Midwest Storms Tests New Warning System
National Weather Service meteorologist Andy Kleinsasser issued an experimental Impact Based Warning as tornadoes threatened Wichita and nearby areas. The program, running through October, aims to describe risks more clearly and may have helped limit casualties on a dangerous Saturday night.
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Rick Montgomery McClatchy
Wichita, Kan
Wichita
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Weather Service
Kansas
Downtown Grand Rapids considers enhanced parking ramp plan
Cedar Rapids weighs a $10.5 million parking ramp across First Avenue East from the city hotel and Convention Complex with an estimated $1 million sky walk. Bids open May 2, plus four alternates for extra features if funds allow.
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Cedar Rapids
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Proposed parking ramp and skywalk exterior cladding plan
The plan outlines exterior cladding on the ramp facing Second Avenue SE and the side visible to First Avenue SE as part of the basic bid. A seventh-storey addition is proposed as a second add-on. The fourth side near the Theatre Cedar Rapids will be less visible.
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Last Holocaust Survivors Dwindle as Witnesses Fade
The Gazette notes the aging pool of survivors, with the last World War II veterans dying daily and World War I veterans gone. Lena Gilbert discusses conveying Holocaust memory through family history and the challenge of personal testimony as historians race to preserve firsthand accounts.
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Lena Gilbert
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