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Churchwide News
| NEWSFLASH: Car Accident Kills Missionaries in England |
| A short article in today's Salt Lake Tribune
reports that two LDS missionaries died in a car accident Wednesday in
Bristol, England. Elder Mark Gleason of Pleasant Grove, Utah and
Elder Mihai Teodorescu of Ploiesti, Romania died in a head-on
collision. |
| LDS Missionary Killed in Accident Was Track Star |
| One of the LDS missionaries killed in a traffic
accident in England Tuesday was a Southern California track star who was
chosen Orange County runner of the year by the Los Angeles Times in three
consecutive years. Elder Mark Gleason died when a car driven by his
companion, Elder Mihai Teodorescu, had to swerve into oncoming traffic.
Gleason was three months away from completing his mission and presumably
resuming his collegiate track career. |
| Long-time Sunstone Publisher Elbert Peck Resigns |
| Citing exhaustion after 15 years of running the
Sunstone Foundation and its magazine and symposiums, Elbert Peck turned in
his resignation to Sunstone's board of directors Friday. Peck is credited
with expanding Sunstone's mission to include regional symposiums in
Washington DC and the US west coast, among other places, and for giving the
magazine a vision of what it could become. The resignation, which was not
unexpected, came after the 46-year-old Peck had indicated that he feels worn
down for the past year. |
| NEWSFLASH: Missionary Dies in Jamaica |
| An LDS missionary from Burley, Idaho died suddenly Sunday
while serving a full-time mission in Jamaica for The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints, the South Idaho Press reports today. Elder Nicholas
Martin Silcock, 19, died suddenly Sunday night as he returned to his
apartment from eating out with other missionaries. |
| Missionaries Make the News in Kansas, Texas |
| Newspapers in Garden City, Kansas and in San
Antonio, Texas both looked at missionaries serving in their areas,
covering their day-to-day lives and the rigors of missionary work. In
Garden City, the Telegram met Elders Derek Waldron and Sean Cowley,
serving Spanish-speaking missions in the Colorado Denver South
Mission, while the San Antonio Express-News talked to Elders Cory
Hunter and Keith Arbuckle, serving in the Texas San Antonio Mission. |
| First Annual Pioneer Day Commemoration on 22 July |
| The First Presidency has announced an annual
Pioneer Day Commemoration to be held in the Conference Center in Salt
Lake City. This year's commemoration will be held on Sunday, 22 July.
The event, featuring an address by President Gordon B. Hinckley and a
program of music and narration, will begin at 6:00 p.m., MDT. The
program will be broadcast via the church satellite system. |
| New PAF Version Has Palm, Multiple Language Support |
| The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints has released announced version 5.0 of its popular personal
genealogy management software. Key new features include a Palm OS
application and the ability to view user screens in six languages and
enter data in most known languages (including Asiatic and Cyrillic
characters). Personal Ancestral File (PAF), is now available on CD
ROM or as a free download from the Internet. |
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