Special educator Velma Warbasse to lead 1983 Special Olympics parade
Velma Warbasse of Central City will be grand marshal at the 1983 Special Olympics opening ceremonies at Coe College Field House. The veteran educator retires this spring from Grant Wood Area Education Agency after a long career creating one of the state's first special education programs and earning recognition as an Outstanding Elementary Teacher of America.
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Velma Warbasse
Central City
Coe College
Warbasse
Grant Wood Area Education Agency
E.F. Hutton
Velma
Keith Black
Cliff Butters
North Linn High School
North Linn
Coggon
Grant Wood Aea
Grant Wood AEA study details aging teacher pool and district data
The Grant Wood Area Education Agency reports a drop in average teacher age from 40.3 to 38.5 over five years while average teaching experience rose to 12.1 years. The planning study covers enrollment, personnel, curriculum, transportation, facilities and finances for 39 districts in Area 10 and suggests no reorganization, but offers alternatives to merging and notes debts, per-pupil spending, and long-term enrollment trends.
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Mary Burke
Lazette
Grant Wood Area Education Agency
Grant Wood Aea
Grant Wood
Mike Herrick
Department of Public Instruction
Herrick
Iowa
Benton
Linn
Jones
Cedar
Johnson
Washington
Lisbon
Oxford Junction
Benton Community
Rooney to reprise Bill Sackter in TV special Bill On His Own
Mickey Rooney will reprise his Emmy winning role as Iowa Citian Bill Sackter in Bill On His Own a CBS television special written by Barry Morrow. Filming began in Texas with no broadcast date set. Sackter lived 44 years in a Minnesota institution before Morrow's 1981 GE Theater story about their friendship.
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Iowa City
Mickey Rooney
Iowa
Citian
Bill Sackter
Bill
CBS
Texas
Rooney
Sackter
GE Theater
Morrow
Minnesota
City Council grappled with sewer woes in Marion
Over 100 northeast Marion residents petitioned the City Council for immediate action on chronic sanitary sewer backups in basements near 24th and 25th avenues. City engineer John Bender said a study is underway with potential repairs to three joining lines, with ideas due May 3, while Mayor Grundy ordered continued pumping. A second petition from Mary Beachel and 27 residents urged demolition of an abandoned house at 350 Third Ave due to safety concerns for local schoolchildren.
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Marion
24Th
25Th Avenues
John Bender
Bill Grundy
Bender
Mary Beachel
Third Ave
Beachel
Marion brief driver education and pizza delivery notes
Registration for summer driver education in Marion Independent Schools runs April 25 to 29. Students must have a permit and be 15 by June 6, eight week session starts then. For details call 377 9891. The Big Cheese Pizza Runner delivers daily after 4 pm to local homes at 373 2201. Grass fire reported at 265 Blairs Ferry Road.
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Marion
Ex-postmaster arraigned in Iowa embezzlement case
Marilyn Engel, former Traer postmaster, pleaded innocent to embezzling 24052 dollars while a U S Postal Service employee. Trial set to start June 6 in Cedar Rapids U S District Court. she was released on recognizance and faces up to 10 years in prison or fines.
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Marilyn Engel
U.S. Postal Service
Traer
U.S. District Court
Cedar Rapids
Virginia
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Christie Wallace
Marion Bureau
Marion News
Marion Brief
Blairs Ferry Road
Hoover
Adiuwetman
Smulekoff
Aneumore
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