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On Tuesday, Owasso City Council approved a major new mixed-use planned unit development (PUD) for the area.

The project, named Emery Village, will feature both commercial and residential properties stretching across 55 acres of land near 106th St. N. and Garnett Rd.

In the planning stages for several months, the PUD will be constructed in five separate phases and consist of retail and shopping, offices and self-storage and private homes.

Owasso Community Development Director Bronce Stephenson said the City developed the new property to continue its expansion efforts in the area of 106th and Garnett, which comprises several hundred acres of available land.

As we had the intersection redone a couple years ago, weve expected that this area, in all directions from the intersection, would start to grow and to take off, he said. (Were) happy to see this area starting to develop a little bit.

The new PUD will feature 495 high-end dwelling units, including 300 multi-family, 85 attached single-family (condos, duplexes, condos, etc.) and 110 traditional detached single-family, according to the site plan.

It states Emery Village will be endowed with ample open spaces and possible amenities such as pools, clubhouses, playgrounds, sports courts, fountain ponds, picnic areas, trails and walkways, gazebos and more.

(Were) trying to put together a product that we thought would be a good fit for Owasso that blends as well as it can with the surrounding properties and provides new housing and commercial opportunities, Stephenson said.

The project, annexed under Ordinances 952 and 1098 and approved with Ordinance 1037, was developed as part of the Owasso 2030 Land Use Master Plan.

Bill and Brian Emery of BAK Development LLC, who own Mingo Manufacturing and Mingo Aerospace in Owasso, have owned the land for around three years and recently partnered with the City of Owasso to develop Emery Village.

Our goal is just to come up with the best use of the land that would work in harmony with the City of Owassos Master Development Plan, Brian said. Were just really excited to develop a new area of community for the people of Owasso.

In addition to BAK Development, other partnering companies for the project include Tanner Consulting LLC and DRM Design Group out of Tulsa.

Stephenson said Emery Village is one of around 18 residential projects comprising more than 1,800 lots or units currently in various stages of development across Owasso.

(Thats) just a really, really significant number of lots and units available, which shows that Owasso continues to be a place where people want to be, Stephenson said.

The projected timeframe of completion for the Emery Village PUD would be within the next couple years, with a pending starting date.

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Laying out by the water, listening to cool tunes and maybe indulging in some evening music under the stars thats Centennial Terrace. Owned by the City of Sylvania, the concert venue and quarry plays host to popular summer events such as the Pizzapalooza, an annual Disco Party, and a slew of varied musical acts. Its the destination for fun in Sylvania when school is out while the sun is shining, or after it sets.

James Chinni, event manager at Centennial Terrace, comes from a background as tour manager for rock bands over the last 20 years. Working with the likes of Stone Sour, Anthrax, Poison (where he was also Bret Michaels manager), and as a tour carpenter for The Rolling Stones, hes the perfect person to ensure that the summer music scene in Toledo stays hot.

When you come off a tour, its hard to get a job doing what you do on the road. Its a special skill set, managing a venue. Usually the people who have these positions keep them. When this position became available, I took it, Chinni says of his decision to get involved with Centennial Terrace.

Recent Centennial Terrace concerts include the 80s Explosion Costume and Dance Party, Tesla and Rob Zombie. The Make America Rock Again festival, featuring Scott Stapp and others, hits Centennial Terrace on Thursday, August 24.

The new Centennial, with this stage, has been here around seven years. But its been around, historically, for a while, the Toledo native says with a shrug. A venue since 1939, opening as a Dance Under the Stars venue where big band leaders, and their charges, would entertain, the 10,000 sq ft. terrazzo-look, checkerboard dance floor is a holdover from that time. In the recent past, the venue has featured major acts including Rob Zombie, Kenny Loggins, Weird Al, The Doobie Brothers, Sheryl Crow and Alice Cooper.

With capacity for a crowd of 3,000 for concert performances, but able to accommodate up to 4,500 for specialty events (such as the annual 4th of July fireworks party), the look of the venue, which also hosts weddings in its ornate gazebos, is an important facet. I did a show here with Bret Michaels four years before I started working here. So Ive played here with bands. And when we got here, you could just see from the stage, it looks nice. As for the future, Chinni says, We want to keep newer bands that are upcoming, coming to the venue so we can reach out to the younger crowd, too.

Floating equipment, diving platforms and a giant twisting waterslide are just a few of the reasons Centennial Quarry should be your ultimate summer hub.

Centennial Quarry has no problem attracting the younger crowd. A destination spot for teens and younger children, the water-filled quarry, adjacent to the concert venue, boasts a massive twisting slide and several inflatable trampolines, bouncers and floating platforms. A popular recreation spot since 1934, the quarry also has basketball and volleyball courts as well as barbecue areas and rows of beach chairs for tanning. Lifeguards require water-goers to pass a test to swim in the quarry, with an average depth of 22 feet.

There are usually six [lifeguards] here on a daily basis, Brittany Meronk, special events coordinator, assures, so the kids will be well looked after. Open 3-7pm Monday through Friday and Noon-7pm on Saturdays and Sundays, the quarry costs $6 for day use, but you can buy an annual use pass for $90 or a family membership for $165.

Upcoming events at Centennial Terrace include Make America Rock Again, a hard rock concert featuring Scott Stapp, Drowning Pool, Trapt and others, on Thursday, August 24. Centennial Terrace is located at 5773 Centennial Rd., Sylvania. 419-885-7106. centennialterrace.org

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Ask most designers what color they usually paint interior trim -- no matter the wall color -- and they will tell you the same: white.

My go-to trim color for years has been Benjamin Moore's Decorator's White, a crisp chalky tone. Occasionally, I will use Benjamin Moore's White Dove, a softer, creamier white that works particularly well in more traditional rooms.

But lately I have seen several designers breaking the mold. They have gone bold and painted window casings, door frames, baseboards and crown moldings bright, saturated colors.

Most prolific in this gutsy movement is New York designer Steven Gambrel of S.R. Gambrel. He likes to choose a deep-toned accent color -- plucked from another element in the room, such as an accessory or a fabric -- for the room's trim. "Painting the trim a bold color better defines the scale of the room, and it gives the room's architectural elements -- windows and doors -- more prominence," Gambrel says. He thinks of a room's trim as he would a picture frame: A strong-colored frame focuses your eye and outlines that which is most important.

Of course, to paint trim a bold color, it needs to be in good condition and worthy of the attention color will draw. Neither is a problem for Gambrel, who works with some of the most prominent architects living today and who typically remains involved in the architectural choices from the beginning of a project.

When Gambrel's clients agree to go bold with a trim color, he always cautions them to wait until the room is finished before they judge it; only once the textiles, furniture and accessories are in does the room make sense. "Painting trim against a neutral wall in an unfinished room feels too strong," Gambrel says, "but when you start layering in carpet, trims, art and objects, it all becomes more balanced."

Balance is important to Gambrel, which is why when painting trim a bright color, he usually uses a textured wallcovering such as grass cloth or rough-cut plaster. The texture of the walls balances out the brightness of the trim; without the texture, he says, the room would feel too "jumpy."

For trim paint, Gambrel once used only the glossy oil paints from Fine Paints of Europe, but he has switched to Benjamin Moore's Aura semigloss paints, which are free of volatile organic compounds. (He still uses Fine Paints of Europe for front doors and very special cabinet details.)

