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Show SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER15, 1996 PAGE J8 BILL HALL ANN LANDERS Page J-2 Page J-3 no Judy Magid/The Salt Lake Tribune Ryan Galbrit/The Salt Lake Tribune Kaye and David Knoop,left, chat with Scott O'Grady and Amanda Dickson Seegerat lung-association party. Merrill Cook,left, Tom Barberi talk politics at Walk-In Center benefit. Lung Association Breathing Easier Thanks to $75,000 Fund Raiser Revelers Raise Money As Birthday Gift to The American Lung Association of Utah offered “A Night With the Stars”at La Caille and 380 fans cameoutto meet a multiplicity of luminaries, including U.S. Air Force Capt. Indian Walk-In Center Scott O’Grady, Missy Marlowe, Ron Boone, DebbiFields and Richard Paul Evans as well as an assemblageof Utah television-newsstalwarts. The result was an elegant evening (Aug. 22), bringing THE SALT LAK! BUNE The Indian Walk-In Center celebrat- $75,000 for ALAU programs such as Camp Wyatt for children ed its silver anniversary with an eve- ning of good food, fine jazz and art bargains galore. TheSalt Lake Art Center wasthesite of the event featuring silent and live auctions, which helped thecenterraise approximately $5,000. KALL radio personality Tom Barberi directed the bidding during the live auction, which broughtbids in the hundreds and thousandsofdollars for such items as hand-woven Navajo rugs, traditional hand-thrown pottery and a host of other American Indian art. Thepieces were created by members of several tribes, including Navajo, Pueblo,Sioux, Ute, Paiute, Skull Valley Goshute, Arapahoe, Shoshone, Hopi and Apache. Among the manyartists attending was Junior Whiterock, whose , \} | 1 | people.”? MADELINE GREYMOUNTAIN Indian Walk-In Center resource specialist and added a funky ambience. W.H. Brumby’s catered the event, and tables werefilled with freshsalsas, tortilla chips, jalapefio poppers, a spicy grevache and salads. “The whole purpose of the event is to raise money for the Indian Walk-In The center's missionis to aid and asyy sist American Indian people, strengthn, en the family and community, and respect and promote cultural values and ing of the intricate patterns on the rugs people of all ethnic backgrounds. as they wereput up for bid. Judge Bruce and Peggy Jenkins pe- | | | rused auction items along with Camilie Cook and Melanie Barberi, while congressional candidate Merrill Cook traded barbs and waxedpolitical with bid director Barberi. | Pat Carnahan, Phil Miller, Jim Stout and Bob Smith echoed through the hall Jazz music played by the quartet of JUDY MAGID Center,” said Danny Quintana, fundraising committee chairman, pottery was infused with a pifion pine smell. Roger Williams explained the mean- with asthma, Open Airways for Schools, Freedom from Smoking and the Better a Breathers Club. Event chairwoman Sally Dietlein greeted guests and introduced them to the stars. O’Grady was thecelebrities’ celebrity, modestly acknowledging his ordeal while avoiding capture when his plane was shot down in Bosnia in June 1995. “Six days,” said Kim) Peek as he shook O'Grady’s hand. Megasavant Peek, in“6 for the 19188 Oscar-winning movie “Rain Man,” atstended.withfather Fran Peek. Kaye and David Knoop and Amanda Dickson Seeger and “We're really advocates for heritage. Stott Seeger were among thefirstin line to chat with O'Grady, It provides assistance for ‘Ran, panied Margaret Siegel, who arranged for ‘most of the celebrity guests. ALAU board chairman Jeffrey and Nancy Flamm arrived early, as did Mark Dietlein, anJame Cammernntat the Jazz Bear. Evans, author of The Christmas Box, boughtthe original “Summer Garden” painting by Gary Ernest Smith, but each guest received a limited-edition signed print as a reminder of the evening. In 1995, funds were used to provide food for more than 16,000 people. Thecenteralso helps put people back on the road to independence. “We'rereally advocates for people,” said Madeline Greymountain, resource Specialist for the center. “We get them ALAUexecutive director Wayne Davissat with board presi- in the door to these agencies so they don't feel so overwhelmed. Wetry to get peopleself-sufficient again.” Ryan Galbraith’The Salt Lake Tribune dent Henry Yeates, Orem. Bonnie Yeatesstoodin line to get an Junior Whiterock stands with his pottery. See R.S.V.P., Page J-5 NO PROBLEM | SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY BY JULENEE,FISHER