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Lawmakers OK controversial new congressional districts BY LINDSAY WHITEHURST

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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

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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.”

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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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Mary Lula Garlick, 85 reunited with her husband and daughter on Sunday Nov. 14, 2021. She was the only daughter born to Evan Auer and Lura Morley Beck on February 12, 1936. She attended North Sanpete High School where she was cheerleader for the North Sanpete Rams. She worked for Mountain Bell as a switchboard operator after graduation alongside her mother until the dial phones came out. She married Calvin Rex Garlick on March 22, 1958, later sealed in the Manti Temple June 4, 1964. She worked side by side with her husband on their family farm despite suffering crippling arthritis. She was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints where she served in many capacities, including Relief Society President and Manti Temple ordinance worker. She spent her life in the service of others. Despite being in pain on a daily basis and going through multiple surgeries; she never sat idle. She enjoyed delivering treats to her neighbors, playing card games, watching the Utah Jazz and anything BYU. She spent many years involved in humanitarian work. When her health would no longer allow her body to do much of anything, she would fill her

Elsa June Garrison passed away at her home in Fountain Green with family on November 10, 2021. June was born in Chicago, Lake County, Illinois at 5:05 pm August 14, 1928 to John and Frieda Taft. She graduated High School in June 1946 in Somerville, New Jersey. Her first job after her parents moved west, was in Harlingen, Texas as a local and long-distance operator for Bell Telephone. She was a model for the Ty Cobb TV show. After moving to the Bay Area, she worked in San Francisco California at PT&T law office, Pacific Telephone in Redwood City as a service representative, She was an amazing Accountant and Administrative Assistant for both Stuart Floor Co. and Hart Pool Co. both of Redwood City, California. In 1970 she moved with her family to Fountain Green, Utah where she started out as a clerk but ultimately became the Postmaster of the Fountain Green Post Office. She retired from the Post Office in 1994. June became known as

days making yarn hats to give to homeless shelters and cancer patients. She is preceded in death by her husband Calvin Rex Garlick; her daughter, Mary Ann Sorenson; her parents, Evan Auer and Lura Morley Beck; her brothers, Dr. Wallace Evan, Wayne George, Robert H., and Paul Auer Beck. Survived by her children Becky (Barry) Olsen, Robert (Janeen) and Nancy Garlick; 14 grand and 28 great grand kids. A Family and close friends service will be held at the Rasmussen Mortuary on Saturday, November 20, 2021, at 11:00 A.M. with interment at the Fairview City Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, please donate to a local humanitarian service. Please attend services and leave condolences by using the link at rasmussenmortuary.com in her obituary.

“Grandma June” and people came from all over Utah for her Halloween donut holes. Surviving her are her children John A. (Lori) Truitt, C. Ray (Allene) Truitt, Sheree L. (Arthur) Ontto, Julie G. (Paul) Robbins, Michelle D. Dye. Preceding her in death was one son, Henry J. White this year June 26th interred July 29th. Grandchildren are Cecillie (James) Bond, Nathan (Felicia) Truitt, Brian (Chantel) Truitt, Jeremy (Leah) Parkin, Shannon Parkin, Melissa Parkin, Joshua (Sydney), Parkin, Matthew Ontto, Karee Robbins, James Robbins, Brandon Robbins, Athena (David) McAdams, Lysette (Robert) Odekirk, Cara (Chris) Lamont, Julie Stoddard, Taylor Dye, Alia (Scott) Mendonsa, Tiffany White, Ben White, and 25 great grandchildren and 1 great-great grandchild. Funeral Service will be Friday, November 19 at 11 AM with a viewing one hour prior and also Thursday evening 7 to 9 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at 151 200 W, Fountain Green, UT. A celebration of her life is scheduled for a later date.

