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| Rescue From Abuse: LDS Stake Intervenes, Saves Woman, Family from Abuse |
| After 17 years of physical and sexual
abuse, last month Christine McMullen finally reached-out, and chose
her LDS stake to ask for help. After detailing the abuse to her stake
president, she called May 8th to report that her husband wasn't home,
putting in motion a dramatic rescue, "He was out of the house and she
called and said, `We need to do this today,' " a source close to the
family told the Boston Herald. Within an hour, church members and
relatives descended on her house, fearing the husband's sudden
return, and whisked McMullen and her children away. |
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| Church's Architects Disclose Plans for Redlands Temple |
| The architects of The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints' proposed Redlands Temple released plans for the
building Saturday, showing a 17,000-square-foot building covered in a
light-colored granite exterior and featuring a 130-foot steeple. The
proposed temple is planned for a lot next to the Church's Redlands
Stake Center, located at 5th and Wabash avenues. |
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| Sports |
| Wally World Closes: Baseball Veteran Joyner Retires |
| In an emotional press conference Saturday afternoon,
on his 39th birthday, LDS baseball player Wally Joyner announced his
retirement after 16 years playing first base for four different major league
teams. The announcement was accompanied by a videotaped farewell to the fans
that was played after the first inning of Anaheim's game that day. Joyner's
retirement officially closes "Wally World," the nickname fans gave to the
area of the stands where Joyner hit many of his home runs in his first two
very productive years. |
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| Why Johnny Miller is Leading, but Hated, Golf Commentator |
| During his career as a golfer, Johnny Miller
developed a reputation as a hard-hitting, straight-driving golfer
that always played fair. Now, as a golf commentator for NBC-TV,
providing commentary at many major events, Johnny Miller is creating
another kind of reputation; that of a hard-hitting, straight-talking
analyst who, according to some professional golfers, isn't exactly
playing "fair." |
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| Politics |
| Seattle Church Zoning Compromise on the Way |
| King County Council members fighting over
proposed limits on the size of rural churches are on the verge of a
compromise, according to a report in the Seattle Times. The newspaper
says a vote on the compromise could come as early as next Monday, if
council members can agree on the environmental restrictions that
should be placed on churches and schools in rural areas. The dispute
led LDS Church officials and other religious leaders to openly
criticize a proposal by County Executive Ron Sims which would have
limited new churches and schools outside of the county's urban growth
boundary to no more than 10,000 square feet. |
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| Hansen Stands By Puerto Rico Comments That Brought Criticism |
| Amid protests and demands for an apology, Rep. Jim
Hansen, R-Utah, is not backing down from his comments during a
National Public Radio interview last week. Comments came in response
to President Bush's remarks that called for recommendations to close
the Puerto Rican island of Vieques to live fire exercises. Hansen
called Puerto Rico a welfare state and the citizens recipients of big
federal money who are not required to pay taxes. |
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| People |
| An LDS Man's Fight with Cancer |
| James Kane of Richland, Washington doesn't
believe that if you have your health you have everything. Kane claims
to have it all minus good health or the hope for it in the future.
The 45-year-old, former construction worker and engineer, husband and
father of four realized his dream Sunday when he lived to see
Father's Day. He wasn't sure he would make it that far last September. |
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| Lethbridge Entrepreneur Overcomes Race Barriers |
| Jake Loose, a member of the Lethbridge
Alberta West Stake, never knew how hard it would be start his own
business. Starting a business itself is difficult, but starting a
non-traditional business in Southern Alberta as an aboriginal and off
the reserve but with reserve money is even more difficult. |
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| Arts & Entertainment |
| Tab Choir Charms Houston, Ft Worth |
| The Mormon Tabernacle Choir performed Friday night
in Houston, Texas, overcoming floods caused by a tropical storm, and
Saturday night in Ft Worth, Texas, reaching an audience that
sometimes traveled hundreds of miles to see them. Performing a
concert featuring a variety of popular songs, the Choir charmed many
and even got the audience in Fort Worth to join in the final number. |
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| The Life of Groundbreaking Film Maker Richard Dutcher |
| Looking back at his life, film writer,director and
producer Richard Dutcher, 37, can say it has been like a movie.
Telling the story of a young boy who fills his long hours alone at
home by writing his own novels, working long days in hot oil fields,
holding multiple jobs in pizza joints and nursing homes, coupled with
a father who chased women and worked in bars and a step father who
ultimately found himself behind bars, Dutcher had only had to reflect
on his life for stories he has put on the screen. Best known for
"God's Army" and "Brigham City," Dutcher, a devout member of The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints isn't afraid to talk
about his religion. |
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| Brady Udall's New Novel Looks at an Indian in Mormondom |
| LDS author Brady Udall's new novel "The Miracle Life
of Edgar Mint" was called a "A witty, wise and heartwrenching tale of a
naive orphan's struggle to survive an often unforgiving world" in the Salt
Lake Tribune last week. The novel tells the story of an indian youth as he
moves through an Arizona reservation into an LDS foster family and into
adulthood. But Udall, who says he is an active LDS Church member, says he
didn't write the novel for the Mormon audience, and that some Mormons may be
uncomfortable with it. |
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| Business |
| LDS Church's Kansas City Area Land Has Developers Waiting |
| An article in this week's Kansas City
Business Journal shows that developers are frustrated waiting for The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to develop land it owns
near Lee's Summit, just outside of Kansas City in Eastern Jackson
County, Missouri. The Church has refused to sell the land or even
hint about its plans there. The property in question, some 8,000
acres, is now worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and its value is
increasing as the city improves access to the area and as nearby
development increases. However, the article doesn't mention the
Church's history in Jackson County or the beliefs of Church members
about that portion of Missouri. |
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| Zions Bancorp to be Added to S&P 500 |
| Standard and Poor's announced Tuesday that it
will add Zions Bancorp to its S&P 500 index after the close of
trading on Friday, June 22nd. The change, necessary because Alza
Corp. is being purchased by Johnson and Johnson, will likely make
Zions a more widely held and watched stock. |
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