Rexburg, ID
Ambulances were at the Spori building this morning responding to a medical emergency. Near the end of an art 101 lecture a student appeared to be drowsy and faint.
"All of the sudden she just bolts and shakes and her head kind of falls back as she turned white," said Matthew Geddes the course instructor.
The class was ending when Geddess saw the student having seizer like symptoms. He knew it was out of the ordinary and sought help immediately.
Lightheartedly Geddes said, "Well this is a real typical chain of events; I start talking and students start passing out."
Geddes informed INEWS that EMS was on the scene within minutes of placing the call. Then after providing immediate medical relief EMS took the student away by ambulance.
No further details were given about the event to protect the patience privacy
If in the future you experience a medical emergency contact the security and safety office at 496-3000 or dial 911
Unemployment is just over 5% in Rexburg, but despite the poor economy there are new businesses opening. One young entrepreneur used money earned from summer sales to start his own business. Reporter Brian Johnson has more on he story.
The Box is a brand new business in downtown Rexburg thanks to Nathan Lowe, a local resident who is fulfilling his dream. Just a few weeks ago he started a music club designed to entertain families and college students.
“I love it, I love it. I have had businesses before, but this is something I really love doing. I love music and comedy and karaoke is one of my favorite things to do in life.
Not only is Nathan the owner, he is also the only employee. But The Box is not the only new business in town. There has been an average of 8 ribbon cuttings each month in Rexburg.
“When you deal with entrepreneurs you get a real variety of businesses. That’s what made the country great you know, so we are glad to have any of them come in.
Success is the dream of every American, and in a down economy that dream is much harder to achieve. But this is not stopping Nathan.
“In a poor economy it’s difficult. People are always very cautious with their money, but it’s a good challenge.
But despite the economic challenges Nathan is glad to be doing what he loves.
“Sometimes you will see me if you drive past at 2 in the morning I will be in here doing karaoke.”
In downtown Rexburg, I’m Brian Johnson INEWS, Local news 8.
The Box has various entertainment groups Tuesday through Saturday nights including Live bands, karaoke, and jazz performances. The entry fee varies but is about $3. And for more information visit there website theboxrexburg.com
Rexburg's Zion's Bank located at 149 west Main Street was robbed today around 3:45pm. Police reported that the man walked into the bank and handed the teller a note demanding money. The suspect did not show any weapons. After receiving an undisclosed amount, he left the bank and was last seen headed on foot to the northwest.
If you have any information about this bank robbery, the Rexburg Police Department request that you contact them at 359-3020 extension 2351 or 359-3008.
The man is described as:
Between 6’0” and 6”1”
20-30 years of age
Light brown to brown hair
Sunglasses
Light facial hair
Wearing a jacket, thigh length, dark grey with black
Carrying a green bag, possibly a business recycling type bag
Brown hiking boots
Blue jeans
Sunglasses
Blue beanie hat with blue stripe through it
Visit the Rexburg Police Dept. Website
Devin Nef, is a simple man, a country fan, and he represents less than 26 percent of the student population here at BYU-Idaho. A native of Rigby, Devin is a junior studying construction Management and minorring in business management, currently taking 12 credits. Like most he is a student, actively involved in his church.
But Devin is also a husband, and a father. Giving him many responsibilities to juggle while earning his bachelors degree.
“It can be tough...One day at a time is about the best that you can do because, like today, I had a pretty easy day. I stayed home, watched the boy, went to work, days like tomorrow, I’ll be running running running at school. “
One thing that sets Devin apart is his work ethic he works part time at perhaps the least understood building on campus.
“It’s a very dirty job, but I really like it!”
And a rewarding job. Devin is one of only five students that is privileged to work at the Central plant.
Our story brings us here, the heating plant, now called the central plant. Each day a semi truck load of coal is brought here to keep BYU-Idaho warm and functioning.
The day to day routine working at the central plant is dirty. Most of Devin’s time is spent cleaning up and keeping the broilers going.
Each week he tries to work close to 20 hours.
Devin and his wife Emily are able to maintain a balance in life through one critical process, planning.
“We just have to keep it planned out. Tomorrow you’ll watch the boy, I’ll be in class I’ll pick him up at this time, and then usually if something comes up we have to plan it out....Other times we have to just pass him off, say OK. It’s your turn take the boy. I have to do homework. Or one of us if we need to say up on campus for a while longer.”
