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Show ILefttoips to &h.& IEdinitaDir Thanks for your support Editor: The second annual Pointsettia Sale by Summit County Developmental Disabilities Inc. this past holiday season was successful thanks to the support of the community. The money made from the sales this year will be used to purchase special ski equipment for the handicapped preschool children. Two children need outriggers such as the adult amputees use, and several need a walker type of support. Starting young children with severe physical disabilities on a ski program may seem premature and something of a luxury considering their other needs but it gives them a sense of movement, speed and freedom that they cannot obtain other ways. It is theraputic as well as recreational. This year the sale operated out of the old sheriff building on Main St. Thanks to the County Commissioners, Reed Pace, and Fred Eley and the Sheriff Department for these arrangements. A special thanks to Sheryl Cummins, Girl Scout . Neighborhood Chairman, Cadet Troop 707 members (Shannon, Dawn, Shantell and Abbey) and to Shauna and Darin who came to help sell each afternoon. Thanks too, to high school student members of FBLA and advisor Arlene Burgener for their assistance. Thanks also to KPCW, the Park Record and the Park City News for the publicity. Enoch Smith and Ken Tolpingrud merit a very special thank you for their continued support of DDI. Next year, remember to save your pointsettia orders for DDI. It's a tax deductible donation, it helps a local handicapped child and you receive a plant that is beautiful, fresh and will last throughout the year. On January 8, DDI moved from Marsac School where it has leased rooms from the city for the last two years. The staff of DDI wish to thank . Mayor Green, the City Council, Arlene Loble and the city employees at Mar-sac Mar-sac for their help and cooperation in providing the space for our program. DDI is now housed in two classrooms at Treasure Mountain Middle School These new facilities were made available by an agreement with the Park City School Board, Dr. Richard Goodworth, and the Middle School Principal, Brian Schiller. The help of the city, the school board and the residents of Park City make a significant difference to our program. Thanks to all. Barbara Dyer, Coordinator Summit County, Developmental Disabilities Inc. You've shown me the light, Dr. Bop Editor: Dr. Bop's column of 1-6-83, exposing the Salt Lake band 004 as "cultural rip-offs," changed my entire outlook on music, if not, indeed, on life. I felt that I must comment. Shame on anyone who would support any group that would participate in (in Dr. Bop's immortal words), "the most heinous musical crime of all cultural rip-off." But 004 is not the only musical group that Park City is exposed to that is guilty of this crime. There is at least one other. Their music is often played over the air on KPCW. Dr. Bop is probably exposing them in his column this week, but I'll tell you who it is anyhow: the Rolling Stones. Yes, for over 20 years, the Rolling Stones have "blatantly and opportunistically" opportunis-tically" used a music form developed by black rhythm and blues musicians (Chuck Berry or Little Richard, for example). Pick up almost any Rolling Stones album, (especially an earlier one) and you '11 find a song written by and-or previously recorded by a black group or artist. If this isn't a cultural rip-off, then cultural rip-off doesn't exist. Mick Jagger has never been black. And equally "heinous," even when the Rolling Stones aren't stealing songs directly, they're going to sound like black R&B. Having seen the light as Dr. Bop sees it, I threw all my Rolling Stones albums in the trash. But this alone wasn't enough. Almost all rock is derived from black R&B. All my rock albums by predominantly white groups were thrown out also. I still hadn't gone far enough. Dr. Bop points out, early in his column, that it's false to listen to Punk or New Wave music unless one has conducted one's life exactly as Sid Vicious conducted his. It follows that, as I'm not black, my remaining rock albums, no matter how much I like them, must go also. Back to 004. Back in the '60s (when the rock movement was perhaps at its peak), some people might nave said that a group of drunken people who could afford to shell out $35 on New Year's Eve wouldn't be the best possible critics of popular music. Dr. Bop knows better. Not actually having been at the Cowboy Bar on New Year's Eve to see 004 himself, he knows that he can trust the judgment of such a group of people implicitly. If those beer-sodden people booed 004, then, by God, they deserve to be booed. Remember, Dr. Bop wants you to do the same, whether