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Show The Newspaper Thursday, April 15, 1982 Page A9 Park City Area i A StC THE Chamber of CommerceConvention and Visitors Bureau Today is the deadline Remember the Alamo! Just a reminder for our new 1982 ChamberBureau members: You are invited to the first quarterly membership member-ship social, to be held Friday, April 16, from 5:30 to 7 p.m., at the newly remodeled re-modeled Alamo, on Main Street. The Chamber Bureau membership drive is still moving along. Today, April 15, is deadline day for dues payment, to ensure your listing in our 1982 Membership Member-ship Directory. Please get your membership dollars in. We're anxious to move onto the many exciting programs we have planned for this year, and we need your help. Thanks to these businesses who have pledged their support over the last week. We have many brand new members, in addition to those who have demonstrated demon-strated continued support from year to year. Thank you all: Copperbottom Inn The Hat Store The Clothes Store The Homestead Holiday Rent-A-Car Howells, Inc. Legal Offices of Jim Kenni-cott Kenni-cott Marker, U.S.A. Miners Delight Paragon Press Phillipe's Signature Promotions Wasatch Homes Chamber Bureau working work-ing committee sign-up will take place at the membership member-ship social, to give new members a chance to get involved on an active level. Committees are an important impor-tant structural part of the Chamber Bureau, so let us know your areas of expertise: exper-tise: The Economic Development Develop-ment Committee will be a vital source of information for industrial development and growth in Park City, compiling statistical information infor-mation for new businesses, residents, etc. Areas of promotion and coordination with film production companies com-panies will also be addressed. address-ed. The Park City Ambassadors Ambassa-dors Committee will assist the Chamber Bureau by attending functions where businesses should be represented, repre-sented, representing Park City in and outside the area, and in spreading the word about our town. The Restaurant Committee Commit-tee and Merchants Committee Commit-tee will allow Park City member restaurants, bars, and clubs, or member merchants mer-chants to collectively discuss common goals, problems, combined programs, and experiences, as they apply to business in the Park City area. Lodging meetings will continue con-tinue to be held monthly. These meetings give member mem-ber lodges an opportunity to discuss common goals, problems, prob-lems, and programs, such as occupancies, promotion and transportation. The Transportation Task Force will discuss Park City's bus service, alternative alterna-tive systems, operation, and maintenance of the city bus system. Regular meetings Garbage rates double Park City garbage collection collec-tion rates doubled this month, billing went onto a new computer system and April bills were inadvertently inadver-tently stamped with the wrong date, according to Debbie Erickson, in charge of utility billings for the city. The City Council passed an ordinance at the end of March that doubled rates to bring payments in line with costs charged by the garbage gar-bage collection company contracted by the city. A new computer was put into service last month, and March bills carried the correct 3-31-82 date. April bills were dated 4-01-82, but should have read 4-30-82. Billing is done a month in advance. Erickson noted she has received several telephone calls on the misdated bills. "It was a bad week," she said. will be held with the city officials involved with the bus system's operation. The Tourist Marketing Committee will concern itself it-self with marketing, advertising, adver-tising, travel schedules for soliciting individual tourist traffic, and promotion of Park City as a four-season resort community. The Group Convention Marketing Committee will discuss marketing and advertising ad-vertising strategies for groups conventions, and the servicing of groups booked into Park City. The Finance Budget Committee will address al ternative sources of funding for the organization (i.e. city, county, other sources), budget for 1983, etc. The Membership Fund-raising Fund-raising Committee will review re-view issues to include the Snowflaker's Ball, dues structure for 1983, membership member-ship solicitation, etc. The Community Affairs Committee will address issues is-sues of a city wide clean-up campaign, city aesthetics, signage, cooperation of local schools and service groups, city celebrations, and large-scale large-scale special events, while emphasizing member involvement, in-volvement, visibility, and benefits. The group will also discuss development of new special events and future recreational facilities. The Government Involvement Involve-ment Committee will work with the city and county on governmental issues such as master planning, business license structure, county government reorganization, commercial and industrial zoning, employee housing, and timeshare regulations. It will coordinate with city departments and elected officials, monitoring decisions de-cisions and policies that affect the business community. National travel leaders to attend tourism conference Utah Governor Scott M. Matheson and dignitaries representing the nation's airlines, hotel, bus, ski and travel-publication industries will be featured speakers at Utah's first annual Governor's Gover-nor's Conference on Tourism to be held April 18 - 20, 1982, at the Salt Lake Hilton Hotel. Bringing their travel and business expertise to conference confer-ence participants will be Norman Sherlock, president and chief executive officer of the American Bus Association; Associa-tion; L. William Lane, publisher pub-lisher of Sunset Magazine; J. Willard Marriott, Jr., president presi-dent and chief executive officer for the Marriott Corporation; Craig Bene-detti, Bene-detti, vice president of marketing mar-keting for Western Airlines; and Pete Seibert, founder of Vail Ski Area and developer of Utah's Snowbasin Ski Resort. The two-day event will be jointly sponsored by the Utah Travel Council in cooperation with the Utah Hotel & Motel Association. The conference will bring together representatives from throughout the tourist industry in a variety of workshops, seminars and general sessions designed to broaden their perspective on the industry. For further information contact the Utah Travel Council, 533-5681 or the Utah Hotel & Motel Association, 359-0104. Whadd'ya now: by Rick Br o ugh The hot question around town even