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News about Mormons, Mormonism,
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| General News |
| Utah Ex-LDS Members Say They Are No Longer Treated as Neighbors |
| Worried about what would befall them once word of
their defection spread through their Mormon-dominated town, it took 16
months for Suzy Colver and her husband to work up the courage to
officially quit the Mormon church. They didn't have to wait long, Colver
said. Instantly her family became the neighborhood pariah. She lost
every one of her Mormon friends and she wasn't asked to volunteer at her
kids' elementary school anymore. |
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| Local News |
| LDS Planned NYC Purchase Tied Up in Lawsuit |
| The planned purchase of a New York City convent
by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints has been tied up in a lawsuit by developers who had also
planned to buy the property. The developers, Jeffrey Levein and David
Stein, say that the Archdiocese of New York verbally agreed to sell
St. Zita's Villa, located at 141-43 West 14th Street and through the
block at 144 West 15th Street, but had not yet signed a purchase
contract. Instead Levein and Stein were told in June by Sister
Bernadette Kenny that the convent was being sold to the LDS Church. |
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| Sports |
| Staley Leaves Cougars, Will Turn Pro |
| With deadline entry date of Jan. 11 for the National
Football League draft, BYU All-American runner Luke Staley, will have
to tackle a career decision of whether to make a run for the Heisman
Trophy or declare himself eligible for the draft. BYU head coach,
Gary Crowton, claims Staley is still mulling his options. |
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| Politics |
| Orem Utah Representative is 'Stay-at-Home Mom' |
| Margaret Dayton decided in 1996 that she would vote for
a "good conservative woman" to represent her community in the then
upcoming elections for Representative to the Utah State Legislature.
Since "no Republican woman signed up to run," she says to explain her
decision to seek public office, the only way she could keep that
commitment of voting for a conservative woman was to run herself. "It
was never a childhood dream or aspiration to run for office. I always
wanted to be a wife and mother." |
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| Internet |
| New LDS Conversion Story Website Launched January 1st |
| Why do people join The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints and become a Mormon? What makes a Pastor, Priest or
Nun leave their lifelong faith and profession to join the LDS Church,
who offers no paid clergy positions? Why is conversion to the Mormon
faith such a life-changing event? These questions are answered on a
unique new website being launched on January 1, 2002. LDS Conversion
Stories (
http://www.ldsconversion.com ) is the site and it's bound to make
an impact on the web. |
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| People |
| BYU-Hawaii's Valedictorian Plans LDS Mission |
| Nicole Kajiyama, 21, of Laie, was the valedictorian
of the largest winter graduating class of Brigham Young University
Hawaii. A daughter of a Hiroshima survivor, Nicole a self-described
human rights activist who has been interning for U.S. Rep. Patsy
Mink, will forego her next pursuit of law school and serve an 18
month mission in Hong Kong for The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints. |
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| Arts & Entertainment |
| 'The Forgotten Carols' at the Washington, DC Temple Visitors' Center |
| You are invited to "The Forgotten Carols," the
popular holiday stage production written by and starring Grammy-Award
winner Michael McLean, will be performed at The Washington, DC Temple
Visitors' Center of The Church of Jesus Christ nightly at 7:00 p.m.
from Wednesday, January 2 through Sunday, January 6, 2002 (the
traditional "Kings' Day" or final day of Christmastide). Joining
Michael McLean will be award-winning soprano Katie Thompson and all
of the rest of the full cast and crew of the show. All performances
are free and open to the public. |
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| Business |
| MSI: MSI Up 2% for Week, Adds LaQuinta Properties |
| The Mormon Stock Index rose 2% last week following
a broad-based run-up in U.S. stocks. Overall 29 of the stocks included
in the index rose and 14 fell. The index also added hotel property
company La Quinta Properties, Inc., for the coming week, while dropping
Computerized Thermal Imaging after a Mormon executive left the company. |
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