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Utah Department of Public Safety - Bureau of Criminal Identification
Unidentified Body - Circumstances: On October 8, 2000, the skeletal remains of a white female were found in a wooded area off Interstate 80 on the South Shore of the Great Salt Lake in Salt Lake County, Utah. It was estimated that her death occured two years previous to her discovery. The image shown is of a reconstruction done by a forensic artist. The facial features such as eye color, exact shape of the nose, ears and lips are the estimations of the artist to complete the model and they should not be used as a significant marker for identification. She was estimated to be between 5' 0" and 5' 3" in height and her weight was estimated between 80-100 lbs. She was between 17-20 years old. A unique feature is the hair, which was long enough to perhaps fall to her waist. She was wearing a bluish-purple three stringed choker necklace. (The "Date of Birth," "Age Now," "Height" and "Weight" fields are approximations) ... [Read More]
Interagency Relations
County tourism offices are located across the state to provide detailed information on destinations, attractions, and events. They produce and distribute promotional materials for their areas and are the best sources for obtaining specific and timely information prior to, or during your Utah Vacation. The Travel Region offices are listed here in order of their location in the state. The state has been split up into 3 areas, northern, central and southern. ... An ancient spirit inhabits southern Utah. It is evident in the cataclysmic forces that have thrust the earth up into snow-capped mountains, in the towering fins of ruddy sandstone cut by the patient forces of erosion into bridges, arches, deep canyons, and strange "hoo-doos" of stone; in dramatic faults where the earth jumbles and twists, contrasting with gentile, rolling hummocks of "slickrock." ... [Read More]
Utah Events Calendar
The Utah Department of Transportation is hosting a two day long conference ( December 12th and 13th ) in Salt Lake City which will focus on presenting the latest technologies and developments on steel bridge design and construction to design professionals in the western states. This is called the most important steel bridge event of the year. The conference will include a panel discussion with state engineers from 12 western states(Oregon, Alaska, Colorado, California, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and New Mexico) and the state of Tennessee and Illinois, and representives from industry,academia, and federal and local governments. ... [Read More]
US Dept of State
After acquiring new information that serious and potentially fatal adverse reactions can occur when Palladone extended release capsules are taken together with alcohol, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has asked Purdue Pharma L.P., the makers of the drug, to withdraw it from the market. ... Outdoor & Lifestyle ... The Official Website of the State of Utah ... [Read More]
Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake Tribune Home Page
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Utah History To Go - The Gardo House
26. Journal of John M. Whitaker, May 21, 1886. In his journal, Wilford Woodruff recorded the details of another raid, which he regarded as one of the most important events of his life. On February 8, 1886, he and other apostles held a meeting in the church historian's office. During the meeting, approximately twenty federal marshals surrounded the church historian's office and the Gardo House. As Woodruff believed that he and Erastus Snow were the only two persons liable to be arrested, the two men locked themselves in a small bedroom. They waited more than an hour while marshals made a thorough search of the Gardo House, Lion House, Beehive House, president's office, and tithing office. When the marshals turned their attention to the historian's office, Woodruff prayed to the Lord to direct him. When he finished his prayer, "Brother Jenson stept in to the Room with his glasses on. I put my Glasses on. I said to Brother Jenson I will walk with you across the street to the other Of ... [Read More]
Utah History To Go - 'Mormon Meteor' Comes Home
The racer the state received for $1 is now valued at $5 million. In a settlement with the state of Utah, the car was restored and refurbished by Marvin Jenkins at Dixie College in St. George — and a scholarship fund established in Ab Jenkins' name. Dedicatory services for the new Mormon Meteor III exhibit and the bust by Utah sculptor Jerry Anderson are scheduled for Thursday at 4 p.m. in the Capitol. ... David Abbott "Ab" Jenkins didn't look like a race driver, but they called him Utah's Son of Speed, this unassuming country boy from Spanish Fork who eventually claimed most of the worlds automobile endurance records and put Bonneville Salt Flats on the international map. Born in 1883, Jenkins died almost forty years ago. In his day he made history by challenging time and distance with machines that became forerunners of passenger cars in the 1990s. He established more world records than any other man in the history of automobile racing. ... [Read More]
Utah History To Go - The Exiled Greeks
Often the well-dressed emigrants themselves returned as labor agents for American industrialists. Although contract labor had been made illegal after the inundation of Irish immigrants a half-century earlier, it had continued covertly. Into remote mountain villages of Greece, labor and steamship agents climbed to entice the destitute who were eager to indenture themselves to reach Ameriki. With their families' pool of silver sewed inside the lining of their jackets or pinned to their homespun underwear, some with clarinets and stringed instruments under their arms, they boarded crowded ships at Piraeus, Patras, and Heraklion. Many of them were forced to wait a week or more in Naples and other European ports for space on ships crossing back and forth to the United States. They stood on the crowded lower decks with hope and anxiety, hope for a new life, anxiety that they would be turned back by officials at Ellis Island who every day rejected thousands of immigrants. Gheorghios Zisimop ... [Read More]
US Dept of State
On 1 July 1924, LeRoy took a job as the State Historian and Director of the State Museum at Denver (Colorado). Here he put in thirty years of service. Some of his responsibilities included: writing, researching, and editing Colorado Magazine, preparing and erecting historical markers, and acquiring and arranging exhibits for the state museum. During the Great Depression, LeRoy supervised forty to fifty people in the WPA, one of the New Deal's programs to increase employment. The project was a first for the U.S., in which he lead the group in gathering and filing historical data for the State Historical Society of Colorado and creating dioramas illustrating the history of the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade. He also wrote and directed the first documentary color movie for the history of any state. Since this job paid less then living wage, he taught Colorado, Western and American history at the University of Denver to supplement his income. ... [Read More]
Utah County Insurance Pool - Insurance Mutual
Registration is required. Registration, golf and Love's Labour's Lost play are free* to UCIP members. Registration fee for non-UCIP members is $75 per session plus cost of activities. Please register by August 1 . As a courtesy, if you register and then later are unable to attend, please contact Sonya White at sonya@ucip.utah.gov or 801-293-30-98 to cancel. Please make you own hotel reservations. Rooms have been blocked at the Best Western Town and Country Inn($65) 800-493-4089 (ask Doris for the UCIP Room Block) until August 1. * Cost for spouse: Lunch = $12.00 each, Golf = $31.00, Shakespeare Play = $30 (due at check-in) ... [Read More]
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