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Two statues with symbolic importance for St. Anthonys Catholic Church were blessed recently and now stand as welcoming presences near the front doors of the church on Frankwood Avenue.

One statue depicts St. Anthony of Padua, patron saint of the Reedley church.

The other is a representation of Mary pregnant with Jesus, which is a statement about the Catholic Churchs pro-life position, said Jim McGahan, a St. Anthonys parishioner.

The statues each with a bronze coating stand just short of 7 feet tall. They are mounted on stone bases that are just over 3 feet tall.

The stands are made of rocks from Smith Mountain, which is historically significant for the parish.

In the early 1900s, 24 families went to Smith Mountain and got rocks used to build old St. Anthonys church on F Street.

This year, Matthew Reyes and fellow Boy Scouts in Troop 282 gathered rocks from Smith Mountain for the bases. Reyes role in gathering the rocks is a step toward him earning his rank as an Eagle Scout.

Monsignor John Esquivel, pastor of St. Anthonys, blessed the statues in separate ceremonies.

He pointed out that the statue of St. Anthony faces south in the direction of old St. Anthonys.

St. Anthony is basically saying, Im watching over those who attend the old church, Esquivel said.

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The world's tallest timber residential tower, 10 stories, in currently in Melbourne, Australia, though a 14-story Norwegian project may top it in 2015. Courtesy of Lend Lease hide caption

The world's tallest timber residential tower, 10 stories, in currently in Melbourne, Australia, though a 14-story Norwegian project may top it in 2015.

In a head-spinning step, a handful of researchers from Cambridge, England, are experimenting with one of man's oldest building materials the kind from trees instead of steel as the primary structure for big buildings. And they're aiming really, really high.

Already, there is one timber apartment building with nine stories in London, a 10-story structure in Melbourne and a 14-story building in Norway. But all that is dwarfed by talk of a wooden building that someday could reach 70 stories into the sky. That's just seven fewer floors than the Chrysler Building in New York City.

Architectural engineers behind the idea, which has recently been gaining momentum, say they are looking for cheaper and more environmentally friendly materials to use than steel and concrete, the materials that have dominated tall buildings since the early part of the 20th century. But relying on timber takes some doing; for it to succeed, it will require not just great architectural skills but the expertise of biochemists.

It doesn't take a degree in architecture, of course, to know that wood has long been considered too weak for high rises not to mention a towering inferno just waiting to ignite. Indeed, builders have been far more likely to opt for steel for both medium- and large-scale structures.

Yet environmentalists long have argued that the construction world urgently needs to become greener. For years, the creation of homes, offices and skyscrapers has been one of the biggest contributors to climate change. All told, these activities lead to nearly half of the U.S. global CO2 emissions. By 2050, the U.N. estimates that nearly 80 percent of the world will live in urban areas, adding up to a lot of planet-damning construction unless something changes and soon.

Scientists are making inroads by studying certain building materials, including wood and concrete, at the molecular level.

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Cambridge University has set its sights set on creating that 70-story skyscraper made out of timber. For now, it's in the design stage, but by better understanding the molecular and cellular structure of wood, professor Michael Ramage and his team from the university's department of architecture say they are certain they can strengthen the materials of a wooden building at the weakest points where the giant timber slabs connect at walls and floors.

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NORRISTOWN >> Council voted Nov. 5 to ask Montgomery County officials to support a 10-year tax abatement for a proposed $25 million apartment building.

The council action also sought a collaborative meeting to enjoin the developer, Westrum Development Co., to employ local workers and members of a Norristown laborers union. Council and the Norristown Area school board have already approved the LERTA tax abatement. Montgomery County `is the third, and last, taxing authority to act on the tax abatement.

Daniel Woodall Jr., the business manager for Laborers International Union of North America, Local 135, said the 10-year tax abatement for the proposed apartment building at 900 Sandy St. should be overturned. The union represents 800 workers including 200 Norristown residents, he said.

Mr. [John] Westrum does not work very well with our laborers union, said Woodall. I would like council to reconsider the tax abatement and rescind it.

Bernard Griggs, a representative of the building trades council, said, Westrum has no intention of working with local labor. We ask that you reconsider the tax abatement.

Tyrone Baker, an IBEW union member, said, If he is granted 10-year use of a tax abatement. He is not even a resident of Norristown. I pray you reconsider that vote.

Resident Jacqueline Jones said, I think if I have to pay taxes everybody else should pay taxes.

Council member Marlon Millner said, I would like us to send a letter to the board of commissioners supporting this project and asking them to broker a meeting with the construction trades over the tax abatement issue.

