http://www.deseretnews.com/home/ Pamela Atkinson en-us Copyright 2013, Deseret News Publishing Company Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:01 MDT Thu, 23 May 2013 16:31:02 MDT Newspapers http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865579584/Salt-Lake-Community-College-to-honor-Herbert-Bishop-Burton-at-commencement.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865579584/Salt-Lake-Community-College-to-honor-Herbert-Bishop-Burton-at-commencement.html Utah's governor and an emeritus LDS Church general authority will be honored by Salt Lake Community College at its... Tue, 07 May 2013 13:10:58 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865578859/Community-members-bring-books-to-the-homeless-for-World-Book-Night.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865578859/Community-members-bring-books-to-the-homeless-for-World-Book-Night.html Salt Lake Mayor Ralph Becker, Police Chief Chris Burbank, community advocate Pamela Atkinson and other community leaders... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:40:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865578566/Tragedies-turn-the-world-to-faith-and-prayer.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865578566/Tragedies-turn-the-world-to-faith-and-prayer.html When tragedy strikes, the conversation in America changes. Faith and prayer, family and friends dominate a dialogue focused... Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:05:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865574642/Utah-mom-takes-stand-against-pornography-before-Legislature.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865574642/Utah-mom-takes-stand-against-pornography-before-Legislature.html The Utah Legislature took a step toward regulating sexually explicit images, acknowledging that such images may cause... Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:40:00 MST http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865572386/Will-focus-on-children-be-enough-to-get-help-for-parents.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865572386/Will-focus-on-children-be-enough-to-get-help-for-parents.html Each day, two Utah youths are treated for attempted suicide and every 11 days, a Utah child succeeds at taking his or her own... Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:44:45 MST http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865569432/Annual-Christmas-dinner-warms-hearts-of-homeless-volunteers.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865569432/Annual-Christmas-dinner-warms-hearts-of-homeless-volunteers.html Hundreds lined up long before the doors opened. For some, it'd be the best meal they get all year, and for others, it would... Tue, 25 Dec 2012 19:47:12 MST http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865569242/Vigil-honors-52-homeless-Utahns-who-died-in-2012.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865569242/Vigil-honors-52-homeless-Utahns-who-died-in-2012.html The candlelight vigil conducted Thursday night in Pioneer Park to remember homeless men and women who died during 2012 was... Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:47:26 MST http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865567539/Homeless-advocate-Pamela-Atkinson-to-receive-FBI-community-service-award.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865567539/Homeless-advocate-Pamela-Atkinson-to-receive-FBI-community-service-award.html Longtime community advocate Pamela J. Atkinson has been named as the Utah recipient of the FBI Director's Community... Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:56:53 MST http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765616197/Homeless-meters-help-to-raise-funds.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765616197/Homeless-meters-help-to-raise-funds.html For a year and a half, a dozen revamped parking meters painted red and scattered around downtown Salt Lake City have made it... Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:00:00 MST http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865566896/Real-change-meters-raise-funds-for-homeless-services-increase-awareness.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865566896/Real-change-meters-raise-funds-for-homeless-services-increase-awareness.html Money collected from Salt Lake's distinctive red meters — more than $16,500 this past year — will be split among... Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:01:28 MST http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865566047/Lunch-lady-shares-her-service-and-compassion-for-more-than-50-years.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865566047/Lunch-lady-shares-her-service-and-compassion-for-more-than-50-years.html Florence Holtshouser, 89, has been a Catholic Community Services volunteer for 50 years. On Wednesday night, CCS will... Sun, 04 Nov 2012 17:02:50 MST http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865564168/What-Utah-community-advocate-and-social-entrepreneur-Pamela-Atkinson-learned-doing-service.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865564168/What-Utah-community-advocate-and-social-entrepreneur-Pamela-Atkinson-learned-doing-service.html Forbes interviews Utah social entrepreneur Pamela Atkinson. Lessons from her years doing community service are shared. Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:30:37 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865560692/Founding-chairman-of-Envision-Utah-returns-to-lead-organization.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865560692/Founding-chairman-of-Envision-Utah-returns-to-lead-organization.html Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:46:16 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865558904/Community-learning-center-will-ease-classroom-crowding-and-provide-medical-care-in-SLC.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865558904/Community-learning-center-will-ease-classroom-crowding-and-provide-medical-care-in-SLC.html A groundbreaking Wednesday for a new community learning center between an elementary school and a middle school brings with... Wed, 11 Jul 2012 22:01:17 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765578735/Studies-try-to-find-why-poorer-people-are-more-charitable-than-the-wealthy.