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| Former Mt Timpanogos Temple President & Matron Grand Marshals in Lindon |
| Robert and Shirley Matthews, former Temple President
and Matron of the Mount Timpanogos Temple have been chosen as the
Grand Marshals for the annual Lindon Day's Parade. Outside of Lindon
Robert Matthews is known for his church service and writing as Dean
of Religious Education at BYU and as first President of the Mount
Timpanogos Temple. But in Lindon, the Matthews are known for two
things: Horticulture and Community Activism. |
| LDS Polygamy Prosecutor Teaching Hondurans About Legal System |
| David Leavitt, known for his prosecution of polygamist
Tom Green, recently traveled to Honduras to help the country reform
its legal system. Leavitt was one of four legal experts asked by the U.S. State
Department and the U.S. Department of Justice to assist Honduras as
part of a foreign-aid package passed by Congress to assist the ailing
country in cleaning up its dismal human-rights record and repairing
damage remaining from Hurricane Mitch, which devastated much of the
country in 1998. |
| Columnist Re-acquainted with Former Miss New Zealand |
| A columnist for the Waikato New Zealand Times was
surprised to find that the woman visiting him to promote an LDS
Church-sponsored event was Miss New Zealand, 1980, the same woman he had
hied 20 years earlier to help promote a New Zealand product in the US. Vicki
Lee Wihongi, now 39, was promoting a business seminar, "Harmonizing Work
and Life" presented by Dr. John Covey (brother to well-known management
consultant Stephen R. Covey). |
People News Briefs
| MoTab Member, Educator of the Year Lilian Stokes Fox |
| Lilian Stokes Fox, a member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
in the 1930s and an elementary school teacher who was named Educator of the
Year in 1993 died July 23rd in Euguene, Oregon at age 89. Fox was educated
at the University of Utah and married George Wallace Fox in the Salt Lake
Temple in 1938. They were the parents of two children. Fox taught elementary
school in the Salt Lake City and Granite School Districts for 29 years. |
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