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Show ,fJ i Home invasions soar in Fairview Heights eery room, found a small by Rav LaFollcttc FAIRVIE- Fairview Heights has been the recent target for eight home invasions plus five acts of vandal- Thiexerv hit hard in Fairview Heights where a cutting torch carried to a residents home from a neighbors shop was used to cut open this large, Remington, gun safe. They took a collection of valuable gold coins, silver coins, a stack of $2 bills and some diamond jewelry. In the process of cutting open the safe, they also started a small lire in the bedroom where the safe was stored. Thankfully, they were kind enough to put it out! Good Neighbor Day successful at Farmers Floral W- ism. On July 24, three homes were robbed in Fairview Heights. At each home, the thieves entered through a real window or door. The invaders ransacked closets, drawers and anything else that would be a hiding place for money. The thieves left credit cards, jewelry, blank checks and guns scattered on floors, taking only cash. A fourth home was also left in shambles. When the thieves entered the fifth home that night, someone was home so they left on the run. It appeared that the intruders left each home on foot and traveled a predetermined route, through open fields, where they met their accomplices who were apparently standing guard. The week, following some vandals drove through the area and broke windshields at five different residences. It appears that these acts were not related to the robberies, but caused inconvenience and hardships to those vandalized. This same week, at a new of the 1457th A Company $649 in donations which were then turned over to the 1457 Family Support Group. The money received by the support group will be used to help the families of the 1457th who are currently serving active duty in Iraq. The winner of the giraffe was Diane Gillins, Mt. and the local Food Bank. Mary Goodwin, president; and Kristy Jensen, of the local Food Bank were there to items accept Adult reading class Mr. PLEASAN- T- In recognition of "Good Neighbor Day", Farmers Country Floral took the lead in being a good neighbor itself. While giving a dozen roses out to everyone coming in, they hosted donation booths for both the families vice-preside- ie donations. monetary They reported receiving 168 pounds of food donations and and $18.60. Master Sergeant Winn, 1457th A Company currently serving in Iraq, was there with Deon Smith and her granddaughter as representatives of the 1457 Family Support Group to help take donations. Each donation given received a ticket to be put in a drawing to win a five-foot giraffe. Anita Farmer, owner of Farmers Floral, Country reported Good Neighbor Day was a huge success. While uplifting the community with roses, giving away a little over 6,000, they collected MT. PLEASANT--Adult- s in the North Sanpete area who would like to improve their basic reading skills are encouraged to join a special class that will begin Tuesday, Sept. 16 at 7 p.m., in the high school learning center, across from the high school. There is no charge for the class. Those interested just need to attend the first class. In addition, for those over the age of 18 who would like to earn a high school diploma, classes will begin that same evening to help them reach that goal, also at the learning center. All of these classes begin at 7 p.m. Classes in all of the required areas for graduation home construction sight, tools valued at $5,000 were stolen. On Labor Day weekend, three more homes were targeted. This time the thieves were more brazen. The first home hit was fenced, with dogs, and well secured. The thieves did enter the home, ransacked are ottered, with an emphasis on mathematics. Preparation to help students pass the GED test will be a major focus on the course work. The reading class does offer high school credit, but is primarily intended to ones personal improve skills. To enroll, adults need only to come to the class at 7 p.m., on Tuesday, Sept. 16. Registration will be taken care of at that time. There is no fee for courses if the student is over 18 years-of-ag- e. sate, which they were able to bicak open. A considerable amount of money was taken in this break-iThe intruders then went to a home, neighboring vs here they took a cutting torch from a shop and carried it into the home where it was used to cut open a large safe. This time, theives took a collection of valuable gold coins, silver coins, a stack of $2 bills and some diamond jewelry. While cutting open the safe, the thieves started a fire in the bedroom, which they put out with water from the kitchen. ransacked They every room in the home before leaving on foot, again on a predetermined route. A third home was targeted that night, but something scared the intruders away after they ripped a screen from a rear