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765578735/Studies-try-to-find-why-poorer-people-are-more-charitable-than-the-wealthy.html A 2009 national look at charitable giving by McClatchy Newspapers showed the poor give a higher percentage of their income... Fri, 25 May 2012 23:30:55 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865555927/Fighting-homelessness-means-not-battling-alone.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865555927/Fighting-homelessness-means-not-battling-alone.html Homelessness is struggle that keeps many people living on the streets in poverty for years and years. Wed, 16 May 2012 14:25:30 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765573526/Pamela-J-Atkinson-honored-with-2012-Distinguished-Utahn-award.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765573526/Pamela-J-Atkinson-honored-with-2012-Distinguished-Utahn-award.html Touted by friends and associates as "Utah's own Florence Nightingale," a "ray of sunshine to so many" and the "Mother Teresa... Thu, 03 May 2012 23:18:06 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865555094/Homeless-advocate-Pamela-Atkinson-to-be-honored-as-distinguished-Utahn.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865555094/Homeless-advocate-Pamela-Atkinson-to-be-honored-as-distinguished-Utahn.html Wed, 02 May 2012 17:44:43 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865554996/Feds-award-34-million-boost-to-Utah-health-clinics.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865554996/Feds-award-34-million-boost-to-Utah-health-clinics.html Dani North always expected to lose all her teeth by age 40. It happened to her mother and she figured it would happen to her. Tue, 01 May 2012 18:19:19 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865554927/Goal-of-ending-chronic-homelessness-by-2015-achievable-advocates-say.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865554927/Goal-of-ending-chronic-homelessness-by-2015-achievable-advocates-say.html On Monday, Utah officials announced that the number of chronic homeless people in Utah has dropped 72 percent since 2005.... Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:04:11 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705550164/I-wish-I-had-not-known--2-the-tragic-details-of-the-Powell-case.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705550164/I-wish-I-had-not-known--2-the-tragic-details-of-the-Powell-case.html If you had been given the option to not know the horrific details of what Josh Powell did to his boys before they died from... Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:37:35 MST http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700210114/Best-meal-of-the-year-Steak-dinner-brightens-Christmas-Day-for-needy-Utahns.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700210114/Best-meal-of-the-year-Steak-dinner-brightens-Christmas-Day-for-needy-Utahns.html While NBA players were back at work Sunday after a prolonged labor dispute, hundreds of low-income and homeless Utahns lined... Sun, 25 Dec 2011 22:55:31 MST http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705395982/Volunteers-of-America-purchase-home-to-house-homeless-young-men.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705395982/Volunteers-of-America-purchase-home-to-house-homeless-young-men.html Homeless young men soon will have a new place to stay in Salt Lake County. Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:43:46 MST http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705395776/Utah-children-at-risk-for-homelessness-due-to-home-foreclosure-rate-and-moderate-planning-efforts.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705395776/Utah-children-at-risk-for-homelessness-due-to-home-foreclosure-rate-and-moderate-planning-efforts.html Utah's high rate of home foreclosures is placing children at a greater risk of homelessness, a new national report has found. Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:07:45 MST http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700200513/Guv-helps-serve-Thanksgiving-dinner-at-the-SL-Rescue-Mission.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700200513/Guv-helps-serve-Thanksgiving-dinner-at-the-SL-Rescue-Mission.html At top, homeless advocate Pamela Atkinson gets a hug as she delivers a meal, as she, along with Governor Gary R. Herbert and... Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:26:38 MST http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705394156/Occupy-SLC-protesters-ordered-out-of-park-following-death.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705394156/Occupy-SLC-protesters-ordered-out-of-park-following-death.html Hours after a man was found dead inside a tent at Pioneer Park, Salt Lake Police Chief Chris Burbank announced Friday he... Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:21:25 MST http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705393927/News-that-outstrips-the-importance-of-all-other-news.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705393927/News-that-outstrips-the-importance-of-all-other-news.html I am in the news business. In a time when we argue every day about what is and what is not news, there is one sentence, one... Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:00:00 MST http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700183384/Initiative-to-end-chronic-homelessness-in-Utah-successful.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700183384/Initiative-to-end-chronic-homelessness-in-Utah-successful.html Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:07:28 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705391590/Initiative-to-end-chronic-homelessness-in-Utah-successful.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705391590/Initiative-to-end-chronic-homelessness-in-Utah-successful.html Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:46:46 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700182978/Crisis-averted.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700182978/Crisis-averted.html Too often our editorials lament some problem that could have been avoided. Today we celebrate the resolution of a major... Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705388002/Donation-meters-have-raised-1000-for-homeless-program-looks-to-expand.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705388002/Donation-meters-have-raised-1000-for-homeless-program-looks-to-expand.html Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:31:21 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705375396/Lantern-House-to-light-new-path-for-Weber-Countys-homeless-population.