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Show Christmas gifts you can't put in a package by Ten Gomes The season is no longer rapidly approaching-it's here! Still, you have a few people left on your list and you've run out of ideas. Try this: give one gift twice. Sound impossible? impossi-ble? Not when you reach out to the many non-profit organizations around. Here's how it works. Say you have a friend who is an overaged Olympic hopeful who has all the wordly goods he could ever need. Write out a check to the United States Ski Education Foundation (the non-profit arm of the United States Ski Team) in your friend's name. According to assistant director Chris Davis you can either make a general donation which will be used for general support or you can specify the money be used for skier support, or a scholarship for when the athlete is ready to hang up his boards. Or you can make a donation to the Park City Ski Educational Foundation. Founda-tion. You may earmark your donation for a specific skier, for the general scholarship fund or the trust fund. The money will be used to help a young local skier to pay for his tuition or to offset some of the expensive traveling costs for the racing program. If you're feeling terribly flush, buy your buddy a gold pass for just $2,500. That would entitle him to free skiing at 250 resorts in the United States. And the pass is transferable. And since you're writing the theck, don't forget you get the tax write-off before Dec. 31. Maybe offering the best educational educa-tional support possible is of grand importance to someone you know with children. Dr. Tony Mitchell says the Park City Educational Founda-' tion is being formed to buy additional computer eqiupment for the schools, to build a scholarship fund for international studies and to purchase needed athletic equipment. Make out the check to the Park City CAiucotiun KiuiHiuuuii aim uiey win hold it until the final approvals for non-profit status arrive. Park City will be the site of international attention next March when the Winter Special Olympic Games bring mentally retarded athletes from the world over to compete here. You can buy a baseball cap with Special Olympics logo, or you can underwrite one of the evenings events during the Games. The offices for the Games are located in the Shadow Ridge building at the base of the Park City Ski Area. Drop in and drop off your much needed and appreciated check. You say your friend has a real thing for civic improvements? They love the town and only want to see it look better? The Park City Centennial Centen-nial Commission has designed a catalog full of great giving suggestions. sugges-tions. Donate the funds for a tree in town, for $100 to $600. The Park City Senior Citizens could use an electric knife, it would run you about $25. The library could use some educational educa-tional software for its computer, figure on about $40. Or subscribe to a magazine to be delivered there for around $20. Just stop by the Marsac building and drop off your check to one of the cheerful city workers there. They will see to it the money is applied to where you have requested, request-ed, in whose ever name you have requested. If your bent, or your friend's, is more toward the arts there are two non-profits here which provide enjoyment to residents and guests year-round. The Kimball Art Center located at the bottom of Main Street and Heber Avenue offers an ever-changing display of artists works from photography to water-color. water-color. Donations to the center are used to help continue to bring important artists here. Or just pick up one of the gifts in the gallery shop there. Buying a piece of handcrafted jewelry or a ceramic bowl or stained Class w indow is one way to support local artists directly. If the roar of the greasepaint is something which brings out the spotlight in your soul the folks at the Egyptian Theatre have a variety of ways you can help their programming program-ming year. For $25 you could receive two season tickets to all the remaining performances of the season, including "This Is The Place" "Come Blow Your Horn" and "Chicago." For $100 you could receive a membership in the First Nighters Club. For $500 you or your organization could underwrite an entire evening's performance which would give you 1000 tickets, your name on the marquee, an ad in the playbill, a reception in the lobby and a meet-t he-cast party. Take your pick. If hearing the latest in Park City about Park City is important then write out your check to the city's only community radio television station. Station manager Blair Feulner says no amount is too large or too small. And since the studios just moved to their new location at the Marsac Building they are in need of funds to finish off the new studios. They could also use a new tapedeck priced pric-ed from $1,000 to $10,000. Or just give them your old Beatles records instead of tossing them out. Or give them a couple of bucks for a new needle for the phonograph. Anything would be appreciated here. The list beyond Park City is endless. You know how many organizations there are to save everything and everybody. But this year the most noticeable is the relief for victims of the drought in Ethiopia. Most all churches locally are part of national groups which can direct funds to those people. If you still have shopping to do consider some of these charitable organizations locally. Your gift will make a real difference and sure beats buying yet another scarf or tie for somebody. |
