Residents in the small community of Granite are looking to preserve the culture of the area by becoming a city.

The unincorporated area located in southeast Salt Lake County near the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon occupies less than a square mile and is home to fewer than 1,100 residents.

Those residents want to keep the rural and distinct flavor of the area forged by early pioneers mining for the rock to be used in construction of the Salt Lake Temple, Amy Joi O'Donoghue reported.

“Granite is the only pioneer community in Salt Lake County that is not part of a larger city,” Vaughn Cox, chairman of the Granite Community Council, said. “The community has a real rural feel with animals, large lots, rural streets and a small town feel to it. The residents want to incorporate to maintain the rural nature of their community.”

Here are three key points:

During Holy Week, apostle invites BYU students to invite Christ’s Triumphal Entry into their lives

Finals week and Holy Week landed on the same week this year, and Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles reminded students which was most important.

“It’s arguably the most sacred week in the Christian calendar,” he said. “We commemorate our Savior’s final days in mortality, culminating with his glorious Resurrection and triumph over death on that beautiful Easter Sunday.”

A large audience — 13,815 — gathered at the Marriott Center for the campus devotional. Elder Uchtdorf said finals, which begin on Friday, “are important, too," Tad Walch writes.

Here are three quotes from the devotional:

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