Designer Meg Braff likes to paint the trim a vibrant color in rooms that have lots of windows and doors because, she says, "it unifies the space and makes the room feel less choppy." But unlike Gambrel, Braff does not always keep walls neutral and textural. Instead she opts for vibrant wallpapers, which typically inform her trim color selection. In her rooms, the bright trim balances and anchors the busier wallpaper. In some ways it's the opposite of Gambrel; he uses textured walls to balance the bright trim, and Braff uses bright trim to balance the vibrant patterned walls.

Braff also likes to use vivid colors for the trim and cabinetry of butler's pantries and bars. She says these smaller spaces, particularly when adjacent to an all-white kitchen, turn into little jewel boxes.

Designer Katie Ridder paints trim bright colors, but she does so in smaller doses. Ridder likes to use bright shades on window mullions (the grids that divide windowpanes) to add color to a room. She does this specifically in more-open floor plans, when one room flows into another, thereby making it difficult to switch wall color. The other benefit of painting the mullions: You can skip the window treatments. This works well particularly in rooms such as kitchens where adding a curtain or shade might be awkward or bulky.

Before you decide to paint your own white trim a bolder color, know one thing: Painting trim is time-consuming. All those edges and windowpanes need to be taped, and the paint must be brushed on by hand; you can't just roll it on as you do on the walls.

Elizabeth Mayhew is the author of Flip! for Decorating.

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By Mirin Fader | Aug 17, 2017Special to espnW

Kicker Becca Longo is competing for a starting position at Adams State. But the scholarship player is not out to prove the doubters wrong. She's just playing the game she loves.

Becca Longo places a football on the turf near the 20-yard line. She takes a few steps back and then to the side, positioning her right foot -- a lime cleat with a splash of orange -- farthest away from the ball. With both arms by her side, she gently wiggles her right arm, shedding lingering nerves and doubts.

Longo is alone on the field at Adams State, a Division II school in Alamosa, Colorado, a sleepy city of 10,000 about four hours south of Denver. The 5-foot-11, 140-pound freshman kicker is the lone woman on the Grizzlies' 94-player roster. She's also the first woman to earn a football scholarship at a Division I or II school.

But on this Thursday in early August at Rex Field, the only thing that matters is how high and how far she can make that football soar. She takes a deep breath and looks up at the sky, scanning for a cloud. There are plenty: giant, doughy streaks breaking free of the never-ending blue, hovering so low it looks like they could take a bite out of the San Luis Valley flatland.

Morning rain and thunder almost threatened to keep Longo from kicking today, but the weather didn't stand a chance. Not much does. Last week, she hopped the field's 7-foot gate to retrieve a ball, which left her with an inch-long gash on the palm of her right hand. She sprinted back to the field and continued to kick as the ruby-red stain pulsed.

I don't always have to prove myself -- but I always want to.

Becca Longo

Head down, follow through. The Chandler, Arizona, native whispers those words from her father, Bob, as she launches a kick that sails through the uprights. She misses just three during the 30-minute session. But Longo, who is money from 35 yards and in and who drilled a 54-yarder in July, frowns. She expects herself to make every kick.

Her eyes circle back to the clouds. She envisions Wonder Woman (she saw the movie seven times) lying helpless on the ground, struggling to fight Ares, the god of war. When the plane, flown by Wonder Woman's love interest, Steve Trevor, explodes in the clouds, Wonder Woman summons new strength, shooting an energy beam to wipe out Ares.

A bolt of energy shoots through Longo's own body. She strikes the ball forcefully, elegantly, and it's good.

"A lot of people think, 'Aw. She's a girl. She can't do this. She's not strong enough, she's not big enough,' " Longo says. "I think it's just something inside of me. I don't always have to prove myself -- but I always want to."

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Becca Longo does lunges to Future and The Weeknd's "Low Life," and she fesses up to feeling like Beyonce on the football field.

Later that day, Longo and 42 teammates huddle in the weight room for the last leg day of the summer. "It's a Vibe" by 2 Chainz blasts while players grind through sets. Shirts are soaked with sweat. Hamstrings feel like ripping apart. Longo leg-presses 180 pounds (normally she does 360) and charges through box jumps. "I'm about to come out looking like Ronda Rousey's worst nightmare after my time here," she says, flashing a smile, going 45 minutes without a drop of water. "She doesn't take reps off," says senior cornerback Tim Brown Jr.

She can't. Not when she's battling two other kickers, freshman Tiago Paim and sophomore Montana Gomez, for the starting job. The Grizzlies, who went 2-8 in 2016, kick off on Sept. 2 against Black Hills State University.

Longo clutches 25-pound dumbbells for lunges. Senior quarterback Jorge Hernandez does the same. Future and The Weeknd's "Low Life" comes on, and the two shimmy their shoulders while singing: "Reppin' for that low life ... low life, low life, low life ..." It's a brief but blissful exchange for Longo. Here, the guys don't view her as The Female Kicker. She's just No. 45. She's just "Longo."

"She gets after it just like all of us," Hernandez says. "She's not just here to be on the team. She's here to play."

Longo, who converted 35 of 38 extra point attempts and made her lone field goal attempt (30 yards) as a senior for Basha High School (Chandler, Arizona) in 2016, doesn't back down. Not even from Grizzlies head coach Timm Rosenbach, a former NFL player.

"All right, guys!" he said last week, huddling up the team, "... and girl!"

Longo knew he was just trying to be inclusive, but she wasn't having it. "Coach," she said in front of everyone, "You don't have to say 'girl.' It's fine." It didn't happen again.

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Quarterback Jorge Hernandez, right, knows Becca Longo is out to land more than just a roster spot at Adams State.

Once, after an extra point against Higley High (Gilbert, Arizona), she was hit by a player coming from her right side. He was shocked at the sight of her long hair flowing under her helmet, her eyeliner black and bright as the night sky. Longo shoved him back. "I felt like Beyonc."

Longo, who also will play basketball for Adams State, once went toe-to-toe with a Casa Grande Union High shooting guard as both rained 3s back and forth. Longo had the chutzpah to point her finger at the girl, as if to taunt: "Come here." The player motioned for everyone to clear out, but air-balled as Longo's defense smothered her.

I'm about to come out looking like Ronda Rousey's worst nightmare.

Becca Longo

That's Longo: wanting to be everything and everywhere. A wide receiver? She once snagged an epic one-handed catch, calling herself "Odell Becca Jr." A painter? She composed a turquoise watercolor sea horse and sea turtle in July. Interior decorator? She themed her dorm room "Beach," complete with a starfish, Tahiti Island Dream shower gel, a turtle-shaped jar and even a real-life beta fish named George.

Expectations are high for the 18-year-old. "She's already shown that she's got the grit and determination to push through and make it at this level," says Katie Hnida, the former Colorado and New Mexico kicker who became the first woman to play, and score points, in an NCAA Division I football game.

But the pressure mounts. Longo was on ABC's "Good Morning America." She had 18 interviews in one day. She's asked about becoming the NFL's first female kicker, despite having zero interest in turning pro. She can't go to the local fair without getting recognized (luckily her friend Abi turns away autograph-seekers by pretending Longo's name is Emily).

"All right now," Rosenbach told Longo. "Nobody cares who you are until you make a kick."

Longo laughed, then grew quiet. She stiffened her lip. "You're right."

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Becca Longo converted 35 of 38 extra point attempts and made her lone field goal attempt (30 yards) as a senior for Basha.

Something compelled Longo to the field one day after class toward the end of her freshman year at Arizona's Queen Creek High School. The football team was practicing. There weren't any girls out there, so why not her? She had a powerful leg, too, from years of soccer (and basketball, baseball, Frisbee. Heck, she even stood up on water skis for the first time at age 4). She told the athletic director she'd be trying out for football. He laughed. "I felt like he doubted me," Longo says. "I completely shocked him when I went out and did it."