While he is busier than most students, it is not all work for Devin. Being a father has also been a rewarding experience that has taught him many new skills.
"Patience a lot more patience…Also I’ve had to learn to deal with the stresses that come with having a kid run around the house or knocking over lighting...There you go, we keep it really here."
A is a simple man, a country fan, a father. Struggling to make ends meet and provide for his family while attending school in a poor economy. In Rexburg, I’m Brian Johnson, I-News.
Dozens of cycling enthusiasts gathered in Rexburg Saturday for the 2nd annual Cube Cyclocross Bike Race.
Cyclocross is a European cycling event that is gaining popularity in the United States. The purpose of Cyclocross is to complete as many laps as possible in the set amount of time.
Rexburg resident Micah Thatcher, who won his age division talked about the different challenges of the Course.
"There were a lot of different hills and bumps. There were some parts where I had to get off my bike and carry it."
More importantly than his time, we who he beat in the race.
"I did five laps in 25 minutes. I'm just glad I beat my sister."
Mark Beck, I-News.
Part 2. Meet the SRC presidency candidates for winter 2010. Who are they and what do they stand for? This is part 2 of a special 2 part series of I-NEWS.
In the second half, candidates answer the following:
Some students say that in professional work places Facebook is not blocked and can be used as a tool and resource. If elected president how would you address this issue?
Some students view the SRC as a propaganda machine for the school administration? What is your opinion, explain?
Junior Ashley McKenna says "I feel the food [at the crossroads] is overpriced. They need to better accommodate the students. If the prices were lower, I think more students would eat [t]here" If elected how would you address this issue?
Some students complain that they don't know what the SRC is working on. If elected would you consider some type of a "State of the University or stewardship report"?
Many students feel that the campus video network needs improvement. They come from high schools that have functioning video networks. Students would like to see TVs featuring students on campus. If elected would you address this issue? How?
BYU-Idaho students come from across the nation, many from home towns that highly emphasize recycling. If elected how would you address this concern?
The Laptop initiative is a major part of student life, and so is internet access. Many student feel that internet service on and off campus is not adequate. Would you fix this? How?
Each candidate gives some closing remarks.
To see the first half of this show click on:
Meet the SRC presidency candidates for winter 2010. Who are they and what do they stand for? This is part 1 of a special 2 part series of I-NEWS.
In this session candidates answer the following questions:
What is your platform? If elected what is your primary goal to accomplish during the Winter Semester?
What is your motivation for running? Was there an experience in the past that influenced your decision to run for office?
What are some of the current issues that the SRC is facing? If elected how do you propose fixing these issues?
What sets you apart from the other candidates? What can you offer, that the other candidates do not?
To see the rest of the show click on the following:
Haven't started your Christmas shopping yet? This week's real deal shows us how and where to get great deals on holiday gifts.
With the Holiday Season just around the corner, the BYU-Idaho bookstore has put up their annual Christmas sale. This year’s sale consists of free gift-wrapping and extended deals. As Jaime Comer was shopping for gifts for her family she explained how feels about the sale.
“College students don’t have a lot of money. That’s one thing. And I think it’s just good and it’s cheaper and just good to get these sales for easy to get Christmas presents for your family and friends or whoever you want to give them to.”
There are sales on great holiday gifts such as books, games, clothing items, and even pictures to put in a home. Not shopping for gifts yet? They also have deals on hats, coats and gloves. As I talked with Merchandising Supervisor Ryan Buttars he told me why it is the bookstore put on this sale so soon.
“Its before Christmas actually happens, and we strategically pick the time to do it when people are actually here shopping, so they can get a discount while they are shopping because if we did it during a normal typical retail Christmas sale, hardly anyone’s here, so they can’t partake of it.”
So be sure to stop by before the sale ends to get your Christmas shopping done cheap and easy. That’s this week’s real deal, Anne Moyes, Inews.
The magic doesn't end there, the store will be open until 7p.m. this week until Thursday. The sale ends this Saturday. So if you want, don't forget to take advantage of these deals and be ready for the Christmas holidays.
Anne Moyes, i-News
My wife has threatened to call social services on me if I ever decide to implement some of my theories on parenting. I said to her that I was flattered and was certain social services could learn a lot from me.
