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Lawmakers OK controversial new congressional districts BY LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY — The Republican-controlled Utah Legislature approved a new congressional map Wednesday that further carves up Democratic-leaning Salt Lake County and largely ignores the work of an independent redistricting commission approved by voters. The map was sent to Republican Gov. Spencer Cox, who signed it into law Friday. The district lines will determine where voters cast their ballots for the next decade and likely make the state’s lone swing district more reliably Republican, leading critics to call the districts gerrymandered. The maps were passed by the state
Senate by a 21-7 vote, over opposition from minority Democrats who urged lawmakers to support redistricting maps created by the commission. “We deserve to be in the conversation,” said Democratic Sen. Derek Kitchen, who represents Salt Lake City, delivering a fiery speech in opposition to the maps created by his GOP colleagues. But Republicans say their district lines better reflect the overall makeup of the state by including both rural and urban areas. “We are one Utah and we are in one combined community of interest, in my view,” said Republican Sen. Scott Sandall, who helped draw the newly approved map. It carves Democratic-leaning Salt
Lake County into four congressional districts rather than the three its in now, a division known as cracking. That differs from maps created by the nonpartisan Utah Redistricting Commission, a body created by a voter-approved ballot measure. Members worked for three years to draw nonpartisan maps for congressional districts as well as state Legislature and school board. But lawmakers were under no obligation to use one of the maps they drafted and GOP lawmakers drew their own maps instead, which were released a few days ago. That short timeline combined with the splitting of the state capital drew dozens of angry comments at a hearing last week.
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PEACH POSTER WINNERS ANNOUNCED Five students were chosen as winners at the Fountain Green Lions Club poster contest with this year‘s theme of “We Are All Connected.” They are (from left to right); 1st Place, Mallory Johnson, 7th Grade NSMS; Second Place, Beth German, 6th Grade, Fountain Green Elementary; 3rd Place, Kodi Gibson, 7th Grade NSMS; Honorable Mentions; Breanne Bailey and Sonia Hansen, 6th Grade, Fountain Green Elementary.
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Hospitals team up to open new center for fetal care BY JAMIE LAMPROS
Special to the Daily Herald
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The Conference Center in Salt Lake City is site of the annual Christmas concert with The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square.
Tabernacle Choir Christmas concerts will be televised, no in-person viewing this year BY GENELLE PUGMIRE
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Some of the most sought after concert tickets in Utah are the Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square Christmas concerts. This year, residents will have to view them from home. On Friday, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the choir announced it will not perform its traditional
Christmas concerts for a public audience in 2021. Instead, choir president Michael O. Leavitt has announced that the December Christmas musical event will be a twohour retrospective television special titled “20 Years of Christmas With The Tabernacle Choir,” featuring Broadway’s Brian Stokes Mitchell as narrator and guest soloist. The television broadcast will be available
on PBS and BYUtv. Leavitt explained, “Every year, the Christmas concert by The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square is a gift to the world from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This year, our gift is this 20th anniversary special with highlights from two decades of concerts celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. Since COVID precluded holding
and recording a live Christmas concert last December, we are extremely pleased to continue our decades-long tradition of Christmas programming on PBS, with this exceptional broadcast.”
Tapings for 2022
The choir president also announced that to continue the
SALT LAKE CITY — During her 20week ultrasound, doctors told Cali Budge they found some abnormalities in her unborn baby. The baby had a congenital pulmonary airway malformation, which occurs when part of the lung develops abnormally and can compress on the baby’s heart and lungs. Budge, of Lehi, decided to go to Philadelphia to receive care, but she changed her mind when she realized she and her baby could receive just as good of care closer to home. Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital and University of Utah Health recently formed a partnership to open a new state-of-the-art fetal care center that provides a multidisciplinary approach to the care of pregnant women who have babies with complex conditions in the womb. The Utah Fetal Center aims to treat a woman’s unborn baby who has been diagnosed with a birth defect with highly specialized care before and after the child is born. Sometimes surgical intervention while the child is still in the womb is required. “We have a multidisciplinary team with doctors for both the mother and baby who have expertise in fetal medicine and surgery, and who work together to compassionately care for these complicated patients,” said Dr. Stephen Fenton, a pediatric surgeon with U of U Health and Primary Children’s and
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