Her brother Bobby, 11 years older, wasn't shocked. As kids, the two would throw a football to each other as hard and as far as possible while swimming in Lake Pleasant in Phoenix. Once, Bobby threw the ball at her back when she wasn't looking. Longo zoomed through the water so fast you'd think she sprouted fins. She smacked Bobby so hard his back turned red. "She left a mark," Bobby says.

As a sophomore, she met Alex Zendejas, who has coached seven all-state kickers in Arizona since 2006; four of his family members have kicked in the NFL. Longo seemed to have natural talent. "I was amazed at how much power Becca had," says Zendejas, who became her mentor. They trained three times a week. "I thought something big was probably going to happen if she stuck to it." Zendejas has a rule that players end on one kick, make or miss. Longo didn't follow it. If she missed, she'd run and grab another ball and kick until she ended on a make.

But hours before her first game on junior varsity in 2014? Longo wished to disappear. She ducked down against her seat on the team bus, shielding her phone (and the tears streaming down her cheek) as she sobbed to her mom, Andrea: "I can't do this. I'm going to throw up." Too late. The bus pulled up to Poston Butte High. Crisis No. 1? Finding a girl's restroom. Three girls spotted her. "Are you Becca Longo?! Oh my gosh, it's her! The girl football player!" They escorted her to the restroom, bringing 10 more girls. Then 10 more. Soon a line for photos crowded around Longo's stall, asking for photos with her. Longo hadn't even washed her hands.

Just like that, Poston Butte kicked off the ball to Queen Creek, which ran it back for a touchdown. No time to run away. Longo rushed to the field for the extra point attempt, her leg shaking so much she couldn't feel it. Even her dad's hand wobbled as he held up his camera.

"Braxton!" Longo screamed to her holder. "I can't do this! Run it in!"

"Becca, just kick the ball!"

She did. Every muscle in her body tingled. The crowd exploded. The guys tapped her on her helmet. The moment was so sweet and so sudden she almost blacked out.

Longo soon transferred to Basha, which was coached by Gerald Todd. Todd's brother, Everett, who is now the defensive coordinator at Grambling State, had coached Hnida while an assistant coach at New Mexico.

"How do you coach a girl?" Gerald asked Everett.

"Man, I don't coach girls," Everett said. "I coach football players."

Gerald had Longo kick in front of the entire squad her first week of spring varsity practice. Her misses would determine the number of sprints to run. She started at 17 yards, backing up 5 after each make. She reached 32. Boom! Then 37. Boom! Then 42. "There's no way," Gerald said. She missed, but he was so impressed he let her try again. Boom! The boys jumped and screamed and embraced her.

"That was the moment that everybody just bought into Becca," Gerald says.

She earned the starting nod. She ignored nasty comments from some opponents. All that mattered was her teammates had her back.

"They respected me because I did everything they did," Longo says. "And then some."

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To coach Timm Rosenbach and the rest of the Adams State football program, Becca Longo is just another player.

"She's going to get drilled by a 300-pound lineman."

"She's going to get her neck snapped."

"She's just a publicity stunt."

"She's going to die on the field."

Longo ignores the daily tweets that come her way. "If they want to think that, they can think that," she says. "Then I'm just going to kick a game-winning, 55-yard field goal ... see how loud they are then."

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Becca Longo already has been both a target and an inspiration.

"I've been doubted in everything I've done," she says. "Being mentally strong is the only defensive mechanism I have."

Few expected her to play college ball at all. Adams State hadn't even intended to give her a scholarship. Offensive coordinator Josh Blankenship had heard there was a girl in Arizona who was accurate, powerful, disciplined. He went to Basha to meet her, eventually inviting her to campus for a tryout, which is permissible in Division II.

She went 23-for-25 during the February tryout, fantastic for anyone unless your name is Becca Longo. The two misses pierced her. "She puts more pressure on herself than any of us could ever do," says Ross Brunelle, the special-teams coordinator who conducted the workout. She criticized herself for not getting height on the ball, for not following through, for having her plant foot too far from the ball.

"I liked that she felt that way," says Rosenbach, who secretly watched the session. "If you can feel that way, you're a competitor." Bottom line: Rosenbach needed someone automatic from 35 and in; Longo was it. "I don't care if the player's a martian. You're going to recruit that player," he says. "The gender part wasn't really a factor to me."

After signing her letter of intent, Longo thought of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Every Christmas as a kid she'd belt out: "You'll go down in historrrryyyyyyyyyy," telling her mom some day she would. She beamed on signing day in April reading the headline: "Becca Longo is going down in history." Her Instagram was flooded with comments, mostly from little girls.

"You inspire me."

"I'm going to play football just like you."

"All seven of my daughters look up to you."

"That's her favorite part: the little girls," mom Andrea says. "There are so many little girls following her, recognizing, 'I can do this. She did this, I can do this, too.' "

Back in the weight room with the guys, Longo prepares for a lying hip bridge walkout -- which is, in her eyes, torture; it makes her hamstrings feel like they're busting out of her legs. But no one can know she feels like collapsing, that her legs are shot from kicking and playing pickup hoops earlier. She lies on the ground and stares at the ceiling, as if contemplating her two options: buck up or break down.

She thrusts her hips up, forming a bridge, then moves her legs out in small, choppy steps until they are fully straight. She holds the position for five grueling seconds, clenching her teeth tighter to avoid wincing. She moves her legs back in small, choppy steps until she returns to her original position. Rest. Another set. Rest. Another set. Done.

Pulling herself off the ground, Longo turns around and notices a faint squiggle of sweat soaking into the surface. It sort of looks like an "L." She smiles quietly to herself before quickly resuming a poker face. She heads toward the door, her biceps bulging as she clutches a ball. What will Wonder Woman do next?

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OverviewA simple foundation

Theres no need to pour concrete. Get off the ground with a simple treated-wood foundation. Build it just like a deck platform.

Walls and roof finish the addition and make it look like its always been part of the house.

Is a packed garage keeping you from buying your dream motorcycle? Or maybe you just need a little more space for lawn equipment, bikes or your woodworking tools. A bump-out addition may be the solution to your overcrowded garage. And in this article well show you how to build one. If you have basic carpentry skills and experience building a deck, shed or other structure, then you can build this garage addition. In this article, well focus on the tough parts of the project, like installing the beam and building the roof. Study Figures A C for construction details. A Materials List is available in Additional Information below.

In addition to a basic set of carpentry tools, youll need a hammer drill to bore holes for the concrete anchors, and ladders or rented scaffolding to finish the roofing and other exterior details. While not essential, a reciprocating saw will simplify the wall tear-out.

We spent roughly $2,000 for materials for this 5 x 12-ft. garage addition. Your costs will vary depending on the type of siding, roofing and windows you choose.

With a helper, plan to spend about half a day installing the beam and a long weekend framing the addition. Then plan to spend another weekend finishing the exterior. The time it takes to complete the project will depend on whether you finish the inside as we did. Keep in mind that you can hire a siding, roofing or drywall contractor to complete parts of the project youre not comfortable with.

This addition is large enough to accommodate a garden tractor, a large motorcycle, or a workbench and a table saw. If youd prefer a larger size, contact an architect or structural engineer to specify the size of the header, floor joists and rafters.

Garage additions usually require a building permit. Contact your local building department to see whats needed. Make sure to call 811 a few days before you dig the footing holes to have underground utilities located and marked.

