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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 2005
Page
27
Listings announce events from today through Saturday and urge advance reservations. Readers are advised to send news notes two weeks prior to events to Community, P.O. Box 511, Cedar Rapids, A52406, or email community gazette communications to submit notices.
Cedar Rapids hosts multiple events including a Friday Knights of Columbus meal and a Saturday Scalloped Chicken Dinner at St. James United Methodist Church. Other activities feature the Iowa Accordion Club Band, gallery tours at the National Czech Museum, Up Beat! concert series, All For One Music Festival, a free hunter education class, author talks on Stumptown Kid, and a 1960s vintage fashion show with details and contact information.
A dense list of local happenings across Cedar Rapids Monticello and neighboring towns includes music talks, fundraisers, sales, parades, fairs, and community notices. Items feature a British rock talk, Pineapple Sale for Camp Courageous, a veterans dedication day, tractor pull, antique appraisal, sauerkraut days, sweet corn festival, and neighborhood associations with event reminders.
The 90th Meskwaki Indian Powwow runs Thursday through Sunday at the Meskwaki Settlement near Tama on Highway E-49 beside the Iowa River. Dances start 1 30 and 7 30 daily with Regalia exhibits crafts and foods. Admission 6 adults 4 children free under 5. Discount days Thursday Children’s Day 1 50 ages 6 12 and Friday Senior Citizens Day 3 for seniors. The powwow honors traditions from Green Corn Dance and tribal social life, featuring Friendship Shield Eagle War Rabbit Pipe Bean Meskwaki and Victory dances. It is a time of reaffirmation worship kinship and friendship.
Alburnett High School freshman Phillip P. J. Matias finished third nationally in the FBLA Computer Concepts contest held June 24 to 27 in Orlando. Four Iowa placers included Matias and five other Alburnett students across international business and multimedia events. Separately, Linn-Mar HS sophomore Kelly Roach was named a HOBY Leadership ambassador for the World Leadership Congress at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., July 21 to 29, joining a select group of 10th graders from 11 countries.
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