Davis County

FARMINGTON — The defense attorney for a man accused of downloading child pornography said the case could be resolved within two weeks.

SYRACUSE — One junior high band in Top of Utah is doing something so unusual, band instructor Zach Poulter has heard of only one other school in the state that has tried it.

FARMINGTON — The Utah Transit Authority, in partnership with other area entities, is conducting a $60,000 circulator bus route study with the goal of improving connections between the FrontRunner commuter rail station in Clearfield and the community.

Surrounded by his family, LaVance Page Nelson quietly slipped into the welcoming arms of those whom he loved and preceded him in death-Norma Arbuckle, his wife of 50 years, and his daughters Janet (Mike) and Diane (Lee). He is survived by his loving companion of 18 years, Norma Buehler Preece, his daughter Carolyn (Doug), his son Paul (Carolynn), his daughter Suzann (Ty), and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He was a kind and loving father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. Both families benefited from his love and generous nature when he and Norma Buehler Preece married after the passing of Norma Arbuckle. LaVance was veteran of World War II. Following the war he worked for the U.S. Postal Service for many years, but was also known as a skilled craftsman, having built many homes in the Bountiful area. He loved his garden, a "Bountiful Beautiful Homes and Gardens" award winner, and shared his love of gardening with his children and grandchildren. A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, LaVance faithfully served in numerous callings over the years including his service as an ordinance worker in the Salt Lake and Bountiful Temples. His service and devotion is a living example to all who knew him.

Editor,

In between the two great wars, the topic of “the coming peril” was brandied about and all sorts of people addressed it. After the Second World War, the subject narrowed considerably as it became the sole property of Senator Joseph McCarthy and his band of terrible men. But it its heyday, the topic was wide as the world that fretted over it.

One man who addressed the subject was G.K. Chesterton, whose wit and wisdom highlighted his pugnacious Catholicism. The coming crisis, he told listeners in Toronto, was “the intellectual, educational, psychological, artistic overproduction which, equally with economic overproduction, threatened the wellbeing of civilization. People were inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralyzed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them with no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.”

A summary of agendas of public meetings to be held Tuesday, May 21

Delores Mae Spicer, 81, died in her sleep Thursday, May 16, 2013. A funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, May 24, at the Clearfield 5th Ward Chapel, 935 S. State St. Friends may visit from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at Lindquist’s Layton Mortuary, 1867 N. Fairfield Road, and from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Friday at the church. Interment, Syracuse City Cemetery. Post condolences at www.lindquistmortuary.com. See the complete obituary in the Standard-Examiner's e-edition.