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Veterans program receives donation from Harrison Regent

Last updated Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 11:24pm

OGDEN -- The Harrison Regent independent senior living community, 4481 Harrison Blvd. has donated $2,102.35 to the Outward Bound for Veterans program as part of parent company Holiday Retirement's national fundraising effort.

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Isabel Hadley talks about the "Monkey in My Chair" program and her fourth-grade class at Cook Elementary School in Syracuse on Wednesday. Isabel has cancer and misses a lot of school, so the monkey takes her place in class. Fellow students place notes and pictures in its backpack for when it is sent home for a visit with Isabel. It reminds the students that Isabel will return and reminds Isabel that her fellow students miss her. (NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner)

Monkey serves as reminder to sick Syracuse student, classmates

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, March 1, 2012 - 7:18am

SYRACUSE — The 3-foot-tall, extra-soft, stuffed monkey sat on Isabel Hadley’s lap.

The fourth-grader had dropped by her Cook Elementary classroom Wednesday to say hello to her classmates and to see firsthand what the animal — officially named Monkey — was up to.

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Suzanne Leonelli, seen Wednesday, is the new executive director of Prevent Child Abuse Utah, a nonprofit organization based in Ogden. (KENDAL RUSSELL/Standard-Examiner)

New Prevent Child Abuse Utah director may change nonprofit's direction

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 10:49pm

OGDEN — A change in leadership at Prevent Child Abuse Utah also may indicate a change in direction for the organization.

Suzanne Leonelli took over as executive director Jan. 17.

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Jamie and James Skinner, seen here Friday in their Layton home, recently adopted Winter from Taiwan after she had been abandoned. At left are the Skinners’ 8-year-old biological twins, Ledger and Denver. Not pictured are the Skinners’ other biological children: River, 16, and Sawyer, 14. The Skinners waited four years and two months to adopt. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Winter settles in with adoptive Layton family

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, January 4, 2012 - 12:32am

LAYTON -- A local family is welcoming into their home a 14-month-old girl whom they named years before she was even born.

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Donations up for some nonprofits

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, December 25, 2011 - 11:38pm

LOGAN — Some Cache County nonprofit organizations say donations have increased in 2011 despite a still-sluggish economy and national data that suggest charitable contributions are in overall decline.

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Committee seeks nonprofit status

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, November 26, 2011 - 11:40pm

NORTH OGDEN -- The city's parks and trails committee is one step closer to becoming a nonprofit organization and is just waiting to have its status approved by the federal Internal Revenue Service.

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