Frame the sides of the opening and install the new header. Then support the header with double trimmers on each end.

Set the new header on the cut-off studs, then force it up tight to the plate with shims before installing the new trimmer studs.

Before removing a section of the garage wall, youll have to add a header to support the weight of the roof above it. The gable end of this truss-framed garage roof doesnt support much weight, so we were able to add the double 210 header and remove the wall section without adding temporary supports. Gable end walls that support a second floor or ridge beam will require a larger header and temporary support. If you have a second floor above the garage or arent sure how the roof is framed, contact an architect or engineer to calculate the header size.

Start by locating the center of your addition and marking the size of the opening on the bottom plate of the wall. We centered the bump-out on the garage wall, but this isnt necessary. Remember to make the opening 7 in. narrower than the width of the addition. Next make marks 3 in. beyond the opening marks on each side to locate the inside edge of the king studs. Cut king studs and nail them to the top and bottom plates. For a 12-ft.-wide addition, the distance between the king studs should be 11 ft. 11 in. Cut the 210 headers to this length and nail them together with 10d nails. Nail a 24 to the bottom of the 2x10s to complete the header (Figure B).

Cut out the top section of the wall studs with a reciprocating saw to make a path for the new header. Saw the studs 11-1/2 in. down from the top plate and knock out the short stud sections with a hammer. Then cut off the nails with a nail nipper or reciprocating saw. You may also have to cut off a few sheathing and siding nails so they dont interfere with the header. After nailing in the king studs (Photo 1), set the header in place on the cutoff studs. Wedge the header tight to the top plate by driving shims between the cutoff studs and the header at each end. Cut a pair of trimmer studs for each end of the header and nail them in place with 16d nails (Photo 1).

Knock out the wall to create the new opening. First cut the sheathing and bottom plate along the framed opening. Then cut the wall into sections and push them out.

If you have vinyl, aluminum or steel siding, its probably easier to remove it from the entire garage wall and reinstall it after the addition is built. We cut the wood siding 2-1/2 in. beyond the width of the addition to allow for 1/2-in. wall sheathing and 2-in. inside corner boards. Pry off the siding and remove the wall (Photo 2).

In many garages, the walls rest on a block or concrete curb that has to be removed to create a continuous floor. We used an angle grinder fitted with a diamond blade to score the concrete block flush to the cutoff bottom plate on both sides of the opening. Then we broke out the concrete blocks between the trimmers with a sledgehammer. If you have a solid concrete curb, removing it will be a tougher job. Consider renting a concrete saw to score the entire length of the opening before breaking it out. Photo 6 shows how to patch the concrete after the plywood floor of the addition is in place.

Attach the ledger board to the garage foundation with concrete sleeve anchors. Temporarily support the ledger with wood stakes while you drill holes for the anchors.

Use a sleeve anchor or other heavy-duty anchor to hold the ledger.

Mark the posts level with the bottom of the ledger and cut them off. Put the cutoff posts back in the holes, but dont fill around them until youve built and squared the floor frame.

Start the floor frame by toenailing the joists to the ledger and nailing through the first rim joist into the floor joists. Then install the second rim joist and nail on the joist hangers. Square the frame and nail the two layers of plywood to the joists.

Fill the gap between the garage floor and the plywood bump-out floor with concrete. Drag a scrap of 24 over the concrete to level it. Then trowel it smooth when it begins to harden.

Start building the platform by bolting the ledger to the garage. Position the top edge of the ledger 1-1/2 in. below the garage floor in the center of the opening and level it, using temporary stakes for support. Attach it with 1/2-in. concrete sleeve anchors located 12 in. apart. Add two extra anchors at each end.

Next locate and mark the center of the footings (Figure A). Dig the footing holes and pour 8-in.-thick concrete pads into the bottom of each. After the concrete hardens, set treated 44 posts into the footing holes. At this point, youll know whether you need to remove soil in the area under the bump-out to make room for the joists. Make sure there are at least a few inches of clearance between the bottom of the joists and the ground.

The next step is to cut the posts to the correct length and build the platform. Use a level resting on a straight board to mark each post level with the bottom of the ledger board (Photo 4). Cut the posts at the marks and set them back into the holes. Complete the floor frame by cutting and assembling the floor joists and attaching the frame to the posts with metal post caps (Figure A). Finally, pack dirt around the posts and nail one layer of treated plywood and a second layer of BC plywood to the floor framing. If the surrounding soil is above the bottom of the joists, build a three-sided 26 dam and pack the soil against it. Dont attach the 2x6s to the joists. The goal is to prevent dirt from getting under the joists while allowing the 2x6s to move with the soil.

Build the walls on a flat surface like the garage floor. Stand them up on the bump-out floor and nail them to the floor and to the garage wall. Plumb and brace the front wall before installing the sheathing.

Build the walls on a flat surface like the garage floor. Start by cutting the top and bottom plates for the long wall and marking the stud locations on them. Use Figure A as a guide. Lay out the window opening to match the rough-opening dimensions provided by your window supplier. Assemble the wall by nailing the studs to the plates with 16d nails. Stand the wall on the platform, straighten the bottom plate and nail it to the rim joist. Plumb and brace the outside corners. Now measure from the new front wall to the existing garage wall at the top and bottom on each side and cut the plates for the short walls accordingly. If the existing garage wall isnt plumb, this procedure will ensure that the short walls will fit correctly.

Build the two short walls and set them in place on the platform. First position the walls and nail through the bottom plate into the floor with 16d nails. With a level, plumb the stud thats against the garage wall before nailing it to the wall. Align the corner studs on adjacent walls and nail them together. Finally, use a level to make sure the corner stud on the long wall is plumb and nail a diagonal brace to the inside of the wall (Photo 7). Complete the wall construction by adding the tie plates, making sure to cut them so they overlap the top plate at the corners.

Its easier to visualize and mark the roof rafter cuts if you mark them in place on the wall.

Make a rafter pattern by tacking a 26 to the garage wall, parallel to the garage roof, and drawing lines on it to indicate the center of the bump-out, the overhang distance and the birds-mouth cut. Use the pattern to mark and cut the rafters.

Tack a pair of rafters to the garage wall as a guide for cutting the siding. Place a 24 spacer between the top ends of the rafters to simulate the ridge. Remove the rafters and pry off the siding.

Temporarily support the ridge while you nail the rafters to it. Nail through the ridge into the rafters and toenail the rafters to the tie plate. Then reinforce the connection between the rafters and the tie plate with metal hurricane ties.

Complete the roof frame and fill in the gable end rafters. Then nail plywood over the roof frame.

For the best appearance, match the slopes of the addition and garage roofs. In Photo 8, we show a simple method of marking a 26 to use as a guide for making a pattern rafter. Figure C shows how to modify the marks to create a pattern rafter. Use the pattern to mark the remaining rafters. Photo 9 shows how to cut the siding using the rafters as a saw guide. We added a 3/8-in. shim under the rafters to allow a 1-3/4-in. gap between the roof framing and the siding cut (Photo 9). This provided enough room for 1/2-in. sheathing, two layers of dimensional shingles and a 3/4-in. space for the step flashing to slide into. Adjust the cut in your siding to correspond to the thickness of your roofing and sheathing material. Set the saw just deep enough to cut through the siding. When youre done cutting both sides, remove the rafters and pry off the siding in the area of the new roof.

Frame the roof using Figure A and Photos 10 and 11 as a guide. Nail through the ridge into the rafters and toenail the birds-mouth to the tie plate. Reinforce the connection between the rafters and the tie plate with metal hurricane ties. Then complete the roof frame by adding the 26 subfascia and building the side and end overhangs. Match the overhangs to the overhangs on the garage. When youre done with the roof frame, cut 1/2-in. sheathing to fit and nail it to the rafters.

