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Show Thursday, September 18, 2008 SPRINGVILLE HERALD Still work to do in decreasing drug Editor: Youthnet would like to congratulate the Spring-ville Spring-ville police force and city council for the efforts that have been made to fight drug abuse in our city, especially with our young people. According to a report released in December 2007, President Bush announced an-nounced that teen drug use in our country as a whole has dropped by 24 since 2001, and that is a goal, as concerned citizens and parents, we have all worked toward. We read with great interest in-terest the mayors message mes-sage addressing the drug problem here in our city. For the past five years, our group has tried to educate friends and neighbors, neigh-bors, parents and citizens about drug abuse in its many forms. As we reviewed Spring-ville Spring-ville City's website message mes-sage and studied the statistics statis-tics there, we Were greatly great-ly alarmed at the marked increase of the prescription prescrip-tion drug abuse with the young people of our town. This also follows a statewide state-wide and national trend that has seen a significant drop in use of some other forms of illegal drugs, but has seen that prog Springville police report Springville police are investigating several burglaries bur-glaries that happened last week. Hogi Yogi was broken into and persons tried to break open the safe. Stieners Floral was broken into and $50 was taken. Apex Motor Sports was broken into and the interior in-terior ransacked, with a digital camera and $200 " missing. The Car Corral was also broken into and a computer scanner, digital digi-tal camera and car stereo were taken. A home was broken into and $6,700 worth of damage done. Police had 247 calls with 41 of them for animal problems. They also had two calls for civil problems, prob-lems, nine for criminal mischief, three for family problems, five for found property, one runaway and 31 for suspicious circumstances. cir-cumstances. Oliver E. Byars, 741 N. 350 West, Springville, was arrested for theft of services at IHop. Jimmy Farrell Jr., 635 S. Geneva, Orem, was arrested for DUI. Three male juveniles and one female were cited for curfew violation. Alexander Al-exander Douglas Hebner, 109 E. 200 South, Spanish Fork, was arrested for a no bail warrant, fraud-obtaining fraud-obtaining a controlled substance, three counts of criminal mischief, failure to stop and intoxication. Alan Hiatt Evans, 7792 N. Crestwood Ctr., Eagle Mountain, was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia and a warrant. war-rant. Justin Jay Underwood, Under-wood, 1426 N. Spring Mtn. Dr., Springville, was charged with possession of stolen property and four counts of possession of drug paraphernalia. Scott Alvin Marinez, "Some nesinciiuns "hh1 Expires 093008 I !; I i ; 1 I ; Low-E&Argon j WirW ' I Rebates M!xJ&)Jtt i ; pfJ jf Lifetime Guarantee 'Energy Efficient I . L r3J Quality Installation . 1 I XNoPavmentN. X if No Interest ) 1 January200 t i ress sadly eaten up by an 80 rise in non- medical prescription drug abuse among all age groups. Last year, in Utah, un-intentional un-intentional prescription pain medication overdoses overdos-es were the number one cause of injury deaths. At five deaths per week, statewide, this was more than from motor vehicle crashes. When we looked at the survey results for Spring-ville, Spring-ville, we saw that same trend reflected in the answers an-swers from our kids. The county average is 1.7 admitting to using illegal prescription drugs in the last 30 days, while Spring-ville Spring-ville was at 2.9. And those, as Kristen Bauer pointed out in her letter of Sept. 4th, are kids who are in school and functioning function-ing on a daily basis. What about all the others oth-ers who do not take the survey, or the ones who don't want to tell the truth, or the one's who have had to find alternatives for their daily education? The survey also indicates indi-cates that 10.1 of the young people surveyed had used some form of illegal il-legal drug in the past 30 days. That is a large number num-ber of kids, and, consequently, conse-quently, a large number 114 W. 700 South, Pleas- ant Grove, was cited for driving on a suspended license and no seat belt, Carolyn Newell, 170 S. 300 West, Provo, was arrested for felony shoplifting of $1,065 worth of merchan- dise at Wal-Mart. Kyle S. Ostler, 500 S. Main 28, Springville, was arrested for three warrants. Kristine Mae Angus Rushton, 3190 N. Piute, Provo, was cited for two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia. Wesley David South-worth, South-worth, 1317 E. 200 South, Springville, was arrested arrest-ed for unlawful use of a credit card and unlawful obtaining of a credit card. Skyler Michael Wagen-man, Wagen-man, 187 W. Stonebrook Ln., Provo, was arrested for two counts of possession posses-sion of drug paraphernalia parapher-nalia and possession of amthetamine. Holly Marie Wilderson, 1265 E. 500 South, Spanish Span-ish Fork, was arrested for forgery, unlawful obtaining obtain-ing of a credit card and unlawfull use of a credit card. . Two male juveniles at SHS were cited for possession pos-session of marijuana and one. of them also for possession pos-session of drug paraphernalia. parapher-nalia. The juveniles were 15-years-old. Thefts included two Charging units for electric elec-tric fences from two different dif-ferent properties, plants and fruit from a garden, items from a mailbox, lawnmower from a yard, purse from an unlocked vehicle, DVDs from the library, purse, diamond ring, money, keys and debit card from a vehicle; video IPod, adapter card and scripture case from a vehicle; and CDs, leath-erman, leath-erman, flashlight, binoculars binocu-lars and