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The Hindu Scaffolding collapsed at a church under construction at Melapudur in Tiruchi on Monday. Photo: R. M. Rajarathinam
A worker died and 22 injured when volumes of iron scaffoldings erected for interior decoration at the hall of a newly-constructed St. Marys Cathedral Church at Melapudur in the city gave in on Monday. Except three, all the other workers suffered minor injuries. As soon as the incident happened, fire service personnel, police and labour department officers rushed to the spot and inspected the scene. Police and Fire Service personnel said it was a puzzle for the collapse of the scaffoldings as the joints and bolts were in tact. The victim, Ashok Kumar, died at a private hospital.
At the end of construction of the new church, an old church on the premises was demolished recently.
The civil work associated with the church was completed a few months ago and the interior decoration was taken up recently. Hundreds of scaffoldings were found scattered all over the hall of the church. But as compared to the huge volume, the extent of injury was relatively far less, according to eye-witnesses. Rev. Fr. Eugene, Parish-priest in-charge of the church, said the exact reason of the incident was yet to be ascertained. He said the workers had a providential escape. The incident saw the complete preparedness of the official machinery to meet any emergency.
Syed Mohamed Sha, District Fire Officer, who reached the site, said that emergency rescue tenders (ERT) had been brought to the church premises. We were fully prepared with hydraulic cutters, he said.
Police officials immediately prevented the entry of onlookers into the church, as a precautionary measure.
A cross-section of workers said the scaffoldings were not set up uniformly. The scaffoldings were adjusted, re-aligned, or extended in accordance with the work for a particular day.
The workers were from Kolkata, Lalgudi, Manapparai, and Viralimalai. Initially, a section of the injured were admitted to Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital. After initial treatment, the church authorities made arrangements for shifting them to a private hospital.
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Orlando Sentinel's Mark Schlueb speaks with FOX35 about Orlando filing a lawsuit to force a church to sell its land for the new Major League Soccer stadium. (Video by FOX35)
After a year of failed talks, Orlando has filed suit in court to force a family-owned church in Parramore to sell its land to make way for a new Major League Soccer stadium.
If successful, the eminent domain action filed Thursday in Orange Circuit Court would allow Orlando to take the last of 20 parcels needed for the $115 million stadium being built for the Orlando City Lions, an MLS expansion franchise.
Newly released records show the city more than doubled its initial offer for the small, African-American-owned Faith Deliverance Temple, to $4 million.
Members of the family that owns the church reduced their initial selling price from $35 million to $15 million. Even so, the two sides remained far apart.
City Attorney Mayanne Downs characterized the church's asking price as essentially "a blank check."
"We've got a duty to safeguard the assets of the city," Downs said. "While we were certainly willing to pay the Williams family a substantial amount of money much more than the property is worth by any estimate there comes a point where we have to go to court."
Asked for comment, church representative Jonathan Williams referred questions to the church's lawyer, who did not return a call Tuesday.
The process of eminent domain, or condemnation, has two phases.
First, a judge will decide whether the purpose of taking the land building a soccer stadium fits the law's definition of a legitimate public use.
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Rhea Corrion shared this photo of Methodist Churchs first board members from 1923 or 24. Contact Cathy Cottrill if you know the names of any of these people.
BONITA SPRINGS Thanks to Doris Ruth Wollam, Rhea Corrion, Judy Supinie and Kathy Schmitt, we now know quite a bit about one of the communitys most historic church.
Corrion was kind enough to send a history of the chapel that was the original Methodist Church.
The building was the original building for the current First United Methodist Church of Bonita Springs on Shriver Avenue, said Corrion. The house behind the chapel was the parsonage.
Corrion shared several church-related pictures. One features the first board members from 1923 or 24. Unfortunately, she did not know the names of the members, but Im including it today in hopes that someone can identify them. If you know anyone in the photo, please contact me.
The other photo is of the miniature model of the chapel that rides in the Bonita Springs Fourth of July parade each year, sponsored by the First United Methodist Church.
Wollam, whose parents once ran the Wayside Inn on what was then called the Tamiami Trail, has fond memories of the cozy little church. She was 12 years old when her family moved here in 1942 and she recalls helping to teach Sunday school at the church.
It was so nice in that smaller church, said Wollam. I remember the old-fashioned Sundays when we sang the old songs. It was so wonderful.
