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Show i 771 jvw-kn iff i - x v 4t , I -f : vv h 'Vf- V - 1 t "J t f I it. - - v J a - - . . ' o Jit v4, i a wk . t i s H l..1...:.!.:..: ! t ilMAr rf The Newspaper Thursday, December 17, 1W1 fft A Tina Lewis helps, Santa Claus spread Park CitfHristinas blieer At dusk stroll up the hill through the sagebrush and watch the sun set. The light plays across the gentle hills of the golf course, and the brookies In the lake are jumping at flies. The four distinct seasons each bring their own pleasures you can enjoy them all. PARK MEADOWS Hp ' 9 ' ; ft , ji r It I W M4 It's good thing Tina Lewis doesn't have any more energy. Otherwise, we'd have flags, banners and wreaths strewn down 1-80 clear to Salt Lake. Newcomers to Park City know her mainly as a City Councilwoman. But since she moved into town six years ago, she has become known as the city's ace interior and exterior decorator. decora-tor. Her work ranges from Fourth of July flags to a hat for Eliza Doolittle, but her efforts are especially noticed at Christmas, when she seems to be the most tireless of Santa's helpers. Said Debbie Symonds admiringly: ad-miringly: "People who are creative run on a different power level." There are minor legends about the enormous amount of time Lewis can put into a project. "I'm just a nut about any excuse to do something visually beautiful," she said. Her most grueling project, she recalled, was a Salt Lake wedding. She sewed the gown over a period of three days and three nights straight. "I was finishing the hemming as the bridal march started." she said. She can be energetic, she explained, because she's always engrossed in what she does. "You get the energy because there's al ways 14 projects going at once and there's so little time." One of her particular passions, going back to childhood, is sewing. But she hadn't done much of it lately, and loved the opportunity to do Eliza Doolittle's costumes for this fall's production of "My Fair Lady." "I put in a blitz," she said. "For a week before the opening, I sewed 20 hours a day, and towards the end I worked 48 hours straight. I was still fitting dresses on Eliza opening night, and I finished sewing a hat during intermission." But Lewis really goes into hyper-space at Christmas, a season she said she has always loved. "I was married mar-ried at Christmas." One of her Yuletide projects was the enormous Christmas tree in the lobby of the Holiday Inn. The entire Christmas scheme there is hers, but clearly the big tree with 80 strings of lights is the piece de resistance. It took a week to decorate the Inn, she said, using a three-story scaffold and hoists to put the large wreaths in place around the hall and put trimmings on the tree. She said she loves to watch people's reactions. "The drunks walk out and bump into it," she said. "There was a little kid watching the ornaments and he asked; "How do you get the birdies to sit on the tree?'" She also left her mark on Main Street. "When I first came here, these plastic decorations were up on Main Street, and I said we should have something wonderful and old-fashioned." She remembered re-membered the group who sat in back of a florists's shop making bough arrangements, arrange-ments, while workers at the city shop put together strings of lights. For the future, she said she would like the Main Street area to set up a permanent Christmas tree, much like the Tribune has in downtown Salt Lake. "You need a deep spot for the tree where you won't hit concrete two feet down," she said. Before she moved to Park City, Lewis was a Salt Laker. She decorated Trolley Square for Christmas over three years. She also did a picture window display of Winnie the Pooh characters for a downtown interior decorating firm. "We brought in a dumptruck of popcorn to be snow," she remembered. Customers could walk on a pathway through the display. And the Winnie the Pooh figure was so big that Lewis would climb inside to work on it. Lewis is still thinking big and busy. The biggest mis take you could make is to ask her "What have you been up to?" and expect a quick, casual answer. Most recently, she led a group, along with architect Tony Jay, in renovating an old English double-decker bus for use as a ticket outlet. The inside has been stripped, floored and carpeted, she said, and ticket counters have been set up and an office put on the second floor of the bus. She is working on a project to get the city's street signs erected. She also hopes to establish directional signs, bus shelters, a tourist information infor-mation booth on the outer edge of town to aid visitors and signs on both highways to tell travelers they're here. "We've had people walk into the Kimball Art Center and ask, 'Can you tell us how to get to Park City?'" "Park City is so physically beautiful that it is important the things we do are visually beautiful," she said. "When I go down to Salt Lake, I'm barraged by Taco Bell signs, neon lights-just visual garbage. gar-bage. We're lucky to have a wooden sign for Holiday Inn and the 7-Eleven instead of the usual plastic." Lewis said we have to keep close watch on the visual development of the town. She is clearly doing more than her share of that job. Newspaper Classified Advertising It doesn't cost. $ e IT PAYS! fc $ 649-9014 f ark Meadows Sales Office: RO. Box 400. Park City. Utah 84060 (801) 649-234S Open house daUy. Listed through Gump and Ayers Real Estate, Inc.: Park Meadows Plaza. Park City, Utah 84060 1801 Now open for breakfast from 8:00-10:30 starting December 20th Apres ski hors d'oeuvres and cocktails 4:00-6:00 p.m. Open for Dinner 6:00-10:30 p.m. Featuring Swiss-French gourmet cuisine. Located on 50 Shadow Ridge Drive at the west end of the resort parking lot. |