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A new stake has been created from the Cedar City Utah Cross Hollow, Cedar City Utah and Cedar City Utah West stakes. The Cedar City Utah South Stake, which consists of the Harmony Mountain, Hidden Hills, Kolob Canyon, Meadow Ranch, New Harmony, Old Sorrel, South Mountain and Westview wards, was created by Elder Takashi Wada, a General Authority Seventy, and Elder Emerson B. Carnavale, an Area Seventy.

CEDAR CITY UTAH SOUTH STAKE: (Nov. 3, 2024) President — Lance David Higbee, 39, optometrist; wife, Anne Marie Westwood Higbee. Counselors — Houston Todd Oldroyd, 39, Leavitt Group Enterprises internal auditor; wife, Megan Lynn Harman Oldroyd. Timothy Green Watson, 48, Watson Engineering Co. Inc. president and owner; wife, Shauna Hansen Watson.

A new stake has been created from the Highland Utah West Stake. The Highland Utah North Stake, which consists of the Highland 27th, Highland 32nd, Highland 36th, Highland 41st, Highland 44th and Highland 45th wards, was created by Elder Jorge M. Alvarado, a General Authority Seventy, and Elder Ulysse G. McCann, an Area Seventy.

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HIGHLAND UTAH NORTH STAKE: (Nov. 3, 2024) President — Caleb John Frischknecht, 45, Limble Solutions Inc. general counsel; wife, Jamie Lynn Baird Frischknecht. Counselors — Jonathan Leland Myres, 52, self-employed landlord; wife, Sunny Wilson Myres. Steven Clark Empey, 48, AbbVie Pharmaceuticals sales manager; wife, Heather Lynn Miller Empey.

A new stake has been created from the Lubumbashi Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ruashi Democratic Republic of the Congo stakes. The Kasapa Democratic Republic of the Congo Stake, which consists of the Aeroport Branch and the Hewa Bora, Joli Site, Kasapa 1st, Kasapa 2nd, Kasapa 3rd and Luano wards, was created by Elder Paul B. Pieper, a General Authority Seventy, and Elder Jean Pierre A.L. Haboko, an Area Seventy.

KASAPA DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO STAKE: (Dec. 1, 2024) President — Delly Kabale Banza Ilunga, 44, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints real estate project manager; wife, Therese Nguvu Kabale Yemba. Counselors — Mutambayi Christophe Mbala, 47, Synergy Manpower Solutions manager; wife, Solange Nkulu Nsenga Tundja. Atchoke William Kibonge, 44, Complexe Scolaire Les Amis du Christ school employee; wife, Mwanvua Gertrude Tambwe Kibonge.

A new stake has been created from the San Pedro Cote d’Ivoire District. The San Pedro Cote d’Ivoire Stake, which consists of the LAC, Meagui 1st, Meagui 2nd, Meagui 3rd, San Pedro, Sassandra, Seweke 1st, Seweke 2nd and Seweke 3rd branches, was created by Elder Alfred Kyungu, a General Authority Seventy, and Elder Tonga J. Sai, an Area Seventy.

SAN PEDRO COTE D’IVOIRE STAKE: (Sept. 22, 2024) President — Sonh Achide Guiro, 45, Cote d’Ivoire Yamoussoukro Mission handyman; wife, Golou Estelle Guiro. Counselors — Gonkapieu Marius Kpan, 31, entrepreneur; wife, Léhénohin Marthe Ya Zonde Kpan. Kouadio Romaric Kouakou, 31, Roméo Studio graphic designer.

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Reorganized stakes

ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO STAKE: (Nov. 24, 2024) President — Scott Steven Morgan, 42, Cavin & Morgan PA shareholder attorney and managing partner; succeeding Michael David Davis; wife, Katherine Sara Maclure Morgan. Counselors — Eric Brandon Chapman, 45, orthopedic surgeon; wife, Aubrey Mullenaux Chapman. Jesus Eduardo Quispe Cconocc, 57, Homes & Casas LLC president and CEO; wife, Julie Nielsen Quispe.

ASAMANKESE GHANA STAKE: (Dec. 1, 2024) President — Prince Anim Agyei, 40, self-employed mechanic/poultry farmer; succeeding Solomon Agyeman Tenadu; wife, Juliet Effah Agyei. Counselors — Samuel Tetteh Drah, 66, Ghana Education Service retired director of education; wife, Georgina Maku Paditey Drah. Michael Anim, 47, Ghana Cocoa Board sprayer; wife, Faustina Owusua Anim.

ASUNCIÓN PARAGUAY STAKE: (Dec. 15, 2024) President — Abel Vicente Sanabria Pando, 32, Fabrica Paraguaya de Vidrios civil specialist; succeeding Horst Nikolaus Eschgfäller; wife, Cielo Betania Ayala de Sanabria. Counselors — Sergio Daniel Cañellas Benitez, 37, AMX Paraguay S.A. (Claro) marketing product manager; wife, Sandra Elizabeth Roig. Oscar Manuel Machuca Grau, 38, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple recorder; wife, Mabel Baez Meza.

