Park City can't spell

Our town is a great place to live in with all of its sunny days, fluffy snow and its seemingly endless recreation opportunities. This comes at a price though; Parkites can't no longer spell; at least our City officials or whoever is in charge of sign procurement. Last November, I started noticing a sign warning folks about “suspisious” activities in the Ridgeview subdivision and just last weekend, I noticed the new “oridinance” about dogs roaming around unleashed, at the corner of Payday and Prospector Drive in the Thaynes neighborhood. What will come next? Courchevel spelled “Courcheval” at the entrance of town? Ouch! I know that we conveniently blame the Hispanic community for whatever bad happens to the rest of us, but this time, our City can't pass the buck for its own misspelling problem, nor can it lay the responsibility on the handful of its residents of French, Swiss or German extraction. That shameful situation rests squarely on some "Anglos" shoulders.

But enough of blame throwing between our various ethnic groups; what's needed now are some serious measures and I propose that our mayoral candidates include “spelling skill enhancements” as part as their political platform. That's a simple enough measure that we all can support and that may prevent our signage from going to the dogs; we already have too many of these...