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Show Page B4 Wednesday, December 31, 1986 Park Record PEOPLE NOTICE. . . Call the Park Record today Garvey's ski race set for Jan. 8-10 ATTIEMTHODM: Junior and High School Students sell newspapers and win prizes! EARN MONEY Call the Park Record 649-9014, ask for Pamela At Stag Lodge Deer Valley Classical and Innovative Cuisine Philippe's is the intimate dining experience at the top of Deer Valley. Come and enjoy the finest in classic and innovative cuisine. Reservations requested for dinner. Breakfast 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Lunch 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Dinner 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. 8200 Royal Street. East of Silver Lake Lodge 649-2421 All major credit cards accepted. Philippe's Lounge at Stag Lodge presents European Entertainer Roger Schaller master of the keyboards Playing Tues - Sat from 4 p.m. Steve Garvey will be back in town for the Fourth Annual Steve Garvey Celebrity Ski Classic, benefitting the Utah Special Olympics, Jan. 8-10 at Deer Valley. The roster includes more than 20 celebrities who will take part in the festivities. Among those participating par-ticipating in this year's Ski Classic are Steve Kanaly and Jenilee Harrison Har-rison of "Dallas," Alan Thicke and Kick Cameron of "Growing Pains," Olympic athtletes Stein Eriksen, Rowdy Gaines, Steve Lundquist and more. According to Garvey, San Diego Padres baseball star, the Ski Classic will be nationally televised as a 60-minute special on ESPN. "This is my way of giving something back to a community I love," says Garvey of his fund-raising fund-raising efforts. "I hope we'll have a great number of local spectators and participants and together be able to make this a truly rewarding event for Utah Special Olympics." The event kicks off on Thursday, Jan. 8, at the Yarrow with a Comedy Show and Celebrity Roast by Salt Lake City's Cartoon Night Club. The evening will feature headliner entertainment enter-tainment including Michael Floor-wax Floor-wax and Flip Orley, as well as a gentle gen-tle roasting of celebrities attending the Classic. Tickets for the evening are $20 per person and available at Cartoons. Friday will feature an open ski day at Deer Valley for Steve's guests, along with a skiing clinic for Special Olympians sponsored by Stein Eriksen and the Stein Eriksen Lodge. On Saturday morning, celebrities will compete against each other on Deer Valley's slopes, racing to crown the overall celebrity ski champion. They will also compete in ' t . . V - ' 1 MICHELOB mmmmmmmmmmmmWmmmm Steve Garvey, left, and Stein Eriksen were all smiles at last year's Celebrity Ski Classic. individual challenge races and later in the day team up with a Special Olympian, a corporate sponsor and a local skier for slalom races. Highlighting the weekend will be a gala dinner and show scheduled for Saturday evening, Jan. 10, at the Yarrow in Park City. The evening will feature fine dining, entertainment entertain-ment by Kenny Rankin, and an auction auc-tion conducted by Steve Garvey of a 1987 Spartan Jeep Cherokee, Rossignol skis, Jazz season tickets, and other items. Tickets for the dinner are available to the public for $50 per person by calling 1-800-662-1616. According to Jim Murphy, executive ex-ecutive director of Utah Special Olympics, "The Ski Classic brings some of the country's most exciting personalities to Utah for an action-packed action-packed weekend that shows off our state, our people and our Special Olympics program. This is more than a fund-raiser for Special Olympics, Olym-pics, it's a major event for all of Utah." Sponsoring the 1987 Steve Garvey Celebrity Ski Classic are Michelob Light, Spartan AMCJeepRenault, Stein Eriksen Lodge, Deer Valley Resort, Western Airlines, Deer Valley Lodging, Coca Cola Bottling Co. of Salt Lake, Bolla Wines, Rossignol, Adidas and Cartoons Comedy Night Club. For further information on the Steve Garvey Celebrity Ski Classic, contact Jim Murphy or Craig Fisher at Utah Special Olympics at 377-4156. Utah Winter Games to debut in January Local athletes and teams have been busy gearing up for the advent of Utah's first Winter Games, scheduled to hit the Wasatch Front, Jan. 3-18. The games kick off with opening ceremonies hosted by entertainer John Denver on Wednesday, Jan. 7, at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Palace and continue with events such as alpine skiing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, ski-ing, freestyle skiing, figure skating and hockey. The games were developed to help encourage participation in Winter Olympic sports here in Utah.' Organizers hope the Utah Winter, Games will build local, national and, international awareness of Utah as a sports and recreation center. Meanwhile, on the homefront, the ParkWest Freestyle Team has been training for the freestyle events beginning Jan. 9 at Powder Mountain, Moun-tain, with aerials. Freestyle competition continues Jan. 10 at Brighton with a mogul contest. Ballet will be held at Solitude on the 11th and a dual mogul contest is set for Jan. 18 at Snowbird. Jon O'Brien, head coach for the ParkWest team, said his team of over 20 members is looking forward to the Games. The team has been practicing for the coming season the past three weekends at ParkWest Ski Resort. "The kids have been grumbling because of the snow, but they have been training really hard with the help of our coaching staff. ParkWest has been very supportive of our efforts ef-forts to train for the Utah Winter Games especially