Sedona AZ (September 13, 2013) – On July 30, 2013, Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office deputies met with a McGuireville, Arizona, resident about damage to his stone marker in the 1000 block of Reay Road. Since the report, deputies have exhausted all leads and are seeking help from the public to catch the culprits.
The stone driveway marker was engraved with the property address and housed a built-in electronic gate opener. The property owner estimates the total loss and damage value at nearly $5000. It is believed that the marker had been damaged the prior day and the person(s) responsible live in the area.
The owner told the deputy that some area residents had recently complained about the placement of the marker. The victim found most marker pieces left at the scene – see lower right photo. Based on information from neighbors interviewed by the deputy, the damage occurred during daylight hours on July 29, 2013.
On September 5, 2013, the homeowner filed a late report and noted that on July 31, 2013, unknown persons had also removed a post from his driveway entrance. He was unable to provide any further leads regarding either theft.
YCSO hopes anyone with information will contact the Sheriff’s Office or Yavapai Silent Witness at 1-800-932-3232 – refer to case number 13-025662.
Callers to Silent Witness are eligible for a cash reward should the tip lead to an arrest.
Citizens can contact the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office with information or questions at 928-771-3260 or the YCSO website www.ycsoaz.gov.
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Quality education starts at home. All of this and other bad behavior is a result of the parents that either haven’t taught children or children who haven’t been willing to learn how to respect themselves or others.
When parents teach children lessons about the consequences of their behavior then quality teachers will be able to teach these children.
A quality student isn’t the result of expensive schools, funded teachers unions, over-paid and under performing school administrators, school boards, teachers and expensive sports programs.
When businesses aren’t able to find adequate employees that are punctual, dependable, drug-free, reliable, trustworthy with a genuine work ethic who has the ability to communicate, read, write and do simple math problems, someone has failed to provide the basics required for survival. Add in proper dress code, personal appearance and the picture gets far more complicated.
If you have a conversation with businesses owners in your community they may be willing to share their hiring frustration with you.
I don’t say this to be mean spirited, I say it because it’s the message I hear from businesses I work with across the country.
It’s time for parents to get back to being parents and to quit being your child’s best friend, our nation’s future depends on it.
It would be a good first step for parents and their children to have dinner with each other: Though I’m not LDS, I will tell you that many years ago my wife and I adopted a LDS program that our children told us made a difference to them and it’s called “Family Home Evening” as I recall.
Gary Chamberlain
Cornville AZ-USA
Vietnam veteran
Who pays for this? After the people are caught that did it will they pay for it?
weird neighbors in arizona, weirder people in rimrock
Here’s a link to a Adopt-A-Highway group that deserves a huge “shout-out” for their efforts to restore the beauty to “America the Beautiful”!
http://adotblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/adopt-highway-is-part-of-curtis-family.html
With more folks like this, ADOT can claim to have a deserving, taxpayer funded Adopt-A-Highway Program.
Eighty-five bags of trash in 5 hours ……. how can the ADOT Adopt-A-Highway Program claim that, awareness, education and participation is changing the litter culture?
We need more stories about parents, teachers and businesses that are aggressively and regularly teaching the anti-litter lesson. Maybe field trips for students should include picking up trash?
ADOT, could you share some education stories in the home, schools and businesses with us? ADOT, without these stories, groups like this will “forever” be picking up others messes!
This is a truly good group of folks!
Gary Chamberlain
Cornville AZ – USA
Vietnam veteran