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Show A-22 77e Parr Record Saturday, September 2, 2000 t HARMON BUILDERS & REMODELING INC. PROFESSIONAL REMODELING INSURED C.C. Kitchen Baths Basement Finishes & Additions Redwood Decks & Decorative Concrete 435-513-6256 Serving Summit & Wawtch Counties Heard around the West by Betsy Marston Make the career change you'll never regret. Get your Real Estate license right here in Park City! Rotating classes YOU CAN START ANY TIHE Classes available 6 days a week Contact: Rona Walton ronawnardleygniac.coni Call: 435-649-9200 1-800-999-7355 Every tourist with a camera makes the same joke at scenic turnouts where the drop is precipitous: precip-itous: "Back up just another step no, just kidding!" Its part of tourist myth that someone actually asked a spouse to back up near a canyon, and then it was "Goodbyeeeeee." Here's a variation, varia-tion, and it's all true. Driving down a road from the Santa Fe ski area. Kansan Steve LeDou pulled over to take a quick picture, putting put-ting his transmission in park, leaving leav-ing the engine running and not taking the time to put on the emergency brake. The photo wasn't was-n't quick enough. As he snapped the picture, "that's when the station sta-tion wagon started rolling." Associated Press reports. LeDou ran back to the car and "w as hanging hang-ing out the window, his feet in the air. as the car headed down the embankment toward the boulders below." Some 50 feet later, the car stopped, leaving the driver wedged "like a cork in a bo'tle." His companion, Ruth Finnell. said she forced herself to remain calm during the descent, figuring that if she cried she'd "shake the car." Neither traveler was hurt on the downhill ride, though the car refused to be driven once it was towed back to the road. Ketchum, Idaho, resident Tobey Crane suffered a New West aitack recently after stopping at a lemonade stand near a bike path in his town. Proprietors were two little girls, tended by a young w oman w ho appeared to be the family's au pair. The girls sold him a lemonade fpr 25 cents price marked down' from an optimistic Team, 20-year-old Sarah George of Idaho Falls, Idaho, vomited elsewhere; "I was looking for bari bags, but there weren't any." Shriver told the Jackson Hole Sews. "I really didnt want her barfing all over his nice corporate helicopter with its nice leather At first the Texans said they thought the 70 percent grade was no big deal; six days later, they'd changed their minds. " Betsy Marston $1. Then, noticing what looked like delicious brownies. Crane asked, "Who made them?" The answer came from the au pair: "The maid." This country's love affair with the rich and famous played out in Jackson. Wyo.. recently when actor Harrison Ford illegally piloted his helicopter into a wilderness area to rescue an ill hiker. The hiker, plucked off 11,106-foot Table Mountain, found herself a celebrity after the rescue, mainly because she threw up in Ford's helicopter though not on the helicopter. Thanks to Ray Shriver. a member of the Teton County Search and Rescue seats. She barfed in my hat." As for the Forest Service, which could have punished the actor with a $5,000 fine, officials said this was the first breach of the law in three years and they'd let the infraction pass. Teton County officials, offi-cials, meanwhile, said that with helicopters costing $1,000 an hour to rent, they were delighted that Ford's was available for rescue missions. In hyper-dry Albuquerque, N.M., some parched residents are turning into vigilantes. Pretending to be city officials, the wannabe bureaucrats walk up to homeowners homeown-ers and threaten hefty fines and a cutoff of all water unless the TV r lips tor success from Zions Bank Women's Financial Group C' In your financial life, it is important that you build a long-term working relationship with your banker. Make sure you partner with an individual who can provide you with the financial tools to meet all of your needs, including mortgage and commercial lending, investments and insurance services. ser-vices. This will allow you to focus on your goals, because you can trust that your financial needs are being well-served. Robyn Martinez Bishop, Women's Financial Group Representative, Park City, 435-658-6132 X - " " I" ..V- ) ', j J v7 r- f WE HAVENT FORGOTTEN ZIONS BANK Mukir rbic KEEPS US IN BUSINESS. Women Financial Group wasteful watering halts. One fake inspector told an 11 -year-old whose mother was away that sprinklers at his house were watering way too long, and that a $5,000 fine could be expected later that day. "The imposter then took matters into his own hands." reports the Albuquerque Tribune. "He went into (Gail) Case's garage and turned off the water." City officials note dryly that the freelance inspectors are "overly enthusiastic." The city can legitimately legiti-mately get tough with those who squander water, after eight violations, viola-tions, a flow-restrictor can be installed that allows only enough water for "basic drinking and sanitation." san-itation." Suburban West Jordan, Utah, hopes to head off watering wars by talking to a satellite. In a test at 13 homes, small purple control boxes will replace the clocks on automatic sprinkler systems, and they will receive satellite signals telling the sprinklers exactly how much water to apply, reports the Salt Lake Tribune. Master control is a California company that examines detailed weather reports before setting the city's backyard needs. West Jordan Mayor Donna Evans says the sophisticated system is just one of several conservation measures her city will experiment with as it grows from some 70.000 to 150.000 people in the next few decades. The small town of Silverton. Colo., recently produced its own vehicular soap opera. The bad actors were two brothers from Texas who indulged a yen for off-road off-road thrills at 12.500 feet. The drama began when the men drove their two vehicles, a Jeep Wrangler and Dodge Ram 4x4. off a dirt road, over a ridge and onto a steep slope of fragile tundra where it was a long, long way down. "The vehicles looked like they were defying gravity." Lisa Richardson, a staffer for the Bureau of Land Management, told the Durango Herald. "It's an extremely risky spot." At first, the Texans said they thought the 70 percent grade was no big deal; six days later, they'd changed their minds. First, a tow-truck driver refused to help for ft ;r the federal feder-al agency would hold him responsible respon-sible for harming native plants. Then the BLM fined the men $300 each for their destructive joyride on publicly owned land. Thanks to some complicated and dicey winching with cables, the men, saved their four-wheel-drive vehicles. vehi-cles. But perhaps not their pride. "I don't think anybody will ever be that stupid to go there again." said BLM enforcement officer Lanny Wagner. The Denver Post adds that Silverton locals had begun calling the brothers "Dumb and Dumber." "Bubba One and Bubba Two," and the sorry "Champions of Stuck." Four-legged critters, watch out! Colorado Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell's got a gun. and he's not afraid to use it. The Republican senator recently pleaded guilty to shooting at a dog from a highway near his Ignacio. Colo., home, reports the Denver Post. Campbell's attorney said the 66-year-old member of the Northern Cheyenne tribe was reacting to two "aggressive akitas attacking his dog near his two-year-old grandson." Campbell has since pleaded guilty in tribal court, which fined him $250 and sentenced sen-tenced him to 10 hours of community commu-nity serv ice. Campbell, who loves riding motorcycles, could put in his hours at a bike rally this Labor Day. his attorney says. Betsy Marston is the editor of High Country News (www.hcn. org), which has covered the American West for 30 y ears. She can be reached el HCN. Box 1090, Paonia. Colo. 81428 or betsymQhcn.org. 2QOO Value fty., Lsamr, Mxn fyef, CD $33,0551 48Ma feaS&000 total dtw at iBawson 12K mteperveat radual stasis "PireipMwt pwlc!sefidDcwnertabaBfeBS.OAC PcbljstrataionV.(eatiremvay sui m hcef t frit Louis wrffiitj m Ji Jmk t Aft.r all.., PJ; you know this guy. I' -U.J"I Mill Poor |