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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, August 15-18, 2020 B-3 The Park Record Freestyle fliers fancy Facebook fundraiser Public can tune into Moguls and Muffins on Aug. 18 REASONS TO SHOP LOCAL. SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record The U.S. Freestyle Moguls Ski Team invites its supporters to join a virtual breakfast to raise funds for its 2020-21 season. The first Moguls and Muffins, a live, 30-minute show hosted by freestyle legends and Park City residents Trace Worthington and Sean Smith, will begin at 9 a.m. on Tuesday on the U.S. Ski & Snowboard’s Facebook page. The event will feature a guest appearance by Olympic champion Hannah Kearney, and give a behind-the-scenes look at team training at the Utah Olympic Park, according to Worthington, a two-time Olympian, U.S. Ski Hall of Fame inductee and president -of the Youth Sports Alliance. r “Obviously it’s great to meet nand greet, shake hands, look at hpeople in the eye and talk with dthem at a fundraising event, but it can’t happen this year -because of COVID,” Worthrington said. “So to do someething like this is great. It’s a rway to have fun and do some ooutreach and some sort of indteractions with the donors.” appreciates . Worthington ethe U.S. Ski and Snowboard wFoundation’s creativity when tit came to proposing Moguls and Muffins. t “We now think we should do something like this all the time, and we don’t necessari-ly mean just for a fundraising rthing,” he said. “It might be ,fun to do things like this that twill allow people to see what dhappens behind the scenes. oThe athletes can get more exposure and content out there.” e Worthington looks forward oto emceeing the event with eSmith, his freestyle-sport tbroadcast partner on NBC. “Sean and I have worked toegether for a long time, so I’m -sure we’ll come up with some fun stories that people can sweigh in on in the chat room,” he said. “I’ve never done this style of Facebook Live hosting, but I know we’re going to have some fun hanging out with Hannah. She’s always fun to talk with.” Fundraisers are vital to the U.S. Freestyle Moguls Ski Team, Worthington said. “Sean and I both went to the COURTESY OF U.S. SKI & SNOWBOARD Up-and-coming freestyle skier Nick Page takes to the air at the Utah Olympic Park. Page is one of the U.S. Moguls Ski Team athletes who will benefit from the Moguls and Muffins online fundraiser on Tuesday, Olympics and grew up to understand the meaning of funding and the impact it can do for you as an athlete to get to the next level,” he said. “Most of the other athletes from around the world get government funding, but the U.S. athletes are all privately funded. So, it’s rewarding for me to see our athletes compete against the others in the world, because these kids work hard.” I get to represent myself and my team, but bigger than that, my country...” Nick Page, freestyle skier One of the athletes who will benefit from the funding is Parkite Nick Page, who placed 10th, and was the top American finisher, in his first FIS Freestyle World Cup in February at Deer Valley. “A fundraiser goes a long way for us since we have to rely on the generosity of donors and sponsorships,” he said. “Our fundraising efforts will help us get things together for our upcoming season, and I think Moguls and Muffins will be an awesome platform to showcase what we do and what we’re asking for help with.” Page said he’s coming full circle by participating in Moguls and Muffins, because of the Utah Olympic Park. “This is where I’ve grown up,” he said. “It’s where I first started jumping when I was 7. So, to now be 18 and part of the U.S. COURTESY OF TRACE WORTHINGTON Two-time Olympian Trace Worthington will co-host Moguls and Muffins, an online fundraiser for the U.S. Moguls Ski Team that starts at 9 a.m. Tuesday on Facebook. Moguls and Muffins Virtual Fundraiser for the U.S. Freestyle Moguls Ski Team Studies show that when you buy from an independent, locally owned business, rather than a nationally owned business, significantly more of your money is used to make purchases from other local businesses, service providers and farms continuing to strengthen the economic base of the community. When: 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 18 Cost: Free Where: facebook.com/ usskiandsnowboard Ski Team, it wouldn’t have been a possibility if it weren’t for the UOP. I’ve been going there six to seven days a week during the summer since I started, and if you think about this being my job, you can say it’s the best job in the world.” Page started his career in freestyle by taking ski lessons at Deer Valley. “It was awesome, but I got to the point where I wanted more than they could offer,” he said. His parents learned about another winter-sports group Please see Freestyle, B-4 CRAFT SHOW 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 BY RUTH BLOOMFIELD MARGOLIN / EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ Ruth Bloomfield Margolin, of Westfield, N.J., serves on the boards of several community nonprofit groups. For the past three years she has given talks at area libraries on crossword construction — lately adding Zoom presentations to her repertoire. Ruth created a crossword for her son’s July wedding (now postponed), which included the couple’s favorite board game, Pandemic. Whoops! She’s revising that puzzle now to feature only “fun” things. — W.S. ACROSS 1 Front 7 Spanish rice 12 Little sucker? 