Designers Bring Kimonos Out Of Storage, Into New Fashions Add a term to the Endangered Work List: you're welcome. Net that people have ceased acknowledging expressions of gratitude. No problem, howev- er, is replacing you’re welcome, my pleasure, glad to be of service and any time. Your server brings water. You say, “Thanks.” Server says, “No problem.” In truth,itprea was no problem for Server to do what she/he/it/X/they is paid to do. But I like to think anyone The first time Vicki Yamagami Ragasa took scissors to an ancient kimono, her hands shook. “I had visions of ancestors haunting me for the rest of mylife,” she said. Head designer for Kanojo, an Irvine, Calif., fashion house with an Asian American emphasis, Ragasa aimed to take the traditional loose, wide-sleeved Japanese robe from the keepsake chest for use in elegant contemporary clothing, The result is Kanojo's Heritage Collection, ranging from men’s ties ($80) to long flowing vests, dresses and jackets getting a 15 percent tip has gone out of XX's/their/its/her/his way to please me Is it really no problem to fix a stranger's flat tire, baby sit for your brother- in-law's cousin or shovel 12 inches of ($400-plus), Material from obis, the broad sashesthat secure kimonos, is used for belts, scarves and jacketlapels. snow from your surly, broken-legged neighbor's driveway? And what about the “no problem” re- Ragasa wasin Salt Lake City recently with her partners, cousin Eileen Tabata Fitzpatrick and Bob Fitzpatrick, as part of Utah's Japanese American Centennial festival celebration. Kanojo, which translates as “She,” presented a fashion show and historic commentary to more than 575 guests. “The clothing is beautiful and the commentary is mean- sponse from the hero who rescued my Kitty Katherine from the neighbor's elm tree? I know the tree and the cat and,believe me,it was a problem. Though no problem rates slightly bury, professor of plant physiology at Utah State University, is. For the Aug. 18 “Easy Speak,” after consulting three dictionaries, I wrote that emigrate and immigrate apply only to humans. Not so, accarding to Salisbury. Ecologists, I, Al Hartmann/TheSuit LakeTribune Yoshiko Uno models a long vest made from kimonocloth. The Tribune continues to have prob- lems with wreck (rhymes with heck, means demolish). Some time ago, al Trib editorial talked about wreckless, as opposed to reckless (also rhymes! with heck, meanscareless), driving. Now a Tribune sports headline) (8/25/96) has BYU’s Sarkisian 2orecking havoc on the Aggies. Undoubtedly, USU wished Sarkisian had wrecked havoc (devastation) if such a thing were winning touchdown pass. Lucky for the spectators, no one reeked (also rhymes with meek, means word hugging? Speakingof gracious, Frank B.Salis- Eileen away. Easy Speaker W.S. Cheesman note: Anyone want to join mein little Phoebe Gilman book, Something From Nothing, in which a quilt is made into manythings andfinally into a memory. Bernice Kida and Aiko Hamada, Ogden, liked using the “It is better to make the kimonointo something you can wear than keep it in a drawer,” Kida said. Created to fill a fashion void, Kanojo was born in 1990 over dinner-table laughter about their childhood. “Vicki and 1 are twoyears apart and grewup together. Makes sense to me. If I were a mule) deer, just about now I would be immi. grating to some remote mountain hide. above you betcha, yeah, grunts andsi- lence on my graciousness scale, you're welcome still tops thelist. kimonos. ments of such populations. possible. Instead, the BYU quarterback wreaked (rhymes with meek, means inHlicted) havocbytossing a last-minute, ingful,” fashion-showchairwoman Linda Odasaid. A language-arts professor at Weber State University, Ogden Oda compared making something new from kimonosto a See KIMONOS, Page J-4 (spe ) SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE BY JUDY MAGID THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Weused to dress our dolls alike. She could sew,” M _IS A PROBLE ially animal primarily concerned with populations and, to a lesser extent, plant ecologists, use emigrate and immigrate to refer to move- — smelled strongly and unpleasaatiy) havoc. Thank you for reading today’s column. I hope it was no problem for you. Julene E. Fisher, West Valley City, is a former teacher ofEnglish as a second la Send and ques- tions to Easy Speak, The Salt Lake Tribune, P.O. Box 887, Salt Lake City, UT 84110. |POORCOPY ee |
