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'Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Cedar City. Happy birthday to you.' Just imagine, if you will, following that song, as many Cedar City residents as possible inhaling altogether to then immediately blow out 158 candles on the biggest birthday cake in Utah history to celebrate Iron Mission Days, which commemorates ...

CEDAR CITY - President Barack Obama signed the Senate Fiscal Year 2010 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill into law today and, with a stroke of his pen, granted $1 million to Southern Utah University for its new Science Complex, the Walter Maxwell Gibson Science Center.

Today is National Men Cook Dinner Day. Yes, there is a day for it. It's always the first Thursday in November.

CEDAR CITY - When Canyon View High School students walked into school Tuesday, many knew that it was election day when they saw the electronic voting booths set up in the main hallway, but little did some of the students know they would be participating in a mock election.

Mike Cardon opened the doors to a new furniture store in Cedar City, Utah in 1995 called Cedar Sleep Center; ever since that monumental day Mike has been helping Cedar City residences get a better night sleep, one mattress at a time.

Twelve T-Bird musicians will take the stage Monday night when Southern Utah University's Power 91 radio station hosts the university's annual Guitars Unplugged competition on Monday, pitting some of the campus' most talented students against one another in a battle of the axes, and all for a good cause.

CEDAR CITY - Reports from the Success Academy and the Southwest Applied Technology College topped the agenda at Tuesday's Iron County School Board meeting.

Students throughout Iron County were given the opportunity to learn the traditions and history of certain styles of Mexican dance from Artist in Residence Monica Gomez Rogerson.

For Southern Utah University senior Ian Long, walking in women's shoes around the Sharwan Smith Student Center to take a stand against domestic violence was a decision he made after considering the battered women he knew in his past.

In observance of Iron County Make A Difference Day 2009, students with the Southern Utah University Service and Learning Center joined forces with the Volunteer Center of Iron County to put together several service projects before the SUU homecoming game Saturday afternoon.

The dedication of the newly completed Sterling R. Church auditorium, inside Southern Utah University's Sharwan Smith Center, is one of the main events to take place during the university's homecoming celebration.

Colorado City, Ariz.>> Outside a classroom at North Mohave Community College, a group of students talks quietly as they wait for others to finish a chemistry test.

He was a savvy, calculating politician and very charismatic. "He knew how to make me feel comfortable despite having tension in the room," Cooper Henderson, a Westminster College student, said about newly re-elected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

ST. GEORGE - It's experience versus fresh ideas in St. George's municipal election this year as the challengers try to topple some long-standing incumbents and the idea of term limits has crept into the debate.

CEDAR CITY - SUU Department of Art and Design's weekly Art Insights program will now feature Bill Galvan, a comic book and pencil sketch artist on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Hunter Conference Center Great Hall.

Community Meetings St. George Dixie Republican Forum meeting at Bell Tower, 1386 E. 100 South.

CEDAR CITY - The Utah Shakespearean Festival Festival Playmakers program is seeking actors and singers, ages 6 to 18, to perform in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" on Dec.

Audiences will be treated to an outstanding classical piano concert by international piano champion Kirill Gliadkovsky premiering our brand new Steinway Concert Grand Piano on Friday, October 16th, 7:30 PM at the Vernal Middle School Auditorium in Vernal, Utah.

When Utah photographer Dan Miller drove between Price and Moab, he often looked east to an area some call the Book Cliffs and others the Tavaputs Plateau and began wondering what, if anything, he might see there.

For The Spectrum Daily News CEDAR CITY - Drama students from across the country received awards and scholarships at the 33rd annual High School Shakespeare Competition.