LDS Church News: Temples rising in once-rural south valley
There was once a time when the south end of the Salt Lake Valley was synonymous with good farmland. Wide-open spaces allowed a few hard-working families to operate dairies, perhaps harvest a few acres of alfalfa and earn a quiet living far removed from the noise of Salt Lake City and its subdivisions.
That pastoral era's all but gone. Several years worth of landscape-altering development has turned once rural communities such as Draper, Riverton and South Jordan into full-fledged cities where people live, work, go to school and recreate.
Still, it's easy to scan the Salt Lake Valley's southern edges and see the area once again experiencing a bumper season. Where crops flourished and cattle once roamed, temples are being built.
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So you think the Church's tithing money "would be better used for…
Travis | Oct. 6, 2008 at 9:49 p.m.
We can see: The Jordan River, the Draper and the Oquirrh Mountain…
Anonymous | Oct. 6, 2008 at 9:22 p.m.
I currently live in an area where a temple is about an hours drive…
Give it a rest! | Oct. 6, 2008 at 9:12 p.m.