BELO HORIZONTE BRAZIL STAKE: (Oct. 20, 2024) President — Daniel Rodrigues Alves, 45, self-employed; succeeding Otávio Rietra Dias; wife, Lílian Márcia Neves Haddad. Counselors — Victor Azevedo Ramos, 42, Minas Gerais Military Fire Department sergeant; wife, Gislaine de Fátima Dias Barbosa Ramos. Luciano Pereira da Silva, 47, State of Minas Gerais socio-educational security agent; wife, Junia Tupinaba Oliveira Silva.

BOISE IDAHO AMITY STAKE: (Nov. 10, 2024) President — Robert Craig Ord, 48, Idaho Power Co. lead financial analyst; succeeding Richard Allen Johnson; wife, Briana Lyn Moses Ord. Counselors — Rex Joseph Dent, 56, St. Luke’s Health System data and analytics director; wife, Elaine White Dent. Joel Haddon Hallberg, 46, Litster Frost Injury Lawyers director of operations; wife, Angela Dawn Thueson Hallberg.

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BROOKLYN NEW YORK STAKE: (Nov. 17, 2024) President — Victor Manuel Romero Ramirez, 52, Gateway Arms Realty superintendent; succeeding Robert Dean Shull; wife, Sofia Erendira Chavez Alvaradejo Romero. Counselors — Brett Jeffrey Peterson, 40, American Museum of Natural History director of media and interactives; wife, Sarah Maria Sylvester Peterson. Quinton Edwards Covey Cannon, 31, Betterment software engineer; wife, Camille Dawn Lowder Cannon.

CERRITOS CALIFORNIA STAKE: (Nov. 24, 2024) President — Rodney Shane Douglass, 52, NSI-MI Technologies controller; succeeding Jerry Wayne Fisher; wife, Shauna Kawahaheeuinaninohea Basso Douglass. Counselors — Richard Cecil Bon, 65, CBS television editor; wife, Linda Jean Black Bon. Pablo Luque Aguilasocho, 57, LA Legacy Trucking LLC self-employed; wife, Ana Patricia Luque Huerta.

CHARLOTTE NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL STAKE: (Nov. 10, 2024) President — Jonathan Carl Johnston, 47, Wells Fargo Bank lead control management officer; succeeding Steven Jay Page; wife, Tennill Elizabeth Cheney Johnston. Counselors — Randy Alan Fife, 47, TIAA senior managing director; wife, Jenny Le Ora Henningson Fife. Eduardo Hiram Eguizabal, 36, Novant Health corporate operations supervisor; wife, Mariana Palma Rodriguez Eguizabal.

CHICLAYO PERÚ LATINA STAKE: (Nov. 10, 2024) President — Emilio Martin Fernandez Navarro, 41, Idat/Senati teacher and instructor; succeeding Franklin Alonso Bazan Terrones; wife, Deisy Janeth Leonardo Monteza. Counselors — Gustavo Navarro Sokolich, 57, independent driver; wife, Zoila Consuelo de Navarro Quiroz. Marcelino Céspedes Correa, 38, Acabados Marcelino EIRL manager; wife, Katherin Lucía Céspedes de Alcalde.

CIUDAD BOLÍVAR VENEZUELA STAKE: (Oct. 27, 2024) President — Leonardo Rafael Carreño Machado, 52, retired workshop manager; succeeding Rosman Livio Sanchez; wife, María Susana Laguado de Carreño. Counselors — Franklin Orlando Medina Romero, 57, CVG Alcasa integral operator; wife, Naila Mariluz de Medina Mendoza. Ramon de Jesus Piñero, 57, sewing machine technician entrepreneur; wife, Maura Josefina de Piñero Silveira.

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COLORADO SPRINGS HIGH PLAINS STAKE: (Oct. 27, 2024) President — Daiko Nephi Abe, 43, ISC Corp. director of operations; succeeding Matthew Jay Carroll; wife, Tamara Zetterquist Abe. Counselors — Reed Paul Romney, 44, KPMG manager; wife, Summer Leann Wiest Romney. Douglas Paul Kisby, 49, U.S. Air Force federal agent; wife, Cara Lynn Price Kisby.

CUENCA ECUADOR STAKE: (Nov. 24, 2024) President — Jose Luis Cedeño Olvera, 53, business owner and manager; succeeding Gordon Philip Foreman; wife, Jessica Mercedes Torres Nieto de Cedeño. Counselors — Pablo Andres Galan Cajamarca, 38, Wiser Center director; wife, Ana Belen Merchan Bueno. Milton Ricardo Romero Bastidas, 46, Roche key accounts manager; wife, Vivian Elena Coloma Pelchor Romero.

EL PROGRESO HONDURAS STAKE: (Nov. 3, 2024) President — Marvin Enrique Enamorado Larios, 43, H&S Building Solutions construction project estimator; succeeding Ernesto Qauiles Pacheco Amador; wife, Amada Yesenia Medina de Enamorado. Counselors — Daniel Antonio Chavez Medina, 36, Delivery Hero senior sales executive; wife, Gabriela Nineth Zelaya de Chavez. David Fernando Colindres Alvarado, 37, Faceno Group marketing coordinator; wife, Ibeth Geraldina Martinez Martinez de Colindres.

