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Show C-8 The Park Record SatSunMonTues, July 24-27, 2004 f i , ' 1 'r "': I. . II llo.uiCMH' Him WieiV ; 1 ( ' Doug had been missing for over 24 hours who n II IC's I ill-l:liiht ill-l:liiht helicopter found him on a lodge about !?() (fit In-low tin- top of a rlilT. He'd l".illtn while hunting ami seriously injurt'd his ('titling oil IiImkI ril i nl.ition below the knee. In addition, he was sulFcrinj; from sewre hypothermia. 'ITie I ile flight rrew hoisted Doug off the ledge and loaded him into the helicopter. Within ,?? minutes thev touched down at the 1 evel 1 Trauma Center at IDS Hospital. ( )nlv two hospitals in the region are rlassiiicd as 1 evel -I 'Irauma Centers. 'Io receive the classification, a hospital must have a wide variety ol surgeons and oilier spe ialists who can respond . within a moment's not in' to any situation, for Doug, time was especially critical. Muscle tissue can only survive so long without adequate blood supply. Because deadly toxins were building up in his injured limb, I )oui; wis literally minutes away from losing his leg and possibly his life. As ihc clock ticked, orlhopedii and jscul.tr sui'tjeon.s worked to restore blood flow to Doily's leg. RfS INTER 4s ! V Ui'iuq lus it; ik jnil fv hi lift'" lodav l)fiuu walks, hikt-s and joos. Whih he still must do more rehabilitation, he has the use of both his legs. As Doug is quick to sav, "I'm just edad to have a second chance." In U-ai n ini iii- about the Level I Trauma Center at LDS I lospital, visit UIC.com. mountain Health Care I H h S II M t; R t N t It A I i. IJ H A I I H C U I MM I; t t I It I- N V lit) .N www.parkrecord.com Mountain bikers cannot live on HIGH-CARB ENERGY BARS ALONE. Fortunately, our 50 miles of lift-served trails also come with award-winning cuisine. After a scenic ride to the top via Sterling lift, and an exhilarating ride or hike down, relax and enjoy Royal Street's tempting menu and cold brews. And new this year, you can get to Royal Street from Snow Park via Silver Lake Express chairlift. y n... itj....j.. e 1 jlj-j. June 1$' through Labor Day, then bikmg weekends only through September ig", conditions permitting. 8 0 0 . 4 2 4 . I) F E R ( 3 3 3 7 ) DEERVALLEY" www.deervalley.com Eire camp becomes mini-city By CHRIS TALBOTT MediaNews Group Wire FAIRBANKS, Alaska Alaska's fastest growing town isn't Fairbanks or Wasilla or even that leviathan Anchorage. The Boundary Fire incident command com-mand post on the Steese Highway has become a bustling mini-metropolis with a very transient population that sat at 830 Wednesday. That was good enough to make the Boundary camp the 65th biggest town in the state, just a little bit smaller than Delta Junction. The population was zero two weeks ago. But give the camp another anoth-er 48 hours and it should swell right on into quadruple digits, pushing the limits of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration facility the camp inhabits. " We've got five or six more crews on order," said Wayne Kleckner, plans section chief for the Type I Incident Management Team that is coordinating efforts on the blaze. "We're probably going to get them and we're already at capacity, so we're looking at ways to make it fit." Jammed inside the gates at the NOAA facility, a weather satellite listening post, is an infrastructure that many towns in Alaska would envy and hundreds of tents where exhausted firefighters crash during their eight-hour rest period each night The Boundary camp has its own first-aid, supply and fuel stations, security personnel, laundry and clean-up crew. There are showers in , a mobile trailer, outdoor sinks and wash stations, and dozens of portable toilets. Hungry? The North Slope Catering staff produces 2,100 meals a day, with a hot breakfast (2,000 eggs cracked each morning) and dinner din-ner (steak and salmon, among other entrees). The sack lunch is nothing to sneeze at either, each stuffed with 6,000 calories worth of nutrition. "That's enough for a couple of people," fire information officer Paul Slenkamp joked as he rummaged rum-maged through a brown paper bag. There's even an industrial-sized coffee maker that runs on propane and is good for more than 10 gallons of joe. "They used to make them out of garbage cans," said Joe Stam, an Alaska Department of Natural Resources forester. "The technology's technolo-gy's improved. " The camp has just about anything a tired, dirty firefighter could want in the few hours of down time crews get as they wrestle with the 484,000-acre 484,000-acre Boundary Fire, which has forced the evacuation of Haystack Mountain and looms to the north of the Chena Hot Springs Road area. While big fire camps can be common com-mon in the Lower 48, they're a rarity rari-ty in Alaska, officials