more important than Park Avenue and increased business license fees is the following: What's going to happen to that furshlugginer red Film Festival bus that sat for so long in the Alpha Beta lot? Acording to Tina Lewis, the bus was recently recent-ly moved back to the transportation garage. The ChamberBureau, she said, has considered con-sidered using it as a tourist information booth during the summer. But they have to clear things first with the Alpha Beta, and get a new conditional use permit from the city. (The old permit was issued just for use by the Film Festival.) Speaking of the festival, board members have decided to hold next year's event in January. Film industry figures like the idea of combining skiing with movie-going, reports re-ports say, and the alternate time, around October, Oc-tober, conflicted with too many other film festivals. The festival's next event will be a fundraiser fund-raiser next June, at which a certain environmentally-minded Utah movie star has promised to show up. Another unanswered question concerns producer Francis Ford Coppola, who received the first video award from the festival. What ever happened to his "One From the Heart", the Las Vegas romance that was supposed to hit theaters around Valentine's Day? The critical reviews of the movie have been scathing. Roger Ebert of "Sneak Previews" liked it. But Paulie Kael was not impressed with the movie's use of video technology and called it "One From the Lab." Another source tells us, "I read the review in Playboy, and it only got two bunnies!" bun-nies!" FROM THE RUMOR MILL: What Park City businesswoman has become very friendly with Oscar-winning screenwriter Ernest Thompson ("On Golden Pond") since they met at the U.S. Film and Video Festival? Like to play God? If you say yes, then you should have tuned in last week's episode of "Saturday Night Live." As part of the opening sketch, set in a French restaurant, an actor was about to throw a live lobster into a pot of boiling water. Cast member Eddie Murphy stepped in and asked the audience if they really wanted want-ed to see this animal killed on live TV. "This is one of God's creatures. He's even got a name Larry the Lobster," he said. On the other hand, he said, it would be kind of neat to hear the little sucker shriek as it was thrown in the pot. It was up to the audience. Two longdistance long-distance phone numbers flashed on the screen, one to save Larry, the other to kill him no joke! Votes poured in for the next 90 minutes, and, by a vote of 239,000 to 200,000, Larry was saved. We called to save Larry. (If nothing else counts on the Day of Judgment, we at least did that.) Unfortunately, all we got was one , of those "this-number-is-no-longer-in-service" recordings. SNL, you see, is not broadcast live by the time it gets to Utah. All the same how would you have voted? We thought you ought to know how slap-happy slap-happy Washington bureaucrats are wasting your tax dollars. Last week's paper reported that a food fight broke out at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Assistant U.S. Housing Secretary Stephen Bollinger was enjoying a departmental party when Deputy Undersecretary Dan Hughes entered and got a faceful of chocolate cake from Bollinger. Hughes retaliated, and soon a battle in the best tradition of "Animal House" broke out. Sources said the fight was not caused by tension over policy differences between the two men. But the HUD food fight may have started a trend. The AP news wire reported Sen. Howard Baker visited the White House yesterday to demand a cut in the defense budget. In response, President Reagan grabbed Baker's pants and sprayed shaving cream down his shorts. In other news, talks on the Falkland Island crisis broke down after af-ter Secretary of State Haig rammed a pencil up the nose of British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym. Thank God there are still some mature, level-headed individuals in the federal government. Take Interior Secretary James Watt please. Watt appeared in Utah last week to promote the re-election of Congressman James Hansen. The Utah politico commended commend-ed Watt, saying that he had an almost "spiritual quality" when he entered a committee com-mittee room. Environmentalists, however, insist that Watt's idea of getting closer to Heaven is to make the nation's wildlife areas look like Hell. SLUSH REPORT: The Park City Resort reports a base of 89 gallons, and says lifeguards will be posted at all major bowl areas. Trout Valley reports a base of 94 gallons, and advises guests not to go into the deep end of the snow right after they've eaten. Recreation games can kill you, according to researchers in Washington and Red China. The Peking Evening News reports that people who play Rubik's Cube run the risk of high blood pressure. They become irritable and cannot sleep until they solve the puzzle. "Also, not a few magic cube fans have a tendency ten-dency to ... even become mentally abnormal," abnor-mal," said the paper. Meanwhile, a doctor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center said the exertion of playing video games puts stress on the heart. Dr. Robert S. Eliot found patients whose blood pressure and pulse rate shot up after seven to eight seconds of video play. It would take seven to eight minutes to reach the same result by running on a treadmill, he said. For a more spiritual, tranquil change of pace, doctors recommend reading press releases from James Watt's office. There are simple solutions! They're just not cheap. We received a letter from a Washington D.C. tax-rebel group, Citizen's Choice, which says it might be possible to devise a simple tax form that could fit on a postcard. No more convoluted forms! No more bullying by the IRS! Citizen's Choice is coming to our rescue right now, by working on a radical restructuring restruc-turing of the tax form. Of course, they need money to accomplish this vital work, ... if you wouldn't mind contributing $5 here, or a $100 here... By a strange coincidence, we have been working on a project of our own, almost as frustrating as filling out tax forms. This project is called "How to Pick up Women." Y'know, there's an old myth that women are only attracted to guys with wavy hair, browned, muscular skin, and gleaming teeth Well, don't sell women short. They're also attracted to large amounts of money. To put this theory into practice, we need your help. So send $25 in check or money order or-der to Whaddyaknow, P.O. Box 738, Park City, Utah, 84060. 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