ETINAN NIGERIA NORTH STAKE: (Nov. 3, 2024) President — Usen Nse Eka, 42, handyman; succeeding Uwem John Eshiet; wife, Imaobong Peter Inyang Usen Eka. Counselors — Ibanga Akaninyene Albert, 52, Onward Secondary School teacher; wife, Ekaette Akaninyene Albert. Idorenyin Christopher Udo, 41, self-employed entrepreneur; wife, Mary Sam Edet Idorenyin Udo.

FILER IDAHO STAKE: (Nov. 24, 2024) President — Bryan Charles Mason, 44, physician; succeeding Scott Edward Hunsaker; wife, Natalie Marie Forbes Mason. Counselors — Ryan Dale Bowman, 50, Twin Falls School District director of educational technology and operations; wife, Ranae Bearnson Bowman. Scott Michael Bame, 39, Nutrien territory manager; wife, Bridget Celeste Schut Bame.

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FORNEY TEXAS STAKE: (Dec. 8, 2024) President — Dane Brooks Hatch, 49, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation administration; wife, Lindsey Erin Jones Hatch. Counselors — Matthew Kyle Hansen, 45, Troutman Pepper Locke partner; wife, Jene’ Kowallis Hansen. Lance Martin Celaya, 46, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen and Loewy LLP attorney; wife, Michelle Godfrey Celaya.

GALEANA MÉXICO STAKE: (Oct. 27, 2024) President — Valentin Flores Gutierrez, 44, business owner; succeeding Genaro Artemio Garcia Torres; wife, Gabriela Denise Flores Torrentera. Counselors — David Bauzán Carvajal, 52, Corporate Azucarero Emiliano Zapata analyst programmer; wife, Maria Gabriela de Bauzan Estrada. Juan Carlos Sandoval Hernandez, 46, condominium administrator; wife, Juana Elsa de Sandoval Martinez.

GUATEMALA CITY FLORIDA STAKE: (Oct. 27, 2024) President — Nery Giovanny Martinez Garcia, 38, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints publishing services manager; succeeding Byron Alberto Perez Castillo; wife, Katherine Michell Roque de Leon. Counselors — Mario Rene Iquic Santiago, 50, automotive painter; wife, Ana Beatriz Sian Camey de Iquic. Marlon Estuardo Quiñonez Pappa, 46, ProArq designer and construction supervisor; wife, Dilma Yanett Lopez Gamboa de Quiñonez.

GUATEMALA CITY MILAGRO STAKE: (Oct. 27, 2024) President — Jose Estuardo Samayoa Gonzalez, 32, Funval regional supervisor; succeeding Héctor Estuardo Ramírez Helena; wife, Ingrid Azucena Jolon Garcia de Samayoa. Counselors — Carlos Humberto Najera, 46, Judicial Branch of Guatemala Supreme Court of Justice judicial assistant; wife, Juana Yessenia Salguero Corado de Najera. Esli Rene Martinez Hernandez, 43, Alorica supervisor; wife, Karen Iveth Cinto Mejia de Martinez.

GUAYMAS MÉXICO STAKE: (Nov. 17, 2024) President — Oswaldo Padilla Hernandez, 42, Isssteson nurse; succeeding Ramiro Ibarra Sanchez; wife, Alejandra Lopez Yañez. Counselors — Leonel Baylon Reyes, 45, National Technology Institute of Mexico deputy director of planning and outreach; wife, Grecia Elena Moncayo Meza. Seus Enrique Barojas Lopez, 52, TE Connectivity cost estimator, finance; wife, Lidia Araceli Soto Terrazas de Barojas.

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HENDERSON NEVADA MCCULLOUGH HILLS STAKE: (Nov. 10, 2024) President — Jeremy Shad Bradshaw, 49, CommonSpirit Health market president; succeeding Jason Todd Morris; wife, Andrea Ellen Anderson Bradshaw. Counselors — Kenneth C McCandless, 48, optometrist and Wellish Vision Institute director of refractive surgery; wife, Jeaneane Thiriot McCandless. Quincy Ivins Walker, 46, self-employed financial representative; wife, Jessica Marie Knudsen Walker.

IDAHO FALLS EAGLE ROCK STAKE: (Dec. 8, 2024) President — Shane L Wynn, 50, optometrist; succeeding Albert Rupert Wilcox; wife, Kimberly Ann Farnsworth Wynn. Counselors — Matthew Jay Merzlock, 48, physician assistant; wife, Renae Hart Merzlock. Tyson Craig Parker, 43, physician assistant; wife, Kristine Gayle Crandall Parker.

ILAGAN PHILIPPINES STAKE: (Nov. 17, 2024) President — Gericel Mamuri Lopez, 46, Polaris Cable Vision Inc. accounting/field officer; succeeding Jasper Dureza Allapitan; wife, Rosemarie Gatan Bucaling Lopez. Counselors — Felix Gaspar Ferrer Daggao Jr., 39, freelance agent; wife, Juanita Sabado Barberan Daggao. Sonny Dacquil Dacuycuy Jr., 48, freelance contractor; wife, Lovelinda Ventura Lopez Dacuycuy.

