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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1995
Page
13
Cedar Rapids residents receive an extra week for leaf collection as Streets Department crews continue pickups through the weekend. Don Thomas says the program extends because of inclement weather. After Sunday, yard waste goes into marked containers on regular trash days. brush must be 4-foot bundles. Call Don Rodman at 398-5360 with questions.
The College Community school board approved a 2.27 million dollar contract to Kleiman Construction for Prairie View Elementary School renovation and a 15 000 square foot addition with six classrooms media center cafeteria and more. Completion expected before fall classes.
Daniel J. Harris of Cedar Rapids was found guilty of the lesser offense of child endangerment without serious injury by a Linn County District Court jury. He faces sentencing May 26 after his trial for felony child endangerment tied to allegedly shaking his 2 month old daughter between January 17 and 28, 1994.
The Linn-Mar school board accepted bids totaling 129951 from three Iowa districts and an Omaha mobile home firm for five portable classrooms to be unused this fall with the opening of a new intermediate school. Portables are located at Novak Indian Creek Wilkins and Bowman Woods. One district-built unit at Indian Creek will stay. Clear Creek Amana bid for two portables. Williamsburg Des Moines and R L Mobile Home also bid on one each.
U.S. Marshal Den nis Blome cites Washington directive banning parking near Cedar Rapids federal court facilities after the Oklahoma City blast. X-ray screening and metal detectors at the Cedar Rapids courthouse are emphasized as part of heightened security measures.
Iowans scramble to confirm relatives after the fatal blast at a federal office building in Oklahoma City. Cedar Rapids residents report hours of worry as family members working nearby are accounted for and shaken by the explosion.
Des Moines officials restricted access to a federal building entrance as anxious parents collected children from a day care center. Governor Branstad telephoned Oklahoma's governor offering Iowa emergency personnel and resources while urging continual reviews of security across state buildings.
Linn County Emergency Management Agency operates as a Cedar Rapids City Hall basement command center. Walter Wright notes the plan covers bomb, plane crash, tornado, or other disasters with coordinated decisions and interagency support including Red Cross, Salvation Army, law enforcement, fire services, hospitals, and schools.
A man, Jason J. Schumacher, 24, of Windsor Heights, was arrested in the Linn County Courthouse parking lot with a gun and placed in the Linn County Jail on a $1,380 bond for carrying a concealed weapon and handicapped parking violations. Authorities said he claimed someone bugged his car and possibly planted a bomb.
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