or not you actually hear them play. They are, aftrr a!! "New Wave." (A gasp of fe-r always follows the term.) For a while I wondered what Dr. Bop would have me listen to to remain culturally pure. The answer came to me as a vision: the music indigenous to Utah is the only music someone living in Utah should listen to. That's right, the Osmonds and the Mormon Tabernacle Taber-nacle Choir. Thank you Dr. Bop. Mike Silver. Where are you coming from, Dr. Bop? Dear Bop: I'm glad we live in America, with such overwhelming freedom. Your efforts ef-forts in the Newspaper surely profess this fact. I must admit, I look forward to reading your column every Thursday night after work. I can't believe you are serious about what you write, and give you the benefit of doubt that it is satire or some other formal form of journalism. I don't have a college degree, and am a lay human in most facets of such accomplishments. Tonight I read your latest effort and found it to be in part informative. I never "got into Sid Vicious" and therefore enjoyed reading "the facts" about them. Your "putdown" of 004 really attacked my soul, though because I have seen their show before and loved it. I was quite entertained by the lead singerguitarist, bassist (who I was dazzeled by). She's a good musician to say the least and has a gifted gif-ted voice. The drummer is also a woman and a damn good hornplayer, amazing. The night I saw them I had worked hard and had to dance about 10 times because they produced so much energy they made me forget about work and live it up. Why are we here??? It's to live!!! To state that 004 are musical impostors im-postors is a blatent lie andor a big ugly farce. Your style of writing is totally aggressive, and brings this un-dersirable un-dersirable charactistic out in me, and I don't like it. As I perceive you, the ideas in your head are negative towards our modern culture. When I moved to Utah in 1980, the only live music in Park City was country. coun-try. At least today we have exposure to the "outside world" in current music, even though it may be delayed. This state is land-locked and sheltered from "real life" in many ways, and I am thankful for bands like 004 for living the music they love and exposing us to it. As for SKA, you are wrong in your definition. According to "The Encyclopedia En-cyclopedia of Rock" Reaggae grew out of ska. Ska was pioneered in the early 60s by Prince Buster, a Jamaican native. Anyway, it's hard to find information in Park City about such things. The whole history of music is a continuous con-tinuous melting pot. Rock and roll is a love of mine, and New Wave is a part of rock. It states many truths about our modern culture the bad as well as good. Yin and Yang. Of course, Sid died from intense living. What about Elvis? Handrix? Janis? Are they so different? I vote no. In other cultural professions, what about Van Gogh? He could be called crazy but his works live on after 100 years. Who are you to judge New Wave and punk (and speak against it so crudely)? New Wave is alive! Men At Work, Clash, Oingo Boingo, Talking Heads-Ska Heads-Ska is alive! English Beat, Specials Swingers (just to name a few). I think that any "Utah New Wave" bands have been influenced by our modern music and are professing it. So what if you think they are insincerewhy insin-cerewhy would they do it if they weren't into it. Does your opinion make them worthless? No. If I were a musician, I would play music I liked. If my influences were Perry Como and Frank Sinatra, would that make my music insincere? No. The natural cycle of life has many offshoots, and I think New Wave music is one of them (even in Utah). You must be quite a lucky man if you are able to be so on top of all the Utah bands. Here in Park City I don't get the same exposure, and the real punkers I have met I admire and love. They are my friends and are real human beings in spite of what you say. Well, I'm gonna sign off now before I get too rambling. Thank God for New Wave life. It's inspiring and thought provoking. It makes one stay in tune. Lucky you to be able to promote your radio show in the paper. Too bad it isn't famous yet. I'll give you a listen. Sincerely, Marilyn Zink Check out these statistics, Playboy Dear Editor: I've always believed that the way to Heaven was to be good. I was elated to learn in your Dec. 30 issue that one can achieve "Angel" status by posing nude for Playboy. This seems a much more lun approach and am therefore writing your office hoping to attract the aM,.niifiri of '!, .' stormed publication. I am forwarding a "Playmate Date Sheet" at this time; photographs will follow as soon as McDuck can find his macro lens. Name: Claudio Vianello Bust: 40". Waist: 28". Hips 34". Height: 