IPSWICH AUSTRALIA STAKE: (Nov. 24, 2024) President — Stephen Nautu, 47, Energy Queensland senior network data officer; succeeding Paolaaita Siaea Salanoa; wife, Anita Pei Nautu. Counselors — Ronald William Inu, 55, IT consultant and contractor; wife, Le-Vonne Mitzi Hunt Inu. Trevor Ing, 53, Allianz Partners workforce planner; wife, Moesha Soloai Hall.

JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA EAST STAKE: (Nov. 17, 2024) President — Bret Gerald Smith, 65, retired; succeeding Stephen Edgar Heywood; wife, Jeanette Tidwell Goates Smith. Counselors — John Cameron Thomas, 45, Farah and Farah trial attorney; wife, Lindsay Gail Royal Thomas. Coby Thomas Febrizio, 47, Citibank program management lead; wife, Katharine Alexandra Daniels Fabrizio.

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JUCHITÁN MÉXICO LAS FLORES STAKE: (Nov. 17, 2024) President — Carlos Gallegos Santiago, 33, BBVA Banmer SME pool executive, Banco Santander SA commercial executive, and self-employed merchant; succeeding Víctor Orozco Jiménez; wife, Naima Aide Gonzalez Joaquin. Counselors — Alberto Orozco Palacios, 46, Comprehensive Dermatological Center administrator; wife, Josefina de Orozco Jimenez. Cristopher Amadeo Villegas de Leon, 28, Ecological Fumigations of the Isthmus technical supervisor; wife, Maria del Carmen Castellanos Jimenez.

KAOHSIUNG TAIWAN NORTH STAKE: (Dec. 15, 2024) President — Fu Shan Yen, 51, B.A.T. Services Limited Taiwan Branch channel development executive; succeeding Chun Chia Li; wife, Chiung Ju Kuo. Counselors — Chia Hung Liu, 47, Kaohsiung City Police Department Fengshan Branch police officer; wife, Chun Hsiu Chen. Chao Chang Ke, 48, Taiwan Senju Electronics Co. Ltd. sales specialist; wife, Hsin Ya Huang.

KINSHASA DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO MPASA STAKE: (Dec. 1, 2024) President — Julien Mbwabanguka Muyaya, 57, Guarding and Service for Africa GSA control inspector and entrepreneur; succeeding Mayamba Hermes Itinya; wife, Sylvie Mbuidikila Mayuma. Counselors — Epanya Armand Kasongo, 43, electrician; wife, Mvuala Lablonde Kisungu. Ata Jonathan Kasanda, 29, Perika TV Media secretary general; wife, Mafuta Mega Matumona.

LAGOS NIGERIA YABA STAKE: (Oct. 20, 2024) President — Fred Essien Ntuen Anyin, 43, Lead-Forte Gate Ltd. executive assistant; succeeding Chinedu Joshua Enwereuzo; wife, Afolakemi Oluwatosin Olofinnusi Anyin. Counselors — Oghene-ochuko Paul Erubami, 49, Max-Migold Ltd. managing director and CEO; wife, Grace Oluwasola Aluko Erubami. Saviour Offiong Effiong, 37, Help Start Education Foundation Lagos system engineer; wife, Uwana Okokon Effiong.

LOGAN UTAH STAKE: (Nov. 17, 2024) President — Benjamin Alma Slack, 47, Nucor Cold Finish Utah inside sales; succeeding Curtis Nolan Phillips; wife, Ashley Dawn Hogan Slack. Counselors — Jason Eric Stanger, 48, InTech Collegiate Academy executive director; wife, Amy Benedict Stanger. Bradley Newbold Mumford, 42, attorney and U.S. Air Force judge advocate; wife, Cassi Lyn Anderson Mumford.

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MACEIÓ BRAZIL TABULEIRO STAKE: (Nov. 24, 2024) President — Ademar Leandro da Silva Vasconcelos, 33, Biu Gráfica businessman; succeeding Genival dos Santos; wife, Jéssica Bernardino do Vale Vasconcelos. Counselors — Radmellys Carlos Lôbo, 50, T3 facilities gardening officer; wife, Cristiane Rosy Chagas Lôbo. Josualdo dos Santos Mota, 54, PMAL second sergeant; wife, Marcia Ferreira do Nascimento Mota.

MADRID SPAIN CENTRAL STAKE: (Nov. 17, 2024) President — Óscar Ovejero Ibáñez, 46, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Madrid Temple assistant recorder; succeeding Riqui Tellez Pinzon; wife, Sara Somoza García. Counselors — Nicolas Alejandro De Gennaro, 43, business owner and manager; wife, Silvana Noemi Acuña De Gennaro. Pedro Ramon Porras Valenzuela, 44, Industrias Lácteas Asturianas SA computer systems administrator; wife, Beatriz Elena Ochoa Ochoa.

