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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 2002
Page
13
Cedar Rapids City Council designates June 27 to July 7 2002 for the Freedom Festival in its 19th year. The event schedule totals 78 activities with 21 new offerings at 41 sites around the city, guided by executive director Nancy Hedges Wendler.
The Freedom Festival in Cedar Rapids runs 11 days with concerts by Paul Revere and the Raiders and Little River Band at Kirkwood Community College on July 6, and a patriotic pops by the Cedar Rapids Symphony on July 5 followed by fireworks. Celebrity appearances include Marine Corps Band Twenty Nine Palms and a trapshooting tournament at Otter Creek Sportsman Club. Festival buttons go on sale May 24 for 2 dollars offering admission discounts. Residents can nominate local heroes for a luncheon kickoff, and last year drew 275000 attendees with expectations of 300000 this year.
Contact water official Rick Smith for information at phone number (319) 398-8312 or via email at ricksfyiowa.com for further details and assistance.
A May 15 restitution hearing is scheduled for Michael Fitzpatrick a 48 year old Port Washington Wisconsin man who pleaded guilty to first degree theft of medical equipment valued over ten thousand dollars from St Luke s Hospital and Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids during October 1999 The judge sentenced him to an indeterminate sentence up to ten years suspended the term and placed him under Department of Corrections supervision for three years with a $1000 fine and costs Fitzpatrick also faces charges of theft in Johnson County for stealing equipment from University Hospitals and Mercy Iowa City in 1999
McLeodUSA seeks to amend 1996 1997 development agreements with the city to reduce property tax reimbursements as it projects 2000 average full time employees at the McLeod Technology Park down from 2450. Building One would average 760 jobs and Building Two 1240. Public hearing set for April 10. Mayor Paul Pate and city council studied the proposal awaiting comment.
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