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Show Page A4 Thursday, May IV, im . .:, myAews E&nnnw? bylUckBrough I I i I I I g I l ji&ti " E533 'CSSB39 K8B9 fsssisBf EESS9 C2B9 QS9 fjjjjjfSisi yiiff E53S8 A free pound of domestic cheese with the purchase of a pound of any FOR THOUGHT Park City Village at the Resort by the bus 1 1 with the purchase of any deli sandwich cheese. FOOD Restaurant Slime iRt'i & Steaks, Flesh Seafood jlig fitly Oystel Sua ah? on an menu items for the month of May. Wednesday - Sunday flom 5:00 p.m. yHini bottles and select wines available. Available fan private patties and banquets. fUndetgiound pallting at the iPaik Cdy iResott QUza 649-7778 stop, 649-4746 "What did you do last summer? " "Well," goes the line, "last year it was on a Sunday, so I went sailing," The joke is inspired not only by last summer (plagued by unseasonably cold weather) but the crazy spring of 1983 which has consisted of nothing but snow. One local has been inspired to call it "Mayuary." What is the explanation for the snow? Is it the curse of an old Indian medicine man, called down after he was thrown out of the Alamo Bar? Is the water from Lake Thistle being sucked through a huge pump into the atmosphere, where it crystallizes and falls again on the Wasatch Front? Is it excessive dandruff from Governor Matheson's beard? At least Park City isn't the only area suffering from excess precipitation. In London, it rained recently for the 29th straight day, making this the wettest April since record-keeping began in 1940. If snow tires have been still popular here, scuba gear may become the hot item in Britain. The most interesting typo in the records of the Planning Commission was noted last Wednesday when the minutes identified a long-time Commissioner Com-missioner as "Burnish Watts." Chairman Calm Cowher ordered that the error be immediately rectified. rec-tified. If you want to know how the rest of Utah thinks of Park City, then flip through the latest issue of Utah Holiday magazine. The latest issue contains both good news and bad news. The travel section contains an article ar-ticle by Raye Ringholz on her adventures adven-tures in Alaska. See, Parkites are sophisticated globe-hoppers citizens of the world. But next, turn to an article by Richard Menzies (the mag's resident Andy Rooney) on the topic of Salt Lake supermarkets. In passing, he mentions something called The Park City Syndrome. Syn-drome. What is this? The Park City Syndrome Syn-drome is, he says, "a process whereby everything in America is being turned into a facsimile of something else, our sense of place replaced by a sense of plastic." - That sound you hear something like an out-of-control locomotive? is Tina Lewis, headed down-valley to stomp all over the Holiday offices ! Despite the jibes, Park City men are still considered the beau ideal for advertising ad-vertising in the magazine. Page 46 carries an ad for a condo project on South Temple. The picture in the ad People, places, things a potpourri... potpour-ri... With suitcases in hand, Parkites are traveling in and out of town this month. South of the border, or at least south of Salt Lake. Katherine Janka and Roy Reynolds will drive through the Southwest and try to find the sun. If this little honeymoon-style trip is a delight, the couple will return to send out their invitations in-vitations to their Aug. 20 wedding. (I just love little items like that.) On the road in San Diego and points both north and south are Gary and Jana Cole and the little coles, jason and adam. They are warming themselves them-selves at Mission Bay, seeing the animals in the zoo and even hitting that magic kingdom, Dizzyland. With them for part of the trip were Bill and Nancy and their little witt. (Their son, Kyle. They, themselves, have a great deal of wit. I mean, oh, never mind. ) Munches and bunches of snow-weary folks have been drinking margaritas and not thinking about us here with our Park City Clean-Up Day was postponed to this Saturday, May 21 Join the fun. Everyone is meeting at City Park, 8 a.m. Free lunch and prizes after the clean-up shows a luxurious apartment plus two gentlemen you'll easily recognize. They're locals Ralph Carlson and Dick Mitchell. According to an over-excited report from UPI, a rare baby lemur, looking much like the movie character E.T., has been born at Duke University. The animal weighed just under one ounce, and is only one of 13 lemurs in captivity, cap-tivity, all at Duke. It was considered rare because, apparently, ap-parently, new-born lemurs usually look like John Travolta, Alfred E. Neuman, or Robert Blake as he appeared ap-peared in the well-known "Baretta" series. Notes from the ad world: A recent radio commercial gives us excerpts from the most dramatic events of the last 13 years the invasion of Cambodia Cam-bodia ... men landing on the moon ... Watergate ... Gilmore's execution ... the Barney Clark operation. What do all these events have in common? Why, they were reported by KSL Anchorman Dick Nourse, Salt Lake's long-time source of all knowledge. Of course, on a few of the stories, Dick was aided by talented flunkies like Walter Cronkite, Harry Reasoner, and John Chancellor. But no matter. One piece of good news from the advertising ad-vertising world. Those smug little teen waitresses in