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Show Valley Nnws.Thursday, April 6 , 2000 The H3qiij wrgrqgi a Lesi 5 smggr Faithful fill new conference center seating. The Conference Center has been under construction for neariy three years, since the groundbreaking on Utah Pioneer Day, July24,1997. Randy Riplinger and Daie Bills of the LDS Church Public Affairs Office said that the Conference Center is scheduled to be dedicated in October 2000. While final completion is still six months away, the spacious meeting hall was functional to accommodate conference attendees the past weekend. In the closing address of the 170th General Conference on April 2, LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinkley referred to meeting in the Conference Center for the first item in the new millennium as a great shakedown cruise. By S. DEAN LEDBETTER STAFF WRITER The Conference 22,000-sea- t Center, a new landmark near historic Tempi 'quare in Salt Lake City, was first used on April 1 for 2000 General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints. During five separate conference sessions this past weekend, a cumulative total of about Saints 100,000 faithful Latter-da- y packed the spacious meeting hall. The largest building in the world designed specifically for religious meetings, the LDS Conference Center is situated just north of Temple Square between North Temple, West Temple and Main streets. The exterior is constructed President of granite quarried from the same area that provided construction materials for the Salt Lake Temple. The facility vastly expands the seating capacity available for church conferences, which have been held in the 5,000-seSalt Lake Tabernacle since October at 1873. The nearly 1 1 million member church has simply outgrown the historic tabernacle, which will still be used for Morman Tabernacle Choir radio and television broadcasts and for conference overflow W "''SfJ Hinckley then announced two new temples will be dedicated in the year 2000. By the end of this year, total LDS temples 1 operating world wid will be 12. In addition, president Hinckley made a special announcement of building temples at six new sites, three in the United States and three in other nations. The proposed temple sites are: Snowflake, Arizona; Texas, Washington; Aba, Finland; and Helsinki, Nigeria; Asuncion, Paraguay. s, I'?'" s 4 VV up '$ artists rendering of the new I DS Confersnce Center, the newest part of the Tnnpi Srp.aie district in downtown Salt Lake i City. The Center was used for the first time last weekend as members of tho DS church throughout the world came to gather for the church. The Center holds more annua! conference 170th the and hear church leaders at this years General Conference, structures such as Madison Square In than in and an size even is seating capacity larger people than any major arena the valley, An Garden in New York City - 5 w - I O',ilr W4C - vM isjS. Asfr . r A , tr I Health Insurance 1 ' I ,.W f ' 1 1 J Kennecott Visitors Center Opening April i t j STAYiNG HEALTHY, Oquinh Mountains behind the Utah Copper Smelter in 1944. A brief video produced by the KSL-Tnews department, and donated to the Visitors Center, captures some of the environmental revegetation work of Kennecotts Paul Rokich, known as the Johnny Appleseed of the OquiiTbs. three-quarte- V rs There is a modest, entrance fee, the " sr? i PLEASE CALL: 'I (801) 100 .... - bok bnngs the 2,000 young warrior (srory alivr, and enjoyable to tread. Only 85 pages. Thrill is 16 year old Turkon leaves i ,i this sweetheart, Richelle, behind to fight in some of the most exciting and breathtaking adventures of Wit "Tl PAID ABOVE DEDUCT FAMILIES DOCTOR VISITS INCLUDED ! RENEWAL GUARANTEED INDIVIDUALS $10 MILLION MAXIMUM n SELF EMPLOYED - llMLc Stcrlmc Q0 yg A,Y HOSPITAL jj SMALL BUSINESS . etc H 467-697- 3 his Istripling Shields n Earl (Independent Agent) FOR COBRA Arc you finding it difficult to get your teenager to read the Hook of Mormon? ' M MORE bombers that crashed into the Kennecott Visitors Center Open For New Season " Magna, Utah (March 30, 2000) 'Kennecott Utah Coppers award-y- r ginning Bingham Canyon Mine ' Visitors Center will open to the V piiol ic on April 1. Located 6700 feet above sea level, and within the ' giant open pit mine, which is of a mile deep and miles wide, the popular ' attraction will be open from 8:00 a.ntv to 8:00 p.m. seven days a week through October 3 . Louie Cononelos, KUC director of government and public affairs, said among the new exhibits installed this season is a highly detailed, working scale model of a Northern locomotive, coal tender and caboose built by a retired Kennecott employee, the late Emil Williams. He spent 18 years recreating this model of the kinds of locomotives used in the mine for three decades, beginning His family has in the loaned the model to the Visitors Center. Another new exhibit, using photographs and artifacts, tells the story of the recovery last fall of one of two World War II dive- - - v 4 HEALTHY FEOPLE: 1 i PHONE QUOTES j I pm NO OBLIGATION FOR SAVES EVEN t fc ! INEXPENSIVE j I- - kJ ' ; i 9 v 4 Rendering provided by S. Dean Ledbetter Turkon, SEE ANY DOCTOR (j t il. pr i.id to announce his new book, Stripling Yound Warrior, P,i, i f Wet A .ill time! y in ion to lO'vmg or ordt'r ortl'iu at y .! hookstore. www.minetva-picss.co- pro- ceeds of which are donated to local charities and non profit organizations annually. Last seasons dona- 1 tions amounted to more than $100,000 and since the center opened in 1992, more than $930,000 has been donated by the Kennecott Utah Copper Charitable -4 Foundation to people in need. Admission fees are: Motorcycles $2.00; Passenger Vehicles $3.00; Mini Tour Buses $15.00 and Tour 3uses $30.00 . There is no charge for school buses, scout troops in uniform, and vans from local senior citizens centers. Due to reconstruction, Mr. Cononelos suggests calling the Visitors Center information line at mid-1920- s. (801) 252-323- 4 western ". 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