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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, November 2-4, 2005 The Park Record B-12 III FIRST WESTERN | MORTGAGE I Residential and Commercial Loans First Western Mortgage can help make your vacation destination the place you call home. We recognize the importance of speed and that loans must often be structured around each client's unique set of financial circumstances. We have been providing creative funding solutions and lightning fast service throughout America since 1983. Construction Loans • Lot Loans • Primary • Second Homes • Investment Properties THINK FIRST!!! FIRST WESTERN MORTGAGE (435) 647-0000 WWWJIESORTLENDING.COM WWWJPARKCTTYLOANS.COM 1245 DEER VALLEY DRIVE 84060 PARK CITY, UTAH Steve Honeywell • Dan Margolis • Brady Hartzog • Jeff Creveling • Kim Dainton • Daren Wilde • Fran Naro by Betsy Marston The West If you like nothing better than a good pun, check out the "Endangered Feces" T-shirt that's advertised on several Web sites for environmentally oriented companies. Twenty scats from wild animals are pictured on the front of the shirt, including the substantial contribution of a grizzly bear, the dainty deposits of a New Mexican ridge-nosed rattlesnake and the curvaceous droppings of a black-footed ferret. The West A different kind of T-shirt got an airline traveler in a whole lot of trouble recently. Lorrie Heasley of Woodland, Wash., thought she'd give her parents a laugh when she got off a plane at Portland, Ore. So she chose a shirt that featured photos of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condolceza Rice, along with a motto similar to the title of the movie Meet the Fockers. "I thought it was hilarious," she said. She neve/ got the chance to find out if her parents agreed, because she never arrived at the airport. During a layover in Reno, Nev., some passengers complained to employees of Southwest Airlines that her T-shirt was offensive. Heasley agreed to cover up with a sweatshirt, but after it slipped, "she was ordered to wear her Tshirt inside out, or leave." reports the Reno Gazette-Journal. That tore it: Heasley, 32, a lumber saleswoman, walked off the plane rapids on the Salmon River. The cave developer is Richard Zimmerman, a former construction worker known as "Dugout Dick" ,to locals in nearby Salmon. A loner, Zimmerman has spent decades carving out a dozen or so caves that extend up to 100 feet into the hillside. Now he's decided that it's time to stop digging and start promoting tourism in this remote mountain area. Two tourists - one from England and one from Spain - have tried a cave stay, but they failed to relish the experience, Reuters reports. "It's not for everyone," Zimmerman but "I expect caves are definitely not fancy: They lack the trade willadmits, pick up any time electricity and offer few amenities besides wood now." stoves and mattresses. But they are cheap, renting Wyoming Vandals struck the night before for $5 a night or just $25 a month. a home tour opened in Jackson Hole, stealing 40 signs and changing the words on some from "Parade of Homes" to "Parade of pronounce. If a federal board the cheers of some 1,000 watchers. Wealth." Many of the homes cost approves, for example, Squaw Privies come from all over for the $1 million or more, according to Creek near the town of Sisters will event. And the winner for 2005? the Jackson Hole News A Guide. become Whychus Creek, derived The Oletyme Classic, beating by a Betsy Marston is editor of from "the place we cross the nose (tightly held between two' Writers on the Range, a service of water" in Sahaptin, one of the lan- fingers) the Urinator. High Country News in Paonia, guages of the Warm Springs Idaho Colo, (hcn.org). Tips of Western tribes. Other Native American An 89-ycar-old man in central oddities are always .appreciated jiames on tap: Qochyax, pro- Idaho with a penchant for digging and often shared in the column, nounced "coke-yaw," and has begun to rent out caves to Heard around the West. Moohoo,oo, which sounds exactly tourists. The caves are definitely like what it is, the Paiute word for not fancy: They lack electricity owl. Maret Pajutee, the Forest and offer few amenities besides Service ecologist leading the wood stoves and mattresses. But agency's effort to rename sites in they are cheap, renting for $5 a central Oregon, says . of. night or jusl, $25 a month, and they Moohoo.oo Mountain: "Some have a nice view overlooking with her husband. Next time, she says, she'll pick a different airline. Oregon A 25-member Geographic Names Board has begun eliminating the word "squaw" - a word offensive to many tribes -- from 180 places in Oregon, as mandated by the state Legislature in 2001. 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Those who are unable to attend may e-mail their comments'to krogers@utah.gov. For more information, please contact Wilson Martin at (801) 533-3552 or Alycia Aldrich at (801) 5333556. |