window. On the nights of the n. robberies, For more information, turquoise car An alert resident took the license number, but as luck would have it, the license plate was stolen from a Salt Lake City car. Fairview Heights now has a Neighborhood Watch program in operation to see if they can keep these criminals out of their neighborhood. They have regular patrols, most homes now have alarm the which alert systems sheriffs office as well as alerting neighbors. These actions may help keep these criminals out of Fairview Heights, but more help is needed to capture these thieves. In the past two years, Mayfield, Gunnison, Manti, and Moroni have also been targeted. In order to capture these help is needed. suspects, Someone out there may know something that could help solve these crimes. If you know anything or see something suspicious, call the sheriffs office. With everyones help, these crimes could be solved. During a discussion with Sheriff Kay Larsen, it was revealed adults may call North Sanpete High School at 462-245- 2 and ask for adult a with two girls was seen, stopped in the area. Also a white car with suspicious three men and a black sports car was seen several times in the area before the robberies. that Fairview Heights is not the only place in Sanpete that has been hit. Sanpete is also not the only county, Millard, Sevier, and Juab counties have also had to deal with this problem lately. These criminals are not rookies, they leave no fingerprints, they are not greedy, and generally do not take anything which might be traced with a serial number. A whole pile of items' were taken to the crime lab to try to find clues or evidence which would help to catch the thieves, but the lab could find nothing which could be used. Sheriff Larsens advice to all residents in the county is to help each other by helping to watch out for suspicious activity. When you need to go out of town or away for a time, tell your neighbor so that if they see someone at your home in your absence, that should not be there, they can alert officials. He also recommends that security lighting be used. Every one of these crimes were done at night in the dark. Criminals do not like to be seen in the light. Use outdoor lights and motion detectors. Secure your property with appropriate locks and secure windows if possi- - One citizen gave advice to consider some of the technology that is now available on the market. Security cameras take automatically is motion when any photos detected can be used to get pictures of unwanted visitors. Those pictures can be automatically be transferred onto the Internet for viewing anywhere in the world. For instance: If you have a mountain cabin which is only used on occasion, the cameras could be used to record any activity on the site and those pictures can be viewed which elsewhere. A suggestion would be to use cameras which will work even when it is dark or with little or no light. The complaint was heard that it takes so long for the sheriffs department to respond to incidents. Sheriff Larsen is also frustrated by his inability to have deputies available in all parts of the county at all times. economic recent The times have also hurt his department and it is not possible to always have officers immediately MP library summer reading MT. PLEASAN- T- The Mt. Pleasant Public Library recently celebrated the end of their summer reading program with a puppet show given by renowned puppeteer, Mark Pulham. The puppet show, ed attend- a record-breakin- g was crowd, wildly received. The show was video taped by by Joe Puente and was shown on the local access cable channel. Children from all over the county have been participating in the summer reading program at the library. Children signed up for the program by promising to try and read or be read to, for at least 10 hours during the eight-wee- k period. 133 children participated in this years program. The was youngest participant eight months old and the oldest was 17 years old. Out of the 133 particithe pants, 66 completed program, earning themselves a free kids meal from Wheelers Drive-i- n and a free ice cream cone from Skyline Pharmacy. A total of 802 hours were read by young readers during this program. For each hour participants read, they were able to put a paper cookie into the cookie jar. A drawing was held after the puppet show for great prizes, donated by local merchants. Grand prize winner was Santiago Sarmiento, age 10. He won a CDcassette player 5 on and Harry Potter cassette tapes. Other prizes included a $25 gift card from videos, movie tokes, pop, books and pizza. Wal-Mar- t, The Mt. Pleasant Library expresses gratitude to ail sponsors: Flix; Hub City Pizza; Wal-Mar- t; Terrels; Johansen Construction; Skyline Pharmacy; Wheelers Drive-in- ; A Carpet Cleaning; Joe Puente of Utah Filmmakers Association; Channel 10; and Mt. Pleasant City. |