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Making a Difference: Helping women and girls one kit at a time

Cindy Gale from Provo has always valued home arts, particularly sewing. She and her husband Doug have also served in many community and church organizations. When Gale heard about Freedom Kits of Yakima, or FKY, she felt she had found the perfect humanitarian organization and emailed ...

Utah Valley Calendar: Things to do – July 12

AMERICAN FORK American Fork's Got Talent — Come see local talent shine during Steel Days from 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday, July 18, at Mary and Art Dye Park. "Footloose - Youth Edition" — Timpanogos Youth Theater presents a family-friendly musical in an hour packed with classic hits, dancing ...

Conference Counsel: Christ’s Atonement brings strength amid trials

I was on my mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in late 2004 when the 9.1 to 9.3 earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated Indonesia. I remember going out to knock doors that night and talking to a college student who wondered how there could be a God when such ...

Guest opinion: Why does Utah have a death penalty?

In 1976, I was serving as the police chief in Orem. With just a few months on the job, I received a late-night phone call from Lt. Gerald Neilson regarding a potential homicide at a Sinclair gas station. I went to the crime scene and saw a dead young man on the floor of the gas station ...