Last Library Movies End Cedar Rapids Summer Series
Cedar Rapids public library wraps up its free children’s summer film series with showings at Edgewood Kenwood and the downtown library. The program features four short films tied to the Pet Pals theme including Pet Care Gerbils and Talk to the Animals and a Dr. Doolittle themed ten minute piece along with an Abbott and Costello short Champs of the Chase. Screenings run one hour with timings 1 30 p m Edgewood 10 30 a m main library and 1 30 p m Kenwood.
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Cedar Rapids
Dr. Doolittle
Edgewood Branch
Main Library
Kenwood Branch
Sugar cane origins and linguistic echoes across cultures
The article traces sugar cane from New Guinea in the South Pacific to India in prehistoric times. It notes the Sanskrit term sarkara and its descendants sukkar, Sachar, Zucker, sucre, and suker, linking language to the plant and its crude candy form called Knanda meaning larger chunks of sugar.
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New Guinea
South Pacific
India
Session Set For Such Teachers Workshop in Cedar Rapids
A three day substitute teacher convention hosted by CRISTA will run Monday to Wednesday at Kennedy high school auditorium. Sessions cover recertification, code explanations, and classroom strategies with speakers from Harding junior high Tyler elementary Jefferson high and The Gazette. Registration is 8 to 9 a.m. Monday. Nonmembers welcome.
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Cedar Rapids Community
Crista
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Kennedy High School
al Ruffalo
Tyler Elementary
Donna Schreiber
Harding Junior High
Ruffalo
Joyce Cushing
Tom Campbell
Jefferson High
Longbranch
Judy Daubenmier
the Gazette
Ellyn Wrzeski
Jackson
Paula Colon
Elizabeth Brown
Phyllis Moore
Shirley Traylor
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Conference Board
Warner’s
Armstrong
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