Cities restrict heavy truck traffic in Mount Vernon Lisbon
Mount Vernon and Lisbon halt heavy truck traffic on asphalt and seal coated streets due to spring melting frost. Embargoes began Wednesday and run until conditions improve. Garbage pickup limited to concrete streets. trucks sank on buckled surfaces. Reopening possible next week if weather clears.
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Mount Vernon
Lisbon
Rick Elliott
Mindy Greer
Elliott
Greer
Cedar Rapids Seeks Stimulus Bus Funds for Upgrades
Cedar Rapids City Council authorized the Iowa Department of Transportation to apply for 282800 from a Clinton stimulus plan for transit upgrades. Funds would remanufacture two buses replace underground tanks convert a van to natural gas with a 70 700 local match. Transit Director Bill Hoekstra outlined the project and funding plan.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Clinton
Iowa Department of Transportation
Congress
Transit
Bill Hoekstra
Actress Schyleen Qualls Stages The Last Word
Mount Vernon notes Actress Schyleen Qualls presents The Last Word a 11 a m program in King Chapel Cornell College featuring Nikki Giovanni Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes works. The one woman show uses humor and art to explore American culture inviting all to attend. Qualls previously performed with Rev. Jesse Jackson in 1988 campaign and at the League of Women Voters national convention.
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Schyleen Qualls
King Chapel
Cornell College
Nikki Giovanni
Maya Angelou
Langston Hughes
Qualls
Jesse Jackson
The
League of Women Voters
Dartmouth Debaters Win 47th National Tournament in Iowa
A Dartmouth College team won the 47th Collegiate National Debate Tournament at the University of Northern Iowa after defeating Georgetown University in a championship decided around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday. Seventy four teams started the eight preliminaries with UNI and Iowa teams reaching semis before falling to Dartmouth.
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Dartmouth College
University of Northern Iowa
Dartmouth
Georgetown University
Iowa
UNI
Eart Greene
Cedar Rapids
University of Iowa
Tiffany Earl
Open House at Pappajohn Clinical Cancer Center in Iowa City
University Hospitals hosts an open house for the John and Mary Pappajohn Clinical Cancer Center from 2 to 4 30 p m. today with tours from the ambulatory care clinic on level four of the Pappajohn Pavilion. The center’s inpatient units opened Monday and ambulatory areas will open next Monday featuring 88 acute adult inpatient beds and a 24 room multispecialty ambulatory clinic.
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University Hospitals
John and Mary Pappajohn
John Pappajohn
Cornell College President David Marker to resign in 1994
Cornell College announces President David Marker will step down when his contract ends June 30 1994 after nine years in office. The board accepted the resignation and plans to hire a replacement by Marker’s departure. Marker 56 says personal and professional reasons drove the decision and may pursue further academic work.
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John Kirsch
Cornell College
David Marker
Marker
College Board of Trustees
Thomas Jarom
Cornell
Marie DeVries
Jarom
Atlantic
Hope College
Holland
Mich
Chicago
Cedar Rapids water plant bids cut project cost
Bids for a Cedar Rapids water treatment plant show total bids for three contract components at 17.7 million, down from the 20.8 million estimate, with a previous site contract of 2.4 million bringing potential total to about 20.1 million. Construction will boost daily capacity by 20 million gallons when completed in mid 1995.
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Lonnie Zingula
Cedar Rapids
Lyle Hanson
Water Department
Ellis Road
80Th Street NW
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
Missouri
Hanson
Johnson Brothers
Richfield, Minn
CD Smith
Fond du Lac, Wis
RC Construction
Peoria, Ill
Pieper Electric
Milwaukee
Esco Electric
Marion
Gene Larson Inc
Adolfson & Peterson
Pieper
Four men face first degree murder charges in Wagehoft slaying
Four Johnson County men are charged in district court with first degree murder in the March 19 shooting death of Ryan Wagehoft. Affidavits show co-defendants place responsibility on Coleman while investigators await lab results to identify the shooter. Evidence suggests the group acted together, with bail set at $500000 each and separate arraignments scheduled.
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Gazette
Johnson County
Iowa City
Ryan Wagehoft
Wagehoff
Anne Lahey
Johnson County District Court
Kevin Lamont Williams
W. Benton St
Apt
Tommie George McCune
Michael Earl Coleman
Washington
Iowa
Otis Penelton
Brighton
Coleman
Williams
Penelton
McCune
Lahey
An At
Torney
Wagehoft
Forest View
Ryan Henry
Henry
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Maquoketa
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Hone
Aterloc
Msedar Rapids
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Marengo
Lowa City
Lone Tree
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Adolfson & Peterson Inc. of
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