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LAYTON -- A benefit concert for Alexa Hering will be held at 7 p.m. Friday by Trinity Lutheran Church at the Ed Kenley Amphitheater at Layton Commons Park, 465 N. Wasatch Drive.

There is no admission fee, but all donations will be used to help Alexa's family in their battle against her cancer.

FARMINGTON -- The public is invited to attend a Davis County Commission discussion on the latest community and economic developments taking place in the county.

Kent Sulser, the county's community and economic development director, will lead the discussion set for 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Davis County Memorial Courthouse, 28 E. State St., Farmington.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah's experiment with a first-in-the-nation four-day workweek for state workers is over.

Beginning Tuesday, they will be back on the job five days, but they won't be working a full week just yet. The Labor Day holiday will shorten the week to four days.

Lawmakers scratched the experiment, saying it was not saving as much money as hoped and that residents were complaining about not having access to services on Fridays.

OGDEN -- The city council is requesting that the Utah Transit Authority explore the possibility of establishing express bus service to provide a short-term mass transit solution for a busy corridor from the downtown Intermodal Hub to Weber State University.

However, UTA officials maintain there isn't funding available for the service.

HARRISVILLE -- Homeowners looking for help with sewage backflow problems were told they are on their own and Harrisville cannot help them fix the problem.

On Aug. 1, Liberty Avenue resident Millissa Ferguson woke up to find that the previous night's storm had brought more than just water. Her son found filthy brown liquid flooding the basement from sewage pouring into homes.

The overflow occurred when the Weber County main sewer line was overridden with water from the July 31 storm. Kent Jones, a consulting engineer, said the storm was the type that happens about once every hundred years.

HOOPER -- Today when West Haven cowgirl Shianne Lowe rides around the arena waving to the Hooper Tomato Days crowd, she'll be thinking about how she has come full circle.

The 17-year-old Miss Rodeo Hooper is a well-recognized rodeo queen.

In July, she also was named queen at the Silver State International Rodeo in Winnemucca, Nev.

LAYTON -- Since 9/11, Americans have been told to be prepared for disasters. Residents of Layton city are no different.

With the upcoming 10-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks, city officials are encouraging residents to be ready to assist first responders in case of any type of emergency.

"It's better to be prepared than surprised," said Dawn Fitzpatrick, chairwoman of the Citizen Corps Council, which includes emergency preparedness and community emergency response teams. "The better prepared an individual and community are, the less the impact will be."