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Show Resort to Sponsor Handicapped Ski Clinic The following is a list of organizations that are supporting sup-porting the Park City Ski Resort Handicapped Ski Clinic. They are the Utah Association for Retarded Citizens, the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Utah, the Utah State Library -Division of Blindness and Physical Handicaps, the Utah Handicapped Skiers Association, the State Office of the Handicapped, Summit County Developmental Disabilities, Dis-abilities, Inc., the Epilepsy Association of Utah, the United States Ski Team and Aspen BOLD, Inc. If you are interested in participating in this exciting clinic, please contact the Program Coordinators Coordi-nators as soon as possible. "KICK THE HANDICAP -LEARN TO SKI" The Park City Ski Resort, in conjunction with the International Year of the Disable Person, will offer a two-day Handicapped Ski Clinic on March 3 and 4. Hal O'Leary, Director of the Winter Park Handicap Ski Program, will teach volunteer volun-teer ski instructors how to teach amputees, the blind, cerebral palsy, and the mentally retarded to ski. The Winter Park, Colorado program is the largest of its kind in the United States. The program teaches 600 people with 30 different disabilities each week. Registration will begin each day at 8:30 a.m. in the Blue Room in the cafeteria at the Park City Ski Resort. Day ski passes will be provided for volunteer instructors, in-structors, compliments of the Park City Ski Corporation. A short movie will be shown at 9:00 a.m. with an introduction introduc-tion by Hal O'Leary. On-the-hill instruction will begin at 10:15. Tuesday will be the day for the amputee and blind instruction and Wednesday will cover the cerebral palsy and the mentally retarded. Each of the four separate clinics will be limited to 25 persons. Jhe free clinic space will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis. For further information, reservations, re-servations, can be made by contacting Program Coordinators Coordi-nators Shay Clegg, 649-9684, and Teri Gomes, 649-9261, or Cindy Mounts, 649-8131. A special showing of all the movies will be presented Monday night, March 2, at 8:00 p.m. in the Prospector Square Convention Center Theatre. The movies are being sponsored by Summit County Developmental Disabilities, Dis-abilities, Inc. and Prospector Square Convention Center. The admission will be free but donations will be accepted ac-cepted for the Handicap Ski Fund. The donations will help to offset some of the costs of getting the handicap ski program started, i.e., the purchase of "outriggers" for the amputee program, etc. All contributions are tax deductible. |