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Show Viewpoints. THE PARK RECORD WED/THURS/FRI, MARCH 2-4, 2005 A-15 EDITORIAL Local ambassadors offer warm hospitality to international youth j Park City Christian Center J_ has been doing more than its share to mend our international fences. For a dozen Tuesdays each winter, the center has helped to coordinate free dinners for about 250 of Park City's seasonal workers from abroad. With volunteer and financial help from several local organizations, the Christian Center has been serving up hot food and warm camaraderie for three seasons and each year the guest list gets bigger. In addition to providing essential calories to keep the work force moving, the dinners offer young seasonal employees a chance to meet contemporaries who are also far from home. The babble of dialects as countrymen seek each other out at the center is likely just as fulfilling as the home-cooked meals delivered by Rotarians, church congregations and other groups. The international dinners are organized by the center's directors Tim and Patti Dahlin, who deserve a mini-peace prize for the example of diplomacy they set on a local level. It is not a stretch to assume that several of the bright, college-age internationals giggling and swapping fifty tales around the cafeteria tables Tuesday will someday be decision makers and leaders in their own countries and, thanks to the Dahlins, they may look more favorably on the U.S. in the future. According to the Dahlins. more than 1,000 internationals come to fill a myriad of essential seasonal jobs each winter. Because of work permit and visa restrictions many of them live on meager wages and can barely make ends meet. In order to help them out, the Dahlins have found creative ways to provide second-hand furnishings as well as food and friendship. The Dahlins, and all of the volunteers who have helped make the dinners possible have set a wonderful example of how a community that depends on a large seasonal work force can help lower international barriers as we try to move beyond these troubling times of global unrest. JOHN KILBOURN//WW RECORD LETTERS TO THE EDITOR waste removal and remediation policy in our town. The decision to haul mine waste through neighborhoods is difficult and our city council should be commended for calling up the issue and giving it the scrutiny it Editor: requires. My name is Darold Hirschey and for It is important to fully understand the myself, my wife Jan, our three children and impacts, potential trade-offs and available many friends, we would like to extend our options to correctly effect a solution to a thanks to the Park City Police Department, problem that believe the community as a the County Attorney's Office and their whole wants Iand they can endorse. staff for their role in the prosecution of Developers have athat responsibility and are Eric Low for the murder of our son mandated to do everything within Michael Jon Hirschey. We especially want power to mitigate development impacttheir to thank David Brickey and Jamie Bracken preserve the quality of life we all enjoyand in for their untiring efforts on this case. Park City. As a 25-year resident interested We also want to thank the state of Utah in preserving the quality of life we all crime lab people, the medical examiner's enjoy, I believe it is important to do everyoffice and other personnel brought in for thing possible to ensure that our health, this case. The professionalism shown by all safety and welfare are not compromised. In of these departments was very impressive. my experience, as developer, working with Our family and many friends were the Marsac Corridor Association has been impressed with the kindness and sympathy very positive. The group has been very shown to all of us while we were in Park understanding, proactive, reasonable and City by all the people involved in the pros- responsive in helping to explore, facilitate ecution of this case. and promote solutions to mitigate the We want to thank the jury for their impact of hauling .export rr^eflal off-sj£e. extenSfYe"efforts to reach'a verdict in this Sitetyalancingjajidenvironmental remediacase, but are saddened by a hung jury out- tion is always an important issue relating -to come. development especially in Park City. Our family will continue to work with Having had experience with sites requirthe prosecution and will be there when a ing remediation in Park City I can apprecinew trial takes place. ate the impacts from both a cost perspective as developer and the health, safety and Thank you, welfare perspective as citizen. It is practical Darold Hirschey that any decision to haul mine waste, let Minnesota alone thousands of trucks' loads, be thoroughly analyzed as to need, cost and potential options. It is critical to fully understand the available options and alternatives along with their ramifications. It is responsible to fully explore all of the alternatives to just hauling the material off-site because no Editor: one wants it in their backyard. As a local builder amd developer, I have Acceptable solutions do exist in many followed the debate on the exporting of mine waste from Flagstaff with keen inter- combinations of methodology for the safe est as it relates to both safety and the prac- disposal of mine waste based on its toxicitical side of development. The debate has ty. A unilateral decision to just haul it off, implications and impacts that affect us as a through neighborhoods and past schools, community, not only today but also moving may not necessarily be in the best interest forward in establishing precedent for mine to either side of the debate. Point being A family's ordeal Two hats are better than one PARK CITY OFFICES Emergency Building Inspection Bus Information Business Licensing Cemetery Admin. 