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Show A-12 The Park Record Saturday, June 21, 1997 3 MAKERS OF FIXE LOG FURNITURE SINGE W88 Kids love it Spruce up the guest room Accent any room Cash & Carry specials . CVy 20 minutes from Park City 23 South Akin Coafvlif Utah w a r 'I - 'A' I 7 f -1 VV', A 0, 'Hp 'It 7 r (- 5 0 8 MAIN ST. PARK CITY u' u- w . c i t y v c a r c h . c wn s 1 c a m e k c e p e r s Youth Summer Camps with Continuing Education School may be out, but the opportunity for children to explore, create, and learn continues in Continuing Education camps at Park City. This summer ive offer six fun camps, including the following: Balancing Act, an art and science camp in which kids expand their artistic skills by applying the principles of balance to art (June 23-27, for children 6-11) Babysitting Basics, teaching students how to be safe and creative babysitters (June 23- 27, for children 11-1&) Pee Wee Picassos, allowing kids to learn about line, design, and color while having fun through storytelling, story-telling, music, and games (July 7-11, for children 4-5) Let's Clay Together, a sculpting camp for children and their parents, grandparents, aunts, or uncles (July 12, 19, 31, or August 7; for children 6 and older) Music from Mud: A Clay Intensive Workshop, where kids hand build and sculpt wind chimes, rattles, bells, and whistles (July 14-1&, for children 7 and older) Nature Detectives, in which kids learn to identify a variety of plants, animals, and insect species on hikes to local sites (July 28-August 1, for children 8-11) For more information on any of the above camps, call University of UtahPark City at 645-Uofll (8630). Park Record Traveler O Preparing a lightweight medical kit can ease travelers' ills when on the road by Shirley Smith RECORD GUEST WRITER I was getting ready for the June 16 Park City trip to China, getting immunizations and preparing a small medical kit, and started thinking about what we should consider when traveling into areas of the world different than our own. I came up with the following checklist and hope it may be helpful help-ful to those of you planning foreign for-eign travel. Not all suggestions will apply to your trip, but it may be a helpful checklist. Warning: Since interactions between drugs can occur, and not all medications are suitable for each person, be sure to check the appropriateness of the remedies mentioned below with your physician physi-cian andor pharmacist. The following are some suggestions sugges-tions you might find helpful: Documents Bring with you a list of your health conditions any allergies you may have, what medications you take and any known drug conflicts con-flicts or interactions. Carry your prescription for eyeglasses andor contact lenses if you use them. Medications 1. Prescription medication: Leave these in their original packaging pack-aging to avoid customs inquiries. 2. Non-prescription medications medica-tions that you use regularly. 3. Painkillers for short-term pain relief. You might consider the following: Acetaminophen (generic), (gener-ic), a familiar brand name is Tylenol: Acetaminophen with codeine (by prescription), to tide you over until you can see a doctor: doc-tor: Naproxen, marketed as Aleve and good for muscular pain relief; Antihistamine, such as Allegra. 4. Antidiarrheal medication: Carry both Loperamide and Pepto Bismol. 5. Laxatives 6. Antibiotics: Ask your doctor or a travel medicine specialist which antibiotic you should take for various conditions. 7. Eye drops: Artificial tears for dry eyes and Polytrim drops (Rx) for infection. 8. Motion sickness medication: Bonine or dramamine. 9. Skin ointments: Hydrocortisone, 1.0 percent cream for rashes and stings; and Polysporin ointment for minor skin infections. 10. Spare contact lenses, contact con-tact lens fluid andor glasses. Miscellaneous 1. Moist towelettes: look for Wet Ones or something similar. 2. Band-aids, adhesive tape, bandages and gauze pads 3. Elastic bandage for sprains 4. Swiss Army knife with scissors scis-sors and tweezers (the latter for splinter removal)' 5. Moleskin and a second skin dressing for foot blisters 6. Thermometer 7. Sunscreen: should be 15 or greater and waterproof. 8. Lip balm 9. Insect repellent: should contain con-tain at least 30 percent DEET, such as Deep Woods Off. 10. A water-purifying chemical in case no safe drinking water is available. Before you leave 1. Make sure your vaccinations are up to date. Get tetanus shots every five years, even if you are not traveling. 