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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, November 2-4, 2005 The Park Record A-16 MeojMgm CORE SAMPLES 5S0 Main SlrocI P;irk Cily InsiiL' ilic Galleria Mull 435-647-06SH By Jay Meehan • Cowpokes and wordplay Park City's Authentic Vietnamese Cuisine A HEALTHIER CHOICE IN ASIAN DINING FREE DINNER ENTREE When you purchase another entrfe of equal or greater value Present this coupon to your server when you order. Limit one coupon per table. \ Not valid with lunch or sunset special. Available for dine-in only. \ Expires November 30th, 2005 Open 11:30-2:00pm & 5:30 pm - Close NOWM • Engineered for Park City Climate • Automatic Sensor • High Efficiency • Maintenance Free • Cost Effective • Commercial/Residential Save Your Back... Get SnowMelt! EXCITING NEW STAMPED DRIVEWAY DESIGNS! Stamped Concrete Is Our Beauty...Quality Craftsmanship Is Our Business Call Diamond Keystone Construction Now at 801-272-3155 30 Years of Experience. Licence #371147 A Chef's Dream Home $825,000 Custom home located in Ranch Place with views of The Canyons 1 1 2771 Square Feet 1 Three large bedrooms, three baths, office with closet On .40 acre lot backing to open space Radiant heat Hot Tub Built in sound systems 'Wolfcommercial gas stove and convection oven 1 Delfield commercial refrigerator / freezer 1 Maple cutting board island Call 615.7690 for an Appointment Make A ••-"•,* (at the Park City Racquet Club) Save 20% 3, 6$ or 12 Month Facility Passes On Sale November, 2005 Discounted 3 Month 6 Month 12 Month Prices Single $106 $188 $328 Couple $188 $340 $584 As is usually the case this time of year, Heber is "cowboy poet" telegraphs his punch-lines before all a-swagger. It's the Cowboy Poetry Gathering he rolls out of bunkhduse and, in Raymond and Buckaroo Fair that's got the chaps a-swayin' Chandler's words, "is about as subtle as a tarantuand spurs a-janglin'. These annual exhibitions of la on a slice of angelfood," Ben is not of that herd. the Western folk arts have grown to become a pret- Not that these guys aren't as funny as* all get out and don't structure their work so as to best serve ty big deal. So big a deal, in fact, that many of the same their tall tales - it's just that, as they say around cowboy singers and poets who are headliners at the the poker table, most of them- have "tells." The national gathering in Elko each January, now seem closer they get to the punch line, the more obvious to find their way to Heber Valley during the payoff. With Ben, the art is more about "flow" November. And they seldom arrive alone. Most than "craft." Feeling and timing and balance are often, there is a coterie of gourmet "dutch-oven" also what make poetry matter. hash-slingers, horse therapists, and under-theNow Glenn Ohrlin, while being cut from very radar night-herdin' songsters. similar cloth, is a different kind of bard. Virtually a I had to work my way down the marquee a bit cowboy all his life, he left home at 16 to ride broncs before arriving at the names I was looking for. on the rodeo circuit and has been running a cow Scuttlebutt had it that longtime Heber local Ben outfit in the Ozarks since before Gene Autry met Quinters would be back from his ranch in the his first schoolmarm. Bitterroot Valley of Montana to run a "colt starting A repository of cowboy lore and traditions, he clinic'1-and that Glenn can spin yarns and, as Ohrlin, a campfire an illustrator of note, crooner who oncedraw cowboys and • • Much of Ben's success with those their paraphernalia upon-a-time played the Kimball Art large equine mammals comes from the with the best of them. Center with the But it is as a perfact that he became a "horse listener." former of the cowboy Deseret String Band, would also be showing His head and heart are very much songs, range ballads, up. stories, and poems he As anyone who has involved. It's about knowledge and intu- has collected over that he is best ever crossed their ition. He never really had much trouble .time known. paths would quickly being 'at-one-with'most anything that tell you, Quinters and His highly eclecOhrlin are the real tic body of work concame with a respiratory system." deal. Ben rode into tains many old tunes Heber from San wmmmmm^^^^^^^^^m ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ I ^ M ^ B B H that came west Antone back in the day between 1875 and with a knack of speaking directly to the interior 1925 - old ballads and sentimental refrains. component of both horse and human. There ain't Glenn also tosses out hobo ditties, jukebox hits and long lost songs of what one might term a much artifice hangin' off Ohrlin, either. . Cutting a swath both gentle and genuine, it did- bawdy and suggestive nature. The man is a nationn't take Ben long to gain quite a reputation locally al treasure. as a horse trainer, salsa fancier, and dance-floor Back during that aforementioned evening at hoofer. He wrangled words as only a caballero- the Kimball Art Center, the memory is of an effortpoet could - running nothing but a short string of less guitar-backed singing style with a voice featurthe most apropos bloodlines at any one time. His ing more flavor than accent. Ramblin' anecdotes eyes did most of the talking'. added to the easy-goin' campfire ambiance to the Ben's evolution continued unabated during his point where, following most' punch lines, you 20-year stay in Hebertown. Adopting the "natural would want to sail a tomato in his direction and, at horsemanship" methods learned from legendary the same time, give him a big hug. What a piece of mentors Ray Hunt and Tom Durrance, he began to work. "gentle" horses rather than "break" them. This So there you have it - hunkered down and walparticular brand of equine behavior modification is lowin' in the livestock lifestyle are a couple of what makes his "colt starting" clinics so popular. highly literate examples of western folklife both in Keeping his innate love of both literature and the the stirrup and at the end of