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Show Page A6 Thursday, March 10, 1983 Park C"ii News ' ' r 1 I . '.'1 i ' w: Citv Council Upcoming T nn pi There f Ski In and Ski Out! Park City's newest and most exciting atmosphere for lunches, dinner and apres ski fun. Relax on our sunny deck overlooking the Park City Village ice skating rink and Park City's ski slopes. 1385 Lowel Ave. Park City Village 649-4060 6i I s;, s I CENTER STAGE IN PARK CITY Distinctive Victorian styling in 2 to 4 bedroom condominiums. Starring location in historic old town between Deer Valley and Park City resorts. For purchase or rental information call 801-649-2341. MOTHEMLODE CONDOMINIUMS ill A Development of the MacQuoid Company. M I ill Located at 620 Park Ave. - Across from Kimball Art Center 1 will be no meeting of the Take out service available. M Happy Hour" 4-6 p.m. Park Citv Council this week. Same vets, new clinic for Park City animals by Nan Chalat "I guess I could write my own Herriot book about that trailer," said Keith Lund about White Pine Veterinary Clinic's trailer on the frontage front-age road near Kimball's Junction, "but that is all in the past now." Last Friday Lund and his associates moved boxes of equipment, medicines, bandages band-ages and files next door to the new $200,000 White Pine Veterinary Clinic. Not only will the new clinic afford the three veterinarians and their staff more room to work, it is also better equipped for both small and large animal surgery. The building's design is the result of four years of research. Lund and architect Rick Abbruzzese spent a lot -of their free time .. visiting clinics thfougbotit ;Bi0affer- mountain West. "I wanted to build a place where people could feel as though they were bringing their animals to a real veterinary clinic, not just a place where a vet happened to be at the time. A veterinary practice is more than just the vet. The clinic is his tool," explained Lund. He is extremely pleased with Abbruzzese's design and the way it was carried out by contractor Bob Potter. When Donald "Buzz" Mar-den Mar-den opened his veterinary practice in the fall of 1977 Parkites were so happy to have a vet in town they didn't care that the trailer was small. Marden sold the White Pine practice to Keith Lund in May, 1978. Steve Carter How the City Council MOTIONS To approve a con-dominiumization con-dominiumization plat for the 31-unit Powder Pointe To table the subdivision plat for Deer Valley north parcel subdivision To approve the subdivision plat for the Broken Spoke subdivision To grant a business license for the Snow Sculpture Contest Con-test To adopt the revised budget for fiscal year '82 83 To grant an easement to Mountain Bell in Thaynes Canyon if route is modified Mayor pro tern. Did not vote. Keith Lund, Tara and Carolyn Westergard joined the staff in May, 1981. All three vets continued to work out of the trailer and their vans. According to Marden, the small animal practice began to catch up with the large animals. "At first I'd say it was 90 percent large animals (horses mostly) most-ly) and 10 percent small animals (dogs and cats)," Marden remembers. "Now," says Lund, "it is just about 50 50." As Park City's population grew, so did the population of domestic animals. The disadvantages dis-advantages of the trailer grew more apparent each year. Carolyn Westergard, who has worked with the vets for three years, remembers that the bathroom door used to fall off its hinges regularly, regular-ly, often trapping people inside,.., According to. recep-tjqnist recep-tjqnist MoonWiUett, the medicines' were' stored 'in boxes from the floor to the ceiling and some were kept in the bathtub. Jeanne Lund's main complaint com-plaint was that there was no privacy for the patients or their owners. People in the waiting room could hear everything that - in surgery and when the doctor needed something he had to dash across a waiting room full of people and animals to get to the tiny lab. Keith Lund remembers several brawls in the waiting room and some notable escapes. The wind would sometims blow the trailer door open; once Lund had to chase a reluctant patient two miles down the frontage road. The new clinic, for one thing, has double doors so yes yes yes yes yes yes l"""! T"yfrv ui m 1"""! Tl TTlv V J H 7M "?3:; Alvarez Lewis Coleman escape will be impossible. And the spacious waiting room allows cat and dog owners plenty of room to keep at a safe distance. There are two small animal treatment rooms and a separate surgery facility. The small animal surgery suite is equipped with a pew respirator for chest surgery, an EKG machine to help diagnose heart disease, and a portable Xray camera. The White Pine vets are now able to take and develop Xrays within 15 minutes. In the past they had to be developed in Salt Lake, which was frustrating frus-trating for the pet owners and the vets. "People want to know what's wrong right away and so do I," said Lund. The surgery suite is closed off from the rest of the clinic and has'its own air filtration system $o that strict sterility can be maintained. The operating room is adjacent to a large lab and down a quiet hallway are small runs for overnight patients. Lund feels that the kennels are a big improvement, improve-ment, providing more comfort com-fort and isolation. One of the most exciting improvements is the indoor large animal facility which will be completed in July. Horse owners will be able to back their trailers up to an oversized garage door to unload patients. Preliminary examinations and surgery preparation will be done inside. The examination room will be equipped with stocks if immobilization is necessary. Adjacent to the examination examina-tion room is a padded yes yes abstain yes yes yes photo by Nan Chalat surgery cell, complete with a stainless steel operating table on a hydraulic lift. There are only a few such facilities in the state. In the past the White Pine vets have either leased surgery space in Salt Lake or practiced what Lund calls "kneecap surgery in the field." The new operating operat-ing room will enable the vets to maintain a sterile environment environ-ment which is especially important during orthopedic and abdominal surgery, said Lund. Marden, Lund and Carter, all of whom work on both large and small animals, will be able to administer gas anesthesia in the new operating operat-ing room. In the field they had to use intravenous methods which would only keep an animal down for half an hour. Gas, . explained Lund, is more precise and can' be used for longer operations. Lund said that other vets in the area will be able to lease the facility and he hopes it will be benefitial to animal care throughout the area. The three White Pine vets also work together in Murray. Mur-ray. Lund and Carter own a similar clinic (without the large animal addition) at 5484 South 9th East. The three rotate on a monthly basis between the two clinics. clin-ics. There is a 24-hour emergency number in Salt Lake (521-5657) and one of the three vets is always on call. If the vet on duty is attending a call in Salt Lake, Parkites will be asked either to bring their emergency down to the Murray clinic or meet the vet at White Pine. Thursday, March 3 (3) in f""Ml i i - it- Shellenberger Wells yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes LL |