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Show IN THE B SECTION Crossword B-4 Scene & Heard B-5 Professional Services B-6 Travel B-7 Restaurant Guide B-8 TV Listings B-15 Classifieds B-16 The Vtt'in ummt! Hf time IHHO vmw.parkcityonline.com SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1 998 SCENE EDITOR: Kirsta H. Bleyle 649-9014 ext. 1 04 3 y Vn-iBj( Summit Hf Kf.i WO Park Record - A l IN Local poet releases CD of his work by Kirsta H. Bleyle OF THE RECORD STAFF Long-time Parkite Mike Hamill is an accomplished bodybuilder and personal trainer - a seemingly odd combination for a man whose passion pas-sion is poetry. For Hamill, however, being the only known "bodybuilding poet" offers a unique hook. "The two terms are kind of a paradox," par-adox," explains Hamill, a two-time Mr. Utah Masters Champion., who has also won the Mountain States Open Masters title, and recently finished fin-ished fifth in the 1998 Mr. U.S.A. Championships. Hamill, 42, will celebrate the release of his CD, "A Father's Love Letters," this Tuesday, Dec. 8, during a party at the Inn at Prospector Square. The evening begins at 7 p.m., and is presented by the Wooden Dog Celebrity Concert Series. "A Father's Love Letters" is inspired by Hamill's experience as a single father raising his 14-year-old daughter, Harmony, who is a freshman fresh-man at Park City High School and was named after an Elton John song. Raising a daughter by himself for the past 10 years was "a lot of fun," explains Hamill, adding that Harmony also has inclinations toward poetry. She wrote "The Hand Poem," the 12th track on the CD. Hamill describes the project as Rod McKuen meets Peter Gabriel, as he provides the spoken word, while local recording artist, Rich Wyman, provides keyboard accompaniment. The rest of the band is comprised Wyman and his wife, Lisa Needham, also provide the background vocals for Hamill's songs. Additionally, Johnny Lightfoot plays bass and Michael Johnson plays saxophone. Hamill and Wyman produced the album together, which, according to Hamill, "started about five years ago, and it's taken a long time to find somebody interested in supporting it financially." A native of Zanesville, Ohio, Hamill left the Air Force in 1981 and came to Utah at the prompting of a friend at Hill Airforce Base. He started writing poetry seriously in 1977, and published "Simple Thoughts" in 1982. In 1992, he turned "Simple Thoughts" into a stage play, featuring featur-ing dialogue comprised entirely of poetry. The play ran for two weeks at the Kimball Art Center. Currently, Hamill can be seen on "The Park City Morning Fitness Show," a half-hour program that airs Please see Hamill, B-6 Write until the dogs come home Tom Clyde's no - holds together in "More Dogs by Kirsta H. Bleyle OF THE RECORD STAFF In the 1970s, there was a Park City mayoral candidate named O.D. McGee whose platform was catchy, yet poignant, during a time of community metamorphosis. For McGee, "More Dogs on Main Street" said it all. According to Park Record columnist and long time Summit County resident, Tom Clyde, that phrase is reminiscent of a Park City of yore, when everything was more laid back and "every bar in town had two dogs on the sidewalk for every patron inside." Clyde, 44, has adopted adopt-ed McGee's aphorism as the title of his first book, "More Dogs on Main Street," due out the week of Dec. 7. A compilation com-pilation of Clyde's columns from The Park Record, "More Dogs" serves as a sort of timeline time-line for Park City, marking mark-ing the most talked about and controversial controver-sial policy decisions and events that have occurred during the past 10 years. For the last decade, Clyde has been poking fun at the foibles of Parkites through his weekly column, finding endless fodder among the local, national and international scandals and slip-ups of high-profile individuals. But, above all else, the Park City and Summit County governments govern-ments have managed to garner the bulk of Clyde's attention, inspiring such column headers as "Intermodal Transportation Paradigm," and "Gay Senators' Film Festival." According to Clyde, "You just couldn't could-n't make up a place like this." His position as purveyor of tongue-in-cheek political parodies has not developed from being a mere by stander. Rather, Clyde comes from within the hallowed halls of Park City government, having served as city attorney from 1982 through 1987 a time when the bottom was falling out of the local economy and city hall was forced into a period of layoffs. lay-offs. Clyde began his tenure with the city or a Blowout benefit sale A giant blowout sale comprised of excess stock from local wholesaler merchants will be held next Saturday, Dec. 12, from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. at the Park City High School, 1750 Kearns Ave. All of the merchandise is in great condition, and includes items such as jewelry, clothing, art, and toys. Ten percent of the total sales for the day will got to the Park City High School Drama ClubDance - barred humor comes on Main Street" when the government offices were still located in the historic city hall on Main Street, which is now the location of the Park City Museum and Historical Society offices. There was only one bathroom in the building, and people had to pass through Clyde's office to use it. Then, after the city moved to its current cur-rent headquarters in the Marsac Building formerly Park City Elementary School he was given a classroom class-room for an office and watched as Park City r,e novated the building to handle its nascent growth. Back then, like today's Park City, people thought the state of economic prosperity was permanent. "Everybody," notes Clyde, "thought the boom would last forever." But a nationwide recession in the early 1980s was hard-hitting for American resort towns. An excess of real estate inventory caused economic paralysis in Park City, and established residents found out that their situations weren't exactly stable. cause . . ., , v rU if ' 8 : .. 