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Published September 04. 2014 4:00AM

Four old-style cottages that will boost capacity, enhance experience on verge of completion

Waterford Don't be fooled by the continuing busy rumble of construction work at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Eight years after initial planning began, the campus is on the brink of a major development in its ongoing $8 million project to enhance the residential experience of visiting students, teachers and other professionals.

Four of the theater's seven new Victorian-style dormitory cottages, plus a new rehearsal hall, are slated to open in about two weeks, according to theater Executive Director Preston Whiteway. He said once all seven cottages open, the theater campus will increase capacity for residents from about 40 to roughly 100 beds.

"Now we're going to have a village," said National Theater Institute Artistic Director Rachel Jett.

Whiteway emphasized how the architecture and arrangement will facilitate sociability and create a "summer camp" feel.

Students of NTI and the inaugural National Musical Theater Institute arrive on campus Sunday and leave soon after for a brief off-campus study portion of the semester, some to London and others to New York. The opening of the cottages will come just in time for the students' return, according to Whiteway.

Jett said the additional space will allow visiting artists to stay on campus for extended periods, when in the past they might have stayed at a hotel or been on campus for only a night. This will allow greater opportunity for collaboration between experienced theater professionals and students, she said.

"Now we can invite them to work on what they're working on either with or in front of the students," she said.

Project architect Chad Floyd said he modeled his design for the new buildings on the Methodist camps of the 19th century, where people gathered during the summer for worship and community.

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) If your bathroom could use a little love, its a smart place to spend money.

Behind kitchens, bathrooms provide the second best return on investment when remodeling.

In todays Angies List report, we take a closer look at a growing trend in bathroom design. Should you swap your tub for a shower?

Bathroom remodeling contractor, Dan Updike, says many of his customers are choosing to ditch bulky tubs in favor of more luxurious showers.

The bathing generation is kind of gone by the wayside. We are a pretty much shower generation anymore. So, rather than have the bathtub that you lift your leg over thats a confined space if you put in a large shower its more of the spa-type shower, Updike said.

The trend these days is to convert bathtubs into showers. There are so many choices when it comes to showers and they potentially take up less space than the large garden tubs that have been historically in homes. If you are a homeowner that wants to age in place, grow old in your home, a shower can be a safer alternative for you, Angie Hicks with Angies List said.

When it comes to walk-in showers, the design options are nearly endless. They can be customized to fit just about any size, shape or lifestyle.

As far as options for the shower with the older generation the grab bars, maybe some corner seats, some hand held showers, things like that. Inside shampoo holders or corner shelves, we always have some type of shelving go into the unit. Frame-less shower doors so its more glass, less metal. And then its a matter of what to put on the shower walls whether its tile with accent trim tile or go to the solid surface wall system, Updike said.

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A group of retired men has been doing construction work recently at Old Liberty Baptist Church east of Conway.

The Masters Builders, a group ranging in age from their early 60s to early 80s, is a volunteer organization affiliated with the Baptist Missionary Association that travels the country six months out of the year doing ministry-related construction jobs of all kinds. Carol and Eddie Sikes of Gilmer, Texas, are among the couples who parked an RV on the property of Old Liberty, like so many churches before.

We organized in 1990. Our first job was in Delores, Colo. Some years we do maybe four jobs. This year when we finish our last two jobs we will have done eight, Carol Sikes said. Weve done 131 jobs since we were established.

Churches contact the Masters Builders when they get ready to build and get on the groups schedule. They do not work during November through February, when it is too cold, or July through August, when it is too hot. The average age is 74, and the oldest active members are 82. Members come from Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, Carol Sikes said. When they have a job, their office coordinator sends out the details in a letter to all the members, telling them when and where to arrive.

The church furnishes the material, and we furnish the labor, free. Everyone goes at their own expense. We ask if the church can feed us one meal a day, but sometimes if its a small church they cant, Carol Sikes said. Weve built sanctuaries, classrooms, family life centers, fellowship halls. Weve even built a parsonage. Any ministry-related project, we will build.

She said the group has traveled as far as Post Falls, Idaho, Plano, Ill., and Fort Meyers, Fla., but most of their builds are in Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi and Missouri. Following their stay at Old Liberty, the group had a job scheduled in Hattiesburg, Miss., followed by their last job of the year in Charleston, Mo., she said.

As the men are on the road half the year, the majority of their wives travel with them. They try to find a volunteer project of their own in each town they visit. This time the women worked at Lifeword Ministries making Christmas shoebox gifts to be taken to children in third-world countries who will not receive anything else for Christmas.

Eddie and Carol Sikes said after spending so much time together, the group is like one big happy family.

You might hear us picking at each other, but its all in good fun, Eddie Sikes said.

Dot Bowie, a member of Old Liberty Baptist Church, said the congregation has needed a new building for some time due to steadily increasing growth. She said the new building is at least three times the size of the old one. When the new building (located right next to the old one) is complete, the church will use both buildings for its ministries, she said.

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ATTLEBORO - A church on a rock outcropping at the corner of May and Washington streets was spared from disaster after part of the hill underneath it collapsed, leaving a mound of earth and stone below and a 50-foot wide cavity above.

The landslide, which happened in early August and only came to light publicly on Tuesday, shut down construction of a strip mall on property at the base of the hill and forced the developer to hire a company to stabilize the hill before work can begin again.

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A. Reed Halversen and his wife Luana were called as the first temple president and matron of the Ogden Utah Temple.

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Luana Halversen still remembers how she felt when members of the First Presidency of the LDS Church called her and her late husband, A. Reed Halversen, to be the first matron and president of the Ogden Utah Temple in 1971.

President Harold B. Lee asked if I was worried. I said, Im scared to death, Halversen said in a recent interview with the Deseret News. But Ill go in that temple and do my best, give it all I got. His answer was to go in and be yourself. So we went in and we worked.

The Halversens served in that capacity until 1976. Looking back four decades later, it was a special assignment during a lifetime of service in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

In late August, Halversen toured the recently renovated Ogden Utah Temple with members of her family.

It will be a beautiful symbol of the Lord for all who live in the Ogden area, Halversen said. Those who come to visit the temple and serve there will feel a tremendous spirit.

Halversen is one of many individuals who honor the memory of the Ogden Temple while admiring the beauty and splendor of the newly renovated temple set to be rededicated on Sept. 21.

The Ogden Temple has a rich heritage and set a new standard for accelerated temple work. Elder Kent F. Richards of the Seventy, and recently appointed executive director of the temple department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, feels a special connection to Ogden and the temple through one of his ancestors.

A couple from Brigham City remember the day that temple work was performed for several famous Mormon pioneers. For another couple, the Ogden Temple has been a central part of their lives for many years.

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