Mount Vernon Reaffirms Plan for Memorial Park Water Tower
Mount Vernon City Council votes 3 2 to build a 400 000 gallon water tower in Memorial Park by Sept 1. Debate over site included Memorial Park Prairie Park Altoona Hall Cornell College and historic-structure concerns.
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Gretchen Sutherland
Mount Vernon
State Office of Planning and Programming
Memorial Park
Prairie Park
Cornell College
Altoona Hall
Philip Secor
Secor
Richard Thomas
Fred Dumbaugh
Dumbaugh
Cornell
Law Academy
Norand halts UDAG grant. to pursue bonds and private deal
Norand Corp. asks Cedar Rapids to withdraw a proposed Urban Development Action Grant of 500 000 to 750 000 for a manufacturing expansion. The plan now centers on industrial revenue bonds, with 35 to 50 new jobs, tax abatements, and a private party purchase and remodel of the Nash Finch building near 550 Second St. SE, estimated 2.5 to 2.6 million dollars, with completion targeted for early January and possible Sept 1 bond papering.
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Norand Corp
Cedar Rapids
Norand
Rich McCarty
Noland
McCarty
The
Gazette
UDAG
Nash Finch
Second St. SE
King’s Material Inc
Third St
King’s
Roundup of local arrests and notices in Cedar Rapids area
Geraldine Duckett of Central City faces drunk driving and failing to dim headlights charges after a late Sunday stop on County Road E-16. A Swisher man, Richard Halsor, is charged with second degree burglary linked to a July 31 break in and faces a preliminary hearing August 29. Police seek a naked burglar reported in a southwest Cedar Rapids neighborhood at 3:30 a.m. A $165,000 FAA snow removal grant aids Cedar Rapids Airport for winter readiness. Gene's Music Company reports $1,200 theft from an unlocked window. Community Improvement meeting on sanitary sewers set for 7 p.m. at First Lutheran Church with city officials attending.
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Gerianne Duckett
Central City
Swisher
Cedar Rapids
Richard Alan Halsor
Third St. SE
Steve Gustafson
Johnson County
Halsor
Department of Correctional Services
Southwest Side
Rodney
Betty Newland
Carriage Drive
Newland
Eugene Lanfier
Greene Ave
Gene’s
Citizens For Community Improvement
First Lutheran Church
Third Ave
CCI
Chamber survey highlights priorities for Cedar Rapids Chamber
Cedar Rapids Marion Area Chamber of Commerce members identify economic industrial development and governmental public affairs as top issues for 1983 84. Executive VP Larry Waller says survey shapes planning and realigns spending. a new program is expected to be unveiled in about two weeks.
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Cedar Rapids- Marion Area
Waller
Chamber
Grady seeks Cedar Rapids parks commission seat
Sylvester Grady 61 of 1380 O Ave NE has filed to run for Cedar Rapids parks commissioner. A Air Force veteran and former NAACP leader, he has 15 pages of nominating signatures and cites voter registration and turnout as priorities. Incumbent Elmer Delaney plans a second term.
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Sylvester Grady
O Ave
Cedar Rapids
Grady
Air Force
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Greene Square
Elmer Delaney
the Gazette
Cedar Rapids Red Cross volunteers head to Hurricane Alicia area
Four Cedar Rapids volunteers Kit Fuller Pat Cahill Vernon Numedahl and Paula Robinson join Red Cross aid effort in Texas with a 4.5 million program. Feeding vans from Cedar Rapids Waterloo Burlington and Des Moines head to the region along with more than 150 volunteers. The disaster leaves over 1 000 homeless in eight shelters and eight feeding vans feed 50 000 emergency workers.
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Red Cross
Cedar Rapids
Texas
Alicia
Kit Fuller
Pat Cahill
Vernon Numedahl
Paula Robinson
Tim Burke
Grant Wood Area
Waterloo
Burlington
Des Moines
Galveston
Teas
Resignation Demand Shocks Cedar Rapids Police Group
The Cedar Rapids Policemen's Protective Association demands Civil Service Commission Chairwoman Jan Kazimour resign or apologize amid a dispute over how police promotion tests are conducted. A 26-8 vote backs sending letters to Mayor Canney and the City Council.
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J.M. Flansburg Gazette
Cedar Rapids Policemen’s Protective Association
City Civil Service Commission
Jan Kazimour
Stan McClurg
Donald Canney
Kazimour
McClurg
PPA
Civil Service Commission
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Mount Vernon Water Tower
Young Vernoy
Federal Aviation Administration
Police
Det
J.D. Hansel
Commission
Hansel
Pearle
Cord
RLE Vision Center
Searle Company
Westdale Mall
Iowa City
Searle Optical Inc
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