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Smith’s Marketplace construction begins By Christi C. Babbitt Construction is officially underway of a new 123,000-square-foot Smith’s Marketplace store in Springville, with completion anticipated in late fall of 2016. Executives from Smith’s Food & Drug and representatives of Springville City met together in a groundbreaking ceremony Jan. 25 for the store, which will anchor the first phase of a 25-acre development named Springville Marketplace. The store will be located on the south side of Springville’s 400 South at 950 West. “We’re excited to have this new Smith’s Marketplace here in town,” said Springville Mayor Wilford W. Clyde at the ceremony. He and his wife recently visited a new Smith’s Marketplace store in West Jordan and were impressed with it, he said, adding that the Springville store will be similar. “We hope to see a lot more Representatives of Springville City and Smith’s Food and Drug officially broke businesses locate around it in the area,” ground for a new Smith’s Marketplace on Jan. 25. The store will be located at 400 South and 950 West in Springville. Clyde said. The new Smith’s Marketplace will offer grocery, apparel and household items Smith’s fuel station will be constructed previously owned by Suburban Land Reas well as a pharmacy. Inside the store will next to the store. serve and Property Reserve Inc.; both are be Fred Meyer Jewelers and Starbucks. A The Springville Marketplace land was wholly owned subsidiaries of The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Smith’s Food & Drug is working with Springville City to attract other businesses to the commercial development. In addition to the Smith’s Marketplace store, the development will have room for two junior retail anchors and seven commercial pads. “This is going to be a fabulous store,” said Jay Cummins, president of Smith’s Food & Drug. It is the seventh Smith’s store and the second Smith’s Marketplace to open in Utah County. The county’s first Smith’s Marketplace was built in Lehi in 2008. The Springville store will create more than 200 new jobs. Cummins said Smith’s saw the Springville location as an opportunity to expand into a growing area where the company didn’t yet have a presence. “This is awesome. It’s a long time needed,” said Jason Packard, president of the Springville Chamber of Commerce. “It supports the businesses we have here” by attracting more shoppers to the city, he said. The new store will also attract other businesses to the area and help keep residents’ shopping dollars local, Packard said.
Tours begin through Provo temple By Christi C. Babbitt
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Seth Perrins named new Sp. Fork city manager By Kathy Perrins Seth J. Perrins has been named Spanish Fork City’s new city manager due to the retirement of former Spanish Fork City Manager Dave Oyler on Feb. 5. Perrins has been working as Spanish Fork’s assistant city manager since August of 2004. See MANAGER on page A3
In January, volunteers from LDS stakes in Springville and Provo began guiding visitors through the newly completed Provo City Center Temple, the 150th operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Anticipation of the new temple has been great since LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson announced on Oct. 1, 2011, that the Provo Tabernacle would be rebuilt as a temple. The tabernacle was nearly completely destroyed in December of 2010 by a fire that left only the building’s brick shell intact. Public tours of the temple, located at 50 S. University Ave., Provo, officially began Jan. 15, but some tours were held before that date for specially invited guests, including a tour for the media on Jan. 11. “I marvel that this is the 150th temple for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” LDS Church General Primary President Rosemary M. Wixom told members of the media just before they entered the new temple. “I remember as a little girl memorizing all 15 temples.” The new Provo temple is an homage to the pioneers who settled the Provo area and the popular design elements of the late 1800s. Beautiful carved wood, stained glass and arched windows throughout the building reflect the time period when the tabernacle was originally built. Ground was broken for the tabernacle in 1883 and the dedication held in 1898. “It’s in a way a memorial to the past, but now we will look forward to the future, its function and use as a temple,” said Elder Kent F. Richards, a member of the Seventy and executive director of the church’s Temple Department. Design elements such as wood moldings and newel posts that existed in the
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Visitors by the thousands have begun walking through the newly completed Provo Center Center Temple. Pictured above is the celestial room of the temple.
tabernacle were replicated in the temple, but only one item from the tabernacle was salvaged and placed in the new temple. The item, a piece of intricately carved wood about four inches wide, came from the tabernacle pulpit and was used as part of the pulpit in the temple’s chapel. The tabernacle had a removable pulpit to make room for musical performances, and it had been taken out of the main area at the time of the fire, allowing this piece to survive.
“This is just a stunning example of the Lord giving beauty for ashes,” Elder Larry Y. Wilson, a member of the Seventy and assistant executive director of the church’s Temple Department, said of the temple during the media tour. When LDS temples are built, their décor often reflects their surroundings. The columbine flower, a plant found in the mountain valleys of Utah County, is one See TEMPLE on page A3