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David and Mindy Ames David and Mindy Ames of Mt. Pleasant are thrilled to announce the marriage of their daughter, Savannah Ames, to Coldir Cox, son of Preston and Robyn Cox of Fountain Green, on Monday, November 22, 2021 in Payson, Utah. A reception will be held in their honor that evening from 5-7:00 p.m. at the Historic State Bank Event Center in Payson. Savannah and Coldir are both graduates of North Sanpete High School, and both are juniors at Southern Utah University. Savannah is pursuing a degree in Elementary Education and Coldir in Bachelors of Nursing. The grandparents of the bride are Edwin and Radene Sunderland of Chester and Connie and the late Terry Ames of Mt. Pleasant. The grandparents of the groom are Mark and Cheryl Cox of Moroni, Doyce and Gloria Coates of Mt. Pleasant, and the late Gordon Williams of Fountain Green. Savannah and Coldir will continue to reside, work, and pursue their education in Cedar City. If by some oversight you did not receive an invitation, please consider this as one

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TV special tradition in 2022, taping sessions with the choir organization ensembles and guest artists will be held in December. These taping sessions will not be open to the public. A small group of invited guests, comprised primarily of choir organization members’ families, will be seated in the audience for the closed tapings. Guest artists, actress and singer Megan Hilty and actor and producer Neal McDonough, will join the choir for the December TV taping sessions. Hilty is most recognizable for her portrayal of Ivy Lynn in NBC’s musical drama “Smash.” A Tony Award nominee, Hilty also starred in “Patsy & Loretta” on Lifetime. The role earned her a Critics Choice Award for Best Actress. Hilty’s television credits also include Hulu’s “Difficult People,” the final season of CBS’ “The Good Wife,” and its CBS All Access spinoff show “The Good Fight.” McDonough has been seen in over 100 films, including the award-winning Christian film “Greater,” “Captain America,” “Forever Strong” and “The Warrant” along with nearly 1,000 hours of television dramas.

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director of the Utah Fetal Center. “We want to ensure that moms and babies get the highest level of care possible both during pregnancy and after birth here in the Intermountain West.” Budge said she had a consultation with a team that included the surgeon, a highrisk obstetrician, a neonatologist and a social worker who would care for herself and her baby. The team reviewed imaging and tests to establish a plan that would optimize the care of both mom and the baby during pregnancy and after delivery. In addition, the team met weekly at a fetal care

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“Putting together this retrospective was a remarkable, unexpected journey,” Mack Wilberg, music director of The Tabernacle Choir, said. “The difficult part was selecting what should be included, given the wealth of material we had to work with. We also wanted to provide the interesting story of how the Christmas concert has been put together, featuring not only the army of volunteer performers from the choir organization, but also the many worldclass guest artists we have had the privilege of working with over the past 20 years.” The Tony Award-winning Mitchell — known as “Stokes” to his colleagues — narrates the two-hour retrospective. Stokes demonstrates that the feature of the Conference Center Christmas is not the wide range of musical genres and the diversity of guest artists. The special displays a spirit of bringing people together — it’s about Christmas for everyone, according to a church statement. Audiences will view never-before-seen additions to the Christmas concert, including Mitchell’s performance of Wilberg’s new arrangement of “That’s What Christmas Means to Me,” with Wilberg at the piano; a new Rich-

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conference to discuss her plan as her pregnancy progressed. “I didn’t have to make any calls or travel around to multiple medical offices,” she said. “It was all in one place. As an expecting mother already going through the stress of this situation, it was comforting to have that.” Budge’s daughter, Noelle, was delivered at term without complication. She was then cautiously cared for until she underwent surgery where the abnormal portion of her lung was removed through several small incisions. She was released from the hospital a few days after surgery and is now happy and healthy. To make an appointment, call 801-662-6474.

