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Show The Park Record A-18 ANNOUNCING THE OPENING OF PARK CITY DERMATOLOGY I am pleased to announce the opening of my dermatology practice in Park City. My family and I have been part-time residents for 8 years and are excited to become full time members of this wonderful community. I've been in private practice and a staff physician for Scripps Health in San Diego since finishing dermatology residency at UCSD in 1991. More information about me and the services I provide can be found at www.doctorkern.com My new office is located at 2700 W. Homestead Road, #30. The office phone number is 658-1013. My family and I look forward to meeting you soon. Steven M. Kern, M.D. Please Help Us This Christmas! I You can give a delicious Christmas dinner to a hungry and homeless person for $1.57. Salt Lake City Mission will serve turkey and dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, corn, a roll and a big piece of pumpkin pie. Your help will also provide clean clothes, spiritual encouragement and so much more to each person. We expect to serve 8,000 meals this Christmas season. G $15.70 for 10 hungry and homeless people O S31.40 for 20 hungry and homeless people CD $47.10 for 30 hungry and homeless people D $62.80 for 40 hungry and homeless people G $157.00 for 100 hungry and homeless people G Other $ ' Cost ore approximate, include operation expenses and mny be used to for projLrams lo help the homeless throughout the year. Not affiliated with the Reicue Mission of Salt Lake Name ' Address K.J- _Apt._ City/State/Zip_ . . --'-.-ji Salt Lake City Mission A good meal is often the first step to a new life! P.O. Box 142 You will receive a tax-deductible receipt. Salt Lake City, UT 84110-0142 Please mail your gift today! for more info visit our web site at www.saltlakecitymission.org. l.PR Better than anything under the tree. Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, December 3-6, 2005 MORE DOGS O N M A I N STREET By Tom Clyde • The Harvard Alumni Association get lots of interesting junk mail. I have a box at have been sucked out of my computer in the process. After a day or two, I began to get concerned. So I the Main Street Post Office and also get delivery at my house in the hinterlands. The mass mailers called the credit card company's security department. sort by ZIP codes, and so the catalogs in the two That was both a model of efficiency and creepiness. • locations are pretty different. Northern Hydraulic is Maybe more creepy than anything. The woman on a favorite in the Woodland mailbox. The selection in the 800 number could have been in Boston or Park City has been pretty lame the last little while, Bombay. She was very helpful. After a few questions but I think that's because any time I buy from a cat- to verify who I was, she brought up the account on alog, it ends up at the home address, and so the box her computer, and we started to verify the charges. I like the convenience of using the credit card and had in town is gradually falling off the lists. The most unusual solicitation I've had in awhile been out Christmas shopping, so it was a long list. was a letter from the Harvard Alumni Association With a level of detail that I could not have reconreminding me that it was time to renew my member- structed myself, she retraced my life for the prior ship. This is interesting on a number of fronts, but month. She knew every store I had been in, where I filled mostly because I have never attended Harvard. I probably had the grades to get in, and they run some the car with gas, how much the muffler on the truck kind of affirmative action program for people raised cost, where I had purchased things online or over the by wolves on the frontier (i.e. west of Springfield). phone. The protocol was that she would read off the But the fact is that I have a deep-seated distrust of charges, and I was supposed to tell her whether they legitimate or not. • "Amazon.com?" anything east of Denver, and have always regarded were Harvard as the incestuous breeding ground for an "Legitimate." "Chevron?" "Yes." "Target?" "That's American aristocracy mine." She got them that we'd be better off all -- the bookstores, without. So had I gone / was busily entering my credit the bike sh°Ps* car out of state for college, a ' ' it certainly would not card number, pin number, mother's maidenwash, Netflix. There were a few I had to have been to Harvard. name, etc. when I suddenly thought better stop and think about. But now, without £ u A ii -i A i •! J - J i*. £ ti ££ But she was able to ever having to rub of it As a Harvard Alumni, I didn t fall off provide details and it more jogged shoulders with the my effete eastern estabmemory. the turnip truck yesterday." lishment, I am being I didn't ask, but I bet she could have asked to renew my M^^H^^B^M^^H^^M •MI^^^H^^HM^^^^^H told me what books I membership to the Harvard Alumni bought. If you ever Association. I read in the paper the other day that an need an alibi, you might try getting your credit card Ivy League degree typically adds 20 percent to life- company to reconstruct your life for you. "I couldtime earnings. I could certainly use a 20. percent raise n't possibly have been at the-scene of the murder at (which is hard to do without actually having a job). So 1:05 because, according to the Visa card security there is nothing to lose by becoming a Harvard people, I was at the Factory Outlet mall in the Nike Alumni. It would look pretty good on a resume - store at 12:58 and checking out at Pearl Izumi at member Harvard Alumni Association. Never mind 1:20." the details of not having attended. We went down the list. "Quiznos?" she asked with Actually, I did go to Harvard once. I was in distain for anybody who would have charged a $6 Boston and got off the subway at the station that sandwich. "Yes. I hadn't been to the ATM yet." serves the campus. I walked around the general "Home Depot?" "Yes, that's legitimate." "Well, the neighborhood for a while before it started to rain. only one left is a charge to the Harvard Alumni The place was crawling with students with purple Association." She sounded suspicious of that one. hair, pierced noses, and attitude. WASPS gone wild. "Well, that is absolutely legitimate." If that is the future leadership of the country, we are So