For example, I have this idea that parenting is a lot like the free market. When businesses compete for your money, you get the best service available at the best price possible.
Likewise, children should compete for their parent’s love. If you’re a parent like me, you know that there’s a limit on how much you can love. And, because there’s a high demand from children for the love of their parents, you can bet that they will be willing to compete for it.
On FHE days, instead of having a board that lists who’s going to pray, share the scripture and provide refreshments, I’m going to have a ranking board that lists my favorite child to my least favorite. It’s kind of like a Dow Jones Industrial average for love.
In this way, my children will always know where they stand with me. The top child will, of course, have more privileges than the other children. And, the bottom child will have more punishments. You know, the normal punishments: smaller food portions, more chores, constant looks of disapproval and disappointment, and of course the obligatory, “Why couldn’t you be more like your brother/sister” statements.
If the free market is good enough for America, the land I love, why couldn’t it work for families? Not to mention, when you give children privileges they didn’t earn, they begin to feel a sense of entitlement. They lose perspective on what it means to really work for something. And, they lose the pride that comes with achievement. They just come to expect everything for free.
I don’t know any parent who loves their children freely.
Medical care is a perfect example. With the rising costs of healthcare these days, what better incentive is there for children than to compete for it? Say you have three kids; the best thing to do is to purchase health plans for the top two children. Basically what you’re doing here is using the time proven economic principle of scarcity. By making an essential resource limited, you can bet your children are going to do everything within their power to make certain they can get that vaccine for polio.
Some of you are probably saying, “C’mon, as a parent, if your child gets sick you’re going to do everything within your power to make sure they get better.”
This is true. But what you also need to do is constantly remind your child that even when they didn’t deserve to be taken to the emergency room, you took them anyway. This is how they will learn how much you really love them.
Another idea I had for loving and effective parenting is to keep your children in constant fear of the boogieman. Growing up, my mother would threaten me and tell me that if I didn’t eat my rice, the boogieman would come to get me. This was effective at first, but over time, when the boogieman wouldn’t show up, the threat lost its inherent power. But, imagine if she had just taken it a step further.
Imagine this, you tell your child that if they don’t eat their rice the boogieman will get them when they sleep. That night, after they’re fast asleep, you go to your closet, you put on the gorilla suit you bought at the D.I. for $10.95, and you march yourself into your child’s room and you scare them. You scare them until they wet their pants.
That will teach them to eat their rice. Either that, or they’ll have an irrational fear of suburban gorillas. Either way, they will think twice before doubting you.
Hey, so you know it's not too late to pick up some plants from the greenhouses. on June 1st they are having another sale on all their left-over plants!
The Rexburg temple district went “online” Friday with the new FamilySearch Web site. BYU—Idaho students and Rexburg residents have a new resource to expedite family history and temple work.
The new Web site—www.new.familysearch.org—was alluded to by President Hinckley in the October 2005 General Conference: “People in various nations simultaneously work on the same family lines . . . We, therefore, have been engaged for some time in a very difficult undertaking. To avoid such duplication, the solution lies in complex computer technology. Preliminary indications are that it will work, and if this is so, it will be a truly remarkable thing with worldwide implications.”
The new system is designed to reduce the duplication of temple work for the same individual and simplify the process of submitting names to the temple. The Rexburg Temple will no longer support the previous 16-step process—TempleReady.
Under the new program, members organize their family tree online and can update sources and other details known about their ancestors. In addition, records can be compared and combined with those prepared by others. Members then select which ancestors they want to do work for and check to see if any work has already been done for those individuals. Members then print out a barcode for the selected ancestors.
Then off to the temple.
Temple workers scan the barcode and within minutes print off the pink and blue ordinance cards that are used for tracking temple ordinances.
Before FamilySearch, there was little help to determine if temple work for an individual was already done. The TempleReady program was only current up to December 31, 1999. For example, the grandmother of Elizabeth Lovell—a junior from Henderson, Nevada—actively attended church until the end of her days. Now, years after her death, her grandmother’s work has been repeated six times.
Members create a username for the Web site by supplying their membership number and confirmation date. The Web site offers a number of tutorial overviews that walk first-time users through the menus and features to help them get started.