This is the original First United Methodist Church of Bonita Springs on the corner of Shriver and Crockett, said longtime resident Judy Supinie, a frequent contributor to this column. It was built in the 1920s and has since been added onto. I think the Matheson family was involved with the early construction. I am not a member of the church but drive past there often and at one time my precinct used to vote there. Currently they graciously allow the New Chorale of Southwest Florida, of which I am a member, to use one of their rooms for rehearsals.
Kathy Schmitt provided quite a bit of history about the churchs formation. Heres an excerpt:
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Orlando Sentinel's Mark Schlueb speaks with FOX35 about Orlando filing a lawsuit to force a church to sell its land for the new Major League Soccer stadium. (Video by FOX35)
After a year of failed talks, Orlando has filed suit in court to force a family-owned church in Parramore to sell its land to make way for a new Major League Soccer stadium.
If successful, the eminent domain action filed Thursday in Orange Circuit Court would allow Orlando to take the last of 20 parcels needed for the $115 million stadium being built for the Orlando City Lions, an MLS expansion franchise.
Newly released records show the city more than doubled its initial offer for the small, African-American-owned Faith Deliverance Temple, to $4 million.
Members of the family that owns the church reduced their initial selling price from $35 million to $15 million. Even so, the two sides remained far apart.
City Attorney Mayanne Downs characterized the church's asking price as essentially "a blank check."
"We've got a duty to safeguard the assets of the city," Downs said. "While we were certainly willing to pay the Williams family a substantial amount of money much more than the property is worth by any estimate there comes a point where we have to go to court."
Asked for comment, church representative Jonathan Williams referred questions to the church's lawyer, who did not return a call Tuesday.
The process of eminent domain, or condemnation, has two phases.
First, a judge will decide whether the purpose of taking the land building a soccer stadium fits the law's definition of a legitimate public use.
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One of the first worship services held at Eastside Christian Church's new location at an old Boeing facility in Anaheim in November of 2012.
May 19, 2014|11:24 am
Americans exaggerate how often they go to Church in answers to surveys, a new study finds. Catholics and Mainline Protestants exaggerated more than Evangelical Protestants and black Protestants.
Since religious service attendance is considered positive behavior, Americans tend to overestimate how often they attend services when answering questions from a live interviewer. This is called a "social desirability bias."
When answering questions for an anonymous internet survey, the social desirability bias does not have the same effect. So, Public Religion Research Institute compared the results of phone surveys to those of internet surveys.
Among all Americans, the study found a five percentage point difference for frequent church attendance. Thirty-six percent of Americans answered that they attend religious services weekly or more when asked by a live interviewer, compared to 31 percent who answered the same for an online questionnaire.
Among infrequent church goers, the difference was even greater, 13 percentage points. Only 30 percent of phone survey respondents answered that seldom or never attend religious services, compared to 43 percent of internet survey respondents.
The study found some differences among denominations, age groups, and regions of the country. Catholics, Mainline Protestants, young people, Northeasterners and Westerners were more prone to exaggeration than Evangelicals, Black Protestants, old people, and Southerners. The differences were also greater among those who said they seldom or never attend religious services than among those who said they attend weekly or more. No differences were found based upon race, ethnicity or gender.
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by Jason Lamb
ANTIOCH, Tenn. Members of a Mid-State church that burned down in a dramatic fire last year now have something to look forward to.
This weekend, members of the Bell Road Church of the Nazarene in Antioch gathered for the groundbreaking of their new church on the same property.
For 16 months, the membership has had to worship out of another church, while plans for the new one were being developed.
Construction issues and a change in contractors delayed the groundbreaking until now, but the church pastor said the wait will be worth it.
I really believe we are moving into a new era, I think for our church this is a new beginning, said Pastor Bryan Russell. I'm looking forward to it being a new spark of enthusiasm to the church.
Russell said if construction goes as scheduled, the church hopes to open its doors by Thanksgiving of 2014.
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TRICHY: Twenty-two workers were injured on Monday when they fell from a metal scaffolding which was erected at the St Mary's Cathedral Church at Melapudhur. Labourers were hurt after they fell from a height of over 60 feet as the scaffolding on which they were standing collapsed. The injured are now admitted at the Government Hospital in Trichy.
The injured are mostly migrant labourers from West Bengal. A few are from nearby villages in Trichy district.
