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Show OREM TIMES Thursday, August 9, 2007 MEWS AfJD NOTES TO KEEP YOU INFORMED AND INVOLVED Police looking for kids who torched park restrooms Page 2 Michael Rigert Juveniles are believed to have set fire to the restrooms at one of Orem's oldest public par ks early Tuesday morning causing near ly $170,000 in damage and police are asking residents for help in locating the susccts. I.t lnig Edwards, spokesman spokes-man for ( hern's iJeparlment of hiblu: Safety, said firefighters rescinded to the blaze at Cherry Cher-ry Hill I'ark, 240 . 1H00 South, at .'i .45 a.m. Tuesday morning. "Officers and firefighters ... found the bathroom facility fully ful-ly engulfed in flames," he said. One of the emergency units reported seeing three juveniles fleeing the area to the east side of the park, however police officers were unable to locate I he youths and determine what involvement, if any, they had with the felony arson crime, Edwards said. Investigators found evidence at the scene indicating the suspects used gasoline to fuel the fire. Steve Weber, the city's maintenance division manager in the Public Works Department, Depart-ment, said the conflagration, in addition to destroying the building's roof, damaged $20,(KM) of park maintenance equipment including a new $15,000 riding lawnmower kept at the facility. I-ire investigators said the heat from the fire was hot enough to damage the structural struc-tural integrity of the facility's Film Continued from Page I lens, he said. "They've got some very pr incipled and appropriate material on basic family struggles strug-gles and family satisfaction," I-hmcan said. Another reason the library has chosen to highlight a selection se-lection of Iranian films is to underscore and create greater awareness about the Orem Public Library's "extensive and impressive" foreign film collection, Scarbrough said. 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Fire investigators said damage was significant enough to compromise the structural integrity of the building and it was ordered demolished. walls and the building was razed Tuesday afternoon by Oreru city crews using a back-hoe. back-hoe. Though there's been in- An admitted cinemaphile, Scarbrough would like to present other genres to library patrons, possibly including a series of examples from French cinema. India's booming so-called Bollywood productions have received international attention atten-tion and are another potential candidate. Yet one limiting factor of the potential library film presentations is any given movie's MPAA rating. The Orem Public Library will not show R -rated films, and all the films being presented during dur-ing the Iranian Film Festival are rated PG, he said. Many international and Fairopean titles in the library's collection are rated R and could not be screened at the library. But with the vast size of the library's film and international film collection, Scarbrough said there's a plethora of library-appropriate movies that could be enjoyed by patrons Phone: 756-7669 Fax: 756-5274 DAILY HERALD PUBLISHING CO. Jennette Esplin 756 7669 Office Manager Erin Stewart 344 2558 Project Coordinator, DesignerCopy Editor Julia Fullmer 344 2570 DesignerCopy Editor Jeremy Harmon 344 2585 Photographer Issue 83 stances of vandalism to Orem Tuesday's arson, parks in the past, Weber said "This is a major crime, value-in value-in his 21 years with the city, wise, with it being arson," he'd never seen something as he said. "Unless somebody's destructive to city property as conscience gets to them, it'll and the public. A $1 fee for movie checkouts check-outs whether DVD or video cassette has allowed the Featured films at the Iranian Film Festival Three films by Academy Award-nominated Iranian director Majid Majidi. The first film was shown Tuesday, Aug. 7. Screening two on Aug. 14: Young Lateef works on a construction site in Tehran with some Kurds and a few illegal Afghan workers. When Lateef is given heavier tasks to compensate for new Afghan worker Rahmat, he resents his displacement and treats Rahmat cruelly. After one of his pranks, however, Lateef La-teef discovers Rahmat's secret he is a girl named Baran. Lateef's heart softens towards Baran and he shows his new affection for her by doing what he can to ease the hardships she suffers at work. When government inspectors force all Afghans to be fired from the site, Lateef discovers he cannot bear to be without her. Jeopardizing social standing and endangering his own well being, Lateef stops at nothing to save his love. Screening three on Aug. 21 : Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes, Ali's. School awaits. Will the plan succeed? Lecture presentation on Aug. 28: Assistant librarian Mike Smith will present clips from other noted Iranian Ira-nian filmmakers including