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Show ae I told him it was near the Blue Roof Market. The D’s? No they certainly do not. We perfectly coifed instructor chuckled also have in a deprecating manner and said, “No, sorry, you live in Kimball not to mention scads of “discount” stores. It’s a shame that all these “outlet stores” are so damn expensive. I thought the whole purpose of cutting out the middle-man was to achieve some semblance of savings. But I digress. _ What we need is a marketing scheme to pick up Kimball Junction’s flagging spirits. We need a great name for our high school’s team. We need slogans, we need the full marketing plan for our youngsters. (Do we have Junction.” “Kimball Junction, Park City, whatever,” I replied. The young cocksure instructor quickly ejaculated the following: “Can you take a book out of the P.C. library? Can you play golf at locals rates? No!” And he was right... lam not a PC. citizen, I live in Kimball Junction, and I am proud of it. darn eee I have noticed many Kimball Junction folks who are in denial about where they truly live, pay taxes, and procreate. We need to build a little K-,; Wal- and mini- marts a high school? If not, we need to get “North Park City.” We one as these are supposed to be good for kids.) To that endI offer these fine _ suggestions: The football team could be: “The Highwaymen,” “The Raging have lots of wonderful things in K.J. Duplexes,” or “The Fighfng Split- ‘We have Wolf Mountain, Level civic pride around here. Stop saying “Park City,” humiliating or the downright who cares Ranches.” Our town slogan: his the To his credit Ty is an accom- Wasatch powder to avoid the _unknown threat of burned nerve gas. Right now.Utahns enjoy the longest average lifespan of any state, but will this be true after ten years of nerve gas burning? We just can’t know. After the Persian sulf “ war the Department of Defense assured us that the members of the armed forces weren’t exposed to nerve gas. Slowly they have revised their estimates. The number is climbing; DOD estimates are now at 5000 exposed livelihood and home and plished skier, kayaker and climber. Utah’s loss is Colorado’s gain. Don’t ‘be a stranger to thé Wasatch, Ty. soldiers, while pri- vate sector mates depressingly istic IAL esti- are a real- 90,000. Anyone a. who believes that was a “good war’ is mistaken. The army has assured us that 2 siomsloteY Mele em ail w.utw.com/~mayer/steve.htm TAD is safe, when it comes to nerve gas, perhaps their word isn’t so good any more. Ultimately Page 2 but we When they are done burning the nerve gas come back and visit - if any of us are still around. at ~ i where in P.C. I lived; and when it was Bear Hollow. We also have food, food, food. You can’t > throw a putter without hitting a fast food purveyor and we even have our own Smith’s. Does PC have a Mickey se RSG BIg ski industry, of which I do not number — myself. While the hostess was introducing me to Dave, a ski instructor from Park City, she commented that I lived in Park City as well. Dave asked “Last Fast Food Before Wyoming,” “The Best Little Speed Trap in Utah” and living in a state which stores and or, my personal favorite, “We subdi- | burns nerve gas. This is where our vide!” Our town symbol might be a work is, recreation, family and more. nail gun or a shopping bag with a Maybe we will all live to 150, or crossed knife and fork on it. If some maybe in five years we will start to other wiseacre hadn’t already claimed see some disturbing trends, we cannot the Seagull as state bird, perhaps we know. The following is a small tribute could have used that somewhere. .. to a man who *During the Jan 1995 WCR listens to the convictions in his. heart, interview with Ray Gardiner. -and follows them: Little Cottonwood Canyon says a eee We dined recently at the sad goodbye to Ty (Bones) Hydrusko. Shallowshaft Restaurant in Alta, and His strong conviction against living once again had a fantastic meal (the in a state burning nerve gas has led house smoked chicken linguini is fanhim to pack his bags. His life will tastic). While dining there we heard continue in the clean air and blue that one of the fellows in the kitchen, skies of Crested Butte. Ty Hudrosko, was moving from Ty has spent the last five years as Utah. His reason for leaving was not saute cook for the Shallow Shaft of the pedestrian variety, to be sure. Restaurant in beautiful downtown The reason centered around the Alta. Here he was the saute king, Tooele Army Depot’s nerve gas master of desserts and most notably destruction plant. I couldn’t help but inventor of the Bones Za (for you respect a person who is so committed neophytes out there, that is referring — to his convictions that he will give up to a pizza pie). 5b tpn a group of the beautiful people of the concert or that Ray Gardiner calls Wolf “Little Dog Hill.”* We have the incredible Utah Winter Sports Park, although we all liked the name better | AO the Kimball Junction “Personality Complex” slapped in my face. It was that it rains every time they have a enna and had 9 I was at a party recently, are Wasatch Canyon Reporter | |