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Studio salvages churchs stained-glass windows before building demolished
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Wendy Joliet, vice president of Studio Arts & Glass, holds a piece of hand-painted glass from a stained glass window under restoration in North Canton, Ohio. The company is restoring windows that were rescued from the former Good Shepherd United Methodist Church. - photo by Photos by Michael Chritton
AKRON, Ohio — Wendy Joliet found herself in the middle of an unusual rescue mission last month at a church demolition site near downtown Akron, Ohio. "The wrecking ball was ready to hum and go right through the windows," said Joliet, who along with her husband, Robert, owns Studio Arts & Glass in Jackson Township, Ohio. "I couldn’t bear the thought of Christ being destroyed, so we went and got the windows out.