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Bike for the Cure Century is a fund-raising bike ride through Sanpete County benefiting the Susan G. Komen Foundation. All cyclists are invited as well as those who have been touched by cancer. You will begin your journey in historic Spring City and continue on the back roads of beautiful Sanpete County. There’s a route for everyone: a 28 mile beginning course; 34, 50, and 60 mile intermediate routes; and a challenging 100 mile course. Race begins at 7:30AM.

Manti City and Sanpete County resident as well as Pageant visitors are invited to attend the Celebration of Art. Manti City will be sponsoring an art exhibit celebrating Sanpete county artists. This will be held the last three days of the Mormon Miracle Pageant. The art work will be on display from 2 pm. to 7 pm at the Historic American Legion Hall at 185 South Main.

Artists represented will be Osral Allred and Kathy Peterson of Spring City. Sandra Johnson of Mt. Pleasant, Larry Nielson of Ephraim, and Carl Purcell and Kaziah Hancock of Manti. Visitors will not be able to purchase art pieces during the exhibit, but contct information will be available.

AP - Sen. John McCain said Monday the federal moratorium on offshore oil and gas drilling should be lifted, and individual states given the right to pursue energy exploration in waters near their own coasts.

AP - Al Gore is endorsing Barack Obama and promising to help the Democrat achieve what eluded him — the presidency. In a letter to be e-mailed to Obama supporters, the former vice president and Nobel Prize winner wrote, "From now through Election Day, I intend to do whatever I can to make sure he is elected president of the United States."

AP - Signs are emerging that Iraq has reached a turning point. Violence is down, armed extremists are in disarray, government confidence is rising and sectarian communities are gearing up for a battle at the polls rather than slaughter in the streets.

AP - An 18-hole playoff wasn't enough to decide the tie between Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate at the U.S. Open. They played to a draw Monday and headed to sudden death. Each player shot even-par 71 at Torrey Pines, so the playoff continued, starting on the par-4 seventh hole.

AP - Even as flood fears eased in Iowa City, the state's south and east prepared for new problems ahead for a string of towns along the Mississippi River. Sandbagging was under way in Burlington, a key rail hub, to build the city's levee system and protect it from the river; 350 people had been evacuated.

AP - Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin fell in love at a time when lesbians risked being arrested, fired from their jobs and sent to electroshock treatment. On Monday afternoon, more than a half-century after they became a couple, Lyon, 84, and Martin, 87, plan to become the first same-sex couple to legally exchange marriage vows in San Francisco, and among the first in the state.

AP - A couple accused of killing their 13-year-old son by tying him to a tree for two nights for punishment appeared in a North Carolina courtroom Monday to face charges of murder and felony child abuse.

Reuters - The worst flooding in the U.S. Midwest in 15 years sent fresh shocks to global markets and consumers as corn prices hit record highs on fears of crop losses in the heart of the world's top grain exporter.

Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush is ranked only slightly above the rulers of Pakistan and Iran as one of the least-trusted leaders in the world, a survey released on Monday showed.