Ushers Ferry festival and community musical events
Cedar Rapids hosts Ushers Ferry Folk Music Festival at Ushers Ferry Historic Village with David Holt as featured performer and family events from 4 to 10 p.m. Admission 10 dollars adults 5 children. Also Station Family Fund Benefit Tour at Cabo Sports Bar featuring Great White and others. Iowa City offers Community Band and Just Jazz in the evening plus The Good Old Way in West Branch.
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Ushers Ferry Historic Village
Seminole Valley Park
Cedar Rapids
David Holt
Cedar-Rapids
Cabo Sports Bar
Westdale Mall
Great White
Mackie Blue
Skin Kandy
Iowa City
College Green Park
Gizmofunk
Downey Street
West Branch
Celebrations Spotlight Iowa Area Festivals and Events
Meskwaki Pow Wow at Tama area grounds with 1:30 and 7:30 PM shows. Amana Festival of the Arts runs 10 AM to 5 PM at Middle Amana Park with parking $1. Lisbon Sauerkraut Days features parade and music. Elkader Sweet Corn Day offers parade and free corn. Springville Tractor Pull and Fun Day includes parade and kids pedal pull. Manchester Main Event includes trolley rides and Pink Cadillac music. Cedar Rapids Nazarene Church Block Party hosts Geoff Moore performance.
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Amana Park
Amanacolonies.com
Lisbon
Terry McCauley
Lee Cole
Elkader
Springville
Manchester
Pink Cadillacs
Oakland Nazarene
42Nd St
Cedar Rapids
Geoff Moore
Out and About community event roundup in Cedar Rapids and nearby towns
A schedule of local events includes Double D Rodeo at Dennis Dostal Ranch north of Toledo, Route 66 music, Demolition Derby at Iowa County Fairgrounds Marengo, American Heart Walk at Noelridge Park Cedar Rapids, Starlighters Theatre Auction in Anamosa, Prairie Flower Walk at Indian Creek Nature Center Cedar Rapids, Paying for College workshop at Kirkwood Cedar Rapids, Australian Activities at Science Station Cedar Rapids, author Krista Madsen reading Coralville Barnes & Noble, John Roy shows at Penguins Comedy Club Cedar Rapids with Brett Erickson as headliner.
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Toledo
Iowa County Fairgrounds
Marengo
Noelridge Park
Cedar Rapids
E. Main St
Anamosa
Starlighters
Indian Creek Nature Center
Otis Rd
Iowa Room
Iowa Hall
Kirkwood Community College
Thesalliemaefund
First St
Krista Madsen
Barnes & Noble Booksellers
Coral Ridge Mall
Coralville
Degas
John Roy
Penguins Comedy Club
First Ave. SE
Brett Erickson
Penguinscomedyclub
Remembering Bob Hope Readers Share Fond Life Stories
Excerpts from Gazette readers memorialize Bob Hope who died at 100. They recount hospital visits with Hope and his troupe at Brigham City Utah Bushnell General Hospital and a Christmas show aboard USS Yorktown in Seattle. Readers from Cedar Rapids and Marion recall encounters and kindness.
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The
Gazette
Bob Hope
Our
Army Hospital
Brigham City
Utah
Bob
Bing Crosby
Jerry Colonna
University of Utah
Salt Lake
Bushnell General Hospital
Hope
Myrna G. Brouillard
Hiawatha
Mitchell
Pier 91
Seattle
Navy Base
Yorktown
U.S.O
P.A
Tom
Greg
Lake Tahoe
Richard W. Rice
Marion
Kindness Toward Sons During Elevator Ride
A Fort Ord Division faculty member recalls Bob Hope Bing Crosby and Phil Harris delivering Christmas morale boosting shows. He also notes riding the elevator with them during service days.
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Sixth Army
Fort Ord
Calif
Bob Hope
Bing Crosby
Phil Harris
Letter to Hope on 100th Birthday Excerpts
Excerpts from a postwar letter written to Bob Hope on his 100th birthday recall his 1940s Waterloo Iowa visit and the entertainer’s wartime morale work. The message frames Hope as a cherished figure and reflects historical community ties.
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Hope
Bob Hope
Waterloo
Iowa
Marion considers levy to pay for projects
Marion weighs a capital improvements levy to fund sewer upgrades Lowe Park and a new city hall after the failed countywide sales tax. The council may place the measure on the November ballot with a sunset option, deciding by August 29.
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Cindy Hadish
Gazette
Marion
Julie Speral
Soeral
Lowe Park
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Traveler Cary Hahn Reflects on 20 Years Roaming
Cary J Hahn KGAN-TV reporter reflects on two decades in Iowa Traveler work. He recalls meeting Sister Bertha Marie Kloser, the Hog-Calling Nun of Dubuque, winning an award for a Waterloo Cattle Congress hog call story, and riding a biplane wing for adrenaline. He lists loves and pains of deadlines and interviews, his Cedar Rapids life, and three historical figures he’d visit.
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Bertha Marie Kloser
Dubuque
Waterloo Cattle Congress
Channel 2
Iowa
Ken Burns
Cary J Hahn
Cary J. Hahn
All Veterans Memorial Park
Cedar Rapids
Hahn
KGAN
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