MAKAKILO HAWAII STAKE: (Dec. 8, 2024) President — Brennen Lopaka Chosei Owan, 43, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii physician; succeeding Mark Kaikiohua Piena; wife, Amy Sachie Lehua Kamoe Owan. Counselors — Stewart Minn Soo Choi, 58, Child and Family Services clinical supervisor and therapist, and Family Services counselor and agency manager; wife, Ruth Kawaianuenue Alohikea Choi. Nake’u Smith, 45, Atlas Insurance Agency account manger of benefit consultant; wife, Ariana Asako Uhiwai Manoa Smith.

MERCEDES URUGUAY STAKE: (Dec. 8, 2024) President — Juan Marcelo Arballo Malatés, 45, Amsa Distributor owner and Departmental Board of Soriano departmental councilor; succeeding Ricardo Fabian Camargo Vazquez; wife, Ana Laura Arballo. Counselors — Néstor Ildo Muape Fúnez, 51, Gamma Company Mercedes Soriano security supervisor and retired police officer; wife, Laura Leonor Izaguirre Vazquez. Edgar Jose Varela Schanzenback, 49, forestry company maintenance manager; wife, Vaneza Esther Centurion Montaña.

MONCLOVA MÉXICO STAKE: (Nov. 10, 2024) President — Juan Angel Bustos Avendaño, 42, Autonomous University of Coahuila teacher; succeeding Gustavo Sandoval Castro; wife, Sandra Elizabeth Martinez Galindo. Counselors — Marco Antonio Barrera Hernandez, 49, Joyson Safety System engineering manager; wife, Adelita Carrillo Ramos. Pedro Gerardo Obregon Puente, 38, TMS International operations manager; wife, Zaida Zelem de Obregon Riojas.

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MONTEVIDEO URUGUAY MAROÑAS STAKE: (Dec. 1, 2024) President — Christian Fernando Profeti Valdez, 39, Ternium IT development and architecture and IT project leader; succeeding Gaston Pitta Marcos; wife, Nadia Valeria Jaureguy Arrúa. Counselors — Julio Alberto Zapatta La Paz, 48, Darokil manager; wife, Amorina Zapatta. Dardo Victor Della Valle Gonzalez, 51, construction worker; wife, Sandra Jacqueline Della Valle.

OGDEN UTAH WEBER STAKE: (Nov. 3, 2024) President — Justin Kent Johnson, 50, International Armoring Corp. chief operations officer; succeeding Joel G. Porter; wife, Tiffany Dawn Torman Johnson. Counselors — Dan Cameron Milne, 62, retired; wife, Leanne Marie Schreckengost Milne. David Lee Rice, 52, Weber Basin Water Conservancy District division manager; wife, Melinda Bybee Rice.

ORIZABA MÉXICO STAKE: (Nov. 24, 2024) President — Raul Flores Sanchez, 50, Seidor México senior consultant; succeeding Sergio Andres Cancino Reyes; wife, Sheila Yiandini de Canaán Ramirez. Counselors — Rafael Cisneros Miranda, 53, retired college teacher; wife, Eliana Cisneros Lozano. Cesar Manuel Ramos Mendoza, 56, UGI Internet & TV finance manager; wife, Alicia Torres Castillo.

PEORIA ILLINOIS STAKE: (Dec. 15, 2024) President — Brian Keith Hafen, 53, Nussbaum Transportation senior systems administrator; succeeding Corey Scott Wurtzbacher; wife, Joy Margaret Larson Hafen. Counselors — Marvin Haschal Jarnagin, 52, Caterpillar Inc. product support manager; wife, Jessica Neeko Hanes Jarnagin. Jonathan Boyd Thayn, 49, Illinois State University professor; wife, Deborah Lee Frame Thayn.

PHOENIX ARIZONA WEST MARICOPA STAKE: (Nov. 17, 2024) President — Taylor Condie Earl, 42, Earl & Curley managing partner; succeeding Timothy Warren Overton; wife, Laura Marie Nielsen Earl. Counselors — Oscar Bernardo Garcia Maytorena, 48, GarMayt Tile Services N Remodeling owner; wife, Roxana Garcia. Michael Thomas Rigby, 44, Civil Solutions Engineering and Management senior resident engineer; wife, Megan Wootton Rigby.

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PORTO ALEGRE BRAZIL NORTH STAKE: (Dec. 1, 2024) President — Maurício Grahl Rodrigues, 39, La Sante Farmacia de Manipulação and Quantic Life managing partner; succeeding Carlos Alberto Salles Baptista; wife, Daniela Sorrentino Rodrigues. Counselors — Ernani Berwig Jr., 56, Pest Control and Decupinizer Zap Cupim businessman; wife, Fabíola Volino Berwig. Sullivan da Silva Flores, 35, BandSafe Insurance Broker and Urban Haus Real Estate Management managing partner; wife, Gisele Pereira Bandeira.

RALEIGH NORTH CAROLINA SOUTH STAKE: (Nov. 3, 2024) President — Tyler McKay Haws, 45, Highwire vice president of sales; succeeding Raymond Joe Runyan; wife, Jayna Lynn Crandall Haws. Counselors — Matthew Bryan Hafen, 40, WakeMed Health and Hospitals heart center manager; wife, Gislaine Da Silva Hafen. Ryan Peter Webb, 44, Seminaries and Institutes of Religion institute director; wife, KaDawn Smith Webb.

