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Local News
| Is Arizona Mormon Family Victim or Racist? |
| A Mormon family in Winslow, Arizona claims it is trying
to address hazing that has gone too far, only to attract charges that they
are racist. Joe Hancock took action after his son, who is white, was abused
by other athletes at Winston High School, including a popular
African-American basketball player and other black and hispanic athletes. In
return, he is being called a racist and a local civil rights activist has
called for a state investigation. |
| Murderer of Local LDS Leader Gets Life Sentence |
| The convicted murderer of a local LDS leader and
father of four was sentenced Tuesday and will spend at least 47 years
in prison before he is eligible for parole. District Judge Sally
Loehrer rejected Keith Shanley's bid for a new trial and sentenced
him to life in prison for the February 1998 shooting death of George
Veit at a Best Auto store in Las Vegas. |
| Missionaries Take Rejection with Humor |
| A columnist with the Evansville Courier and Press had
a chance encounter with a pair of LDS missionaries during the first day of a
100-mile bicycle trip. Columnist Garret Mathews encountered in them friendly
assistance in the form of Gatorade and cheerful responses to his questions
about rejection. |
| Heater in LDS Chapel Causes Fire |
| An LDS Chapel in Amarillo suffered a burned closet
and light smoke damage throughout the building Tuesday when a
malfunctioning heater caught fire. According to a report in the
Amarillo Globe-News, the fire started at about 9:45 am on Tuesday. |
| LDS Chapel Planned in Florida |
| A planned LDS Chapel in Pembroke Pines,
Florida was the subject of a news article in the Fort Lauderdale Sun
Sentinel. The building is meant to address growth in the Fort
Lauderdale Stake, which currently has 10 wards. |
| Groundbreaking takes place for university stake center |
| A crowd of community members, students and faculty
gathered on Saturday, Oct. 7 to witness the historic groundbreaking
ceremony of the BYU-Hawaii Stake Center. The long awaited stake
center facilities will include two chapels, two kitchens, one
baptismal font, 14 bishop offices, approximately 28 teaching stations
and one multipurpose room. The site is located between Temple View
Apartments and the Joseph F. Smith library. |
| Historian Robert Remini to discuss Joseph Smith Oct. 24 |
| Robert Remini, a non-Latter-day Saint historian seen
and quoted in the PBS broadcast American Prophet, will speak at
Brigham Young University Tuesday (Oct. 24) from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
in the Harold B. Lee Library Auditorium. The lecture is hosted by BYU's Joseph F. Smith Institute for
Latter-day Saint history. |
| Homecoming Spectacular honors Jesse Knight, Coach Edwards |
| The gala event in the Marriott Center Thursday and
Friday (Oct. 19 and 20) at 7:30 p.m. is being hailed as a "sterling
celebration" that will honor Jesse Knight, a silver magnate who gave
much of his wealth to Brigham Young University, and LaVell Edwards,
BYU's legendary football coach. |
| Emeritus Club bestows honors |
| Edna Stowell Taylor of Rexburg and Bill and Verna
Egbert of Ogden, Utah, were honored with Distinguished Emeritus
Service Awards Saturday at the semi-annual breakfast meeting of the
Ricks College Emeritus Club. |
| BYU professor uncovers life story of 17th-century Catholic bishop |
| When the elderly Belgian priest gingerly placed another
stack of disintegrating documents in front of Brigham Young
University history professor Craig Harline, it only took moments of
thumbing though the crackling parchment of an old diary before
Harline knew he'd found the subject of his next book. |
| Robert Wakefield participates in national ethics conference |
| Robert Wakefield of Utah County-based Wakefield
Communications participated last week as an invited fellow in the
first annual Colloquium on Mass Media Ethics in Park City, Utah. The colloquium, jointly sponsored by Brigham Young University and the Journal of Mass Media Ethics (JMME), is investigating the ethics of
persuasion in an open marketplace. |
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