Freedom Festival 2001 set with 86 events in Cedar Rapids
City council heard that Freedom Festival 2001 will feature 86 events including 25 new ones. The dates June 21 to July 4 were designated as official festival days with fireworks on July 4 and a rain date July 5. The theme is United Neighborhoods with a house walk, Overalls All Over replica paintings, a bike challenge, car show, rodeo, drum corps reunion and a Cedar River Trail walk ride glide. Musical acts will be announced soon.
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Michelle Stoos
Grant Wood
Cedar River Trail
Deer escapes through three apartment windows in Cedar Rapids
A frightened deer leaped through three apartment windows at the Cambridge Townhouse complex in the 2100 block of Northtowne Court NE around 8 a.m. Tuesday. Animal Control Officer John Meeker said the animal panicked and escaped into a wooded area, suffering minor cuts from broken glass.
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Cedar Rapids
John Meeker
Cambridge Townhouse
Northtowne Court
Meeker
Cedar Rapids Man Robbed at Morgan Creek Park
A 39 year old man reported being robbed at gunpoint Tuesday around noon on a nature trail at Morgan Creek Park in Linn County. The suspect demanded money, took cash, and fled. the victim alertly drove to a county maintenance shop on Stoney Point Road where staff notified deputies.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn
Sheriff's
Morgan Creek Park
Stoney Point Road
Submit Festival Listings For Gazette Explore 2001
Deadline is today to send summer festival and community event details for The Gazette Explore 2001. Include event name date time place and contact with phone. Fax to 319 398 5846 or email and call for questions at 398 8254 or 1 800 397 8212.
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Gazette
jimsi@fyiowa.com
Iowa man seeks prison term reduction for child sexual images
Iowa City Roland Thomson, 73, convicted of taking sexually suggestive pictures of Lucas Elementary students, may have his two year prison term reduced. A Johnson County hearing is set Thursday to reconsider the sentence imposed in March 2000 by Judge Stephen Gerard I.
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Roland Thomson
Lucas Elementary
Johnson County
Thomson
6Th Judicial District
Stephen Gerard I
Gerard
Admit it Mom Was Right A Mother’s Day prompt
Readers are invited to share timeless motherly advice they still live by as The Gazette prepares a Mother's Day feature. Submissions should include the nugget and the caller's name and contact details, with a May 1 deadline to Sue Davis Smith at The Gazette in Cedar Rapids.
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Sue Davis Smith
the Gazette
P.O
Cedar Rapids
Fyipwa
Nursing shortage looms over Cedar Rapids hospitals
Health care leaders at Mercy Medical Center and St. Luke's Hospital warn the nursing shortage will persist for years. Despite four local nursing programs, the average nurse age is rising toward 50, with a projected 20 percent shortfall by 2020. Vacancies take 45 days to fill.
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Mercy Medical Center
St. Luke’s Hospital
Carol Watson
Mary Ann Osborn
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
United States
Osborn
St. Luke’s
Coe
Cherry Auditorium
Midwest
St. Luke’s Medical Center
Nussle rejects move amid Iowa redistricting talk
Rep. Jim Nussle dismissed speculation he would relocate due to a proposed reapportionment plan. He affirmed Manchester is his home and said he has no plan to leave, as districts would realign with Republican incumbents in new layouts.
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Gazette
Iowa
Bureau
Dubuque
Jim Nussle
Ing
Nussle
Manchester
Delaware County
Candi Flata
Public hearing on Iowa redistricting plan tonight
A public hearing on the Legislative Service Bureau redrawing Iowa congressional and legislative districts runs 6 30 to 9 p m in the ICN Room at the Iowa City Administration Building. It will be telecast at ICN satellite locations in Dubuque University of Dubuque Jackaline Baldwin Dunlap Technology Center Waterloo Hawkeye Community College Spencer Mason City Ottumwa and more. The map was drawn by the nonpartisan bureau and will not be final until approved. Contact Orlan Love for details.
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Legislative Service Bureau
Iowa
ICN
Iowa City School District
S. Dubuque St
Dubuque
University of Dubuque
Jackaline Baldwin Dunlap Technology Center
University Ave
Waterloo
Hawkeye Community College
Tama
E. Orange Rd
Mason City
Spencer
Council Bluffs
Bettendorf
Ottumwa
Visncl
Flood sense shows value
Cedar Rapids coverage recalls Streets Commissioner Don Thomas winning praise in May 1999 for flood defenses after 1993 floods. Dan Rather’s CBS Evening News highlighted his sewer upgrades and taller flood walls, while Rich Patterson recalls long-standing city planning and land purchases begun in 1968 with federal grant help to create flood-prone land buffers along the Cedar River and adjacent creeks.
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Rick Smith
Cedar Rapids
Don Thomas
Midwest
Dan Rather
CBS Evening News
Thomas
Rich Patterson
Thomas Patterson
Indian Creek
Prairie Creek
Fugitive arrested in Mount Vernon after 21 years
Philip Petry using alias Samuel Hill was captured in Mount Vernon on California warrants for prison escape dating to 1980. Police said he surrendered without incident after U S marshals arrived at 219 Seventh St NW. Bail on the original warrant was set at 5000 dollars.
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Gazette
Mount Vernon
Philip Petry
Petry
Samuel D. Hill
California
Mark Winder
U.S
Seventh St. NW
Winder
Mount
San Luis Obispo
Calif
Castelletti
Perry
Linn County
Linn towns map spending plan for local option tax revenues
Four Linn County towns have decided how to use potential 1 cent local option sales tax proceeds if it passes. Alburnett will fund street work and a downtown lot, Coggan splits 50 50 between streets and sewers, Springville directs all to infrastructure, Walford to any lawful purpose. Cedar Rapids plans to use about 16 million to repair pools. May 4 is deadline to file plans. Marion weighs municipal facilities and improvements. If approved countywide, the tax could raise about 26 million.
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Linn County
Benton County
Cedar Rapids
Marion
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