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That chair should be running every day, whether Silverlode is running or not. PCMR, please do everything you can to get the Silverlode chairlift operating soon and keep your locals (and visitors) happy. Henry Sigg Park City Sincerely, Silverlode-less in Park City Editor: In your City Beat article on Feb. 26, 2005, according to PCMR's spokeswoman Krista Parry, "The resort is confident that skiers and snowboarders will not be hindered by Silverlode's shutdown... it doesn't diminish the experience." Well, I beg to differ! Sure, you can ski all of the runs off Silverlode, i.e., Prospector, Newport, Lost Prospector, Assessment, etc., but ONLY ONCE until you ride the King Con chairlift back up, go all the way to the base of the resort and stand in long lines to ride two . chairs back up. to the tQj^£!}e,J»iiverJode_ cti&ir is obviously an integral lift as it moves close to 3,000 people per hour and is essentially in the middle of the resort. In my estimation, it is a huge inconvenience to have this chair inoperable. The fact that PCMR has decided to run the Ski Team chair on the weekdays when it is nor- By SOL BROWDY Park City The one hand giveth and the other taketh away. The rub is that the giving hand giveth a miniscule of a discount, compared to the size of the ignored discount. I am talking about the high cost of drugs and all the hullabaloo we heard about finally getting around to really do something about it. So-called pharmacy alliances were formed and promised modest cost reductions. The poor senior who already had a Medicare supplement policy promising a 50 percent reduction after a modest deductible of 50 percent is slowly realizing that unbeknownst to him the local pharmacy only takes into consideration the modest discount the so-called alliances are offering and ignores the higher-discount offering policy. It now is the beginning of March, and for some time I have been disappointed with the discounts I have been receiving from a local pharmacy since the first of this year. I received only a mumbo-jumbo explanation from the senior pharmacist 1 spoke to, but eventually I came to realize that this particular pharmacy's policy has been to permit their pharmacists to select only one of the client's drug insurance policies, and without asking the senior customer, inevitably is has been the loweryielding discount one. When I called customer service at the AARP, I learned that a brief review of the medications I had purchased this year to date, never were submitted to my AARP drug carrier. On their advice, 1 was asked to obtain a printout of all the drugs purchased by me from the first of the year to the present and send it to them. I had to wonder: who's doing the fleecing? So I decided to call pharmacies at Albertsons, Dan's, Rite-Aid and WalMart to try to learn their policies. It appears that most of the four others attempt to provide the best cost to the client by asking which insurance does he wish to be billed. It appears that most Medicare discount cards, like the alliances, provide a 10 percent discount. In fairness to my pharmacy, it appears that the relatively recent signing up with their pharmacy for the Medicare discount evidently blinded them to the possibility of the customer's having insurance providing higher yielding discounts. Checking the printout, the total comes to $501.50. If one assumes that I received a 10 percent discount instead of the 50 percent I rightly am due, then I should receive a $200 credit. In other words, the bottom line is that I was overcharged $200! (It may be time to switch pharmacies.) Park Record'e-mail addresses Andy Bernhard Nan Chalat-Noaker Valerie Demtng Jay Hamburger Patrick Parkinson Jared Whitley Matt James Adia Waldburger Anna Bloom Scott Sine Grayson West Kat James Mike Duffy Matt Gordon Chris Gill Inkarna Black Joe Lair 1 Year inside Summit County, $37 outside Summit County, I .70 6 Months inside Summit County, $20, outside Summit County $39 - Editor: What is Governor Huntsman's rationale for omitting HB 17 from his list of appropriations priorities for state legislators, based on his campaign assurances with respect to economic redevelopment in Utah? HB 17 is directed specifically at economic redevelopment, and by not making it a priority to pass, the governor is effectively ignoring an opportunity to increase state tax revenues, to increase awareness of the state, and to develop further ah industry that could employ hundreds of residents, with benefits to peripheral businesses across the board, including tourism. The film production industry is environmentally safe, non-invasive, and profitable. By not enacting HB 17, our legislature and The continuingfleecingof seniors SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION - Initiate HB17 GUEST EDITORIAL For numbers not listed above, call 615-5000 Mastercard or Visa No. Name Mailing Address Kelley Holtman Park City Exp. Date: Mail to: The Park Record , P.O. Box 3688, Park City, Utah 84060 ab @ parkrecord.com editor@parkrecord.com ads@parkrecord.com citynews@parkrecord.com countynews@parkrecord.com education@parkrecord.com arts@parkrecord.com sports@parkrecord.com business@parkrecord.com photo@parkrecord.com photo@parkrecord.com kat@parkrecord.com circulation@parkrecord.com production@parkrecord.com realestate@parkrecord.com • classifieds@parkrecord.com Scoreboard @ parkrecord.com The Park /fecevtf welcomes letters to the editor on any subject. We ask thai the letters adhere to the following guldelinesiThey must include the address and telephone number ol author. 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Sincerely, Margaret Hilliard Park City Social Security crisis Editor: I am terribly disturbed that Republicans are actually saying, "Social Security has got to go." President Bush is telling us that he wants to change the system (which doesn't need changing, just needs reforming, but that's another argument). Think about it. It looks to me that'maybe This "gut1 tu go" chant is the real story and what the Republican leaders really want is to abolish the system. That scares me. Doesn't that scare you? 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