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LDS Church News: Temples rising in once-rural south valley

Published: Monday, Oct. 6, 2008 12:39 a.m. MDT
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Residents of the south end of Utah's Salt Lake Valley are witnessing a remarkable moment in church history — two temples being built simultaneously, one within eyesight of the other. Church leaders say faithful members will be needed to serve in the future temples.

There was once a time when the south end of the Salt Lake Valley was synonymous with good farmland. Wide-open spaces allowed a few hard-working families to operate dairies, perhaps harvest a few acres of alfalfa and earn a quiet living far removed from the noise of Salt Lake City and its subdivisions.

That pastoral era's all but gone. Several years worth of landscape-altering development has turned once rural communities such as Draper, Riverton and South Jordan into full-fledged cities where people live, work, go to school and recreate.

Still, it's easy to scan the Salt Lake Valley's southern edges and see the area once again experiencing a bumper season. Where crops flourished and cattle once roamed, temples are being built.

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Travis | Oct. 6, 2008 at 9:49 p.m.

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