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Local News
| Construction Nearly Complete on BYU-Hawaii McKay Auditorium |
| The BYU-Hawaii community is eagerly awaiting the
completion of the renovated McKay Auditorium, expected for the August
22nd construction deadline in spite of months of delays. The renovated
building will provide additional space for Theatrical and arts
events, classes and for campus-wide events. |
| August 10 officially marks change from Ricks to BYU-Idaho |
| Friday, employees of the Rexburg school will begin answering the phones
differently, new stationery will be put into use, college vehicles will have
new word marks on the doors, and campus signs will gradually be changed.
Even the college radio station KRIC-FM will begin using the new call letters
KBYI. |
| Mark Grover at devotional Aug. 2 |
| A Latin American Studies bibliographer from Brigham
Young University, Mark L. Grover, will speak at a Brigham Young
University devotional on Tuesday (August 7) at 11 a.m. in the de Jong
Concert Hall. |
| BYU schedules August Commencement Exercises Aug. 16-17 |
| Brigham Young University will present honorary doctoral
degrees to the dean of the Harvard Business School and a distinguished
author and biographer during Commencement Exercises Thursday (Aug. 16)
beginning at 4 p.m. in the Marriott Center. |
| KRIC-FM becomes KBYI-FM |
| KRIC-FM will be getting a new name consistent with
changes at Ricks College, which is becoming a four-year university
known as Brigham Young University-Idaho. The station's call sign will
change to KBYI-FM on August 10, the same day Ricks College officially
changes its name. |
Other Local News
| Church Sponsors Family Expo in Brisbane, Australia |
| The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints and the Australian Family Association held a one-day parenting
conference "Family Expo" on Saturday, July 14th. The event drew nearly 400
parents who heard keynote speaker John Covey of Provo, Utah, a former
president of the Australia Melbourne Mission. |
| Thai LDS Members Clean-Up School |
| A small branch in Thailand chose to provide service
to a school for underprivileged children on Saturday, June 2nd. More than 40
members of the Chiang Mai Branch of the Thailand district spent the day
clearing away garbage, cutting down trees and weeds, spreading dirt and
sand, and cleaning out a canal behind the school. Much of the debris was
leftover from the construction of the school. |
| LDS Volunteers Help on "Colorado Cares Day" |
| LDS Church members in Colorado helped make the third
annual "Colorado Cares Day," a program of Governor Bill Owens, a success.
Owens declared July 28th "Colorado Cares Day: A Little Bit of Time Makes a
Big Difference" and went to work himself, trimming weeds and bushes at
Cherry Creek State Park in Aurora. About 200 volunteers from the Columbine
Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Audubon
Society of Greater Denver were also out helping, pulling weeds at Chatfield
State Park. |
| Delta Seat Covers Turn Up in North Carolina Youth Conference |
| Some of the 50,000 seat covers donated by Delta
Air Lines to the LDS Church to be turned into school bags for children in
Third World countries have appeared in Salisbury, North Carolina. Some of
the 275 youth attending a youth conference at Salisbury's Catawba College
Friday worked on the project, cutting out school-bag patterns from the seat
covers, one of three service projects the youth worked on during the
conference. Some of the youth also spent the last several weeks ripping out
the seams from the covers so they would be ready for Friday, and the bags
will be completed during a Wake County Latter-day Saints Women's Day in
November. From there, the bags will be shipped to the church's Humanitarian
Service Center in Salt Lake City for distribution to impoverished nations.
Thousands of the bags, filled with school supplies, have already been sent
to children in El Salvador, Peru and India. |
| Stake Cleans Up and Paints Toledo, Washington |
| The Centralia Washington Stake celebrated Pioneer Day
with service in the small town of Toledo, Washington, which has just 672
residents. More than 400 stake members turned out for the project on
Saturday, July 21st and spent the day scraping and painting the city hall,
cutting down brush around the Head Start building, mowing and cleaning under
trees at the Toledo Community Park, cleaning up three other small parks, and
painting fire hydrants and stop sign posts. |
| LDS Congregations Clean Marysville CA Cemetery |
| Some 60 LDS Church members from nine LDS
congregations worked in the Marysville Cemetery Saturday morning as part of
an ongoing effort to clean and restore the cemetery. The volunteers spent
hours weeding, gathering loose brick and cleaning headstones while one
expert repaired some broken headstones. The effort also represented a
history lesson to some of the volunteers, who learned about the city's first
mayor, and early businessmen and innovators. |
| Mormon Battalion March Remembered |
| Some 50 LDS Church members marched across part
of Laguna Niguel Saturday to commemorate the 1847 march of the Mormon
Battalion. The group trekked about four miles to Sycamore Park in Mission
Viejo, where a marker commemorates the Battalion's march. This is the first
time church members in Orange County have commemorated the march, according
to the Orange County register. The Mormon Battalion's march is widely
considered to be the longest march in U.S. history. After arriving in
California, Battalion members built the first U.S. courthouse building in
San Diego, helped build Fort Moore in Los Angeles and even were working at
Sutter's Fort when gold was discovered the following year. |
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