lasso. Ben and Glen wider cultural world hidden beneath his wide- are part of that understated, yet creatively powerbrimmed cowboy hat, however, proved a bit more ful, sub-culture of rancher-writer-performers who difficult. Again, 'twas the eyes that gave him fit rather comfortably under the wide-ranging away... and the smile. There was always this "shy- umbrella that is "cowboy poetry." ness" component you had to work through. Art is as art does, and I don't know if I've ever Much of Ben's success with those large equine witnessed more virtuosity-as-lifestyle than when, mammals comes from the fact that he became a from my long-ago living room in Woodland, with "horse listener." His head and heart are very much hands wrapped around a coffee mug and, in a involved. It's about knowledge and intuition. He trance, watching a cloudburst fast become a gully never really had much trouble being "at-one-with" washer, I witnessed Ben Quinters and Bob Kassow most anything that came with a respiratory system. gallop past the window with raincoats flappin,' The gospel according to Ben involves "recog- grins spreadin' and hoots hollerin". nizing what is going on inside the horse by learning They had ridden over the hills from Heber and to read the outside of the horse. True horseman- got caught in the monsoon and'wouldn't mind if ship is understanding why horses think and behave they could tie up their mounts, come in and sit a the way they do and learning to see yourself spell, and listen to some "Sons of the Pioneers", through the horse's eyes. Perfecting the art of feel, while their clothes dried and their outsides got timing and balance requires awareness and prac- warm by the potbelly. As I recall, their insides got tice." Glad I don't have problems in that area. tended to with some firewater from that special cabThen there is Ben Quinters in the role of cow- inet just off the kitchen. You could probably hear boy-with-a-poetic-sensibility. Whereas your basic the "yippee ki yi yays" all the way back to Heber. GUEST EDITORIAL Dangerous omissions regarding the list By MARIA ESTRADA-RAMSAY and ANGELINA CASTAGNO Salt Lake City This is in response to the recently publicized Park City Police's "most dangerous known criminal suspects" list. We have chosen to expose the omissions from both the list and the response from the public we have seen so far in order to illustrate that there is always another side to the story. The story that white powerful members of the community chose to tell is the most often told story; the one that perpetuates myths of Latino people as viblent and white people as blameless. We want to ask, why is it that only particular people get to name this issue of crime and safety? Why is it that only they get to frame it as being about Latinos? And most disturbingly, why are they the ones with easy access to the technologies that work to build our collective ideas of "the way things are?" As a Latina woman and a white woman, we are choosing to talk back and break the silence because our families and friends and their well being in this community are at stake. Also, by talking back we want to undermine the picture being painted that we are "problems" in the community. By standing up and letting our voices be heard we are also saying that we won't sit back and take it anymore. Yes, there might be a small percentage .of the Latino population involved in crime. The silence here is that the majority of Latinos in the community (Salt Lake and surrounding areas) are not only law-abiding and hard-working, they are quite frankly overworked, and they provide the underpaid labor that allows the community to function and affords it most of its amenities. The list is long: Latinos have helped in building the state's infrastructure; they keep constructing the beautiful houses in Park City and its landscaping; they cook the meals in most of the restaurants; make the beds and clean the bathrooms in luxurious hotels; and a few of us lucky ones have many times wrested precious opportunities from a, selfish system to come to the university and become teachers, civil rights lawyers, social workers and the like. We read in frustration that seven of the top-10 most dangerous suspected criminals in Park City are wanted for drug distribution. We agree with the report in that this is indeed a dangerous crime. The silence here is that supply emerges to satisfy the voracious demand on the other side of this criminal equation. Why is it that only the suppliers are "top-10 criminals" and not the predominantly white consumers'? Do either really belong in this "most wanted" category, or have choices been made to target crimes more often perpetrated by people of color? In this light. Park City Police Chief Lloyd Evans' explanation, that, "The only reason why certain segments of the population might end up on a list like this is the transient nature of their lifestyle" can only be interpreted as racist. What lifestyle then encourages insatiable and reckless appetites for drugs, we ask, and isn't that one just as reprehensible? But we disagree with. Evans. The transient lifestyle of many of the migrant workers that sustain the local economy is in part due to the tremendous demand in our economy for cheap labor. In this economic model the prevailing wages are ones people cannot live on. Within the logic of this model, workers have no access to benefits or social security. Perhaps the inherent cruelty of a system that benefits from exploitation and finds convenient ignoring the plight of the many it exploits might have something to do with that now-infamous, top-10 list. Finally, we find this tidbit telling; If out of the 705 people arrested in 2004 in Park City, 539 (76.4 percent) were Anglos, while 159 (22.5 percent) were Latinos, four were Asians and three were African-Americans, how in the world do whites end up unrepresented on the top-10 list and simply, again, as the victims? Don't flirt with this date. 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