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Fire marshal remembers time in fire-prevention program

Last updated Sunday, December 25, 2011 - 11:24pm

NORTH OGDEN — Joseph Anderson told his boss there was no way he could ever be a clown. But 21 years later, he’s looking back on the success of the Boots ’N Bunker fire-prevention program he pioneered in the Ogden schools.

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Send away the clowns

Brad Gillman Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Sunday, May 22, 2011 - 3:01am

Cue the carnival music. Tie those balloon animals. Refill the seltzer bottles.

The clowns are here.

Did you jump into the nearest bush when you heard this? Well, you're not alone. You may have coulrophobia -- a fear of clowns.

Richard Arbogast, chief medical officer for McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden, said that 10 percent of people, young and old, have a negative reaction to clowns.

A 2007 study by the University of Sheffield in the U.K. polled children at a children's hospital about decorating the ward with pictures of clowns.

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BAD CLOWNS

Brad Gillman Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Sunday, May 22, 2011 - 1:02am

Pennywise the Clown -- In the 1990 movie "It," the television adaptation of Stephen King's tale of horror, a group of kids are tormented by a clown demon. Pennywise beckons them to join him in the sewer: "We all float down here."

"Poltergeist" clown doll -- The movie series that started in 1982 brought tales of a family being threatened by ghosts -- and also featured an eerie combination of dolls.

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