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Show Neither rata, nor hail, mo cm stop the Park City'O r sleet ctoberfes Ihe Newspaper Thursday, October 8, Vue . It's becoming a Park City tradition: Oktoberfest and rain. For the second straight year, inclement weather forced the Oktoberfest celebrations out of the Tent and into drier (and warmer) surroundings. However, like last year, the weather hardly put a damper on the mood of the Oktoberfestivities. Between about noon and 9:30 p.m. Sunday, the Memorial Building gym was packed with beer drinkers, nail drivers, polka dancers, Muckers and a combination of the above as Park City made the most of its third annual Oktoberfest celebration. cele-bration. Nobody kept a head count, but Annie Bowman of the Park City Recreation Department Depart-ment said that more than 700 steins were sold, 18 kegs of beer consumed and about $3,100 collected during the event. Although the beer drinking started much earlier, Burgermeister Gus Brandt officially opened the festivities about 2:30 p.m. by tapping a keg of Lowenbrau which he said had been flown in from Germany earlier that day. The tapping of the keg was followed by a series of macho contests which included in-cluded log sawing, nail driving and beer chugging. In the interests of equality, separate competitions were held for men and women. Pam Shepard made short work of her opponents in the women's nail driving and log sawing, winning both events easily. Mark Case was a cut above the competition in the men's log sawing, and Robin Valline; decked out in leiderhosen for the event, pounded his way to first place in the men's nail driving. Then came the beer Chug-ging-event. In the men's category, local attorney (and sometimes Newspaper correspondent) J. Bruce Savage came out on top by downing a stein of beer faster than anyone else. Following his win, Savage chastized the Newspaper photographer for not being present at the magic moment. He said he wanted a photo to send to his grandmother. In the women's beer-chugging beer-chugging contest, defending champion Alice Marden was an easy winner for the second consecutive year. Then came the battle of the sexes: Savage, looking the part with a slight gut protruding from underneath his sweatshirt, against Marden, Mar-den, tall and lean, hardly fitting fit-ting the stereotype of the veteran drinker. It was no contest. As the photo shows, Marden downed her beer without spilling a drop and was examining her empty stein while Savage was still laboring with the contents of his, rivers of beer flowing onto his sweatshirt. So here's one for your grandmother, Bruce. Shortly after 5 p.m., Horst Fiedel and the Bavarians rolled into town. As most residents are aware, Horst and his henchmen are best known for their traditional tunes: music to polka and drink beer by. But the group got a rise out of the party-goers party-goers by throwing in a couple of more contemporary contem-porary tunes such as the Oak Ridge Boys' recent hit, "Elvira." Then came the dance contests. Actually, the polka contest was no contest. Chuck and Suzanne Rowan, proprietors of the Edelweiss House, put the competition to shame. They ended by giving a demonstration for their admiring onlookers. Less sophisticated, but no less challenging, was the orange dance, which required two dancers to hold an orange between their foreheads, without going crosseyed, as the tempo of the music increased. Dan Cazier and Sue Mormando emerged as the winners, perhaps because they were less juiced than their op ponents. Those who couldn't make it to the Memorial Building but chose to stay at home and listen to the candidate debates on KPCW got the flavor of the festivities anyway. Strains of the Bavarian music could be heard in the background as the candidates flung barbs at each other. Horst and his band packed up their instruments about 8:30 and the last party-goers drifted out of the building about an hour later. Bruce Henderson, director of the Park City Recreation Department, calculated that there was about $1,200 profit after all the bills were paid. A portion of that will go to the Park City Muckers, who poured the beer. Other proceeds will be shared among the Cafe Ritz (which sold food), the popcorn con-cessionnaire, con-cessionnaire, and Ihe Recreation Department. mm mmmm im "- - ""J ' mm i : : : : : : v v ' 1 1 i i ymmsmmmFyw r- 4?,ML- .-V.'-':-' f it - II i ' Mia c i' If Li ABOVE: Alice Marden puts Bruce Savage to shame in beer-chugging contest. RIGHT: Sawing a two-by-four can be a challenging feet. BELOW: Dottie and Roy Reynolds share a quiet moment with an orange. LEFT: Pam Shepard (center) wasn't too hammered to win the nail driving contest. 4 fx -Xj' ' " -7 5 ! 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