Install the windows according to the manufacturers instructions. Layer self-adhesive flashing over the nailing fins as shown, making sure each layer overlaps the one below and that the final assembly will shed water over the top of the building paper below the window.

Shingle the roof. Install building paper and shingles according to local codes and the instructions on the shingle package. Slide galvanized metal step flashing under the siding and position it over the end shingle in each course.

At this point in the project, your garage addition will probably vary considerably from what we show here. In general, youll start by finishing the trim on the overhangs, including the soffit and fascia, with wood or metal to match your garage. Then install the roof shingles according to the manufacturers instructions. The key to a leak-proof roof is proper step flashing (Photo 13). We slid the flashing under the siding. But if youve removed the siding entirely, then simply install the step flashing with the shingles. Then install the siding over the flashing.

Install the window before the siding, being careful to flash around it with building paper or special self-adhesive window- flashing tape according to the manufacturers instructions (Photo 12). Finally, install siding to match your garage.

On the inside we added a few outlets and recessed ceiling lights. Then we insulated the walls and ceiling before hanging and taping the drywall.

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Leominster Mayor Dean Mazzarella has recommended that instead of a renovation of the city's current police station, a new one should be built instead. (SENTINEL & ENTERPRISE / FILE PHOTO)

LEOMINSTER -- Members of the City Council were urged by Mayor Dean Mazzarella Monday night not to move forward with substantial renovations to the city's current police station and instead held an executive session to discuss several properties the city could acquire to build a new station.

Following a presentation of designs for how the existing station at 29 Church St. could be changed, Mazzarella told the council: "At the end of the day, it's probably not the recommendation. It's not the recommended approach."

Mazzarella also told the council that there are "two or three" sites being considered for construction of a new police station. The exact locations of these sites were not shared with the public as they were discussed during the meeting's closed executive session.

The three plans for adding onto the current Church Street station were presented by project architect Janet Slemenda of the firm HKT Architects. Options included building an addition on top of the department's garage, building additions on top of the department garage and administrative offices, or building on top of the municipal parking structure at the corner of Church Street and Merriam Avenue, which would then be connected to the current station.

Even with any of these proposed additions, Slemenda explained that the building would still not be able to meet the department's space needs.

Cost estimates of the project were not presented as they would have likely been outside the amounts the city is able to pay.

"Just adding a third floor would be the only way to fit the whole program, but the structural engineer couldn't even imagine the amount of money it would take to do that," Slemenda said. "The real question is 'Does it work for the police? Does it work for the community?' and I don't think it does."

Portions of an architectural review of the Church Street station that were presented by Slemenda suggested the building repair or replace its roofing, insulation, doors, and windows, as well as its mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection systems.

Mazzarella later maintained that, despite the updates the building would need, it's still a "strong" building.

"It is a strong and stable building and is by no means ready for demolition by any stretch of the imagination," he said. "This is a strong, functioning building, but it does not function as a police department."

Though public discussion on the plans presented Monday night were limited among the council, councilors previously advocated for building a completely new station when they unanimously voted against converting the former National Plastics Center & Museum on Lancaster Street in December.

Mazzarella told the council that the city is moving forward with evaluating new locations and that a new design for a station won't be created until a site has been chosen.

"We're hoping to have a property identified and at least have a piece put down on a deposit by the first [day of 2018]," he said.

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The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in the City and Diocese of Washington, commonly known as Washington National Cathedral, is a cathedral of the Episcopal Church located in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States.[1][2] Of Neo-Gothic design closely modeled on English Gothic style of the late fourteenth century, it is the sixth-largest cathedral in the world,[citation needed] the second-largest in the United States,[3] and the highest as well as the fourth-tallest structure in Washington, D.C. The cathedral is the seat of both the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Michael Bruce Curry, and the Bishop of the Diocese of Washington, Mariann Edgar Budde. In 2009, nearly 400,000 visitors toured the structure. Average attendance at Sunday services in 2009 was 1,667, the highest of all domestic parishes in the Episcopal Church that year.[4]

The Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation, under the first seven Bishops of Washington, erected the cathedral under a charter passed by the United States Congress on January 6, 1893.[5] Construction began on September 29, 1907, when the foundation stone was laid in the presence of President Theodore Roosevelt and a crowd of more than 20,000, and ended 83 years later when the "final finial" was placed in the presence of President George H. W. Bush in 1990. Decorative work, such as carvings and statuary, is ongoing as of 2011. The Foundation is the legal entity of which all institutions on the Cathedral Close are a part; its corporate staff provides services for the institutions to help enable their missions, conducts work of the Foundation itself that is not done by the other entities, and serves as staff for the Board of Trustees.

The Cathedral stands at Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues in the northwest quadrant of Washington. It is an associate member of the recently organized inter-denominational Washington Theological Consortium.[6] It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2007, it was ranked third on the List of America's Favorite Architecture by the American Institute of Architects.[7]

In 1792, Pierre L'Enfant's "Plan of the Federal City" set aside land for a "great church for national purposes." The National Portrait Gallery now occupies that site. In 1891, a meeting was held to renew plans for a national cathedral. On January 6, 1893, the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the District of Columbia was granted a charter from Congress to establish the cathedral. The 52nd United States Congress declared in the act to incorporate the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the District of Columbia that the "said corporation is hereby empowered to establish and maintain within the District of Columbia a cathedral and institutions of learning for the promotion of religion and education and charity."[8] The commanding site on Mount Saint Alban was chosen. Henry Yates Satterlee, first Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Washington, chose George Frederick Bodley, Britain's leading Anglican church architect, as the head architect. Henry Vaughan was selected supervising architect.

Construction started September 29, 1907, with a ceremonial address by President Theodore Roosevelt and the laying of the cornerstone. In 1912, Bethlehem Chapel opened for services in the unfinished cathedral, which have continued daily ever since. When construction of the cathedral resumed after a brief hiatus for World War I, both Bodley and Vaughan had died. Gen. John J. Pershing led fundraising efforts for the church after World War I. American architect Philip Hubert Frohman took over the design of the cathedral and was thenceforth designated the principal architect. Funding for the National Cathedral has come entirely from private sources. Maintenance and upkeep continue to rely entirely upon private support.

The United States Congress has designated the "Washington National Cathedral" as the "National House of Prayer."[9] During World War II, monthly services were held there "on behalf of a united people in a time of emergency." Before and since, the structure has hosted other major events, both religious and secular, that have drawn the attention of the American people, as well as tourists from around the world.

State funerals for three American Presidents have been held at the cathedral:[10]

Memorial services were also held for the following former presidents:

Presidential prayer services were held the day after the inaugurations for the following U.S. Commander-in-Chiefs:

Other events include:

It was from Washington National Cathedral's "Canterbury Pulpit" that the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered the final Sunday sermon of his life on March 31, 1968, just a few days before his assassination in April 1968.[13] A memorial service for King was held at the cathedral later the same week.

