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Rhea Corrion shared this photo of Methodist Churchs first board members from 1923 or 24. Contact Cathy Cottrill if you know the names of any of these people.

BONITA SPRINGS Thanks to Doris Ruth Wollam, Rhea Corrion, Judy Supinie and Kathy Schmitt, we now know quite a bit about one of the communitys most historic church.

Corrion was kind enough to send a history of the chapel that was the original Methodist Church.

The building was the original building for the current First United Methodist Church of Bonita Springs on Shriver Avenue, said Corrion. The house behind the chapel was the parsonage.

Corrion shared several church-related pictures. One features the first board members from 1923 or 24. Unfortunately, she did not know the names of the members, but Im including it today in hopes that someone can identify them. If you know anyone in the photo, please contact me.

The other photo is of the miniature model of the chapel that rides in the Bonita Springs Fourth of July parade each year, sponsored by the First United Methodist Church.

Wollam, whose parents once ran the Wayside Inn on what was then called the Tamiami Trail, has fond memories of the cozy little church. She was 12 years old when her family moved here in 1942 and she recalls helping to teach Sunday school at the church.

It was so nice in that smaller church, said Wollam. I remember the old-fashioned Sundays when we sang the old songs. It was so wonderful.

This is the original First United Methodist Church of Bonita Springs on the corner of Shriver and Crockett, said longtime resident Judy Supinie, a frequent contributor to this column. It was built in the 1920s and has since been added onto. I think the Matheson family was involved with the early construction. I am not a member of the church but drive past there often and at one time my precinct used to vote there. Currently they graciously allow the New Chorale of Southwest Florida, of which I am a member, to use one of their rooms for rehearsals.

Kathy Schmitt provided quite a bit of history about the churchs formation. Heres an excerpt:

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Orlando Sentinel's Mark Schlueb speaks with FOX35 about Orlando filing a lawsuit to force a church to sell its land for the new Major League Soccer stadium. (Video by FOX35)

After a year of failed talks, Orlando has filed suit in court to force a family-owned church in Parramore to sell its land to make way for a new Major League Soccer stadium.

If successful, the eminent domain action filed Thursday in Orange Circuit Court would allow Orlando to take the last of 20 parcels needed for the $115 million stadium being built for the Orlando City Lions, an MLS expansion franchise.

Newly released records show the city more than doubled its initial offer for the small, African-American-owned Faith Deliverance Temple, to $4 million.

Members of the family that owns the church reduced their initial selling price from $35 million to $15 million. Even so, the two sides remained far apart.

City Attorney Mayanne Downs characterized the church's asking price as essentially "a blank check."

"We've got a duty to safeguard the assets of the city," Downs said. "While we were certainly willing to pay the Williams family a substantial amount of money much more than the property is worth by any estimate there comes a point where we have to go to court."

Asked for comment, church representative Jonathan Williams referred questions to the church's lawyer, who did not return a call Tuesday.

The process of eminent domain, or condemnation, has two phases.

First, a judge will decide whether the purpose of taking the land building a soccer stadium fits the law's definition of a legitimate public use.

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) When a South Korean ferry sank with hundreds trapped inside last month, the whole world knew about it. But in North Korea, there was utter silence about the collapse of a 23-story apartment building for five days, until state media issued a rare apology.

The North is not a black hole for information. More than 2 million people have cellphones. Hundreds of foreigners live in Pyongyang, the showcase capital where the collapse occurred a week ago Tuesday. A handful of international news bureaus, including The Associated Press, operate there, and the city sees a steady procession of visiting tourists, academics and diplomats.

But with no Internet for most citizens, a local press that operates as the government's propaganda wing and a security apparatus that severely curbs foreigners and citizens alike, if North Koreans get news about something, it is almost always because the nation's young leader, Kim Jong Un, wants them to get it.

Kim may not have meant for his people to know anything about the collapse at first. Three days after it happened, a North Korean state-run newspaper carried a photo of the beaming leader watching a soccer match. The date shown on a screen display of a telephone beside Kim was a day after the collapse, according to a South Korean official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak to media about the matter.

Chang Yong Seok, an analyst at Seoul National University, said North Korea may have finally publicized the building collapse because news was likely spreading among citizens in Pyongyang via the domestic cellphone service.

In any case, the delay in reporting gave North Korea's propaganda mavens more time to spin the narrative in a way that glorified the ruling Kim family.

The North Korean story highlighted a grieving Kim Jong Un, who one official told state media "sat up all night, feeling painful after being told about the accident."

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"As with everything in North Korea, this is all about establishing Kim Jong Un's legitimacy," said John Delury, a specialist on North Korea and China at Yonsei University in Seoul. "Even when a building collapses, they're thinking about how to use it to consolidate his power."

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