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Show "" ' ' ' ! i ... ' ... . "' ' 1-'- ;-' ..."""" V ;.-;.."" " 'v,' VJ1 I ' '' i " . , " f ' :-v:v t - . -7, - - . f , .y . -V, -' V' & ;rv 1; V - - J ; SHERRI ATYVOOD, left, Officer Tom Paul, and Dee Ekins act out a scene for one of author David George's books on I children's safety. Sherri attempts to escape after trying to induce some children at the park to come with them. Filming now underway in PG for books on safety Filming involving Pleasant Grove children and adults has already begun for a group of books that hopes to put messages of safety across to the nation's children. The project got enthusiastic endorsement from the Pleasant Grove PTA Council at the meeting of that group held at Valley View Elementary last Thursday. Author David Lester George of Orem plans a total of six books in the series including one on water, fire, use of medicine, and kidnapping. The writer told the PTA group he conceived of the idea for the books following the tragedy of Rachel Runyan. He said he does not want the message of the dangers that exist to children to be lost when the sensationalism sen-sationalism of the story dies down. "We want to keep the message right out there," he said. - ' Some of the titles for the books might be "Strangers Can Be Very Strange," "Water's Fun, But...," "Pills for Ills - Ills from Pills". He wants to design books to be one-third one-third adventure and two-thirds safety. George said the books should be a com.nunity project and indicated to the PTA that he will give the city full distribution rights to the books which he suggests could bring in as much as $240,000 for the city to use for teaching aids, computers, etc. In addition, production of the books here in the city would produce from 14-20 new jobs, said the writer. The author has been out with Pleasant Grove Police Officer Tom Paul during the past week filming shots for one of the books. In that story, which puts across the message to beware of strangers, George used local backdrops such as Wasatch Bank and the park. Paul and one of his children will be part of that book. The narrator of the stories is a police car. He sees things going on that aren't quite right and alerts his driver to them. Sandy Hughes, a Provo artist will be doing the overlays of the car for the books. George hopes to keep the publications as realistic as possible, so the children will know the message is real. The author is trying to get the backing of a major automobile corporation cor-poration for production and promotion of the book. He estimates the cost to buy the entire series will be no more than. $3.00, if the books are bound with a soft cover. George said the people of Pleasant Grove have been very cooperative in getting the project going. |