my account seems to be safe and sound. But in deep doo-doo. Maybe that was enough to qualify knowing that the computers at Visa have my life me for membership in the Harvard Alumni more fully mapped out than I do myself is just plain Association. creepy. Add in the checking account, the phone bill I don't know where they get their information. and a few others, and before long, you get the sense But it's out there. Last week, I stupidly fell for one that Big Brother is watching - from a microchip of those e-mail "phishing" things that appeared to be somewhere inside you. With all those computers cona request from a business I deal with asking me to nected, which they are through credit rating services verify account information. I have ignored dozens of and elsewhere, the whole concept of personal privathem, but this one looked official. I was busily enter- cy is gone. ing my credit card number, pin number, mother's But you don't have to be a Harvard alum to know maiden name, etc. when I suddenly thought better of that. it. As a Harvard Alumni, I didn't fall off the turnip Tom Clyde is a former city attorney and author of truck yesterday. So I cleared all the fields and delet"More Dogs on Main Street. "He has been a columnist ed it. But I had no idea how much information might for The Park Record for 19 years. 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But take, December, the whole thing feels romantic, in a liter- for example, the garden tools I really meant to store ary sense. Those Camelot lyrics always come to in the garage before now. The tools themselves are no mind... "The winter is forbidden 'til December, and longer visible. In their place there is a kind of soft exits March the second on the dot. By order, summer sculpture piece, fluffy and white with varying heights. The roof of each birdhouse is heavily frosted and lingers through September, in Camelot." This fall the snow pretty much stayed away. The looks like a shoveling should be in order. The trees, Canyons and Park City Mountain Resort opened with bare and slightly boring just days ago, are now lacy manmade and limited natural stuff in November but doilies in the yard, while a kind of spotty patchwork not with the depth of terrain they had last season. carpet of snow on the walkway is broken up by the After this week, however, Deer Valley will join the spots where it has been packed down. The bushes mix and all three resorts will have feet, yes feet, of the look like giant snowballs or marshmallows, depending upon how hungry I am. fluffy stuff. Then there is the lawn... no longer a reminder that "Do you ski?" A business associate from Chicago asked me last evening I'm the only one on and I had to think how " the block without to answer. I lived at sprinklers, it is now • • Then there is the lawn,., no beautiful and Lake Tahoe for 10 just as longer a reminder that I'm the only one on thoroughly white as years in the '70s and I skied all the time. my neighbor's. the block without sprinklers, it is now Though Cross-country moonlit mine has this beautiful and just as thoroughly white as really interesting patevenings. Alpine downhill with the kids. tern of crisscrosses in my neighbor's/' Their father was a ski the yard. The deer are instructor and his idea still coming at night and emptying the bird of a fun ski day was to ••^^•"^^^^•^^^•" ^^"^^•^^•••^"••^^^ feeders. I added corn be the first and last on the lifts and pack your own lunch. When I left Tahoe and alfalfa in a couple of spots, tob. I know, I know, and the marriage behind and moved here, the kids everyone from Ted Warr to Shauna Kerr has told me and I skied a bunch those first years. Then my daugh- I will regret this come spring, when they shear the ter took to ice skating and my son to double-diamond, tops of the tulips, but right now I love having them as very black runs with his friends, who went on to animated lawn ornaments. In a way I can't explain, become members of the U.S. Ski Team. I would ski a they make me feel safe. In the morning, when I go out to grab the paper, I handful of times a year with friends but I was woefully out-of-date with my gear and apparel. I bought can see my breath and though I know better, I try to snowshoes and found them, well, not so much fun. make little rings with it. I haven't seen my wool jackEventually, I just bought big fat winter boots and et that looks like a Navajo blanket for months and so now it feels kinda new and kinda like an old friend, enjoyed walking on all the great trails. Last season, my son decided to take his daughter too. An old friend I am grateful can't talk, I should up to the ski hill to gauge her interest. We went to add... The gloves are cozy and the scarves and hairDeer Valley and my job was to buy the cookies and hating hats are ready for yet another season of prococoa. But I wore those heavy boots and armed with tecting extremities. In the car I like the rhythm of the wipers and my my camera walked around the lower area and snapped pictures of Mz Iz sliding down the hill. This fancy button that defrosts the back window without summer when we were outdoors walking around me scraping it dry with a credit card. Yes, somewhere in the garage I have a box of ice scrapers and I will Deer Valley, the chairlifts were running. "Next winter, when I ski again Oma, I want to ride find them, probably when I unpack the Christmas decorations. But for this week anyway, I'm probably on the chairlift." better off using my credit card to push snow than to I nodded. pile up gifts. "With you." And I couldn't think of a good excuse to tell her Soon enough, I will be looking for blue sky to why not. So I smiled and said, "And I want to ride bounce off the white mountains. I'm hoping those are with you." Which pretty much means, I'll be skiing, the days Mz Iz wants me to ski with her. But for now, albeit on the bunny slopes, again this winter. I think the idea of big, fat flakes falling outside for a But this entire Walter Middy moment happened while could make for a pretty near perfect Sunday in while this guy was waiting for me to answer whether the Park... or not I skied. So I said, "A little bit," and left it at Teri Orr is a former editor of The Park Record and that. He did not ask if I made snow angels - still in my director of the Park City Performing Arts Center. 4 |