Matsiko children's choir is voice for voiceless

SANDY —The Matsiko Children’s Choir – 29 voices – sing and dance to tell their stories. They sing of life in war-torn Uganda, where diseases like malaria and AIDS have taken their parents and left thousands of children orphaned and at risk. They provide voices for those children who have none.
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Utah State Library needs readers for the blind

SALT LAKE CITY —If you like to read and have a good voice for it, the Utah State Library needs you. Not to be confused with the Public Library, the Utah State Library is a library for people with special needs, said Donna Jones Morris, state librarian and division director. “We’re not in competition with the other libraries. In fact, we have a back-up collection of books the public libraries have access to if they need them. We provide services for people who are blind or otherwise disabled – perhaps they can’t hold a book or turn a page. We offer audio tapes, and we are soon moving to digital books.”
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CSS' Refugee Resettlement an ongoing success

SALT LAKE CITY —Aden Batar and his staff resettle up to 400 people each year. Last year they resettled 382 throughout the year. This year, by the end of August they will have seen 352 people come through their offices. Every man, woman, and child who is resettled through Catholic Community Services of Utah has a story, and every story reminds Batar and his staff of their own stories, because Batar’s staff is largely made up of resettled refugees.
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Book celebrates city's histrory and diversity

SALT LAKE CITY —The photo you see on the title pages of “Historic Photos of Salt Lake City” by Jeff Burbank, is symbolic of what the book is about. It’s a collection of photos that capture a certain place at a certain time. And even though the book has photos taken between 1887 and 1963, as a reader I still kept scanning the photos – looking for someone I knew. I didn’t find any faces familiar to me, but there are those who will.
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Retired sisters give reading program a boost

PARK CITY —Retired Holy Cross Sisters Carmel Marie Sallows and Mary Pius Schreiner traveled from Saint Mary’s Convent in Notre Dame, Ind., to volunteer with Holy Cross Ministries’ Summer Reading Program at Saint Mary of the Assumption Church in Park City.
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Beach party teaches Beatitudes

SANDY — “Pow, wham, Jesus loves me, shazam,” sang the children as they danced to music at Vacation Bible School at Saint Thomas More Church July 16.

One hundred and seven children attended “Beach Party: Surfin Through the Scriptures,” Vacation Bible School from July 14-18. It was held from 9 a.m. to noon, and the theme was the Beatitudes. The scripture that went along with the theme was from 1 John 3:18, “Let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.”
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Newman Center reaches out to homeless families

SALT LAKE CITY —The Saint Catherine of Siena Newman Center is a vibrant campus ministry for the students and community of the University of Utah, and others who join the parish. However, the parish is particularly enchanting three weeks a year, when the real magic takes place. Around 100 community members offer their time and effort to host homeless families as part of Family Promise, an interfaith alliance that helps them achieve lasting self-sufficiency.
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Rwandan Holocaust survivor is honored at festival

PROVO — “I have been in the worst situation. But I want everyone to know if you put your trust in God there is always hope,” said Immaculée Ilibagiza, a Rwanda Holocaust survivor. Ilibagiza received the Freedom Award at the Freedom Festival at Brigham Young University July 2.

“No matter what problem you are going through, there is always hope,” she said. “I have friends who are going through depression, or looking for a job and they feel their future is over. If only you can believe it, hope is there for you.”
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CCS welcomes Brad Drake

SALT LAKE CITY — In business for himself for 30 years, Brad Drake said he felt it was time he gave something back to the community. In 2001, he sold the for-profit grocery business he’d nurtured for 30 years, and went to work for a women’s shelter in Brigham City for five years.
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Community part of healing for drive-by victim's family

SALT LAKE CITY — Maria del Carmen Menchaca or Mari, as her family and friends called her, died in a drive-by shooting by alleged gang members on Sunday, July 6. On that day, Mari and her parents were at a neighbor’s party when she decided to return home to look for her older brother. While she was on the sidewalk outside her house, four young people drove-by in a black SUV and one of them shot the bullet that would end the 7 year old girl’s life.
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Parishioners take stand against nukes

SALT LAKE CITY — Saint Ambrose parishioners are supporting the Most Rev. John C. Wester, Bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City, in the editorial he wrote about abolishing nuclear weapons.
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Classic "Fiddler on the Roof" is timeless piece

CEDAR CITY — With the Russian revolution looming and crippling poverty overtaking the little village of Anatevka, it was getting harder and harder for Tevye, the village milkman, to know who his friends were. In the Utah Shakespearean Festival’s presentation of “Fiddler on the Roof,” He tried to be friendly to everyone, even the Cossack soldiers who frequented the village, but as life got harder, so did identifying your friends.
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"Little Murray" forges a new path for her future

SANDY — As her older brother and sister already created a path through high school, ‘little Murray’ became Caitlin Murray’s nickname. Caitlin, the youngest of three children, graduated from Juan Diego Catholic High School with a love of softball and basketball and an astounding 3.89 cumulative GPA.
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Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Trinity has new look

HUNTSVILLE — In February, the weight of snow caused the chicken coop-turned storage for farm equipment to collapse, trapping the farm equipment inside and endangering the electrical house outside.
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Saint Lawrence Mission is accessible to everyone

HEBER CITY — Tears of joy were shed as Saint Lawrence mission members Winnie Sutera and Maria Herrera, the Most Rev. Bishop Wester of the Diocese of Salt Lake City, and Msgr. Robert Bussen, pastor of Saint Lawrence Mission took the first ride in the new elevator. Msgr. Bussen is also pastor of Saint Mary of the Assumption Parish in Park City.
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Fr. Matthew Wixted retires after 46 years in Utah

TOOELE— Food and fun were the orders of the evening July 29 as St. Marguerite Parish celebrated the retirement of Father Matthew O. Wixted, their pastor for 12 years.
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