The Salt Lake Tribune
Monday, June 23, 2008
Git 'em, Alexandra
Alexandra Eframo is a cock-eyed crusader. She's also a pain in the butt. The problem is: She's nearly always right.

Of course Alexandra's a nut, who else would say stuff like:
I just want to stand for truth. Truth and justice.
The Deseret News' Leigh Dethman profiles the tiny woman who has taken up worthy causes from county council members' rudeness to keeping the cost of document copies down.

When I interviewed Alexandra a couple years ago, she was fighting West Jordan attorneys and her neighbors because she wanted to return her lawn to the desertscape that God meant it to be. She was all about water conservation and drought resistant plants. Her suburban neighbors wanted to strangle her.

She won.

Alexandra was also crusading against depression by handing out tiny angel pins and hugs. She lost. (I felt at peace with the world for about an hour, then it went away.)

One of her enraged neighbors called me, warning that Eframo wasn't the goody goody she might seem. "She works in her yard in a bathing suit! " the anonymous informant said. Being that Alexandra's older than dirt, I really didn't waste time investigating that revelation.

Randy "Hand Out" Horiuchi, the developers' BFF, complains:
She's got to understand we have 1.499 million other residents in this county. If we spent as much time with them as we do with her, we wouldn't be alive.
I don't know about you, but I'd feel more secure if Randy spent more time hobnobbing with Alexandra and less with mega-developers like Kem Gardner.

10 Comments:

At June 24, 2008 10:39 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Alexandra certainly is a NUT. I have known her for 15 years. our friendship came to an end when she left 10 messages on my phone calling me a baby killer because she found out I am pro choice. she continually calls the police on her neighbors and harasses everyone around her. She is not a crusader for justice. She is mean and insane

 
At June 27, 2008 12:32 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

She harrasses everyone she possibly can! You should try living by her for over one year. That's when the honeymoon period of her mass manipulation wears off. No one can fully know how it is to have her as a neighbor until they have fully lived it!!!!
Think about it a little more, how can it be that you have pretty much every house surrounding her can't stand her. We all mind our own business, being the best law abiding citizens & she does nothing but tourment us. She picks one neighbor after another to tourment. We now have to call the police department to pertect ourselves from her & cover our butts with they way she treats us. Try talking to every neighbor that has a view of her house, she's harrassed almost every single one of them. NO, SHE IS NOT ALWAYS RIGHT!
There's dryscaping & then there's her yard.
Last year or so she was offered to have her entire yard done for free & she said no! Are you kidding me?
During the summer she is a fire hassard to the whole neighborhood!No kids she ever see her in her swimming suit! It's discusting. The other day she came out of her house with a shirt on & her underwear. You could see her bottoms.
Look at her bushes to the west of her house, rat zone! We got rat notices in the mail on what to do if we run into them. Yuck!
Not to mention that workers coming out of her house talked of rat poison all over her house. Talk about a hazard to surrounding cats, dogs & other animals in a surroundimg mile of her home. There are quite a few kids in the area, what happens when they unexpectidly run into a dead rat that ate the poison? These are little children that aren't old enough to fully understand not to touch. No one has been in her house for years, so neighbors were shocked to see her let anyone in. Did she come out of her garage when she came out to see you? Thats because her house is such discusting mess that she can't go out her front door.
In the past she has told other neighbors where & how she would kill herself. She is not stable at all & is a hazard to the community!She belongs in a home! The local elementary school can tell you even more about her. She's wasn't allowed to volunteer because other children in the neighborhood feel threatened by her. We're talking creepy feelings of harm to children. Non of this is heresay, it's fact!!!!! Like I said before - Mass manipulator! And creepy at that. Non of the neighbors want their children to play out front when she's home, like normal children should. In the past she has taken toys that were left out in their own yard away because she felt like they shouldn't be left out. She has even threatened a neighbors kids to run them over if they are in the circle! SHe has also said about another neighbor, while on the phone to dispatch, that if she had a gun she would kill them. They are great people. What kind of person does that?
Can I tell you that that is only a small bit about her!!!! More homework needs to be done on her before taking her side. You should take a picture of her trash yard & then one of a REAL dryscape yard & then let others rate on which one is ther right one. Yes, lets save water but she is the worst example of a person to follow!!!!!
The neighborhood will have the biggest celebration when she finally dies of old age, is taken away or put in a home because she's unstable or moves!!!!!!

 
At June 27, 2008 3:20 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why doesn't someone do some research on how many times this nut has called the police. I have heard that the city had logged it once and it was well into the high hundreds. - Is that standing for truth and justice? It sounds a little more like someone needs to go to the looney bin. - Put some clothes on!

