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Church Hill residents can expect some lane closures as the installation of several traffic circles will begin next Monday.

Alexis Hoeferlin lives at the intersection of Chimborazo Boulevard and Marshall Street.

I've seen people going much over the speed limit, and I consider this a residential area...lot of people on foot. A lot of children around, she said.

That's why she's all for new traffic circles the city is set to install next week, anything to slow down the traffic.

I think it's a great idea. There are a lot of people coming down Marshall and a lot of people who using Church Hill to get to one area to another."

The traffic circles will go up at several intersections...including at Chimborazo and Marshall Street, Chimborazo and N Street, as well as M Street and 27th, 30th and 32nd.

But not everyone is on board

I think this particular intersection doesn't have much need for a traffic circle. I don't see much traffic blockage in this street at all. And one think I like about m street is that there are no stop signs. A traffic circle going in will change that, said Conor Pel-Owen, referring to the intersection of M Street and 32nd.

The city will shut down several roads during construction.

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BISCOE The fire in the sanctuary of First Baptist Church in Biscoe Tuesday has been ruled undetermined electrical in nature.

Fire investigators from the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) and Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms (ATF) made that determination, confirming the initial assessment by the Biscoe Fire Department on Tuesday. A construction project, including wiring for outside lighting, had recently been done in the corner of the sanctuary.

Biscoe Fire Chief Tripp Myrick said the next obstacle was to stabilize the brick walls that are slowly bowing out before they collapse. Biscoe Police have been closely watching the structure for any sign of collapse at night. Fire investigators have been on the scene during the day.

Church members and numerous citizens have also been by to offer condolences and to offer assistance.

Kelly Kellam had immediately offered warehouse storage space for any furniture or other items that were salvageable.

Myrick Construction Inc. crews were successful in removing most of the surviving stained glass windows on Thursday and will finish the delicate task on Friday. These were memorial windows installed when the present church on Main Street was built in 1950.

This was a blow to the town, Commissioner Jimmy Cagle said Wednesday. This church has touched everybody in town at some point in their lives.

First Baptist, under the leadership of the Rev. Larry Wilson and a strong Board of Deacons chaired by Nancy Ruppert, is known for its outreach ministries and diverse congregation.

Wilson, whose health issues have forced him to retire, preached his last sermon on June 29. The Sunday before, half the town had gathered for a retirement dinner and outpouring of love. Larry and Mary Wilson are not leaving Biscoe, just moving from the parsonage to another residence.

The church is not the building. The church is the people, and the people are strong, church members have said repeatedly.

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About seven years ago, congregation members at Austin Ridge Bible Church were looking to-repurpose the expansive back lot behind the church at 9300 Bee Cave Rd.

The problem was the terrain including a nearly 200-foot change in elevation didnt lend itself to traditional developments.

We thought it would be awesome to use the back lot of our property, Josh Thornton, the churchs director of facilities said. An original thought was some hike and bike trails, then when looking further at it was perfect for a disc golf course.

With the guidance of John Houck, arguably the father of Central Texas disc golf scene, the Austin Ridge Bible Church Disc Golf Course was born. An 18-hole course with two bonus holes, the narrow fairways and elevation changes provided a difficult challenge that attracts many of Central Texas' top disc golfers.

And thats the churchs goal provide a valuable public service on privately run land.

We dont have a ton of disc golfers in our congregation, Thornton said. It really was just the best plan of attack for that land.

On average 20 to 30 disc golfers play the course on weekdays, with that number spiking up to easily more than 100 on the weekends. Each of those rounds more than 300 a week wouldnt be possible without the work volunteers put in to build the course.

The biggest volunteer was Houck, who designed the course and worked closely with the church for free. Now with a vision in mind, members of the church and local disc golfers helped clear the land and built the fairways.

We did community work days and everybody pitched in, Thornton said. We sent out emails, and congregation members and the disc golf community responded and showed up for community work days.

The course construction also helped some local Boy Scouts complete their Eagle Scout projects. Scouts who eventually qualified for the orders highest honor installed all the hole signs, posts, baskets, four bridges and natural steps built into a hill on the course.

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Although the most accurate way to describe her relationship to St. John Neumann Catholic Church would be business partner, you wouldnt think it when you see members of a church committee shout out to Francesca Lofaro as she runs toward them for a hug Friday morning in front of the under-construction chapel.

It was the first time all summer that those who are working on renovations for the church ceiling and the chapel had seen Lofaro, who is the New York-based sales rep for the Italian company the church is working with.

The renovations have brought together a group of people, several of which have traveled to Texas from Italy for the installation and forged unlikely friendships.

Weve had a great time, said committee member and parishioner Lucille Lamy.

When well be finished, well be really sad, said Massimo Mellini, speaking in a thick Italian accent.

Mellini is the president of the Florence-based artglass and mosaics company that designed the churchs mosaic and the chapels stained glass. He has been in town to oversee the installation, and he and the church committee chat about the renovations more like old friends than business partners.

Its no surprise the St. John Neumann Arts and Environs committee has been working on these projects since 2007, researching everything from church decorative precedents to the individual designs, said Joanne Senn, who handles parish development. They paid for trips to Florence out of their own pockets to collaborate and see some of the results.

They are inexhaustible, Senn said. There is no amount of detail that can be researched; there is no amount of time that can be applied.

Its worth it for such a mammoth undertaking, committee members said. St. John Neumann is holding Mass in the churchs adjacent Holy Family center for the summer as workers begin decorating the once-gray ceiling of the churchs dome, one of the largest in the country, Senn said.

