Deseret News (Salt Lake City) back issues from September 2007:
Stone enchants Deer Valley fans
Sep 01, 2007; ... JOSS STONE, Deer Valley Amphitheatre, Thursday DEER VALLEY -- Critics of Joss Stone's current tour have accusedthe British soul singer of lacking stage presence and the maturityneeded to be a truly effective headliner. But it's precisely those things -- the onstage giggling, ...
Church's fruit should be focus
Sep 01, 2007; ... I haven't seen the movie "September Dawn." I was planning to go.I wanted to be part of the Mountain Meadows debate and figuredseeing the film was important. But the reviews say it's so distortedand badly done that "September Dawn" itself isn't even part of thedebate. So I'll pass ...
Midvalley Bible Church schedules park service
Sep 01, 2007 ... The public is welcome to attend Midvalley Bible Church's Servicein the Park at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at Murray Park Pavilion No. 2, 495E. 5300 ...
Hindus to throw party for Shree Krishna day
Sep 01, 2007 ... The Krishna Temple, 8628 S. Main in Spanish Fork, has planned atranscendental birthday party Sunday to celebrate The Appearance Dayof Shree Krishna. From 8 p.m. there will be Indian dance, drama, musical ...
Reverend's sermon title is 'Off with the Old'
Sep 01, 2007 ... "Off with the Old" is the title of the Rev. Joshua Harding'sBible study sermon this week, at 11 a.m ....
Forum to explore topic of homosexuality, Bible
Sep 01, 2007 ... Christ United Methodist Church announces "Open Dialog on Gays andLesbians within the Church Community." It will sponsor a forum toexplore the topic of what the Bible says about homosexuality and howthe church community can respond in love. The program will run from 7 to 9 ...
Library offering courses on history compilation
Sep 01, 2007 ... If you have wanted to compile a family history but didn't knowwhere to begin, now is your chance to learn. In upcoming weeks, the Family History Library of The Church ofJesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, on the northwest corner of WestTemple and North Temple, is offering classes in ...
PostMormon founder speaking on Sept. 10
Sep 01, 2007 ... The Community After Leaving Mormonism support group will featureJeff Ricks, founder of www.Post Mormon.org, talking about hisexperiences at ...
Family heritage bash set for Sept. 15 in Ogden
Sep 01, 2007 ... My Ancestors Found and the Ogden Regional Family History Centerare joining forces to bring a genealogy and family heritage jamboreeto northern Utah. The conference will be Sept. 15 at ...
Tickets for Todd Agnew are ready for purchase
Sep 01, 2007 ... Tickets for Todd Agnew, the Better Questions Tour, with Rush ofFools, are now on sale through TicketsWest and all area ChristianBookstores. Performance will be at 7 p.m. Sept. 30 at the ...
Morning TV program airing pastor's words
Sep 01, 2007 ... Calvary Chapel Salt Lake has started airing a new religious TVprogram, "Morning Devotions," each weekday at 6:30 a.m. on KJZZ-Ch.14. Pastor Terry Long combines verse-by-verse Bible teaching withpractical insights in the show. More information is available at ...
"Book of Mormon Little Books" now available
Sep 01, 2007 ... "Book of Mormon Little Books" is a new six-level series nowavailable to help children learn to read. Written by Arizona reading specialist and member of The Church ofJesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Doris Johnson, these 32 booksstart ...
N.Y. church defrocks its former chancellor
Sep 01, 2007 ... NEW YORK (AP) -- A former chancellor of the Orthodox Church inAmerica, who has been accused of longtime financial wrongdoing, hasbeen ousted from the priesthood. The verdict by an OCA court against Robert Kondratick took effectJuly 31. Kondratick has said he's innocent. He held the ...
Megachurch pastors put marriage asunder
Sep 01, 2007 ... TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Randy and Paula White, co-pastors of a fast-growing megachurch that has come under financial scrutiny in recentmonths, have told their congregation they plan to divorce. The Whites, who've been married nearly 18 years and lead the23,000-member Without Walls ...