Abbas Kiarostami. Film plots source: International Movie Database www.imdb.com Emery County in nat'l spotlight mery County is the last place Brigham Young sent the Mormon pioneers to settle before he died. That point of local is one of many being at the Castle Valley Pageant, which is held above Castle Dale every August. Saturday is the last performance for this year. The local joke is that Brother Brigham had run out of other places to send people, and when he sent people to Emery County, the great colonizer had run out of good ideas. It has always been a challenge to live there, scratching out a meager existence on land that's covered with greasewood. The natives claim that those who live there find the natural salinity of the soil flows in their blood, making it hard to leave. But they do leave. Fewer than 1 1,000 people live in the county, and the number is dropping. Glance at any Utah map, and it's easy to see why. Most of the towns in Emery County are built along Highway 10, a 70-mile stretch of road between be-tween Price and Interstate 70 that no one uses unless they are going to one of those towns. It's as close to nowhere as you can get in Utah. I started my newspaper career there in 1976, and spent two years writing and editing the Emery County Progress. I covered city council and county commission meetings, took and developed de-veloped all of the newspaper's photographs and wrote up the football and basketball games. I also pasted up the pages, addressed the newspapers news-papers before delivering them to the post office, of-fice, and swept up at night. I learned early that coal was king. Of the long-term residents in the county, everybody either worked in the coal mines, had relatives who worked in the coal mines or depended on people who worked in the coal mines to keep their businesses prosperous. Coal has lost some of the power it exercised in the 1970s and '80s, but even now, the four operating Emery County coal mines are each among the top 10 employers in the county. Combined, they make coal mining the undis- 14 library to expand its collection collec-tion and opened the door for the purchasing of rights to show appropriate films in the history made Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN ' be hard to catch them ... who knows what goes on in the minds of people." Because funds to replace the building and equipment, estimated at approximately $170,000, come from the department's operational budget, bud-get, it will mean other planned projects won't get done, Weber We-ber said. "As an example, we had planned to fix up the tennis courts and now that money will go toward this," he said. Police currently have no new leads in the crime. Edwards is requesting that parents, other youth that may know something, or the perpetrators per-petrators themselves come forward and help identify who was responsible for the costly destruction at the park. "We're hoping they will do the right thing and give us a call or bring their child in to the department to talk with investigators," he said. "Even if no such observations are made by a parent, chances are good that whomever is responsible will talk or brag about it to a select few; maybe one of those people will call us to report those responsible." Orem averages about two reported arson crimes each year, Edwards said. Those with information about Tuesday's crime are asked to contact Orem police detective Sgt. Randy Crowther at 2294118. I Reva Bowen also contributed to this report. library's media auditorium. "It's a new thing for us," Scarbrough said. "We're hoping hop-ing to do it every month." puted major employer. Money from coal mining makes it possible for most people to buy groceries, pay their power bills, and, in many cases, keep their marginal mar-ginal family farms afloat. So when a mine collapses, trapping trap-ping six miners four miles from the cave entrance and 1,500 feet under the surface, as happened Monday, it hits everyone very hard. At this writing, the state of the miners is unknown, but 11,000 people are suffering suf-fering as a single family tonight. And the fact that half of those trapped are Mexican nationals means little. The family bond of coal miners transcends barriers of language or nationality. As part of my responsibilities in 1977, 1 spent a few hours in the mine where the men are now trapped. At the time it was owned by a different company. My trip underground under-ground was short, but unnerving. We entered the mine in one of those low-to-the ground cars designed to negotiate modern coal mines. We rode for what seemed like a long time before we reached the face where coal was mined. Every inch of the way, I could sense the massive weight of the earth above me. They showed me how coal was extracted and taken to the surface, how the miners operated the heavy equipment, how the