Kirkwood VP of Administration Resigns for Iowa Lakes post
Jim Billings vice president for administration at Kirkwood Community College will resign effective May 1 to become president of Iowa Lakes Community College in Estherville. He served at Kirkwood 1983 to 1987 before moving to St. Louis Community College and returning to Kirkwood. The Kirkwood board of trustees will vote on the resignation at the regular Thursday meeting.
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Jim Billings
Kirkwood Community College
Iowa Lakes Community College
Estherville
Billings
Kirkwood
St. Louis Community College
Kirkwood Board of Trustees
Cedar Rapids Woman Reports Rape at Ellis Boat Harbor
An 18 year old Cedar Rapids woman told police she was raped in her car at Ellis Boat Harbor Sunday evening. Police seek a man in his mid 20s, 5 11 to 6 feet tall, 180 to 190 pounds with long dark hair who drove away in a black two door car. The assault occurred after she and friends had returned to the peninsula area and a male acquaintance sat in her car. She received hospital treatment.
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Cedar Rapids
Ellis Boat Harbor
Vehicle Collision In Cedar Rapids Involves Tractor
Rudy Papakee, 18, from Cedar Rapids, was in fair condition after his car hit a farm tractor on Highway 151 about 6:22 p.m. The tractor operator Lynn Dunn, 43, was uninjured but the tractor overturned. Papakee was hospitalized at Mercy Medical Center.
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Rudy Papakee
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Papakee
Mercy Medical Center
Lynn Dunn
Mid-Prairie Board Rejects Firing of Teacher After Shop Fire
The Mid-Prairie school board voted 4-1 to not fire high school industrial arts teacher Don Bayliss after a lengthy investigation following the March 16 fire in the industrial arts shop. Bayliss was placed on paid leave and the board kept proceedings closed with sealed records.
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Mid-Prairie School Board
Rose Dillard
Don Bayliss
Mid-Prairie High School
Bayliss
Work Ethic Defies Age in Iowa City Mechanic
At 85, Cliff Loughran continues daily work at Pyramid Services, the shop he founded in 1947 and handed to his sons. He drives no retirement, preferring hands on repairs of engines, tractors, and mowers, though he declines modern computerized cars and admits others fix his own vehicle.
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Brian Louis Gazette
Owa City
Cliff Loughran
Loughran
Iowa City
Oprah Winfrey
Geraldo Rivera
Pyramid Services
Richard
John
California
Bile Mechanic
Palmer
Iowa
Cedar Rapids to receive 3.5 million flood aid in Midwest package
Federal funds allocate 3.5 million to Cedar Rapids with 278000 to Cedar Falls and 1.3 million to Iowa City as part of 53 million in additional flood aid. Sen. Tom Harkin notes the money targets long term flood recovery projects and sewer upgrades after last summer’s backups. Cedar Rapids had already received 2.8 million for private property repairs and sewer upgrades.
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Lonnie Zingula
Cedar Rapids
Tom Harkin
Iowa
Midwest
Cedar Falls
Daven
Larry Serbousek
Cyclist Austin Heubner Dies in Cedar Rapids Crash
The 19 year old cyclist Austin J Heubner of Cedar Rapids died after a high speed crash on 12th Street SW near 29th Avenue SW Sunday night. Police say he was thrown over 200 feet, not wearing a helmet, and died later at Mercy Medical Center. Heubner was last seen speeding ahead of a second rider in an industrial area before losing control.
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Austin J. Heubner
Cedar Rapids
Heubner
17Th St
12Th Street
29Th Avenue
Ron Hansen
Statue moves to art school on campus restoration planned
Iowa City statue moved from University of Iowa School of Social Work to the School of Art and Art History. Barbara McDonald found the disfigured sculpture near North Hall on April 16 and the artist Jack Becker comments on public art rights.
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North Hall
Jack Becker
St. Petersburg
Fla
Mudlike display recreates 1993 flood kitchen
Dawn Wiley recreates a flood kitchen using plaster mud and paint for a Fort Madison exhibit by the North Lee County Historical Society. The display mirrors flood debris, footprints, and a ruined kitchen to honor neighbors who helped during the 1993 disaster. The piece contrasts memory with resilience and notes a local small town essay contest with a $1,000 prize.
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Dawn
Roger Brashears
P.O
Lynchburg
Tenn
Delores Neuhaus
New Vienna
Gazette
Dave Ragda
Dawn Wiley
Fort Madison
Mississippi River
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East Iowa Journal
Wellman
C.R
Congress
Harkin
Port
Dubuque
Waterloo
Serbousek
New England
Washington D.C
America
Jack Daniel’s Distillery
Lynchburg, Tenn
Defiance
Lowa
Delores
Dave Rasdal
the Gazette
Ramblin
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