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Show 0 R E M TIMES Page 3 NEWS, STORIES AND EVENTS FROM YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD qVERHEARp IN OR The new Harry Potter movie is coming out this week and the new book is due out July 21 . Will you be seeing the movie or reading the book? Why are people so excited about Harry Potter? Thursday, July 12, 2007 3? : T,r. JEREMY HARMONDaily Herald Betty Perry, 70, stands in her front yard in Orem and talks about her experience earlier in the day with an Orem police officer on July 6. Woman arrested in Orem lawn incident meets the national press JeremyDuda DAILY HERALD Betty Perry's dry, desolate lawn has put her in a spotlight that extends from coast to coast and even across two oceans. The 70-year-old Orem woman wom-an was arrested and injured on Friday after a police officer of-ficer tried to ticket her for not watering her front lawn. By Monday, the media frenzy had spread as far as Great Britain and New Zealand. Newspapers from across the United States told Perry's story, and Fox News interviewed inter-viewed her on Monday morning. morn-ing. The London-based British Broadcasting Corporation included the story about the incident on its Web site, as did sites in New Zealand and the Netherlands. Countless blogs also ran the story, along with headlines that criticized the ar- resting officer and the city. "After what they did to me I want everybody in the world to know," Perry said on Monday. The incident began when a police officer assigned to Orem's Neighborhood Preservation Pres-ervation Unit knocked on Perry's door Friday morning and said he was giving her a citation for her brown, barren bar-ren lawn. Perry refused to give the officer her name and insisted on going inside her house first to call her son and ask his advice on the situation. When Perry refused to give the officer her name, he decided decid-ed to place her under arrest. Police said Perry pulled away from the officer as he tried to handcuff her and Perry said she "tried to sit down to get away from him." In the ensuing ensu-ing struggle, Perry fell to the ground, bruising her elbows, knees and legs. She also said she was hit in the face with a handcuff, causing a prominent bruise on her nose. "I want people to know that this is not American to handcuff and put somebody in jail because their lawn is brown. ... They could've given me a ticket or done something else," Perry said. The officer arrested Perry and she was in jail for about an hour before supervisors became aware of the situation situa-tion and released her. Police spokesman Lt. Doug Edwards said she was released because the situation could have been resolved by other means. For example, the officer could have gotten her name through property records. "That's where I think that we made a tactical error in that there were other options available avail-able as opposed to taking See LAWN, Page 6 ftiliiliiWlli "I'm definitely definite-ly planning to see the movie. I'm a big movie buff. I think there's ton of reasons (people like Harry Pot ter.) There's always a desire for fantasy and escape and it toes the line between reality and what's not ... Harry is like the misunderstood misun-derstood genius that everyone wants to be." I David Peterson "The movie, yes, I'm not so sure about the book yet. I like the movies. The books are just below my level; it's not interest ing. I think (the series) is so imaginative but it's readable, where as C.S. Lewis and Tolkien, they're more of a higher reading level." I Sara Preston "I'll be seeing see-ing the movie. It's just being a part of the excitement. It's part of America." I Chaunte Vaughn i $p.J.e,.,- , ,...i.A "Neither. I think I read the first three and they got too long, too sci-fi and I just didn't like them anymore. It must not have engaged enough of the sci-fi twist in me. I think there's a lot of cross-overs today. It's great because it's good for boys. Most teachers are female and push what they like, which isn't' fantasy and sci-fi." I Alisa Belliston "I'm not a big fan. I might watch it on HBO when there's nothing else to watch. I've seen them all on HBO, be cause I get to see them for free. I guess people just like the magic and effects." I Tuare Garrido "Yes, because be-cause 1 like it. My reading read-ing genre has been sci-fi sci-fi and fantasy fanta-sy for a long time. The underdog makes good, (is the franchise's fran-chise's secret). But of course the kids are just into the magic of it. And plus, we've watching Harry grow up. People like to find someone they can identify with and we want to see it." I Taunia Sloat "Yes, the movie. The book, I can't get into those. I think it appeals to that age level and also it's got a lot of action and fantasy. Probably the grown-up characters charac-ters appeal to adults." ft Susan Duckwitz "(I'll be going go-ing to the movie) as well. It's a good character char-acter series. Maybe because it's really easy to like; it's not hard to figure out." L 1 ft Andy Preston www.heraldextra.com yellowpages ' V ,,,,-" I " ' Fiesta O ays ' 65th 'Annual "::f& July 212324 -A r-x Tickets can be purchased at sJ www.spanishfork.org or at 160 North Main,793-6368 The Fiesta Days Rodeo begins at 8:00 p.m. Pre-show activities begin at 7:00 p.m. This family event has four action-packed nights of top professional rodeo action. Come see the bucking horses, the ferocious 1 -ton bulls, and the brave cowboys cow-boys and cowgirls competing in events such as Mutton Mut-ton Bustin', Bareback Bronc Riding and Bull Riding! aX ft rf f'A. f Hi II ' h I Jk- i7 mm III II Join Spanish Fork;0 the entire week -j for Fiesta Days! 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