said Wednesday. Type I teams elite coordination groups that travel around the country coun-try from fire to fire are only called in for large blazes. While the Boundary Fire qualifies as big. the attack doesn't. Already Alaska's emergency firefighting crews have been spread thin and more than 1,500 personnel have come north from outside. But Alaska's location limits the amount of resources that can be brought up from the contiguous states, where fire season is just getting started. And while some structures are threatened in Alaska, thousands in the Lower 48 can be endangered by even the smallest wildfire. Fire information officer Don Ferguson put the difference in perspective. per-spective. "There's more people fighting a 4,000-acre fire in Southern California right now than there are fighting 3.2 million acres of fires in Alaska," he said. 'Home' love triangle is 'mtriguing' (AP) Much ado has been made about a scene that was trimmed from "A Home at the End of the World" in which Colin Farrell bares all. Supposedly the very sight served as an insurmountable distraction to preview audiences. But so much else is going on in the script from "The Hours" author Michael Cunningham that a full-frontal full-frontal Farrell might have been the last thing to pop up in people's memories mem-ories after leaving the theater. The film adapted from his 1990 novel of the same name follows the love triangle that forms among Farrell's character, Bobby; his child-lux child-lux kI friend. Jonathan (theater actor Dallas Roberts, in his first major film role); and Robin Wright Penn's Clare, the daffy hatmaker who shares an East Village apartment with Jonathan but shares her bed with Bobby. Jonathan is gay but he's secretly in love with Clare, his best friend who's secretly in love with him, too. Then Bobby, who used to fool around with Jonathan, moves in with them and gets involved with Qare " and Jonathan, again. . , . This confusion is the most intriguing intrigu-ing thing about the first film from longtime theater director Michael Mayer, a Tony nominee for the musical musi-cal "'llioroughly Modern Millie." The movie dares to present characters char-acters who are also a little confused, who not only don't mind being involved in amorphous relationships, .but who seem genuinely content to have found themselves there at least for a little while. Jonathan and Bobby (played as kids by Harris Allan and Erik Smith) might have been just experimenting as teens when they fumbled beneath the sheets during sleepovers in Cleveland in the 70s. But when we meet them again about a decade later, nerdy Jonathan has come out and has made a habit of cruising Manhattan for anonymous companionship. compan-ionship. Bobby, who seems to have suffered suf-fered from arrested development years after the deaths of his parents and his older brother, has a childlike, it's-all-good attitude about everything. every-thing. Now working as a pastry chef, he comes bounding back into Jonathan's life (wearing a shaggy mullet that makes him look like Phil Hartman's Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer character from "Saturday Night Live") with hugs and kisses for everyone and sometimes more. This leads to Clare's pregnancy and feelings of jealousy and abandonment. aban-donment. The characters say and do things that aren't always rational, but that's OK because that's what real people do. But then the threesome moves to an old house in the middle of nowhere outside Woodstock the home of the film's title to raise the baby in their own unconventional family. Here's where the film turns too easy and feel-good, as the characters char-acters giddily fix up the house to the tune of Dusty Springfield's "Wishin' and Hopin'." Inexplicably, they also have the money and skills to take a decrepit storefront and turn it into a cozy little cafe. Despite its openness, the film can also be incredibly literal and rigid, specifically in its depiction of time: Imagine "The Wonder Years" with sex, drugs and rock V roll. The characters char-acters drop acid and listen to Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody to Love" to signify that they're in the late 1960s. (Though it is a hoot to see Sissy Spacek, as Jonathan's suburban, subur-ban, bread-baking mother, getting baked herself with a joint in one hand and a laundry basket in the other during the 70s.) Then the wistful, wist-ful, synthesized sounds of "Only You" by Yaz pipe up jarringly to tell us we're in the early '80s'V lis unevenness aside, "A Home at the End of the World" is an admirable debut, and it bodes well for Mayer if he chtxses to make a second home for himself in film. Do you want to have tighter, younger looking skin without surgery? WE HAVE THE ANSWERS! 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