News for Mormons

From The Roanoke (VA) Times:

“Did I pick this because I wanted guys to see me in it?” said the Our Lady of Lourdes Academy sophomore. “Now it’s important to kind of present myself as a lady with dignity.”

Like Pure Fashion, affiliated with a Catholic organization, most of the groups promoting modest-but-fashionable attire are rooted in faith.

Shade Clothing, a line that features undershirts for layering, grew out of the shopping frustrations of a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

And Funky Frum, an online clothing boutique, was created by a woman with “a commitment to a modest Jewish lifestyle.”

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From iol.ca.za (South Africa):

The establishment of a peace trust in memory of slain Hillcrest teenager Calvin Boreham, 17, was announced at a memorial service for the teenager in Hillcrest on Monday night.

The trust was intended to finance crime prevention initiatives and to promote accountability of prominent government officials.

The service at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was attended by more than 100 people. Boreham was killed in a drive-by shooting in Hillcrest last Thursday.

‘It hits you so hard’
According to police, Calvin, his brother, Grant, and his mother, Charmaine, were on their way home from a restaurant when a taxi pulled up beside them and one of its occupants opened fire.

After efforts were made to evade the taxi, Calvin’s mother realised that he had been shot in the chest.

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From The Deseret Morning News:

When Curt Bench started Benchmark Books 20 years ago, he had already spent 13 years working for Deseret Book. In fact, Deseret Book hired him as a part-time employee while he was attending Brigham Young University, working for a degree in communications.

After graduation Bench managed the stores in Fashion Place and Cottonwood Mall before developing an interest in rare books.

During an interview in his Benchmark office, the reserved, youthful, prematurely gray bookseller recalled suggesting to Deseret Book that they allow him to start buying out-of-print and used books. “Then, in 1984, I moved downtown to manage a store within a store — rare books at Deseret Book.”

Over a three-year period, Bench became very knowledgeable about rare books, and he became acquainted with a young document dealer named Mark Hofmann, who was later convicted of forgery and murder and remains today in the Utah State Prison.

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From The Deseret Morning News:

SAN DIEGO — As wildfires raged through San Diego County communities this week, most members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the area were spared serious damage to property. But at least 16 LDS families of the Poway California Stake were among the hundreds to find their houses burned to the ground.

Stake President Gary Sabin pointed out some of the devastation within his stake’s boundaries during a tour of the Rancho Bernardo area Wednesday. The canyons of the upscale development were charred by fire. Houses appeared to have fallen victim to a bombing raid, with some unscathed while others nearby were reduced to ashes.

Such was the case for Dave and Bobbi Brunson and John and Kathy Huish, who live across the street from each other. The Brunson house was gone. The Huish family lost a wicker chair but little else. As was the case with many who were spared, John Huish felt bad for his neighbor. But he felt fortunate that his house was spared, along with the Christmas decorations that were going up around it.

If the embers that landed on the chair, burning it and a few shrubs around it, had spread from the porch to the house, it would have destroyed a holiday tradition the Huish family has provided to thousands of children who have toured the home the 12 days before Christmas for the past seven years.

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