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Show Page 3 ZEhc Wednesday, June 10, 2003 (TtmcS'cfas Nephi, Utah Mormon Miracle Pageant features local people tion of participation in the pageant which has included many of the residents of Juab By Myrna Trauntvein Times-New- s Correspondent County. Those residents have When the Mormon Miracle been members of the cast and have worked behind the scenes in a variety of posi- Pageant opens this year, among the cast of 737, will be 40 or so Nephi area residents. Laren Swensen, tions. My position is unique in that it is a calling, said Swensen. Participation in the pageant is, for the most part, who serves as head of the Juab High School Drama Department, will be among them. During the month of June, Val Jones has been called to serve in the England Birmingham Mission. He is the son of Val and Heidi Jones. His grandparents are Ted and Donna Jones, and Bob and Rose (Boswell) Hauser. are Marj Boswell, Edith Keyte and Faye Allred. He will enter the MTC Great-grandparen- on June 18,2003. Stake Conference this weekend Conference for the Nephi Utah Stake will be held June 12, 14 and 15. A temple session will be held for all temple recommend holders and is set to begin at 7 p.m. in the chapel of the temple. The regular session will begin at 7: 30 p.m. All adult members of the stake are invited to attend a meeting on Saturday, June 14, at 7 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Nephi Utah Stake Center. A stake priesthood leadership session will be held on Sunday, June 15, at 7:30 a.m. The session will be held in the ward building in Nephi. Those invited to attend: stake presidency; High Council; bishoprics, High Priest group leader, assistants and secretary; Elders Quorum presidencies and secretaries; ward mission leaders; ward missionaries; ward and stake Young Mens presidencies and secretaries; quorum advisors and assistants; stake and ward executive secretaries; stake and ward clerks and assistant clerks. The general session of conference will be held on Sunday, June 15, at 10 a.m. at the Nephi Utah Stake Center. The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. All members and interested of the stake are invited to attend. eant. I am over the Book of Mor- mon scenes, said Swensen. This is a unique position in that Swensen has a calling to work as an associate director and yet lives outside the baptized her was Kevin Waldron who also teaches at Juab High, Swensen said. Swensen said this is the largest cast he has worked with in the four years he area which produces the pageant each year. President Mark Jones, of the North Nephi Stake, requested that Swensen come to his office one day, four years ago, and issued the has been an associate director. Usually the cast runs between 600 and 700 participants. call. The pageant presidency, organized with a president, counselors, and a secretary, actually make the call but, since Swensen was outside the area, the call came in an unusual way. When my name came up, it had to go to Salt Lake to church headquarters to be approved. Salt Lake then called President Jones who made the call, said Swensen. He said he never before had been called by Salt Lake and been instructed to make a call. We prepare in 13 rehearsals for our eight performances which are presented to over 100,000 each year, he said. Being part of one of the largest pageants in the United States is a distinctive privilege. My first year, a member of the Quorum of Seventies was present in the audience, said Swensen. He came up to me and said (tongue-in-cheek- Swensen said, because students have participated in, he met the director of the Mormon Miracle Pageant. The director had students who participated in the same This year, David West-fall- , from Nephi, is playing Samuel the Lamanite and Jesse Hyde, also from Nephi, is playing the mortal Moroni. The part of the Angel Moroni is being played by another June 13. Ambassador Baptist College from Lattimore, North Carolina, will be in Nephi at First Baptist Church, 61 South Main. They will be presenting an evening of hymns, psalms, and spiritual EOectirollMX new home? Building a Or Contestants want to upgrade your existing home? Install a Central Vacuum System, or buy the best quality vacuum around. needed for Ute Stampede Bathing Beauty Pageant CVS Features 518 Air Watts of Power 35 Foot Hose The 69th Annual Ute Stampede Bating Beauty committee is looking for contestants for the upcoming pageant to be held July for Tile floors or wood floors Plus extra accessories 5 year warranty Call Your Local Electrolux Representative Tonya Painter (435) Vac. Pan, Great 12. All girls, age 16 and older and never married, are invited to participate. Contestants will be judged on pot luck supper. Please come and enjoy the evening with us. songs for your enjoyment. The concert will begin at 6 p.m. and will be followed by a modeling, personality and swim suit. Swim suits must be one piece, and may include a wrap. For more information, call Brenda McPherson at Mike Brown at or Boh Weeks at 623-213- 2 or 623-166- (801)368-266- (Cell) 4 623-720- 623-031- Friday, Saturday and Monday - June 13,M and 16 p.m. during the summer individual. behind-the-scene- First Baptist Church would like to invite you to an evening of song this Friday, Nephi City Council to meet at 8:30 competitions, only they represented Manti, and so the men became acquainted. In addition, Nephi residents, Gale Hyde and Valerie Westfall, are working in the props department and Ken Westfall is serving as one of the stage managers. The participants are contradi tinuing a years-lon- Ive been ), watching you, and you are having too much fun. Dont you know, church callings are not supposed to be fun? I said, Well, lets keep it a secret then. of his work at Juab High School and competitions his By Myrna Trauntvein Times-New- s Correspondent s g Wednesday... Partly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower to mid 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent. ... Partly cloudy... Highs in the lower 80s. Friday ... Mostly clear... Lows near 55... Highs near 85. Saturday ... Mostly clear... Lows in the lower 50s... Highs in the mid 80s. Sunday ... Mostly clear... Lows near 55... Highs in the upper 80s. Monday ... During the remainder of the summer months, Nephi City Council will meet later in the day. Meeting times were of- ficially changed, by council member vote, for the duration of the summer from the usual 7:30 p.m. meeting time to the later hour of 8:30 p.m. We will begin the new meeting time with the next regularly scheduled WesternTown i j meet- ing on June 17, said Chad Brough, mayor. The council adopted the plan last summer and thought that it worked well, he said. When the summer break from school is over, the council will go back to the earlier meeting time. two meetings which have already been set for the month of June. One of those, a public hearing, scheduled for June 19, a Thursday, and the other, a special council meeting, for June 20, a Friday, have been called to meet state requirements for the budget proceedings for the fiscal year. ! Levan Weather tv Lj KNIGHTS JOUSTING JTrimc WoHj" Chanpio foiling To Medieval Games Grande Feaste and Entertainment Nightly After Event Limited Seating RSVP With daylight savings time," said Brough, there are still many activities going on in the community at the time of our regular council . r $20, SI 7.50 & $15 Summer Solstice June 2nd Annual 21 "Fiddle Sticks Medieval Musical Group CLASSIC CAR SHOW 50s Band, Sock Hop . Rose Godek, reporter - j Challenge The new meeting time, however, will not apply to Council members often are volunteers, as baseball coaches and officials, and work with the youth of the community on all sorts of activities. Therefore, he said, it was better to hold the meeting a bit later. It will still be light when council meeting begins, he ) Stagecoach Rides CLINT WALKER 6 Other Knights meeting. Mostly clear... Lows in the upper 50s... Highs in the mid 80s. Nephi Weather Dorothy Ball, reporter because the person who nine-stak- e Area Weather From The Internet Thursday lady in her middle years, comes from Missouri each year to participate. She takes a months vacation and travels to Manti to be part of the production each year. She has ties to Nephi Pag- Ambassador Baptist College Singing Group Baptist group will present an evening of music done on a volunteer basis. We dont turn anyone away. 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