Bend church recovers from fire

From Oregon-

Peter Lovering stopped a tour of Trinity Episcopal Church’s main building in downtown Bend so he could admire some of the embellishments a Kirby Nagelhout Construction contractor put on an archway that led into the church’s upstairs chapel.

This room and the church’s main sanctuary or nave — which in their original form date back almost 90 years — were almost destroyed by a pair of fires set on March 6, 2013, that also damaged St. Helens Hall, an axillary church building just across the street.

“It started right here,” Lovering said as he pointed to a ladder that unintentionally marked the blaze’s ignition point. “They smashed the windows, got inside (this building and another church building) and started two fires at the exact same time.”

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