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Show Thursday, December 11, 2008 OREM TIMES Page 7 PoliceBea I SELECTED INCIDENTS AS COMPILED BY STAFF. BURGLARY -A suspect broke in to the El Mexicano Market Mar-ket on Dec. 2. The business is located at 560 N. State Street. A private alarm company notified the owner at his home that the alarm had gone off at the business. A family member responded and found the back door to the business ajar and called Orem police. Officers cleared the building and found no one inside. However, officers did find a ladder up against the side of the building and discovered dis-covered that the suspect had entered by going through an access ac-cess point on the roof. Once the suspect dropped down inside the business, he stole cash and left through the back door, triggering trig-gering the alarm. In mid-November, there was another burglary reported at Jumping Jack Cash at 934. N. State where the suspect entered by using the roof. In that burglary, bur-glary, photos of the suspect were captured. The suspect appears to be a small male and may well be the same suspect who did the burglary bur-glary at the El Mexicano Market as well as the burglary described next door at Radio Shack (below). (be-low). I BURGLARY - Orem police officers were summoned Sun day at 5:46 a.m. to Radio Shack at 1088 S. State Street for a burglar alarm going off. Officers arrived and found the back door to the business ajar. The building was cleared and the manager called. Officers found that a suspect had gone through the roof, similar to what had been done at the other two businesses. Once he dropped into the store, the motion alarm had activated and apparently frightened him off. The suspect managed to escape from the area before officers arrived, ar-rived, but the manager reported nothing missing. ticker Utah Flash work with Santa Cause Hundreds of volunteers, including Utah Flash players play-ers and staff, representing the Flash Family Foundation sponsored by the Santa Cause will be involved beginning next week in helping more than 100 Utah County families fami-lies to not only have a better Christmas, but an improved New Year as well. Founded by Nate and Dani Jo Bray of Saratoga Springs. Utah, The Santa Cause, like the Flash Family Foundation, donates 100 percent of its funds collected to the identified identi-fied families, with coats, food, school items set as priorities. Then, after all of that, comes the toys. For more information informa-tion click on www.thesanta-causeonline.org www.thesanta-causeonline.org All proceeds from single-game single-game ticket sales for the Dec. 19 game between the Flash and the Bakersf ield Jam will be donated to the Flash Family Fam-ily Foundation, as will proceeds pro-ceeds from celebrity memorabilia memo-rabilia auctions at The Santa Cause Celebrity Auction and Raffle at the Gallivan Center on Dec. 15. Flash single game tickets are available from all Utah County Bajio Mexican Grills, as well as all Smithstix locations loca-tions and at Smithstix.com. Admission to the auction and raffle at the Gallivan Center is $5, $4 for kids, but if you mention The Santa Cause, skate rental is free thanks to Edge Products. "Our main motivation in buying the Flash was the abil ity it would give us to give back to a place that has been so good to us." Flash owner Brandt Andersen said. "Our main goal on Dec. 19 is to fill the McKay Events Center to the rafters to help make the Holiday Season better for all in Utah County." The Flash Family Foundation, Founda-tion, the brainchild of Andersen An-dersen and his wife Katie of Provo, works with Utah County school systems to help identify children and families in need. Teamed up with The Santa Cause, the Flash Family Foundation will begin purchasing pur-chasing and delivering gifts (mainly clothing), essential daily living items and food for up to four months for some 100 Utah County families as early as next week. Word Watching can be a tricky sport Don Norton eaders may be sur-1 sur-1 1 prised to learn that fJ most of the grammar Il (usage) rules we're J LI supposed to follow with religious conviction were at one time not rules at all. These are such rules GRAMMAR as "don't NOTES use double negatives, don't end a sentence with a preposition, don't split infinitives, infini-tives, don't use ain't, because ain't ain't a word," and on and on. Most of these rules were just made up by self-appointed "experts," mostly clergy, in the 18th century. Just because the rules were made up doesn't mean that we shouldn't follow a lot of them (in serious writing or more formal speech, at least), but knowing where the rules came from helps us understand 1) why many educated people have never followed them, and 2) why so many people still break them. Knowing where the rules came from also helps us better bet-ter understand why we have "grammar cops" who go around correcting people. Teachers get away with it because be-cause they think it's their duty, and parents because they're the boss of their children. (There are times when "correcting" "cor-recting" is appropriate, and there are some right ways to do it. We'll talk about that in a future column.) But scratch one of these enforcers a little and you'll usually usu-ally find that they only know a few of the rules, maybe a dozen or so. They make a big fuss over these few rules but are unaware of the literally hundreds of rules out there rules that only a few writers, English teachers, and editors even know exist. You'll also find these people to be a bit (or a lot) insecure about themselves. them-selves. They use grammar to show their superiority, and that's not what grammar is for. Let's start with the BIG no-no: no-no: "ain't." First of all, don't use it unless you are trying to make a special point, as in "That just ain't so," or "Things ain't what they used to be," or "You ain't seen nothin' yet" used publicly by President Reagan. It's useful to make a special or humorous point. It's also common in popular music. Do be aware that in the South, many cultivated people use "ain't" in speech. I've heard it from city fathers in public council meetings. In the 1800s, many of the English aristocracy aristoc-racy used it freely among themselves, anyway. One usage dictionary says its history is "both complicated and obscure," and the volumes that so-called authorities have written about it are both informed in-formed and uninformed. We do know that it would be a useful contraction for the high-falutin' high-falutin' "am I not?" Wouldn't it be easier to say "Ain't I going?" go-ing?" than "Am I not going?" or the illogical "Aren't I going?" go-ing?" ("are I not going?"). By the way, there's evidence that many contractions are older and more respectable than the two words they stand for. So "can't" may be older than "can not," and "haven't" for "have not." Many contractions contrac-tions are entirely acceptable even in formal writing, though some are not. You don't see "I've, we've, they're" in serious writing, but you do see "don't, haven't, won't," and many others. oth-ers. Back to "ain't": At one time, the contraction "an't" for "am I not" was popular, but for some reason it just vanished. Too bad. A problem, of course, is that this nasty word is often used as a substitute for "is not" and "are not": "He ain't here. Youwethey ain't going." Nowadays, at least in our area, "ain't" is common only among the uneducated and children (who love to use it because be-cause adults consider it taboo). If you speak it seriously, your education and social status will be in question. It's in all dictionaries. diction-aries. Just don't use it unless you want to make a special point. I find myself using "ain't" publicly to catch people off guard. As a linguist, I'm supposed sup-posed to know all the rules, so I can break them when I choose to. I If you have a question or comment about grammar usage, send it to don norton" byu.edu or mail it to 1555 N. Freedom Blvd., Provo, UT, 84603 do Kira Johnson. 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