The Daily Sentinel from Grand Junction, Colorado • 13

LTL Craig plant, page 3B On the tube, page 4B Roving lens, page 10B Section Local newsObituariesCalendarTelevisionPeople The Dally Sentinel Saturday October 27, 1004 Keeping Santlml aUift and wlra aarvlcaa the faith FiPdDinni eyesnire icim Handy Chapel bounces back after neglect dinger Rico Daiy Sentmei Despite tax difficulties and lejal entanglements resulting from the unauthorized sale of the Handy Chapel in the late 197(k the church property at 202 White Ave. has been central to Grand Junction's black community for a century. The little chapel fell into disrepair while the courts decided its fate, and members of the African Methodist Episcopal congregation are only now getting it back into usable shape. Everyone was talking about the sore eye it was, said Josephine Dickey. "We want it to be a place black people can be proud of." Truckloads of trash were hauled away and the building was painted inside and out.

The collapsing ceiling was repaired, said Dickey, whose life has been one of devotion to the little church. Seats and carpeting were purchased, and a new altar and cross were built, making the sanctuary suitable for regular Sunday services, Dickey said. Officers will be elected at a business meeting, and if the congregation decides to find a minister and hold Sunday services as in the past, Dickey believes the church will grow. For the past several years, Dickey said, the only regular services at the church have been prayer and study services on Saturdays. The addition of Sunday services would boost membership, she said, because "more people want to go to church on Sunday than on Saturday." More important than Sunday services, in Dickey's mind, are day-to-day services the church renders to the needy.

Community service work is a tradition of the church, Dickey said, and renovation still under way includes installation of shelving to display the clothing and toys, household items and food stuffs that members want to make available to the needy. It also includes acquisition of a folding bed for use in the small house on the site where the down and-out may find shelter "We're doing a lot of chanty work. There's a lot of need in Grand Junction," Dickey said Neither race, church member ship nor residential status is a factor in the decision to help, Dickey said. "We help every one that we know of or that we see that needs help." Please cheek Chapel, page 3B Seats and carpeting, a new altar and Sunday services. A memorial stained a cross make the sanctuary of theVlandy Chapel suitable for regular glass window fund has been started for the church.

Bethel Presbyterian Reformation merits special serv ices The Bethel Presbyterian Church. Sunlight Drive and Road, will hold a series of special services for Reformation Sunday this Sunday. Pastor Don Darling will speak at 10 a in. on "Key stones of the Reformation." At 6 p.m. the documentary film "Martin Luther" will be shown.

The services are free. For more information call 434-9122 First Bible Presbyterian Crisis pregnancy seminar planned "Help, I'm Pregnant" is the title of a seminar that will be presented at 9:45 am. Sunday at the First Bible Presbyterian Church, Eighth Street and Colorado Avenue. Nancy Anderson will present a video program and lead a discussion about the Crisis Pregnancy Center in Grand Junction A nursery and facilities for the hard of hearing are available For more call 243 3272 or 434 3720 Christian Science Princeton practitioner to speak Frances Wagenseil, a Christian Science practitioner from Princeton, N.J., will speak on "Why We Need Religion Today," at 1 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Western Colorado Center for the Arts, 1803 N.

Seventh St. The program is free and sponsored by the First Church of Christ Scientist in Grand Junction. Child care will be provided For more information, call 245-2901. Presbyterian Christmas bazaar, lunch sponsored The First United Presbyterian Church, (122 White will sponsor a Christmas Bazaar from 9 a m. to 3 p.m.

Thursday at the church Lunch will be from 11:30 a.m to 1 m. Babysitting will be avail able. For more information call 242 1923. Baptist Seminar focuses on crime, cooking Crime Stoppers of Mesa County Inc. and microwave cooking will be the topics presented during the next program of the Women's Enrichment Seminar at 7 m.

Nov 1 at the Orchard Avenue Baptist Church, 1901 N. 12th St. Carolyn Beldon of the Bernina Sew ing Center and a member of the Crime Stoppers board of directors will talk about the effects of the program on crime in the Grand Junction area Marlene Kottae will also present a class on preparing holiday microwave appetizers. The program is free and open to the public For more information, call 241-7440 or 242 4103 Sacred Heart Society to hold bazaar, bake sale The Altar and Rosary Society of the Sacred Heart Church, 235 North Fork Ave, Paonia. will hold their annual bazaar and bake sale beginning at 1 1 a Sunday Homemade fudge poteca, shelled English walnuts, crafts and artwork are just a lew ol the items that will be on sale At noon, the society will feature a luncheon id lioldogs ham sandwiches, baked beans, potato salad, pie and ice cream A i attic will take place at 0 with a handmade cedar chest and a handmade braided rug offered as prizes Redlands United Methodist Social worker to speak on aging The Redlands United Methodist Church.

