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News about People
| LDS Student Witnessed Santee Shootings |
| LDS student Brian Wheeler was walking out of
a classroom at Santana High School Monday morning when the shooting
started. The 17-year-old junior at the high school, located in
Santee, California just outside of San Diego, had attended early
morning seminary before school, and just two hours later witnessed a
tragedy that schocked the nation. |
| Blind 82-year-old LDS Woman Starts Over |
| After a lifetime of serving others, 82-year-old
Maxine Varley has increasingly had to depend on others as she lost her
eyesight to macular degeneration. But last month she started learning to be
independent again. |
| Former Bishop Passed Away |
| Duane Remington, a member of the Cardston
Alberta West Stake, passed away this past Thursday at the age of 79
years, the second-to-last child still living of Rodney and Catherine
Remington. |
Other People News
| Newspaper Looks at Widow's Mission Call to Russia |
| AIKEN, SOUTH CAROLINA -- Although LDS Church member Shirley Lynes
knew she could be called to serve a mission anywhere, she was still
surprised when she was called to serve for 18 months in
Yekaterinburg, Russia. The 64-year-old Aiken widow was to report to
the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah, today to begin
learning Russian and preparing for her assignment. She told the
Augusta Chronicle that when she got the call "I thought 'OK, I can do
this.'" |
On the Russian front
Augusta GA Chronicle 3Mar01 P2
By Virginia Norton: Staff Writer |
| LDS Woman Looses Money, but not Dress in Bridal Store Closure |
| VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON -- An LDS woman nearly lost her wedding dress when a Vancouver bridal shop suddenly closed its doors last week.
Charlene Johnson, who plans to wed March 10th in an LDS Temple, paid
the Touch of Silk bridal shop $400 up front to alter her dress and
two others ahead of the wedding. But when she arrived at the store
last week for a scheduled fitting, the shop was closed. Fortunately,
the store owner, Wendy Marvin , who closed the shop after a court
awarded her landlord more than $24,000 in back rent, came by the
store and Johnson was able to get her dress. But she lost the $400
she paid for the alterations, which were never made. But Johnson was
fortunate, since others who ordered and paid for dresses through the
shop will neither get their dresses nor their money back. |
Vancouver, Wash., Bridal Business Closes Down Without Warning
Vancouver WA Columbian 2Mar01 P2
By Steven Gardner |
| Former LDS Church spokesman now serves at La'ie Temple Visitors Center |
| LA'IE, HAWAII -- Elder Don LeFevre, who retired two years ago as the LDS Church's principal spokesman, and his wife, Sister Bonnie LeFevre, recently
succeeded Dr. George and Yvonne Hilton at the La'ie Hawaii Temple Visitors
Center. The LeFevres starting serving as the directors of the Visitor's
Center after the Hiltons returned to the mainland on Feb. 13th. In an
interview with Kaleo o Ko'olauloa, LeFevre said the most memorable moment in
his career came on June 8, 1978. "That was the day our department announced
to the world the priesthood revelation." |
Former LDS Church spokesman now serves at La'ie Temple Visitors Center
Kaleo o Koolauloa 8Mar01 P2 |
| Church Member Hosts Salt Lake Radio Show -- from New York |
| ROCHESTER, NEW YORK -- LDS Church member Bob Lonsberry does a KNRS (AM-570) radio show directed to Salt Lake City each weekday from 6-10 a.m., and he
almost always does it live from Rochester. Lonsberry keeps up with what is
happening in Salt Lake through the Internet. KNRS broadcasts what it calls
"Family Values Talk Radio." |
Show targets S.L. -- from N.Y.
Deseret News 9Mar01 P2
By Lynn Arave: Deseret News radio editor |
| LDS Woman's Return Shows Change on Reservation |
| YUMA, ARIZONA -- Ann Manuel, an LDS convert and former BYU student, retunred to the Cocopah Reservation on the banks of the Colorado River recently. Manuel grew up on the reservation before joining the LDS Church and attending BYU. But before she graduated she left Utah for California because of the weather and the imposing mountains. Her return to the reservation shows how the reservation has changed in the meantime. Now it is experiencing an economic boom. |
Arizona Tribe Enjoys Its Own Form of Economic Boom
Salt Lake Tribune 5Mar01 P2 |
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