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Show the city. The city began to perk up and clean up. In 1962 the Park City Land and Development Company, a subsidiary sub-sidiary of United Park City Mining Co., applied for a million dollar federal grant from the Area Redevelopment Administration to create a resort. With the million dollars from the federal government and $650,000 and 10,000 acres from United Park, a golf course and a ski mountain were developed. It was boom time again. The city has sputtered and sparked since that time but it has maintained an upward course. As for the present, Park City is extremely healthy and the prognosis for the future is more than promising. The town is beginning to tap its potential as a complete year-round recreationalresidential community com-munity and is taking great pains to add the new without diluting the old. A revised zoning ordinance has been adopted to control the pace of development while preserving the charm and flavor of its historic section.And summer is no longer a time of hibernation for local merchants. The Park City Racquet Club, the Alpine Slide, the Holiday Inn, and the Prospector Prospec-tor Square Ski and Conference Center have added greatly to a warm weather trade that is up markedly over previous years. There's Stardust in town, too. Schick-Sunn Classic Productions, creators of many highly successful suc-cessful films and televisions series, has made Park City its Utah home. The coming attractions are also very encouraging. Well on its way to reality is another ski and summer resort in Deer Valley that will double the town's skier capacity. Designed as a high-quality facility, the Deer Valley resort will feature four separate communities (three on the mountain), an extensive sports complex, an equestrian center and numerous other amenties. The project will be phased over 15 years and the total ski and residental development costs are expected to exceed $150 million. And one of golf's greatest names, Jack NicV-'aus, came to Park City last year to announce he will be designing a course for the Park Meadows Country Club. Nicklaus will build a home here and will oversee the design, construction con-struction and maintenance of the new championship course. Other additions now on the drawing boards or in progress include in-clude the Union Pacific. Depot project at the north end of Main Street, a new shopping center near the Holiday Inn and the expanded ex-panded Silver King Convention Center. No matter which verb tense is used past, present or fur-ture-the adjectives are "exciting" "ex-citing" and "enjoyable". Park City is a nice place to visit but it's a better place to live. Whippersnapper Wonder Show While thousands mob Main Streeet at this year's Arts Festival, kids will be treated to their own festival at the "Whip-persnapper "Whip-persnapper Wonder Show" in City Park. This will be the first year for a kid's festival, and it will be sponsored spon-sored by the Kimball Art Center with assistance from Schick Sunn Classic Pictures. The Whipper-snapper Whipper-snapper Wonder Show will begin Saturday, August 4, and continue through Sunday, running concurrently con-currently with the traditional exhibitor days on Main Street. "We hope this approach will be more fun for the kids," said Wonder Won-der Show coordinator Judy Taylor. "This will be a hands-on approach and will give the kids an opportunity oppor-tunity to participate on their own level in art and music . " Featured at the kids show will be art activities, including painting, paint-ing, pottery, sculpture, weaving, leather carving, wood block printing print-ing and macrame. "For instance, there will be a weaver who will bring his wool to show the kids how to weave," Mrs Taylor said. "A carder will spin the wool, another person will dye h X I t ' x' tut ' i t i ' , i it V m l s " f it, and the kids will help weave." There will be live performances between noon and 5 p.m. both days and will include mime Greg Goldston, guitarists David Lopez and Andrea Metos, the Youth Percussion Band, Eastern Onion, the Park City Players with Don Gomes, an energy puppet show sponsored by the League of Women Voters, the Salt Lake Chamber Winds, storytelling with Carol Marriot, the Utah Opera Company, and the Dave Bates Silver Creek Fiddle Band, featuring a six-year-old fiddler. Adding extra entertainment at the Whippersnapper Wonder Show will be pony rides, thanks to the Jaycee Women's Auxiliary and food booths by the Park City Preschool, the Youth Soccer League, and the Park City Swimming Pool Fund. The Wonder Show coordinator said the theme of the kids festival will be old-fashioned and in the pioneer spirit, complete with old hay wagons, a little red schoolhouse and a balloon vendor. "This year we will celebrate the 10th annual Park City Arts Festival," Mrs. Taylor said. "But this is the first year the children have been incorporated into the plans. When people come to the festival, they bring their kids, of course, but a lot of kids get bored trying to see the exhibits on Main Street. We hope to keep them interested in-terested by offering them music and visual arts on their level. It will be a good experience for them and more pleasurable for the parents." Eight Is Not Enough Eight may be enough for some people, but not tor local ceramet John Arenskov. This weekend will mark his octennial celebration of exhibiting in the Park City Arts Festival and he geared up as if it's his premiere. A rose-colored clay dust has settled set-tled over the Arenskov Easy Street studio, and pieces of art are hanging, standing, and lying in soldier neat rows from floor to ceiling in various stages of com-pletness. com-pletness. John's work is a giant step away from the conventionalthere conven-tionalthere will be no typical clay ashtrays and planters at his Main Street booth. Instead, he fashions unique lighting fixtures that have been delicately incised, then highlighted with solid brass hardware. At one end of the studio, brother Pete and his wife Karen spread the earthtone glazes onto the pieces that have been designed and hand thrown by John. By week's end, the trio has put on the finishing touches and assembled an array of pieces that range from $5 carved planters to desk lamps, clocks and a $600 chandelier that has up to eight separate ceramic pieces. In all, more than $10,000 worth of ideas, material and plain hard work will be on display Saturday morning. John's unusual designs are the byproduct of an active imagination and an energy that has made him a self-taught artist. ar-tist. His talent was first awakened in the clay world by another familiar Park City artist, Chris Geer. The pair were once roommates in California, and John remembered remem-bered the day Chris came home with a bag of clay, and the two "started goofing around," pushing the clay into amateurish shapes. For the next three years John became very involved with clay, refining his designs into intricately in-tricately carved faces that soon sported hand thrown bowls and containers on the bottom. He spent a few years working out of studio in Fullerton, then Costa Mesa, and then "I decided it was time to get the hell out of California." Califor-nia." By that time Geer had moved to Park City, as had other friends, and John settled here thre years ago. "Moving to Park City really influenced in-fluenced my work," John reflected. reflec-ted. "I'm doing period lighting right now, which goes well with the Victorian atmosphere in Park City. My things are pretty unique, and in the past, I have sold out at the arts festival." Getting ready for the festival is demanding work. John recently displayed his pieces at the Salt Lake Citv Arts Festival barely a month ago. And although some inventory from that show will be on exhibit Saturday, he has spent the past weeks working 18 to 20 hours a day preparing for this weekend. In addition, he keeps three galleries supplied with his work, including the Kimball Art Center and two shops in Salt Lake. "We're really working hard for this one," John said, centering a piece on the wheel. "I'll take six weeks off after the festival, so every minute we put in now will be worth it in the end. " Continued on Page 10 N 1 V1 Jnhn Arenskov |