Pastor is selected at Haggard's church
Sep 01, 2007 ... COLORADO SPRINGS (AP) -- A pastor from a suburban Dallasmegachurch has been chosen as the senior pastor at New Life Church,which has battled declining attendance since disgraced churchfounder Ted Haggard was fired. More than 95 percent of New Life members backed Brady Boyd, 40,in ...
Court upholds ban on Bible distribution
Sep 01, 2007 ... ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A federal appeals court upheld a lower courtruling that prohibited the distribution of Bibles to grade schoolstudents in a southern Missouri school district. At issue was a long-held practice at South Iron Elementary Schoolin Annapolis, 120 miles southwest of St ....
4-year-old church growing in Davis
Sep 01, 2007; ... WEST POINT -- Christ Community Church is one of the fastestgrowing in northwest Davis County these days, with a congregation of160 people despite starting just four years ago. According to its senior pastor, Tom Koehler, the church branchedout from Wasatch Evangelical Free Church ...
Film series probing religious extremism
Sep 01, 2007; ... In many ways, the evangelical children's camp was like any othersummer Bible camp. There were art projects and hikes and song-fests. At night, in the bunkhouse, the boys tried to look scary byholding their flashlights under their chins. But there were filmmakers at the camp that ...
If you go to "Jesus Camp"
Sep 01, 2007 ... What: Documentary, "Jesus Camp" Where: Vieve Gore Concert Hall, Westminster College, 1250 E. 1700South When: 7 p.m. Wednesday Cost: ...
Makeup removal can be pleasant
Sep 01, 2007; ... Dear Heloise: I want to share a terrific hint for makeupremoval. I know why women in the 1950s and '60s used cold cream toremove their makeup. They were -- as I am -- always so sleepy atnight and didn't want to wash their face and lose that wonderful"ready to fall asleep" ...
The devil's in boss's 'details'
Sep 01, 2007; ... Dear Annie: I have a boss who has been with our organization fornearly a year. He likes to send out e-mails saying, "There will be ameeting at 3:00 next Friday. Details will follow." But the detailsnever follow. These meetings are usually conducted without specificagendas and with ...
This weekend on TV
Sep 01, 2007; ... Saturday on TV College football: Today's big game of local interest is Arizonaat BYU (3:30 p.m., Versus). And there's tape of UNLV at Utah State(6 p.m., The mtn.), which was played Thursday night. Other gamesinclude Tennessee Tech at E. Illinois (9 a.m., CSTV); East Carolinaat ...
Oh, 'Brother'!
Sep 01, 2007; ... NEW YORK -- It's just another summer in the "Big Brother" house.Or is it? Bloggers have condemned scandalous remarks about incest, race,ethnicity, sex and sexual orientation made by contestants. Messageboard posters have debated about a physical altercation involvingtwo ...
Mountain Meadows: Church asked to turn over site, take names off records
Sep 01, 2007; ... When three separate groups gather in southern Utah next weekendto commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Mountain MeadowsMassacre, it won't be a simple case of the living honoring the dead. Two groups that include descendants of Mountain Meadows victimsand survivors want The ...
UTA 'fast bus' is slow
Sep 01, 2007 ... I have always been an advocate of UTA. So far, however, itsredesign program does not merit much praise. My route is theRiverton/Herriman Fast Bus. Every morning this week, we have beenassigned an older bus that can't keep up with freeway traffic. Ifthey aren't going to send a bus that ...
Rocky's insights tiresome
Sep 01, 2007 ... In his latest bit of Rocky folly, Anderson intimated that JennyWilson, as a mother of young children, would be wise to removeherself from the campaign and stay home; suggesting that she wouldnot be able to manage the rigors of being a mayor and a mother atthe same time. As for ...
Rocky is anti-LDS Church
Sep 01, 2007 ... I had almost forgotten why I dislike Mayor Rocky Anderson somuch. Then he stood in front of the media Thursday. I thought Rockywould pop a vein in his forehead as he ranted about candidatesfollowing the direction of LDS Church leaders. He simply refuses toconsider that there might be ...
