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Show V i Benefit to fund Park City Ski Team tutor I Last year's list of celebri- I ties included World Cup ) champion Phil Mahre along I with local media personali- I ties Terry Wood and Patrick Greenlaw. This year's list is still J tentative, but at this point it I included the likes of Billy Kidd, silver medalist at the 1964 Winter Olympics, and Peter Patterson, former member of the United States Ski Team downhill squad. The event is the second annual Jan's Winter Welcome, Wel-come, a benefit for the Park City junior race program, scheduled to be held Friday, more than 45 days of school a year, he said. "We want our kids to move on to college, whether they stay with racing or not," he said. Bob Marsh, head coach of the Park City Ski Team, pointed out that students who are absent at Park City it! -L ni i l a. also intended to help subsidize subsi-dize the enormous travel costs faced especially by older members of the team. Marsh calculated that a typical 16-year-old Ski Team member will travel about 10,000 miles during the four-month competition season. hopes the event will be a showcase now only for the Park City Ski Team (which has a strong contingent of JIII skiers) but also for the Park City Ski Area and the city itself. "We're trying to put on a first-class show," he said. The second annual Jan's uci. ii ai ueer vaney s Snow Park Lodge. According to Jan Peterson, Peter-son, the sponsor of the event, one of the major goals for this year's benefit is to raise funds to provide a tutor for members of the Park City Ski Team. Because of the competition schedule, some members of the team miss rugn acnooi are aiso automatically auto-matically penalized by having hav-ing their grade reduced. "The kids in the program have missed so much school that there has been a huge gap in their education," he said. "We want to take pride not only in our skiing but also in our academics." Jan's Winter Welcome is we re noi lancing aDoui van transportation," he said. "We're talking about airline tickets." A third focal point for this year's benefit will be the Western Region Junior Olympics for JIII (12- and 13-year-old) skiers, which will be held in Park City March 10-16. Marsh said he winter welcome is scne-duled scne-duled to include a trade show, a silent auction, a light buffet with cocktails, a fashion show, introduction of racers and guests, a live auction, and dancing to a live band. More details of the event will be printed in upcoming issues of the paper. |
