06 Apr 1997
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1997
Page
1
A travel feature highlights Hampstead offering a peaceful escape from urban life near London. The piece notes tranquil streets and leafy surroundings as a contrast to the city bustle. Editors emphasize calm spaces, strolls, and cultural touches in a historic neighborhood.
The term family once described a working father a stay-at-home mother and children. Now it often means a single parent or grandparent raising children. Yet a core mission stays intact passing on values to the children.
The Gazette begins a nine week series exploring how families strive with a mission to shape children values. Thirty nine volunteers were considered from over forty, inviting writers photographers and readers into their lives.
In Iowa City at the Lutz home, grandmother guides Constance Brunston and Canishia Stevens in braided hair as Dorothy Knoke heads a disciplined family routine. The piece quotes YMCA official Ron Kinnamon and Rev Cedric Lofdahl on values being taught at home and in the community, citing a national push for core values like honesty and responsibility.
Dorothy Knoke, 47, manages three grown children and seven grandchildren with humor and resilience. Her daughter Chris Stevens is in prison for crack cocaine sales, while Dorothy cares for Chris's three children and keeps daily life via cooking, chores, and patience.
Poet Allen Ginsberg, a Beat icon and counterculture guru who popularized spontaneous verse, died Saturday at age 70 after a recent liver cancer diagnosis. He helped redefine poets as public figures and pop culture figures.
Two children walking along Club Road in Linn County were killed when a northbound car lost control and rolled over on them. A fifth year old boy and a twelve year old girl died at the scene. two male occupants of the car were hospitalized. The sheriff urged updates at 363-7000 or 337-7000.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat calls on President Clinton to require an Israeli pledge to halt settlement construction on disputed land. Arafat’s cabinet says U S credibility is at stake ahead of Clinton Netanyahu talks.
The piece reviews claims by professors in Vancouver and Decorah that the spring time change disrupts circadian rhythms, increasing alertness lapses and accident risk. It cites a 1994 Buchanan County fatality and a 1995 Handi Mart crash as examples, with Luther College psychologist Bill Moorcroft comparing it to jet lag.
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