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News about People
| Shaw Picks Up Olympic Interfaith Baton from Late LDS Colleague Barnes |
| William Shaw is feeling the pressure of
performing for the 2002 Olympic Games. Shaw is not an athlete but
he's been handed a Herculean task with a very short timeline. Newly
appointed head of the Olympic Interfaith Roundtable, Shaw has to take
it to the next level. Alan Barnes, the original founder of the
Olympic Interfaith Roundtable, an ecumenical group focused on
fulfilling the religious needs of the athletes and visitors planning
to attend the 2002 Olympic Games, passed away unexpectedly on Jan. 2,
2001. |
| LDS Man's Attempt to Row Accross Atlantic Swamped |
| It's official! The "Brother of Jared" rowboat was
officially certified as an ocean crossing by the Ocean Rowing Society
headquartered in London last week shortly after Richard Jones of Utah
rowed the 30-foot boat through the Caicos Passage just south of the
Bahamas and clear of the Atlantic Ocean. Yet, the voyage officially
ended when a tow from a passing fishing vessel swamped the rowboat
causing Jones to abort his winter-long odyssey less than 400 miles
from his intended destination of the Florida mainland. |
| LDS Coach, English Instructor Killed in Traffic Accident |
| Sheryl Brink Wiens, a coach and English teacher at
Merced College, was killed early Monday morning when the truck her husband
was driving ran of the road and overturned. Wiens, who was not wearing a
seat belt, was ejected from the truck and died later at Mercy Hospital. Her
husband, Randy Wiens, has been charged with driving under the influence and
manslaughter because of the accident. |
| Las Vegas Mormon Takes on Homeowner Association |
| An investigation into the excesses of homeowner
associations, cooperative groups meant to keep up a neighborhood, by Las
Vegas' KVBC TV3 led to Mormon Scott Prisbrey, who led a petition drive to
oust his homeowners association board after the board's excesses bothered
homeowners in his neighborhood. In the process, Prisbrey's religious beliefs
were attacked before the group he led was able to vote out the board. |
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