527 Village Way, will feature Mary Ann lleacock. medical social woikci, dining a program on aging and nursing home placement lleacock will discuss the aging piocess, the best lime loi nursing home placement and choosing a nursing home The program, part of a series on the Quality of Life Living. Aging and Dying with Dignity." will run from 9 30 a in to 10 30 a Sunday The progiam is free and a nursery will be provided For mine inhumation, call 245 1700 First Assembly of (iod Motivational speaker to be guest Neil Eskclin. author ol the bestselling book Yes Yes Living in a No No Woild will be the lealured speakei at the 10 50 a ill and (i 30 in services Sunday at the First Assembly ol God Church, 402 Grand Ave Eskelin is a popular motivational speaker at conlcroncos. business organizations seminars and churches, and has traveled over 1 million miles during speaking engagements that have reached 1 million people IDs book which has sold 150.000 copies is now in its 10th punting FuUicran Service lutes Reformation heritage The Irince ol Ieaee Lulheian Church Inteisi.ite 70and 25 Road, will celebrate Reformation Dav ith I wo spec lal sei ic es The Rev Marcus Lang will present a sermon tilled Dm Iteloi malion Her Magi' at the II am scrv i Sunday ti ac mg the leloi mation pro cess Irom Jesus Christ to Caul At 8 30 pin Wednesday students at the Messiah Lutheran Church School will present a musical progiam lot patents and the public at the church The program will lie followed bv a hymn sing mg Connie Clark Religion writer Exercising responsibility, faith and the right to vote candidates.

They don't try to influ-ence how a vote is cast They give the facts and urge people to use the privilege of voting In talking with my son recently. I realized there is something I have been taking for granted over the years "The privilege of voting is not a God-given gill," he said There was an earnest look in his eyes that let me know he felt deeply about what he was say ing I've never asked him in all of his 20 years of voting which way his votes were cast This has been his choice without any influence on my part He continued. "People died so there would be the opportunity to vote Out of the mouths of war babes, I thought, as I listened to this child of the '40s. now the father of two ol my grandchildren Later 1 found these words on my typewriter They arc not his words, but he said he agreed wholeheart odly with them "America is the recall reading somewhere about Dolly Madison's specter wandering up and down our nation's capital stairways Believe what you will On the political side, the ghosts of politicians past and present, like Scrooge's nightmares of rattling chains, dink and clank in and out of our decisions about where our vote should go We hear so much from so many about how we have to do a lot of serious study before we make up our minds Unless. as some people do.

one votes Republican or Democrat because one's parents voted that way a waste of intelligent voting power The League of Women Voters has done much to present the tacts about all sides of political issues These women are concerned about hat happens in their towns, cities, states and nation They don't tell you which party should get your vote. They do tell you how to gather pertinent information about the It's not far from Halloween to election day. Just a hop, skip and a jump. We know what religion and politics have in common, but are you wondering about Halloween and politics1 For one thing, is it going to be "trick" or Some of the ideas politicians are throwing at us look quite spooky In fact. I've been wondering if the White House has become haunted Judging from the howls and screeches emanating from some of our political contenders, this might well be the case On the Halloween side, there have been numerous accounts about Abraham Lincoln's ghost ap pearing in various White House areas.

One of the favorites is that his ghost has been seen sitting on the bed where he slept I've checked with the Mesa County Li brary, but have not been able to zero in on any specifics about White House ghosts I do. however. Picket plans Steve McMillan Daily Sentinel Several pickets are scheduled to be at the Food Store. 859 Pit kin this morning as part of "Picket Saturday," the kickoff to Pornography Awareness Week, which begins Sunday Bob Scheldt, manager of Chris tian radio station KJOL, said he and one or two other pickets would be at the store. He said the store Comments closest to God's plan ol free choice for man ol any nation in history He has a deep and abiding love for Hie Constitution, which was not an ex periment in government, but an ex pcrimcnt in freedom from govern ment I now am aware that voting is not a God given gift, as such However, we are one nation un der God Our nation needs his gui dance He needs our diligence Wo must not take lightly our responsi hilitics store nothing but incite lust, he said The National Federation for lie cency.

headquartered in Tupelo. Miss, is urging church groups and individuals to picket between 10 a and 3 today Sunday has been dubbed "Devon cy Sunday" by the federation and pastors are being asked to preai on decency and to encourage their people to write President Reagan urging enforcement ol obscenity laws pornography protest at stores on Aug 6 "I think it's time what I consider to be the silent majority wakes up and realizes that unless they stand up and say something about this then silence is consent. Scheldt said There is a direct correlation between crime and pornography he said Pornography serves no other purpose than to pander to man's base nature pornography does was chosen at random for picketing because it sells pornographic mag azines such as Penthouse. Playboy and Hustler Scheldt said he has been asking people to join in Picket Saturday, which is sponsored by the National Federation for Decency, for the past 10 days over the air has not made an effort (o formally organize a protest as he did with the picketing of the local 7 Eleven Want your church news or event Sentinel Action Desk al SOSO Bo 668 Grand Junction 8 60? or in Keopcnq the lailti'r It easy Just call the extension a to Action Desk, hrincj il in i4 Seventh Si.