ard Elliott organ solo (an adaptation of Tchaikovsky’s “Trepak” from Nutcracker Suite); and an amazing rendition of “Infant Holy, Infant Lowly,” recorded using a socially-distanced Orchestra at Temple Square. Separately recorded “selfie” videos of each individual choir member were compiled and floated onto the screen, creating a “spectacular” virtual choir, according to a press release. “The message of Christmas is universal. … The music, the stories, the singing, the dancing and the sharing are all a reminder that the birth of Jesus Christ is about peace and goodwill for everyone,” Stokes tells the audience. “It’s why the joy of Christmas really is joy to all the world.” “20 Years of Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir” will air and stream on PBS TV and PBS.org on Dec. 13 at 7 p.m. MST with a re-airing on PBS TV at 6 p.m. Dec. 24. BYUtv and http://BYUtv.org will air and stream the program at 7 p.m. Dec. 16 with re-airings on BYUtv at 5 p.m. Dec. 19, 8 p.m. Dec. 24 and 1:35 p.m. Dec. 25. On-demand viewing of the two-hour program will be available on both networks’ websites after the respective premieres on http://pbs.org/tabernaclechoir and http://byutv.org.

anpeters, pat yourself on the back. Sanpete is geographically the “heart of Utah.” And guess what? — the most charitable state in America is Utah! The World Giving Index findings for 2020 were just reported in the news. Based on a sophisticated methodology using “Volunteering and Service” and “Charitable Giving” with 19 key metrics, Utah came in at No. 1, ahead of No. 2 Maryland. Arizona slipped in at No. 49 edging out New Mexico, which showed up at No. 50. Here’s Utah’s other neighbors: Idaho No. 21, Colorado No. 8, Nevada No. 44. Unfortunately, on a worldwide level, the USA doesn’t do so well in the reported findings. Based on their criteria, Indonesia was ranked as the No. 1 country in charitable generosity. America was No. 19, after having been at the top of the list for years. It’s the “holiday season” and more than ever, our hearts and minds are, or should be, turned to helping those around us. I sometimes complain, like many of you, that we rush the Christmas season. I haven’t been in many stores lately, but I did hear “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer” on the sound system in the grocery store the other day. And I have to admit, here and now, I put the Christmas lights up on my house last Saturday. It was a beautiful weather day and it was great to be up on the roof looking over the neighborhood. It was great, if you don’t count my body aches and pains as I stooped and knelt a zillion times fastening the lights in place. I won’t mention a couple of moments when I was close to the edge of the roof and was reminded that I’m not as nimble as I used to be. I almost regretted canceling that expensive life insurance policy a couple of weeks ago. I told the insurance agent, after I cancelled, that I was going to be very unhappy if I died soon. I had held onto this particular policy through getting results of a heart stress test, an episode of COVID-19, and a couple of medical procedures otherwise. Let’s see here. Pardon me. I think I’ve lost my train of thought for a moment. We were talking about giving, right? I grew up around giving people. I have many memories of my parents being examples of generosity. Our family was not rich and didn’t have an overabundance of “things,” but we were firmly set in the “middle class” of rural Utah. I remember going with my mother as a young boy multiple times delivering food to families in our neighborhood. A lot of that food was what mom had “canned” in Mason jars from our garden and fruit trees. I remember one family with several kids in particular. They lived in what

had been a chicken coop or small farm shed. It was dark in there. They had an electric light bulb hanging down which lit things up. It left an impression on me when I discovered that their place had a dirt floor. Long before “Habitat for Humanity,” my dad, as an LDS Church bishop, spearheaded a project to provide a conventional house for the family. Hundreds of hours of donated labor and many donations put them into a frame house. It was moved from another location, put onto a new foundation with a basement, and remodeled. That project changed lives – both for the givers and the receivers. I try to be a giver. I’m not always as successful at it as I would like to be. I have a regret from a couple of years ago that I’ll confess here now. I was at a gas station in Salina filling up my vehicle. An attractive college aged girl approached me with a gas can in hand. She wondered if I could give her some fuel while I was filling up. She said that they were on the road and were short on money. I glanced around and noticed a van parked in the corner of the lot with some less than attractive people hanging around it. I made a quick, biased judgment and told the girl that I wasn’t going to give any gas donations. She wished me a “have a nice day” and moved on. As I finished filling up, I noticed that she made the fuel request of a guy nearby. He, without hesitation, put fuel in her gas can. Part of what bugged me was that by my obviously biased judgment (again), the guy who donated gas didn’t look much like the “donating type.” I stuck to my decision and didn’t call to her to come back, even though I was already feeling like I might have made a mistake. I realize that many people are out to find “victims” to scam. I have turned people down lots of times in parking lots up north when people go back and forth asking for spare change. I think you have to go with a case by case feeling on these things. The bottom line of all this is that there are many places that we can confidently be givers. This time of year, we should be thinking of “Sub for Santa” and “Angel Tree” type projects. Our local churches do good things and deserve our donations. There are so many possibilities of doing good by giving. So, let’s keep on giving Sanpete and Utah. It’s the right thing to do. Even if we give a little to a girl in short shorts doing a possible scam at a gas station once in a while. — Merrill P.S… For laughs: I recently flew to Africa to do some charity work. It was an eye-opening, shocking experience. The poverty, the starvation, the fighting, the smell, the noise…. I’m never flying coach again!

