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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 2001
Page
1
A revealing interview with the president examines decision making and policy direction. The piece analyzes leadership style, key challenges, and the implications of recent public positions for domestic and international affairs.
In 1997 Iowa poverty hit 9.9 percent overall and 13.7 percent for children. Stacia Boots and Lt. Owen Thompson describe Cedar Rapids Salvation Army programs offering free meals, a pantry, and social support as hundreds rely on these services. Steve Stoke recalls how hunger helped shape his life and the community response.
The Cedar Rapids school board named the new elementary school for Viola Gibson, a longtime civil rights advocate who died in 1989 at age 83. Her daughter E Jean Brown and others praised the decision as historic for the district.
In Iowa, Cedar Falls resident De Radke warns lawmakers as the House and Senate move to cut about 519000 from the chronic conditions portion of the Department of Public Health budget. The cuts threaten 14 regional Child Health Specialty Clinics serving about 5000 children yearly, many with cerebral palsy and developmental disabilities. Federal Title V funds support most of the roughly 2.1 million dollar annual clinic budget. The Iowa Department of Public Health oversees these clinics.
The first degree murder trial of Jonathan Lee Memmer, 25, Marshalltown, may be the most expensive in Johnson County history. With a double homicide, circumstantial evidence, 100 plus witnesses and over two years since the killings, the case heads to trial in October and the state will pay since Memmer is on public assistance. The victims are Laura Watson Dalton, 29, a Creston paramedic, and Maria Lehner, 27, an environmental scientist from Belton Missouri. Memmer is also charged with setting a fire to conceal the crime.
Duke a 3-year-old chocolate Labrador retriever suffered a broken back after being hit by a car in Mechanicsville. He traveled to Rainbow Farms in Dallas County Missouri for rehabilitation after a week at West Branch Animal Clinic.
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