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Show Page A8 Thursday, January 5, 1988 Park Record Y im Hp" V iTTlfc y Vi'i'i'ifflpmwr' M i TrTTi m m m W w mmfW IShucd w? BY RICK BROUGII AT 0. CADI V DIDn . - - mm All dinners $1 .oo on Shooters Oyster Bar Fresh Seafood B B Q Ribs and Chicken Check Blackboard for Daily Fresh Seafood Specials 4 ao9 Cut those taxes- 'Or but only on ski slopes! The tax initiatives may have been defeated in November, but their principles live on. Take Governor Norm Bangerter, who says he's working up a program of tax limitation the main feature here being a ceiling on property taxes. State government doesn't rely on revenues from property taxes. So, a few county governments are grumbling merely because the Guv proposes to cut back on their lifeblood, not his. "Say, this plan of yours could be pretty hard on us," they cried. "That's okay," said Bangerter. "I'm not afraid to make the hard decisions." Tax-cutting fever has even spread to the ski resorts, which opposed the initiatives last fall, along with the rest of the business community. I noticed this as I walked into Sneakers the other day to talk to my friend, Stein Slalom, who works as a top-level resort manager in Park City. "Prosperity follows tax cuts! " he yelled. "You sound like one of those billboards along the Interstate down in the Salt Lake Valley," I said. "Does this mean you're a Merrill Cook fan." "Of course not. I opposed his irresponsible ideas last year and I still do. Properity doesn't follow tax cuts. However, prosperity does follow tax cuts." "There must be a subtle difference there you can explain to me." "What I mean to say is, the state doesn't prosper pro-sper if you give tax cuts to just everybody. But it will prosper if you give tax cuts to ski resorts. I'm talking about the proposal to take the sales tax on lift tickets and give it to the resorts to improve their facilities. Those improvements will attract more tourists to Utah and improve the economy. "See, this is not some elitist, giveaway-to-the-rich program. The money has to be used to improve im-prove and beautify the state." "What about taking off the sales tax on food for everybody? Then with the savings, all the citizens could do their part to improve the area." "Not good enough," said Stein. "I would be in favor of an Average Guy Sales Tax Credit. But there have to definite rules about what the tax break is spent on." "Like what?" "Well, first, the person has to buy snow-making equipment for his home. Of if he's a renter, he has to chip in for his apartment complex. "This insures that in a light snow year, with a temperature inversion over the Wasatch Front, the tourist doesn't have to drive up along the freeway, looking down on a bunch of drab Salt Lake suburban homes. Every lot can look like a little Courchevel, with the artificial snow covering up the brown lawns and the occasional junk car in the driveway. You get an extra tax credit for installing in-stalling Christmas lights in early November and leaving them up until April." Stein said another idea would ask citizens to put money into grooming. "What are you talking about?" I said. "The average home doesn't have slopes and runs." "No, I mean personal grooming the men clean-shaven with hair neatly combed, the women with dresses below the knees and non-hairy armpits. arm-pits. Let's set a good example for the Beautiful visiting Utah." "What other ideas do you have," I asked. "To receive a tax credit, every homeowner has to pledge to put up a room for an Olympic athlete during the 1998 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. This follows in line with Chase Peterson's suggestion sugges-tion on how we can accommodate the competitors during the games." "But with world-wide terrorism threatening the Games, doesn't it cause a security program to house athletes in Holliday or Kearns?" "The Salt Lake suburbanite can deal with that by remembering three simple rules. One: If a representative from the PLO comes to your door, bear in mind that those initials do not stand for Personal Limousines for Olympians. Two: When the Mormon Church collects fast offerings, they very seldom send around unshaven Middle-Eastern Middle-Eastern people in burnooses. Three: Amway representatives do not sell Uzis door to door." "It's time for the citizens of Utah to get their act together. Stop behaving like sheep and start acting ac-ting like goats! " Stein said. "You mean...?" "Yep. They should be prepared to swallow anything!" OPEN 4:30-10:00 PM WPLACE lo STEAK Hit Behind Jan't In th Copprtotlom Inn Appetizinq Appetizers Zucchini Slicks 2.75 Marinated Pickled Herring . . . 