In the Spotlight

Elementary schoolteacher Ellyn J. Francis of the Okotoks Ward, Calgary Alberta South Stake, was recently awarded the Alberta Provincial Excellence in Teaching Award for 1993.

E. Dale Cluff, director of libraries at Texas Tech University and stake mission president in the Lubbock Texas Stake, has been elected president of the Texas Library Association.

Residents of Boise, Idaho, have elected their first Latter-day Saint mayor. Brent Coles, of the Boise Thirty-sixth Ward, Boise Idaho West Stake, had served as interim mayor for ten months prior to his election as leader of the state’s largest city and capital.

Mary Beth Carr, a member of the Cameron Ward, Liberty Missouri Stake, has won the 1993 Farm Bureau Outstanding Home Economist Award and the University of Missouri Extension Association’s Meritorious Service Award.