Municipal Administrator Crandall Jones said the tax abatement was not on the current tax on the undeveloped land. The tax abatement on the new $25 million apartment building would begin after one year and amount to a 100 percent abatement in the first year, diminishing over 10 years, to a 10 percent abatement.

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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU)- The countdown is on and the clock is ticking for the U.S. Postal Service. Will the doors of a new location in Eau Claire be open before the holiday mailing rush?

After closing its old downtown Eau Claire location at the end of September, crews are working to put the final touches on a new post office on East Madison Street.

There are a lot of things that we have to do as far as security and things like that that you wouldn't think of with a normal retail location, U.S. Postal Service spokesperson Pete Nowacki said.

Nowacki says crews have set up countertops and are beginning to set up P.O. Boxes at the new location. Work is on schedule for an opening date of December 1st.

It has been our goal all along to have this new facility up and running by December 1st so we can help people meet their holiday needs, Nowacki said.

While the location nears completion, satellite post office locations like the one inside of Festival Foods continue to see a big increase in customers sending mail from their location.

Sometimes we have lines back to the health and beauty aids section, Festival Foods assistant store director Teresa Henrickson said.

Since the downtown post office on Barstow Street closed its doors at the end of September, Henrickson says they have adjusted the staffing and the hours of their satellite location to keep up with customer demand.

We have been tracking our increase in business and it's been up 30% since they have closed and we have added extra staff, Henrickson said.

As work continues on the new location, there are several spots around town you can take your mail to. A temporary post office, that currently houses P.O. boxes has been set up at the USPS processing facility on Hogarth Street.

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CHICAGO For years, this brown-brick building near Wrigley Field housed people who had nowhere else to go. It had peeling walls and broken smoke detectors. But its tiny one-room apartments offered homes to residents too poor for a one-bedroom, too risky to pass a credit check, too vulnerable on the perpetual edge of homelessness to sign a one-year lease.

Today, from the outside, the building looks the same: six stories, with tall windows and an elaborately carved entryway that still announces the property by its pre-World War II name, the Hotel Carlos. But it now contains studios remodeled with stainless steel appliances, granite countertops and hardwood floors. Rent reaches $1,125 a month. The ad in the window promises vintage charm.

In buildings like this one on Chicagos North Side, the shrinking pool of affordable housing a problem facing many thriving cities is playing out in a particularly vividway. Often, gentrification displaces the poor through less directmeans: Wealthier residents move in, businesses catering to them follow, property values rise, the economics of a neighborhood change, and longtime residents are priced out. But here and in other former single room occupancy hotels in Chicago the displacement is much more literal.

It is one unit for one unit, one single, living alone, for another single, living alone. Young professionals are moving in to occupy the very same and very small spaces recently home to people living on less than $1,000 a month. In their remodeled homes, sometimes as small as 250 square feet, what was once deteriorating becomes vintage.

When the building near Wrigley was sold to a developer in 2011, the low-income residents in its 130 units had to move out. And then something similar happened at the Abbott Hotel on Belmont. And the Norman on Wilson, and the Chateau on Broadway, and the Lawrence House in Uptown.

Its like a systematic taking over of where poor people live, says Adelaide Meyers, a soft-spoken 47-year-old woman who had to leave the Norman. She now lives in an apartment, where her father had to co-sign the lease, on the far north side of the city. The crime is worse in that part of town.

For Chicago, the debate over these buildings captures a larger tension that is simultaneously playing out in parts of Los Angeles and New York and Washington: The new owners and tenants moving in bring higher tax dollars, capital to revive old buildings and momentum to draw even more young professionals. But those benefits have come at a cost. Now Chicago is trying to save what amounts to 6,000 remaining SRO units, a small fraction of what once existed in the city as a housing stock of last resort for the poor.

The city council passed an ordinance today aimed at protecting the buildings and their residents. Developers and building owners have argued, though, that the new law will unfairly expect a few property owners in the city to take responsibility for a problem Chicago's shortage of affordable housing far beyond their control.

In an unfortunate twist of geography, many of the remaining SROs in Chicago happen to be located in lakefront neighborhoods on the North Side that are now in vogue. Since 2011, developers there have bought more than 2,000 low-income units for conversion into high-end apartments where the rent costs twice as much.

The properties arent simply demolished, cleared for wholesales redevelopment, because while they may be crumbling on the inside, they are often beautiful from the street, wrapped in art deco details or stone filigree. For new residents, these places embody an alternative to yuppie Chicago: historic architecture instead of cookie-cutter construction, authentic neighborhoods instead of ritzy ones.

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