4 T YJ) $t i ft U'...JJtf.. . M -7W TP Jiff" TT ' w, , Summit County Parents and Advocates of Persons With Disabilities, a support group serving persons will all disabilities regardless of age, will hold its next meeting Wednesday, Dec. 9, at 7 p.m. in Kamas at the Kamas Middle School. There will be a performance by the theater troupe "Creatability," plus a pre-performance workshop work-shop for older students and adults from 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. The meeting is free. For more information, con- Bring Someone Special ...ON US!!! nivntioiisc c - 5 4 0 M a i n S tree t 649-3536 for reservations 1. hf-fl IH IWlQii "It was awful in town," Clyde says as he thinks back to the days when the job he thought would be fairly laid back proved to be more stressful than expected. expect-ed. "People were getting their houses foreclosed." Additionally, because of the drop in the real estate market, the city had to deal with projects that were left half-completed half-completed because the money ran out. Hard times made work at city hall stressful, prompting local officials to place phony items on the city council's agenda. The items would, at times, be outlandish, he explains, but it was part of an effort to lighten the overall mood. i f Clyde gives credit to those phony agenda items as part of the genesis of his column, col-umn, the inception of which came about the same time he left his post at Park City Municipal. He recalls former Park Record editor, Teri Orr, suggesting he write a column using, in his words, "deep inside poop and political analysis of who was doing what." According to Clyde, they believed he might be able to touch upon "sinister plots" that just weren't there. What was there, however, was a wealth of material just waiting to be parodied. Park City, he says, was transforming trans-forming from a "good ol' boy government," govern-ment," into one that was more profes rentadvocate support sional. Over the next decade, Clyde amassed a body of work encompassing more than 600 columns. Of those, he chose the ones that could best be grouped together togeth-er into chapters, while also eliciting from the readers memories of past events in Park City. The chapter titles are often as entertaining enter-taining as the columns themselves, and include: "Twenty Years of Planning and We Still Haven't Got it Right;" "Festivals, "Special Events, and Other Reasons to Leave Town;" "Squashed Mail Boxes and Other Realities of Living in the Mountains;" and "The More Things Change, the Less They Stay the Same. Clyde's writing is reminiscent remi-niscent of columnist ; Dave Barry, however, his columns seem to speak directly to those who live in, and visit, Park City and its envi- ; rons. Parking meters, traffic calming and cows on Main Street are all topics that, through his columns, Clyde has taken to a different level of, some might say, appreciation. Raised in Salt Lake City, Clyde would spend summers in Woodland, -where he now serves as manager for his family's Diamond Bar X Ranch. He earned his undergraduate under-graduate and law degrees from the University of Utah, and practiced in his father's Salt Lake City law firm for three years before taking the job with Park City in 1982. Clyde might not have moved to Park City until the early 1980s, but v j.. his experiences date back to days spent skiing ski-ing at Park City Ski Area, where he says he's been a patron ever since it opened in 1963. In recent years, Clyde has worked as an attorney in private practice. He retired earlier this year, and spends much of his time running the Diamond Bar X Ranch, while working on other projects. The inspiration to print a book of his columns came from many sources, Clyde notes. "I've actually had a lot of people say it would be fun to have (a book)," he says, adding that "it's an interesting history his-tory of the period." Clyde has printed 2,000 copies of "More Dogs on Main Street," and says Please see 'More Dogs,' B-4 Mental health support The Journey of Hope support group, affiliated affili-ated with Alliance for the Mentally III of SummitWasatch counties, meets the first Wednesday of every month, 7 p.m. at the Valley Mental Health conference room, 1753 Sidewinder Dr. The meeting is open to anyone with a friend or loved one with serious mental illness. For more information, call Mary or Ray to Dinner Bring Someone Special to Dinner...0N US!!! RECEIVE A COMPLIMENTARY ENTREE WHEN YOU PURCHASE ANOTHER OF EQUAL OR GREATER VALUE Simply present this card to your server. Limit one certificate per party. Alcoholic beverages and gratuity are not included. Not valid in conjunction with any other offer. OFFER VALID SUNDAY - THURSDAY ONLY Expires 121798 HIVEHHOUlf 540 Main Street 649-3536 3 |
