Posted by Donna Marouski
Work has begun on the asbestos trim removal. The asbestos abatement crew arrived this morning and started to set up their cleaning equipment. The cleaning requires much of the church to be covered with plastic containment, so the setup will be rather extensive. Fortunately, the amount of asbestos tile ... Read More »
Posted by Donna Marouski
Things are really starting to move, after a few weeks of a slower pace. The difficulty with the repairs has been that a large number of things needed to be accomplished, but they depended on other things, which depended on other things, etc., and we were having trouble discovering ... Read More »
Posted by Donna Marouski
The area around the tabernacle and the ambo (the pulpit) has been cleaned, as reported last week. As the area is still exposed to the sky (no roof in that section), and as the area is still somewhat unstable (the damage to the support column), it has not been ... Read More »
Posted by Donna Marouski
Walking out of the Parish Center the other day, and this was the site to greet us. The clean-up crew seems to have set up the sacristy behind the church! In reality, they were doing another scrub-down of our furniture and equipment before moving it to climate-controlled storage ... Read More »
Posted by Donna Marouski
We appear to be entering a new phase of development. Up until now, we have been engaged in "Emergency Clean-up." This consists of activities meant to deal with the immediate results of the fire. Primarily, this has included removing debris from the church, and removing all damaged items (such ... Read More »
Posted by Donna Marouski
As frustrating as it has likely been for people waiting to hear the latest updates to the church reconstruction to have heard no new news recently, it is equally as difficult for us here in the office, as it has seemed like there has been no progress in a ... Read More »
Posted by Donna Marouski
In the absence of any more news on the church (the investigators are running out of ideas), we thought we'd share a few old photos of the Church from the inside and the outside. They show how ornate and striking the church used to be. For some of us, ... Read More »
Posted by Donna Marouski
On Saturday, June 1st, St. Mary joined with the other parishes in our Corpus Christi cluster, St. Joseph and Sagrado Corazon de Jesus, to celebrate an open-air Mass at the Major Parcel at Jillson Square, followed by a procession and Benediction, before concluding with a community dinner. Hundreds of ... Read More »
Posted by Donna Marouski
There is not much new information to report at this time: The cause remains undetermined at this time. Investigators are still trying to find the origin of the blaze, but have been thus far stymied in their search. Everyone expected that the cause would have been discovered by now; ... Read More »
Posted by Donna Marouski
There are many pictures that were taken of the fire on May 16th. A number of good ones can be accessed at: http://laddsphotos.smugmug.com/Fire2013/Willimantic-3rd-Alarm-05-16-13. These pictures cannot be downloaded, but they can be purchased from SmugMug, if you desire them.
Several other photographs have been collected by various photographers. Thanks to ... Read More »