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705375396/Lantern-House-to-light-new-path-for-Weber-Countys-homeless-population.html Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:19:47 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700144873/Utah-Not-even-close-to-closing-the-poverty-gap.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700144873/Utah-Not-even-close-to-closing-the-poverty-gap.html OGDEN — April Hadley remembers the day she took her oldest daughter Amelia, now 8, to kindergarten at Club Heights... Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:29 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705374584/Child-care-programs-in-public-settings-have-unfair-advantage-private-providers-tell-legislators.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705374584/Child-care-programs-in-public-settings-have-unfair-advantage-private-providers-tell-legislators.html Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:15:05 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700143740/KSL-will-not-air-Playboy-Club-in-fall.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700143740/KSL-will-not-air-Playboy-Club-in-fall.html NBC's "The Playboy Club" will not be part of KSL's fall lineup when the new television season starts in September. Sun, 12 Jun 2011 22:35:54 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700143132/Immigration-LDS-Church-issues-new-statement.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700143132/Immigration-LDS-Church-issues-new-statement.html SALT LAKE CITY — Sandwiched between Utah's passing of immigrations bills and the ongoing discussion of immigration... Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:45:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705374092/White-House-aide-urges-diverse-economic-development.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705374092/White-House-aide-urges-diverse-economic-development.html Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:11:41 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700134646/Chronic-homelessness-continues-on-a-downward-trend-in-Utah.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700134646/Chronic-homelessness-continues-on-a-downward-trend-in-Utah.html Chronic homelessness in Utah is quickly becoming a thing of the past. Thu, 12 May 2011 01:14:01 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705387450/Pornography-hurts-relationships-employment-and-well-being.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705387450/Pornography-hurts-relationships-employment-and-well-being.html The consumption of pornography \"breaks hearts,\" said Mark H. Willes, president and CEO of Deseret Management Corporation. Tue, 10 May 2011 13:30:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705372238/Pornography-hurts-relationships-employment-and-well-being.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705372238/Pornography-hurts-relationships-employment-and-well-being.html Sun, 08 May 2011 00:06:19 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700132691/Conference-to-focus-on-problems-of-porn.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700132691/Conference-to-focus-on-problems-of-porn.html There's no way to know how much money pornography rakes in every year, because numbers are hard to pin down. But according to... Wed, 04 May 2011 23:55:13 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700132174/Orrin-Hatch-Morality-in-Media-want-President-Obama-to-resume-prosecution-of-pornographers.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700132174/Orrin-Hatch-Morality-in-Media-want-President-Obama-to-resume-prosecution-of-pornographers.html SALT LAKE CITY — A large coalition of anti-pornography groups wants to turn up the heat on the Obama administration,... Tue, 03 May 2011 00:42:28 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705371097/Salt-Lake-City-unveils-donation-meters-to-help-homeless.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705371097/Salt-Lake-City-unveils-donation-meters-to-help-homeless.html Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:10:31 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700128924/Rally-Most-homeowners-who-experience-foreclosure-are-victims.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700128924/Rally-Most-homeowners-who-experience-foreclosure-are-victims.html By Amanda Verzello Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:23:54 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705387335/Self-reliance-at-heart-of-LDS-Church-and-other-helping-programs.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705387335/Self-reliance-at-heart-of-LDS-Church-and-other-helping-programs.html The concept is \"self-reliance,\" and it's the heart of many helping-hand programs that serve those with dire needs. Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:30:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700125412/Self-reliance-at-heart-of-LDS-Church-and-other-helping-programs.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700125412/Self-reliance-at-heart-of-LDS-Church-and-other-helping-programs.html When Ali and Fatuma Yussuf escaped war-torn Somalia in 1999 with their young and growing family, headed for years in a Kenyan... Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:41:41 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705369220/Cautious-tone-in-first-GRAMA-working-group-meeting.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705369220/Cautious-tone-in-first-GRAMA-working-group-meeting.html A working group considering changes to the state's open-records law met for the first time Wednesday and sketched out... Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:19:39 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700099612/Realistic-opportunity-2-Utah-trying-to-end-chronic-homelessness.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700099612/Realistic-opportunity-2-Utah-trying-to-end-chronic-homelessness.html SALT LAKE CITY — Ben Ely's face lights up when he talks about the summer barbecues in the courtyard out back, monthly... Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:50:19 MST http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700088167/Religion-briefs.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700088167/Religion-briefs.html Group fast seeks cure for diabetes Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:48:59 MST