Douglas and Ardene Poole are the Family History Directors for the BYU–Idaho campus. They recommend that students keep offline copies of their research in programs like the Church’s Personal Ancestral File (PAF) and that they do their research from those records.
Many areas outside Idaho and Utah have had the new FamilySearch for some time.
Temple districts in Idaho and Utah are being introduced one at a time.
There have been no dates announced for large LDS population areas such as the Salt Lake, Provo or Jordan River temple districts.
For more information, visit www.new.familysearch.org
By James Valentine
The i-Comm Web site is nothing less than revolutionary. In its rough phase, it's a prototype of how citizen and professional journalism ought to coexist. The current backlash against "media" is most certainly a result of an appearance of bias. News media stories about President Obama, abortion, gun control, gay marriage and others have caused consumers to turn away from many reputable news outlets.
The i–Comm Web site appears to be different in a couple of ways. First, it's a traditional news outlet in the sense that there is an official staff of contributers who provide regular content. These contributers are BYU–Idaho students who are of different levels of experience when it comes to producing professional level news media.
What makes the site different though is that any BYU–Idaho student can register and also submit stories. In this way, both semi-professional and citizen perspectives can take place.
The problem is with who censors and approves the submitted content. While still in its infancy, the site was launched without a clear set of guidelines governing content moderation. As a result, everything is highly moderated — and the process is very slow.
Before I continue, there are some basic premises I have to establish:
1. BYU–I is affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As a result, any content that is overtly contrary to that organization will not, and ought not to be "published."
2. One of the principles inherent in successful social mediums lies with the concept that consumers can self-censor. Successful media outlets will allow consumers a method to filter content or to reward content that pleases them.
These two ideas are in conflict with each other. The i–Comm site is under intense scrutiny by the BYU–I administration. Rightfully so. Under the current political climate, the Church is being watched with a very powerful microscope. It would be against the university's interest to allow careless students to convey ideas that are grossly out of line with the mission of the university.
On the other hand, why would students submit themselves to be moderated when they could easily go to Facebook and more easily reach an audience of their peers without the stern hand of the i–Comm moderator hovering over them.
A recent post by my friend, Chris Kirkham, shows some flaws in the current progression of the site:
1. Chris says that posts without images will be rare. This restriction alone will limit the number of submissions to the site. While there should be no doubt that images can enhance text, students will not always have the time, talent, resources or taste to provide original images that are pertinent to the subject.
2. Chris says that "your story has to be relevant to BYU-Idaho." I agree completely. But then he goes on to say that he's received malicious rants about politics, dating and religion. While I don't doubt Chris' judgement about what is malicious (like I said he's my friend), it seems as though if one is following the first rule in his post about adhering to Church standards and following the Honor Code than the rest is just the arbitrary whims of a human censor. If the site falls into the trap of censoring too much than it's no different than outdated traditional media models.
3. While I'm no legal expert by any means, I think that Chris could be mistaken about what Fair Use Doctrine is and how it's used. All one has to do is check out the recentWebby Awards to see all kinds of crazy images being used for commercial purposes. While I don't personally know those site's ethical standards or their business practices when it comes to licenses, I'm willing to bet their invoking "fair use" for their lighting quick updates.
4. He is just plain wrong when it comes to how people use the Internet. They don't just scan. They scan for good content, and then they read it. It's an insult to good journalism to imply that it should just be a series of bulleted lists and photos.
I don't pretend to have all the answers, but I do have one suggestion:
Censor as little as possible. Let the marketplace do its job. The site already has tons of methods built in to filter what stories consumers like and what they don't. The one thing they could add to the front Home page is a "Top Stories" section. This section would be based upon how many hits a story gets and how consumers rate it. The market will do it's job. If a story is interesting and people rate it well, than it will be placed higher on the list. Trust BYU–I students to do the right thing.
I know the site is under intense scrutiny from the university administration, luckily it's not my hide on the line. I'm sensitive to the fact that an amazing social news site of this nature has to set the example for the rest of the industry. However, I'm certain that by allowing the BYU–I marketplace of values to filter stories, the site will attract more users, more readers and more advertisers.
-Peter Nguyen
The Crossroads opened at the beginning of the semester, and the newest edition to BYU-Idaho is attracting quite a crowd.
