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Show Mad chopper lurks in Snyderville Park City News Thursday, January 6, 19S3 Page All mMiig ilie Special Mixture 3 KL by Gary Oeins Here it is 1983 and I'm only five months away from turning twenty-five. (Yes, even Gary Heins has his problems.) I feel as though I'm going through a quarter-age crisis. It seems these days, when I'm not skiing, all I can concentrate on is everything I've never fulfilled. I get up. I ride the bus to The Resort, and have breakfast without reading the paper. I go to work teaching skiing all day (which I truly enjoy). I have dinner, usually at the Mt. Air Cafe, without reading the paper, I ride the bus home where I sit not picking up a good book, not even picking up a bad book, but sometimes opening a technical manual on skiing. And I worry about what not to write for the next issue. Some nights, riding the bus seems the only freedom that I know. The other night, the bus ride was especially soothing because one of my old favorites came over the radio. It was Carole King's "Morning Sun": "Sometimes I feel like I've been livin' much too long. . .and I've wasted too much time. . .All I can think of is my loss of inner harmony. . .and all the mountains left to climb. . .And then the morning sun comes shinin' through my window. . .and it's good to be alive. . .Gonna be a golden day, wings-unfoldin' wings-unfoldin' day green trees, blue skies. . ." As I got off the bus, I remembered I don't have an east window in my bedroom for the sun to rise in, among other things. What I am residing in right now here in Park City, you may have gathered, is a small sleeping room. No cooking facilities; only room for a single bed, a dresser, and my humble desk. There's no room for my small stereo and collection of albums (All that, and all kinds of other stuff, is stored with a friend). But the price is right for this room I'm in only $100 a month. It's certainly worth $100 a month in this town. It's just not enough of the right environment environ-ment for me. I may be spoiled, I don't know; but I feel, as a writer, I need more space, more a place I want to still be familiar with ten years from now. I need a place where I can cook a meal without getting too far away from the typewriter. As it is, I feel like a ski instructor living in Kansas, or a pipe smoker without any tobacco. What I want is to have my pipe and smoke it, too. But I just can't afford af-ford it right now. (Actually, I could afford close to $200 a month for the right permanent dwelling even . if it's with a bunch of housemates, as long as they don't all plan to leave at the end of the ski season. So, if you know of a modestly comfortable place, write me at Box 4166 and remember the post office of-fice will not deliver your letter without sufficient suf-ficient postage. And don't bother me with a $350-a-month single unit that's worth every penny because it's got a hot tub and two bathrooms and a three-car garage. ) It wouldn't be such a big problem if my house weren't also to be my writing facility. If I didn't feel I have to be so productive when I get done with my regular job, all my problems would be solved. I could be satisfied in any living conditions as long as I had a television set and an incurable case of television disease (or TVD). All my problems, which are financial for the most part, stem from the fact that I'm trying to make a life as well as a living. As a ski instructor, I'm doing something I enjoy and believe in; but it's something that supports sup-ports me little more than four months out of the year. As a writer, so far, I make enough money to support me one or two months out of the year. I've always been unsecure as far as making a living the remaining six months. And now, this very month, I'm starting to pay back my college loans. Why can't I grow up to be like other boys really? Why can't I reach the age of twenty-five twenty-five feeling as though I'm a finished product, well on my secure way to being a doctor or lawyer or such? After extensive research last summer, I chose Park City to be my place to settle down and write. I figured, if I put myself in the write environment, I could get something done for once. But I'm having trouble getting situated. I've got two big projects going that I started star-ted two and three years ago a novel and a how-to book. And I'm having trouble just writing this column once a week. I've got so much I want to write I just wish I could write it. I'm like a skier without a lift pass. I first aspired to be a writer seven or eight years ago, as a junior in high school, when Mr. Kannenberg (my hardest English teacher) relished almost everything I wrote and gave me much needed overconfidence. He somehow helped me realize that making a life is more important than making a living. I owe a lot to Mr. Kannenberg for giving me the initial confidence to be a writer. Someday, I'm going to really thank him for it. Someday, I'm going to get even. Gary Heins Even the smallest