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Show A-24 The Park Record Tuesday, December 28, 1999 r Writers on the Range By John Rosapepe 1884 The Mayor's Office is accepting applications for four appointments to the Planning Commission. Members serve four year terms and must be residents res-idents of Park City. Applications are available in the Planning Department, 445 Marsac Avenue during regular business hours. The deadline for applying is January 15, 2000. For more information, call 615-5061 Lewis and Clark: Icons for the New Millennium "For the very best in clothing" FILSON -p- Since 1897 "Might as well Have the BEST" PENDLETON 333 Main Street . Park City. UT . 435-649-0555 e-mail: pcclothinguswest.net OPEN 10-6 DAILY Wyden and Kennedy, the Portland advertising adver-tising firm that brought us the "I wanna be like Mike" campaign, can only wish that the memory of their retired basketball superstar can remotely approach the staying power that Lewis and Clark have had in the public's consciousness con-sciousness over the last two centuries. Four years out from the bicentennial of the Corps of Discovery expedition, interest in Lewis and Clark burns bright and will only continue to build in the next few years. Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and Sacagawea have become icons in the Northwest and everyone has been happy to claim them for their cause. Schools, colleges, rivers, counties, cities, tarks and national forests across the 10 states ewis and Clark traversed from 1803 to 1806 bear their names. When traveling these states, it's impossible not to bump into roadside road-side historical signs or the black-and-white National Historic Trail signs of Lewis silhou etted in his tricorner hat and Clark in his coonskin cap. A reference search on the expedition at my local library turns up over 100 books in the stacks some of them printed close to a century ago. There's Stephen Ambrose's best seller, Undaunted Courage, alongside books about the natural history the expedition encountered and the medicine they practiced. There seems to be no end to the angles that writers will take. A book just published recounts the expedition from the eves of Meriwether's Lewis' Newfoundland dog, Seaman, the first canine to leave its mark across the breadth of the continent. Politicians of all stripes clasp Lewis and Clark to their bosom. Idaho's Republican Governor, Dirk Kemphtorne, used them in his inaugural address last year. Washington's Democratic Congressman Brian Baird whose district encompasses the beach where Lewis and Clark first encountered the Pacific Ocean vowed in an impassioned election night victory victo-ry speech to still be in office when the bicentennial bicen-tennial celebration reaches the coast in 2005. President William Jefferson Clinton even made time in his busy schedule to write an article for Smithsonian' magazine about the expedition that his namesake sent forth. Turn-of-the-century suffragettes took Sacagawea to heart, pointing out she was pivotal piv-otal to the expedition's success and had equal voting rights when a vote was taken on whether to over-winter north or south of the mouth of the Columbia River during the winter win-ter of 1805. Susan B. Anthony sang her praises prais-es in a speech to the National American Woman's Suffrage Association meeting held in Portland in 1905. A statue of Sacagewea was dedicated that year at the Portland Lewis and Clark Exposition, paid for by donations from women's groups. Environmentalists recently unveiled campaigns cam-paigns to protect the wilderness and wildlife legacy that remains from the time of Lewis and Clark. The Sierra Club kicked off a five-year five-year campaign to protect grizzlies, salmon, grasslands, forests and estuaries along the Lewis and Clark route. American Rivers is gearing up a campaign around restoring and protecting the Missouri, Snake and Columbia Rivers. Business has its hand in the pie as Nissan shills its new SUV in the spirit of Lewis and Clark ruggedness, while Horizon Air runs funny and wry commercials of Clark and Lewis flying in comfort while recounting arduous and uncomfortable parts of their journey. Backers of the recent World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle ran radio spots tying global trade to Lewis and Clark's opening the West to the manifest destiny of commerce. River guide and back-country outfitters have seen bookings for trips linked to the Lewis and Clark theme soar. National and state Lewis and Clark commissions com-missions have been formed to facilitate the bicentennial celebrations in an "orderly" manner. The National Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Council signed a memorandum of understanding with 14 federal agencies to coordinate commemorations of the expedition. expedi-tion. The council is also willing to endorse products for a five-percent cut there is already an official "Corps of Discovery" wool blanket on the market. Native Americans are struggling to get their side of the story heard and from their perspective. Without their hospitality, generosity gen-erosity and forbearance, the Corps of Discovery would have probably vanished in the northwest, written off as a footnote in history his-tory books. Instead, two cultures interacted with results that have forever changed the social and natural fabric of the West. Trying to understand the legacy of Lewis and Clark and their companions isn't a bad way to start the new millennium. Regardless of the geegaws produced in the next few years to celebrate the bicentennial, chances are good that when all the hype is over, the journey of Lewis and Clark will still be a good guide for trying to understand our past and for charting a course for our future. John Rosapepe is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News, based in Paonia, Colo (www.hcn.org). He lives on Washington 's Olympic Peninsula. UVSC produces 1 999's best instructional video A Utah Valley State College (UVSC)-pro-duced video on solid waste management has been named the best instructional video of 1999 by the Aurora organization. The 12-minute video, "Solid Waste Management," was a joint effort between Media Creations and the Department of Environmental Technology. Dennis Lisonbee, instructor of multimedia communication technology, Jim Callison, environmental technology chair and Dallas Hanks, instructor of environmental technology, technolo-gy, spent a year completing the project, which included two other videos. The video is currently being used in solid waste management, environmental technology technolo-gy and biology classes at UVSC. Insight Media, an educational publishing company based in New York, will begin selling the video through its catalogs in spring of 2000. The idea for the video came to Hanks while teaching an ecology class at the college. "Students really needed to see how the whole process worked in order to evaluate the application of what they were doing," Hanks said. . After taking students to waste water treatment treat-ment plants numerous times. Hanks concluded conclud-ed that making a video would be a more efficient effi-cient way to convey the information. The first production. Waste Water Treatment, was followed by the. Solid Waste Management video. Private and corporate production groups, advertising agencies and television stations throughout the United States are considered each year for the Aurora Awards. This is the first time UVSC has been recognized by the Aurora organization. Don't miss the special Millennium edition of The Park Record on Friday, Dec. 31. New Year's Eve for Adults and Kids at the Park City Marriott V o .7 I V o K Mine are cm 09 Auto Carpet Steam Cleaning Cell Phone 435-901-1208 Sofas, Chairs, Rugs 24 Hr. Serv9ce435-649-9208 . Residential & Commercial m9l. 24 Hour Water Damage Sl Hablamo$ Espanol Park City's Highest Quality Steam Cleaning Service At Affordable Prices. 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