The Manwaring Center has seen many phases of construction when it comes to dining; first the Galley, then the Nordic, and finally the Crossroads. Located at the center of the university, it holds up to its name, as thousands of student pass through it daily.
The new cafeteria here on campus opened only three weeks ago and already it's become one of the major hubs here on campus.
The new dining hall can serve up to 800 in a 30 minute period, and features 9 different stations with almost every type of food; from Mexican dishes to Gourmet Chinese.
"I like the fact that it's really relaxed, and I can just sit here and do my homework. It's really great in the morning."
-Lauren Lane; Student from Dallas, TX
But some students are concerned about the cost.
"Some of the food here is maybe more expensive than it should be. Like for how much I'm getting I think it could be priced a bit lower."
-Clint Webb; Freshman from Declo, ID
While price may be an issue, most people are excited about the new element that it brings to BYU-Idaho.
"This is absolutely beautiful, it's spacious, and it looks like my choices have gone up even from the good old days of the all-you-can-eat salad bar."
-President Eyring; Advancement Vice President
Even if you're not interested in eating the food, there's always 1200 seats available to sit and chat with friends.
The Crossroads is open Monday-Friday, 6am-8pm. And on Saturday, 6am-4pm. The average meal price is about $6.
For more information you can visit: http://www.byui.edu/FoodServices/The%20Crossroads%20Fall%202009.htm
My two-year-old boy just learned to say the word "poop."
Basically, through that word alone, he basically summed up the first year of his life. Other than toilet matters, all he could do was sleep and eat — which basically creates more, you know, toilet stuff.
The thing is, the first year of my boy's life was very boring for me. I throw a football at him, he fails to catch it, he gets hurt, he cries and I'm the one who gets in trouble. I sneak up on him while he thinks he's alone, I make a loud scary noise, he doesn't think it's funny, he cries and I'm the one who gets into trouble.
Trust me, the list goes on and on. Oh and apparently you're supposed to feed them every once in awhile.
My point is there's a lot they don't tell you about being a parent.
And here's why: it's one big joke on you. See, your parents had to deal with you, and they're looking forward to the day they get to watch you deal with your kids. It's a joke that's been going on for ages. Well guess what. Jokes over. I plan to remedy this little problem. Here's how:
A lot of parents keep scrap books of their kids. These book commemorate what little darlings their children are. Not so. Scrap books are false realities built to make you think you were a clean non-fussy baby. So, while my wife is keeping this book, I on the other-hand will be recording every crazy thing my boy does.
What happens when he "piddles" on the ground? I put it in the scrapbook. What happens when he puts my cell phone in the toilet? It goes in the scrapbook. What happens when he tries to put his dinner down his diaper instead of in his mouth? You guessed it, it goes in the scrapbook. In this way, my son will have an accurate idea of the kind of terror he was as a toddler and how much work it took his mom (mostly mom) and dad to keep him from burning the house down.
I suspect he will appreciate this from his "old man" when he's older. If not, I'll buy him a car — or sign him up for therapy. It's the least I could do as his father. After all, I love him.
Anchor: For only ten dollars students and community members have been having a blast this Halloween season at the Haunted Mill in Teton. Reporter Kayla Gilbert decided to check out this popular attraction and see what the hype is really all about.
8 miles out of Rexburg stands a run down mill in the heart of Teton.
Some describe this place as chilling and others describe it as the best place to be on Halloween. But what really makes this place so haunted? I decided to take the risk and see for myself, to see what really makes this mill a popular Halloween favorite.
Daniel Hidalgo, an employee at the Haunted Mill photo booth, says that it’s a definite Halloween treat.
“Every year there’s a new thing that’ll scare you. And I don’t want to give away too much but I’ve worked here and I’ve gone through it a bunch of times and even I get scared,” said Hidalgo.
From the blood river falls to the fields surrounded by high voltage wire, the creative genius of this place is profound and seems to attract people of all ages.
“So I was in the Haunted Mill and I started to go through this little crawl space and I started freaking out and I almost cried,” said a girl who had just gone through.
“There were places where you couldn’t see and you didn’t want to move forward, and you get wet!” said Lacey Brewer, a BYU-I student who had gone inside.
What began as a flour mill is now the haunted house that has attracted crowds every Halloween season for thirteen years and still continues to do so.
