Meath Park group attempts to save old church
A resident in Meath Park took a stand for history and heritage by trying to stop the demolition of an old and unused church in her community.
Pauline Bear is part of the Country Gospel Fellowship, an organization which holds the title to the lands where the old Eastern Orthodox Church sits. She used her truck and at times her body, to attempt to block an excavator from demolishing the old church.
Bear said she and other members of the Country Gospel Fellowship were never told the church which sits across from the Meath Park School would be demolished. In response, she parked her truck in front, and said she wouldn’t leave.
She didn’t deny the building needed to be demolished, rather, she wanted to see it respectfully torn down and components of the church saved.