Also: Investigators believe the Orem Temple fire was arson, the downsides of #MomTok and if Sapporo can’t host the Olympics... 😉
Good morning, Utah Today readers! I hope you’re drinking enough water, because today is going to be HOT. 🌤 55 – 99° in Logan 🌤 75 – 105° in Salt Lake City 🌤 76 – 106° in St. George What started out as a discussion of all the petty molehills we will die turning into mountains has now evolved into all-out war over where in Utah has the best ice cream. A few days ago, Anastasia Lott told us she thought there was no beating Aggie ice cream, but now we have two more opinions in the mix! Lynn Ogden took a more scientific approach to settle this battle: “I earned two degrees from USU in Food Science and worked in the creamery and made Aggie ice cream. I later earned a Ph.D. in food science from the University of Minnesota. I then had a 30-year career teaching Food Science at BYU. We have good relations with the Aggie folks and work together in the Bonneville Section of the Institute of Food Technology. “Several years ago, at the fall picnic Dr. Donald McMahon from USU and I planned a blind taste test: Aggie vanilla ice cream vs. BYU vanilla ice cream. About 30 or 40 people participated. BYU’s won. Don cried foul, but it was all in good fun, and we are still good friends.” But in an unexpected twist of events, Robert Porter gave us a wild card: “I'll go with the Creamery in Beaver, Utah over BYU.” Speaking of which: It’s Bear Lake raspberry and huckleberry milkshake season! Have you tried any good places to get one of these delicious late-summer milkshakes? Also on our minds: Investigators believe the July Orem Temple fire was arson, the downsides of #MomTok and if Sapporo can’t host the Olympics, we know a city that can… |
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| | In 1996 Ron and Sy Snarr’s lives changed in an instant. They woke up to the police pounding on their door. Sy immediately took stock that her son Zachary was not home from the date he went on earlier that evening. The police were there to tell them that their son had been shot at Little Dell Reservoir and did not survive. Nothing could make sense of this senseless act in their mind until 22 years later when they received a letter from the man who murdered him. | By law, House and Senate members only make $174,000 per year, but due to the financial disclosures candidates file before running for office, it’s possible to estimate their net worth. Business Insider and CelebrityNetWorth.com both compiled lists of the richest members of congress. Any Utahns on the list? Read more here. More in Politics: Who is Britain’s new prime minister, Liz Truss? (Deseret News) | Housing: So long San Francisco, L.A., New York: The top cities homebuyers are looking to leave (Deseret News) Many Young Adults Who Moved Back Home During The Pandemic Still Live There (Forbes🔒) Education: Change agent: BYU business school dean on the link between progress and purpose (Deseret News) Health: Utah launches new suicide prevention 'playbook' on Instagram (KSL) The Media: Perspective: How the BYU-Duke volleyball game became a Rorschach test (Deseret News) BYU on trial in the court of public opinion (Deseret News) MomTok, reputation, and the perils of social media (Utah Business) Faith: Interfaith work is moving beyond dialogue and entering ... the climate scene? (Deseret News) Wasatch Front: Investigators say July fire at Orem Utah Temple was arson, ATF offers cash reward for information (Deseret News) Central Utah: Lone officer in rural Utah town fired for ticketing mayor’s son, lawsuit alleges. Who is policing Moroni? (Salt Lake Tribune🔒) The West: How Lake Bonneville became the Great Salt Lake (Deseret News) California’s energy grid is in trouble with intense heat wave (Deseret News) The World: There’s a new Olympic scandal in Japan. How will it affect the race for the 2030 Winter Games? (Deseret News) Moscow breaks with U.N. to buy North Korean weapons (Deseret News) ‘I’m still alive, but that’s it’: Pakistan floods test resilience (Christian Science Monitor🔒) Sports: Where are Utah and BYU ranked in the Associated Press and coaches polls after Week 1? (Deseret News) Donovan Mitchell was voice for change that the Jazz and Utah needed (Deseret News) |
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