Show 4A Standard-Examin- Saturday Oct 28 1989 er 8g£s DAY VII 9pte Large Assortment Of HALLOWEEN ACCESSORIES e Water Soluble e Spray on Hair Lamm From 1A I and it took some doing — that there was no jeopardy to our taxpayers I suspect in Utah ou couldn’t say that" "Colorado’s bid (this year) involved no public money Yours does” Lamm governor of Colorado from 1975 to 1987 said he was impressed with Utah's bid to the US Olympic Committee “1 can understand why the USOC chose Salt Lake City because the Colorado people were constrained by costs They didn't have any taxpayers’ money to spend" Utah’s bid included about $55 million in diverted sales tax for facilities construction budgeted to be paid back out of Masks-(Limite- Olympics a cost effective proposal and I'm very sorry we did not win today” The quote appears in a pamphlet aimed at gathering public support behind the Winter Games in Utah Lamm said the statement is accurate but must be placed in a better context “In Colorado our bid was he said “Because of previous efforts here the organizers realized if they would make use of any public funds that somebody might come along and do the same thing they did to them in 1972" Lamm said The former governor now a professor at the University of Denver said he was unaware that the Olympics for Utah group has without any taxpayer money That's why I liked it” he said “I would continue to say that the Winter Olympics are very very expensive ventures and that people have to really be confident that they’re not going to be stuck with a very unpleasant surprise” Lamm said Outfitting the volunteers Help making them feel an integral part of the Games was a key motivator Pratt said “But if it wasn’t winter I think they would’ve gone on with no clothes on That’s what transpired at the end” he said “That was the feeling at the end “The enthusiasm was so obvious" he said “It makes them feel like they’re running the Games and they are in reality” From 1A minimum of 80 hours work toward the Games “but that was never a problem Every body went like hell” Some 10000 volunteers who actually participated during the two weeks of putting on the Games received uniforms according to the kind of work they were doing They also underwent training usually by other volunteers Pratt said: He estimated OCO '88 spent about $5000 apiece on the 10000 volunteers to outfit feed transport and train them “Let’s understand that’s cheap” he said “If vou tried to hire them colors in l eluding black ' e Spider Webs e Tiara Head Bands e Halloween Earrings: Skeletons large or small Spiders & Webs d e Face Selections) quoted him as saying that when Denver lost the bid to Salt Lake City “TV revenues — now $400 million — have made Winter revenues — all providing Utah gets the bid from the International Olympic Committee Lamm said Colorado organizers aren't bound by the 1972 constitutional amendment because it applied only to the 1976 Games but they still avoided involving public funds Games-relate- d Pratt said OCO ’88 had a paid staff of 500 “It’s pretty minimal when you think of the 20000 volunteers “We couldn’t have dbne without them No way” he said Calgary’s Olympics built its volunteer program on a tradition of volunteerism surrounding the annual Calgary Stampede Pratt they're going to cost you a hell of a lot more But the word volunteer doesn’t mean it doesn’t cost you anything” LOWEST PRICES AROUND WITH THE BEST SELECTION AVAILABLE Public Beauty Supply Fonnesbeck said Utah is not without its own tradition of volunteerism “Think of all those Mormons who volunteer and volunteer and volunteer” Fonnesbeck said laughing “I think we’re a volunteer community I certainly saw it during the floods" of 1983 With the LDS Church Fonnesbeck said the state has a network sort of set up and you don’t want to exclude people who aren’t part of that network We need to people see it as a way OGDEN 191254 EFFICIENCY YOU NEED! 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