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Show Page AT 0 Thursday, April 20, 1989 Park Record Wlliis&dldlVai i OMAHA Kimapw? BY RICK BROUGII MM ill Mm i i i i i ,YJ iK,."---a-B." Mm.9 vft v- ...".....M,;,j Slush racing and global seminars Once again, it is the "mud" season. Parkites are enjoying those delightful spring days when green grass and brown dog piles poke their way out from under the snowpack. Some of us, however, never relax. The Park City Chamber and several individual businesses are hard at work dreaming up new events for the coming com-ing weeks, to make Park City a four-season resort. The Park City Ski Area, for instance, is attempting attemp-ting a brand-new concept for the last few days before they close. The new program, called Helicopter Slush Tours, is designed for the fanatic skier who wants to get every possible run he can out of the melting snow. Ski Area director Phil Splint told us, "In the Slush Tours, the chopper not only takes the skiers up to the top of the mountain, but follows them down to help them over the patches of dirt and grass. The skier sails down 25 feet of top-grade slush, then grabs onto the waiting rope-ladder when he hits a dry spot, sails over it, then drops off for the next 10 feet of powder, grabs the ladder, and so on down the slope. The skiers form buddy teams, one flying the copter the other skiing. It's a great new sport, calling upon the skiers to combine com-bine the grace and dexterity of Phil Mahre with the split-second timing of Evel Knivel." The ski area, unfortunately, turned down another event proposed for next month the Monster Mud Truck Uphill Time Trials. "It would have been great," said organizer Tony Turbo. "The rules for our trucks would be the same as our shows in the Salt Palace. They're judged on speed, distance and amount of splatter. Those wimps at the ski area moaned about the grass cover getting ripped up. But, hey, the vegetation grows better if you stir up the minerals in the soil ! " Another major spring event is being organized by Park City's Public Affairs Director Myles "Woodstock is Just a State of Mind" Rademan. Rademan has been drawing rave reviews (and rightly so) for his CommunityVision event, which drew together citizens from across Park City and the Snyderville Basin. Now Myles is working on a global version of the event. "I was inspired by Vail's resident celebrity, Gerald Fold, who organizes an international seminar there every year. It consists of Ford and other former world leaders offering their solutions to global problems, in spite of the fact they were all thrown out of office over a decade ago." Rademan's idea is called "GlobalVision: A Spring Spr-ing Thaw Discussion of International Issues." Here, over 350 current world leaders have been invited in-vited to sit down in living rooms all over Park City. Ci-ty. "We'll have a lot of mixing and matching. We might have Salman Rushdie sitting down on the couch next to the Ayatollah Khomeni. You could see Tammy Faye Bakker serving quiche balls to Muammar Khadafy, or Jake Garn talking about his space experiences with Danny Ortega. I'm also trying to get Abbie Hoffman, because, even in his present condition, I think he can add a light touch to the proceedings." His biggest problem, Rademan said, is that Park City residents are terrified of letting their homes be used for the meetings. "Let me assure you there will not be a bitching and bomb-throwing bomb-throwing session. Anyone caught with a Moloto cocktail will be asked to leave." The Park City Chamber, meanwhile, is excited about its newest event. On the last weekend in May, the citty will host a Time-Share Festival. Explained Russ Veneema, "For three days, con-do con-do share companies from throughout the country will be free to set up on our sidewalks, driveways and roads, and from there they can harass, cajole, wheedle or seduce passersby to their heart's content. con-tent. We see it as a sort of Walpurgis Night of outdoor out-door solicitation. "It's forbidden the rest of the year, but for this weekend, the sales people can get it out of their system. We see this as a good time to have a Time-Share Time-Share Festival since so many Parkites have left town anyway for the season. Salesman in the city streets should be warned, though, that 'Watch for Pedestrian' laws will not be strictly enforced." Finally, the Park City Council has been approached ap-proached by a unique group of history buffs who want to hold their annual retreat in Deer Valley. The group is called the Satanic Cult Rendezvous organization, and their representative, Randolf, Prince of the Netherworld, hastily assured the council that his group is not associated with the bestial Satanic groups now making headlines." He said, "That is the goofy, fringe element of our movement. We're a family-oriented event the Manson Family, the Addams Family. We're just interested in reviving the old customs of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries stuff like reincarnating souls, astral surfing