ads are read. The S ranting iron As Park City's Main Street becomes increasingly crowded, visitors and residents alike are seeking alternatives for their dining adventures. Recent restrictions prohibiting noise at certain hours, music and alcoholic consumption, make Main Street less desirable than in the past. For a pleasurable dining experience in the beautiful White and Red Pine canyons, the perfect alternative is the Branding Iron restaurant, restau-rant, operated by Wolfgang Sonntagg, past owner of Main Street's Cafe Ritz Restaurant, located at the ParkWest Resort. In addition to a daily German special, the restaurant features a wide selection of entrees, including steaks, teri-yaki teri-yaki chicken, lamb chops and halibut steaks. The authentic chuck wagon salad bar and Branding Iron cheese soup are certain to please. Lunch is served every day from 1 1 :00 to 4:00 and dinner from 6:00 to 10:00. Reservations accepted. Most major credit cards. Free shuttle bus service available from 6:00 p.m. on. Call 649-1726. PARKWEST A winter & summer resort. Don't be alarmed, but there's a mad sign chopper out there somewhere and no one knows when or where he'll strike again. So far, he's confined his activities to small billboards advertising the Silver Springs development in the ParkWest area. For no apparent reason, the chopper chop-per has been hacking down the Silver Springs signs and then leaving them where they fall. No one knows why or who. Obviously, the chopper doesn't want the signs or he wouldn't leave them after leveling them. Whatever the chopper's motivations, Silver Springs officials are not amused. They've dutifully re-erected the signs at a bit of expense but don't want to have to go through the experience any more. "It all started shortly before Thanksgiving," says a Silver Springs spokesman who wished to remain unnamed. un-named. "Whoever's doing it just cuts them down and leaves them. Putting them back up is an aggravation.". The Summit County Sheriff's office is investigating investigat-ing the matter. Indivisuals opens advertising firm OQdhmssm lUitMi aimsi I vwm riant ran Indivisuals, a full-service advertising, public relations and marketing firm which has served Salt Lake City for the past three years, has opened an office in Park City. Ricki Gardner, owner of Indivisuals, and associate Ann MacQuoid, have offices in the "Red Barn" building at 1515 Park Ave. Indivisuals employs five people in the Salt Lake City office, with clients that include the Utah Opera Company, KWMS Radio, Technicom, Enviro Enterprises, Enter-prises, Telemation, the Dale R. Wilde Company, Easton Aluminum and WMS Famco. Park City clients include Deer Valley, the Aerie, Motherlode Condos, Silver Mill of Park City, the Real Estate Firm, Park City Reservations, and Capson, Morris, McComb. Gardner has been in the advertising and graphic design de-sign business for 13 years. She is a graduate of the University of Utah with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design. Prior to forming Indivisuals, she was vice president and art director direc-tor for Fotheringham and Associates in Salt Lake City for five years. Other agencies agen-cies for which she designed include Gillham Advertising, Steinberg Advertising, Win-borg Win-borg & Winborg, and Bracken-Smith & Assoc. MacQuoid has been in the public relations and communications com-munications fields for the past 12 years. She owned her own public relations firm, Colony Communications, in Laguna Beach, California for four years. Prior to that, she was vice president of Lewis & Associates in Newport New-port Beach, and served as Director of Public Relations for The Larwin Group, Inc., a multi-million dollar real estate development firm headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Mrs. MacQuoid has B.A. and M.A. Degrees in English. The firm provides full advertising, marketing, and public relations services to a wide variety of clients. For information call 649-2989. MAEDELS SALES & SERVICE AUTO BODY SHOP Auto Glass Installation Kilby Road Box 118 Park City 649-9802 West of Parley's Ski Area AT SHADOW RIDGE Enjoy the finest gourmet continental cuisine in our casual but elegant surroundings. Superb wine selections, piano bar, apres ski hors d'oeuvres and cocktails. Casual attire is appropriate. 0 From 7:00 V From 11:30 6-10:30 Cover parking available. 649-3912 649-3911 f SEASONS GREETINGS ji a YY I I f r A Park City Resort Lodging would like to offer property managers and all owners of rental units in Park City A CENTRALIZED CHECK-IN LOCATION that is easy to find (1 5 1 5 Park Avenue) and will be staffed from 8:00 a.m. -1 0:00 p.m.. 7 days a week. Arrivals later than 1 0:00 p.m. by prior arrangement. We can handle groups and individuals. Remember how busy we get? No more waiting for guests to arrive after normal business hours. Contact us now if you are interested. For information, call Enola Dangerf ield. 80 1 -649-8082. 649-872 1 . 649-6368. 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