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Show Thursday, February 2006 SPRING VILLE HERALD The Pet Dish I ' ' i i h Wf " Smoke rises high from a car fire located in the Allen's Market parking lot off 400 South Street Tuesday morning. The smoke was caused from a portable fire extinguisher being used on the fire before the Springville Fire Department arrived on the scene. Photo by Martin Conover. r Dr. Harold Davis D.V.M. MT. WEST ANIMAL HOSPITAL Every morning at about 4 a.m. my two-year-old cat starts crying, so I put him out in the wash room. Is he trying to tell me something or just crying to wake me up? Most young cats that vocalize at night or early in the morning do so hoping that their owners will get up and give them attention. Cats are naturally nocturnal. If your cat has little play activity or stimulation while you're gone during the day, he may get wound up and want some action when you sleep. Another An-other possibility is that he hears another animal outside and tnat gets him up and excited. If you get up each time and put him out, you are reinforcing rein-forcing his behavior by giving nim the human interaction he likely wants. Remember, behavior that is rewarded is repeated. Many housecats are bored and this leads to behavior Eroblems. Change his routine at bedtime to break this ehavior pattern. It would be good if he had something interesting to watch through the windows during the day. Start playing with him in the evening and give him a lot of attention before bed time. Change some of his feeding feed-ing to bedtime, too. If possible have him sleep in a room without windows so it stays dark and quiet. Sometimes using calming products at bedtime will Keep him asleep when you are. First Grade teachers at Mapleton School were pleased to receive a grant from Nebo Education Foundation which allowed them to purchase pur-chase manipulatives for their students including gel boards, magnetic letters, white boards and math patterns. The foundation has funded worthwhile projects as musical instruments and music, books, math and science equipment, computer software and hardware, exercise equipment and GPS systems. For more information about the Nebo Education Foundation or to make a donation, contact Lana Hiskey, 354-7400. Pictured are, left to right, back: first grade teachers Shami Wilkinson, Molly Murdock, Melinda Watkins, JeanMarie Andersen and Ginnie Snyder presenting for Nebo Foundation. Students are Bryson Schellenberg, Mitchell Murdock, Jaxon Child, Sophie Hill and AN Wood. h - s " ' HHHKH Diana Kimber, a representative from Parents Information Resource Library Li-brary (PIRL), talked about how to help children become better readers at the Grant School Literacy Night. She emphasized talking to your kids, not at your kids. Talk about the experiences they are having, limit lim-it TV watching, and read aloud to your children. Parents felt they learned more about parenting skills and communication skills than about getting Timmy to turn off the TV and pick up a book. Kimber made them think about how paren could do it better. They left feeling like they learned a little bit more about parenting and very excited that they now have a great resource in PIRC. To find out more information infor-mation about PIRC, check out there web site at www.familycenter-pirc.org. www.familycenter-pirc.org. PIRC is a lending library with lots of resources and classes in a variety of subjects focused on family and child development. Toastmasters open house Feb. 9 TNT Toastmasters invites you to attend and participate in TNT Toastmasters open house at 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 9. ' Debbi Fields Rose, Founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies states, "I'd never thought of myself as a great communicator, communi-cator, and that's one of the reasons I got involved in Toastmasters. The idea of getting in front of a group, not as Mrs. Fields, but really as Debbi, made my knees shake, and I'd get all dry-mouthed. But the Toastmasters group understood. Here's a place where you can learn, grow, develop - and where other people are doing and reeling the same thing." Come join them and experience what Debbi has experienced. expe-rienced. The meeting will be held at the Airport Inn, The Palms Restaurant, 2333 W. North Temple, mSalt Lake City, Utah. (Dinner may be purchased at 6:45 pm) The Stitching Corner Inc. Generations of Sewing Experts 631 E. 1700 S. ' Orem 801 426-6900 I Sdyng2X L . This law aims to catch the "Phish" that get away Seth Nevil had just signed up to buy' some items on Ebay when he got an e-mail that appeared to be from the Internet auction site asking for his credit card number. The University of Utah student stu-dent filled out the information informa-tion and didn't think anything any-thing of it until he got a call from an out-of-state sporting goods store. "They told me that someone from Lithuania was trying to use my credit card to buy some shoes," says Neville. "It was luck I got the call and immediately im-mediately called the bank to cancel my credit card." Nevil nearly got caught by "phishing," a funny term for a phony web site or e-mail that attempts to lure you into giving away your financial information. But don't think it could only happen to college col-lege students. Kevin Shurtleff has a Ph.D. in physical chemistry and a Masters in Business Administration-he's also the brother of Attorney General Mark Shurtleff. Kevin was making some important purchases on Ebay for his fuel cell system company when he got one of many e-mails requesting to verify his business banking and credit card information. "I thought is was strange so I called Ebay and they told me they didn't make the last request. I went back to the web site that asked for the information in-formation and now it had "WE GOT YA!" in big bold letters on a blue screen," says Kevin Shurtleff. "I had to cancel my credit card, change my bank account number and I still worry that someone will hurt me with the information." Now Kevin's brother and legislators are going to do something about phishing. Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, Senator Patrice Ar-ent Ar-ent and Representative Scott Wyatt are urging lawmakers to pass Senate Bill 52, a bill that would make phishing a second-degree felony. "This time it's personal. These criminals pretend to help, but intend to hurt people peo-ple with their own good names and credit, says Attorney Attor-ney General Mark Shurtleff. "This law sends a clear message: mes-sage: Don't go phishin', unless un-less you got an itchin' for prison." 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