other items from a truck. Wasatch Vinyl Products i HighQuality...LOWPricell 877-922-7283 TOO CZ.OO Of OOOOOO of families and who are suffering. Also, adults that abuse prescription drugs can dramatically affect the quality of life of everyone every-one around them. We all suffer when these people can't function in society. We want Springville to be known as the community commu-nity that enthusiastically supports and loves their young people. We also want Springville to be recognized rec-ognized as a community that is not satisfied with the "status quo" and continues con-tinues to actively work at decreasing substance abuse in the city. We do believe that, although al-though trends have shifted, shift-ed, we need to be constantly con-stantly vigilant as the dy Humanity Continued from page 1 side the home. Sylvia Reina expressed her gratitude to the crowd at the event Monday morning. morn-ing. "It's amazing to know that there are people that care so much and work so hard," she said. "I just want to, from the bottom of my heart, thank you." Habitat for Humanity of Utah County is working work-ing with the Utah County Homebuilders Association to build the home. Mathews said the Springville Area Chamber of Commerce has also been a great help in the project. "I'm just very impressed with the Spring- ville community and how they've come together," she said. The Utah County Habi- tat organization has built 31 homes during the last 16 years, with four or -a; A little furnace lovin . Cats are self cleaning and self maintaining, but they view everyone around them as objects to do their bidding. Your furnace is just the opposite. It takes orders from you, loves you, won't shed on you and wants to serve you all winter. All it needs is a little preparatory affection. We suggest getting your furnace serviced by a qualified heating contractor. Perks of a healthy furnace. Someone once said. "Tis cheaper to maintain than to fix." That person was very wise. And good looki ng. Yes, that person was me. As the Energy Wise Guy, I can say for certain that in addition to saving money on the least expensive natural gas in the continental US, you'll also be glad you serviced your furnace because: j. Itllkeepyou warm all winter long. Nobody likes to be caught in the cold with their furnace down. 2. 0' Bessie (or whatever you named your fiirnace-you fiirnace-you have named yvur furnace haven't you?) will be a fine- tuned machine, running more efficiently and saving you mon ey. 3. Bessie will last longer if properly maintained. use in city namics in this complicated problem change. While Springville has improved, to "be no worse than other places" is not what the cit- izen's want, or where we will be content to stay. . We have all worked hard for the city's recent success in decreasing sub- stance abuse. To allow ourselves to be lulled into a false sense of security is encouraging denial as to the extent and serious- ness of the problem that Springville and the nation face. As Mayor Mangum said: "The loss of one person to substance abuse is one too many. Youthnet Board of Directors Kevin Scholz President home five homes currently built each year. Families selected se-lected for the homes must go through an application process. The final cost to the fam , I V I 1 y i X, Sylvia and Carlos Reina address a crowd during a kick-off event for a home being built in Springville by Habitat for Humanity. The Reinas were chosen to become owners of the home. It ::1 '4 ft city council Continued from page 1 program which will make the program better this winter, The council voted to ac- cept the new winter rec- reation fee schedule. Com- plete details are available on the city's webb site at springville.org. The council held a pub- lie hearing concerning the coming bond electio n for a new library, The council is consider- ing a 40,000 square-foot building to be built across the street from the present library on ground present- ly occupied by the police, ambulance and fire depart- ments. Citizens spoke their approval ap-proval for a new library saying it is one of the most ily is usually the cost of building plus 25 percent of the prices of the property, with the house payments generally between $250 and $500 per month. It 4 j -A Be proactive. It's good foryou. Short of growing out your hair, there are a few-things few-things you can do to pre pa re without the help of a heating contractor, like changing your air filter. It's simple, cheap and if you have a wild imagination, really fun. While you're at it. Ask your heating contractor to check your furnace and wafer heater for a Green Sticker. It will ensure these appliances are properly-adjusted properly-adjusted and working as efficiently as possible. 1 1' ' ' . l! used libraries in the county and some even said the building should be larger. Some citizens even said that should the library be built at the proposed 40,000 sq. ft. it would never nev-er be added onto which was countered by someone else saying that the present library was expanded several sev-eral years ago right here in Springville. Another citizen sugested that with present economic conditions at this time perhaps per-haps people would not vote for a new library. This was countered by another that the school district dis-trict is planning to try to float another $170 million bond election this coming June and now is the time to hold the library bond election. elec-tion. Following the discussion no action was taken by the council because the bond election has been scheduled sched-uled and will be held Nov. 4 along with the general election. FACTORY AUTHORIZED 'DEALER & SERVICE CENTER We offer service and tune-ups on most chainsaws or small engine yard tools! Get yours .done today! 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