2. Inquire about needed immunizations immu-nizations or booster shots well ahead of time. (Park City residents resi-dents should consider contacting Snow Creek Emergency and Medical Center at 655-0055, as they specialize in providing travelers' travel-ers' medical information and immunizations.) Before you travel, you may wish to consider consulting the "International Travel Health Guide" by Stuart R. Rose, M.D., which is available from bookstores or from Travel Medicine Inc., 351 Pleasant St. Suite 312, Northhampton, Mass. 01060; telephone tele-phone 1-800-872-8633. Bon Voyage and I hope you won't need most of the above! Shirley Smith is an owner of Avenir Travel and Adventures and makes several foreign trips a year. In addition to all regular travel services, Avenir specializes in foreign travel and adventures. The office is located at 2029 Sidewinder Dr. next to the State Liquor Store, 649-2495. Wilderness Society names Escalante as one of 1 0 endangered wildlands in the nation Drilling plans for Kaiparowits Plateau are criticized by environmental organization As Conoco begins moving oil drilling equipment inside the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Southern Utah, The Wilderness Society named the ;rea one of the nation's 10 most endangered wild-lands wild-lands in the country. The report was released to mark National Lands Celebration, started on Flag Day, June 14. last year in recognition of the nearly one million square miles of National Parks and other lands that belong to all Americans and the challenges society faces in trying to protect these places for future generations. genera-tions. "The area where Conoco is proposing to drill has wide, level benches, broad canyons and harsh cliffs." said Pam Eaton. Four Corners regional director. "The bald eagles and mountain lions and the vast, rugged remote wilderness will be at serious risk if Conoco goes ahead with its plans." Conoco wants to drill exploratory wells in the heart of the monument on the Kaiparowits Plateau. The oil company com-pany announced June 6 that it was sending equipment to drill on a section of land owned by the state of Utah. Conoco, a Du Pont subsidiary, also has applied for a permit to drill on nearby federal land. The public has until June 27 to comment on the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) environmental envi-ronmental assessment of those plans. The other nine areas cited by the report included four national wildlife refuges (Arctic NWR in Alaska; Okefenokee NWR in Georgia and Florida; Cabeza Prieta NWR in Arizona: and Klamath Basin NWR in Oregon and California). Also listed were Snoqualmie Pass in Washington, the California Desert, the Whitney Estate in New York's Adirondacks, the Owyhee Canyonlands in Idaho and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Minnesota. In creating the national monument monu-ment last September, President Clinton said, "remoteness, limited travel corridors and low visitation have all helped to preserve intact the monument's important ecological eco-logical values." Now Sen. Robert Bennett (R-Utah) has introduced legislation, S. 357, that could potentially undo the new monument monu-ment by reopening the area to mining, oil and gas development, logging and road construction. "By allowing people to strip the precious lands of the monument, monu-ment, S. 357 would undermine the President's clearly stated goal of protecting the area's unique geological, geo-logical, historical, biological, archaeological, and other values," said Eaton. In March, a Garfield County Commissioner asked a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee for $2 million per year for road work inside the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Today's report dealt with threats facing both lands that have been formally protected as wilderness and those that have not. "We are not in a position to lose too many of these battles," the document said. "Only four percent of the nation's land is part of the National Wilderness Preservation System; in the Lower 48, only two percent is. We believe that the size of the system should double eventually." Founded in 1935, The Wilderness Society is a 250,000-member 250,000-member non-profit conservation group dedicated to preserving wilderness and wildlife, protecting protect-ing America's prime forests, parks, deserts, rivers and shore-lands, shore-lands, and promoting an American land ethic. 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