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Show George Toney, TW Services President, Rep. Jim Hansen (R.Utah), Bryce Canyon National Park Superintendent Sandra Key, and Stephan V Bryce Units Opened In Saturday Ceremony BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL PARK The bright pink hoodoo spires of Bryce Canyon National Park contrasted with startingly blue skies Saturday as more than 150 spectators took time out from sightseeing to take part in the grand opening of the park's new 70-unit motel complexes. Tedder, Vice-president, TW Services assist Lorraine Mintzmyer, National Park Director, to cut ribbon at Grand Opening of new lodges. Cutting the ceremonial ribbon announcing the official opening were Congressman Jim Hansen (R-Utah) and Lorraine Mintzmyer, director, Rocky Mountain Region, National Park Service. They were joined by TW Services President George Toney and Steven Tedder, vice president, TW Services, Inc. Toney and Tedder had also .assisted Mintzyer at official ground breaking services August 1 last year when the units were begun. The $2 million two-unit motel was designed in modular sections and was overlayed with logs and natural stone from the area. Created to blend in with surroundings, the new motel apparently achieved the architect's goal when one spectactor was heard to say, "It looks like it's been here for years." The appearance of the new units had been a primary concern of the National Park Service and TW Services, Inc., concesju' s. They agreed that whatever was built must blend in with surrounding buildings to maintain a natural and historic look that is part of Bryce Canyon National Park. Congressman Hansen remarked, "Ebenezer Bryce would be amazed at the changes wrought in the park" and pointed out that he and others on the Congressional National Parks Committee have availed themselves of the opportunity to study national parks firsthand. He said, "Since billions of taxpayer dollars are being put into the national darks, we who are responsible to see that they are properly administrated must know what we are talking about." Hansen said that there are many instant experts "like the one who spent three days near Gorbachev and now wants to dictate America's (See BRYCEMOnEL Page z) Bryce Motel QEBBB3B foreign policy in regards to Russia," He said, "We also have theex-perts who make two passes oyer Nicaragua at 15,000 feet and can now solve that country's problems." "We, those of us who adminster the national parks, cannot and will not do that," he said, "We are trustees of the parks and we understand and feel deeply the responsibility." Hansen chuckled and said, "There are three things you don't want to mess with a man's shot at the IRS, his cars, and his national parks." Ron Madsen, representing Utah's senators Jake Garn and Orrin Hatch, said that both men sent regrets and assured everyone "they would rather be at Bryce than where they are." Madsen said, "Both senators Garn and Hatch fight hard for Utah and. are five times more effective together than apart." Madsen said that a German businessman flew over the Grand Canyon at 30,000 feet on his way home to Germany, He was so impressed by it that he vowed to come back, He came back, traveled to -Grand Canyon, rented an automobile, and toured the canyon fronvend to end, remarking that it was breathtakingly beautiful. "Too bad," said Madsen, "he just missed the most beautiful sites in the world: Bryce, Zion, Capitol Feef, Arches and Canyonlands. To come this far and miss such beauty is a tragedy. "The Grand Circle Adventure tour is the greatest single tourist trip in the entire world," he concluded. BCNP rSupt. Sandra Key, who hails from North Dakota, says she has been in all the states except Alaska and Hawaii. She said, "all the states are beautiful, but Utah is beautiful all over." Key said that recently she took a moonlight walk in the park, watching clouds and trees and said that it brought her "closer to God." During the next three years, the National Park Service plans to have the main lodge upgraded, housing units constructed for the employees, and the store updated. |