National Novel Writing Month

I have never done NaNoWriMo and I'm not doing it this year, but I have decided I'm going to try to revise the Ark of the Covenant novel (because I re-read it yet again, decided it was better than I'd thought when I decided it was hopelessly flawed, but that the first section needs to be completely thrown out and re-done) by November 30th.

I have no idea how to log progress on something like this, nor do I know where people go to get those fancy ticker bars, but whatever. I may not post updates anyway, although being cheered on is always a pleasant distraction from real work nice and encouraging.

Also -- and this is entirely related to the novel, FYI -- back when I first moved to Minneapolis, there was this church in a sort of a quonset hut right at Lake Street and the river; it had a ginormous billboard that said PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD Wednesday 7 p.m. Saturday 7 p.m. Sunday 9 a.m. 11 a.m., or something like that. (I remember the PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD part but not the precise schedule.) It was torn down to make way for the (much, much nicer) building that now includes both apartments and the Longfellow Grill. Although during the construction of the building, just after they'd finished most of it and literally days before the sprinkler system was to be turned on, it was struck by lightening and burned to the ground.

When the church was being leveled, I remember reading about a local controversy regarding whether to mark the site, because there had been a church (I think it may have even been in the quonset hut) that was noteworthy for being an early adopter of radio broadcasts....however they used their radio show to spew anti-Semitic vitriol for years and years, and contributed to what was at the time the extremely anti-Semitic atmosphere of Minneapolis.

I would really, really love to know the name of the church and its minister. My attempts to Google the info led me repeatedly to this guy, and that's not right. First of all, he was based in Michigan, and second, I could have sworn the church in question was Protestant.

Does anyone know this info, or do any of you have better skills with google?

Also, a nursing question: is there a difference between a "ward" and a "unit" or is it just that once upon a time, everything was a ward, and now it's always a unit, at least to staff? Heike no longer works at a hospice; part of the storyline is going to be her discovering that she wants to do hospice work. She's also she's much younger, a CNA instead of an RN, and working in the oncology {ward/unit/whatever} at a hospital in downtown St. Paul.