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Show 1 The Park Record Sat/Sun/Moh/Tues, November 4-7, 2006 A-21 "i SUNDAY IN THE PARK By Teri Orr HOVEY IA right and a privilege and good sport besides... n this off election year, feeling off seems to be the the horizon. I'm sorry if this threatens your second one constant. We aren't voting for a president, cousin's job in the courthouse. We can no longer afford though I wish we could. We are not voting for a governor, the lack of oversight and the lack of cohesion between which is fine since this one seems to be doing a departments. Now here's what I want to vote for and against. I want respectable job. We're not for or against abortion rights, gay marriage or the re-instatement of the draft. Those are to vote Rush Limbaugh off the airwaves. He is mean with issues that might actually motivate folks to head to the a bad drug problem and he no longer deserves the privipolls. lege of insulting decent people who are fighting for their In town, we aren't voting for a mayor because we lives and trying to find cures for ^eal (not self-inflicted) illagreed last time around no one even needed to run nesses. (See Michael J. Fox). I want to vote against against Dana since he was doing such a good job. There Donald Rumsfeld. And really, dont you want to, too? I is only one school district race out in Pinebrook with two dont want to hear any more from John Kerry and I don't gentlemen who seem to be evenly matched. No new think I'll need to worry about him being in the running council members are running for a spot in City Hall for anything I would vote for, anytime soon. I think I though everyone could name at least one who could be would have liked the opportunity to vote for Colin comfortably replaced. Powell. I heard him speak years ago in Atlanta and he Instead, we are having a rather pedestrian election. A was most impressive. Maybe he could run with Barack few items on the ballot to vote for and against. Some, like Obama. What an interesting ticket that would make. Locally, I have wanted, for nearly two decades, to be the Open Space Bond in Park City are pretty easy. We love our open space and if we want to keep those vistas, able to vote to make Main Street a pedestrian mall. You we need to pay for them. To spend $20 million dollars could still run the trolley up Swede Alley for those who now will help preserve some of that space and that price need assistance with our steep street. And you dont need will look like a steal in any plaza in Swede Alley. just a few short years. No asphalt gathering Remember the $5 milplace. Find some fab • • We are governed by those who undeveloped dirt parcel lion dollars the city spent not so long ago on the show up... All over the world, people are and spend some of that old Osguthorpe barn? open space money and dying to be just like us... voters." What would that cost create a genuine park with today or what kind of grass and trees and a piece of Poison Creek (has it entry corridor statement ^ • • • ^ ^ • • • • ^ ^ • ^ • • ^ ^ really been renamed would we make if the ^ ^ ^ ^ • • ^ ^ ^ • ^ ^ • ^ • ^ Silver Creek?) And make space had been gobbled up by someone who wanted to build little boxes on that someplace restful and lush. A hospital at Quinn's Junction? Couldnt we vote on hillside? And where would the elk be this month? that? If I need critical care, I just want the ambulance or (They've been hangin' in that meadow late at night.) And the sandhill cranes and the baby eagle I spied there in late life flight to get me to Salt Lake City where some of the August? Where indeed. Voting for open space increases top surgeons and specialists in the country already work. Now a 24-hour emergency center in the area, I could get everybody's property values and their quality of life. The change of governance is probably the most con- behind that. Could we vote on the wine the new liquor store will tentious issue of the local election season and I dont understand why, other than for some people any change carry in their terrific location next to Dan's Market? As a is scary. This step ahead would allow us to elect more California-born girl who had relatives in the wine country, folks to serve and share in that joy of governing but also, I have a few ideas. Here's the one true thing I know for sure. For a very hopefully, represent more of our diverse community. They would all still be paid at a kind of minimum wage long time in this country, many of us weren't allowed to given the ugly hours they put in, just as the three current vote, either because of our gender or because of our race. commissioners are. But here's the smart part - they Today there are no excuses for not at least honoring all would hire someone who would work for them full-time those folks who fought so hard to make that "liberty and and that person would come to work each day and be justice for all" stuff ring true. In the end, I may argue with responsible for the business of our county. A county that you about who or what you voted for, but I will always has a $44 million dollar a year budget, which is very big respect that you voted. The No Vote/No Voice committee business indeed. A county of nearly 36,000 people, whose is an exciting new entity helping to get folks to the polls incomes are derived from tourism, both recreational and this year. Thank you to all the civic-minded folks working cultural, and agriculture and retail and restaurants and on this message. Myles Rademan always likes to say, "we are governed doctors and lawyers and real estate agents, oh my! The only real fear we hear about is from people who fear pro- by those who show up." Show up this week. Vote. All fessionalism. Backslapping government with layers of over the world, people are dying to be just like us... votelbow nudging and winking is far more appealing to folks ers. And just think, by this time next week, the whole drill who like living in the mushroom world of government. will be done, and we can return to the fall pause between We cant afford that kind of government anymore. We The Seasons, which is a thing of beauty on so many days, need to hire a professional manager who is experienced even a bipartisan Sunday in the Park... Teri Orr is a former editor of The Park Record and in running a large city/county to make this county step up, director of the Park City Performing Arts Center. not only to the current challenges of growth but those on I xperts say you must hear a name or product 7 times before you remember it and use it... 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