Dana Rimington

FRUIT HEIGHTS -- Life changed dramatically for Shelley Nettesheim when her husband died in a car accident and she became a widow at 24.

The Fruit Heights woman wanted to finish her education for the sake of her two young children. She put herself through school and earned a marketing degree from the University of Utah.

LAYTON -- After riding in helicopters with the Coast Guard, fear became a factor for Ryan Cormier -- he even changed careers after some of his buddies were killed in helicopter crashes.

ROY — After 102 birthdays, cake and balloons still don’t get old.

LAYTON -- Not too often is a musical instrument compared to wrestling an octopus on your shoulder.

CLEARFIELD — Clearfield High School students lived up to their program’s motto — Falcons are Fabulous — by raising enough money to surpass their goal of $10,000 and handing over a check for $11,761.48 to the Huntsman Cancer Institute.

BOUNTIFUL -- For Rick Rice, Christmas began in July, when he started programming his light displays.

His are not just ordinary Christmas lights, but 17,000 lights that flash, fade, shimmer and chase one another in precise timing with music.

Of course, this meant listening to the music hundreds of times to get the lights matched up to the exact millisecond, which Rice did in the summer heat as he listened to songs about halls being decked with holly and sugarplum fairies enjoying a holly, jolly Christmas.

CLEARFIELD ¬­-- Clearfield High School students danced, played instruments and sang for extra change at a school assembly Monday to kick off a week of raising money for cancer research at Huntsman Cancer Institute.