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Show BUILDING COMMUNITY IN OREM AND VINEYARD Oremr' EDITION THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2007 50 CENTS SCHOOLS: Westmore students drop eggs off roof TOWN HALL: Meet the candidates SPORTS: Owlz clinch playoff spot BUSINESS AGILITY SEEKS TO IMPROVE LIFE Orem police Shown above and below are examples of some of the graffiti problems in Orem. Orem police ask for help in fight against graffiti Michael Rigert NORTH COUNTY STAFF Gang members and taggers are making their mark on Orem, and police are asking residents, parents and business owners for help in curbing curb-ing the destructive trend. Between 2004 and 2006, the Orem police noted a 50 percent hike in the number of reported gang-related graffiti incidents in the city. While in 2004, 913 incidents were reported, 1,223 instances of graffiti graf-fiti were recorded in 2005, 1,385 in 2006, and already there have been 1,000 reports this year, said Orem Department of Public Safety spokesman Lt. Doug Edwards. "This year is on track to See GRAFFITI, Page 2 V3 m I. ' J -iim-m, 'i University Mall recovers from weekend flooding Grace Leong I.IAIl-r MtRAID "If we can survive this flood, we can survive Christmas," says a sign at Forever Young Shoes in University Mall. The shoe retailer is one of more than 50 stores and food court restaurants damaged alter a water main broke Sunday afternoon Hooding the east side of the mall, potentially causing what one mall manager man-ager says could be hundreds of thousands of dollars in property and inventory damage. Jim Flohr, owner of Forever Young, which was cordoned off with yellow police ta', says his store alone sustained between $2(),C(M) and $311,000 in damages and will be closed for up to two weeks while waiting for new inventory to arrive and for repairs to be made. "We'll probably lose another $15,000 in sales because be-cause we had to be closed through l-abor Day and it's back-to-school shopping season now," he said. As of Tuesday, most of the major hallway stretching stretch-ing from Mervy ns to the Tree I louse children's play area - where the water main broke and flooded the area with hundreds of thousands of gallons of water and mud - is now cleaned and oxn to the public. The weekend fkxxl dwsn't apear to have affected shoppers, shop-pers, who continue to throng the stores Tuesday. A majority of the 50 affected stores were open for business Tuesday. Some were operating without their wood floors or carpets, while others are having hav-ing their carpets and walls dried with (wo or more industrial-size floor fans. A Closer Look Candidates present platforms prior to Tuesday's primary election Michael Rigert and Reva Bowen NORTH rrjUNTY SI AM Editor's note: This is the second of two articles presenting profiles of candidates for Orem City Council. Though there's less than a week to go until Tuesday's Tues-day's primary municipal election in Orem in which 12 candidates are vying for three City Council xsi-tions, xsi-tions, there's still time to decide how to cast your ballot. To assist residents in their research of each candidate and where they stand on particular issues, the Orem Times has provided a series of profiles on each candidate. Profiled in last week's Aug. .'50 issue were Margaret See CANDIDATES. Page 2 CommunityBriefin MEET THE CANDIDATES NIGHT FOR OREM CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATES CAN-DIDATES - A Meet the Candidates night including all 12 Orem City Council candidates vying for three council seats will be held Thursday, Sept. 6, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Orem Senior Friendship Friend-ship Center, 93 N. 400 East, Orem. The primary municipal election is Tuesday, Sept. 11. Each candidate will have 2 minutes to address his platform, followed by a question-and-answer session comprised com-prised of previously submitted questions ques-tions submitted from residents (questions (ques-tions can be e-mailed to Joyce Johnson at jwjohnsonorem.org). Participants may talk individually with candidates at the event's conclusion. The event is being organized by the 21 neighborhood directors of Orem's Neighborhoods in Action program as a service to the community. SUSPECT ARRESTED IN OREM ARSON Orem police arrested an 18-year-old man and charged him with starting a fire that caused about $200,000 in damage to a public restroom at Cherry Hill Park on Aug. 7. Bruce Lee Richardson of Orem was arrested Aug. 28 and charged with arson, ar-son, a second-degree felony, and theft, a Class B misdemeanor. The Aug. 7 fire destroyed the restroom's roof at 240 E. 1800 South along with $20,000 in park maintenance equipment. An investigation determined deter-mined that an accelerant was used to start the fire. The fire burned hot enough to damage dam-age the building's structural integrity. City workers used a backhoe to tear down the restroom shortly afterward. About two weeks ago, an informant told Orem police that Richardson stole a gasoline can from the carport of a house near the park and used the gas to torch the restroom, according to a probable prob-able cause statement. UDOT800 NORTH RECONSTRUCTION RECONSTRUC-TION UPDATE - All left turns are now prohibited along 800 North between 400 West and 800 East. Motorists will need to use 400 and 1200 North to access ac-cess the area. These restrictions are necessary to allow UDOT's contractor to build the north side of 800 North and . will be in effect until further notice. Between Sept. 4-21, motorists will be restricted to one lane southbound and two lanes northbound at the intersec tion of State Street and 800 North for road construction. Restrictions will be in effect 24 hours a day. Motorists should expect moderate to heavy delays, especially espe-cially during the commute hours. Signs, flaggers and other traffic control con-trol devices will be placed to guide motorists mo-torists through each construction zone. UDOT encourages motorists to use caution, travel at the posted speed limits and follow all traffic devices and signs while driving through work zones. Schedules are subject to change due to inclement weather, equipment problems prob-lems or emergency situations. THE BOOK OF MORMON AND KEYS hOR UNDERSTANDING ISAIAH The Hebraeus Foundation, which sponsors ancient scripture scholars, schol-ars, will present former BYU professor of Near Eastern Studies, Avraham Gileadi, as he discusses Keys for Understanding Un-derstanding Isaiah and The Book of Mormon. The presentation, which is free and open to the public, will be held Wedned say, Sept. 12, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Blendtec corporate office, 1680 Business Busi-ness Park Drive, in Orem (west of 1-15 on University Parkway). For more information about the presentation, pre-sentation, call 785-0943. 6 IM,61055 00050' 1' ijft wirf l.'Hwuifofff trmm CREDIT UNION GET STARTED IW |