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Wendy Nelson speaks to Indonesian members in Jakarta.
By James N. Clarke | Special to The Tribune
| April 23, 2021, 5:30 p.m.
Wendy Watson Nelson may be best known as the wife and companion of the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, but she is so much more.
There are two doctors in the Nelson family Dr. Russell M. Nelson and Dr. Wendy Watson Nelson. The latter has spent a lifetime as both an educator and practitioner of physical and mental health throughout North America and abroad. As an educator, Nelson began her career teaching 40 years ago, in her native Canada, as an assistant professor at the University of Calgary, then finishing her Ph.D. just three years later in family therapy and gerontology. More than a decade earlier, however, Nelson began practice as a registered nurse, which provided
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The new pedestrian bridge connecting Utah Valley University with the Utah Transit Authority’s FrontRunner Orem Central Station is pictured during its unveiling on Thursday, Jan.14, 2021. Crews will continue putting the finishing touches on the bridge over the next few weeks, with an expected opening in early February.
Laura Seitz, Deseret News
OREM For nearly three years, Oumar Traore has taken the long way around the I-15 freeway to get to class at Utah Valley University.
A junior majoring in information technology who lives just west of campus, his alternatives are to walk along a frontage road then proceed along heavily traveled University Parkway in Orem, or wait for sparsely scheduled buses, or to brave speeding traffic by dashing across the freeway to get to the other side.