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| General News |
| LDS Conference Center Roof Closed After Child Falls |
| The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
closed the roof of its new Conference Center amid safety concerns early this
week. A four-year-old boy climbed a railing Monday and fell 21 feet off the
side of the building, landing on his head. The boy, Jesse Owens of Taylor,
Arizona, was listed in fair condition Wednesday at Primary Childrens Medical
Center in Salt Lake City. |
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| Returned Missionaries Plan Trip for Japan Centennial |
| A group of returned missionaries who served
in Japan are planning to take part in centennial celebrations for the
1901 dedication of Japan by then-Apostle Heber J. Grant. The group
plans to leave the US during the last week of August and fly to Japan
for the September 1st Centennial Celebration. |
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| Local News |
| Phoenix Tragedy: 8-year-old Murdered LDS Girl Buried |
| An eight-year-old Phoenix girl was remembered at a
chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in her west
Phoenix neighborhood Saturday and buried in an east Phoenix cemetery as
television cameras rolled. Elizabeth Ann Byrd was murdered Wednesday, May
23rd as she traveled to her school that morning. |
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| Staten Island Mormons Make Local News |
| A reporter for the Staten Island Advance looked
at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the newspaper's
Saturday edition, discovering, to some surprise, that the island has two LDS
congregations. The article tells about those congregations, gives an
overview of LDS history, doctrine, worship and life, while providing a view
of Mormons in this part of New York City. |
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| Sports |
| Guthrie Wins and Topham Homers to Put Stanford in College World Series |
| LDS college baseball standout Jeremy Guthrie
pitched a complete game Friday night to help his team win two of its
three games against South Carolina over the weekend. Guthrie held
South Carolina to just one unearned run in the first game of the
series Friday, while his teammates racked up 11 runs and 17 hits in
the game. Meanwhile, fellow LDS Church member Andy Topham was 5 for
12 with 5 RBIs and a 2-run homer in the final game to help the
Cardinals win 3-2. |
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| LDS High School Quarterback Rated #1 |
| Ben Olsen will start his senior year at
Thousand Oaks High School this fall, and as he leads the Lancers in
their 11-game season, scouts and recruiters from college football
powerhouses will be in the stands watching. Student Sports Magazine
ranks Olsen in its Top 100, and, according to an article in the Provo
Daily Herald, he is the best of the 10 quarterbacks on the list. |
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| Politics |
| ACLU Asks Appeals Court to Overturn Main Street Ruling |
| Claiming US District Judge Ted Stewart's
ruling on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Main
Street Plaza is in error, the American Civil Liberties Union filed an
appeal today with the 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.
After filing the appeal, the ACLU's Utah legal director Stephen Clark
said today that Main Street "is a symbol of community central to the
'marketplace of ideas' that has played such a critical role in our
nation's history," and added that the sale of the property to the LDS
Church should have preserved the block's status as a public forum. |
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| Despite Local LDS Grass-roots Effort, Seattle Church Zoning Battle Continues |
| The year-long battle over size limits on
churches and schools in the rural portion of Washington's King county
continues after yesterday's county council meeting, and no end is in
sight. In hopes of defeating a proposed ordinance, members of The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints discussed the issue in
"adult-education classes" throughout the region, Gordon Conger,
representing the Church's Northwest Area Presidency, told the Seattle
Times. But while Council members reported receiving hundreds of email
messages yesterday, the issue never came up for a vote. |
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| Internet |
| KZION Gets 27 Albums From Heartrise |
| KZION LDS Internet Radio, the only independent,
Internet-based music radio station which caters to members of The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, recently received one of
the largest collections to date in a series of music donations by LDS
music distributors and record labels. |
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| Business |
| EarthShell Delivers New ClamShell Design to McDonalds |
| Meeting a May 29th deadline, EarthShell Corp.,
whose stock is included in the Mormon Stock Index, delivered a new design
for its environmentally-friendly clamshell package to McDonalds and has
begun supplying it to 100 Chicago-area McDonalds restaurants. The packaging
met McDonald's extensive requirements for distribution, warehousing, store
operations and customer expectations. |
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