| Updated: Jan. 15, 2021, 3:58 p.m.
For top Latter-day Saint leaders, the Joseph Smith Memorial Building in the heart of Salt Lake City has become a kind of mini-temple or at least the eighth floor has.
The governing First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles have always had a spiritual space designated in the Salt Lake Temple for them to meet, make decisions, and pray for divine guidance for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Now that the iconic temple is closed for renovations, which are expected to stretch into 2024, these top 15 men needed a new spot for what had become a weekly routine.
Missing the bright lights and happily writhing crowds of club nights and concerts? So do the people who host them. Faced with the prospect of their industry disappearing under the staggering financial loses incurred during coronavirus closures and waiting on promised city and federal relief funds San Francisco music and nightlife venue owners are taking matters into their own hands.
“It’s so important to stress to people that are hearing these stories that there’s such a great need if you want these businesses to survive,” says Maria Davis, member of The Stud collective and owner of St. Mary’s Pub.
Editor s note: This article is a part of a series reviewing Utah and U.S. history for KSL.com s Historic section.
SALT LAKE CITY With Christmas a little more than a week away, Utah medical experts are once again warning about the dangers of holiday gatherings.
It s a message they had prior to Thanksgiving and it appears that Utahns rose to the challenge. Dr. Angela Dunn, the state s epidemiologist, said the post-Thanksgiving rise in new COVID-19 cases not nearly the surge that medical experts feared heading into the holiday. It was a relief for public health officials. What that tells us is that thousands of people, thousands of families across the state of Utah heeded public health advice and changed their Thanksgiving Day plan, said Dr. Eddie Stenehjem, an infectious disease physician for Intermountain Healthcare, during a virtual question and answer forum last week. That is a testament to our community saying we ll put the health of our communities first.