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[The summer concert series] provides opportunities to engage community members in the arts, cultural events and entertainment, said Michael Corelli, coordinator for the Western Carolina University concert series. I feel it is a valuable event for people to participate in because it gives individuals the chance to come out during the summer evenings and listen to performers fill the air with amazing music.

And with the official kickoff to summer being Memorial Day weekend, numerous towns around the region will launch their free summer concert series. Everything from old-time bluegrass to gospel soul, rockabilly to honky-tonk country, will hit the stage for all to enjoy. History comes alive through harmonious voices, percussion and vibrating strings that echo into the ancient Great Smoky Mountains, as they have for generation after generation.

June 7 Boogertown Gap (folk/bluegrass)

June 14 Juniper (Celtic/Americana)

June 21 The Freight Hoppers (Americana/bluegrass)

June 28 Lonesome Sound (old-time string)

July 5 The Elderly Brothers (oldies)

July 12 Chris Monteith (Elvis impersonator)

July 19 The Grove Band (rock)

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With the exception of Millennials, the majority of U.S. homeowners (66 percent) who are remodeling plan to stay in their home for the long term, according to the third annual Houzz & Home survey with more than 135,000 respondents in the U.S. among the 190,000 respondents globally.

The survey also found that 53 percent of U.S. homeowners say they are remodeling to increase the resale value of their home but have no plans to move in the next five years, and just 16 percent plan to sell their home in the next two years. While homeowners remain cautious about the economy, three quarters said their local housing market has improved, and there was a significant drop in the percentage of homeowners who said funding their renovation project or staying on budget was a challenge this year. Those who report a significantly improved local housing market are more than twice as likely to be planning to remodel than they are to move in the next two years.

When it comes to buying a home, high home prices are particularly prohibitive for homeowners in the west with San Jose, Calif., and San Francisco topping the list. Millennial homeowners are more likely than other age groups to aspire to move to a new home in the next five years, and 36 percent of them are remodeling to increase home value to sell down the line.

Cash remains the dominant source of financing across all age groups and areas of the country, with 80 percent of homeowners saying they paid for their last remodeling project out of pocket. Millennials were more likely to borrow from friends and family to pay for their recent project compared to other age groups, and are more likely to have used a credit card to finance their last remodeling or building project.

The investment that people make in their homes is not only a financial one, its also a very emotional one, said Liza Hausman, vice president of community for Houzz. Rather than opting to move, the majority of Houzz homeowners undertaking renovation projects are choosing to do so because they want to stay in their home, not because they cant afford to move. Significantly more homeowners on Houzz are able to fund their remodeling projects this year compared with last year, and we see them investing to create a home that meets their needs now and for the long-term.

Bathrooms and kitchens are the most popular renovation projects, with 26 percent of respondents planning a bathroom remodel or addition and 22 percent planning a kitchen remodel or addition in the next two years. Kitchens continue to receive the highest share of dollars overall, with U.S. homeowners spending an average of $26,172 to remodel this space. Homeowners in the northeast and west, who tend to spend more on their renovation projects and have larger project scopes overall, spent an average of $32,155 and $29,411, respectively on their kitchens.

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Placement of dome on the new Greek Orthodox Church on Tates Creek Road in Lexington. Time-lapse video by Pablo Alcala | Herald-Leader KENTUCKY.COM

The unofficial "church row" on Tates Creek Road which includes Centenary United Methodist, Immanuel Baptist and Tates Creek Christian is about to get a little bigger and more architecturally diverse.

The Panagia Pantovasilissa Greek Orthodox Church, being built at 3005 Tates Creek Road, should be ready for occupancy in July, said Dr. Dennis Karounos, who chairs the construction committee for the church.

For its first 65 years in Lexington, the church operated at a building a little more than a mile closer to downtown. The site was too small and had no off-street parking or handicap accessibility, Karounos said.

"We used on-street parking for 65 years," he said.

The new church, which serves about 100 families, has 53 parking spaces, Karounos said.

The new church is designed in the Byzantine style, Karounos said, with domes and a bell tower. The 11,300-square-foot structure will be ready for worship in July, but it won't be completely finished. Finishing the interior will require $400,000 on the $2 million-plus building, Karounos said.

Meanwhile, the exterior will be completed, and the interior of the social hall, kitchen and classrooms. The social hall will be divided in half, with part of its used to worship, until money is raised to complete the interior.

The social hall alone is bigger than the church's entire square footage at 920 Tates Creek Road, Karounos said.

The Byzantine architecture draws driver and pedestrian attention along Tates Creek. On Wednesday, the church's huge dome was set into place. The job required a special crane from outside of Lexington.

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CAPAS, Tarlac -- Folks in Barangay Patling in this town Tarlac denounced recently the action taken by the Catholic Church against the more than 300 years old "balon" or well located inside the premises of the St. Joseph Parish Church -- believed to be one of the oldest Catholic churches in the Philippines -- which was used as a dumping area of trash.

A small chapel was built in front of the well, which hides it. The priest assigned there also ordered it closed to the viewing public.

"They put more importance to the construction of the building than the importance of the historical value of the well," churchgoers said. They added that the present parish priest, whom they did not name, challenged them: "Kahit saan kayo magsumbong na media o television ay hindi ako natatakot." The priest allegedly said, "He is not afraid because the church belongs to catholic priests."

The faithful gathered signatures from the residents of the village to save their heritage church from what said are "abusive priests." So far, they have collected more than 500 signatures to save the well.

"Pumunta pa kami kay Bishop Cinense (Florentino) para sana ipatigil ang pagwasak sa balon subalit ang sagot niya sa amin ay 'Wala akong time. Busy ako. Pupunta lang ako doon sa Marso para basbasan ang chapel, ang sabi po niya, the residents said.

They said their mouths were shut when many things happened in their barangay. However, they said that this time, they feel that they have to make their stand and tell the world what is really going on.

They said that when Fr. Jose Daquigan (deceased) and Fr. Tirso Daquigan (now a Monsignor) were assigned here as parish priests, they desecrated the St. Joseph Parish Church altar. They said they dug the altar where some Spanish friars are buried with treasures.

A certain teenager named "Pugot" who served as a choir guitarist that time saw the digging and remembers that one of the Spanish friars buried below the altar is one "Fr. Atienza", together with two more friars. He said he saw black diaries and notebooks taken out from a tomb below the catacomb with the name "Atienza" in it, which dates back in 1773.

He said there was also a gold chalice recovered from the tomb and other important personal effects of the friars. He said the digging was personally supervised by Fr. Daquigan, allegedly a known friend of Ambassador Eduardo Cojuangco, Jr. He said the digging of the church altar was done in the early '80s. Then sometime in the late 1980s, uniformed soldiers were seen coming in out of the old barrio cemetery of Patling. A chopper was also seen coming down near the area and after a few hours, was seen flying away from the place.

The Patling residents said they were afraid to go near the cemetery when they saw the uniformed soldiers with armalite rifles and heavy armaments. The following day, they said, they investigated the cemetery and saw that the old tomb of the Spanish Friars dating back 1759 was ransacked. The bones of the dead were nowhere to be found. A big hole was dug beneath the compartment type tomb. The folks surmised that a Spanish treasure must have been found inside the tombs.

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