15 Smallish batteries 18 Like a seacoast after a storm, maybe 19 Ferris Bueller’s girlfriend 20 ____ B. Wells, civil rights pioneer 21 ____-mo 22 S as in soup? 23 Kind of drawing 25 Icarus’s downfall 26 Skip work for health reasons 28 Words after ‘‘Ooh, ooh!’’ 29 Beau, to Brigitte 30 Verbal stumbles 31 Baseball catcher 32 Ire 34 Boy band with two members who previously starred on ‘‘The Mickey Mouse Club’’ 36 Little suckers 37 Headgear for a tailgater 39 One of the Arnazes 40 ‘‘… but it’s up to you’’ 43 Famously green shampoo 45 Rap’s Shakur 47 Pope after Benedict IV Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 4,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year). 48 Winter vacation destination 51 Parades 54 Barely beat 55 Goals 56 Silverback gorilla, e.g. 58 Moreno with an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony 60 Drag-racing vehicles 62 ‘‘____ trap!’’ 63 Meager 65 Tired 66 In perfect order … or, as two words, what’s formed by applying the answers for the five italicized clues to the circled letters 70 Dined at home 71 More skeptical 73 ‘‘Hamilton’’ actor Leslie ____ Jr. 74 Break down, to a Brit 76 Theory 77 Sea ____ 79 Prefix with -plasm 80 Piece paid by Pisans for a piece of pizza, previously 82 Safe places 84 Multi-episode narrative 87 Crucifix inscription 88 Relentlessly question 90 En ____ (as a whole) 91 Having tattoos 92 Event that’s a bit off? 94 The butler, stereotypically 97 It gives Ford an ‘‘F’’: Abbr. 99 Buff 100 First Alaskan on a major U.S. party ticket 101 E-4, E-5 and E-6, in the U.S. Navy, in brief 102 Successors to LPs 105 Part of Canada above Alta. and Sask. 106 One of the Gandhis 109 Where to get a mullet trimmed 112 ‘‘____ get it now!’’ 113 Civic center 115 Colored ring 116 Washington’s Sea____ Airport 117 Non’s opposite 118 Ban … or bandit 119 By and large 120 College entrance exam org. 121 Hosp. V.I.P.s 122 Author Zora ____ Hurston 123 Son of Aphrodite 10 Even 11 Pinnacle 12 ____ Chemical Company, onetime maker of VapoRub 13 Writer Serwer of The Atlantic 14 Event planner’s need 15 Attempts 16 They’re listed by degrees 17 ____ boom 19 Struck, old-style 24 Bygone Apple messaging app 27 Members of a blended family 33 Move, in Realtor jargon 35 Airport logjam 36 Rick, Ilsa and Victor had one in ‘‘Casablanca’’ 37 First lady between Eleanor and Mamie 38 Fanny 40 Accented cheer 41 Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy, for DOW N two 1 Compete in one leg of a modern pentathlon 42 Restricted zone 44 ‘‘Ba-dum-tss’’ 2 Loud, as the surf 46 Education support 3 Chills grps. 4 Not incl. 48 ____ Paulo, Brazil 5 Set the boundaries of 49 Sea route, e.g. 6 Perfect 50 ‘‘Frozen’’ queen 7 Smart ____ 52 Endless YouTube 8 Painter of the ‘‘Four viewing, e.g. Freedoms’’ series, 1943 53 French island off the coast of 9 Sound from a cheering Newfoundland crowd 18 19 22 23 26 32 36 43 33 34 38 44 45 47 48 49 54 55 56 60 61 66 71 72 76 77 67 51 68 69 74 85 89 94 80 81 87 91 96 97 98 101 108 109 102 105 106 112 113 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 57 Tropical yellow fruits 59 Writer Rand 61 New York city with a marina 62 Suffix with tour or Tory 64 ____-El (Superman’s birth name) 65 Conflict during which the Lusitania was sunk: Abbr. 67 Fateful date 68 What’s left at sea 69 Dig in 59 75 86 100 107 58 70 90 95 114 72 Flat, round bread cooked on a griddle 75 Noted congresswoman from the Bronx, familiarly 78 After-bath application 79 Anatomical sac 81 Hoped-for response to an SOS 83 Lien holder, e.g. 85 Ahab’s father in the Bible 86 Desert’s lack 53 64 79 84 99 52 63 78 83 93 39 57 73 88 92 50 35 46 62 65 82 29 37 42 25 28 31 41 21 24 27 30 40 20 110 103 104 111 115 89 Hogwarts professor who was secretly a werewolf 91 ‘‘Awkward Black Girl’’ creator and star 92 ‘‘Who cares?’’ 93 Slapstick silliness 95 Gary who created ‘‘The Far Side’’ 96 Award to be hung 98 Start of a playground joke 99 U.S. govt. bond 101 Compass letters 102 Unisex fragrance 103 ____ Street, Perry Mason’s secretary 104 Strong ropes used to support masts 107 Verb preceder 108 Bad things on motorists’ records, for short 110 ‘‘Dies ____’’ (hymn) 111 Curb, with ‘‘in’’ 114 The Jazz, on scoreboards |