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Dr, B. Wiley Stephens, for 24 years the senior pastor of Dunwoody United Methodist Church, announced from the pulpit Sunday that he will retire in June.

Stephens more than doubled the churchs membership, oversaw the construction of an 800-seat sanctuary and a large Fellowship Hall and led the church to become what most civic activists consider the most involved in Dunwoody.

As Dunwoody began its three-year drive to cityhood, DUMC was always available to the various volunteer groups and task forces. When the city began, the city council met there for months while searching for a home. The citys first mayor, Ken Wright, is a member of the church.

When he came here from Dalton, Stephens was no stranger to DeKalb County. Now celebrating 50 years in the ministry, he noted that 42 of those years were spent in DeKalb pulpits. In fact, Stephens daughter Kelly is named after Kellys Chapel Methodist Church in south DeKalb.

But Stephens greatest pride is not bricks and mortar, but the involvement of church members in mission work. The numbers are astonishing.

Weve built 23 Habitat Homes, he began as he ticked off a list of mission projects.

He listed Family Promise, the Community Action Council, Package of Hope, an orphanage in Zambia, a mission couple in Ghana and a sanctuary in Estonia.

Crier readers also will recognize several huge volunteer efforts that draw more than 1000 people the Great Day of Service and the Stop Hunger effort to package hundreds of thousands of meals for the poor over the years.

Those efforts are possible because of DUMCs growth. When Stephens and his wife, Linda, arrived, the church had 2200 members (defined as members over 12 years old). It now has 4600 members. It has a Counseling Center, it draws as many as a thousand people to AA meetings for alcohol and substance abuse. Its parking lot always seems full.

DUMC is also distinguished for its music ministry.

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Though the Rev. Robert H. Schuller was the face of the once-global "Hour of Power" television ministry, he was never alone. His wife, Arvella, was always behind the scenes, working to make sure everything ran smoothly.

Arvella Schuller, who served as a producer of the television show and was one of the main creative forces of the Crystal Cathedral, died Tuesday at UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange after a brief illness. She was 84.

In a statement, her grandson, Bobby V. Schuller, said she died "peacefully of natural causes."

"She was definitely the power behind the hour," said Marc Riley, who started working with the Crystal Cathedral in 1994 as a musical assistant.

She was born Arvella DeHaan on July 29, 1929, and raised in Orange City, Iowa. She was an organ student at Hope College in Michigan when she met her future husband. The Schullers would marry in 1950 and move to Southern California in 1955 to start a drive-in Christian church in Garden Grove.

Arvella was the organist, and her husband preached from the roof of a snack bar.

As the church grew into a multimillion-dollar empire, including the construction of the 10,000-glass-paned Crystal Cathedral in 1980, Arvella took on multiple roles. She served as an executive producer and program director for the "Hour of Power" and helped develop numerous programs within the church, including the 24-hour crisis line.

More recently, the church had fallen into hard times and filed for bankruptcy. Arvella was a familiar fixture in the courtroom during the proceedings, which eventually ended with the sale of the Crystal Cathedral campus to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange in 2011.

At one point, the audience for the television show started in 1970 was estimated at 20 million. The show is now broadcast from the congregation's new location at Shepherd's Grove church in Garden Grove, with the Schullers' grandson Bobby as pastor.

"She was a natural leader, a strong leader," Riley said. "When there was a decision to be made, she made it without hesitation."

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This morning, Statistics Canada released the fourth quarter figures for the Apartment Building Construction Price Index (ABCPI), which tracks changes in contractors selling prices of new apartment buildings.

This not seasonally adjusted index remained unchanged from the third quarter at 146.0, and is up 1.0 percent year-over-year.

The ABCPI measures price fluctuations in seven major Canadian metropolitan areas (Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa-Gatineau, Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver), and is weighted by relative importance.

Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver comprise over 85 percent of the index.

Annual price appreciation was muted throughout 2013, keeping pace with the rate of inflation:

Heres how the results stacked up by metropolitan area:

As you can see, the only cities that saw year-over-year price growth that exceeded the national average were the ones west of Toronto, with Vancouver outperforming all other metros by a fairly wide margin.

Though an immense amount of high-rises are under construction, multi-family home values seeing far less of an increase in value than single-family homes across the country.

Such results reinforce the notion that the Canadian housing markets heyday has come and gone, and that real estate is in store for a cooling period though not a U.S.-style crash.

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Scores of trees were brought down and some of the areas busiest road and rail routes were blocked during the evening rush hour as high winds caused chaos across Shropshire and Mid Wales.

Towns and villages suffered power cuts and roof tiles were blown from buildings as the area took a battering from gales.

A driver was taken to hospital after his lorry was hit by a tree at Atcham. The roof at an outbuilding at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital was blown off, causing disruption to traffic trying to leave the site on Mytton Oak Road.

Damage was also caused to the roof at Oswestry Leisure Centre, which was closed while damage was assessed. In Tilstock, near Whitchurch, a tree fell into a nearby graveyard.

Earlier, The Met Office issued a Red Alert alert for coastal areas, which were being battered by 100mph winds.

At Ternhill, the A41 was closed between the A53 an Bletchley Road after a lorry overturned.

In Church Stretton, a tree came down on Sandford Avenue, just off the main A49, this evening partially blocking the road.

At Whitchurch, a tree came down on Sedgeford near John Talbot School.

At Llanymynech, power cables came down on the main A483 North Road near Station Road by the Cross Keys, and at Stanford Bridge a tree fell on the A41 between Hinstock and Newport. A branch from a tree also fell on car in Oswestry School car park

In Whitchurch, a tree came down on the A49 Tarporley Road, near the Hill Valley Hotel; in Boningale, a tree fell on the A464 between Shifnal and Oaken, and a tree came down on the A464 Shifnal to Wolverhampton road, near Hatton.

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Shia LaBeouf once again sported a paper bag over his head as he opened an unusual art installation in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

The show is called #IAMSORRY, the same hashtag LaBeouf tweeted at 11 a.m. PT, when he launched his brief run at the Stephen Cohen Gallery.

"Shia LaBeouf is sorry. Sincerely sorry," a press release for the show, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, reads. "He will be in situ at 7354 Beverly Boulevard for the duration. Implements will be provided. Free admission."

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The installation, open to the public through Sunday, asks visitors to select one of several objects representing LaBeouf's work, such as "Transformers" toys and a whip, the latter being an apparent reference to his role in the last Indiana Jones film.

In another room, the 27-year-old actor sat at a table, wearing the same paper bag with the words, "I AM NOT FAMOUS ANYMORE," that he donned on the red carpet of the Berlin Film Festival last weekend.

LaBeouf did not answer visitors' questions, according to THR, though he nodded at them after he was thanked for his time.

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The actor has acted strangely ever since the December release of his short film, "HowardCantour.com," which, it turned out, was allegedly ripped off from a graphic novella by artist Daniel Clowes.

LaBeouf has apologized several times since then, in all sorts of odd ways.

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