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Friday, April 5, 2024
Kirtland Temple Sold to Latter-day Saints City Expected to Become International Destination By Sherry Gavanditti news@karlovecmedia.com
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The Community of Christ LAND IR Tsale Church’s recent $192.5K million of the iconic Kirtland Temple and transfer of assets, manuscripts, documents and artifacts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is good news for Kirtland’s economic forecast. The sale also included significant historic buildings in Nauvoo, Ill. — such as the Smith Family Homestead, Mansion House and Redbrick Store — and may establish Kirtland as an international destination. The status upgrade would increase tourism to the area that would likely be far more than pre-pandemic numbers, which topped 70,000 visitors per year to the temple and the historic complex, said Nathan Johnson, stake president of the Kirtland SHERRY GAVANDITTI/KMG Ohio Stake. Community of Christ, formerly known as The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, owned the “The historic Kirtland visitors Kirtland Temple since the early 1900s. The temple, originally called “The House of the Lord,” was built by followers of Joseph Smith Jr. See Temple• Page 2
Kirtland Baseball Starts Season Undefeated at 4 By Alan Kornspan sports@karlovecmedia.com The Kirtland Hornets brought a three-game winning streak to Coulby Park on March 29 against the Wickliffe Blue Devils. After scoring 29 runs the previous day against the Maple Heights Mustangs, the Hornets took an early 9-0 lead against the Blue Devils. However, unlike the day before, the Hornets' opponent made a great comeback, scoring eight runs in the final two innings. Kirtland hung on for a 9-8 victory as starting pitcher Gino Blasini returned to the mound to close out the game. Afterward, Head Coach Luke Smrdel provided his thoughts about the final inning. “We know this is a great team we were playing against,” Smrdel said. “We've played them for many years, (and) we've played them in the tournament. Now they're part of the conference. “We knew this was a must-win
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Kirtland’s Gino Blasini went 2-0 with 1.57 ERA and struck out 21 batters. He even got a save.
game. At the end there, when it rains it pours. It started going the opposite way, so I went back to Gino, and luckily he came in and got the job done.” Before Blasini came in to get
the save, he started the contest on the mound throwing a scoreless first inning and striking out two of the three batters he faced. Then, in the top of the second inning, the Hornets scored five runs.
First, the Hornets loaded the bases and scored on an RBI single by Carter Luzar. The next batter, Max Paul, singled driving in Blasini. Nate Chuko then drew a walk, which drove in a run to make the score 3-0. The Hornets scored their final two runs of the inning when Trip Thaler drove in a run on a sacrifice fly, then Paul scored on a passed ball to make the score 5-0. After scoring a run in the fourth inning on an RBI single by Thaler, Jack Turk was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to give the Hornets a 7-0 lead. Kirtland then scored its final runs as Luzar singled to drive home two. For the contest, Luzar led the Hornets offensively as he went 2-2 and had three RBI. In addition, Lucci Cantini was 2-4. On the mound, Blasini followed up his excellent pitching performance against the Blue Devils on See Baseball• Page 3
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