21 Aug 2002
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 2002
Page
1
City crews continue replacing wading pools and will add splash pads to two neighborhood parks. Four suspects are accused of passing counterfeit twenty dollar bills at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines.
Hawkeye ends Jon athan Babineaux and Howard Hodges are quicker and smaller than predecessors yet remain formidable. They combine speed with strength to pressure opponents and disrupt plays.
Women often pay large sums for luxury shoes and handbags despite rising costs. The piece examines whether extravagance in fashion reflects broader spending trends and social signaling.
The city pulses with a retro revival as Duran Duran returns to the scene. Fans fuel a weekend of events with renewed interest in the band and related pop culture happenings.
The Bluestem Solid Waste Agency board voted 6 to 3 to keep the process open for a landfill near Viola while opposing supervisors and a Center Point mayor on the plan. An engineering study of 565 acres in northeast Linn County is authorized, but some officials doubt the project’s future.
Iowa health officials warn a human West Nile case is imminent as 80 blood tests show prior negatives but confirm widespread spread. Dr Mary Gilchrist notes two months remain before peak season. frost may halt mosquitoes in October.
Black Hawk County voters rejected the Vision Iowa downtown revitalization measure with 14 403 votes 51 percent against and 13 728 votes 49 percent for after 52 of 538 precincts reported. The plan would have extended a 1 percent local option sales tax for 10 years and diverted 35 million dollars to the project in Waterloo and surrounding cities.
A six week effort by the Flood Study Technical Advisory Committee has recommended a flood study for the Cedar Rapids metro area. The panel, including experts from Cedar Rapids Linn County Marion Hiawatha and Robins, was formed after the June 4 flash flooding along Dry and Indian creeks and will urge the Linn County Regional Planning Commission to seek FEMA funding under hazard mitigation.
National composite declined from 21.0 to 20.8 as 46 310 more students took the ACT, with over 1.1 million test takers nationwide. Iowa held at 22 among 66 percent of grads tested, ranking third behind Wisconsin and Minnesota for states with high participation.
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