Cedar Rapids Police Investigate Fatal Two Vehicle Crash
Cedar Rapids police probe a two vehicle crash at Sixth Street and 32nd Avenue SW that killed a front seat passenger. The southbound car tried to turn left onto Gateway Place SW around 2 45 p m a northbound car collided with the turning vehicle. Names not released. The Cedar Rapids Community School District ended the 1993 94 fiscal year with a 1 29 million balance compared with 453 000 the prior year due to tighter spending controls.
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32Nd Avenue
Gateway Place
Sixth
Susan Saterfiel
Saterfiel
Kirkwood Ranked 53rd Nationally for Two-Year Degrees
Kirkwood Community College ranked 53rd nationally in two year associate degrees awarded, with 1 011 degrees in 1990 91. Des Moines Area Community College followed at 57th with 990 degrees. Kirkwood placed 43rd in nursing associate degrees with 121 and 45th in total health sciences degrees.
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Kirkwood
Iowa College
Des Moines Area Community College
Victor Borden
University of Indiana
Community College Week
Shalala to speak on health care reform at Iowa lecture
Donna Shalala, former secretary of Health and Human Services, will discuss America's Historic Opportunity for Health Care Reform in a free noon lecture at the University of Iowa Main Lounge on August 30. She will take audience questions after the talk.
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Health and Human Services
University of Iowa
Iowa Memorial Nron
America
Shalala
Corn trivia and tall stalks from Jim Peck’s garden
Dave Rasdal profiles Jim Peck, a former Funks G Hybrid seed adviser in Belle Plaine, who now grows exceptional corn as tall as 23 feet and displays 16 to 20 foot shocks. The piece contrasts old seed practices with modern yields and notes about one half of yearly corn harvest used for livestock feed.
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Elle Plaine
Jim Peck
Funks G
Belle Plaine
Iowa
Jim
Jala Valley
Mexico
Funks
Minnesota
U.S
Don Radda
Washington
Jim Uchytil
Orlyn Blinkensop
YWCA tiff may go to union vote
Nearly all hourly Cedar Rapids YWCA employees may vote next month on unionizing after a petition for an NLRB election. An executive says paid leave was expanded while workers note net reductions in sick days and days off.
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Gloria Johnson
YWCA
Johnson
Martha Collins
Iowa City
Collins
USDA plans scrutiny of Urbana zoo
Federal officials are reviewing complaints about Perry's Wilderness Ranch and Zoo near Urbana. Owner Craig Perry says the USDA may be responding to a complaint, not launching a full investigation. An animal care specialist confirms an inquiry is underway but provides few details.
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David Sabala
USDA
Fort Worth
Texas
Perry
Sabala
Washington couple unveils historic limestone grave marker
Bob and Phyllis Carter of Washington Iowa unveiled a one ton oolitic limestone tree stump grave marker at Elm Grove Cemetery in a light hearted prehumous ceremony attended by over 100 friends. The Carters commissioned the Indiana Limestone Co to carve the piece for 5000 dollars, a rare revival of a 19th to early 20th century practice.
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Bob
Phyllis Carter
Washington
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Carters
Indiana Limestone Co
Bedford
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Phyllis
Iowa Wesleyan College
Pentagon
Empire State Building
Rockefeller Center
Washington, D.C
Carter
Michael Zachs
State Historical Society
Loren Horton
Iowa
Zachs
Horton
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