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Show Thursday, July 31,2008 0 R E M TIMES Page 3 OVERHEARD IN OREM NEWS. STORIES AND EVENTS FROM YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD An Orem boy was severely injured and at least one mountain brush fire in the area resulted from individual-fireworks use on the July 24 holiday Do we need to re-examine how we use fireworks and encourage more public shows by professionals and fewer individual fireworks displays? Why or why not? Do you favor increased restrictions on the sales and use of consumer fireworks? ii 4 1 1 Y- I . ' I; i II .J (m . (0 Ay I : A.. JrfC''Krf.i,.-. C fiZk W$ don't use fireworks but I think so. Yes. Because I think people buy them without responsibility. respon-sibility. They give it to a kid without supervision and that's too dangerous." Roberto Quintanilla "I think more public shows would be great or neighborhood neighbor-hood shows so there would be more adult supervision. I think that what they have now is sufficient. But in children using us-ing them, their parents should know." I Elisa Best 1 "I think everyone should just be responsible and use courtesy. cour-tesy. Why does someone need to be firing them off from Y Mountain at 1 a.m.? Use fireworks fire-works responsibly and have , fun. My birthday is July 24. If you took fireworks away I'd be very sad." Angie Rasmussen 4 4 "I don't know how to answer an-swer that. I feel there needs to be some safety in the lighting of fireworks. But I don't want to take away from individual rights. Not all young people can go to public shows though it is a safer way of doing things. I think as far as I know current laws seem safe to me. In my lifetime we had cherry bombs that weren't too safe. Maybe if parents are along to make sure things are safe and they're done as a family." I Kelly Page "I'm of the opinion we should leave fireworks to the professionals. If it's a private home and they're legal fireworks, fire-works, there's a three-day window win-dow they can be used around July 24 and July 4. Every year they say 'Don't shoot them off in the canyons, or in the foothills.' foot-hills.' Every year they have the restrictions and people don't listen. The Orem boy, they're trying to save his leg. It's ridiculous. ri-diculous. People never learn. Oh yes, there should be more restrictions. Definitely." I Marshall Ludwig "We think the current policy is fine. I think you run into a few who use them irresponsibly. I'm against home-made explosives. To be honest I don't think we've had as many fireworks accidents this year. There's always going to be people who don't follow the restrictions. You'll never get everyone to follow every rule any way." I Heather and Dan Redd "I really think it comes down to personal responsibility and common sense. You can regulate regu-late and regulate all you want. If they're thinking clearly, they're not going to put black powder into a pipe or light fireworks on Y Mountain. We need laws and restrictions but you have to be sensible enough to follow them." I Cathy Colton "I feel that fireworks used in a responsible manner is great, especially for gatherings. I would hate to see them not let us do that. It would be nice to have some public shows. We have to ask ourselves 'Are we responsible?' I think most of us are." I Julie Fjcldsled 1 SrCt"J X4 - JM "I feel there's probably enough laws on the books ... and in the world. People need to mature." I Jolene Tate "When I was young, they were much more dangerous. There is always some risk. There's risk in just walking out of the house. That's a hard question. I know people who have been hurt watching public shows. I think we need to police po-lice ourselves and be better educated. ed-ucated. It starts with children and educating them to what's safe and what's responsible and what isn't. To help them see the consequences of their actions. To me that's more important im-portant than restricting them because they just get rebellious and use them more." I Mina Richins IrApf fprTT I fppfi " Jfll imf V1 J US J V V J U ) J I LnJ vly viiJ zJ viU U Uwn LbWVlHJ PMMDSGa KDDBK EflDDBffiDSQDQDKinD TIIUnSDAY AUGUST 13 o 7 p.m. Bring Me whole family for a night Tilled with fun and excitement! to mm i w OTHER GREAT EUEHTS! Jr. livestock Show uivm West Carnival All Day Entcrtaimcnt SATURDAY, AUGUST 16 7 p.m. En flie Arena $1 fldu,ts 57 Kids ikffinniTni GERBER FamilvTbdav UuV&thut v5P AV Productions Inc, CONSTRlxmON llljf IwVJKJjr MfYlf PROFESSIONAL SOUND & UGHTINI nnxjtif I |