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Utah Department of Health & Human Services

Good morning! Here are today’s temperatures:

🌤️ 46 – 75° in Logan | 💧 10%

⛅ 56 – 79° in Salt Lake

☀️ 63 – 93° in St. George | 💧⚡ 70%

In case you missed it, here are the top stories from last week:

3 health news tidbits that might surprise you

The Golden State Warriors are headed to ... BYU-Hawaii?

Donald Trump explains how he’d implement plans for mass deportation during a second term

Driver of truck found dead hours after fatal crash near Kaysville, police say

2 Obamas, 1 Latter-day Saint: Highlights from Tuesday night at the DNC

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Will Abravanel Hall survive the proposed downtown revitalization project?

Dennis Romboy writes: "The future of the museum and, perhaps more so, the future of the adjacent Abravanel Hall, home of the celebrated Utah Symphony as well as Utah Opera, are the topic of much speculation and controversy as Smith’s company proposes to give the city center what might well be termed an extreme makeover.

"Smith Entertainment Group, which owns the Utah Jazz and the new Utah Hockey Club, intends to put $3 billion into a sports, entertainment, culture and convention district covering a three-block area east of the Delta Center.

"The proposal includes reconfiguring the arena entrance to face east, pedestrian plazas, taking 300 West underground between 100 South and South Temple, and building one or more residential towers and a hotel. The project, which aims to better connect the east and west sides of downtown, will impact the convention center, museum, symphony hall and Japantown Street."

Read more about how Salt Lake County is deciding between renovating or rebuilding the home of the Utah Symphony.

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Remembering the sugar beet, and how it drove a Beetdigger to college

Lee Benson writes: "People have lots of reasons why they decided to go to college. An inspiring teacher, perhaps, or an athletic or academic scholarship; maybe family tradition had a lot to do with it, or a simple thirst for knowledge.

"For me it was the sugar beet.

"I was 14 years old in the summer of 1963 when I heard a Draper farmer named Ron Crane was hiring kids to thin sugar beets. He was paying by the row, I can’t remember exactly how much, but it seemed like an easy way to make a little money to spend on the pinball machine at the Centre Drive-In, which had me more or less addicted.

"To this point in my life I had not been properly introduced to the sugar beet industry, even though, providing I passed eighth and ninth grade, I was going to attend Jordan High School in the near future.

"The Jordan mascot was, and is, the Beetdiggers. The moniker dates back to the days when school would be stopped for a week or two every October so everybody in Sandy, which was littered with beet fields, could participate in the harvest by digging up beets and whacking off the roots — which contain the sucrose that produces the sugar."

Read more about what happened to the sugar beet in Utah.

More in Utah

Scenic park with bike trails opens in Santaquin Canyon (Herald Extra)
3 Utahns drown in Sierra Nevada range whirlpool; community mourns loss of race director (KSL)
Wildfire causes homes to be evacuated along border of Tooele and Juab counties (KSL)
Discover the Desert: Escape the heat at this Southern Utah marvel (St. George News)

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FROM UTAH DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES

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Keep your kids healthy with routine immunizations and well-child checks. Wellness checkups are how you and a healthcare provider you trust can work together to keep your child safe and healthy. Visit Up2Date.Utah.gov to find out which immunizations and health screenings your child needs at each age—or needs to catch up on.

Faith

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Health

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Politics

Will taxes go up after 2024 election? Trump, Harris have different plans (Deseret News)

The Nation

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The World

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Valerie Hudson: Sweden now has zero net immigration. What should we make of that? (Deseret News)

Sports

How Zach Wilson performed in his final NFL preseason outing (Deseret News)
NFL transactions tracker: The latest on what’s happening with Utah ties (Deseret News)
Kedon Slovis has been cut by the Indianapolis Colts (Deseret News)
Predicting BYU sack total in 2023 was challenge too tough to tackle (Deseret News)
Will Utah State surprise this season? (Deseret News)

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