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Show w Entertainment • Calendar • Arts The Park Record. WED/THURS/FRI, AUGUST 31-SEPTEMBER 2,2005 Events Calendar C-2 Crossword C-4 Scene & Heard C-7 TV Listings C-ll Classifieds C-13 SCENE EDITOR: Matt James 649-90l4ext.104arts@parkrecord.com Park City is gettin* funky on Miners Day Annual celebration will include some more modern history this year Scarecrows coming early this year The Friends of the McPolin Farm is holding its annual scarecrow building event a little earlier than normal this year. The fundraiser will take place Sept. 10 from 2-4 p.m. at the McPolin Farm. Families and those interested in participating should bring clothes and decorations; the Friends of The Farm will provide scarecrow filling and crosses on which to post the creations. The scarecrows will be put on display behind the McPolin barn and should remain there through Oct. 15. Tickets for the event are $20 and are available from the Park City Library. For more information about the event, contact PamWoll at 658-5147. Volunteers needed to dance with cows Mountain Town Stages needs volunteers to assist with its biggest annual fundraiser, The Cow Ballet. The event will occur on Saturday, Sept. 10 from 4 p.m. "'til the cows come home." All types of positions are needed and no experience is necessary. Volunteers will receive free admission to the event, plenty of interesting memories and lots of free food. Those interested should call Pam at 640-1807 or e-mail randy@mountaintownstages.com. For those not volunteering, tickets are still available to the event, which will feature Alvin Youngblood Hart and his Muscle Theory, along with games, activities, barbecue and dancing for both people and bovines. Tickets are $22 and are available at Orion's Music, by visiting www.mountaintownstages.com or by calling 901-SONG. By MATT JAMES Of the Record staff Miners Day has long been a celebration of Park City's mining heritage, but for 2005 the Park City Rotary Club, which organizes the event, is adding something new. "This year we've decided to have fun and rename the day Funky Old Miners Day," said Rotary Club public relations chair A. Flint Decker, "We're trying to put the funk back into the event," said Jim Lea, the event's co-chairman. According to Decker, the idea behind the change was to make the event more unique than ever. "We're not looking to see the politicians sitting in the back of a war with a suit on," Lea said. What they're looking for, he noted, was some creativity, creative costumes and unusual clothes. "The whole goal this year," said Decker, "is to have funky as a theme and really bring it back to the 1960s and 70s." "We're not looking so much for organization as disorganization," added Lea, with a smile. In addition to recognizing Park City's mining roots, this year the event will begin to celebrate the town's more recent history, when people began to move here for the skiing, the arts and the atmosphere. So this year's Miners Day celebration will have a slightly different flavor than those of years past. Please see Rotary, C-3 PARK RECORD FILE PHOTO BY SCOTT SINE This year's mucking and drilling competitions won't be as funky as the rest of the events, remaining relatively unchanged from last year's. The event will take place in City Park at 1:30 p.m. on Miners Day. Slick sheepdog contest taking center stage A delight for dog-lovers, Soldier Hollow Classic runs this weekend Bruce Babbitt reading at The King's English in Oct. On Oct. 15 at 1 p.m. former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt will do a reading and book signing at The King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City. The event will feature Babbitt's new book, "Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America." The book calls for a national philosophy of land use to help combat problems like sprawl and wilderness preservation. For more information about the event, visit www.kingsenglish.com. COURTESY OF THE SOLDIER HOLLOW CLASSIC Former national champion sheepdog handler Bruce Fogt, of Sidney, Ohio, works with his dog, Del, in last year's Soldier Hollow Classic Sheepdog Competition finals. This year's event takes place this weekend, Sept. 2-5. By MATT JAMES Of the Record staff The Soldier Hollow Classic is all about the sheep. Event director Mark Petersen summed it up just like that. "The conceptualization was that everything falls under the umbrella of this event would be associated with the great sheepherding cultures of the world," he said. In the displays there would be representations, he noted, from Mexican, Navajo, Greek, English. American, Irish and Scottish cultures. 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