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Show B4a The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH/THE WEST Monday, October25, 1999 JCC Starts On New Additions rE for Sunday’s event and plans on moving to the area, said his McCarty said. “It is goin: beautiful building.” Nauvoo has a special temple to perform baptism for the cance for LDS Church me said Glen Leonard, the¢ the church's Museumof | daughter, Krista, was about to turn12 andwill be broughtto the dead. APOS Douglas Mullen traveled from ‘THESALTLAKE TRIBUNE Peoria, Ill., to be at the groundbreaking. He said it was a mo mentousoccasion for him because As they broke ground Sunday for two new building additions, members of Salt Lake’s Jewish his great-great-great-great- grandfather wasoneofthe archi- community reminisced about the tects on the original building. The construction project of the new, 50,000-squar2-foot building is expected to take two years and cost $24 million. Nauvoo City Councilman John McCarty says he expects the town to prosper fromthe ¢ i past and looked excitedly to the future. “Todayweare breaking ground on a forwardlookingvision, id Joel Shapiro, a past president of the Jewish Community Center. Weare [making] a newhistory.” 997, the Jewish i Fort Doug! John McCarty Nauvoocouncilm: i Continued trom B-1 Facilities will house health, child centers BY KATHERINE a “Just a 20 percentrise in visitors would have« ji impact on the town Temple Is Begun at Site in Nauvoo and the number of temple will attract ou immediately began z “Just a 20 percent rise in visitors would have a big impact on the town,” said McCarty. Hinckley announced the ambitious fund-raising campaign to makethe site into a center for their community. So far the community has col- project last their goal of $12 million. During Sunday's ceremonies among Nauvoo’s 1,200 residents, they officially namedthe building the LJ. and Jeanne Wagner Jew. somesaying the city was not prepared to handle the large influx of lected $9 million in contributio: and pledges, about 75 percent of church’s semi-annual conference in Salt Lake City. Since then the project had mixed reactions tourists and temple users. About 250,000 people a year alreadyvis ish Community Center. It also marked the beginning of construction for an early child hood center and a health and the NauvooHistorical Site that contains about 30 restored struc- tures of the town led by church wellness center, founder Joseph Smith in 1839. Onhand to celebrate the start of construction were more than McCarty says the church is willing to help offset the costs of upgradingthe infrastructure with 150 community aie and a dozen past JCC idents, including Dal Siegel, It Lake's first JCC President installed in 1958. ‘heearly childhood center will be constructed north and west of isting facility. With 17,000 square feet it wili house programs for toddlers and preschool and kindergarten-age children. Thehealth and wellness center will be 19,000 squarefeet and will be located in the current tennis court area. When completed it will include a full-size basketball in-kindfees that will total about $471,000 andincludethe hiring ofa city planner. The city was surprised when remain The communityalso plans to renovate the current building to provide offices, mevting rooms and easier access. Theentire phase of construc tionis expected to be completed by June of 2000 showers. Five tennis courts will into the newsite, the community With all the programs moved will then turnits facility at 1700 site, 2425 Heritage Way. South and Foothill Drive into a o that will serve children in It’s a great time for many community members, especially those with young children who will benefit from the early-childhood building and a new school. “It’s exciting to knowthat my son will havea brand newfacility to goto,” said Si Ss] apiro, who attended the ceremonies. eighthgrades. The school is expected to open in the fall of 2001, said Joanne Slotnik, on the JCC school board. The JCC currently operates an elementary school with 95 stu dents at the Congregation Kol Ami Alcoholism Gender Traits Focus of Study 'ELLO, Idaho An off ark by a colleague who ran an alcoholism treatment cen: tersent Leslie Devaud lookingfor answers in an area few have explored. Fouryears ago, the woman told Deyaud, an Idaho State University pharmacy professor, she had never seen a female alcoholic have a seizure during withdrawal, such as many male alcoholics have Last month, Devaud was awarded a five-year, $678,000 grant fromthe NationalInstitutes of Health to study genderdiffer ences in the brain as they affect dependence on and withdrawal from prolonged alcoho! consumption Many factors people to abuse alcohol. Heredity, environ ment, stress and cultural influ ence are onlya few. But treatment for every alcoholic is essentially the same counseling and the Church applied for a building permit the day beforeits Oct. 12 Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune Malori McGill, left, dad David McGill, friend John Robert Gilchrist and Christina McGill attend the groundbreaking for two ambitious new additions to the Jewish Community Center at Fort Douglasin Salt Lake City. The c nter's other facility on 1700 South will becomea school. court, with a suspended running track, a fitness room, aerobic workout room, locker rooms and THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Easter during the tranquilizers to relieve physical symptoms like delirium tremens. But Devaud said these treat ments may not be right for every one because they are based on studies done almost exclusively on men. Herstudy is limitedto biologi cal effects of alcohol abuse. So far she has indications that the dif ferent male and female hormones affect alcohol dependence. At the molecular and cellular level, I see differences.” she d But these differences are inlab rats and not human beings, al though Devaud is concentrating on areas of the brain that are commonto both, such as the cortex, National Institutes of Health science adviser Walter Hunt said female lab animals ly used in studies because estrogencycles add complications, And despite similarities in human and brains, whatever Devaud learns will be suspect until it is proved in people. And, Hunt said, “considering that her work is so unique, | would say it is premature to be used on humans. Devaud is trying to help the public understand that alcohol ple drink or not is aid. “Whether they or not is not a choice, enough assurances to approve the request on a 5-1 vote last Tuesday. “We're a town of1,200 people with twopolice officers volunteerfirefighters,” and 30 said Mc Carty, “We have to be ready for crowds by improving our infra- structure like wider streets for buses.” “Besides those who will come to use the temple, there will be those who come just to see it,” Start at $6 LO Salt Lake Mausoleum, 363-7065 founder Smith revealed t cept that ordinances perfi priestly authority in thi are recognized after life. So | the temple practices as |! knowntoday, said Leonar Among those practi sealings essential to ett riage and baptism byproxy dead, in whichape to ancestors. The pr for the dead brought increased effort by m gather information on t ily histories resulling in | ation in the 1890s in the ( logical Societyof Utah, | such organizationin the Polygamy, which wa by the church for mc years before being bz hough it is breakaway fi today officially came iii tice in Nauvoo. The frameworkoftithis alsostarted in thoty that 1840s, with 12,000 r ide ti waled Chicagoa8the leary! Minois. Under the law of t one-tenth of their cash or 201 go toward Church projec men contributed one day in | jabor on the temple. While the first Mormon { built in Kirtland, Ohi owned by the Reorganized Cla of Jesus Christ of Latter | Saints, wasbuilt as the result oi similar effort based on 1! ce of consecration ardship,it was beforethe izingoftithing. Once the Mormons fle after Smith and his Hyrumwere assassinated ir endowment houst to perform templeordi The Mormonsbuilt their 11 temples in Utah beginning \ St. George in 1877, followed by ! ganin 1884, Manti in 1888 and Sa! 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