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Anonymous layaway Santa paying off balances

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, December 17, 2011 - 9:43pm

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

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Syracuse girl, 9, trying to recover from seizures

April Hale Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, November 27, 2011 - 9:47am

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

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

Spirit of service highlights dinner

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, November 11, 2011 - 4:34pm

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.

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Dinner at Marshall White Center to help fight hunger

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, October 28, 2011 - 4:24pm

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

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 11:16pm

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."

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Golf tourney to aid breast cancer effort

Charlie Pomerleau Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 11:08pm

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

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

Sewing Angels hope to provide artistic comfort

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, September 23, 2011 - 6:13pm

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.

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Shoebox Run needs riders and donations

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, September 9, 2011 - 2:08pm

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.

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Howard Lewis Langston

Obituaries Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, August 12, 2011 - 10:40pm

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.

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Two area church food banks need help this summer

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, August 12, 2011 - 2:56pm

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

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 1:50am

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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(Photo courtesy of Julie Rhodes) (From left) Mike Rhodes and Jason Burton help Taye Eshetu Alagaw, who is believed to be about 19, with the movement of his crippled right hand at Where Love Is, a boys shelter, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Liberty woman's belief in miracles saves Ethiopian teen

Matthew D. LaPlante Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, July 18, 2011 - 8:22am

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- The walls are crumbling plaster. The roof is canvas and mud. A plastic washtub, half full of grimy water, sits under a rickety rack of shelves. It is four paces one way, five paces the next, over benches and beds and a small stack of beat-up books. It is dark and dirty and smells of the chickens and cows that trot about in the courtyard next door.

But for Taye Eshetu Alagaw, this was home. And it might as well have been a castle.

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Ciera Pekarcik, Miss Utah 2011 second runner-up

UVU student crowned Miss Utah; Miss Davis County second runner-up

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Last updated Sunday, June 26, 2011 - 6:50pm

SALE LAKE CITY — A Utah Valley University student from Tooele has been crowned Miss Utah 2011, and Miss Davis County is the second runner-up.

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Above, USU high school intern Karen Gossner (left) and Josh Visser of Utah’s Delta High School, perform an experiment. Below, USU high school intern Kyleen Grissom (right) and Caitlin Hengge of Utah’s InTech Collegiate High School perform an experiment.

300 teenagers put a polish on park

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner Davis Bureau

Last updated Friday, June 17, 2011 - 11:37pm

FRUIT HEIGHTS -- Now the castle will be fit for a king.

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(Courtesy photo) The Joplin, Mo., stake center for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after the tornado.

Roy couple hopes to help Joplin residents cope

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Friday, June 10, 2011 - 6:20pm

ROY — A couple here is preparing for a sort of self-appointed mission to Branson and Joplin, Mo., to spend time listening to those who have been affected by a devastating May 22 tornado.

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