But the warning has remained the same: Enter at your own risk.
From the Haunted Mill, I’m Kayla Gilbert. I News.
Anchor: The Haunted Mill hours run from 7:30 to midnight Monday through Saturday and also offers food at the Scone Silo outside of the Mill and a great photo booth. To learn more about the Haunted Mill and some of it’s chilling folklore, visit www.thehauntedmillinteton.com.
It was a sight to behold. As temperatures began dropping below zero, more and more customers began trickling in to Rexburg’s new frozen yogurt shop.
“It’s cold, and you’re in a warm place, so if you’re in here for a long time you’re warm. So, I think it will be pretty successful. It’s really good so it should be successful” -Joy Cooper
People just don’t seem to mind the cold. Twizzl Berry is the first self-serve frozen yogurt shop in South Eastern Idaho. With Temperatures dropping below zero, and the economy in the shape it’s in, just what was it that drove Sharla and Eddie Pincock to open up a frozen yogurt shop in the middle of Rexburg Idaho?
“You know, we thought about the recession, and we decided we just weren’t going to participate. We were just gonna go for it and do what we wanted to do. We know Rexburg is cold, but everybody still loves ice cream, everybody loves frozen yogurt. We’ve looked into franchising it. We have already trademarked it. We would definitely our next venture we’d like to go into Idaho Falls. We’d love to go further, we hope this goes over well.” –Sharla and Eddie Pincock
“I think this business in particular has a good location, it’s right next to Little Caesar’s so, I think they’ll do well. I think a lot of businesses that fail tend to pick locations farther away, and that makes it harder for students to get there.” –Eric Smith
Although it may be sweet, only time will tell if Rexburg can support any more cold.
As death continues rise in Haiti one BYU Idaho student explains that losing her mother has altered her life dramatically. Lets take a look at how she is coping, and what students around campus are doing to help.
Farah Jn Baptiste with the help of her close friends remains hopeful as she continues school just one week after losing her mother.
“They say that I am strong, and I don’t know maybe I am. But I am just doing things that I don’t even think that I could. Cause I lost my mom anyway. But I know that I still have to go to class,” said Baptiste.
Farah continues to focus on school because it was her mothers wish that she gain an education.
“Sometimes I am kind of scared of myself. It’s just not me. I got to class and I do my test and I take notes but it’s not me. I think it’s just muscles memory,” said Baptiste.
Farah showed many family photos as she explained how she is coping.
Farah’s ward has been fasting, praying, and providing meals regularly. Tracy Robbins in particular identified with Farah.
“I couldn’t take it away. I realized that this scripture just came to me was you know, mourn with those that mourn and comfort those that stand in need of comfort’. That my responsibility was to mourn with her and comfort her,” said Robbins.
In Response Farah stated, “The fact that they believe in me makes me want to do more. Makes me want to keep on trying. Keep on going forward that it happened it had my Heavenly Father knows my needs.”
President’s Mother Baptized for the Dead
By Tyler Andersen, Scroll News Staff
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has confirmed reports that President Barack Obama’s mother has been posthumously baptized.
Earlier this month liberal blogger John Aravosis made headlines after authoring a railing report against the Church, criticizing the practice as being “disturbing,” and “forcing souls from one faith to another without the knowledge or consent of their living families.” Sparking interest among critics and believers alike, ABC News investigated and confirmed the reports using the Church’s genealogical database FamilySearch.org
The database records indicate that Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, who died in 1995, was posthumously baptized June 4 of last year in the Provo, Utah Temple, and subsequently received her endowment a week later.
The Church maintains a policy that discourages individuals from submitting names of non-relatives for temple work, but in the case of Ms. Dunham, the policy was ignored. According to USA Today, Church spokeswoman Kim Farah spoke to the press offering this response.
“Well-meaning Church members sometimes bypass this instruction and submit the names of non-relatives for temple baptism. Others -- perhaps pranksters or careless persons -- have submitted the names of unrelated famous or infamous people, or even wholly fictitious names. These rare acts are contrary to Church policy and sometimes cause pain and embarrassment. They are also extremely difficult to prevent because the temple baptism process depends on voluntary compliance by millions of Church members around the world. The Church nearly always learns about problems after the fact.”
