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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1994
Page
15
Aug 4 1994 calendar items include Linn County emergency planning, theater shows at Old Creamery and Yankee Opera House, Jazz at Noelridge Park, a quilt festival, YWCA fundraiser, five season ski show, Cedar Rapids Riverside Roundhouse Market, Coralville Market, venereal disease clinic, and recycling event plus Powerball and Lottery numbers with jackpot figures and results.
Aug 3 entries show Stephanie Blood and Russ Blood welcomed a daughter Mary Lou Atwood with listed addresses. Also Rebecca Boots and Richard Boots welcomed a daughter and Vicki Forcst and Jeffrey Forcst welcomed a son. Chastity Jellison and Tammi Jones with various addresses welcomed a daughter and a son respectively.
The Gazette lists individuals charged with offenses including drunken driving at 5 39 p m near Glass Road and I 380 interchange. Berhane Ande Rech faces domestic assault claims from a lunch box incident. Joey Mathew Loesel accused of domestic assault for pushing a resident. Hilda Taylor charged with possession of an offensive weapon after police found a sawed off shotgun during a search of her home.
Neighbors in southwest Cedar Rapids voice concerns over the new city approved BMX track at Lincoln Park. Parks Director Dave Holstad and club officials cite communication gaps while residents seek details on hours access and traffic impact. The track rules include a 5-foot fence all weather parking and gated operation with a 35 dollar annual club fee and extra race charges.
Retired newspaperman Vic Gallo 74 writes and directs a musical about Nile Kinnick. After initial rejection in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City, he stages Kinnick at Oelwein Junior High Auditorium August 12 and 13 with tickets 3.50 in advance 4 at door. He uses period music 1900 to 1940 and taped game summaries from Eastern Iowa sportscasters to tell the 1943 Iowa City tavern story.
Mark Loughren 24 of Central City received Cedar Rapids Fire Department’s Award for Heroism at the City Council meeting following an April 10 apartment fire at 1837 B Ave NE. He awakened a sleeping resident and helped rescue Michelle Strand 26 before the building burned and a second occupant died. Firefighters aided Strand’s safe escape after Loughren pulled her to a window and directed her to jump onto a mattress.
Betty Mallie, a Garfield employee, encouraged Joe Wallace to sculpt a life size walnut bust for Madison's media center. He spent about 100 hours carving, recalibrating dimensions after an initial misstep, using a loading machine to haul the walnut from Dick's Tree Service. He aims to inspire students with the process and patience behind turning wood into art.
Waterloo fisherman James Lee Wilder, 43, died after tumbling from the railroad bridge pier into the Cedar River Tuesday night. His body was recovered about 1 p.m. Wednesday, 15 to 20 feet from the fall site, after Fire & Rescue crews searched the river until 9 p.m. Tuesday and resumed at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. Wilder reportedly fell from the third pier while fishing, striking a concrete overlay before entering the water.
Court approval could close the Armstrong Chapter 7 case about 30 days after the final report, with Childers noting about 6.5 million distributed to creditors. All 900 priority creditors paid in full and 800 unsecured non-priority to receive roughly 23.6 cents per dollar.
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