ROY UTAH STAKE: (Dec. 8, 2024) President — Aaron Balthaser Rentschler, 42, Davis and Bott CPA; succeeding Kelly Lewis Taylor; wife, JaNell Jenkins Rentschler. Counselors — Gary Walker Schuenman, 59, Deseret Fence & Construction president; wife, Kimber Lee Howard Schuenman. Clifton Dee Christiansen, 36, Jeff Yeoman Construction foreman; wife, Annalise Yeoman Christiansen.

SAN NICOLÁS MÉXICO STAKE: (Nov. 24, 2024) President — Edgar Treviño Lopez, 35, teacher; succeeding Julio Cesar Pineda Franco; wife, Irma Genir Aleman Barajas. Counselors — Edgar Enrique Bahena Celestino, 31, Ventau and Intelimotor chief technology officer and co-founder; wife, Adriana Martínez Castilleja. Conrado Balboa Lopez, 49, 4Life international diamond distributor; wife, Cleopatra de Balboa Gallegos.

SARATOGA SPRINGS UTAH CROSSROADS STAKE: (Dec. 8, 2024) President — Alan William Keller, 48, Intermountain Health Care physical therapist; succeeding Thomas David Tillman; wife, Sherry Larson Keller. Counselors — Ryan Reid Smart, 51, Smart, Schofield, Smart P.C. shareholder attorney; wife, Tara Mira Bateman Smart. Justin Walker Purcell, 45, JP Appliance self-employed; wife, Anna Elizabeth Seavers Purcell.

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SENECA MARYLAND STAKE: (Dec. 8, 2024) President — Devin Lee Ure, 43, Department of Transportation chief financial officer of office of the secretary; succeeding Darren Earl Arnold; wife, Nicole Stevenson Ure. Counselors — Raul Humberto Quintanilla Moreno, 51, Peraton Inc. senior system engineer; wife, Mirna Teresa Cuellar Quintanilla. Zachery Aaron Groover, 50, U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel; wife, Marcy Lynn Vavrosky Groover.

SPRING TEXAS STAKE: (Nov. 17, 2024) President — Benjamin Kay Johnson, 50, Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP vice president of rates and tariffs; succeeding Michael Garrett Myers; wife, Mona Ruth Christensen Johnson. Counselors — Alexander Luther Parker, 42, Reliant Pest Management owner; wife, Cathryn Randall Parker. William Ashcroft Luce, 51, ExxonMobil global head of learning; wife, Jennifer Agnes Brumfield Luce.

TE MATAU A MAUI NEW ZEALAND STAKE: (Dec. 8, 2024) President — Justin William Edwards, 46, Department of Corrections senior adviser of leadership development; succeeding Farley John Keenan; wife, Shannon Leeanne Wainohu Edwards. Counselors — Dustine Lang Watarini Sadler, 50, Oranga Tamariki conference coordinator; wife, Vanessa-Lee Hineari Cowan Sadler. Neerod James Hapi, 52, Health New Zealand manager; wife, Sonya Louis Au Hapi.

TUMBES PERÚ STAKE — (Nov. 10, 2024) President — David Anthony Arcaya Moran, 46, Santa Priscila head of production; succeeding Eduardo Martin Melgar Arcaya; wife, Leyla Yemila de Arcaya Davis. Counselors — Jean Franco Napan Trigoso, 37, Napan Optical Center optrician; wife, Yuri Mabel de Napan Benavides. Gercy Paul Garcia Nuñez, 34, Papayal Preventative Maintenance supervisor and resident engineer; wife, Kelly Milagros De Garcia Rioja.

VENTANILLA PERÚ STAKE: (Oct. 27, 2024) President — Cristian Sixto Credo Gonzales, 32, Trox Do Brasil Ltda. regional manager; succeeding Alfonso Gabriel Yescas Ramirez; wife, Karol Bisset Macahuachi Utia. Counselors — Jorge Eduardo Ramos De La Cruz, 56, metal structures company plant supervisor; wife, Soledad Davila Buendia. Elias Gustavo Valderrama Infanson, 38, Pamer Schools psychologist; wife, Cecilia Milagros de Valderrama Curo.

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WESTMINSTER COLORADO STAKE: (Dec. 8, 2024) President — Bret Ryan Fund, 49, Cengage and Infosec Institute general manager and senior vice president; succeeding Sung Hoon Moon; wife, Alisha White Fund. Counselors — Phillip Neal Sharp, 49, Sharp Wealth Management financial adviser; wife, Melanie Goates Sharp. William James Ellis III, 58, Oracle Corp. sales operations director; wife, Janel Ray Janda Ellis.

YAMORANSA GHANA STAKE: (Dec. 15, 2024) President — Amos Adu-Asare, 40, Ghana Education Service teacher/HOD; succeeding Frederick Antwi Sr.; wife, Belinda Adae Adu-Asare. Counselors — Alex Bosomtwe, 34, Ghana Education Service teacher; wife, Elizabeth Gyewu Bosomtwe. Alfred Afful, 41, Ghana Education Service teacher; wife, Faustina Osei Afful.