the Burger King ads are . finally going to get theirs. According to an AP report, Wendy's is planning a nationwide ad campaign that will blast its competition, without mentioning the name of the King or MacDonald's. The commercials will focus on the bad service and poor food you get at "some hamburger places." Athletic team symbols, once an innocent in-nocent part of school life, have come under fire in these more complicated times. (On occasion, someone worries if it's racist to talk about "the running Utes" at the University of Utah. ) The most absurd case arose recently with a high school track team in Utica, Michigan. For 14 years, the team has used a ceramic statue as a mascot. Now fundamentalist Christians have objected, saying the team is praying to the statue as if it were "a demonic for-' ce. A minister, speaking for a group'of" concerned parents, said the runners were worshipping a "dumb little idol." Well, if the followers of Rev. Moon and Jerry Falwell can do it, why can't the kids? toiilk by Teri Gomes slush. Down in Mexico, Bob Toy and Jackie Craigle got a tan on a towel, perhaps near Debby Rapp and Myle Jackson. As they say, Ole! (And as my crazy friend used to reply, Oh, when?) Hitting the Big Apple and Seventh Avenue by storm (and away from a few of ours), Ruth Ann Fitzgerald has just returned to her job in the Big Valley. (She's executive secretary for Bill Nassikas in such a dear valley.) She made it back east in time for her 10-year high school reunion at Blair Academy (yes, she's that young). The highlight of her trip is not for publication but the second most indulgent in-dulgent thing she did was eat an ice cream sundae which was positively illegal by Utah standards at the infamous in-famous Angora. Vacations to me mean beach. I don't know why, maybe it's the Aquarius in my soul or the sand in my shoes. We're getting away for a few days to beachless Pocatello, Idaho. Don't ask. But when Pocatello looks good you know it's been a rough winter. While we're on the subject of right-wing right-wing intelligence, we can't ignore the fascinating letter written to the "Deseret News" editors. The lady objected ob-jected to a Hansen Planetarium show' saluting the music of the Beatles. "Do you young people and you parents realize that the Beatles were responsible for introducing drugs into our culture, the most horrendous problem facing our nation today? If you think I exaggerate, I challenge you to do some research," said the letter. ! Well, I haven't done my research yet. But I can recall a few historical facts from casual reading. Like the report that drugs became a problem shortly after the Civil War, when wounded soldiers became addicted to the pain-killing pain-killing drugs they had been given on the battlefield. Or how about the documented story that the early version ver-sion of Coca-Cola had a strong dose of honest-to-God coke, and had to be diluted? It becomes difficult to believe the Fab Four were solely responsible for introducing drug abuse into this country. coun-try. You mean to say the Establishment Establish-ment was never concerned about drugs? Take a look at "Reefer Mad-, ness" and the other hysterical antidrug anti-drug films of the Thirties. Show-business types before 1964 never wiped themselves out on drugs? In the early 1920s matinee-idol Wallace Reid made the headlines with a well-publicized well-publicized death brought on by addiction. addic-tion. ' Are drug jokes new? In one of Douglas Fairbanks' early films, he played an addicted detective named Coke Ennyday, who summoned up the energy to catch crooks by merrily injecting in-jecting himself. The drug problem has been around for a long time, and it should be fought. But colossal displays of ignorance won't help the problem. And finally, in case any of you were wondering about the educational efforts ef-forts of the Park City Men's Coalition; their agenda for the May 17 meeting carries this note: "Efforts have been made to have one of the local Playmates spend some time with us at this meeting. The board thought it might be interesting to hear their thoughts and experiences on T5ecffigPlaymatgs7' We thought Park City had only one Playmate. The Coalition is apparently hiding others. Anyone knowing their whereabouts should immediately contact con-tact Whaddyaknow, P.O. Box 3688, Park City, Utah 84060. sn Weiim This column is rather like Blair's newscast Tuesday morning. Personally, Per-sonally, I like Teresa Nelson. I think she does an admirable job at the Prevention Center. But when the lead story on the news is how to fight depression, that means the news itself is in a depressing state. I'm afraid in addition to everything else, the Great News Drought is here. Does getting away strike a vein with you? Dust off that Samsonite and put it out in the trunk of your car. Drive to the airport and take the case out. Take the escalator up to the lounge and order a tall cool one. Watch a few planes come in. Strike up a conversation with a perfect per-fect (or imperfect) stranger. Go into the gift shop and buy yourself a magazine and a pack of gum. Then get back in the car. This should have taken a few hours to accomplish. Drive up the canyon and face Park City anew. , Didn't your perspective change a bit? If only for a short while? Away, it's just a state of mind L |