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Show I Park Record Thursday, December 14, 1989 Page A17 Happy for helping hand Editor: During the last four very long months we have received the much needed help of many Park City businesses and friends. We would like to express our sincere appreciation apprecia-tion and heartfelt thanks to all of you for lending a helping hand when it was needed so much. A big thank you to The Yarrow, Albertsons, Shadow Ridge, Flower Box, Snow Hut and Z-Place. It is the support and helpfulness of businesses and friends alike that make Park City the best place in the world to live and work. We're almost ready to open ! Sneakers Private Club and Restaurant, Mark Stedman and Judy Foote Continue the confidence Editor: In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's turn-of-the-century Utopian novel, Herland, the most important jobs in the author's imaginary society were accorded to those who raised and educated children. It was Gilman's contention that children represented a culture's best hope for a sane and productive future. As the Park City school board budgets for the next fiscal year, I hope that its members will keep in mind just how important teachers are to the children of our next generation. The most modern classroom buildings are no replacement replace-ment for an experienced, creative and hard-working staff. Even the most dedicated staff, however, should be rewarded, and I would urge the school board to assign a generous portion of the new voted leeway to our teachers. A number of Park City's teachers are at the top of the salary scale, due to their education educa-tion and years of service, and while this can be expensive for a small school district, the fact remains that we can ill afford to replace such an excellent staff. The taxpayers have done their job in giving this district a resounding vote of confidence! May the school board give the same vote to their professional employees. Sincerely, Susan Elizabeth Gunter A Star with a heart of gold Editor: A very good friend of mine, Starla Durbin passed away the day before Thanksgiving. Since her accident, I have received many calls here in California from friends of hers that have wanted to know what happened. happen-ed. Starla had spent this past summer sum-mer working in Lake Powell and had anticipated moving back up to Park City for the winter. For the past couple cou-ple of months she had been working at a hunting lodge on the ColoradoNew Col-oradoNew Mexico border. It is a beautiful area and from what I understand she was really enjoying her stay there working as a waitress and enjoying the beautiful outdoors. On the morning of her death, her folks had received a phone call that she had been in a car accident a few miles away from the lodge. She apparently was either distracted or had fallen asleep at the wheel. Starla had worked for the Park City Race Dept., the Cattle Company and the Down-Under the past few winters. I went to her funeral on Monday and it really made me think about all the people Starla knew in Park City all of her friends and acquaintances the people peo-ple that really knew what a fun, outgoing friend she really was. She had a heart of gold. We'll all miss you, Star. Rest in Peace. Kim Gollin Boy Scouts gather food Editor: During the month of November, the Boy Scouts of Summit County gathered great quantities of food for the needy in our county. Daily Bread had the privilege of distributing a portion of this food to a multitude of families in our community. All I can say is "Three cheers for the Boy Scouts for a Job well done! 1 And, of course, thanks to the citizens In our community for their faithful support. Your efforts are appreciated by , all; especially, the grateful recipients. reci-pients. Keep up the good work I Daily Bread Touched by sincere sentiments Editor: In the past 10 days I have presided at two funeral services in Park City. The first was the memorial service for Craig Badami, and the second was a funeral service for Nina Lund. It is remarkable that I have not been called upon in well over a year of church ministry here to do any funerals. And suddenly, within a week, I have served two families and a town in their times of loss and sadness. These two funerals were markedly different. The memorial service for "C.B." was very high profile, with much fanfare and large community support. I was honored to be a part of it, and I thank the family, friends, and Park City Ski Area for their kindness to me. The event was appropriate, sincere, and healing. The funeral service for Nina Lund was small, held in St. Mary's Catholic Church, and also sincere and healing. Largely unnoticed, Nina Lund was a lifetime resident of Park City. Swedish in nationality, she had cared for her husband a long time after a mining accident, and after his death lived alone. After the funeral service we proceeded in cars with headlights on to Park City Cemetery. A few mortorists, not knowing how to avoid the procession, proces-sion, inadvertently joined it for some blocks. Two young adults in a sports car even honked in frustration for the delay. But one old man in overalls a well seasoned belly and weathered face took off his soiled cap and held it over his heart as we passed by. He stood at attention and it brought tears to my eyes; my heart in my throat. This was the most sincere sign of respect he could offer. Whoever he is, I thank him. How we treat the experience of death, how we honor those who die is a statement of how we value and live life. I have seen many honor those they