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Show "Best Thine? In Life Are People, I Love Them" Cozy bartender or bar-tenderess, bar-tenderess, Jane Workman loves miners, Park City, The Cozy and rodeos. Jane, a Park City local for 31 years, moved here from Brigham City in 1943. She came with her husband Arthur Ar-thur who was a miner in need of work. He found work; Jane fell in love with Park City; so they stayed. Arthur worked the mines here for 30 years until he passed away in '73. Jane has five children and 16 grandchildren. place where you come back to be buried after you die. No sir, the miners are still the most important people in this town in my book. No way they're not!" Jane is also a big fan of the rodeos. In her younger days she traveled the circuit with her sister and brother-in-law who was an all-around all-around champion cowboy. 'It's a dangerous sport and it takes a lot of nerve on the part of the cowboys but I love it. There is something real down to earth about it, yes sir, real down to earth." "The best thing in life," Jane says, "are people. I love them! The only thing I like better than seeing old friends is making new ones. That's the nice thing about the Cozy," she goes on, 'Old friends droppin' in from out of town to renew old friendships friend-ships . . . and old friends from Park City drop by all the time to talk or just quietly nurse a cold beer. Then you get new people all the time; they come in to talk or whatever, after a while you've made a new friend." Jane gets along great with young people, long hair or not. She puts it: "Young and old, that's what makes up the world, young and old together." to-gether." You can talk to Jane about almost everything, but never never tell her that Park City was once almost a ghost town. It's a touchy subject with her. "God, Park City was never even close to becoming be-coming a ghost town. We had plenty of hard times, but we just worked a little harder and tightened our belts. We never thought of leavin'." If you mentioned the bit about the ghost town, you might as well go all the way and tell her that miners aren't really a big part of Park City anymore. She'll probably throw the pool table at you. Jane loves the miners min-ers most of all. "They built this town." She'll say after she cools down, "they are the people who made this mountain valley val-ley a town, a community, a place where kids grow up and have kids of their own, a ... I i - . I |