Art in the Park draws Wellington Heights crowd in Cedar Rapids
Gazette photographer Savan nah Blake covered the third annual Art in the Park event by the Wellington Heights Neighborhood Association at Redmond Park Cedar Rapids. Local artists offered street mural opportunities and live music while a dance party drew families seeking connection through art. See more photos on Page 3C.
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Vinton
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Restitution payments rekindle sad memories
Iowa requires offenders who cause deaths to pay 150000 to victims families but most feel no dollar amount can equal a life. Quarterly checks arrive in small sums forcing grieving families to relive loss. Cheryl Farrington, mother of Andrea Farrington, 20, shot by Alexander Kozak in Coralville on June 12, 2015, laments the routine payments.
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Summit slams GOP on 'improper attack' over eminent domain
Summit Carbon Solutions criticized Republican state lawmakers opposing its planned five state carbon pipeline. The firm called their objections perplexing and unsupported by a legislative majority as eight reconsideration requests loom before the Iowa Utilities Commission.
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Eastern Iowa Airport expands educational footprint with new programs
The Cedar Rapids facility partners with Kirkwood Community College to run a maintenance technology program and with Coe College to open a flight school and aviation management program at the airport. The initiatives aim to address the aviation workforce shortage as the terminal modernization project nears completion.
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