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Local News
| Town Meeting Highlights Neighbor Feelings Over Harrison Temple |
| If the opposition to the planned Harrison New York
Temple wasn't clear before, it was after a July meeting of the Harrison Town
Board. Opponents vented their anger and frustration at The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints in the meeting, claiming that the Church is
showing contempt for their community. Since then at least one neighbor
family has decided to sell their home because of their uncertainty about the
controversial proposal. While the town board was scheduled to discuss the
issue at a meeting tonight, the public hearing isn't expected to lead to a
decision. |
| Naked Man Breaks Into St. George Visitors Center |
| A naked man smashed through a 1/2-inch thick plate
glass window in the St. George Utah Temple Visitors Center early
Friday morning, closing the center for the weekend. Police were
forced to use an electric stun gun to subdue the "combative and
resistant" man, but his motives for the attack remain a mystery. |
| Graduating BYU student lays groundwork for microcredit programs in China |
| Traveling for hours on dusty roads to a remote, mountainous
region of China, Brigham Young University student Marcie Holloman led a team
of five BYU students to villages lacking running water, indoor plumbing and
modernized health care where they taught villagers how the concept of
microcredit ñ extending small loans to poor people for self-employment
projects that generate income ñ could provide luxuries commonly taken for
granted in the Western world. |
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