5'8". Weight: 138. Sign: Virgo. D.O.B. 9-15-42. Birthplace: Venice, Italy. Ambitions : To herd swine in Tibet. Turn ons: electric hand dryers, skin disorders, litter boxes, "magic fingers," polyester, Jody Bernolfo. Turn offs: public transportation, water meters, pre-pubescents. Favorite books: "Who's Who in Deer Valley" (Eriksen); "The Joy of Celibacy" (Holt-Carley); "Gentle Persuasion" Per-suasion" (Jenkins); "Thirty Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary" (Im-boden). (Im-boden). Favorite performers: Luciano Pav-arotti, Pav-arotti, Placido Domingo, Joan Sutherland, Suther-land, Andrea and The Strap. Favorite sports: Bocce, Mud Wrestling, Wrest-ling, Chip Throwing, Leap Frog. Ideal woman: Any large breasted heiress over 80 lbs. Secret fantasy: To spend a weekend in Wendover with Arlene Loble. Do you think I have a chance? C.V. Confusing, misleading mis-leading and irresponsible Dear Editor: The editorial of January 6, 1983 regarding the Utah Department of Health was as confusing as it was misleading. Dr. James O. Mason, executive director of the Department of Health, has been consistent in all of his discussions with the county commis-. sioners, the Summit County Health Department and others regarding the alternatives available to the county for subsidized family planning services. These have been: 1) The county provide family planning services. 2) The Utah Department of Health provide family planning services in the county. 3) The County contract with the Utah Department of Health for family planning funding and then subcontract with a private provider. Under legislative intent, the Utah Department of Health can only contract with units of government for any family planning funding. At one point, there had been some miscommunication by staff of the Department of Health as to the possibility of a direct contract with the Park City Community Clinic. This was immediately rectified by Dr. Mason and he has talked with the director of the Summit County Health Department Depart-ment and the county commissioners to clear up this misunderstanding. To continually fault Dr. Mason on this point is irresponsible. The Department of Health has consistently applied for all federal family planning funding for the past three years, as directed by the state legislature. The decision as to how to award such funding is with the federal Department of Health and Human Services, not the Utah Department of Health. The consensus of the July meeting referenced in the editorial was for each agency to continue to apply for federal money as they had in the past, which for the Department of Health, meant application for all funding available. Your editorial infers the Department of Health was unwilling and unsure of its commitment to provide family planning services to all those served by the three agencies. This is not true. The application for the funding gave that assurance. The August letter referenced ref-erenced in the editorial was at the request of the federal government more to justify their decision than to question the ability of the Utah Department of Health. I am greatly surprised the old issue of the former Summit County Hospital in Coalville would be resurrected. That issue was resolved long ago and the county now has a much improved health care delivery system than before. Basically, you are criticizing the Department of Health for working with the county instead of just acting on our legal authority to close that facility when it presented a clear threat to the public's health. Instead of closing it, we worked closely with all parties concerned to reach an agreement agree-ment in the best interests of the county. The Department of Health did not "back off." We slowed our process to work with the county and others. And the county can be very proud of the present operation and the work of Holy Cross Hospital to assure quality medical care in the county. Your editorial paints a very confusing confus-ing picture as it points out in the first sentence. The confusion, however, comes from exaggeration, misrepresentation, misrepre-sentation, and a penchant for biased reporting. I don't mind valid, constructive construc-tive criticism, but this editorial was neither. You will find no agency of state government more willing to work with local officials than the Utah Department of Health. I hope The Park City Newspaper will take a responsible position in reporting our dealings in Summit County fairly and accurately. Sincerely, W.Lee Shaw Public Information Officer State of Utaii Department of Health TAN. 15 APPETIZER WITH CAKOUVM GoopwoRtH JAM. 21 PASTA viitH NINA BE QUE VAlCNTlH? TREATS WITH . Cf,UYN r"E8.2fa SUM WITH VAL. 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