The incident occurred at 4.15pm when the labourers were working on the interior designs at the top of the church. The construction of a new church has been ongoing for two years after the demolition of a 173-year-old structure.
A fire and rescue team was deployed to extricate the workers from the debris before they were rushed to the hospital in four ambulances. A Syed Mohammed Shah, divisional forest officer, inspected the entire premises and said no there are no major casualties.
Doctors at the government hospital said workers were being treated for fractures and abrasions. A man who witnessed the incident, Thangaraj S from Viralimalai, said most labourers were wearing safety helmets and thus could escape major injuries despite the fall from a great height.
B Ravishankar, district manager, 108 ambulances, said the GPS system installed in the ambulances also came in handy to reach the spot from Karur with ease. An ambulance that arrived at the hospital with a a patient was soon put to use and sent to ferry all the injured to the hospital.
The famous Melapudhur Church attracts a large number of devotees from the region.
Church authorities said the new structure that is being built is 125 feet high from the ground to the top of the bell. The re-construction is done in such a way that the church will be visible from several places in Trichy.
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Published: Monday, May 19, 2014, 12:01a.m.
An extended centennial celebration for Transfiguration Roman Catholic Church in West Deer culminated on Sunday with a service that focused on the parish's past, present and future.
The Most Rev. William Winter, a retired bishop of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, led the 100th anniversary Mass, which brought together about 200 parishioners and a few pastors who, at one time or another, were involved with the church.
It was a day that, in the eyes of several parishioners and clergymen, did not seem possible only eight years ago when fire destroyed the parish's Poma Street church. But like Transfiguration's congregation has done on several occasions before and since the fire, the group banded together and found a solution, ultimately opening another church two years later along McKrell Road.
Transfiguration is a family, said Clara Salvi, chairwoman of the church's centennial committee. I'm not sure another parish could have done what we did ... we have risen from the ashes. We are proud of our past and hopeful for the future.
Transfiguration's past elicits from its parishioners a pride that's rooted in overcoming adversity.
Its origins date to the early 20th century, when the people of West Deer successfully petitioned St. Mary of Czestochowa in New Kensington for a pastor to lead their own parish. The area was considered a mission of St. Mary's.
By August 1914, the group founded a church committee and began building their Poma Street church, which they completed two years later. On the 50th anniversary of the church committee's founding, Transfiguration began building a school along McKrell Road.
As things went along smoothly for close to another 50 years, the parish had a major setback in June 2006 when a car parked behind the church caught fire during a morning Mass. The flames spread to the church, eventually causing the roof to collapse.
No one was injured, but the damage to the parish seemed irreparable, according to lifelong parishioner Dorothy Neibar, 78, of West Deer.
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by Leslie Krowchenko DCNN Correspondent
Marple Commissioners voted 5-0, May 12, to grant preliminary and final land development to Springton Lake Presbyterian Church, 3090 Newtown Street Road, for construction of a 5,457-square foot addition. The plan previously received approval from the Planning Commission and Zoning Board.
A much larger expansion was approved in 2002, but at the time, the congregation chose to enlarge only the parking lot. Unlike the former plan, which would have been built along Route 252, the new design is in the rear of the sanctuary and due to the topography, will not be visible from the highway.
The two-story addition, with a basement and first floor, will provide a fellowship hall for social functions, two staff offices, three classrooms, an elevator and handicapped-accessible restrooms. Approximately two-thirds of the new building will have a green roof. Several classrooms and the kitchen will also be renovated in the existing building.
It is smaller and less intrusive than the original proposal, said attorney Mike Maddren. It is environmentally friendly and will have minimal impact.
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The board voted by the same margin to amend the ordinance regarding swimming pool water discharge to prohibit emptying or draining into the township sanitary or storm sewers, waterways or adjoining properties. The discharge must be done in a way that does not create a health hazard or nuisance to the pool owner, neighbor or township.
The wording for the amendment was taken from the state DEP guidelines and the decision for the change was the result of the agency fining a township in central Pennsylvania after pool water was drained into the sanitary sewer, said Township Manager Tony Hamaday at the boards April meeting. He added pools may be emptied by releasing the water onto the lawn or having a professional company pump it out.
The township must be the educator, he added. We are looking to insure the township does not get hit with a fine because we failed to notify our residents.
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