Check out hen conditions
Sep 01, 2007 ... I enjoyed reading Valerie Phillips' feature on the confusionsurrounding various food labels (Aug. 29). Shoppers concerned aboutanimal welfare should be aware that many labels mislead consumersabout the way animals are treated. The majority of eggs come frombirds living on factory farms ...
S. Africa future at crossroads
Sep 01, 2007 ... I have really enjoyed the series of columns written by JohnHughes on the current economic and social state of South Africa. Iam very impressed with the time that he took to report on the racialstruggles that South Africa has overcome, along with the currentpandemic it faces in dealing ...
The winners and the losers
Sep 01, 2007 ... -- Winner: It is only fitting that the governor's board room atthe newly refurbished Utah State Capitol be named for the state'sonly three-term governor, Democrat Gov. Cal Rampton. AlthoughRampton left public life in 1977, his influence is still felt instate government. His "Little ...
Justice for Rachael
Sep 01, 2007; ... Recently, Amber Alert played a key role in the recovery of a 5-year-old girl snatched from her grandmother's care in Morgan County.The girl, allegedly taken by her biological mother who does not havecustody of the child, and a boyfriend, was found in the care of anEvanston, Wyo., motel ...
Prayer is probably medicine's miracle
Sep 01, 2007; ... Do I believe in miracles in medicine? Absolutely. If my friendslook at the fact I was accepted to medical school, and then finisheda prestigious pediatric program on the East Coast, they would saythat was an act of divine intervention. It depends on how onedefines a miracle. If we ...
Will Arabic and Hebrew schools indoctrinate?
Sep 01, 2007; ... Two new schools, two new conflicts and one old question: Where'sthe line between teaching about religion, which is constitutional,and religious indoctrination, which is not? If the only issue were how to integrate some study of religioninto a history or literature course, - or even ...
Robert Rice, Utah Man
Sep 01, 2007; ... During his lifetime, Robert Rice did a lot of good deeds. But oneof the most enduring may have been his ability to undermine thenotion that people with money are, by nature, self-serving, aloofand unapproachable. Rice was none of that. He remained, to the end,as down-home and as filled ...
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well
Sep 01, 2007; ... To split or not to split; that is the question. Where is William Shakespeare when you need him? Perhaps Bill could make sense of this controversy over splittingschool districts in Salt Lake County. No one else has done the job. Wealthy taxpayers on the east side of Salt ...
High school football: Week 4 Schedule
Sep 01, 2007 ... Next Friday's games REGION 1 Davis at Clearfield, 7 p.m. Fremont at Layton, 7 p.m. Viewmont at Syracuse, 7 p.m. Weber at Northridge, 7 p.m. REGION 5 Bountiful at Bonneville, 7 p.m. Box Elder at Sky View, 7 p.m. Woods Cross ...
Week ends on big gain
Sep 01, 2007; ... NEW YORK -- Wall Street closed out another erratic week with abig gain Friday after investors took comments from President Bushand Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as reassuring signs WallStreet won't be left to deal with problems in the mortgage andcredit markets on its ...
SkyWest ASA Unit, pilots fail to resolve a 5-year dispute
Sep 01, 2007; ... SkyWest Inc.'s Atlantic Southeast Airlines unit failed to reach alabor agreement with its pilots after discussions this weekinvolving a federal mediator, prolonging a five-year-old dispute. Atlantic Southeast and union officials held talks with a NationalMediation Board ...
SCO Group seeking a way to immediately appeal ruling
Sep 01, 2007 ... Lindon-based SCO Group Inc. is asking a federal court to rulethat an Aug. 10 ruling in its case against Novell Inc. is a finaljudgment, thereby allowing it to immediately appeal the ruling. In a lawsuit over royalties from users of the Linux computeroperating system, U.S. District ...
Viruses' beginning innocuous
Sep 01, 2007; ... NEW YORK -- What began as a ninth-grade prank, a way to trickalready-suspicious friends who had fallen for his earlier practicaljokes, has earned Rich Skrenta notoriety as the first person ever tolet loose a personal computer virus. Although over the next 25 years, Skrenta started ...
