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Sparetime to give proceeds to police

ROY — Sparetime Family Fun Center will donate all of its weekend proceeds to help the families of the fallen and wounded officers.

(ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner) Taci Caroll, 6, of West Bountiful, is hoping to raise money to buy goats for her native country of Haiti.

West Bountiful girl, 6, trying to help her native Haiti with goats

WEST BOUNTIFUL -- Taci Carroll may not remember much about the first few years of her life when she lived in Haiti, but the experience forever tied her heart to the country.

(Courtesy photo) Bank of Utah workers prepare clothes to donate to the St. Anne's Center.

Bank of Utah helps those in need

OGDEN -- Bank of Utah employees delivered nine large barrels of clothing to St. Anne's Center in Ogden and Crossroads Urban Center's Thrift Store in Salt Lake City last week for those in need.

Volunteers needed to can beef stew

Brigham City — Upcoming events at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church are the 12th Night party at the church on Jan. 6 and the annual meeting on Jan. 29.

Anonymous layaway Santa paying off balances

LAYTON -- A customer walked in to Kmart on Friday and asked if he could pay off a layaway.

Gracie Kaye Hinds

Syracuse girl, 9, trying to recover from seizures

SYRACUSE -- They call her amazing Grace for more reasons than you can count.

(Courtesy photo) Volunteers serve food at a community dinner at the Marshall White Center.

Spirit of service highlights dinner

OGDEN -- There were plenty of smiles last weekend when a handful of churches, individuals and businesses got together to feed and provide necessities for those in need at the Marshall White Center.

Dinner at Marshall White Center to help fight hunger

OGDEN -- A free community dinner will be the main highlight of the Congregational United Church of Christ's 11-day campaign to address food injustice in the community and around the world.

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Members of the Square Dance Club work to clean up the  roadside near Monte Cristo.

For dance club, picking up trash turns into treasured memories

MONTE CRISTO -- For the past 18 years, members of The Wild Bunch have put their dance shoes aside to lace up their hiking boots and head for the mountains. The members of the square dancing club drive to Mile Marker 33 on the road to Monte Cristo to pick up trash.

"We've found some very interesting things over the past several years," said club member Doug Swayngim. "Parts of car hoods, trailer parts, steering wheels, snowmobile parts."

Golf tourney to aid breast cancer effort

OGDEN — Happy Chemo is sponsoring a golf tournament to raise money and awareness for breast cancer.

(Courtesy photo) Two Sewing Angels work on a project in Layton.

Sewing Angels hope to provide artistic comfort

LAYTON -- There are plenty of treats, talk and taking care of others when the Sewing Angels meet Monday morning after the 9 a.m. Mass at St. Rose of Lima parish.

Shoebox Run needs riders and donations

SALT LAKE CITY — The eighth annual Shoebox Run will take place Sept. 17 in the mountains of Northern Utah to promote the collection of 15,000 gift-filled Operation Christmas Child showboxes that are distributed to children in need around the world.

Howard Lewis Langston

Howard Lewis Langston, 72, died Wednesday, August 10, 2011. A memorial service will begin at 3 p.m. Sunday, August 14, at Valley View Baptist Church, 2712 N. 400 East, North Ogden. Condolences may be posted at rememberinghoward@gmail.com. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in memory of Howard to the Ogden Rescue Mission, 2775 Wall Ave., Ogden, UT 84401 or Valley View Baptist Church, P.O. Box 12653 Ogden, UT 84412. See the complete obituary in the Standard-Examiner's e-edition.

Two area church food banks need help this summer

OGDEN -- Two church-centered food banks are asking the community to literally step up to the plates of Northern Utah's hungry.

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Robin Hietala, who has lupus, poses for a portrait with her friend, Paige Hensley, at Hensley’s home in West Point. In an effort to help others who live with the autoimmune disease, Hietala and Hensley are organizing a nonprofit organization and a support group.

Despite setbacks, woman with lupus works to support others

WEST POINT -- Robin Alderin-Hietala has endured more trials in her 44 years than most people endure in a lifetime.

The West Point woman has survived breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and an accident that landed her in the hospital for three months after being hit by a drunken driver. Now she's battling lupus, an autoimmune disease that has claimed one of her kidneys and keeps her in bed for days at a time.

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