{"id":230201,"date":"2018-03-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/st-therese-tower-being-rebuilt\/"},"modified":"2018-03-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T08:00:00","slug":"st-therese-tower-being-rebuilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/st-therese-tower-being-rebuilt\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Therese tower being rebuilt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doug Curlee | Editor en general<\/p>\n

If you knew what to look for in the past 60 years, you could always find St. Therese Catholic Church at Navajo and Waring roads in San Carlos.<\/p>\n

All you needed to see was the 100-foot tower beside the church building itself. You could see it from quite a distance away.<\/p>\n

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The tower of St. Therese Catholic Church is under construction due to water damage. (Foto por Doug Curlee)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You can still see it \u2026 sort of.<\/p>\n

The tower is slowly being rebuilt, starting around two years ago, because of long-term damage that could have eventually caused the tower to collapse.<\/p>\n

What brought this about? Simple.<\/p>\n

\u201cWater damage,\u201d said Father Peter Bosque. \u201cAnyone who\u2019s ever had to repair and renovate old homes knows what the problems are. Rot, mold, all the things that happen to old, basically wooden structures happened here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Things like this often involve several city departments signing off on the project, issuing permits and doing ongoing inspections.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe decided to try to avoid all that, and what we\u2019re doing is \u2018like to like\u2019 replacement of everything,\u201d Father Bosque explained. \u201cIn other words, we\u2019re redoing the tower the way it was originally built \u2014 replacing wood with wood; collecting, cleaning and rehabilitating all the decorative tile work from the original; and reinstalling it where it was before. No steel, no real modern building materials, nothing that wasn\u2019t a copy of the original. Under the law, you\u2019re allowed to do that without the permitting processes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, that takes time and money \u2014 a lot of money.<\/p>\n

Father Bosque cringes a little when he considers the cost of all this.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started out with a budget target of about $327,000. Now, we\u2019re figuring on about $600,000. But we\u2019re going to get what we want out of it, someday.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSomeday\u201d speaks to the slow pace of the job, but no one\u2019s in a major hurry to get it all done. There have been rain delays and other problems that just happen.<\/p>\n

Father Bosque said the church started planning for the tower rebuild two years ago and the construction began in August 2017.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s hoping for a finish in October of this year or so \u2014 but, he said, there are no guarantees.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s what good priests provide: Hope.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Doug Curlee es editor general. llegar a \u00e9l en doug@sdcnn.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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