| Cathedral's renovation could take 3 years, cost $15M
Sioux Falls Diocese Bishop Paul Swain wants to restore the beauty of St. Joseph Cathedral through a $15 million renovation project that could begin this year.
Swain laid out preliminary plans for the project before members and nuns Monday night in the cathedral's church hall.
The renovation would do more than put paint on the walls, he said. It would create an atmosphere that would bring more people to the church and help spread the word of God. "We'll have some opportunities to invite others in," he said. "I'm not going to be satisfied if all we do is restore a beautiful place. ... I'm hopeful that we also enliven this place in a new way."
Swain said the project could take three years. He emphasized being respectful of what members have inherited and doing the project right.
Fusion, Milan sedans are safe and well built, but lack oomph
Sometimes, good enough won't do it. Especially when there's a reputation to be overcome for decades of delivering less-than-good enough. That's the story of the Ford Fusion and similar Mercury Milan, Ford Motor Co.'s latest efforts to woo Americans from Camrys and Accords. .
LR2 opens more doors to Land Rover
Land Rover, home of the full-size, $80,000, V-8 Range Rover SUV, now offers a more blue-collar compact LR2 at $35,000 for 6 cylinders.
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AUTRYVILLE — Twelve-year-old Jonathan Pounders probably just wishes everybody would leave him alone. After all, it’s kind of embarrassing when your little sister’s friends call you ‘superhero’ and ask for your autograph. And then there’s all those newspaper people hanging around, wanting to take pictures of you and ask you all those weird questions. But Jonathan takes it in stride — ducking his head and smiling shyly. By now he knows that that’s what you get for being a good Samaritan. Jonathan, a seventh-grader at Roseboro/Salemburg Middle School, was standing outside his grandmother’s house in Autryville on Nov. 5 when he heard what sounded like a donkey braying in a nearby cornfield. It was noon on a school day, but Jonathan, who has ADHD and bipolar disorder, had been suspended for acting up, and he was waiting for his mother to take him to a doctor’s appointment in Chapel Hill.
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