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Show C-14 The Parfr Record Saturday, July 1, 2000 ffr Hare Acres of Trees Aspen Cottonwood Spruce 5hrubs Willow Lots of Perennials & Annuals Birds Love Irees Park City "U A now H'w Gtohj" HWY 2:4, across from the Blue Roof Market 649-0169 Sprinkler Division 649-1363 Nursery A. Have you had pain lor several months or years? Do you feel like your hack is killing you? Do You use medications - with only temporary relief? Does pain cause you anxiety and depression? Do you suffer from a sport related injury? A: It the answer is yes to any of these questions, there is hope! ALPINE PAIN CLINIC i9:i SICEAINDER OR SUITE 108. PARK. CITY UT 84060 We Specialize in non-surgical treatment Prolotherapy Acupuncture Physical Therapy Neck & Back Pain Joint Pain Sports Injuries Migraines KENNETH HURWITZ, M.D. SIMON A.VOITANIK, M.D., PH.D ERIK DE BRUIJN, P.T. 1 TV than a phone book -A Dining r Guide Includes menus from the areas top restaurants 'I Coupon Section Valuable savings at your favorite local stores tX --4 Community mm Guide .p& r-rr"- l r ina oui wnai s going on ' in Park City For additional copies calL 800-443-0801 PHONE DIRECTORIES COMPANY News nuggets from the West Continued from C-13 sport utility chicles arc dangerous danger-ous to small cars, chug gas and are environmentally unfriendly. At the same time, shareholders were told that Sl'Ys brought in record profits of $7.2 billion last year, with some models carrying profit margins of nearly $15,000. The car maker said it was trying to become more "transparent" about the environmental problems prob-lems it faces. "But William Clay Ford Jr., Ford chairman, and Jac Nasser, the company's president and CEO. said the company would continue to build and market mar-ket Sl'Ys to meet customer demand." AP reports. "Pet owner" is becoming an obsolete term in Boulder, Colo. Like San Francisco and Marin County. Calif. Boulder is moving toward changing all references of pet owner to "pet guardian." reports The Denver Post. Animal-rights advocates say the language shift will encouiage residents res-idents to see their dogs and cats as family members, instead of chairs or appliances. "It's all part of an elfort to elevate the status of animals from property to individuals." indi-viduals." says Jan McHugh. head of the Humane Society of Boulder alley. Boulder's city council decides next month whether the term pet owner bites the dust. Prize-bearing cockroaches are still prowling 14 cities in America, including Portland. Ore., where a contest sponsor talked about the angst of gluing a bar code to a roach's belly. The bar code ensures the lucky finder a new Volkswagen bug or $1 million. mil-lion. Robert McMaster of Halt Pest Control in Beavcrton. Ore., says the 25 or so roaches selected for scurrying in his city had to be cooled down to slow them down, then held still while a special glue was applied to their abdomens. The glue held the bar codes fast. "It's really hard to do." McMaster complained to Willamette Week. "1 never want to do that again." Does he ever feel sorry about exterminating hundreds of thousands thou-sands of the animals that frequent damp, dark places? "They're invasive, nasty creatures." he says. "Their sheer numbers are an aesthetic concern! You can be easily overwhelmed. No, I hate cockroaches!" America's military never disappoints. dis-appoints. There must be nothing it has not thought of including using the moon as a stage set for showing off. A 72-year-old physicist physi-cist recently spilled the beans in a letter to the journal Sature about our wanting to bomb the moon. Leonard Reiffel said that in 1958. he led a team of 10 people, including the late astronomer Carl Sagan. in planning the feat. The bomb would be similar in power to the one that devastated Hiroshima, and Reiffel said the nuclear flash would show the Soviet Union that we had enough atomic chutzpah to respond to an attack. The Russians had launched their satellite Sputnik in 1957, and the United States' best effort in 1958 mustered only a puny satellite weighing 10.5 pounds. The Air Force effort, centered in Albuquerque, N.M., didn't waste too much time on the moonglow scheme, Reiffel said. It was abandoned within a year. Julia Butterfly Hill came dow n from her tree, but up in Eureka, Calif.. Nate Madsen is still living in an ancient redwood 170 feet off the ground. He calls the tree Mariah. and he says he won't leave her until Maxxam's Pacific Lumber grants the tree and its grove clemency, reports Eco-Sews. Eco-Sews. Madsen has descended to the ground a few days every month but skipped his graduation from Humboldt State University last month to guard his perch. Madsen used to work as a brewer, where ironically he was represented rep-resented by the International Woodworkers Union. While tree-sittirg. tree-sittirg. he kept up with college courses by using a laptop computer. comput-er. Betsy Marston is the editor of High Country Sews lwww.hcn.org). which has covered cov-ered natural resource and community commu-nity issues in the American West for 30 years She can be reached at HCX ' Box KW. Paoma. Colo. 81428 or hetsym? hcn.org. Steamboat boosts season pass rates While other resorts cut ski pass prices, Steamboat raises its rates by $50 STEAMBOAT SPRINGS. Colo. (AP) While several major Colorado ski resorts are cutting their puces. Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp. is boosting its season pass by $50 to $845. And that price w ill only be good until Aug. 15. when it jumps to $1,050. After Dec. 1 it rises to $1,175. The pass includes a free pass for a child younger than 12 and represents a tv3 percent increase over last y ear's price. Colorado resorts suffered through their worst-ever season last year, despite having more snow than the season before. Last year, the price of an adult season pass was $795. the first time since IW that Meamhoat had the bargain "buddy passes" sold by many Front Range resorts. This coming season. Vail Associates is offering season passes pass-es to Keystone. Breckenridge and A-Basin 'for $249. and 10 days of skiing at Vail and Beaver Creek and unlimited skiing at Keystone, Breckenridge and A-Basm for $299. Copper Mountain and Winter Park are offering unlimited passes for under $300. Although Steamboat was an exception to the industry malaise its skier v isits were up by 2 percent last year it remained below its 1997-98 figures. Resort spokesman Mike Lane ;aid his company will offer alternatives to the season nass. priced a season p belovy VTie IrySriJ to rn'akv (the ski The lower price was a response to pa4s structofe'l fib thai 'fofHi- aM JML&t Ey.?.-- of options for all skier habits and price ranges." he said. Steamboat's Value Pass program, pro-gram, which started last year to offer skiers various combinations of regular-season ski days and value-season ski days, will be modified in line with suggestions by users. "We got a lot of feedback from people using them and they requested that we adjust the davs." Lane said. The 20 20 Value Pass has been replaced by the 20 10 Value Pass, w hich offers 20 regular season skiing ski-ing davs and 10 value season davs for $630. The 20 '20 Value Pass was $hf0 last season. Steamboat also is offering a 10 5 Value Pass for $375. A 1010 Value Pass starts at $445 and a 5 5 Value Pass starts at $270. It means skiing with a Value Pass will cost from $21 to $27 minimum per day. depending s I Poor Coj |