have lost and do it well. But I especially thank that gentleman for his most sincere sentiment. Pastor Jonathan A. Nelson Shepherd of the Mountains Lutheran Church I Healthy food finally provided Editor: I would like to acknowledge the service that Albertsons is providing this community with the introduction introduc-tion of organically grown produce. In 1980 only a few states had organic food legislation. Now 21 states have laws that define or certify organically organical-ly grown food. And several more are expected to pass laws soon. To the people that demand healthy food which is raised with methods that protect the environment while building healthy soil and protecting human health by sharply reducing or eliminating toxic farm chemicals, organically grown produce is a long awaited necessity. Freda Wasson Insensitive coupon policy Editor: I was gratified to read Mr. Zin's letter concerning his inquiring of the Park City Resort as to why out of state property owners are refused the right to purchase lift ticket coupon books. It was very enlightening to hear Mr. Menlove state the Park City Ski Area (PCSA) position so well. I want to thank Mr. Menlove for making it painfully clear to me (and all out of state property owners who care to listen) that in PCSA's opinion, I am not amo ng those to be rewarded for having made a "real committment to the Park City Area." I doubt Menlove sets company policy. As Communications Manager he is simply a communication connection between owner, managment and the public. Let's be honest, policy is the responsibility of Mr. Badami (Nick and Craig), Mr. Jones, and Mr. Johnson. I find it unnerving to think that Mr. Craig (Ray) Johnson who sets and supports the narrow and insensitive insen-sitive resort coupon policy, also sits on the City Council. There is now, after this last election, a second PCSA employee on the council. What prevents the PCSA arrogant attitude towards out of state property owners from insediously creeping into city politics and city policy? The PCSA is guilty of a policy which is simply discriminatory, and a very poor business decision. It should be re-thought and corrected. Out of state property owners should be afforded the courtesy of fair and equal treatment as are other Utah residents. The PCSA "real committment" committ-ment" statement is ignorant and offends of-fends all out of state property owners. I do not appreciate the PCSA passing judgement on the level of my committment to the Park City Area. I will best be the judge of that. I will also best be the judge of where I spend my lift ticket money. Contrary to what PCSA management thinks, out of state pro-operty pro-operty owners do have options. There are Deer Valley, Park West, Alta, Snowbird, Brighton, Solitude, and Sundance. Richard Weber Chicago, 111. Park people support celebration celebra-tion Editor: The Park City Leisure Services Department would like to thank the community for attending the Christmas in the Park Celebration. Your gifts for the tree were especially especial-ly appreciated and truly added to the spirit of the season. This community celebration could not take place without the help and support of many volunteers. A special thanks to everyone who helped, particularly Santa for coming com-ing to the Park, Don Gomes for being be-ing the Master of Ceremonies, Mark Steadman for the use of the sleigh, Organic Fuel for the firewood, Park City Nursery for the Christmas Tree, Grub Steak and Sneakers for the use of the urns, Albertsons for the candy canes and Parleys Park Elementary School classes for their help in decorating the tree. Our thanks also to the Park City Community Com-munity Choir for keeping us in tune. Each year we hope to improve the Christmas in the Park celebration, therefore we welcome your suggestions sugges-tions and comments. Bob Johnston, Leisure Services Director Remarkable people perform the impossible Editor: As secretary to Craig Badami there were often times in our relationship rela-tionship when I was asked to do the impossible. Of course there were times I could not accomplish the impossible im-possible all by myself and I would have to rely on a network of people to help. Last week I was asked to do the "impossible" one more time, to help coordinate the memorial service ser-vice for C.B., and without the help of a lot of remarkable people, the final outcome would not have been as satisfying. First thanks, to Jim McNeill from United Concerts for taking care of all our sound needs and for thinking of the little things like making a copy of the service. Thanks to Terry Rem-mick Rem-mick and Randy Montgomery from the Resort Center for allowing us the use of their chairs and to Byron, Robert, Brooke, Lane and Wayne for setting up. Thank you Steve Nielson from Balloon Bonanza for coming up Saturday morning to help build the cage and get the balloons ready. Thanks to Karen Korfanta and Jim Clifford and the rest of our Race Department for decorating the stage with the flags and fencing and everything else that made it look so great. Thank you Ken Lantis from Lantis Fireworks for the display at the end of the service, it was beautiful. A very grateful thanks to Jody who knew what needed to be done before I did and went ahead and did it. I know it wasn't easy Charlie, but thanks for finding C.B.'s harmonicas so John Winston could present them to Nicholas. To Mark, thank you for stepping in at the last minute to substitute for Andy Mill. No offense to Andy, but no one could have done a better job than you did. To Hans and Jean at Steeps, thanks for not asking