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Show SPRINGVILLE HERALD, Section 2 Thursday, August 4, 2005 Hundreds of citizens attend saftey fair 1 Monday s I. Heidi Toth STAFF WRITER Flashing lights and ear-splitting ear-splitting sirens sliced through a peaceful Monday evening in Springville as some seven hundred or more adults and children attended at-tended the Springville Public Safety Department's Night Out Against Crime. The event gave children the opportunity to play in the fire trucks, police cars and ambulances, learn about safety and watch K-9 units in action. "We wanted to make it an opportunity for families to come and get involved with public safety," Police Chief Scott Finlayson said. The activity, which was scheduled in conjunction with a National Night Out, included discussions on protecting pro-tecting families from property proper-ty crime, Internet danger and substance abuse; demonstrations demon-strations on seat belt usage, the drug dogs, how fire hoses work and other safety-oriented activities. Child identification kits also were available. "We wanted it to be more than walk around and look," Finlayson said. "We want them to do." The Springville police, fire and EMS departments, Utah Highway Patrol, YouthNet, the Utah County Sheriff's Office and the Community Emergency Response Team all were at the event, answering an-swering questions, helping the eager children demonstrating demon-strating various safety techniques. tech-niques. The Springville Youth City Council also was on hand, sticky with the spun sugar flying around the tent, handing hand-ing out cotton candy and snow cones to participants. Elisha Hutchings, a volunteer volun-teer emergency medical technician, was manning the ambulance, answering questions ques-tions and handing out bandages ban-dages to visitors. "Everything to kids is to tally less scary when they see it before in a non-emergency situation than when confronted with it in a crisis," cri-sis," she said, watching as two little girls learned that the inside of an ambulance wasn't quite as scary as they'd thought. Another goal of the night was to introduce children to police, firefighters and other emergency personnel so they would not be afraid of the officials in an emergency, emer-gency, she said. That was working pretty well for Frank Daybelfs children, chil-dren, who made the safety fair part of a birthday celebration. cele-bration. "They want to be firefighters," firefight-ers," Daybell said, holding his one-year-old son and watching Utah County Sheriff's Sher-iff's officers demonstrate how the K-9 units work. He brought his family to teach them about safety, but he also came for another reason. "I'm a teacher, and I want to be able to talk to my kids about it," he said. "I'll talk about it at school for sure." The Harrington family was making the rounds Monday night. Before getting get-ting to the bleachers to watch the K-9 demonstration, demonstra-tion, they stopped to play in the fire trucks, which both MaKayla, 7, and Haley, 4, declared was "fun." "She got to talk to the police po-lice station," Heather Harrington Har-rington said of MaKayla. They came to make sure the children were aware of safety issues and would know what to do if there was a problem, she said. John Bird, a sector leader for CERT, said the organization organiza-tion was there to inform the community and to get volunteers. volun-teers. They are always recruiting re-cruiting more people to help in case of a serious emergency, emer-gency, he said. "We're being trained mostly for the case of an earthquake to help respond Free outdoor summer movies on the big screen The final movies in the Springville City Outdoor Movie Series will be held Friday and Saturday, Aug. 5 and 6, at the Spring Acres Arts Park. Everyone is invited to see "A Series of Unfortunate Events" on Friday and "Cheaper by the Dozen" on Saturday. Satur-day. The movies are FREE of charge and are a great opportunity oppor-tunity for famillies to come and enjoy a night under the stars watching a movie, eating and having a great time. The movies are presented on a giant, movie theatre-sized theatre-sized screen, complete with a large concert-quality sound system. Everyone is invited. Bring your family, your lawn chairs, food and blankets and enjoy a night of FREE entertainment. en-tertainment. Both movies will start at 9 p.m. at the Arts Park located locat-ed at 620 S. 1350 East, north of Springville High School. For more information call 489-2726. nam Come to a seminar Attend our free seminar and learn what you can do about knee or hip pain. Learn about some of the t causes and some of the latest treatments, including information about medications, nutrition and exercise. free seminars August 9 Sept. 13 Oct. 11 Administration Board Room 10:30 a.m. For reservations or more information, call 801.465.7196 Ortbpdte Specially Centit it Mflftstoia kw limpal MountainStar Healthcare Ta within our neighborhoods and throughout the city," he said. CERT volunteers primarily primari-ly are trained to be able to take care of themselves and their families first, then their neighbors and then help emergency officials when they arrive. Finlayson was pleased with the turnout, which was one of the big unknowns because be-cause this event was a first. "By the first 20 minutes I'd say yeah, it's going to be an annual thing," he said. mm student registration August 9 Springville High School new student registration will be held Tuesday, Aug. 9, from 8 p.m. to 3 p.m. All new students to SHS need to have a transcript of grades from ninth grade to the present, a birth certificate, immunization immuniza-tion records and proof of residency res-idency within SHS boundaries. bound-aries. A new student packet must also be filled out and can be picked up in the main office. Previous students to SHS and sophomores coming from Springville Junior High School will be receiving registration reg-istration information through the mail. Registration Registra-tion fees may be paid through the mail or in person at the school's finance office. When fees have been paid, schedules will be returned through the mail. f . f if 1 Ft rr . lfl s i n (Ti K 'vi tn ,v rJV - U - t -n,,r 1 r i v . i ,r J 4 LJ .. Over 700 adults and children gathered Monday night at the Arts Park for the Springville Public Safety Night Out Against Crime. Those attending were able to climb right on the emergeny vehicles and see all the equipment. The purpose of this was to help young people not to be scared of safety vehicles like police cars, fire trucks and ambulances, but to know more about them and how they work. 5 t III! v V'wteJp 1 . III 1 :;4V'T:::- - I . 1 4 Many youngsters had the opportunity to help hold a fire hose Monday at the public safety night at the Arts Park. Kids made sirens work and learned why it is important to buckle seatbelts. Mfliasijfl u of raG Lu0acyOj U Springville, UT 84663 ;,?F . irrJ ' mE I COEU1E TODAY Al3D RECBEVE 1 1 $20.00 OFF AMY j I MASTERCRAF7 TRUCK TIRES! I FLAT REPAIR TIRE ! EMMISSIONS BALANCE ! Ik INSPECTIONS if? f f.: With Coupon Passenger cars only. 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