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Ask an Expert – Spring pruning pointers Fayette student inducted into honor society BY TAUN BEDDES
Utah State University Extension horticulturist
Temperatures are warming, and it is time to get out in the yard again. One of the first orders of business is pruning shrubs, roses, fruit trees, and raspberries. Many gardeners are intimidated by pruning because they don’t know exactly what to do, so they attempt to do something they hope will look good. This often includes giving plants and shrubs a buzz cut, which is not recommended. Over time, this removes too much of the shrub’s leaf-producing wood, which impacts plant health and makes it look thin. A technique called “renewal pruning” can keep a shrub’s size down and help maintain its health. It involves focusing on older branches and removing 20 - 25% of the branches from the base of the shrub. This will reduce the shrub’s size by 30 50% and still leave enough branches to grow leaves and keep the bush’s energy levels high. Shrubs that bloom in the spring such as lilac, forsythia, and snowball bush should be pruned as soon as they are done blooming. Please see PRUNING, Page A2
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Temperatures are warming, and it is time to get out in the yard again. One of the first orders of business is pruning shrubs, roses, fruit trees, and raspberries.
LDS CHURCH
Church announces new chapels, mission, area leaders BY GENELLE PUGMIRE
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced three post-conference updates this week.
Urban chapels On Friday, a special media tour was given through the new urban chapels and business office mixed-used building in downtown Salt Lake City. “The idea came to have a joint-use space and build an office tower and combine that with a meetinghouse, and it’s a very economical way to do it,” said Bishop L. Todd Budge of the church’s Presiding Bishopric, which oversees the construction of places of worship for the global faith. “We started construction in April of 2019. So, it’s been about three years, but it’s a magnificent 25-story building,” Budge said. “The building is the third tallest in Salt Lake City, standing at 395 feet.” The 39,000-square-foot, four-story meetinghouse is at the base of the new office tower 95 State and has a separate address from the office tower. A steeple was placed next to the meetinghouse entrance that faces Social Hall Avenue, once the location for Latter-day Saint pioneers to gather for social events. The original structure, known as Social Hall, was built in 1852 under the direction of President Brigham Young. “This downtown block has always really been a place of gathering, a place of community,” said Emily Utt, curator of the Church History Department. “It’s kind of exciting that there’s now a new building almost on the exact same site that is a place of gathering.” A memorial with remnants of the original structure is encased in an underground tunnel entrance to the buildings. The original Social Hall remained a place of social events until 1922. A century later, the location will be a gathering place for today’s urban Latter-day
BATON ROUGE, La. — Taneisa Taylor of Fayette was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. Taylor was initiated at Southern Virginia University. Taylor is among approximately 25,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year. Membership is by invitation only and requires nomination and approval by a chapter. Only the top 10% of seniors and 7.5% of juniors are eligible for membership. Graduate students in the top 10% of the number of candidates for graduate degrees may also qualify, as do faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction. Phi Kappa Phi was founded in 1897 under the leadership of undergraduate student Marcus L. Urann who had a desire to create a different kind of honor society: one that recognized excellence in all academic disciplines. Today, the Society has chapters on more than 325 campuses in the United States, its territories and the Philippines. Its mission is “To recognize and promote academic excellence in all fields of higher education and to engage the community of scholars in service to others.”
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The new Social Hall Meetinghouse in downtown Salt Lake City. Saints. Church leaders have named the place of worship the Social Hall Avenue Meetinghouse, located at 110 E. Social Hall Ave. The new meetinghouse has two chapels, so it can host two congregations at the same time, each with a capacity of 500 people. Six wards (congregations) will gather in the building, including two for young single adults. The meetinghouse was built to accommodate a growing number of residential complexes in the downtown area and promote a more walkable community. “If (Brigham Young) were to come up that escalator now, I think he’d be quite surprised at what’s on this piece of land,” Budge said. “This will also be a very social place. ... We have a beau-
tiful outdoor terraced garden. And I can just see young single adults and youth meeting out there and socializing and building relationships with each other.” The development also includes a roof terrace, which can be used by office tenants during the day and church groups in the evenings, and a Sunday School room, where the women’s Relief Society organization meets — with all the features of a traditional classroom combined with a spectacular view. The unique development in Utah’s fast-growing capital city models some of the church’s other urban meetinghouses in major cities around the world. “New York, London, Brussels and Alexandria, Virginia, are all cities
that are expensive, and real estate is difficult to acquire. And so, we’ve been able to do these types of jointuse facilities to make it a much more economical proposition,” Budge said. “Having the office tower provides a source of revenue to pay for the meetinghouse. And so, we’re trying to be wise stewards of these sacred resources that the Lord has blessed us with,” he added. The tower and meetinghouse were developed by City Creek Reserve, a real estate investment affiliate of the church. Okland Construction was the general contractor. Church tithes were not used to construct the office tower. Please see CHURCH, Page A2
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