me to verify the final count of people that we expected at the lunch. I know it was hard to prepare under those circumstances. And to Geneva from Galleria Floral, I deeply appreciate your taking tak-ing the flowers down to Primary Children's Hospital. I really didn't know what to do when Avis suggested sug-gested that we donate the flowers to an area hospital. I know this letter is long and I'm sure there are people I'm forgetting, and I apologize to them. Many other people were involved in coordinating Craig's service, and to them I express ex-press my sincere appreciation. The service was so beautiful and it was such a fitting tribute to someone we all loved very much. Thank you. Sheri Allen Assistant to the Vice President, Craig Badami LlDciDgf week This week's dogs of the week are a pair of six-week-old Labrador mix pups. There is one male and one female; they are as friendly as pups should be. You can adopt a puppy or dog at the animal shelter, located across from McDonald's at Kimball Kim-ball Junction. The shelter is open weekdays from 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., and from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays. The shelter's phone number is 649-5449. 1989 Summit County dog licenses are now being sold at the Summit County Animal Shelter and sheriff's office in Coalville. All dogs in the county over six months must be licensed to a person per-son 18 or over. Mail-in applications applica-tions are available at the animal shelter or the Marsac Building. Fee is $12. Local veterinarians offer a free first examination to all adopted dogs. Owners can also receive discounts on spaying, neutering, and even dog grooming. Teenagers give thoughtful Thanksgiving Editor: We would like to recognize the students at the Park City High School for their kindness and thoughtfulness in choosing to reach out to others during the Thanksgiving Thanksgiv-ing season. These selfless teenagers planned a worthwhile project and proceeded to prepare several baskets of food with everything necessary for several wonderful Thanksgiving meals, complete with turkeys. ,v Additionally, we would like to thank the gentlemen who contacted us and dropped off food for two complete com-plete Thanksgiving meals, again including in-cluding turkeys. We really appreciate and thank you for your thoughtfulness. The joy on the faces of the recipients was a moment to be cherished. God bless you, Daily Bread, Jan and John Blum, Ozzie and Cindy Fulmer, Mark and Linda Hurd Angry residents out-of-town Editor: Two recent letters in your paper echoed my sentiments concerning the Park City Ski Area's (PCSA) policy which discriminates against part-time and out of town residents. I have been visiting Park City for five years now and purchased property pro-perty two years ago. I have been angry about the PCSA policy since I inquired about purchasing passes two years ago. I fail to see why someone so-meone who has made a committment committ-ment to Park City as a property Gourmet Gift Baskets 1500 Kearns Blvd. St.C-202 645-7519 WE WILL BE OPEN SATURDAYS THROUGH DEC. 23rd. 9 TO 5. Make your Holiday Shopping Easy! We 're open 9-5 M-Sat. Let us wrap, ribbon, and ship out one of our fabulous gift baskets to everyone on your shopping list. Our baskets are always well-received and make wonderful Christmas gifts. HAPPY HOLIDAYS! 645-7519 owner and tax payer, should In-discriminated In-discriminated against because they don't have a Utah drivers license I know that were I allowed to buy nine season pass or coupons, I would spend more time in Park City simply because I would feel more incentive to use my pass. I found that partially because of the PCSA policy I spent over half of my Utah ski days last season skiing at other ski areas I'm committed to Park City but not to the ski area. The PCSA should realize that there are a lot of very strong Park City supporters that don't live in town. Every opportunity 1 get I plug Park City to skiers I meet. More and more I'm plugging the town and encouraging en-couraging skiers to try all the ski areas particularly in light of the higher prices at Park City. Does the PCSA really think it is worth discriminating against its potential marketing force around the country? coun-try? Sincerely, Jeff Joslin i'h Park Record welcomes tetters to the editor on any subject. We ask that the letters let-ters adhere to the following guidelines; They should be submitted to the Park Record offices at 1670 Bonanza Drive or receiv ed In the mail P.O. Bos 3G88, PX It, 84060) no later than 8 p.m. . on Monday before publication. . They must be signed and include name address and telephone number of author. No letter will be published under an assumed name, They must not contain libelous material. Letters must not be longer than 350 words and should, if possible, be typtd. He reserve the right to edit letters if they are too long for the spat available or. if they contain statements we consider unnecessarily offensive offen-sive or obscene mm OfreeiaJ It keeps more than memories alive. THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION MEMORIAL PROGRAM. WE'RE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE American Heart Association This space provided as a public service. SHEARSON LEHMAN HurroN Charles G. Reynolds Investments Retirement Planning Estate Planning Asset Management tor Date and location of next Seminar To receive our newsletter Initial Complimentary Consultation Call 801 486-2201 800 662-0054 UT Watts 2348 Foothill Blvd. SLC. Ut. 84109 Located at mouth of Parleys Canyon Sifts, |