considering the conditions. "We're looking forward to getting a storm here soon so we can open up our jump. The kids have yet to jump this season because lack of snow," said O'Brien who has been coaching the freestyle team for the past three years. On the cross-country scene, races are scheduled to be held at Jeremy Ranch on Jan. 9 through 11. Events include 15 and 10 kilometer races for individuals as well as relay races and an individual freestyle race. Park City will get its first taste of the Games on Jan. 5 with women's giant slalom competition at the Park City Ski Area featuring elite (invitation (invita-tion only) competitors. The women return to Park City for the same event on Jan. 7. Elite men will be featured in Park City competition on Jan. 6th and 8th. All alpine events in Park City are scheduled to begin at 10:00 a.m. mirnm fesfflr D m mi mi mu m mm n to smites IT 6) i tMITi Nordic skiers are going to the high country for snow by JENNIFER MADGIC Record staff writer Area cross-country skiers have had little trouble finding snow to whet their nordic ski appetites. While golf enthusiasts are busy teeing off at the Mountain Dell Golf Course normally a place crosscountry cross-country skiers would be heading this time of year local pinners have made a beeline for higher grounds. "This is the first time ever that local tracks have not been open in time for Christmas, except of course, in 1977," said Steve Erickson of White Pine Touring. "It's a 'ittle hard this year but we're managing," said Erickson adding ad-ding that there is excellent snow at the higher elevations, namely Bonanza Flats on Guardsman's Pass as well as a track set by the Forest Service near Smith and Morehouse. "This is the third race we've had at Bonanza Flats people are ac tually renaming it Bonanza Hills, because it is definitely not flat and aside from a few snowmobiles, everything has been going quite smoothly. People are able to drive right up there," said Erickson. And during the past three weekends that's exactly what local cross-country ski zealots have been doing. "It's really beautiful up there (Bonanza Flats)," said Debbie Wagner of Salt Lake City. Debbie along with her husband David and daughter Wendy were team winners of last Saturday's White Pine Ski Series. "All the credit really goes to Steve and his wife Jenny (Erickson) who have made a tremendous effort to get people up there skiing. Between races on Saturdays and clinics on Sunday, we're really getting a lot of skiing in," said Debbie. The Wagner trio won the Dec. 27 team race with a total time of 66.29, based on two 3K runs by each member of the family. Debbie admitted that the handicapped han-dicapped system helped them achieve their standing, considering the system is based on participants' ages. The Wagner team had the highest total of handicap points of the nine teams present. Second in line to the Wagners came the trio of Lee Shea, Dan Gibson Gib-son and Robynn Masters who clocked clock-ed in a total of 76.50. Dave Hanscom, Rich Harward and Bill Stenquist skated to a third place victory with 77.24. Steve and Jenny Erickson along with Dean Burnoy took fourth with 77.78. Erickson said that aside from reminding individuals to sign up for a spot in the Utah Winter Games by Jan. 5, the next race in the Citizens' Series will be held on Jan. 11. For information on race locations contact the Touring Center at 649-8710 or 649-8701. at DUliauca i ww pupic aic av- UUMU UII IWU OIV 1 UI1S UJf CBUl OIU-0 1U UI 043-CWUl. kjtxi lectin s i im i iuli o ivJctMy for season at Christmas Camp The Park City Ski Team members a.m. on mornings of Dec. 26 to 29, seen. There are about four to six I have not spent their Christmas vaca tion gnawing on turkey and opening presents. As of last Friday, the skiers have been hitting the face of PayDay at 7:00 a.m. for their annual Christmas Camp. "The camp is really the last big chance we have to get ready for racing rac-ing in January," said head coach of the team, Fred Turton. "The resort has been really accommodating letting let-ting us use the mountain so early in the morning." If vou happened to be awake at 7 you may have noticed it is dark out and the lights of PayDay are not on a handicap that Holly Flanders, ex-World Cup racer and director of skiing for Park City Ski Area, thinks is advantageous. "Most of the best skiers in the world train in the dark. I think they turn out to be better skiers because they learn how to feel their skiing," said Flanders who trained with the junior team during the camp. "This camp has one of the best coach to athlete ratios I've ever seen. There are about four to six kids to coach. It has been very beneficial to the kids," said the 29-year-old f landers. Turton said the format of the camp was such that the kids would train on PayDay from 7-9 a.m. before the public hit the slopes. Then they would take a juice break before going back out on the slopes at 10:00 for free skiing and working drills. The afternoon sessions ended the day with some alternate kind oi workout like playing soccer, water polo and watching videos. NEW YEAR'S EVE . DINNER & DANCING t 1 ,intri Sec "Simon's at the Homestead" Ad on page Jf) for details," pDItt sBttdDIPltg December race calendar Beat the New Year 1987-Dec. 31, starts at 11:15 p.m., $5 pre-reg and $6 late. Pre-register with the Salt Lake City Track Club, Po Box 11053 SLCUT 84147. The Hangover 5K Jan. 1, at the Fort Douglas Cemetary in Research Park. $7 pre-reg, $8 day of race. Register at DeBoer's Running Store in the Five Points Mall in Bountiful. I UlU-tffll...iU, t,mSnt0n ti tt-iin-i |