Benton County Opportunities to Close Disabled Services Center
Benton County Opportunities faces closure as its sheltered workshop and redemption centers end this summer. The Vinton redemption center shuts Thursday with container collection through August 15. The Second Opportunities thrift store will remain open to support potential new ownership.
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Benton County
Ed Sass
Benton County Opportunities
Donald Lee Mouchka
Ron Carpenter
Cedar Valley Ranch
Vinton
Second Opportunities
Goodwill
Belle Plaine
Morgan
Vinton Redemption Center
Second Opportunities Thrift
County debates juvenile detention site options near Cedar Rapids
Dostal and county officials discussed potential sites for a juvenile detention center. Considerations include Miller Avenue near I 380, Walford Road sites south of the airport, Radio Road in Marion, and county land on County Home Road, with grading costs estimated up to 100000 dollars. A list of sites should be ready next week, with a meeting August 15 in the Linn County Administration Building.
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Dostal
Miller Avenue
Interstate 380
Walford Road
Sixth Street
Radio Road
Marion
Don Zeller
County Home Road
Cedar Rapids
Airport
Varney
Linn County Administrative
First St
Panel urges abolishing INS amid mission overload
A federal panel says the Immigration and Naturalization Service should be abolished and its duties reassigned. The proposal would keep border control with the Justice Department, move citizenship and benefits to the State Department, and have the Labor Department regulate foreign workers.
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Washington
Immigration and Naturalization Service
U.S. Commission On Immigration Reform
New York Times
Immigration Service
Commission
INS
Justice Department
State Department
Labor Department
Richard Estrada
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Benton
Doom
Sass
Benton County Opportunities Board
Benton County Supervisors
James Q. Lynch
Www
Midan
Ric
Estrada
Capitol Hill
Sen
Spencer Abraham
R-Mich
Blairs Ferry Road
Second Street
Coralville
Sam’s Club
Wal-Mart
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