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KEARNS 2009 "PROJECT 365" "Project 365" is a national program in which each registered participant of the National Night Out Against Crime is asked to designate a particular 'problem area' in their communities. It could be anything from a park overtaken by drug dealers, to a gang problem, to a graffitti problem, or to expanding Neighborhood Watch or Mobile Patrol. The goal is to work towards correcting that problem within an estimated “365” days. In Kearns, as well as any other community, there are numerous problem areas that we could possibly help to correct. But after careful consideration, we feel that as our children are our most important resource and we can see a growing problem of gang involvement and drug use among our young people, the Kearns Crime Prevention Association has chosen, for the fifth year in a row, to focus on helping to suppress the drug use and gang activity in Kearns. Addressing the issues of drug use and gang involvement and the implementation of appropriate drug use and gang prevention programs should not and cannot be the sole responsibility of the Sheriff’s Office. Our entire community must join together, share resources and work in unison to be successful in gang involvement and drug use suppression, intervention, and prevention. We recognize that we cannot create change simply by decree, so we have begun to form alliances between members of the community, Salt Lake County agencies, the school system, the business community, nonprofit organizations, and faith-based organizations to provide ongoing and diversified education and training of all members of the Kearns community regarding the use of drugs and participation in gangs. Join us in 2009 at the Utah Olympic Oval for our yearly premier crime prevention event to learn what we can do to prevent crime in our community.
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| April in Kearns means "Operation END-GRAF" During the month of April, the KCPA spearheaded it's second annual graffiti abatement campaign. Last year, 65 volunteers spent 159 hours on Saturdays and some weekdays painting over and "Erasing" graffiti throughout the community. The number of graffiti-spattered locations are on the rise in Kearns again this spring, but so is the number of volunteers painting over it and cleaning it up.
Armed with 45 gallons of paint, 85 members of the Kearns Utah Stake Youth Group along with at least that many adults fanned out across the Pipe & Tube property in Kearns to remove the ever-present graffiti from inside and outside the vacant buildings on Wednesday night. Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office Deputy, Esekia Afatasi, who is a member of the Kearns Utah Stake, organized the cleanup. Deputy Afatasi is a patrol deputy at the Oquirrh precinct.
Eagle Scout Mahornri Seumanu was one of the youth who donned his painting clothes to help with the massive cleanup. This is one of many service projects Seumanu gets involved in, and he hopes that the younger youth will look up to him and follow his example by continuing to help in the community.
Other members of the community are taking action and responsibility for keeping their neighborhoods clean. Residents on Parkwood Avenue recently spent their Saturday morning painting over the graffiti on the wall by Harmons. Corrine Prestwich was one of the neighbors who came out to help with the cleanup because she was tired of the graffiti she saw every time she looked out her kitchen window. Roger Snow, who was one of the organizers of the “Take Pride in Parkwood” campaign, encourages neighbors to care about their community and continue to keep the graffiti cleaned up.
Join us and other residents in helping to abate graffiti by organizing a graffiti cleanup in your area. You can also report graffiti to the Sheriff's Office or call Nancy White at END-GRAF (363-4723). Nancy's office will supply paint and cans of Erase to community members who want to clean up the graffiti. www.alittletime.org/content/communityleaders_r0.cfm |
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Kearns Crime Prevention Association, Inc.
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Kearns, UT 84118
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