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POSTAGE Permit No. 4 Library Cr V, 41 uiau U 44 vlJ p Park City, Utah 84060 Volume Two Wednesday, October 23, 1974 Number Thirty-si- x r PARK CITY $ SN0WB,RD ALTA BRIGHTON SOLITUDE PARK WEST .e v vv SUNDANCE Police Marshall Fire Ambulance 649-956- 1 649-936- 1 649-921- 1 649-921- 1 Qumtiona concerning atreeta, ate., plaaaa call: water, aower, CRy Hall garbage, 1 649-932- City Recorder CRy Manager and Building Inapector CRy Justice of Peace (Above arc open Monday thru Friday from 9 a.m. SI 4 p.m.) After normal office houra Mayor John Price, 325 Park Ave 649-B32- 1 64S-S47- 4 649-932- 1 649-157- 5 Councilman Leon Urlarte, Recreation 354 Main St Councilman Clementa Hansen, CRy Property 1009 Norfolk Ave Councilman Richard Martinez, Water 187 Daly Ave Councilman Jan Wllklng, Planning 328 Marsac Ave Councilwoman Mary Lahmer, 974 Deer Valley 949-939- 9 949-950- 4 949-951- 9 849-999- 6 949-95- THE MULE DEER; it is not their favorite time of the year. v. 1UB WEDNESDAY. . .Partly cloudy; cool temperatures with a slow warming trend. & THURSDAY FRIDAY. . . with Generally fair highs in the 60s; lows in the low 30s. V. A church organizations and October 20, 1974 The Park City Coalition Park City, UT. 84060 similar locations, the older teenager knows that he has outgrown such activities. They are confining. They Dear Editor: The Park City Recreation don't fit their growing and real requirement for Program offers a wide very variety of physical recreation association with their own for the young people cf this age group or with an age community. However, there group that shares their inis no provision in this terest, language and outlook. Park City is becoming program for a lounge or specifically designed more and more dependent on visitors and the money and reserved for their use. Today, young people in the produced by vacationing 14 or 15 to 19 or 20 age bracket families. Yet, the town offers are reaching out for an iden- nothing for the teenager in tity and a chance to mingle the evening. The reorienwith and compare ideas with tation of the Opera House Theater is good, but many of their contemporaries. They cannot satisfy this urge in their movies are not (and surroundings designed by should not be) the type that and for an older generation. either Park Citvites or They are not permitted by visitors would fixe their law to mingle with those only young people to see. The aca few years older who tend to tivities offered in the congregate where beer or Memorial Building are good liquor are permitted. The but they don't meet the total do What result is a frustration a requirement. do a with vacationing of sense of a parents neglect feeling 17 year old boy or girl while unappreciation that leads try to get in a much many to express their desires they needed dinner or drink by unacare in ways that ceptable to the adult com- themselves? Establishing a center for munity. While many of the younger teenagers are con- teenagers presents problems, tent to gather among them- of course. Offering a free, selves in private homes, controlled supervised club dub-are- area would be the worst kind of approach. In order for such a problem to succeed, the following essential: generalities are First and foremost, the club has to be run for and by the teenagers themselves. It has to be their board of directors and committees that decide what goes into the drib, what colors the walls are, what type of music is provided, etc. It has to be their decision on how and when the club is operated. This does not mean total license. Such rules as no beer, drugs, or liquor; no one over 21; no behavior not acceptable in an adult establishment; must be accepted. But even here, these must be their rules. Just as adult gathering places are controlled by their management, a teenage gathering place must be controlled by their management. Just as the police or other regulatory people are required in adult clubs, a teenage club must accept controls also. There is a difference however that must be recognized. Hie controller must be someone who understands and is un- derstood. He must be young enough to establish rapport and old enough to exercise mature judgment. A second factor that must be carefully considered is location. Some areas are just not suitable. An active church building would not be appropriate. Going the other way, an area adjacent to a bar would not be good. Neither would a hotel. Neither would an area surrounded by private homes. The location selected needs heat, at least one toilet, electricity, in short, the basic essentials. Equally portant, there must be imsuf- cushions. The whole ap- proach should be one of activity involving the teenagers in creating their club the way they want it. Another facet of financing could, if the club's board wanted to, include their installation of soft drink, sandwich, and game machines. The drib would receive the profit from these machines and use the money to improve the club or support other activities approved by their own board of directors. They could even charge a small admittance fee if they desired. While the above measures should make this project ficient space. A club does not have to support a ballroom, largely and but it must offer considerably even allow some conmore than a reading or TV tributions to other teenage-oriente- d nook. activities, there A third consideration inshould be no. thought of g volves financing. This project establishing a should not be approached enterprise. No one, with the from the standpoint of possible exception of the concharity. A gift is neither ap- troller, should be on a preciated nor taken care of to payroll. Nor should it be exthe same extent as something pected that the club could or that is produced by the user. should institute charges that The high school shop could be would permit them to pay made available to build par- rent, heat, light or water titions, furniture and other bills. A final consideration is improvements. The home economics class could determining the attitude of and the people of Park City to the curtains produce self-sufficie- nt profit-makin- concept of having such a dub in the first place. Various representing the Park City Council, police, schools, businessmen, the' recreation department and dvic groups have been contaded. So have a limited number of parents and high school students. All have expressed interest and support for the concept ls varying from wildly enthusiastic to what has all too often been the prevailing past attitude of its a good idea but you will never get it to work. Any new undertaking has its doubters and objectors. A case in point concerns worrying over liability. The town has liability memorial in Eiblems the the public park, the school areas and, for that matter, in the town hall itself. Objecting to the concept of a teenage dub on this ground seems both superficial and superfluous. There is a danger in contacting too many people until the project has a good chance of being accepted. More harm than good would result from getting either the students or their parents en- - continuod on page 7 ITS STILL OUT THERE PARK CITY BRIEFS COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES SKI REPORTS CLASSIFIEDS SCHOOL NEWS ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION PROGRAMS CANINE SPORTS CITY GOVERNMENT STAR GAPER rHH WM MONDAY - FRIDAY 10:00 AM-3:0- PM 0 (Except Tuesday) SATURDAY 12:00-3:0- 0 & SUNDAY PM FRIDAY NIGHT 6:00-9:0- 0 PM |