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Show Stake Sets New Boundaries Pleasant Grove East Stake changed boundaries and acquired two new wards Sunday with Seventh and Eighth Wards being realigned to form the new 18th Ward and Eighth and Thirteenth Wards to form the new Seventeenth Ward. President Evan Mack Palmer said the Stake Presidency was concerned about the rapidly growing wards, and the strains that it put on the bishops. He said that some of the bishops were spending from 40 to 70 hours a week at their callings because of the large wards. The new wards will start meeting together the second week in April. This will allow the new bishoprics time to reorganize and staff their wards. President Palmer also noted that in 1957 all this area was one ward and there are now eight wards comprising an entire stake. |