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News about Mormons, Mormonism, and the LDS Church |
General News |
Fort That Sheltered Martin Handcart Company Found |
An archaeological project initiated by The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has discovered Seminoe Fort, a
trading post on the Mormon and Oregon Trails where members of the
ill-fated Martin Handcart Company sought shelter during a blizzard in
1856. The Church started the project, which is also sponsored by the
Wyoming Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources, the
University of Wyoming and the National Park Service, to include the
fort as part of its Martin's Cove Visitor's Center. |
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Local News |
Fire That Destroyed LDS Chapel in Ohio Ruled Arson |
Fire investigators have ruled that the fire that
destroyed part of an LDS chapel was an arson attack, and brought in
Federal investigators to help look for evidence and suspects. The
fire started before 3 am Tuesday, July 3rd in a classroom in the
building. The fire destroyed the building's chapel and three
classrooms before it hit a firewall and stopped. Damage was estimated
at $500,000 by local fire officials. |
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Redlands Temple Plans Released, Few Obstacles Expected |
The plans for the Redlands, California Temple call
for a 130-foot spire that will stand out in a city with few buildings taller
than two stories. The plans also show a one-story building with dramatic
glazed windows buffered from the surrounding neighborhood by citrus trees
and elegant landscaping. And, best of all for local members, city officials
expect few obstacles to the buildings construction. |
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Sports |
Danny White Returns to Utah With Arena Football |
An active member of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, Danny White has had a very long and
successful career in football. During his stellar college career, he
only suffered through 4 defeats. One of those losses, to the
University of Utah, still brings back vivid memories, not all of
which are good. |
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Politics |
Hatch Favors Stem Cell Funding, Draws Pro-Life Ire |
In a move that surprised many and shocked Pro-life
advocates, Utah Senator Orrin Hatch sent a memo to President George
W. Bush outlining his support for stem cell research. Although many
in the pro-life movement have fought research using the cells, which
are obtained from embryos, Hatch (R-UT) is part of a group of at
least 5 other Republican Senators, including fellow LDS Church member
Gordon Smith (R-OR), and 30 House Republicans who favor the research. |
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NYC Mormon Named to IMF |
New York attorney Randal Quarles was named Friday by US
President George W. Bush as the US Executive Director of the International
Monetary Fund (IMF). Quarles, a native of Roy, Utah, leads the financial
institutions group and is a partner at New York law firm Davis, Polk and
Wardwell. He was also the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for
financial institutions policy in the George Bush (Sr.) administration. His
appointment must be confirmed by the US Senate. |
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Internet |
Volunteers Launch Cumorah Project |
A new LDS website, the Cumorah Project
(http://www.cumorah.com/ ),
launched on July 1, 2001. The Cumorah Project is a volunteer-run
group with the objectives of providing international humanitarian
service, education, and online gospel-related resources in many
languages. The Cumorah Project has no legal relationship to The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
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People |
Local Paper Learns of Mission President's Service |
In answer to a call from the living prophet,
Gordon B. Hinckley, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, Nigel and Avalon Wappett left the subarctic of
Interior Alaska to serve a three year mission as President of the
Phoenix Arizona Mission, one of 330 missions scattered throughout 171
countries worldwide. Here they are supervising 200 missionaries
serving in the Central Arizona and the Phoenix metropolitan area. |
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Arts & Entertainment |
Memoir of First African American Priest in Texas Published |
Less than two years after Allan Johnson Sr. died, his son,
Allen Jr., has published his father's memoir, telling the story of the
persecution an racism his father endured, how he joined the LDS Church, and
his ordination to the priesthood on Father's Day, 1978. The self-published
memoir has caught the attention of the local press in Austin, and his son
says he is trying to get the book out to the LDS market as well. |
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LDS Author Wins 3rd Award For 'Stories of Young Pioneers' |
LDS Young Adult author Violet Kimball has
received a third award for her book, "Stories of Young Pioneers: In Their
Own Words," making the book one of the most awarded LDS books of the past
year. The most recent awards are from the magazine Foreword, a book review
magazine, which gave "Stories of Young Pioneers" their 2001 Book of the Year
Award in Young Adult Non-fiction, and from the Independent Book Publishers
Association, which made the title a finalist for the 2001 Juvenile Young
Adult Nonfiction Independent Publishers Book Award. The book covers the
experiences of young pioneers traveling through the west in the
mid-nineteenth century and is written for young readers. |
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Business |
Church May Sell Forest Hills TN Site to Baptists |
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints has reached a deal to sell a 21-acre site originally slated
for the Nashville Temple to a Southern Baptist congregation who wants
to construct a church on the site. The Grace Community Church would
have to get zoning approval from the city of Forest Hills to build,
and Forest Hills Mayor Charles Evers says he has "no opinion" about
their plans. |
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LDS Exec Named to Coke Diversity Task Force |
M. Anthony Burns, an LDS Church member and chairman of
Ryder Systems, has been named to an oversight task force that will ensure
Coca-Cola Co. compliance with a racial discrimination lawsuit settlement.
Burns will serve a four-year term as one of seven members of the task force,
which will issue annual reports to Coke, the court and the plaintiffs in the
lawsuit. He resigned last November as CEO of Ryder Systems, but remains the
company's Chairman. |
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