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Layton doctor leads medical mission to Guatemala

Last updated Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 10:31pm

LAYTON — A group of doctors, nurses, medical students, dentists, dieticians and even a schoolteacher are headed to Guatemala this weekend to provide much-needed medical services to people there.

Dr. Robert L. Mellor, an ear, nose and throat specialist at Tanner Memorial Clinic and president of Utah Medical Outreach, has been traveling to the underserved country for the past 22 years.

This year, he and his group will travel about 10 hours by bus to a small clinic in a mountainous area northeast of Guatemala City.

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A woman casts her vote during the country's general elections in San Lucas Toliman, Guatemala, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. Polls have indicated that Otto Perez Molina of the Patriotic Party, a former army general, is the leading candidate in Sunday's election. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Retired general leads in Guatemala election

Juan Carlos Llorca The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, September 11, 2011 - 7:27pm

GUATEMALA CITY — A former military general known for his “iron fist” campaign to stop Guatemala’s epidemic crime rates leads the field of 10 candidates in Sunday’s presidential election.

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Relatives embrace former military officer Reyes Collin Gualip, partially covered, after he was sentenced at the end of a trial in Guatemala City, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011. The court sentenced three former special forces soldiers to 6,060 years in prison each for the massacre of more than 200 men, women and children, one of hundreds that occurred during Guatemala's 36-year civil war, which ended in 1996. Some 240,000 people, mostly Mayan Indians, vanished or died. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Human rights advocates applaud sentences in Guatemala massacre

Ken Ellingwood Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, August 4, 2011 - 9:55am

MEXICO CITY -- International human rights advocates Wednesday praised a court in Guatemala for sentencing four former soldiers to more than 6,000 years each in prison for a 1982 massacre of 201 civilians during the nation's civil war.

The massacre in the northern village of Dos Erres was one of the ugliest episodes of repression during Guatemala's 36-year civil war, during which an estimated 200,000 people were killed or disappeared, mostly in the countryside.

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(The Associated Press) Academy Award-winning actress Susan Sarandon congratulates Aimee Matheson (center), 18, of Clearfield, and Colten Lee, 13, of Provo, on being named the top two youth volunteers in Utah for 2011 by the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards. Matheson and Lee were honored at a ceremony Sunday at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., where they each received a $1,000 award. Matheson also was awarded $5,000 for charity because she was a top national volunteer as well.

Clearfield High student honored as one of the top volunteers in the state, nation

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner Davis Bureau

Last updated Friday, May 6, 2011 - 10:14pm

CLEARFIELD -- Aimee Matheson went to Washington, D.C., knowing she was going to be honored as one of the top youth volunteers in Utah.

But at the ceremony for the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, when she found out she was also one of the top five high school volunteers in the nation, she could not believe it.

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Jennifer, who attends Caritas Felices day care in Guatemala, poses with Clearfield High School student Kimball Gardner.

Guatemalan gifts

Kimball Gardner TX. Correspondent

Last updated Monday, January 31, 2011 - 2:58pm

It's 3:30 in the morning, two days after Christmas. Where would you expect most high school teenagers to be at that time of day? Asleep, correct?

That was not the case for myself and 43 of my fellow Clearfield Falcons, along with 12 adult chaperones, as we were all at the Salt Lake City International Airport at that exact time, waiting for our flight to leave for Houston and then on to Guatemala.

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