Farah continued stating that the Church was taking the matter seriously and did not currently have all the information surrounding the events. Highly contrary to the claims raised by critics of the practice that the dead are somehow “forced into Mormonism,” the Church’s official website www.lds.org has defined what baptism for the dead entails.
The practice of baptism for the dead is a fundamental teaching of the New Testament as found in 1 Corinthians 15:29. Also citing other biblical references indicating the essentiality of baptism for salvation, the ancient and modern Saints have offered this rite by proxy to deceased ancestors who had not received the ordinance while living. The Church maintains that deceased individuals as spirits can freely choose to accept or reject the baptism done on their behalf.
ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper said the White House had no comment on the matter.
The Church has a history of baptizing a number of notable figures by proxy. While serving as President of the St. George, Utah Temple, Wilford Woodruff received a number of visitations by deceased persons, indicating their desire to have their temple work done on their behalf. These individuals include the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and all the Presidents of the United States up until that time excluding Van Buren, Buchanan and Grant. President Woodruff maintained that “when their cause was just, someone would do their work for them.” During President Heber J. Grant’s tenure of Church service, the ordinances were done for these three men also.
REXBURG,Idaho — Electronics, video games, CD’s, and animated figures are just few of the items that were recovered after a burglary bust. Who would ever imagined that a normal traffic routine would lead Rexburg police department to interrupt a major operation theft.
Two every everyday looking people, Jeffrey Smith and Cristal Hansen were arrested after they were pulled over for speeding on highway 20, charged and responsible of the burglaries. According to the agents, the merchandise found belongs to different businesses like Kmart, Wal-Mart, and other places from southeastern Idaho
“The thieves avoid security alarms through removing the labels on the items and flushing them down the toilet, quite a creative move on their part”
“About twenty nine businesses we so far can fairly and certainly say that has been burglarized. We recovered four hundred and seventy three pieces of stolen items in access of twelve thousand dollars."
While the police keeps working on further investigation the preliminary hearings will be held this month in the Rexburg court, and we will be there to bring you more details on the story.
From Rexburg Idaho, Melissa ciraiz, i-News.
For more information about this story visit the web sites below:
Parking Survey of Vacant stalls in the University Lots done March 25, 2009: http://www.byui.edu/parkingservices/Parking%20Survey/Mar2509.pdf
Want to comment to the Rexburg City Council, or view there next meeting agenda visit their website:http://www.rexburg.org/government/citycouncil/default.aspx
Parking that once was free around campus soon may not be. Currently hundreds of cars park on the perimeter of campus and surrounding streets free of charge, but that all might change. The Rexburg City Council proposed a new parking plan that will charge students for parking on the streets around campus.
“We don’t have any problem right now with students parking on our street.” Said one community member.
Another community member had a similar comment. “My belief is that we don’t perceive that there is a real problem, or at least I don’t, and I’m closer to the campus…”
There were mixed comments and feedback to the new parking proposal presented by the Rexburg City counsel just a few days ago. The counsel claims that the new plan will remove congestion on the streets close to campus.
“To me that’s the problem, I drive second east everyday and you can’t get up and down that street. It’s designed to move traffic, not necessarily park cars on it.” Said Randall Schwendiman, a Rexburg City Council member.
The proposed plan will dramatically change parking around campus. The new plan eliminates parking on second east, charges for campus perimeter parking, and reserves some outer streets strictly to residents.
Kyle Smith, a senior from Louisville, Kentucky said, “They are trying to serve the citizens and serve the University as well, and it is a hard thing to do.”
A difficult task, but since when are whose who attend the university not considered citizens?
“We have people who’ve called up the city and say ‘I can’t get out of my driveway today because somebody has over parked into their driveways.’” Said Chris Mann, President of the Rexburg City Council, and Food Services Operations Supervisor at BYU-Idaho. “So, the students are not our enemies, they are our friends. But we also have to make it safe for everybody, including students.”
“The University wants to go to a pedestrian campus and we are willing to help.”
While no final conclusions have been made on the parking proposal, they do want to cement the plan and have it all ready for the fall, but it is still very much in the developing stages. On the north end of campus, I’m Brian Johnson, I-News.
The city council would like to finalize and make the changes within July. They want to have the new program start in September with the fall semester.