You think your heating bills are high?
Be glad you aren’t in charge of the St. Chad’s building in Regina, where thousands of dollars were spent last winter to keep things toasty.
The Anglican Diocese of Qu’Appelle was paying $2,000 a month to keep the chill away from the 98-year-old Regina building, although thanks to some renovations, the bills are expected to be lower this winter, according to archdeacon Rob Hardwick.
Greetings from chilly London where my car is covered in unseasonal snow. No doubt readers of this blog in, say, northern Minnesota or upstate New York will laugh at how everything collapses in the UK as soon as we have a few inches of snow. Airports have shut, roads have become unusable and railways have ground to a halt. But, back to the parish, and despite having the heating on for two hours yesterday, the temperature in church was still at freezing level. The church is a soaring-roofed neo-gothic gem which regularly delights visitors but our wheezing heating system cannot cope with really cold temperatures. So I have moved the weekday morning Mass into the warm parish centre.
Potential dumb comment: I wonder if infra-red heaters would be better? The goal is to keep parishioners warm during worship, not to keep the building warm. Admittedly, I don’t know exactly how they would be deployed in a large building effectively, but their energy consumption would be better focused on the goal of heating people.
Sorry this is off topic. Where is your parish Fr. Terry?
L.