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Rack locations are pointed out that he was holding the officer’s also available on our website. hand, but I thought it was a huge thing,” Tifanie For subscriptions please contact: [email protected] said. “At the event, my kids could get up close The views and opinions expressed in to the firefighters and police and know that the display advertisements do not necessarily people who are in charge of our safety are safe reflect or represent the views and opin- people.” ions held by Loyal Perch Media or the Taylorsville’s annual public safety night City Journals. This publication may not on Aug. 11 was part of the National Night be reproduced in whole or in part without Out campaign, which intendeds to bring the express written consent of the owner. communities together by forming partnerships between residents and police. Tifanie said The Taylorsville Team she believed the 2016 event was especially influential as trust between citizens and law CREATIVE DIRECTOR: enforcement continues to be a hot topic in the Bryan Scott United States. [email protected] Children clamored around police cars and Firefighters from Unified Fire Authority blare their sirens at Taylorsville’s annual Night Out Against Crime fire trucks, took pictures with law enforcement event. –Tori La Rue EDITOR: officers and practiced fire drills with members Tori La Rue of Unified Fire Authority at the event. Boy [email protected] Scouts earned merit badges through hands- “They realize that we are all concerned arrival at the daycare, firefighters gave the boys ADVERTISING: on activities, and officers and firefighters about the same issues, and if our two groups a lecture, and Colton’s mother, Tifanie, made 801-254-5974 welcomed questions from participants. A rock work together—the community and law him write an apology letter. climbing wall, child car seat safety checks and enforcement—we can achieve better progress.” “This was actually his next encounter with DIRECTOR OF ADVERTISING: K9 demonstrations were new to the annual, About 250 people, including eight Boy police officers, and it was a good one,” Tifanie Ryan Casper event, according to UPD Detective Scott Lloyd. Scout troops, attended the event. said of the Night Out Against Crime. “It seemed [email protected] 801-671-2034 Adults received educational materials John Harris, a UFA paramedic, said his to really help him with any residual effects he about how to keep their community safe, and favorite part about the Night Out Against Crime had about that incident. SALES ASSOCIATES: many of them told police they wanted to start or was answering the children’s questions about Each of Tifanie’s six children said they had Melissa Worthen improve their neighborhood watch programs. what public safety officials do and giving them fun at the safety fair. [email protected] The number of neighborhood watch tours of the fire engines. “Can we come back here tomorrow night?” 801-897-5231 programs in the Taylorsville community has “This is really a young man’s job, so if we Katie Fitzgerald, 10, asked as her mom ushered Steve Hession doubled since Taylorsville’s first Night Out can get these kids interested in this career now, the children to the car. [email protected] three years ago, according to Lloyd. Originally, they’ll be here after the rest of us are all old and Lloyd said he’s grateful there were many people were opposed to neighborhood watch gone,” he said. children who participated in the Night Out. CIRCULATION COORDINATOR programs because they thought it was a way Colten Fitzgerald, 8, said he doesn’t know When children are interested in what police Brad Casper to get the residents to do the job of the law if he wants to be a firefighter, but said he’s not and firefighters are doing and want to help [email protected] enforcement officers, according to Lloyd. Now embarrassed to be around them anymore. them, they are more likely to avoid crime in the residents see vigilant neighborhood watches as Two years ago, he and a friend pulled the future, he said. l Editorial & Ad Design: Melody Bunker important, he added. fire alarm at their daycare while playing. 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As a “When I talk with those people here, I billboard artist, his pictorials appeared on I-15 say, ‘I am an alum,’ and they get excited that and other highways from Ogden to St. George. someone from here made it,” he said. “I think “It was there that I got a lot of experience the best advice that I have for them is to not get in art by trial and error because there was always discouraged. It is a hard road and with so many a deadline which means you had to work fast, talented artists. The competition is fierce, but and you got a ton of hands-on experience,” you have to have a thick skin and paint every Larson said. “The work I did on billboards was day.” so varied. You’d have to paint loaf of bread one Larson’s been adding brush strokes and day, a portrait the next or a car. That’s where I new pieces to Vistas & Visions of the Colorado really honed in my skills as an artist.” Plateau for 10 years. It’s a project that will never As computers started stealing the jobs be complete, he said. Now Larson’s working on of billboard artists in the mid-90s, Larson two paintings that he will add to the collection— swapped his thick commercial paint brush with one of the Grand Canyon and another of Lake a smaller one, exploring the realm of landscape Powell. art seriously for the first time. Larson had never The Colorado Plateau is a 140,000-square taken a formal fine art class, but his grandmother mile-area of heightened rock mass that spans taught him a thing or two about oil painting from the edge of the Rocky Mountains in Utah, esert Star Playhouse, the theater that’s attempts at getting her to go out with him!) while he was a child growing up in Taylorsville. down to the Grand Canyon in Arizona, over to Dbuilt a reputation for producing laugh And with the increase of supernatural activi- He used his knowledge from billboard painting the Aztec Ruins in New Mexico and back up out loud, family-friendly musical comedies, ty, can the Ghostblasters save the day without and his grandmother’s lessons to begin a new through Mesa Verde to Black Canyon of the continues its 2016 season with a comedic divine intervention? Find out in our hilarious career in the fine arts realm. Gunnison in Colorado. take on the supernatural, “Ghostblasters: We new show! Larson’s success wasn’t immediate, but over Larson camped in the Colorado Plateau Ain’t Afraid of No Jokes!” The show opens Directed by Scott Holman, Ghostblast- time his paintings were showcased in galleries, during his teenage years, but he fell in love with Thursday, August 25th. ers runs from August 25 to November 5, homes and museums across the country, and he its scenery while he was an artist-in-residence Dr.