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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 2003
Page
9
Sen Chuck Grassley is expected to join Cedar Rapids Mayor Paul Pate at the Support Our Troops Rally at Veterans Memorial Park today at 2 p.m. Grassley is subject to final confirmation.
About 600 students at McKinley Middle School were sent home early Friday after smoke filled parts of the building. Firefighters found the smoke from an overheated air handler bearing in the basement. no injuries were reported.
Firefighters respond to a Friday blaze at Arbuckle Construction on 710 S Dubuque St. The fire confined to the construction office and upper level studios The Studio and JoSpa suffered smoke damage. Owners report no injuries as props and costumes storage area is suspected as the ignition point. Community theater troupe Young Footsiters based in the building.
The DataMaster breath test will be used again next month after Iowa DPS approved usage instructions. Judge Stephen Gerard II ruled March 28 that tests from the device could not be evidence due to lack of uniform instructions, so urine tests have been used in drunken driving cases. Johnson County Attorney J Patrick White said final rules will let officers deploy the machines sooner, bypassing full appeal delays.
Linn County Assessor Tom Brunow maintains a 5 percent across the board residential rise for county properties. Cedar Rapids City Assessor Rick Ellars raises low end homes while holding higher end values steady as market analysis shows lower priced homes selling above current values and higher priced ones remaining near current levels. He cites low interest rates and rental-to-mortgage shifts as factors and notes similar tactics in Des Moines.
Todd Hansel of Cedar Rapids and 15 others paid $20 each for seven minute interviews at the Clarion Hotel. The Davenport firm Entertainment Extrordinary run the event to gauge chemistry for possible dating friendships or business ties after a year of costly dating services with little return.
Participants at a speed dating event chatted with multiple suitors and submitted cards to Blitcher and Jason Duncan for match notifications. Attendees, including Melissa Alexander and Tara Kane, described bar fatigue and the value of one on one conversations, while some felt nervous yet more at ease after meeting several candidates.
Relatives dispute the medical examiner’s ruling that Warren Mundy died of cardiac arrest at Anamosa State Penitentiary. Mundy 33 died Sunday while serving a 25 year Linn County drug sentence. His family says he never spoke of suicide and was in good spirits when contacted.
Kristina Koch of Cedar Rapids endures a rare neuromuscular disease, mitochondrial myopathy, which began in adolescence and reshaped her life. She starts each day with a body check and relies on faith to navigate mobility limits while teaching at Coolidge Elementary School.
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