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Show Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley to offer remarks, prayer Bountiful LDS Regional Center to be dedicated 18 months of remodeling inside facility completed By PAUL CHALLIS News Editor NORTH SALT LAKE The formal dedication of the Bountiful LDS Regional Center will be held Sunday at 7 p.m. with President Gordon B. Hinckley, first counselor in the First Presidency, delivering the dedicatory speech and prayer. The massive remodeling of the regional center, located at 835 N. 400 East and to be used by 22 Mormon stakes from Farmington to North Salt Lake, took a year-and-a-half to complete. The center, once called the Valley Music Hall, was purchased by the LDS Church in the early 1980's and has been used for stake and regional plays and musicals and by high schools in Davis County for graduation exercises and artistic productions. "The construction phase of the project took from July 26, 1989 to Nov. 12, 1990," Architect Joseph Young said. ' 'The church wanted to make the building more accessible for conferences and other meetings and decided to take out the theater-in-the-round. ' LDS Church Building Department Depart-ment supervisor Dale Bradford, who oversaw the project from the creation of the designs to the completion com-pletion of the construction, said it was a total remodeling job. "The main goal was to remove the theater-in-the-round to make it better equipped to handle church meetings. The podium portion of the theater is now up front and not in the round any more," Bradford said. "The entire building has been modernized and completely refurbished." refur-bished." Bradford added that the ceiling was redone and the asbestos in the ceilings completely removed to comply with state and federal building regulations and codes. "All the water problems have also been solved and fixed, as we had to dig underground to remove the theater-in-the-round. The water problems resulted from the 1983 flooding era when high water came and settled under the building. The stage used to move up and down and now is motionless,' ' he said. The church upgraded all areas of the center including the wings and the viewing areas. The facility now has new carpet and refurbished restrooms. "The use of the regional center by several stakes is a unique idea in the church," Agent Stake President for the facility Michael F. Moody said. "Other areas use tabernacles and community buildings, but the use of a facility like the regional center is something new." Moody is president of the Woods Cross East LDS Stake and was given the responsibility to coordinate coor-dinate and supervise the use of the building by the 22 stakes in Davis County. "There is a stake conference scheduled for nearly every week in the center," he said '"Hie center will also be used for regional events and plays much the way it used to be." Moody and other church leaders are very pleased with the results of the remodeling efforts to the building. "It is really a showcase facility now," he added. Sunday's dedication is scheduled to be a one-hour meeting with Hinckley Hin-ckley speaking about the history of the center and delivering the dedicatory prayer. An 8 8-voice regional choir will provide the music for the ceremonies led by Julie McKenzie of the Bountiful East LDS Stake with Linda Margetts, the associate Tabernacle organist from Temple Square providing pro-viding the organ music. "The meeting will be conducted by Martin K. Jensen, Utah North Area president, and member of the First Quorum of Seventy," Moody said. "Other General Authorities have been invited to attend the dedication including Elders Russell M. Ballard and Joseph B. Wirthlin, who were instrumental in organizing organiz-ing and presiding over the remodeling remodel-ing done at the regional center, but nothing has been finalized and it will depend on their schedules. "Due to seating limitations each ward is receiving 10 tickets for ward and priesthood leaders to attend at-tend the dedication," Moody said. "The center holds 2,300 people and, unfortunately, everyone that might want to attend wilt not be able to do so." Since the completion of the remodeling, several of the stakes have had the opportunity to hold conferences in the center, which is already in full use, Moody said. 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Here, Jack Daddle, security and activities coordinator for the center and Robert E. Ludwig, Woods Cross East Stake patriarch, admire the massive overhaul and beauty of the facility. |