The cathedral was damaged in August 2011 during the Virginia earthquake. Finial stones on several pinnacles broke off, and several pinnacles twisted out of alignment or collapsed entirely. Some gargoyles and other carvings were damaged, and a hole was punched through the metal-clad roof by falling masonry. Cracks also appeared in the flying buttresses surrounding the apse. Inside, initial inspections revealed less damage, with some mortar joints loose or falling out.[14] The cathedral, which had no earthquake insurance, was essentially leaderless and struggled to cope with the cost of the damage.[15]

Washington National Cathedral closed from August 24 to November 7, 2011,[14] as $2 million was spent to stabilize the structure and remove damaged or loose stone.[15] Safety netting was erected throughout the nave to protect visitors from any debris that might fall from above.[16] The cathedral reopened for the consecration and installation of Mariann Budde as the ninth Bishop of Washington on November 12, 2011.[17] At that time, estimates of the cost of the damage were about $25 million.[17]

Identifying the full extent of the damage and construction planning and studies over the next two years consumed another $2.5 million.[15] In 2011, the cathedral received a $700,000.00 preservation work matching grant from the Save America's Treasures program, a public-private partnership operated by the nonprofit National Trust for Historic Preservation. The program, which is federally funded, required the cathedral to match the grant dollar-for-dollar with private funds and use the money solely for preservation work.[18] Whether the provision of such aid violates the First Amendment, on the ground that frees up, for religious work, funds that otherwise would have been spent for the restoration, historically has been a controversial topic.[19]

The Reverend Canon Gary R. Hall was chosen to be the 10th dean of Washington National Cathedral in August 2012.[20]

Although fundraising to repair the damage began soon after the earthquake, it took the cathedral three years to raise the $15 million to complete the first phase of repairs.[15] In August 2013, the cost of the repairs was re-estimated at $26 million. About $10 million had already been raised by this date to pay for the repairs, half of that coming from the Lilly Endowment.[21] The cathedral began charging a $10.00 admission fee for tourists in January 2014, and started renting out its worship and other spaces to outside groups to raise cash.[22] The cathedral also transformed the Herb Cottage (its old baptistry building adjacent to the cathedral) into a for-profit coffeehouse operated by the Open City caf chain.[23]

Phase I of the restoration, which cost $10 million,[15] repaired the internal ceiling's stone and mortar and was completed in February 2015. The planned 10-year, $22 million Phase II will repair or replace the damaged stones atop the cathedral.[24]

In June 2015, Washington National Cathedral leaders said the church needed $200 million, which would both complete repairs and establish a foundation to give the cathedral financial stability. The cathedral began working on a capital fundraising campaign, which The New York Times said was one of the largest ever by an American religious institution, to begin in 2018 or 2019. Rev. Hall said that the cathedral also planned to reopen its continuing education college and its Center for Prayer and Pilgrimage (a space on the cathedral's crypt level dedicated to prayer, meditation, and devotional practice). After three years of deficit spending, however, the cathedral also announced additional cuts to music programs to balance its budget.[15]

In June 2016, after an examination by a five-person task force it was announced that two Confederate battle flag images would be removed from stained glass windows commemorating the lives of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. The windows were installed in 1953 after lobbying by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. In its report, the task force wrote that it "is unanimous in its decision that the windows provide a catalyst for honest discussions about race and the legacy of slavery and for addressing the uncomfortable and too often avoided issues of race in America. Moreover, the windows serve as a profound witness to the Cathedral's own complex history in relationship to race."[25]

In January 2003, the Reverend Nathan D. Baxter, dean of the cathedral, announced his retirement effective from June 30, 2003. Baxter had led the cathedral since 1991.[26] After an 18-month search, Samuel T. Lloyd III was named dean and began his tenure on April 23, 2005. Lloyd was charged with helping to enlarge the church's congregation and make the cathedral a center for Christian thought and spiritual life.[27] Using a $15 million bequest the cathedral received in 2000, Lloyd rapidly expanded the cathedral's programming.[28][15] Meanwhile, the cathedral deferred maintenance and declined to make needed repairs.[15] Construction also began in 2004 on a $34 million, four-level, 430-car underground parking garage. The structure was pushed by John Bryson Chane, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, and was funded primarily by debt. It opened in 2007.[15][29] Debt payments on the garage were $500,000.00 a year, with a major increase in the annual debt service beginning in 2017.[30] In early 2008, the National Cathedral Association, the church's fundraising donor network, was disbanded after cathedral leaders concluded that the building was "finished" and it was no longer necessary to raise significant funds for construction.[15][31]

The 20082009 Great Recession hit the cathedral hard. By June 2010, the cathedral cut its budget from $27 million to $13 million (more than half), outsourced the operation of its gift shop, shut its greenhouse, and ceased operation of a college that had provided Episcopal clergy nationwide with continuing theological education. The cathedral also laid off 100 of its 170 staff members (about 60 percent of the total), including its art conservator and its liturgist (who researched and advocated the use of liturgies at the cathedral).[32] It also significantly cut back on programming, music performances, and classes.[33] To help stabilize its finances, the cathedral began an $11 million fundraising campaign and used $2.5 million of its $50 million endowment to plug budget holes.[32] The National Cathedral Association was recreated as well.[30]

In June 2010, the cathedral announced that it was exploring the sale of its rare book collection, the value of which was estimated to be several million dollars.[32] It sold a number of books to a private collector in 2011 for $857,000.00[15] and in 2013 donated most of the remaining collection to Virginia Theological Seminary.[15][34]

As the economic downturn continued, a report by cathedral staff identified $30 million in needed maintenance and repairs at Washington National Cathedral.[15] Among the problems were cracked and missing mortar in the oldest sections of the building; broken HVAC, mechanical, and plumbing systems throughout the structure; extensive preservation needs; and a main organ in disrepair. Repointing the building was estimated to cost at least $5 million, while organ repair was set at $15 million.[30]

In July 2011, Lloyd announced his resignation, effective in September.[33]

Its final design shows a mix of influences from the various Gothic architectural styles of the Middle Ages, identifiable in its pointed arches, flying buttresses, a variety of ceiling vaulting, stained-glass windows and carved decorations in stone, and by its three similar towers, two on the west front and one surmounting the crossing.

Washington National Cathedral consists of a long, narrow rectangular mass formed by a nine-bay nave with wide side aisles and a five-bay chancel, intersected by a six bay transept. Above the crossing, rising 91m (301ft) above the ground, is the Gloria in Excelsis Tower; its top, at 206m (676ft) above sea level, is the highest point in Washington.[35] The Pilgrim Observation Gallerywhich occupies a space about 3/4ths of the way up in the west-end towersprovides sweeping views of the city. In total, the cathedral is 115m (375ft) above sea level. Unique in North America, the central tower has two full sets of bellsa 53-bell carillon and a 10-bell peal for change ringing; the change bells are rung by members of the Washington Ringing Society.[36] The cathedral sits on a landscaped 57-acre (23-hectare) plot on Mount Saint Alban.[37] The one-story porch projecting from the south transept has a large portal with a carved tympanum. This portal is approached by the Pilgrim Steps, a long flight of steps 12m (40ft) wide.

Most of the building is constructed using a buff-colored Indiana limestone over a traditional masonry core. Structural, load-bearing steel is limited to the roof's trusses (traditionally built of timber); concrete is used significantly in the support structures for bells of the central tower, and the floors in the west towers.

The pulpit was carved out of stones from Canterbury Cathedral; Glastonbury Abbey provided stone for the bishop's formal seat, the cathedra. The high altar, the Jerusalem Altar, is made from stones quarried at Solomon's Quarry near Jerusalem, reputedly where the stones for Solomon's Temple were quarried. In the floor directly in front of that altar are set ten stones from the Chapel of Moses on Mount Sinai, representing the Ten Commandments as a foundation for the Jerusalem Altar.

