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Show PG City Council Approves Three City Proclamations Pleasant Grove City Council Coun-cil approved three proclamations proclama-tions at the meeting of the group on April 19, 201 1 . The first proclamation to be approved was the celebration celebra-tion of Arbor Day on April 30, 2011. The proclamation listed many reasons for the participation participa-tion in this holiday including the good that trees provide to the community through giving beauty, shade, reducing erosion ero-sion of soil, producing oxygen and providing habitat for wildlife. wild-life. Also, trees help to purify the air in Utah's arid climate, beautiful trees are desired by the citizens, and the city, Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove, was named that because of the lovely grove of trees in the community. The city is designated as Utah's City of Trees, characterizing the scenic landscape the trees provide. The second proclamation proclama-tion was to celebrate National Library Week. The Pleasant Grove Library, like others, play a vital role in providing our residents res-idents with resources that they need to live, learn and work. Libraries bring dynamic places and libraries are the ultimate ul-timate search engine, helping people of all ages to find the information in-formation they need in print or online. They bring you a world of knowledge and you receive personal service and assistance in finding what you need. National Library Week is April 18-23,2011. Another important proclamation proc-lamation was "Clean Out the Medicine Cabinet" Day which will be held on April 30. A container will be located at the Pleasant Grove Police Station and residents are urged to dispose dis-pose of their unused medicines at this location. People will break into homes to try and find drugs to satisfy their addictions. You are urged to dispose of drugs safely at this location. In fact, the police station keeps a barrel bar-rel for unused drugs which need to be discarded in their office all the time. The proclamation notes that Utah has one of the highest high-est pain pill abuse rates in the country. There are an estimated esti-mated seven million leftover and unused pain pills in Utah County, and 70 per cent of youth are . abusing pain pills that they get from friends or relatives, often from medicine cabinets. It is estimated that this event has helped 347 families remove 68,220 prescription pain pills and 84,510 other abusable pills from their medicine medi-cine cabinets. Drug abuse costs Utah County residents, county and local governments over $800 million per year, making it critical to educate the community about the substantial sub-stantial benefits of investing in prevention. The city council urges all parents to take particular notice no-tice of this event and get rid of unused medicines safely during dur-ing this special week. |