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	Kiel Opera House Restoration: Archbishop Timothy Dolan Faces Opposition Berger's Beat November 15, 2010 http://bergersbeat.com/kiel-opera-house-restoration-archbishop-timothy-dolan-faces-opposition/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BergersBeat+%28Berger%27s+Beat%29 With thick slabs of midday sunshine between layers of misty gray, dried leaves crackling underfoot like potato chips, spectators along Market Street are beginning to see and hear progress at the Kiel Opera House. Restoration seems to be on schedule with scaffolding up to the ceiling, the cleaning and polishing of art deco and gold leaf, all new plumbing and electrical systems, wider seating, removal of false ceilings from the auditorium, which had once divided courts and offices and load-in will begin on the Fifteenth Street side. Arguably, the work may be completed by October, 2011. Quick, call the photo editors!. . .Hometowner and Archbishop of New York Timothy Dolan may yet get another promotion. He’s one of several candidates for the presidency of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Smart money, however, is on the USCCB’s current veep Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson. Clergy sex abuse victims are opposing Archbishop Dolan’s election due to his actions in August about a prominent Harlem cleric who faces nine accusations of molesting minors. Instead of permanently ousting the monsignor from ministry and revealing the matter to the public, that the allegations are credible, Archbishop Dolan quietly let him resign and left the impression that the cleric’s health problems were the cause of his leaving. . .While Big Oil candidates won many races on Nov. 2, Sierra Club members here are responding by hiring a state director to expand the fight for a clean energy agenda. Longtime activist John Hickey will take the helm of the chapter director beginning Nov. 16. Watch for the 10,000 club members in Missouri to fight back against efforts to roll back the gains of the last two years. One big fight on the horizon: the Sierra Club supports EPA’s efforts to regulate greenhouse gases. Hickey said, “It is time to move away from Dirty Energy and build a clean energy economy that creates jobs and saves the planet.”
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