day-to-day mining operation could almost seem like a normal job. It was a relief when the tour was over and I was returned to daylight. The air smelled fresher, the sky was bluer and the sense of oppression op-pression and impending doom lifted. J never went back into a mine, and I don't apologize for that. I still can't fathom what would compel someone some-one to enter into a mine shaft day after day. It takes an extraordinary person to perform that kind of work. Six of those men remain trapped in the mine, and prospects for a safe recovery are dwindling. dwin-dling. Our prayers and hopes are with them and their families, and the 11,000 who make up their extended family in Emery County. Carter Continued from Page 1 mother, siblings and friends who don't hesitate to help push her wheel chair at the mall or take her to the movies. mov-ies. Yet they say she's the one who inspires them. Close friend Michelle Pa-dilla Pa-dilla calls Carter "determined, sweet, and really good at academics" and highly values val-ues their friendship because Carter "is a good influence and example" to her. A member of the National Honor Society, Carter aspires as-pires to travel the world and one day enter the medical profession. She said her career ca-reer ambition to become a pediatrician comes from a combination of her exposure to the medical field due to her disability and for the simple fact that she enjoys being with children and working with them. "I want to get a job at Shri-ner's Shri-ner's Hospital (in Salt Lake City)," Carter said. Though spinal muscular atrophy at-rophy isn't technically a form of muscular dystrophy, it falls under the umbrella of the 43 diseases that are the focus of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, As-sociation, said David Ricketts, the health care services coordinator coor-dinator for the organization's Utah office and a friend of Carter's. It funds research, runs clinics, provides medical medi-cal equipment to patients and holds annual fundraisers including in-cluding the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon, Firefighters' Fill the Boot campaign, and the St. Patrick's Day Shamrock Sham-rock at area grocery stores. Carter is somewhat of a celebrity with the Muscular Muscu-lar Dystrophy Association nationally and in Utah, and for years has appeared at fundraisers and events as a speaker, Ricketts said. Her photograph has appeared in the organization's brochures and magazines around the world. Last month, Carter was in Layton thank ng firefighters from around the state for their support of the upcoming Fill the Boot fundraiser for muscular dystrophy. On Tuesday, Tues-day, she was at the Utah State Capitol meeting with Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr., as he signed a proclamation supporting children with muscular dystrophy dys-trophy and efforts on their behalf be-half to fund research to find a cure, Ricketts said. "Carli ... has a zest for life, has always got a smile and is a happy person that attracts at-tracts other to her," he said. "... She's not hesitant about talking about what it's like living with spinal muscular atrophy." Though she downplays her role, Carter shares her experiences with others and explains how the Muscular Dystrophy Association fundraisers fund-raisers help children like her and their families. "Yeah, it's kind of hard because I'm a real cry baby. When I thank people I start crying because I really appreciate appre-ciate what they do," she said. "I talk a lot and make friends. If I do get shy, I'm only shy for a minute and then I warm up." The Muscular Dystrophy Association also funds an annual camp experience for children it assists in Utah and surrounding states. The themed camps held at the Airport Air-port Hilton in Salt Lake City are an opportunity for the children to get away from the restraints of their daily lives and enjoy being a kid. Carter has attended them every year since she was nine, but nearly missed this year's camp. She underwent major surgery sur-gery at Shriner's Hospital for Children in Salt Lake City in May because her constricted muscles had curved her spine to the point that it was beginning to crush one of her lungs and other organs, creating breathing problems. During a 12-hour, $1 million procedure paid for by the hospital, surgeons inserted a rod to straighten out her back and fused several vertebrae ver-tebrae to her hips to prevent her muscles from twisting her spine. "I'm straighter and I can breathe quite a bit better but it's harder for me to walk," Carter said. Though her daughter was supposed to rest and recover from the surgery for three months, Simpson said within four weeks Carter was getting get-ting restless and made a one-day one-day visit to the MDA camp that ended up lasting the whole week. "She's not going to stay laying down in bed," Simpson said. |
