Jeron Giles is serving at Arizona Phoenix Mission. Click the photo to see the other Wilsonville-based LDS missionaries.

Better Lighting Of Parks and Streets To Reduce Crime In Costa Rica? Better lighting of the parks and streets is believed to be the answer to the growing insecurity in Costa Rica for the ministro de Seguridad, Jose Maria Tijerino and local authorities.

A Vehicle Every Five Hours Stolen In San Jose Driving in San Jose is not only a matter of dealing traffic congestion, the potholes and the increase in the number of traffic officials, but also of car thieves, who on average steal a car every five hours.

It means "pure life" and in Costa Rica it's the unofficial national motto. It's also the way Lyn Statten signed off the email informing her friends that along with husband Fred Bowden, she had been awarded a Governor General's Medal.

What's it like to try to mix concrete without a mixer? How do you keep 100 very energetic children focused on study when there is a soccer ball flying around the room? How do you keep the soccer ball from knocking over one of the six sewing machines being used to create a much-needed dress or pair of pants? And did we mention that all of this takes ...