and turning turn-ing toads into lawyers." The event runs for a week in Deer Valley. The last two days, the Satanists will be joined by the Spanish Inquisition Society for their traditional competittion including Iron Maiden events, stone-crushing stone-crushing and leech-racing. This has caused some concern to Fire Marshal Sam Coleman. "Basically, the Park City Fire District has to be watchful any time one group of visitors comes to town with the intent of roasting another tourist group. In spite of our good snowfall this year, the summer hillsides will still be dry. So we're going to insist that at least one pumper truck be present for any burnings at the stake." Strike a Venim by TEItl ORR Happy interplanetary trails For years, when my daughter Jenny has done something a bit out of step with the norm, my son and I have affectionately called her a space cadet. And this past weekend she genuinely was one a space cadet that is. Down at Brighton High School, tucked into the corner of a science classroom, is a facsimile of a space module. StarLab has now housed 59 successful suc-cessful missions and has safely returned all of its crew members. With three stacked bunks, a microwave oven, a chemical toilet and a couple of chairs, the windowless capsule isn't as big as a pair of walk-in closets. When my daughter, the WASP Princess, volunteered to be locked-in with seven other kids for 60 hours to experience the effects ef-fects of space travel confinement and cooperation, I thought she had a black hole in her head. But I signed the forms knowing with any luck she would would learn a good deal about science and a great deal about herself on her mission. After all this wasn't my first time as the mother of an astronaut it was just last summer her brother had been on a similar StarLab voyage. I knew she would need to pack her own food and pillow and towel. I knew that I could come down to the center during the orbit and talk to Jenny from Mission Control and see her only through the use of a video camera placed inside the capsule. Like real space travelers, these cadets slept in shifts and performed a variety of tasks almost every 15 minutes from navigating their course in the universe to taking their blood pressure and temperature. To relieve the tension and stress and occasional boredom, different groups try to amuse themselves different ways. I am proud to say, my son organized the first recorded limbo contest in space to my knowledge. On Jenny's flight, (and this comes as no surprise to me) they managed to paint the toenails and fingernails of the largest male crew member while he slept. And create a one-act play performed before the Mission Mis-sion Control cameras that included The Attack of the Poison Pretzels and The Revenge of the Twizzlers or something like that. Props are limited in space... Inside the capsule with its computer screens and engineering control panel and exercycle, students become Commanders and medical of ficers and have to face ion storms and aliens and possible mutiny. And in the cramped quarters, they learn about personal space as well as outer space. On Sunday noon, a large group of parents and friends waited outside the capsule listening to the instructions given by Mission Control and watching wat-ching the screen to see the simulated landing take place. And like the actual touchdown, there was a great cheer and applause as the craft was pronounced pro-nounced .safely landed. When the crew emerged from the taped hatch cover, they were smiling in their matching shirts and they looked none the worse for wear. In the de-briefing the most consis-tant consis-tant answer to any question was a giggle. And every crew member, Princess included, said they would sign up for another flight. Re-entry back up the canyon, (which included stops at both Baskin Robbins and McDonald's) Jenny only stopped talking long enough to chew. She babbled nonstop about the assignments they had and the challenges and disorientnation and the pranks they played and who was nice and who was cranky. Surprisingly, she was not. When she , got home she kept babbling as she crawled under the covers and fell into a deep, clean-sheeted, double-bedded sleep. When Jenny did finally awake and join us for dinner, she and her brother had a civil, even animated conversation about the differences in their missions. The fellow space travelers had a shared bond that I envied. I never attended a school-sponsored three-day co-educational slumber party. My level of coping skills under stress were formed by real stress in my early twenties. And it struck a vein with me we are lucky to live in a community where so many unique uni-que educational opportunities exist for students at every age level. When it came time for bed and Jenny made some goofy comment about something, Raiidy said in his familiar phrase, "Oh earth to Jenny, come in Jenny. " And we laughed about how Jenny Jen-ny often seems to be traveling to a galaxy far, far away. 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