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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, August 15-17, 2018 The Park Record C-3 Nonprofit relies on Healthy Laughs Tickets for annual fundraiser are available now SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record The People’s Health Clinic is a local organization that provides medical care to the uninsured living in Summit and Wasatch counties. To help meet the needs of its patients, the People’s Health Clinic will host its end-of-summer fundraiser Healthy Laughs, a night of comedy, at 6 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 31, at Chateaux Deer Valley. The night will feature comedy heavyweight Bill Engvall and returning performer Rocky LaPorte, said the night’s producer and emcee, David D. Williams. Engvall, known for his work with Jeff Foxworthy on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, is Williams’ neighbor in Glentwild. h “Since he is a huge name in ecomedy, the chance of booking ’him for our show seemed a little remote,” Williams said. “I reached out and, because he’s a ogreat person and neighbor, said he would his donate his time and talent. We’re really excited ,about having him.” d (See accompanying story on C-1). LaPorte, a one-time finaltist on “Last Comic Standing,” comes back as a crowd favorite. “He was with us five years eago and is back by popular de.mand,” Williams said. “He’s a kreally funny guy, and when people find out that I’m producing tHealthy Laughs, they ask when eRocky’s coming back.” Williams, who is also a estand-up comedian, will also perform some of his own matelrial during the night. s “The fundraiser is not your ordinary silent auction and ”chicken dinner event,” Wilhliams said. “It is about having a ,good time, but the most important point is 100 percent of ticket sproceeds go to patient care. And 6the need grows each year.” y 5 .Continued from C-1 y . Engvall performs fundraiser he said. “That’s where I learned comedy from guys like Gary Shandling, Jay Leno and Jerry Seinfeld. They taught me how to construct an act.” Now, after 40 years in the business, Engvall, 61, still enjoys his job. “I love making people feel better through laughter,” he said. “I mean, think about the last time you laughed and how good it made you feel.” One of the highlights of Engvall’s career didn’t come from his platinum-selling album or publishing his book, “Just a Guy: Notes from a Blue Collar Life.” It came from a letter a This is the first year Healthy Laughs will be set at Chateaux Deer Valley. Moving the fundraiser from Montage Deer Valley, its previous venue, to the larger Chateaux, was a necessity, said the clinic’s executive director, Beth Armstrong. “We needed more space,” she said. “We sold out last year’s event and had a significant wait list. So we moved it this year.” While the space will change, the format will remain the same as it has for the past eight years, Armstrong said. It will start with a meet and greet with appetizers at 6 p.m., with comedy following at 7 p.m. “We turn the ballroom into a comedy club,” she said. Healthy Laughs is the People’s Health Clinic’s second-largest fundraiser of the year, next to Walk & Wine, which is held at the beginning of the summer. “These two fundraisers bring in $120,000, which is about 15 percent of our annual budget,” Armstrong said. “We also rely on local, state and foundation-issued grants and donations.” The money is used for the clinic’s services, which include everything from chronic disease management to women’s The fundraiser is not your ordinary silent auction and chicken dinner event...” David D. Williams, Healthy Laughs emcee health.: chronic disease management and education, mental health, pediatrics, primary care, prenatal care and education, vision and women’s health, including mammograms, birth control and birth spacing. Funds from the events also helped the clinic expand its operating days from three a week to five, Monday through Friday, as well as assisting in the opening of its Heber City women’s woman wrote to the owner of a comedy club in Michigan where Engvall was working. “The woman had gone to the doctor and was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and instead of wallowing in her despair, she called her friend to go to the comedy club,” Engvall said. The woman said she enjoyed Engvall’s set and told the club owner to relay a message that his comedy cures cancer, Engvall said. “She had gone back to the doctor the next day and was informed she had been misdiagnosed,” Engvall said. “I know I didn’t cure her cancer, but for 60 minutes I took her mind away from the worst news anyone could get. “Now, I don’t say this in an egotistical way at all,” he said. “I just know there’s a reason why I’m here on this Earth.” Engvall also likes to keep his comedy clean and family-friendly. “I also avoid topics like religion and politics,” he said. “I COURTESY OF DAVID D. WILLIAMS Park City resident David D. Williams, a stand-up comedian, will emcee Healthy Laughs, the People’s Health Clinic’s annual fundraiser, on Aug. 31 at Chateaux Deer Valley. prenatal clinic.days from from three days to five days, Monday through Friday. Hours for Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays is, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday’s hours are 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday hours are 8 a.m. to noon. It also opened aits Heber women’s prenatal clinic that is open Mondays, from 8 a.m. to noon, according to Armstrong. “We have room to expand those times if needed,” she said. Last year, the nonprofit saw more than 8,100 patient visits, Armstrong said. “Patients we see are employed at resorts and hotels; restaurants,” Armstrong said. “Many work construction and some are self-employed.” This year, the clinic is on track for 9,000 patient visits, and that number is expected to rise in the coming years, she said. Ninety percent of these patients are employed, she said. “Most of them have two or three jobs,” Armstrong said. “And 82 percent the patients who come in for our services donate as much money as they can.” don’t care how good you are at telling jokes, once you tell one of those, you will alienate 50 percent of your audience. That’s not my goal. My goal is to keep 100 percent of my audience.” Comedy. to Engvall, is “serious business.” “I want people to leave my show knowing the world is not as bad as they thought it was,” he said. “My style of comedy is like we’re all sitting around the living room and I’m telling stories. It’s like a one-sided, 45-minute conversation.” The People’s Health Clinic’s Healthy Laughs fundraiser will be held from 6-10 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 31, at the Chateaux Deer Valley. Tickets are $150 and they can be purchased by visiting peopleshealthclinic.org or by calling 435-333-1863. BERRETT BERRETT MORTGAGE COURTESY OF DAVID D. WILLIAMS Stand-up comedian Rocky LaPorte will make his Healthy Laughs return after five years. MORTGAGE People’s Health Clinic’s Healthy Laughs fundraiser will FULL SERVICE MORTAGE BROKER SINCE 1986 be held from 6-10 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 31, at the Chateaux Deer Valley. 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