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LAYTON — Roberta (Bobbi) Hunt decided long ago she wouldn’t take herself too seriously. So when on Sept. 22 she was elected president of the National Council of Catholic Women (NCCW), the organization with which the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women is affiliated, she told the membership, "When I was mid-wife to a pig, I never dreamed I would eventually serve as president of the NCCW."
>>>SALT LAKE CITY — "It is unfortunate that people have gone to such extremes on both sides of Referendum 1 ("The Parent Choice in Education Act"), Bishop John C. Wester of the Diocese of Salt Lake City said in an Oct. 18 interview with the Intermountain Catholic. "After a rational review of the issues, in my view, it is a win-win referendum."
>>>SALT LAKE CITY — Sol Garcia, human resource director for the Diocese of Salt Lake City and diocesan liaison to the Native American community, said she was moved by the faith of the people who frequent the Kateri Tekakwitha Center in Fort Duchesne. They and supporters from two nearby parishes, St. Helen Parish in Roosevelt and St. James Parish in Vernal, came together Sept. 30 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Tekakwitha Center.
>>>SALT LAKE CITY — Bishop John C. Wester of the Diocese of Salt Lake City, in an Oct. 18 interview with the Intermountain Catholic, expressed concern about the International situations in Darfur, Sudan and Myanmar (Burma).
>>>SALT LAKE CITY — We don’t see many well made films for young people these days, what with slashers, car chases, and drug-addled story lines. A quiet little independent film directed by Michael Damien, "Moondance Alexander," is a much-needed exception to today’s fare.
>>>DRAPER — With the total of paid pledges for the 2007 Diocesan Development Drive (DDD) at $1.93 million Drive director Shannon Lee announced Oct. 16, the drive is just $18,000 short of its $2 million goal. At a dinner at St. John the Baptist Elementary School Lee told pastors, parish drive directors, and diocesan personnel pledges totaled $2, 127, 531 for the drive, the theme of which was "Light the Way."
>>>SALT LAKE CITY — Michelle "Ikie" Abbott Martinez, 40, died July 26, of cancer.
>>>SALT LAKE CITY — Paul L. "Pablo" Gardunio, 54, died July 24.
>>>MAGNA — Mountains of meatballs and swirls of spaghetti were the fare for the annual spaghetti dinner Oct. 14, at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, Magna. Pastor father Andrzej Skrzypiec isn’t exactly certain how many years the fund raising event has been going on, but he estimates the 2007 dinner "is probably about the 76th. There may have been a few years the parish didn’t hold one," he told the Intermountain Catholic. "We make about $12,000 a year, but what is more important is the tradition."
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