Free Tours at Brucemore Part of Preservation Month
Brucemore offers guided mansion tours from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and noon to 3 p.m. Sunday at 2160 Linden Dr. SE. Tours run about every 20 minutes. Also, Indian Creek Nature Center hosts a Spring Plant Sale from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at 6665 Otis Rd. SE to fund educational programs and land care.
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Brucemore
Linden Dr. SE
Brucemore.org
Indian Creek Nature Center
Otis Rd
Cedar Rapids
Nature Center
the Nature Center
Iowa City area food drive supports local pantries through May
The University of Iowa Community Credit Union and Best of Iowa Union run a food drive to May 14. For every two items donated you receive a one dollar donation up to five hundred dollars to be shared among area food banks, with drop-offs at Iowa City Coralville North Liberty Hi awatha or Vinton locations benefiting Crisis Center Food Bank North Liberty Food Pantry Salvation Army Cedar Rapids and Vinton Food Pantry.
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University of Iowa Community Credit Union
Best of Iowa Community Credit Union
Crisis Center Food Bank
Iowa City
North Liberty Food Pantry
Salvation Army
Cedar Rapids
Vinton Food Pantry
Amanas to Celebrate Maifest This Weekend
The Maifest Taste of the Amanas Touch of Europe celebration runs Friday through Sunday with a Sunday parade at 10 a.m. Angela Holmes of The Gazette is Grand Marshal. For schedules visit festivalsinamana.com or contact Deb Heitmann at 319 721 3340.
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Gazette
Angela Holmes
Deb Heitmann
Congo refugee’s Cedar Rapids life spans language hurdles
Vicky Iyala and her children fled Congo in wartime to Boston in 2001 before moving to Cedar Rapids. She faced language barriers as she learned English through classes while preferring French at home, guiding daily life and adaptation in a smaller, family friendly Midwest city.
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Ine Gazette Edar Rapids
Vicky Iyala
Congo
Africa
Boston
Midwest
Iyala
Cedar Rapids
Moroccan-born doctor brings French language care to Cedar Rapids
Dr. Imane Bentahar, a native of Morocco, began practicing at Mercy Care in Cedar Rapids on June 15 2008 shortly after the Cedar River flood crest. She communicates with patients in French and says diversity strengthens the community. Iyala, a patient, praises the language fit and care.
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Vicky Iyala
Cedar Rapids
Congo
Imane Bentahar
Dr. Bentahar
Mercy Care
Johnson Avenue
Iyala
Edgewood
Morocco
Bentahar
United States
Mohamed Bentahar
Rockwell Collins
University of Medicine and Dentistry of
New Jersey
Hoboken University Medical Center
Hoboken
N.J
Hospitals give translation help to non English speakers
Area hospitals offer translation and interpretation services to patients and families who do not speak English. St Luke's and Mercy Medical Center contract with Humble Language Institute for face to face interpreters in 12 languages via 15 staff members. The program supports more than 100 languages by phone and operates a language bank with 100+ people in 55 languages. About 7,000 patients used Spanish translation last year.
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Angela Holmes
St. Luke’s Hospital
Mercy Medical Center
Cedar Rapids
Humble Language Institute
Jason
Carmen Humble
Son Humble
Humble
St. Luke’s
Mercy Iowa City
Ozzie Diaz- Duque
Torque Fest to aid girl with heart condition in Farley
An Eastern Iowa fundraiser at Farley Speedway combines vintage vehicles music and a TV crew to benefit Hannah Wells a Bettendorf three year old with hypoplastic left heart syndrome Proceeds fund air travel hotels and medical bills A trust pays her expenses and donations go to helping Hannahs Heart.org The event runs Friday and Saturday with bands Surf Zombies The Bleach Bloodz Bucket House and Federation of Horsepower and filming for My Classic Car on SPEED channel.
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Iowa
Farley Speedway
Hannah Wells
Bettendorf
Hannah
Boston
Hannahsheart.org
Torque Fest
Surf Zombies
Iowa City
Bleach Bloodz
Kansas City
Bucket House
Hannah’s
Federation of Horsepower
Dennis Gage
Speed Channel
Gage
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Community Health Free Clinic
Guaranty Bank
Third Ave
14Th Ave
GITY
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the Gazette
C.R
Annapolis
University of Iowa
Hospitals and Clinics
Denice Connell
Department of Social Service
Jason Humble
Olde Farley Rd
Farley
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