When parishioners return in the fall, theyll see four huge angels, one mosaic in each corner. If they look up, theyll see a Lamb of God mosaic at the center of the churchs dome. But the ceiling will eventually be covered entirely in a mosaic of small pieces of colorful glass, when the project is completed in the summer of 2016, church planners said.

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ONE hundred and fifty years ago, Camperdowns Anglican parishioners were eagerly watching as their new church building began to take shape on the corner of what is now known as Church and Fergusson streets.

Susan Cole, a member of St Pauls Anglican Church in Camperdown, is helping to organise celebrations for the churchs 150th anniversary next month.140722DW10 Picture: DAMIAN WHITE

ONE hundred and fifty years ago, Camperdowns Anglican parishioners were eagerly watching as their new church building began to take shape on the corner of what is now known as Church and Fergusson streets.

Today the church looks a little different compared to when the first service was held in August of 1864. But the original nave, with its exquisite stained glass windows, has stood the test of the time and on August 17 parishioners will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first service held in the imposing bluestone walls of St Pauls church.

Parishioner and historian Susan Cole said construction of the church started in April of 1864, and was completed in August of the same year. She said the nave was completed first, followed by the French Gothic style transepts, crossing and vaulted apsidal sanctuary in 1894.

The tower and spire were added in 1955.

Mrs Cole said the church has stood the test of time due to many generous benefactors.

The Manifold family especially have been huge supporters of the church and the building across the generations, she said.

Many sections of the church were added in memory of members of the Manifold family. The choir area and altar area were added in 1894 in memory of Mr and Mrs John Manifold and the tower and spire are in memory of Edward and Beatrice Manifold.

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Dursley church and youth centre buoyed by donations

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A CHURCH in Dursley has been awarded several thousand pounds to go towards vital repairs and towards supporting the town's new youth centre.

Dursley Tabernacle Church was visited by Jonathan MacKechnie-Jarvis from the Gloucestershire Historic Churches Trust and presented minister Rev Simon Helme with a 7,000 cheque, which will go towards urgent repairs to the fabric of their listed building.

Mr Jarvis acknowledged the challenges maintaining an elderly church premises brings and said how pleased the trust was to be able to support it with the demands of maintaining the heritage property.

In addition, he commended the church for committing itself to putting forward funding for the new youth centre being built nearby.

The church on Parsonage Street requires repairs to the roof and other parts of the building, which are necessary for the adjacent youth centre to be protected.

The roof leak could potentially jeopardise the new youth centre with water run off.

The church has been further buoyed by a cheque for 2,000 from Renishaw towards their share of the construction costs for the new youth centre.

Renishaw Charity Committee chairman Jeremy Chamberlain explained how pleased they were to support a project in Dursley which would benefit young people.

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The groundbreaking ceremony for the Meridian Idaho Temple, seen here in a rendering, will be held Aug. 23.

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SALT LAKE CITY The LDS Church has announced that the groundbreaking ceremony for the Meridian Idaho Temple will be held on Aug. 23 at 10 a.m.

The groundbreaking is the first announced since the faith's April general conference, when no new temples were announced but church President Thomas S. Monson said the temple department would concentrate on completing previously announced temples.

President Monson announced plans for the Meridian Temple during the April 2011 general conference.

It will be the 15th temple under construction, leaving an additional 12 that have been announced but for which ground has not yet been broken.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has 143 operating temples. That list includes the Ogden Utah Temple, which actually has been under renovation for several years. The renovation is nearing completion, and free tickets for a five-week open house became available online Monday morning.

The Meridian Temple will be the fifth LDS temple in Idaho. One is 12 miles away in Boise. The others are in Twin Falls, Idaho Falls and Rexburg.

The Meridian temple site is located at 7345 North Linder Road. The website ldschurchtemples.com says Meridian is the fastest-growing city in Idaho with a 115 percent increase in population from 2000 to 2010.

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MIRI: The state government has presented a RM100,000 grant for the construction of the Holy Trinity Church in Lambir.

Lambir assemblyman Ripin Lamat presented the grant on behalf of Chief Minister Tan Sri Datuk Amar Adenan Satem to building committee chairman Pemanca Wilson Siang Lim recently.

We would like to thank the state government through the chief minister for the allocation. Such a contribution is needed for us to finance the new church construction at an estimated cost of RM1.5 million, said Wilson.

In addition, he said the building committee has also received minor rural project (MRP) grants from Assistant Minister in the Chief Ministers Office (Islamic Affairs) Datuk Daud Abdul Rahman, Sibuti member of parliament Ahmad Lai Bujang and Ripin.

We are indeed touched with the support shown by the Muslim YBs which clearly showed that religious tolerance has been well practised by the multiracial people in the state, he said.

Wilson added that the church building fund is still short of RM800,000.

We are going to organise a second fundraising dinner for the church on Nov 28 at Mega Hotel. Here, I would like to thank the generous supporters, he said.

Meanwhile, six mosques and six schools here also received MRP grants totalling RM158,000 from Ripin. They were An Naim Lutong Mosque, Darul Ehsan Mosque in Piasau, At-Taqwa Mosque, Darul Istiqamah Mosque in Kampung Luak, Ar Rayyan Mosque in Permyjaya, Jamek Mosque in Miri, SJK Tukau, Sekolah Agama Rakyat Miri, SM Sains, SK Lambir Village, SK Kelapa Sawit No. 2 and SK Ulu Satap. Ripin also presented MRP grants from the state government to clubs, associations and churches.

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