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New Mexico man sentenced to nearly 20 years for distributing meth

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A judge sentenced a New Mexico man to nearly 20 years in prison for distributing meth and having guns in his possession to use while doing so.

Court records indicate 43-year-old David Amaya sold meth from a trailer on his parents’ property in Anthony throughout July and August 2024. Agents executed a search warrant Aug. 22 and found 1.18 kilograms of meth, two firearms and ammunition in the trailer and a makeshift bathroom.

Amaya pleaded guilty to possession of meth with intent to distribute it. A judge sentenced him to 235 months in prison.

Once he is out, Amaya will face five years of supervised release.

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The FBI’s Albuquerque Field Office and the Las Cruces Metro Narcotics Task Force investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kirk Williams prosecuted it.



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New Mexico Lottery Powerball, Pick 3 Day results for Dec. 10, 2025

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The New Mexico Lottery offers multiple draw games for those aiming to win big. Here’s a look at Dec. 10, 2025, results for each game:

Powerball

10-16-29-33-69, Powerball: 22, Power Play: 3

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Pick 3

Day: 8-2-7

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Evening: 6-9-2

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Lotto America

03-13-37-42-44, Star Ball: 01, ASB: 03

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Pick 4

Evening: 5-0-7-8

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Day: 3-7-2-0

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Roadrunner Cash

02-04-06-21-22

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Powerball Double Play

13-15-51-67-68, Powerball: 08

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This article was originally published by Truthout

To power the growing demand for AI, New Mexico is gearing up to build a data center with a city-sized carbon footprint.

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At the very Southeastern tip of New Mexico bordering Texas and Mexico, a new artificial intelligence (AI) data center is gearing up to be a greenhouse gas and air pollution behemoth, an additional water user in a drought-afflicted region, and a sower of community discontent.

Project Jupiter is one of five sites in the $500 billion Stargate Project, a national pipeline of massive AI systems linked with OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank.

“Health is my biggest concern. I’m worried about the air pollution, the ozone, and the buzzing noise,” local resident José Saldaña Jr., 45, told Truthout.  Saldaña has lived in Sunland Park, New Mexico, nearly his entire life, and he’s worried about Project Jupiter’s added environmental footprint in a pollution hotspot. Another big data center is going up in nearby El Paso, Texas. He lives less than two miles from a landfill that emits such an unpleasant smell, he can’t even hang his clothes out to dry.

“I’m just trying to stand up for my community,” Saldaña said of his opposition to the facility. But the project is racing ahead, and has already cleared one important hurdle: financing, including a massive tax break for the data center’s backers.

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Between September and October, the Doña Ana County Board of County Commissioners approved three funding ordinances, including the sale of industrial revenue bonds up to $165 billion.

With important permitting decisions still pending, work at the project site has already begun. Proponents tout all sorts of alleged benefits. This includes at least 750 well-paid new full-time positions and 50 part-time roles within three years of operations, with a priority for local hires. Instead of paying property and gross receipt taxes, the project will make incremental payments spread out over 30 years totalling $360 million — just a fraction of the bond monies.

Opponents of the project argue, however, that any benefits to the local economy are far outweighed by the impacts from potentially millions of tons of heat-trapping gas emissions annually from the plant’s proposed energy microgrid. This, when global warming is on track to increase by as much as 2.8 degrees Celsius over the century, blowing past Paris Agreement benchmarks set just 10 years ago.

And while Project Jupiter isn’t expected to be as thirsty as some of its fellow data centers, water advocates warn about any uptick of water usage in this drought-afflicted region, especially when New Mexico is projected to have 25 percent less surface and groundwater recharge by 2070 due to climate change.

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“There’s so much secrecy and lack of information about the project,” Norm Gaume told Truthout. Indeed, a lot of the negotiations around the project have occurred behind closed doors. Gaume is a retired state water manager and now president of the nonprofit New Mexico Water Advocates.

“What is certain is two things: Global warming is taking our renewable water away. And Project Jupiter intends to use the least efficient gas turbine generators,” said Gaume. “Their emissions are just over the top.”

Massive Energy Consumption

The recent, rampant proliferation of AI in everyday life has prompted the swift buildout of enormous facilities to house the machinery needed to crunch extraordinary amounts of data — a process that requires enormous amounts of energy. Just how much?

The Western Resource Advocates, a nonprofit fighting climate change and its impacts, recently published a report showing how seven of the eight largest utilities in the interior West forecast an increase in annual energy demand of about 4.5 percent per year, driven primarily by the growth of energy-sucking data centers. In comparison, their annual electricity sales grew by only about 1 percent per year between 2010 and 2023. 

This week, over 200 groups from all over the country jointly signed a letter to Congress urging for a moratorium on new data centers until safeguards are in place to protect communities, families, and the environment from the “economic, environmental, climate and water security” threats they pose.

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Project Jupiter is set to be powered by two natural gas-fueled microgrids. But air quality permits recently filed with the New Mexico Environment Department show the project could reportedly emit as much as 14 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, according to Source NM. How much is that? The entirety of Los Angeles, the country’s second-largest city by population, emitted just over 26 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2022.