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BMW adds a new luxury SUV hybrid with the X5 I n the world of luxury high-end SUVs, the competition is intense, with all kinds of new technology being introduced to the market along with looks that can’t be beat. The new BMW X5 turned out to be no exCRAIG & DEANNE ception CONOVER to this rule as it comes with technology that was only a dream a few years ago. Admittedly, over the years we have never met a BMW that was not completely enjoyable, with the manufacturer always seeming to be the leader in technological additions. We saw our first heads-up display in a 6 Series years ago and, at the time, it was only a monochrome speedometer. Look where that technology has come since — it now provides us with a huge, full-color HUD. Then there was the i8, a completely new idea in the technology world combining an electric motor with a Mini Cooper motor to come up with a supercar hybrid that turned more heads and got us more compliments than any other vehicle we have ever driven. So, when BMW launches a new version of one of their vehicles, we know that a week of awesomeness is in store.

control when cornering. Inside, the new version of the X5 was loaded with all kinds of technology and comfort. It seemed the engineers took everything they could think of to make the vehicle better on the inside and found a way to make it so. To start, how about wireless Apple CarPlay? BMW is the first automaker to use this kind of technology, and we find it very nice to eliminate the wire and use our phones wirelessly inside the vehicle. We also became enCOURTESY PHOTO thralled with the gesture technology now included The exterior of the new 2021 BMW X5 xDrive45e. in new BMW vehicles. The The X5 comes with three X5 has a huge 12.3-inch Changes in this year’s iDrive screen that controls different drive modes. The new X5 hybrid include an everything from the audio first is Hybrid, which is added battery size, now system and vehicle setup a combination of gas and offering up to 30 miles of to climate control via the electric motor driving and electric-only range along BMW twist and push knob with a top electric speed of limits the electric-only on the center console. With 84 mph. This would accom- mode to 68 mph. The secthe gesture technology, ond, Electric only, can be modate most everyone’s however, the functions can used up to 84 mph. Then daily commute or at least there is Sport mode, which also be controlled simply by take a huge chunk out of moving your hand a certain keeps the combustion enthe drive on petrol, saving way in front of the screen. gine on all the time for a money each day for the sportier driving experience For example, if we wanted owner. and allows for more battery the radio louder, making a The X5 xDrive45e comes clockwise circle in the air with a 3.0-liter inline six-cyl- regeneration from the enwould do it, while a coungine and when braking. inder twin-turbo-powered We would switch to Sport terclockwise motion turned engine along with an electric mode whenever we wanted it down. motor that puts out a very The second new 12.3-inch to feel the suspension nice combined 389 horseLED screen sits in front of tighten up, get the engine power. This propelled the the driver and contains all growling just a little more nearly 5,000-pound vehicle and, of course, inject more to 60 mph in a very short 5.3 seconds. Yes, it would put us attitude into the power plant. This gave us more of back in our seats whenever a thrill when accelerating we pushed down on the acand helped us feel more in celerator.

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