3.25 Tempura Mushrooms 3.75 Oysters on Half Shell Steamed Mussels or Clams Doz. 5.50 Dozen .8.75 Calamari Fried 3.75 Hall Dozen 4.75 Homemade Clam Chowder Sauteed Mushrooms 2.00 Cup 2.25 Bowl .... 3.00 Homemade Onion Rings . . . 2.50 Smoked Deboned Utah Trout 5.50 Beverages Beverages 1.00 Ice Tea, Coffee, Tea 100 Corkage-Bottle 3.00 Set-up . 1.25 Wasatch Ale Pint . 2.50 Draft: BudBud LightGeo.Killian 1.25 Frozen Set-up 1-75 Beer Pitcher 4.99 Margarita Pitcher 4.99 Michelob Bottle 1.75 Heineken Bottle 2.50 Dinner Fixins DINNERS INCLUDE FREE Steamed Shrimp with Cocktail Sauce vc- All fixins Include appetizer bar, tossed salad, Iresh . ' spinach, coleslaw, applesauce, pasta salad, potato salad. . oickles. areek oeooers. carrot sticks, chips S salsa, cornbread Choice of chefs rice, homemade fries, baked potato or Iresh steamed broccoli with cheese sauce Shooters BBO Ribs & Chicken are Hickory smoked in our smoker and basted with a rich Finger Lickin Good BBO sauce Seafood & Fin Check Blackboard and Display . Case for Daily Fresh Seafood V Beef & Ribs & Feather "a Shooters Famous Beer Batter Fish Fry . . . 9.99 Fresh Utah Grilled Rainbow Trout 1 1.99 Pacific Broiled Halibut Steak 12.99 Fresh Alaskan Salmon Steak 13.99 Fresh Red Snapper Grilled or Mazatlan . . . 12.50 Sea Scallops Sauteed in Garlic Butter and Wine 13.99 Shrimp Scampi Sauteed. in Garlic Butter and Wine 14.99 Tempura Shrimp-Beer Battered Lightly Fried 14.99 Live Maine Lobster-pick your own-Steamed 1599 Blackened Cajun Fish of the Day Market Price Fresh Sealood of the Day Market Price RESERVATION & TAKE OUT 649-4666 Shooters Original Baby Back Ribs 12.99 Roasted or BBO 112 Chicken 10.99 Ribs & Chicken Combination 12.99 Choice Aged Hand Cut Top Sirloin 8oz . . 10.99 14oz. . . . 13.99 Shooters Combinations Make Your Own Top Sirloin, BBO Ribs, BBO Chicken, Alaskan Snow Crab, Tempura Shrimp, Shrimp Scampi, Sea Scallops Any 2 14.99 Any 3 16.99 Surf & Turf. ...Top Sirloin & Whole Steamed 1 14 lb. Maine Lobster 18.95 Steamed Maine Lobster, Oysters, Mussels, Clams 18.95 Choke ot Chefs Rice, Homemade Fries. Baked Potato or Fresh Steamed Broccoli with Cheese Sauce p Banquet room available. Large groups accommodated. To maintain low prices we accept cash, travelers checks, Visa and Mastercard. Special diets accommodated. No MSG or additives used. Pipe and cigar smoking prohibited. No smoking section. Reservations accepted. All entrees available for take out. 1 5 gratuity added to parlies of 6 or more. T I Park City Deer Valley Dr. n & Resort SHOOTERS ! i Stoplight OYSTER BAR u Cole Sport FISH MARKET Park City's most convenient location. ttn5Ike sa VeSim We accept: Visa and Mastercard, Travelers Checks with proper identification WE DELIVER 649-4666 by TEIU OUR Knowing the best bet... Sometimes you just gotta go with your gut. Last Saturday night I ushered in the New Year listening listen-ing to the gentle sounds of Peter Yarrow (yes, of Peter, Paul and Mary fame) and he said pretty much the same thing in his introduction to the song Stewball. "For most people I know," he said, "1988 would have been a better year if they had.. .well, there's a verse from this song that says it better 'I bet on . the grey mare and I bet on the bay, if I'd bet on old Stewball, I'd be a free man today." Funny, just a few nights before, slow dancing to a funky country western song I said to my dance partner and old friend, "did you ever feel like you bet on the wrong horse?" And his reply was, "you