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Show Pa .. vi!y News Thursday, January 13, 1983 Page A9 Clinic funding is on its way The future for the Park City Community Clinic appeared ap-peared secure Tuesday after the Summit County Commission Commis-sion signed a contract with the clinic. The agreement would allow the county to pass-through family-planning grant money from the state to the clinic. The county and state have also signed a pass-through agreement. And the first payment from the state of $3,000 was given to County Health Director Frank Singleton Sin-gleton Wednesday. The money will probably not reach Clinic Director Diana Maxell until the end of this month, since it must be processed by the county. "But at least this funding is no longer 'The Perils of Pauline for the clinic," said Singleton. The total grant now contracted con-tracted to the clinic would be $23,000 through the end of June. Before passing on the clinic's check, Singleton said, the county has to review and process out its 1982 budget. "Diane would be lucky to get the money by Jan. 27 or 28," he said. However, the clinic's agreement agree-ment said it will get the money at most 20 days after the signing. Meanwhile, Maxell said the clinic staff will try to squeak through to the end of the month. "We could ask for a loan, but we decided that would cost more than waiting," wait-ing," she said. "The staff decided to go without the paychecks that were due on the 15th." The clinic also planned to pick up supplies by that time. "We will try to eke through without them." The $3,000 is part of the grant money retroactively coming to the clinic for November through January, Maxell said. She also expects to get another $5,625 to cover those months. Thereafter, the clinic would receive $2,875 the first week of every month, hopefully to start in February, Maxell added. The money is part of federal family-planning money delegated to the state in a decision made last fall by the Department of Health and Human Services. The county must negotiate a new grant contract, 1983-84, with the state, starting probably in March. Before then, the commission commis-sion and Health Director Singleton want to convince the state it should contract directly with the Community Clinic, so the county does not have to act as a cumbersome middleman. However, the state health department has said a direct contract is forbidden by legislative intent in-tent language. A-3c- Smoking the Special Mixture by Gary Heins I don't know if you've been able to notice it, but my writing is really starting to go downhill. Skiing, and ski teaching, is all I can think about lately. This being my fourth year as a ski instructor, I'm feeling a professional enthusiasm en-thusiasm that I've never felt before. Now more than ever, I'm finding out that: nothing gives a skier so much pleasure as to find his turns respectfully quoted by other learned skiers. (Was it Ben Franklin who said that? or was he talking about authors and their works rather than skiers and their turns? No matter.) While it can be lonely at the top of the writing world, it can be lonely, too, on the tops of your skis lonely, for me, in the sense that I'm onto on-to the turns that need to be shared with others. This is why I teach skiing. This is why I spread the good turns. As a ski instructor who writes, I draw some interesting inter-esting parallels for my students, to be sure. I show a highway construction engineer that we turn back and forth on a steep slope for the same reason that he designs mountain roads that wind back and forth. I show an Iowa farmer how a herringbone walk on skis is no different from the tread of his tractor tire. I show an accountant how her two feet constitute two separate accounts ac-counts and she has only a 110-pound budget. I could go on. I've said time after time that skiing and writing are almost identical. Of course, learning to ski takes levelheaded imitation of practiced skiers just like learning to write takes pensive pen-sive imitation of proficient writers. But, while you can learn to write and learn to ski, you can be taught to ski only this is the distinction. You cannot teach a man to write, especially if he has nothing to say. Oh, sure, you can teach a man the grammar gram-mar of a language, but you cannot teach him to use it each man has to make his own use for it (even if it be only to write a letter to the editor about his neighbor's poodle-do). It's like this: you can lead a man to briar and leaf, but you cannot make him smoke. As far as skiing goes, I suppose, too, that you can teach only the prescriptive prescrip-tive grammar of skiing; but, once a student has the slightest grasp of skiing's grammar, he can't help but use it to express an orgasmic "Whoopee!" Skiing, my friend, is the universal language. Watch for my new book this fall, "The Joy of Skiing," complete with explicit ex-plicit skiual illustrations. Peterson joins Utah Firstbank Utah Firstbank announced that Steven R. Peterson has joined its staff at the Number Two Main Street office, Salt Lake City. Peterson Peter-son will serve as assistant vice president. Prior to joining Utah Firstbank, Peterson was assistant vice president for First Security Bank of Utah N.A. in Park City. He has also been employed by First Federal Savings and Loan as their loan servicing manager. man-ager. Peterson has been active in civic affairs including the Park City Men's Coalition, the Park City Rotary Club, and United Way. Ski conditions Park City will continue to experience unseasonably mild weather through the weekend, according to the National Weather Service, which should make for some pretty nice days on the slopes. Get out the suntan oil! The next few days should amount to one of the warmest warm-est stretches of January skiing in recent years. Forecasts call for continued mild temperatures with daytime highs in the mid-40s and nighttime lows in the 20s. Skies should be fair and no precipitation is expected. expec-ted. Light winds and quite a bit of sunshine should be the rule through the weekend. All the local resorts are in full operation and report good conditions on hard and soft-packed surfaces. Park City reports a base of 68 inches while ParkWest has 62 and Deer Valley has 56. Singleton said he was scheduled to meet on the issue Jan. 21 with Governor Matheson's aide, Mimi Sheridan. Sher-idan. "I want to get one of two things. Either they tell me the legislative intent language is binding, not just advisory, in which case we will go to the legislature and try to change it there." If the legislation is not binding, he said, the county will ask state health officials to change their position. To show their feelings about the present pass through arrangement, the commission signed their agreement with the state "under protest." Singleton revealed Tuesday he had to strike those words from the agreement before the state would OK the contract. The state felt, he said, that the agreement could be legally invalidated if any language indicated the document was formed under duress. Judge releases RDA tax revenues The Park City Redevelopment Redevelop-ment Agency has the rest of its money. Third District Court Judge Homer Wilkinson ruled Monday Mon-day that the Redevelopment Agency was entitled to collect about $500,000 in property tax revenues which had been held by the office of the county clerk since mid December. More than $900,000 in property tax revenues were retained by the county clerk in December as a result of a motion for a restraining order filed by the Park City Board of Education. The Redevelopment Agency has become the focus of a long dispute between Park City and the School District. The schools first filed suit in September, charging that the agency and its method of collecting taxes were unconstitutional, uncon-stitutional, and were depriving depriv-ing the district of needed revenues. However, City Attorney Tom Clyde discovered last week that the restraining order covered only a portion of the Redevelopment A-gency's A-gency's tax revenues. The city was given a check for $416,000 at that time. Wilkinson's Wilkin-son's ruling Monday now allows the city to collect the rest. "I think it's a real strong reflection of what the court thinks of the lawsuit itself," Clyde said Monday. .-Art. ,sM ' Js r t iri ii . k ilblilUftMiJ 1 Dust off your dreams and get ready to build your home of homes in this prestigious planned residential community. 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