Under state law, qualified microgrids won’t be required to transition to a 100 percent renewable energy system for another 20 years, Deborah Kapiloff, a clean energy policy adviser with the nonprofit Western Resource Advocates, told Truthout. “So hypothetically, up until January 1, 2045, [Project Jupiter’s operators] could run their gas plants at full capacity. There are no interim guidelines. There’s no off-ramp,” she added.

Furthermore, the region is already classed as a marginal “non-attainment” area, meaning it fails in part to meet federal air quality standards for things like ozone and fine particulate matter levels. And local residents are concerned about the addition in the area of noxious air pollutants — including PM2.5, one of the most dangerous such pollutants linked to serious health issues like cardiovascular disease — from the gas powered microgrids.

“Technically, the EPA could decline these air quality permits because we have such bad air quality already,” documentary filmmaker Annie Ersinghaus told Truthout. She lives in the adjacent city of Las Cruces, New Mexico, and is skeptical the Environmental Protection Agency will intervene. “It very much feels like David and Goliath.”

Then there’s the water component.

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Water Usage

According to online materials, the project’s data centers will require a total one-time fill volume of approximately 2.5 million gallons (which is the equivalent to the annual water usage of just under 25 households). Once operational, Project Jupiter’s data centers will use an average of 20,000 gallons per day (which is equivalent in daily usage of about 67 average households).  

This doesn’t appear to be a lot of water — some data centers can use millions of gallons daily.

Project Jupiter’s developers boast an efficient closed-loop cooling system. But Kacey Hovden, a staff attorney with the nonprofit New Mexico Environmental Law Center, warned Truthout that this type of cooling system hasn’t yet been used at a fully operational facility, and therefore, it’s currently unknown whether those projected numbers are realistic.

In the background lurks a rapidly warming world marked by huge declines in global freshwater reserves. Arid New Mexico is at the heart of this problem.

A comprehensive analysis of the impacts from climate change on water resources in New Mexico paint a picture over the next 50 years of temperatures rising as much as 7 degrees Fahrenheit across the state, and with it, reduced water availability from lighter snowpacks, lower soil moisture levels, greater frequency and intensity of wildfires, and much more aggressive competition for scarce water resources.

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Gaume told Truthout the state needs to take every step possible to curtail water usage rather than add to its needs. “This is a pig in a poke,” Gaume said about Project Jupiter. “We’re living in a fantasy world where people aren’t really paying attention to water.”

The project’s potential impacts on the community’s drinking water supplies is further complicated by the fact that both will share a water supplier, at least for a while — the Camino Real Regional Utility Authority, which has long been marred by water quality issues, including serving water containing elevated arsenic levels to its customers. An Environmental Working Group assessment of the utility’s compliance records finds it in “serious violation” of federal health-based drinking water standards.

The utility’s problems have gotten so bad that the Doña Ana Board of County Commissioners voted in May to approve the termination of the joint powers agreement that created the utility. Exactly what will replace it is currently unclear.

Project Jupiter will supposedly contribute $50 million to expand water and wastewater infrastructure. But it’s also unclear exactly how those funds will be used — whether just for the data center or for the community as well — and when. Hovden described this promised investment as nebulous. “I would say that’s probably the best way to describe everything around this project,” she said.

Multiple messages to BorderPlex Digital Assets — one of two project developers alongside STACK Infrastructure — went unanswered.

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Then comes the issue of groundwater, the region’s primary water source. Once again, there’s very little known about the sustainable health of the region’s groundwater tables.

“The horse is way out ahead of the cart in this situation, where we don’t really know a lot of the details of how this project might impact New Mexico, especially its water,” Stacy Timmons, associate director of hydrogeology at the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, told Truthout. She’s currently involved in a state project to better understand the status of New Mexico’s groundwater resources.

Community Pushback

Caught unawares by the speed with which this project was announced and is moving forward, community pushback is beginning to coalesce. At the end of October, the New Mexico Environmental Law Center filed a lawsuit on behalf of José Saldaña and another local resident, Vivian Fuller, against the Doña Ana County Board of County Commissioners, arguing that they had unlawfully approved the three funding ordinances. 

Ersinghaus is one of a group of local residents behind Jupiter Watch. They turn up at the construction site to monitor and track its progress, to make sure permits are in order (they often aren’t, she said), and to bring some “accountability” to the project. A large protest is scheduled for early next year, to coincide with the air quality permit decisions.

“Jupiter Watch came along very spontaneously,” said Ersinghaus, about the impetus behind the group in light of the hastily fast-tracked project. “Our commissioners voted for this [bar one], and we want them to feel ashamed.”

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Saldaña said that he’d like regulators and politicians to halt the project and move it elsewhere. If they don’t, he speculated that he might pack up and move from the region he’s called home since 1980.

“In the worst case scenario, I’ll tell my mom, ‘Let’s move, let’s get the hell out of here.’ But I don’t want to move,” said Saldaña. His mother lives next door to him and he has many relatives in the area. “It’s sad. Very sad.”


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