Tornado Damages At Iowa City Hit Public Buildings
Federal disaster agents arrived to record damages for possible aid as residents sorted through wreckage. Lt. Gov. Sally Pederson toured the hardest hit areas including St. Patrick's Church and Alpha Chi Omega. Repairs on damaged public buildings are estimated at 4 million dollars with potential rises of 2 to 3 million.
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Grant Schulte
Owa City
Sally Pederson
Iowa City
St. Patrick’s Church
Alpha Chi Omega
University of Iowa
Iowa City Tornado Damage Under Initial FEMA Review
James Moody of Johnson County EMA says preliminary damage figures are a fraction of total costs after a 4 1/2 mile F-2 tornado path hit Iowa City. Riverside Drive Dairy Queen and Hartwig Motors suffered major damage while inspectors from FEMA surveyed Iowa City Oxford and surrounding areas in a Saturday meeting.
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Johnson County Emergency Management Agency
Iowa City
Riverside Drive
Hartwig Motors
Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEMA
Oxford
Faith and Values Season of fresh starts and change
The piece explores spring renewal and personal shifts from landscaping to religion. Morrie Adams, a social worker in Iowa City, notes nature’s influence on change while Chris Szymanowski converts from Lutheranism to Catholicism to match his fiancée Jen Sadilek and finds a new, welcoming view of Catholicism at All Saints Church Cedar Rapids.
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Molly Rossiter
Ynette
Morrie Adams
Adams and Baumbach Associates PC
Kirkwood Ave
Iowa City
Chris Szymanowski
Marion
Szymanowski
Jen Sadilek
All Saints Catholic Church
29Th St. SE
Cedar Rapids
Jen
David O'Connor
Vilsack tours overseas troops in Kuwait and Iraq
Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack visited troops in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan as part of a four governor mission. He described the operations as massive and complex, noting camps that resemble small cities and the scale of the military effort to stabilize war torn Iraq.
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Des Moines
Tom Vilsack
Kuwait
Iraq
Afghanistan
Iowa
Vilsack
Baghdad
U.S. Department of Defense
Lundby Leads Iowa Senate in Lottery and Salary Probes
Des Moines Marion Republican Sen. Mary Lundby, a fixture since 1994, drives the TouchPlay machines toward extinction and leads efforts to unravel a central Iowa taxpayer funds scandal. She also engineered a midsession leadership coup within the Senate GOP to oust Stewart Iverson, marking a year of unprecedented moves.
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