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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 2008
Page
9
A Sunday morning fire in a corridor kitchen at The Lodge apartments 101 Hawkridge Dr caused 2500 in damage. The sprinkler extinguished the blaze in room 2204 on the second floor. Crews checked adjacent units and ventilated smoke with no injuries reported.
Cedar Rapids Civil Rights Commission will host an informational session on fair housing laws from 12 30 to 2 30 p m today at the Jane Boyd Community House. Additional meetings are set for April 21 and 28 with free public access. The fair housing rule bans housing decisions based on race color creed national origin religion gender disability or presence of children. A Cedar Rapids rental housing audit recently yielded 30 citations for possible violations.
Former Norway High School coaches Jim Van Scoyoc and Kent Stock join producers Tony Wilson Steve Schott and Vaurd for a Tuesday DVD release push. They appear on KZIA 6 30 to 9 AM at Wal Mart Supercenter 3601 29th Ave SW and attend a 6 PM Veterans Memorial Stadium first pitch with Kernels, movie trailers, and seventh inning singing. The film covers the 1991 Norway Iowa High School baseball team chasing a 20th state title.
Todd Sabin of Cedar Rapids preserves local history with items from the Gazette archives and era collectibles. His exhibit includes a 1920s Drive Yourself Onto Livery thermometer at 514 So 3rd St East, a 1925 and 1927 McKinley Mirror, and a Merchants National Bank space ship bank from the 1950s or 60s. Sabin owns Four Prong Construction and lives near his build site with his wife and three children.
Tiffany Wilson, an 18 year old former foster youth, balances art and community work while leveraging a weekday off to mentor neighbors. She helps at the state level by sharing her experiences on welfare committee efforts, aiming to aid other youths in transition.
Tiffany Wilson a former foster youth aged 18 recounts moving between homes since December 2004. An art therapist at a shelter helped her cope and sparked plans to become an art therapist herself. She graduated Linn-Mar High School and will study at Kirkwood then Central College, thanking the Nancy and Dan Jones family of Oskaloosa for support.
Belle Plaine residents Sean and Jackie VanGorp removed a pool and fence built near the street after city council orders in the 2006 summer dispute. The family stored the items in a garage and left the pool pad in the right of way, awaiting further city direction. The trio cited unclear property boundaries and lack of official guidance as factors in the conflict.
Sean and Jackie VanGorp stand before the pool and fence they built in 2006. They have since dismantled the items following city orders and plan to sell them.
In 2006 Belle Plaine told Sean and Jackie VanGorp to remove a pool and a 6 foot privacy fence built on the city right of way. The couple argued the city should make an exception since no sewer mains electrical lines plans for sidewalks existed on the disputed property.
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