Big News! We Have a Steeple!

Last week, coming home from an early morning run, I saw a huge steeple, laying on its side on the north side of the stake center...by the time I went back with my camera, they had already placed it on top!

Sis. Merritt was there when the crane lifted it up and took an action shot for us.

Whaa-laa!  Our new steeple!  Isn't it beautiful!

Right now it's off-center.  I'm not sure if that's where it will stay or if it will eventually migrate northward.  Either way, it's gorgeous and adds beauty and elegance to our building.

List of Changes to the Rose Park North Stake Center

You've probably heard rumors about the changes that will be happening to the Rose Park Stake Center.  And I can already tell you with unauthoritative certainty that, no, we will not be getting an Olympic-sized swimming pool in the gym, or a spa in the mother's room.  (Dang it!)

I did, however get a rough list of probable changes.  Some are already done.  Here we go:

• Reconfiguration of bishop and clerks offices (squaring them up)
• Smaller kitchen in gym
• Guillotine doors is gone
• Kitchens updates
• Family bathrooms in that area (no shower)
• New font location
• Hallways down both sides
• Chapel clerks desks are gone—handicap ramps in their place
• Door is relocated to accommodate handicap ramp
• New doors on north side
• New windows
• Fixed windows (non-openable)
• New HVAC upgrade
• Electrical upgrade
• New carpet 
• New paint
• Waterwise landscape
• New shrubs
• A little grass on eastside
• Minor parking lot changes
• New roofing
• Seismic upgrading