Calendar Highlights From Iowa Events Weekend
Hooverfest at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site West Branch features craft show children’s activities historical re enactors and music. Cedar Rapids Brucemore hosts Blues nights with Little Charlie and the Nightcats Walter Trout and The Radicals plus admission details.
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Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
West Branch
Hooverbail
Cedar Rapids
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Brucemore
Linden Dr
Little Charlie and
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Nightcats
Walter Trout
Radicals
Hardacre Theatre
Tipton
Hardacrefilmfestival
Swisher
Alburnett
Rock Hounds
Amana
Dave Franklin
Festhalle
Amanacolonies
Gilbertson Conservation
Elgin
Atkins
Billy K. Murray
Lamont
Epworth
Marty Kramer
McMurrin & Johnson
Longshot Band
Brandon
Community calendar features museum event and local fairs
A Cedar Rapids calendar lists Cornerstone laying at the African American Historical Museum at 1 30 p m. Also Midwest Appaloosa Horse Show at Kirkwood Community College Cedar Rapids and Fish O Rama at Robbins Lake with registration 10 to 25 dollars. Noon to 4 World Walk for Breastfeeding at Noelridge Park with lunch plus activities. Gold Rush Corn Maze near Wayland. Ice cream social at McGee Brick School Coffin's Grove Township with live music. Penguins Comedy Club show featuring Johnny Cavanaugh. Astronomy program at Palisades Dow Observatory on Equuleus and Delphinus.
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Noelridge Park
Cedar Rapids
Wayland
McGee- Brick School
Manchester
Coffin's Grove Township
Country Roads
The
Strawberry Pickers
God's Grannies
Country Cousins
Jim Short
Penguins Comedy Club
First Ave. SE
Johnny Cavanagh
Penguinscomedyclub
Not Amish but Long-Lived Communal Society in America
Angela Tjaden, program director for the Amana Heritage Society, clarifies that the group is not Amish and highlights the community’s status as one of the longest lasting communal societies in the United States.
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America
Angela Tjaden
Amana Heritage Society
Eleanor Roosevelt
Leon Uris
Amana Colonies landmark villages reshape Iowa history
A historic Amana settlement near Buffalo moved to the Iowa River area becoming Main Amana. The community formed 26 000 acres of six villages, operated communally until 1932, later ended by resident vote. Today the Amana Colonies are a National Historic Landmark and top Iowa tourist draw.
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Nance
True Inspiration
United States
Buffalo
N.Y
Iowa River
Main Amana
Iowa
Five Seasons Bus Fares Rise in Cedar Rapids
In Cedar Rapids Five Seasons Transportation & Parking raises the basic adult fare to 1.00 Monday with new fare boxes. Half fare remains 0.50 for seniors and disabled riders. Ten ride and monthly passes adjust to 9 and 30 respectively. Elderly and disabled riders may obtain a half fare ID card.
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Cedar Rapids
Five Seasons Transportation & Parking
Medicare
Readers invited to share local storm history and Bob Hope memories
Deadline Monday for stories about trees lost in the July 20 storm and memories of seeing Bob Hope while in the armed forces. Send via email to community gazette communications.com or mail to Community Section The Gazette Cedar Rapids IA. Include name address and phone number.
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Gazettecommunications.com
the Gazette
Duane
Bob Hope
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P.O
Cedar Rapids
Hargraves addresses Red Cross trust and relief efforts
Betty Hargraves executive director of the Grant Wood Area Red Cross discusses efforts to restore public trust after 9/11. She notes a shift to transparency, outlines donor allocation figures, and cites ongoing needs for about 55 000 affected families.
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Red Cross
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American Red Cross
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Betty Hargraves
Trailridge Rd
Cedar Rapids
Grant Wood Area
Galveston
Texas
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville
Webster University
St. Louis
Walt
Alliant Energy
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