never think it's the wrong horse when you place your bet," then he spun me around the room to think about it. And I've been thinking a lot lately about making choices based on what other people think as opposed oppos-ed to the intuitive sense that goes off in the pit of your stomach when something doesn't quite ring true. Let me give you a few examples. A friend of mine gave her teenage daughter a certificate for a manicure for Christmas and the delighted girl asked if in addition to polish and soaking she could have acrylic nails put on. Her mother, really a fairly broad-minded woman, told me she answered quickly. "I don't think so I've only known one woman I ever trusted who had those things." And I nodded in complete agreement agree-ment because it backs up another female fake fixation fix-ation I had to address. I've only known maybe half a dozen women I could trust who dye their hair. I'm not talking here about coloring the roots to hide the grey still not my style, but numerous trustworthy women do that. What I'm talking about here is women who turn their hair, as my friend Ann once said, "a color col-or their momma never saw." Generally when you uncover those women, so to speak, you find various body parts have been tucked, sucked and uplifted. Somehow in the process a lot of those brains have been altered too. My largest personalprofessional bias however, comes in the form of, you guessed it, newspapers. People who read USA TODAY as their sole source of news think the issues from Wall Street, Washington, D.C., and Hollywood, can all be told in eight inches and each requires four-color graphics and a chart. I admit the full 75-inch story on the Middle East in the New York Times is not for everyone, nor will everyone follow the 30-inch analysis in the Wall Street Journal on why Broadway Broad-way ticket prices reflect the general state of the economy. But as long as we're tossing out generalities, people who read shallow news (exclusively, (ex-clusively, mind you) tend to be, yes, shallow people. peo-ple. Conversely, I know in my gut, I would like a friend of my friend, Heidi, who each year for the past five has celebrated a unique kind of birthday. Heidi's friend decided the shelf life of a Twinkie (you know that candy-cake confection) would outlast most Third World governments. So each year this lady lights a candle next to the unopened Twinkie package and at last count Twinkie was showing no visable signs of aging. And then, I've always known they'll come a time when deep in my gut when it will be right to respond res-pond to a gift I got years ago. A male buddy of mine gave me the, "Get Out of Jail Free," Monopoly card and a shiny dime. "If you ever feel you're desparate and are up against the wall, just call and wherever you are and wherever I am and whatever you need, I'll be there for you." And as tough as things have gotten this past year I couldn't bring myself to make the call, because I knew in my gut there are just so many "Get Out Of Jail Free" cards in a deck and you hate to use them up at the wrong times. And it strikes a vein with me one of the best lessons we can teach our children and one of the hardest lessons to remember as adults is, trust yourself. Call it an inner voice, call it your gut, it doesn't matter, just listen. My friend Jim likes to. quote that Kenny Rogers song, "You gotta know when to hold 'em, know to fold 'em," and I guess I would add know when to place your bets... M. X I Ztx CASSANDRA'S CLOSET I.X Sj U classy consignment shop) 4227 S. Highland Dr., Salt Lake It will be worth the drive! 278-5466 We feature ski clothing, jewelry, furs, designer and better quality "gently worn" womens clothing. The guide that goes with you! Chock full of information about Park City's skiing, shopping, dining and entertainment spots, including the City bus map! The FREE Winter 1988-89 issue can be found at over 60 locations throughout town. If you would like to distribute The Pocket Guide at your business, please call us! 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