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Show Thursday, July 3, 2008 SPRINGVILLE HERALD 19 14 These children and their dogs knew how to cool off Tuesday afternoon as temperatures reached near 100 degrees. Dogs and kids got in the pool. They are, from left to right Ryan Lindsay, Lexi Childs and Mitchell Lindsay, and dogs, Woody and Maisey. Away for the holidays? Tips to prevent home burglaries With many people away, visiting friends, or just out of the house for holiday shopping, burglars will have countless good prospects. Experts agree that it is a very vulnerable time for homeowners. "People are busy and distracted," said Ray Palermo, Pal-ermo, director of public relations for Response Insurance. "They are not always focusing on the more mundane things of life, like making sure your home or apartment is secure." se-cure." He offered a few precautions to help prevent pre-vent homeowners from falling victim to thieves during this time of year. Start by making a full exterior examination of your house. 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Look in your windows win-dows to make sure blinds are positioned to screen the interior view, but not closed completely. You may want to move any computers and TVs away from prying eyes. Never Nev-er leave an "emergency key" hidden outside your house. Always leave your home in a secure state, regardless of the amount of time you expect to be .!! fc- , I. .,.!. f '': "" : I 7.; away. A burglar watching watch-ing your house is capable of taking what he wants in a few carefully planned moments. When you are away from the house, particularly particu-larly for an extended period, peri-od, be sure to make it look lived-in. Put timers on a few lights at varied times; put a timer on a radio set to a talk-radio station; install in-stall a duskdawn outside light or motion detector; ask a neighbor to pick up your mail and any circulars circu-lars that might pile up on your doorstep; and stop delivery of newspapers or other maiL In many instances installing in-stalling a home alarm system sys-tem will give you protection, protec-tion, a sense of calm and even a discount on your homeowner's insurance. Walk around the interior in-terior of your home and inventory your major possessions. pos-sessions. An easy way is to place valuables out on tables and videotape your house, room-to-room of all furniture, paintings and other possessions. Place the list, any photosvideo you took, and perhaps the valuables themselves, in a safe, separate location. Tell a trusted neighbor on your block that you will be away. Activity or noise that might otherwise other-wise seem normal to them would be alarming if they knew you are away from home. Be sure your homeowner's home-owner's insurance coverage cover-age reflects any improvements improve-ments or purchases that have increased the value of your home or its contents con-tents since you got your homeowner's policy. The only thing worse than losing los-ing your possessions is not being sufficiently covered to recoup your losses. Additional information informa-tion on this and other car and homeowner topics is available at the Response Insurance Safety Information Informa-tion Center website: www. response.comsafety. M......, niniiu 96 E. Center Springville 489-3603 586 N. Main Payson 465-0111 www.pacffichorizoncu.com Termites take a bite out of budget Drywood termite swarming season is about to begin and homeowners everywhere are preparing prepar-ing to open their wallets to protect their houses from structural damage. "I have seen termite swarm eruptions in grocery gro-cery store parking lots, the middle of a huge lawn and of course in nearly 18,000 homes," says Michael Mi-chael Allen, owner of Century Termite Control and author of the new book "Top Secrets of the Termite Industry; What Termite Companies Don't Want You to Know, That You Should Know." The cost of tenting an American home to get rid of termites ranges from $1,300 to over $3,000 depending de-pending on the size of the home and the pest control company you choose. Allen Al-len says if homeowners know what signs to look for they shouldn't have to pay a penny to professionals. profes-sionals. "These chemical companies compa-nies are multi-million dollar dol-lar machines. They push their products to pest control companies which are supposed to push it to homeowners. The price keeps going up and there is just no reason for it. Termite companies aren't helping homeowners homeown-ers do anything they can't do by themselves." On his website, www. centurytermitesolutions. com Allen has a list of the top 10 things you need to know about protecting pro-tecting your home from termites. Here are four of them: 1) Stop the Pheromones and You've Stopped the Termites. All termites line the tunnels they dig with pheromones, a scent that the bugs follow to get to and from your home. , It's a way of communicating communicat-ing to the other termites to follow the scent and find food. "All you need to do is break that line of pheromones with store bought orange oil or a home made mixture and the termites won't know how to get to your house anymore. It will be as if they've lost the map and put up an electric fence." 2) The North Side Of Your Home Is Especially Vulnerable. Because the north side of your home gets the least amount of sun more moisture can accumulate in the wood (cellulose), softening it up for the termites to eat. Try to keep the north side as dry as possible by turning away sprinklers and trimming back trees and overgrown vegetation vegeta-tion that are blocking the sun. Other than swarming these insects never leave the infected wood for water. They rely only on the trapped moisture in the cellulose for a complete com-plete life cycle. 3) Decorative Finishes Finish-es Create Easy Access Points For Termites. Termites Ter-mites can enter where the brick or decorative finish fin-ish material touches the ground. They crawl up . - t. fc"" k "rJ ' ! U between the gaps to get to the wood. This happens at the mudsill line. Get familiar fa-miliar with and measure your home's mudsill line. 4) Bait Stations Lead Termites to Your Home. Many unscrupulous unscrupu-lous pest control companies com-panies recommend putting put-ting bait stations in your home. But bait stations don't work. The smell from the bait attracts termites and encourages encourag-es them to build underground under-ground roads and highways high-ways close to your home. While some may take the bait and die most of the insects will never get as far as the queen. There are millions of termites in an infected home. Killing even thousands thou-sands a day will not make a dent. The remaining termites will just wind up feasting on what's close to the bait station - your home. Any pest control company that wants to put a bait station in your house is not as interested in solving your termite 1 Mliiii!eii4rif 170 NOHTil MSIN WANItHI l OWi mm (musk) asi STARTING AT $199,972 -sir problem as they are in forcing you to be a return customer. "You can pay the pest control guys several thousand thou-sand dollars," says Allen, "or you can put in a little elbow grease to get rid of the pests by yourself and keep those few thousand dollars in your own bank account!" Explore and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered flat-tered out of yur position of perpetual inquiry. Neither Nei-ther dogmatize, or accept another's dogmatism. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance as-surance of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. -Walter Scott There can be no transforming trans-forming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion. emo-tion. - Carl Gustav Jung i I J" I Mfefljjtosi-m js? jhLL r filet 1114,988 m J |