There are many other works of art including over two hundred stained glass windows, the most familiar of which may be the Space Window, honoring mankind's landing on the Moon, which includes a fragment of lunar rock at its center; the rock was presented at the dedication service on July 21, 1974, the fifth anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission.[38] Extensive wrought iron adorns the building, much of it the work of Samuel Yellin. A substantial gate of forged iron by Albert Paley was installed on the north side of the crypt level in 2008. Intricate woodcarving, wall-sized murals and mosaics, and monumental cast bronze gates can also be found. Most of the interior decorative elements have Christian symbolism, in reference to the church's Episcopal roots, but the cathedral is filled with memorials to persons or events of national significance: statues of Washington and Lincoln, state seals embedded in the marble floor of the narthex, state flags that hang along the nave, stained glass commemorating events like the Lewis and Clark expedition and the raising of the American flag at Iwo Jima.

The cathedral was built with several intentional "flaws" in keeping with an apocryphal medieval custom that sought to illustrate that only God can be perfect.[dubious discuss] Artistically speaking, these flaws (which often come in the form of intentional asymmetries) draw the observer's focus to the sacred geometry as well as compensate for visual distortions, a practice that has been used since the Pyramids and the Parthenon.[citation needed] Architecturally, it is thought that if the main aisle of the cathedral where it meets the cross section were not tilted slightly off its axis, a person who looked straight down the aisle could experience a slight visual distortion, making the building seem shorter than it is, much like looking down railroad tracks.[citation needed] The architects designed the crypt chapels in Norman, Romanesque, and Transitional styles predating the Gothic, as though the cathedral had been built as a successor to earlier churches, a common occurrence in European cathedrals.[citation needed]

Numerous grotesques and gargoyles adorn the exterior, most of them designed by the carvers; one of the more famous of these is a caricature of then-master carver Roger Morigi on the north side of the nave. There were also two competitions held for the public to provide designs to supplement those of the carvers. The second of these produced the famous Darth Vader Grotesque which is high on the northwest tower, sculpted by Jay Hall Carpenter and carved by Patrick J. Plunkett.[39]

The west facade follows an iconographic program of the creation of the world rather than that of the Last Judgement as was traditional in medieval churches. All of the sculptural work was designed by Frederick Hart and features tympanum carvings of the creation of the sun and moon over the outer doors and the creation of man over the center. Hart also sculpted the three statues of Adam and Saints Peter and Paul. The west doors are cast bronze rather than wrought iron. The west rose window, often used as a trademark of the cathedral, was designed by Rowan leCompte and is an abstract depiction of the creation of light. LeCompte, who also designed the clerestory windows and the mosaics in the Resurrection Chapel, chose a nonrepresentational design because he feared that a figural window could fail to be seen adequately from the great distance to the nave.

The cathedral contains a basement, which was intentionally flooded during the Cuban missile crisis to provide emergency drinking water in the event of a nuclear war.[40]

The cathedral's master plan was designed by George Frederick Bodley, a highly regarded British Gothic Revival architect of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, and was influenced by Canterbury. Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. contributed a landscaping plan for the cathedral close and Nellie B. Allen designed a knot garden for the Bishop's Garden. After Bodley died in 1907, his partner Henry Vaughan revised the original design, but work stopped during World War I and Vaughan died in 1917. When work resumed, the chapter hired New York architecture firm Frohman, Robb and Little to execute the building. Philip Hubert Frohman, who had designed his first fully functional home at the age of 14 and received his architectural degree at the age of 16, and his partners worked to perfect Bodley's vision, adding the carillon section of the central tower, enlarging the west faade, and making numerous smaller changes. Ralph Adams Cram was hired to supervise Frohman, because of his experience with the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, but Cram insisted on so many major changes to the original design that Frohman convinced the Cathedral Chapter to fire him. By Frohman's death in 1972, the final plans had been completed and the building was finished accordingly.

The cathedral is both the episcopal seat of the Bishop of Washington (currently the Right Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde) and the primatial seat of the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (currently the Most Reverend Michael Curry). Budde was elected by the Diocese of Washington in June 2011, to replace Bishop John Bryson Chane; upon her confirmation in November 2011 she became the ninth bishop of the diocese and the first woman to fill the role.

In May 2016, Randolph Marshall Hollerith was named as the next Dean of the Cathedral.[42][43] Hollerith comes to the National Cathedral from St. James Episcopal Church (Richmond, Virginia), where he was rector from 20002016.

Former deans:

The National Cathedral Association (NCA) seeks to raise and provide funds for and promote the Washington National Cathedral. Across the United States, it has more than 14,000 members, more than 88 percent of whom live outside the Washington area, and who are divided into committees by state. Visitors to the cathedral provide another significant source of funds, through donations and group touring fees. Every year, each state has a state day at the cathedral, on which that state is recognized by name in the prayers. Over a span of about four years, each state is further recognized at a Major State Day, at which time those who live in the state are encouraged to make a pilgrimage to the cathedral and dignitaries from the state are invited to speak. American state flags were displayed in the nave until 2007; currently the display of the state flags alternates throughout the year with the display of liturgical banners hung on the pillars, reflecting the seasons of the Church year.

The budget, $27 million in 2008, was trimmed to $13 million in 2010. Staff was reduced from 170 to 70. There was an endowment of $50 million.[44]

The worship department is, like the cathedral itself, rooted in the doctrine and practice of the Episcopal Church, and based in the Book of Common Prayer. Three services are held each weekday, including the daily Eucharist. Sunday through Thursday, the Cathedral Choirs sing Evensong. The forty-minute service is attended by roughly fifty to seventy-five people (more on Sunday). Three services of the Eucharist are held on Sunday, along with Choral Evensong.[45]

The cathedral also has been a temporary home to several congregations, including a Jewish synagogue and an Eastern Orthodox community. It has also been the site for several ecumenical and/or interfaith services. In October 2005, at the cathedral, the Rev. Nancy Wilson was consecrated and installed as Moderator (Denominational Executive) of the Metropolitan Community Church, by its founding Moderator, the Rev. Dr. Troy Perry.

Each Christmas, the cathedral holds special services, which are broadcast to the world. The service of lessons and carols is distributed by Public Radio International. Christmas at Washington National Cathedral is a live television broadcast of the 9 a.m. Eucharist on Christmas Day. It is produced by Allbritton Communications and is shown on national affiliates in most cities around the United States. Some affiliates broadcast the service at noon. The Christmas service at the Cathedral was broadcast to the nation on television from 1953 until 2010 and is still webcast live from the Cathedral's homepage.

The Washington National Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys, founded in 1909, is one of very few cathedral choirs of men and boys in the United States with an affiliated school, in the English choir tradition. The 1822 boys singing treble are of ages 814 and attend St. Albans School, the Cathedral school for boys, on vocal scholarships.

In 1997, the Cathedral Choir of Men and Girls was formed by Bruce Neswick, using the same men as the choir of the men and boys. The Choir consists of middle and high school girls attending the National Cathedral School on vocal scholarships. The two choirs currently share service duties and occasionally collaborate.

Both choirs have recently recorded several CDs, including a Christmas album; a U.S. premiere recording of Stle Kleiberg's Requiem for the Victims of Nazi Persecution; and a patriotic album, America the Beautiful.

The choirs rehearse separately every weekday morning in a graded class incorporated into their school schedule. The choristers sing Evensong five days a week (the Boys Choir on Tuesdays and Thursdays and the Girls Choir on Mondays and Wednesdays). The choirs alternate Sunday worship duties, singing both morning Eucharist and afternoon Evensong when they are on call. The choirs also sing for numerous state and national events. The choirs are also featured annually on Christmas at Washington National Cathedral, broadcast nationally on Christmas Day.

