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Show Park City News Thursday, March 10, 1983 Page AS Fame is fleeting for snow sculptures by Nan Chalat Sometimes warm weather is a mixed blessing. Last weekend, for instance, the mild wet conditions played havoc with the P.C. Snow Sculpture contest. Even the most experienced snow sculptors, sculp-tors, families who have participated year after year, were stymied. Towers crumbled, crum-bled, details melted and ran it was hard to get anything to hold together. Nevertheless the three judges from Brigham Young University's sculpture department de-partment were impressed. "It was terrific!" said judge Susan Finken, a senior at BYU in Provo. "I was amazed to see how much detail they were able to create. Finken added that the final decisions were difficult because be-cause there wasn't enough time to look at each of the 95 entries carefully. "We wondered, won-dered, did we do it right?" So did many of the entrants. While hundreds of spectators slogged along narrow pathways of slush, the contestants tried to look cheery. Some, like the dejected de-jected soul sitting by his collapsed castle, gave up completely. But most per-servered per-servered and with bare cold hands they created a carnival carni-val of snow men, snow piggise and pacmen. The grand prize, $500, was part of the incentive for sticking with it. The Swenson and Jackson families finally garnered the prize for their rendition of the Three Little Pigs. "I think it was worth paying that much for," said Finken. "Everyone worked really hard." The sculptures were judged judg-ed on the basis of four criteria: scale, originality, creativity and quality. According to Finken, the Three Pigs theme wasn't particularly original "but the way they carried it out was." According fo judge Craig Varner, the Year of the Boar was the most original. Evidently Evi-dently Shahdad Bassir and Finken, the other two judges, agreed because they gave Gary Bloomquist $300 for second place. Carol Kirkland was the mastermind behind the Beastly Bullring and she took home $100 for her efforts. "I liked the bullring because be-cause it was an original concept," said Finken. "Most of the groups were working from a cartoon or a drawing. As far as I could tell the bullring was just an idea that they added to as they went along." Fourth place and $50 went to the Vincent-Jackson collaboration col-laboration for The Eviction. Fifth went to Chris Scothern for the Silver King Train, and sixth place went to Susan Krushat's Roller Coaster. The Nielson family of Bountiful, which has up until now been a Park City Snow Sculpture legend lost its three-year hold on first place and came in seventh. Evidently Evi-dently their Pirates either weren't up to snuff or just weren't the judges' cup of tea. Eighth place was awarded to the Carter family for Kidstuff and ninth went to Jeff Greene for the Country Bears. Mary Coelho of Park City won tenth place for her rendering of the Suhbathers. The children's sculptures were judged separately with Park City youngsters capturing captur-ing first and second place. A $100 Chuck-e-Cheese pizza gift certificate and the honor of first place was given to Shannon Sweeney for her turtles and Cub Scout Pack 72 nabbed second with its Pinewood Derby race car. The pack won a director's chair while Chris Kastin of Sandy walked off with five cases of Coke for third place. Varner thought the kids did pretty well but he was "struck by all the PacMan variations. I didn't realize it was such a big influence on them," he said. He was right, there was a Ms. PacMan, a PacMan maze and several others. While the snow artists were putting the final touches touch-es on their creations, the Gabby Gourmet (Fred Wix) and disc jockey Tom Barberi courageously set out to judge the Chili Cookoff contestants. contest-ants. The chefs worked out of their campers and Hondas. One was busy in the back of the Coke sound truck. Secret ingredients included pork, molasses and jalepenos. There- was a heated bean Ty? rsHSmflo jbeaHd.ej9 te. , fixing zfaLn inaC cLzaxancz on lab. p i. merchandise 8 umru.lla with, each fiuxchai-z while, iufifily fai.t. l364 SootUlDuve Salt lake Cdn, Clhak 84,08 r,' ztnone: 583-3939 Sewing dinner 6-11 nightly. "Elegant dining" Reservations recommended, 649-9474. Mini bottles and wine available. Lunch served daily at the Car 19. 1 1 First place honors went to the Three Little Pigs sculpture. Something called New Wave chili came in fourth, and third went to a woman who was competing against her husband's chili (which didn't place). Ed Stocking, who owns the restaurant Kitchen 47, won second place and John Jackman (the guy in the sound truck) won first. According to Jackman, his chili should have been served serv-ed in two parts, sauce and meat, but space considerations considera-tions forced him to combine them. Wix proclaimed it "just damn good chili" anyway. By the time the judges made their rounds at 3 p.m. most of the contestants were ready. Some weren't. KPCW's entry was being subjected to a drastic last-minute last-minute remodeling attempt. Suffice it to say that what they lost in quality was made up for in scale. The event as usual drew carloads of spectators. According Ac-cording to Dave Barfus, who organized the event for Coke, "The Park City Police have done a great job cordoning off areas for the buses and pedestrians. They've been a big help." But as we said before, warm weather, or most weather for that matter, is a mixed blessing. After hours of work shoring up sagging corners, replacing melted faces and making every detail perfect the artists probably hoped their work would last, at least for a little while. But at 9:30 p.m. a freak snowstorm dumped an inch of snow on the sculptures. sculp-tures. Sunday the snow quickly melted and as the temperature tempera-ture rose strange changes began to take place on the golf course. The Three Pigs lost a little weight, the matador aged and various cartoon characters began to look like they had just spent the weekend partying too hard. They are still there, if you dare look. .. .. . :S INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY- golf course condo, 2 bedrooms, 2V2 baths, only $125,000. Walking distance to the Resort, swimming pool, tennis court, the best location in Park City. JEREMY RANCH LOT- Golf course membership included. in-cluded. Overlooks golf course. cour-se. Submit all offers. HIGHLAND ESTATES almost al-most 1 acre, zoned for horses. hor-ses. 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