Linn County Public Meetings This Week
Public agency meetings listed across Linn County include the zoning commission in room 103 of the courthouse at 1 p.m. and a 10 a.m. Linn supervisors session with a 10:25 a.m. jail remodeling hearing. Other gatherings cover planning, conservation, civil service for deputies, city and county councils, health board, human rights, and regional committees with various venues and times noted. No Friday meetings scheduled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn County Zoning Commission
Regional Planning Commission Transportation Technical Advisory Committee
City Council
City Hall
Linn County Conservation Board
Squaw Creek Park Lodge
Linn County Civil Service Commission
Cedar Rapids
Citizen’s Committee On
Alcoholism
Lakeside Drive
Cedar Rapids Human Rights Commission
Council
Hiawatha City Council
Hiawatha City Hall
Riverfront Improvement Commission
Riverfront
Linn Board of Supervisors
Antarctic Station Logs First Above Freezing Heat Wave
Sydney AP reports Mawson station in Antarctica, 28 scientists, recorded 42 degrees Fahrenheit on August 2 as temperatures rose above the freezing point for the first time in history. Normal winter lows there range 13 below to 22 below zero, linked to a southern Indian Ocean low. Mawson, established 1956, lies on the Antarctic Coast south of Australia. Stokely Carmichael remark noted from a decade past.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Australia
Antarctica
T. J. Perry
Bureau of Meteorology
Antarctic
Mawson
Antarctic Circle
Perry
Indian Ocean
Mawson Station
Million a Day In Stock Sales at Kansas City
The Kansas City stockyards average about 1 million dollars in cattle hogs and sheep sold each market day. Roughly 260 million dollars in livestock pass through annually. Daily sales include about 3 000 cattle 3 500 hogs and 200 sheep. The yards began in 1871 on five acres by the Kaw river and peaked in the mid 1940s at 175 000 head capacity per day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Kaw River
Chamber of Commerce of Greater
Sophomore Orientation Planned Across Cedar Rapids High Schools
Orientation sessions for incoming sophomores at Jefferson Kennedy and Washington high schools run this week. Meetings with counselors are arranged in small groups and a district wide welcome is set for Aug. 26. Parents may attend Kennedy event Aug. 23.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Jefferson
Kennedy
Washington
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Stokely Carmichael
U.S
Zenith
Crowley-Klopp
Robert S. Klopp
Theonsumer
Gui Uying
Sidney Margolius