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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1996
Page
7
Three vandals broke into West Liberty High School before 8 a.m. Sunday leaving three distinct footprints. They emptied paint through walls floors and stairs and damaged the gym and concession stand. Police expect to identify and catch the suspects.
Cedar Rapids College Community school board members will tour Prairie school buildings after the 7:30 p.m. meeting in the high school fiber-optic classroom. The board will consider hires including the district’s first customer-community relations director Karen Roe. Roe earned $12.70 during probation and $13.69 thereafter. Blood drive today by Red Cross Grant Wood chapter from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. at 3601 42nd St. NE with walk-ins welcome. Beems Auditorium Cedar Rapids Public Library hosts a Fair Housing Seminar August 27 from 10 a.m. to noon. Call Louise Lorenz at (319) 398-5036 to register.
Mount Mercy College is one of ten FIHE member colleges to receive a $10 000 Tandy Excellence in Elementary Science Initiative grant funded by Tandy Corp. The program Getting Engaged with Science will run on two Saturdays with times listed. In Cedar Rapids an 11 month old girl drowned in a bathtub at a southeast home. Police say she was bathed recently and was playing in the tub when the accident occurred. Mercy Medical Center pronounced her dead. Names were not released.
Cattle in Don Newton’s feedlot ride on a two-foot thick pad of fly ash byproduct from coal burning. At IES Utilities Prairie Creek Station Cedar Rapids produces 25 000 to 30 000 tons of fly ash yearly which is turned into Ecostone an aggregate like material used to stabilize mud and build hard bases for roads. Ecostone also served as a hard pavement surface for parking a tractor trailer near the Prairie Creek plant.
Patrick Wright of IES promotes fly ash use as a cheaper alternative to clay and concrete. About 800 tons of Ecostone filled a 7 200 square foot area between two concrete feedpads with a foot thick layer, water rolled in, and three nights of wetting. Newton saved 2 600 in materials versus a $5 000 to $6 000 clay and concrete option, seeing benefits in cold snaps and slippery cow risk.
Fayette County eyes a regional jail with Winnebago Clayton and Howard counties. The 6.5 million project could receive up to 50 percent state funding, but some Allamakee supervisors fear regionalization will shrink rural courthouses. Iowa lawmakers push cooperation to avoid fragmented counties.
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