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Show New ward formed at Cedar Stake conference Sun. A new ward, the Cedar Twelfth, was created through reestablishment of boundaries it the general session of the Cedar Stake conference, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, held Sunday, Feb. 22. President A. E. Whatcott proposed the changes to create cre-ate the new ward and the new boundaries were sustained by the membership in attendance. attend-ance. In addition two new Bishops were sustained and a realignment between the Cedar Ce-dar Third and Fourth Ward was also approved by the membership. The new alignment to create cre-ate the new 12th ward resulted result-ed in a change of boundaris for all of the wards on the East side of Cedar City including in-cluding the First, Fifth and Tenth Wards. New boundaries were announced an-nounced as follows: Cedar First Ward: All that are East of Main Street and North of 200 North east to Coal Creek and all residents East of Coal Creek. Cedar Twelfth Ward: Everything Ever-ything East of Main Street and contained between 200 North and the Coal Creek boundary on the north and 200 South Street on the South. Cedar Fifth Ward: Main Street East between 200 North and 400 South east to 300 East then south to Altimira Drive then East. Cedar Tenth Ward: Highway High-way 91 or Main Street forming ' the west boundary. Contain-ing Contain-ing all residents south of 400 South and containing also residents in the area south of Highway 91 to the City limits. I Cedar Third and Fourth ward boundaries were also changed to create near equal memberships in the two wards, also part of Cedar Stake. Boundary dividing line was formerly 350 West Street and the boundary was moved to 400 West increasing th-e Third Ward membership and reducing the Fourth. Both ward memberships were changed to approximately 650. The four wards on the East side of Cedar City were divided to create memberships member-ships for each of slightly over 400. In the conference session Bp. Max Willis was released as bishop of the Cedar Fifth Ward. His former two councilors, Bruce Atkin and Gordon Staker were then sustained as bishops of the Cedar Twelfth and the Cedar Fifth Wards, respectively. Later Sunday evening two counselors were sustained by the membership of the Twelfth Ward to work with Bishop Atkin. They included Robert Steele as first counselor counsel-or and Kimball Weaver as j second counselor. President Whatcott indicat-ed indicat-ed that the organization of the Cedar Fifth Ward Bishopric Bishop-ric would be completed Sunday, Sun-day, Mar. 1 at the ward's sacrament meeting. Later Sunday afternoon the over one-half million dollar Cedar Stake Center and Cedar Fifth-Tenth Ward Chapel was dedicated. Performing the ledicatory prayer was Le-Grand Le-Grand Richards, member of the Council of Twelve Apostles Apos-tles of the LDS Church. Other speakers at the services ser-vices included President Wiiatcott, Bishop Max Willis, Bishop Scott Chamberlain and Rudger Atkin, president of the St. George LDS Temple. I'K-V'v'i .Uife'V- -. 'V- vs;i;:V- ,.; , " j?' fjitU', --:-'VvvvV-"; ; : JV'-,"a.vv;V',- - t . ' - V Tt . - . y . ' : ' - A ' A ' Y Vv- u ' .'..-,- . - s ; : , ......2 v-;:v;;v - . .. : . '-' " .-:-.;- - - - 1 - TWELFTH WARD BISHOPRIC. The above men were sustained Sunday as the bishopric of the new Twelfth Ward. They include, left to right, Kim- ball Weaver, Robert Steele and Bruce f Atkin, bishop. f , ) |