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Show Page 16 0 R E M TIMES Thursday, August 2, 2007 Gang graffiti vandals frustrate PI. Grove police 4'". - ShLJl'--. ' ' lfMtetaJs.-'. - i . v. 1 1 1 JERONIMO NISAUrtiiy H.-rald Graffiti on u billboard. Mil Slute Roud in I'k'usunt Grove. i sponsoring The Natioriiil Dog Groomers Association of America NDGAA Workshop & Certification Test Site Where Red Lion Hotel I61 West 600 South SIC, UT Workshop Sunday Aug. 19th 2007 testing: Mond.iy Aug 20th 2007 to Register contact- NDGAA 724-962 2711 Cost $85 for the Workshop $85 per Certification Test Pre Register deadline Aug 3rd 2007 Test Questions cont.it t Wendy Booth 719-632-5446 For help in locating a Test Dog contact: Lorraine 801 492-7746 NDGAA P.O. Box 101 Clark, PA 16113 iidq,)"n,iiiorwklo(jqrooniprs,i om www.nationaldoggroomers.com GJjTjffinnEDQczIDCZflD1 son (farm W7D 'A r; l o n ;, flfl PI I II s It; Family First Federal Credit (Aw. The new Family First Payson Branch is coming to the Payson Wal-Mart Superccnter. 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Pioneer Day dawned in Pleasant Grove with graffiti vandals having destroying a billboard advertisement, leaving leav-ing a 40-foot -long moniker on a brand-new commercial mall and on a public utility box, all at i0 W. State Road in Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove. Judging by the initials signed on the graffiti, the same team hit Cullimore Mercantile, a Lindon Lin-don historic site, about 10 days ago, according to police. Built circa 1900, the red brick building build-ing was the city's first post office and was a clothing store and grocery story for decades, according to a city historic marker at the site. Graffiti at both sites was signed with the letters "DAH" and "WR," which indicates the initials of the vandals, said , L.t. Clark Nielsen of the Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove police department. The work, including large and small plain black lettering in a gang style and larger colored ba!lxn-type lettering in a more art-like style, distinctly shows the work of at least two vandals, van-dals, Nielsen said. All of the graffiti at both locations is visible from State Street and, even if the work was done in the dead of night, dozens if not hundreds of cars must have seen the vandals in action, but no one called police at the time, and no leads have come to police since, Nielsen said. It is unclear why drivers who may have seen someone scaling the two-story billboard or spray-painting either of the huge store walls did not call to report the vandalism as it happened, hap-pened, he said. "That is the most frustrating thing," he said. "It occurred right in plain vision, and people either don't notice or don't call it in. They don't have to get involved, in-volved, but we need the public to help us do our job." Even business owners failed to call police and file a report on the damage, he said. There is a free countywide program which will bring in a team of people to remove the graffiti when it is reported. Removing the graffiti immediately imme-diately is important because, especially when gangs are involved, graffiti begets graffiti, graf-fiti, he said. One gang wfi try to one-up another by spraying more of the stuff. "They get into tagging or bombing wars," he said, referring refer-ring to the names the gang culture assigns to graffiti writing. "They will tag up the whole neighborhood if you don't take care of it soon." The Daily Herald also found graffiti behind a drug store on Main Street in Pleasant Grove, behind a nearby dentist's office of-fice and on a light pole that had been sprayed with black and red graffiti along the city's east bench at 1150 E. 100 North. Nielsen said it Is unclear why or how the graffiti graf-fiti is creeping so far into residential resi-dential neighborhoods, saying it could be a gang marking its territory or just a bored teen. Kolin Porter, who lives near t he vandalized light pole, said . the graffiti first appeared about a year ago, but new graffiti seems to have been recently added higher up the pole. The neighbors have discussed dis-cussed painting the pole, but no one has done anything, he said. Spray cans, which can be fingerprinted, were cleared from the Lindon and Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove State Street sites by the vandals before they left, Nielsen said, noting such graffiti used to be done just by juveniles, but police had been increasingly able to trace fingerprints fin-gerprints to adults with criminal crimi-nal records. As a result of fingerprint fin-gerprint convictions, vandals rarely leave spray paint cans at the site of graffiti vandalism anymore. 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