The Great Organ was installed by the Ernest M. Skinner & Son Organ Company in 1938. The original instrument consisted of approximately 8,400pipes. The instrument was enlarged by the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company in 1963 and again between 1970 and 1975, during which time more than half of the original instrument was removed. The present instrument consists of 189ranks and 10,647pipes. It is the largest organ in the city of Washington and one of the 20 largest organs in the world.[46][47]

Specifications:

Michael McCarthy is the Director of Music, Benjamin Straley is the Cathedral Organist and Associate Director of Music, and Jeremy Filsell is the Artist-in-Residence. The carillonneur is Edward M. Nassor.[48] Former organists and choirmasters include Edgar Priest, Robert George Barrow, Paul Callaway, Richard Wayne Dirksen, Douglas Major, Bruce Neswick, James Litton, Erik Wm. Suter, and Scott Dettra.

The resident symphonic chorus of Washington National Cathedral is the Cathedral Choral Society.

The cathedral is unique in North America in having both a carillon and a set of change ringing bells.

The ring of 10 bells (tenor 32longcwt0qr4lb; 3,588lb or 1,627kg in D) are hung in the English style for full circle ringing. All ten were cast in 1962 by Mears & Stainbank (now known as The Whitechapel Bell Foundry) of London, England.[49]

The carillon has 53 bells ranging from 17 pounds (7.7kg) to 24,000 pounds (11,000kg) and was manufactured by John Taylor & Co of Loughborough, England in 1963. The bells are hung dead, that is rigidly fixed, and are struck on the inside by hammers activated from the keyboard.[50]

Several notable American citizens are buried in Washington National Cathedral and its columbarium:

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SUNBURY As the saying goes, the family that prays together, stays together.

The people that have been a part of Klinesgrove United Methodist Church, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary this month, will tell you its true.

Brian Moyer, who is in his fourth year as pastor of the church, said they live out the mission statement they developed prior to his arrival: Where you are a part of the family of God.

That truly defines the characteristics of this congregation, he said. They truly believe in the family nature of the church and the community, of being a part of the family of God. I see that very much in the types of outreach, ministry, and service that they do.

I think we have a strong family, echoed member Ray Shipe, who has been attending Klinesgrove since the early 80s, and who is also serving on the 150th anniversary celebration committee. We have lots of fellowship.

Well known in the area for their annual fall apple butter boil, which goes way back into the churchs history, and the huge amounts of coconut and peanut butter Easter eggs they make each year, the churchs members, though few in number, are also known for the love and support they pour out on the community around them.

Community connection

The thing about this church that affects me the most, Moyer said, is the level of activity of its youth group.

Thats something that is often not seen in many churches nowadays, he explained. But the young people of Klinesgrove are busy not only enjoying fun activities with each other, but completing effective mission work in their local community, volunteering regularly at AGAPE in Bloomsburg, Elijahs Bowl, and Haven Ministries, among other outreaches.

The church also provides food on a regular basis to people living on fixed incomes.

Their connection with each other and their connection to the community, Moyer said, is what has kept the church going for 150 years.

A lot of times, a church starts to falter and fail when its just internally focused. The more successful churches are the ones that are externally focused.

Historical connection

Currently in seminary, Moyer was taking a recent history course when he decided to write about Klinesgrove United Methodist Church for one of his assignments. During his research, he discovered the building was soon to reach its 150th anniversary. Upon that realization, the church in the winter began planning a celebration, with numerous activities this month including visits from previous pastors and historical talks. Today, Shipe said, they are celebrating with a meal, entertainment, and some re-enactors during a tour of the adjacent cemetery that is more than 210 years old. Someone is even planning to arrive at the celebration on horseback, portraying a circuit-riding preacher who had ministered to the people of the area who met in each others homes before the church was built.

The 60- by 40-foot brick structure that still stands today was built in 1867, just after the Civil War, at a cost of $9,000. Previously the Klinesgrove Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the families of the church played a direct part in its construction.

The Campbell family, who lived on a farm near the soon-to-be location of the church on donated land, used clay from their property to make bricks, which they cooked in their kiln and hauled to the construction site. Another family, the Klines from which the church gets its name also had a big part in building the church.

Even all the way back to the grassroots of this church, Moyer said, it was truly a family-oriented and family-based congregation.

Mission connection

I believe all churches have one mission, Moyer said, to make disciples for Christ for the transformation of this world.

When Moyer became pastor at Klinesgrove, he encouraged the members to start adding to their mission statement with action words to create a vision for the churchs future.

They use the words offer, love, grow and serve to steer everything they do.

It keeps us focused on the purpose and reason that we are the church, Moyer said. And that is to be the hands and feet of Christ here in the community to which we belong.

Thats our goal, Shipe added, to offer Christ to others.

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GRACETON A stretch of cooperative weather has enabled contractors to regain lost time and move up the target date for finishing a bridge construction project west of Homer City.

The Center Township board of supervisors reported Thursday that the crews completed five 12-hour workdays last week on the replacement of a culvert that carried Bethel Church Road over Aultmans Run.

The road has been closed since the start of work early this summer.

Were still holding on to Sept. 1, Chairman John Bertolino said. And we will notify the 911 center and fire departments if we are able to open the road sooner.

A long stretch of wet weather, including heavy storms and flooding that affected the work site, at one point had authorities looking at mid-September to complete the project.

The supervisors also reported Thursday, in a biweekly business meeting, that the township has asked county and state offices to allow Center Township to redirect a grant that had been intended for work on streets in the Coral area.

Instead, the supervisors plan to spend the $106,063.40 grant and the townships required local share of $31,819.02 for reconstructing Six Flat Road.

The supervisors decided that a tar-and-chip application wouldnt be suitable for resurfacing Six Flat Road following extensive storm drain pipe and waterline replacement projects this year.

The township has already advertised for contractors bids on the project. The supervisors will hold a pre-bid meeting at 10 a.m. Aug. 24 to explain the project for prospective bidders.

The board will open bids and possibly award a contract at 3 p.m. Aug. 31, at the next meeting.

In other business, the supervisors reviewed a proposed site plan for relocation of the Fastenal company to a new building planned on Old Route 119 just north of Lucerne Road Extension.

Fastenal now operates in a building shared with Nicks Bullseye Firearms along Route 119 south of Lucerne Road.

Engineer Terry Johnston presented the plan on behalf of developer Earl Hewitt, who owns the current and future locations of Fastenal.

Although the plan doesnt require formal site approval because the township has no zoning code, Bertolino offered a letter of approval that Johnston could submit with the plan for county construction-code approval.

The supervisors agreed to have the letter ready at the next biweekly meeting on Aug. 31.

The board continued to heap accolades on Trinity Energy Services, of Argyle, Texas, a company that has temporarily stationed its workforce at the new Route 119 Business Park along Luciusboro Road.

Trinity is a contractor on a cross-stat gas product pipeline construction project on behalf of Sunoco Logistics. The multi-billion-dollar project cuts a path along the Route 22 corridor in southern Indiana County.

Theyve been ideal neighbors, Bertolino said.

Trinity donated heavily to the Independence Day fireworks display held in early July in the Coral-Graceton area.

The company also sent its helicopter to hover over a rain-soaked ball field to help dry the ground for a statewide American Legion baseball tournament in late July.

We know of no other company that would come together and do these kinds of things for the community, Bertolino said.

NOTE: This story edited at 12 noon to correct the name of the waterway.

Staff writer/Web Editor, The Indiana (Pa.) Gazette

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