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Show Free Press - Wednesday, January 25, 1995 - Page 4 Lehi's own private eyes: 'Boof and Poof may be watching you By CATHY ALLRED You better look out, they may be watching YOU. They are unique to Utah County as the only women in the business and aptly bring all the glamour and excitement romantically portrayed with their job by the r media. NicknamedBoofandPoofP.I.'s," hy their husbands, called 'Charlie's jAngels'by clients, andbetter known ' as Utah Valley Investigations to the community, they always get their man ... or woman, as the case may be. With a perfect success record, the two year-olLehi business was started by Beth Greenhalgh and Angie Anderson. Both in their late O's, Greenhalgh was a Utah County Rodeo Queen, stands six feet without her spikes and with looks that could capture the crown again; her partner, Anderson is described as her 59" "Beth could charm the wallpaper off the wall,"claims Jack Wilkinson, a client. "I had tried to collect on a bad check for $600 and I just turned it over to her and it was a better situation. I didn't have to take it through the legal system and while my emotions would have got in the way . . . Beth drew a contract and a payment schedule up and got it signed. I felt real good about it." - Wilkinson reports that trying to collect in small claims court is expensive and time consuming. And with the private investigators, results happen much more quickly. "Most people don't expect a woman P.I. to be trailing them," admitted Greenhalgh "It takes them by surprise." A local business that has benefit d look-alik- e. ed from their services and their first Salt Lake's toughest districts. client is Corner Mart on Lehi's State "That was the night we made the Street. The owners Jay and Moon rule that night stake-out- s must be Kim were swindled out of $200 doldone together," recalls Anderson, lars by a traveling salesman and who had gone alone one night. They con artist; within two weeks, the do not do follow-up- s on their cases. "Simon and Simon" team tracked "We do feel a moral responsibilthe older gentleman to Provo, scold- ity to report findings and notified ed him for being so mean, and got the authorities in hopes that they ' ' ' ' 3 t i would catch him." the Kims' their money back. t Not all cases involve money colAnother twist on the adultery ' LJ lections however. scene was the adulterous client that Covering all formsof deceit, some hired them to catch her boyfriend's I 77 ' , 1 4 cases can become pretty scarey and wife in an affair. But the only affair ugly. Such is the case of "the husgoing on was her own with the womI ,j i: band taking his sweet time on the an's husband. construction site." "She flew us to follow the wife on i v Their client was a woman who an exotic business trip; we stayed in thought her husband washaving an one of the nicest hotels, got a ' ' I affair with the lady who owned the Merceces rental; those are the perks home that he was remodeling. Durof the job," claimed Greenhalgh. Of course the most boring part of ing their stake-ouGreenhalgh and Anderson found the man was innoP.I. work is the stake-ouHours of cent, of adultery and later wished waiting. Trailing someone, on the that they could have told their cli- other hand, is one of the most excitent he was having the affair she ing parts of the job. She chuckles, ' "Yes, it is exciting, following people thought he was. They noticedhe left the Salt Lake and hoping that you don't get lost." home quite often and took a while to Truly excitingfor the private-ey- e return, so they followed him and is to "dig up facts and fmd out more discovered that he was a connoisandmore information thatyouknow Photo by Marc Haddock seur of pornographic material. Af- your client doesn't know." An excel- ter perusing the local porno store, lent example of this is with their Private investigator Beth Greenhalgh prepares a nasty collection note for one of her he would live out his fantasies in the "she thinks she wants to marry client's flaky customers. him" case. cemetery. "The hard part was calling my A woman had been dating her "It's sad, but never take any- Salt Lake branch office with the ing child support for, (was it one or client and telling her that her husfiancee for three years and knew two more than he had told her?) one thing at face value. It was quite a encouragement of their husbands band was perverted," explained that he had been married twice which involved a patrimony case; shock when I saw the things that and began their adventure in invesGreenhalgh. To conclude the case, before. For several months since found DUI records, court judgments went on, the deceits," noted tigative work. the wife requested photos, and the the engagement, she felt that he And although Anderson has beandone long and lousy Greenhalgh. two women had to devise a plan. "I had been lying to her. She asked outstanding, credit history. The business partners began come inactive in their business since hid behind the back seat of the car Utah Valley Investigations to do a That was one case they knew the their career in P.I. work by training summer vacation with her children, with the camera while Angie went background check. outcome of immediately. She under Todd May of Ogden. May was she is anxious to return to the in the shop and kept an eye on him." They not only found his past dropped him like a hot a sheriff for several years until he digging and tracking their potato. Before the case was closed they marriage history, but also the corman or woman, again. If you think By the way, these are all cases began his own detective agency. had to stake out at night in some of rect number ofchildren he was pay- - from Because of obvious interest, he you might have a case for UVL call except for the Corner Mart con man. But if you think began offering a six week instrucUtah Valley Investigations -tion course for students. Anderson nothing like these instances hapand Greenhalgh signed up at his kicking up just a bit of Utah dust. pen in our fair town, think again. 1 Jit V li h'v 4 t th- - flit - - t. v out-of-to- Paulinas H. Allred put up the first stack of alfalfa hay in Lehi in 1867. His seed, purchased from Goodwin, cost $1 per pound, which barely covered the cleaning costs. ! ; On one occasion a neighbor watchingGoodwinremovethehusks of alfalfa seed with a coffee grinder picked up a pinch of the seed. "Put itdownimmediately,"saidGoodwin, i !"I would as willingly give you so much gold dust." While alfalfa hay and wheathave j been important sources of income to Lehi farmers, no cash crop had as much effect on the town's economy ; as did the sugar beet. Although first grown in the community in 1852, . the sugar beet did not impact local agriculture until the 1890s after the ; Lehi Sugar Factory was built. ; ; I ; ! ; '- i , Factors Effecting Lehi Agriculture -' Elevation I - swerdyv A . Minium Growing Season Prevailing Winds n rieuyiuiiiuii 4,500 feet iai iu.o muies i ! i 1 32 days Westerly 1949 agricultural acreage in theLeAi Centennial History: dry farm wheat ( 12,350 acres), alfalfa (3,300 acres), irrigated wheat (2,250 acres), barley (2,000 acres), pasture and tame hay (1,800 acres), silage corn (400 acres), oats (390 acres), sweet corn (250 acres), peas (130 acres), sugar beets (195 acres), truck crops (110 acres), potatoes (80 acres), tomatoes (80 acres), dry beans (18 acres), and rye (13 acres). Today dry farm wheat is still the largest crop in the area, followed by alfalfa, soft wheat, barley, silage corn, and oats all irrigated crops. Prominent Lehi farmers of the past, who would stand amazed at the extensive sprinkling systems which since the 1970s have replaced many flood irrigation operations, include Herman Allred, Ray Allred, Robert Allred, Rodney C. 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