 
At June 27, 2008 3:32 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Eframo says she is for "truth and justice". "Actions speak lowder than words". Is it "just" that our elected officials, city workers and neighbors have to put up with her bullying behavior? Is it "truthful" when she says that she is contributing to our environment with her yard? Is there anyone who can stand up to her? Should taxpayers have to pay for police services any time she feels someone is "out of line"? She acts like she thinks the police are her personal guard dogs to act on her whim. If you have children watch out! If a parent does anything she does not agree with she will call the police, DCFS, church services and anyone else she can think of. Is she trying to get our children taken away from us? Children in this neighborhood are afraid of the hard working police who are dedicated to protecting us! REPORTERS: PLEASE! The next time you write an article on her yard please take a picture of it in it's entirety. If she chooses to dryscape thats great. She needs to do it in a more environmentally friendly manner.

 
At June 27, 2008 6:22 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

The only truth and justice that Eframo believes in is her OWN!!!! Her sense of truth and justice is that she is right and every body else is wrong. Her justice is: If it's not her way it's the police's problem, DCFS's problem, the news reporter's problem, the Priest's problem, the Bishop's problem, the mayor's problem, city council's problem, the neighbor’s problem, etc…. It would be one thing if Eframo "crusaded" against real issues and not just those things that she perceives as a personal attack. Mark my words, don't ever slight Eframo in the least or you will forever be tormented by the deluge of negative reports that will be filed on your behalf to satisfy truth and justice. Yes, Mr. Wilde, you ate your candy at the wrong time, be afraid be very afraid.

 
At June 27, 2008 11:08 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

I feel sorry for those who don't know the truth about this woman. She has chased away several good families from the neighborhood due to her harrassment. She calls the police anytime we work in our yard so we have had to take to notifying the police whenever we are even just going to mow - that is where I want my tax payer dollars going! And anyone who frightens children the way she does should not be allowed within a 100 yards of a school, let alone volunteering! It is ironic that she can tell us all how to raise our children and/or report us to DCFS and yet she has never been a parent herself! Speaking of her xeroscaping, how about the xeroscaping that is taking place 'inside' her home. The woman has a 10 year plus "live" Christmas tree in her living room (a definite fire hazard); she conserves water by not flusing her toilet or bathing (a fact she proudly announces when showing her water bill); and she keeps her back patio door open so hoards of birds can fly in and out (a plus for her rodent population). The outside of her home is just a reflection of the "inside" of it's owner - a desert waste. As far as the "pain in the butt" nearly always being right - only in her own eyes. Oh, and Mr. Warchol, I know of at least ten neighbors that would be happy to sell you their homes so you could spend a little more time hobnobbing with the illustrious Alexandra Eframo!!!

 
At June 27, 2008 11:21 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

This woman sounds like a real winner! Maybe she should run for city council on the old and senile ticket.

 
At June 28, 2008 9:01 PM , Anonymous Another Screwed Neighbor said...

There is nothing good about this woman. She is nothing more than a troublemaker. Everything she does is out of spite and to make the world run according to her twisted mind. She is a terrible, evil person. 99.9% of the problems in our neighborhood are caused by her. She calls the West Jordan Police on us and our neighbors so often that our children have become extremely frightened by her. The police are at her house for some complaint or another at least weekly, usually more often. She calls the police on anybody in our neighborhood for things you could not imagine. It is like living by a terrorist. We have instructed our children not to look, talk or even acknowledge her existence. She called the police because our children wouldn’t say “Hi” to her. The media has published many stories on her antics and makes her out to be some sort of martyr and ourselves to be a bunch of idiots but has NEVER asked any of us about our view. Nobody in this neighborhood likes her. In fact some neighbors have restraining orders against her. Why hasn’t the media published that? Give me a frickin’ break!

 
At June 30, 2008 4:25 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Last time I checked a crusader for justice didn't do all these things. I'm not talking just about the stuff that her neighbors say but what about the thousands of dollars she has cost the citizens every time she calls the police for nothing or the city council members she has harrased. I have seen some of these outburst first hand. She is a nut. Lets DON'T make her out to be a hero!!!!!!!!

 
At August 21, 2008 5:10 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

This whole thing,that we have put up with for the last 12 to 13 years is a joke. The city can't or won't do anything about her crap and the media is the usual joke that never have time to do a real story.Try finding out all the facts before you publish. You say your reporters? WOW! All the people I went to school with could find out a bit more, by asking a few questions or looking through some files at the police station. How many times have the officers been in our neiborhood and have no findings.

 

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