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Show Greatest clanger during bomb scare was traffic gridlock New Utah - Thursday, February 26, 2(XM - Page 5 By Cathy Aured Lehi Junior High School principal Kevin Cox opened a handwritten letter at approximately 7:30 a.m. on Feb. 19. The note stated that within the next 48 hours a bomb would go off at the school. Within less than four hours, Lehi law enforcement had the 13-year-old suspect in custody for questioning. The apparent motive behind the hoax, according to LPD Officer Jeff Swenson, was that she was upset with the faculty, students and school administration. The eighth-grade teen has since been charged with a second degree felony for terroristic threats and was booked into the Slate Canyon Detention Center in Provo. She will have a district hearing upon her release from the detention center. School administrators will decide at the hearing whether she will get school district probation or expulsion, expul-sion, said Cox. Police and school administration admin-istration would soon find out that the biggest danger to the approximately 1,750 students stu-dents was not the possibility of a bomb, but the great influx of traffic as 500 parents par-ents from throughout the area swarmed in to pick up their children. The evacuation was organized and began shortly after at 8 a.m. The Utah County Sheriff's Sher-iff's Office was called in with its Bomb Squad and what officers refer to as the squad's two "Bomb Dogs began sweeping the building, build-ing, the satellite and trailers for bombs. As the students were being evacuated, Lehi High School principal Sheldon Worthington received a call notifying him of the evacuation evacua-tion to his campus. "That's how much time we had to prepare," Worthington Wor-thington said and smiled. "We didn't have any idea how many parents would show up. This was a many-tentacled many-tentacled monster that grew as it went along." They originally set up a process to handle the 50 parents par-ents they expected to arrive to pick up their children, when in fact 500 arrived. "We had parents here before the kids got here," he said. At no time did the school district, schools, PTA or other organization administration adminis-tration give the order for parents to come pick up their students. Parents heard about the evacuation through cell phones borrowed from students' stu-dents' friends and teachers, and they arrived from work, from their homes and other locations to pick up their children. American Fork police were called in to assist with directing the influx of traffic and to act as backup while the Utah County Sheriff's Office Bomb Squad with its bomb dogs secured the junior jun-ior high school. Less than a third of the LJHS students were eventually eventu-ally checked out of school. Some parents brought their students back to class after the junior high campus was cleared by police at 10:31 a.m. Only one injury occurred during the three-hour ordeal. LJHS teacher Sally Taggart fell on some ice during dur-ing the walk to the high school and broke her ankle. While the student body was waiting in the LHS gyms, two students had anxiety attacks. The school district medical team and Lehi EMS were on hand to administer first aid treatment. "One of the biggest things we learned is that when parents par-ents know their child is in a safe and secure location, one of the best things they can do is to let the local authorities authori-ties handle the situation," said Worthington. "The most dangerous thing that happened as a result of the bomb threat was the gridlock that occurred when parents came in mass to pick up their children. chil-dren. "There was a much greater danger outside of the school than there was for the students in the gym." Youth artists schedule show Rachel Williams will be featured youth artist at an art show March 3 to 6, in the rotunda of the American Fork Public Library, 64 S. 100 East. The show may be viewed from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Wednesday through Friday, and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. The works of youth artist Kolby Larsen, 13, and adult artist Gail A. Gibson will also be among the approximately approxi-mately 25 pictures on display, dis-play, which will range from pen-and-ink to water color. A senior at Lehi High School, Rachel, 17, works mostly in watercolor and doing animals. In addition to art classes in high school, she has studied with Gib son. She is the daughter of Tom and Dian Williams. On Wednesday and Friday Fri-day evenings, the artists will be at the library. fciintlT.im . .... 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