Tap more N. America oil, Shell exec urges in Utah
Sep 01, 2007; ... Shell Oil president John Hofmeister says the United States shouldre-evaluate its policies on tapping North American petroleum as amatter of "energy security." Hofmeister stopped in Utah on Friday as part of a 50-citynationwide tour to discuss oil and energy policy. Utah was the ...
Repaired planes boost JetBlue expansion plan
Sep 01, 2007; ... JetBlue Airways Corp.'s 100-seat Embraer jets, grounded bysoftware glitches earlier this year, are now reliable enough to flylonger routes, boosting expansion efforts against rivals such asSouthwest Airlines Co. The Embraer E190s allow JetBlue to serve smaller cities thatdon't ...
Gameday: ARIZONA (0-0) at BYU (0-0)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Partly cloudy today with a high of 96. Today, 3:30 p.m. -- LaVell Edwards Stadium (64,045) -- Grassplaying surface -- Provo Ticket information: BYU has announced that the game is sold out TV: Versus (Comcast, channel 34; DirecTV, channel 608; DishNetwork, channel 151) ...
Mapleton to pay snake breeder
Sep 01, 2007; ... MAPLETON-- Mapleton city agreed Friday to pay $303,958 to apython breeder whose business was ousted from a residential areabecause disgruntled neighbors feared the snakes' presence woulddamage the value of surrounding land. Mayor Jim Brady said the city misled Dan Sutherland by ...
Top 25 schedule
Sep 01, 2007 ... Team. . .Opponent. . .Time (TV)/result 1. Southern Cal. . .vs. Idaho. . .Today, 8:15 p.m. (FSN) 2. LSU. . .at Mississippi St.. . .W, 45-0, Thursday 3. West Virginia. . .vs. W. Michigan. . .Today, 1:30 p.m. 4. Texas. . .vs. Arkansas St.. . .Today, 5 p.m. 5 ....
Immigration may not alter 'aging'
Sep 01, 2007; ... Can immigration help ease the coming crunch as the baby boomersstart to retire? A new report suggests that if the influx ofimmigrants -- legal and illegal alike -- continues at its currentrate of roughly 1.25 million per year, it won't significantly changethe nation's age. The ...
No. 2 Snow to host Australians
Sep 01, 2007; ... As it prepares for its home opener, the Snow College footballteam is picking up where it left off. Coming off a 32-14 thrashing of Air Force Academy Prep on theroad, the Badgers get ready to host the Australian National squadtoday at 10 a.m. at Badger Stadium. Snow College is ...
Semis sweet for USA?
Sep 01, 2007; ... LAS VEGAS -- All the United States needs for a spot in the 2008Olympics is a semifinal victory. Those have been hard to come by lately. A win over Puerto Rico gives the Americans a spot in Beijing. Butthey bring a two-game losing streak in semifinal games into today'smatchup ...
Redemption for Cal?
Sep 01, 2007; ... BERKELEY, Calif. -- Syd'Quan Thompson knows cornerbacks must haveshort memories. He still has no plans to forget what happened inCalifornia's awful trip to Tennessee last year -- at least until hereplaces it with something sweet. Thompson was three months out of high school when ...
College football notes
Sep 01, 2007 ... POTENTIAL UPSET Don't expect to see any today, with less-than-formidableopponents like Appalachian State and Western Kentucky showing up onthe top 25 schedule. But on Labor Day, No. 19 Florida State musttravel to Clemson to face two great running backs and a hostilecrowd in ...
Sports briefs
Sep 01, 2007 ... Football STRAHAN ENDS HOLDOUT: Seven-time Pro Bowl defensive end MichaelStrahan has decided to end his holdout and return for a 15th NFLseason with the New York Giants. "He went with his heart instead of his head," Tony Agnone, hisagent, said in a telephone interview with The ...
Art spotlights rescue of New Orleans pets
Sep 01, 2007; ... ANGELS CANYON, Kane County -- Beverly, the human, didn't surviveHurricane Katrina, but her namesake, a frightened cat, lived, thanksto a note her owner left behind, which was found by volunteers fromBest Friends Animal Society in Kanab. A copy of that note is forever embedded in a ...
