticism on this one oh so important area, | would no doubt be sleeping better today. Let’s start in no order of importance. Half Day: . aged put that in bold italics in a separate text box is beyond me. We fired a whole 5. H.W.C. Packaging- Eventually we will get this ad to run correctly, but it sure hasn't yet. Simple four Column inch ad that we screw up with out fail. 6. Solitude’s Expansion Plans Article- This is the doozy. Quite possibly the preci of all errors by this august publication. We have a «6 Of7 — 100% 94” $28 $05 , ‘Half Day Ticket Half day starts at 12:30 Night Skiing Available! Ray. What he said, and what we intended to print was “mono rail.” How we man- actual reasonably priced properties, and would have been the corker on an otherwise fine article. 4. Our Own Employment Ad- We managed to put the wrong phone number in two separate issues. The response has still been good, which hints that some of these job seekers have the elusive qualities of the detective. We also listed our fax-number incorrectly in the masthead section. This has led to some nice fax tones in our ear on the home line. Brighton's Snow Report Number 801-943-8309 Percent of Runs Open Base Depth mid mountain Cost of an all area adult lift Ticket 2. Ray Gardiner Interview- | don’t know what a “moon rail” is, and neither does ~~ his article. This is a shame, because the last two hundred words included all of the 1:00 to 4:30 Number of lifts operating so when they bought an ad (with coupon), we were excited. Unfortunately, we ran the coupon for a slightly lower price than they wanted. In fact it was considerably lower than their cost. The plus side of the whole debacle was that the response to the ad was excellent. some blameless computer gremlin, reprinted the entire first two hundred words of or Brighton 1. Yonkers Pizza- They make one of the better pizza’s in the greater beehive area roomful of copy editors over that one ( Note- Hey just discovered that our spell checker changes “mono” to “moon’” ). 3. Alex Miller's Real Estate Column- On reasonably priced properties in and about the canyons. Alex was rising to one of his prolific crescendos when we, due to 9:15 to 1:00 8 of 8 109 $25 519 95% snowbird WV Snowbird's General Information Number 801-742-2222 Number of lifts operating , | ALL Base Depth mid mountain 99” Cost of an all area adult lift Ticket $40 1/2 Day Ticket $33 Half day starts at 9:00 to 1:30 or 12:30 to close habit in the office of putting little one line jokes in our articles, knowing full well that our team of copy editors will | catch the joke and delete it. Unfortunately one of them got by. ~ “Read about them here in another in a series of long,tedious articles lengthened at the last minute when one of our flaky, volunteer writers bailed on us and we needed to fill space with preposterous run on sentences.” OUCH! 3 Solitude We apologize to Solitude resort for our ineptitude. The article ended up being fas_cinating if you could get by our useless blathering. There isn’t room in one sixteen page tabloid to list all of the mistakes we have made. These are merely the few that really sting. We are trying to provide a community newspaper that is timely, interesting, and amusing. We have never done this before, and | can guarantee you we will continue to make errors. Please bear with us. This editorial is both an apology and a retraction for all of the people who have been impacted by our mistakes. | eee | All letters to the editor must be accompanied by a real name and a phone ‘number. Though we are amused by some of the nameless tirades that come ripping off our fax machine, it is against our policy to print them. Here is our address and fax number again. P.O. Box 8118 Alta UT 84092 or 801-485-2735. Solitude’s General Information 801-554-1400 Number of lifts operating LOL] Base Depth mid mountain | 88” Cost of an all area adult lift Ticket $29 Cost of a Half day Ticket $23 Total Skiable Acres open 1200/100% Half Day Starts at 12:30 | Back Country Avalanche and Weather Info: 364.1581 UDOT Road info: 964.6000 |