The mtn. notwithstanding, still plenty of TV options
Sep 01, 2007; ... We spend so much time around here complaining about the collegefootball games we can't see on TV, we sometimes forget to be happyabout all the college football games we can see. So, just for once, let's not worry about The mtn. Let's take aquick look at the games that are available ...
This prize comes with a big catch
Sep 01, 2007; ... PROVO -- His name is Max Hall, though he might as well be MontyHall, longtime host of the TV game show "Let's Make a Deal." That's his job now, isn't it? Wheeling and dealing? BYU opens its football season today against Arizona, and all thenew Cougar quarterback needs to do is ...
Alaska rocket launch to test missile defense
Sep 01, 2007; ... KODIAK, Alaska -- The Defense Department will send up a testrocket from Kodiak Island for its next test of the missile defensesystem. A rocket motor was due to arrive in Kodiak early today inpreparation for the Missile Defense Agency's next test. "The next launch is being ...
Sierra Club pressures senator to support renewable energy
Sep 01, 2007; ... ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The message seems simple, and it's hard tomiss when plastered on a large yellow billboard along one of NewMexico's busiest interstates. "Senator Domenici: Don't Dim Our Future! Support RenewableEnergy." The billboard -- along with radio ads, bumper ...
Development can't budge small-farm owner
Sep 01, 2007; ... NAMPA, Idaho -- Ray Odermott thought the 40-acre family farm hegrew up on was safe from development. That was before the Idaho Transportation Department in 2001decided to build a freeway interchange nearby for this southwesternIdaho city, and land prices jumped from $2,000 to ...
Visitors take gladly to Glacier park buses
Sep 01, 2007; ... HELENA, Mont.-- Officials at Glacier National Park are astonishedby response to the park's new transit system. They credit the buses with a reduction of about 20 percent intraffic on the main road in the Montana park. Glacier spokeswomanAmy Vanderbilt says that's about double the ...
Season opener 'Cats ride new O into town
Sep 01, 2007; ... This time around, Arizona will not saddle up on a plodding mangyplug of an offense. The Wildcats have gone racehorse by hiring Texas Tech offensivecoordinator Sonny Dykes to pull up their point production. So, which defense will fare better? BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall ...
20-years-to-life term in child-porn case
Sep 01, 2007 ... COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) -- An electronics technician whoaccepted a plea agreement in one of the Idaho Panhandle's biggestchild pornography cases has been sentenced to 20 years to life inprison. Edmund Daniel Bergeman, 47, of Rathdrum, was sentenced Thursdayon guilty pleas for ...
Forest Service lawyer taking lobbying post
Sep 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration's top lawyer for theU.S. Forest Service is leaving to take a job with the nation'sleading timber industry lobbying group. Jan W. Poling, associate general counsel for natural resources atthe U.S. Department of Agriculture, will be the new ...
Burns claim worker from J.R. Simplot plant
Sep 01, 2007 ... POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) -- A worker at J.R. Simplot's Don Plant hasdied of burns from an accident at the fertilizer plant in Pocatello. Company officials say 53-year-old Frank Rowberry was sprayed withmolten sulfur as he inspected a clogged pipeline on Tuesday. Thesulfur caught fire, ...
Federal agency is reconsidering protecting Gunnison's prairie dog
Sep 01, 2007; ... DENVER -- After challenges by environmental groups, federalofficials are reconsidering whether the Gunnison's prairie dogshould be protected under the Endangered Species Act. Last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rejected petitionsseeking federal protection for the prairie ...
Malad couple face dogfighting charges
Sep 01, 2007; ... MALAD, Idaho -- Authorities in eastern Idaho say they intend tofile dogfighting charges against a Malad couple after investigatorsuncovered more than 2 dozen pit bulls and other evidence during adrug raid. Oneida County Sheriff Jeff Semrad says detectives on Tuesdayfound 26 pit ...
Man charged with attempted murder
Sep 01, 2007; ... PROVO -- Attempted murder charges have been filed against aKearns man who police say shot his co-worker with a nail gun at aconstruction site. Pedro Contreras-Cruz, 26, was charged Thursday in 4th DistrictCourt with attempted murder with injury, wrongful appropriation ...