Public meetings this week in Linn County
A schedule lists dozens of public agency meetings across Linn County this week. Sessions include the Linn Board of Supervisors in informal and regular sessions at the Courthouse, Cedar Rapids and Hiawatha boards and city councils, zoning and plats committees, and various boards at City Hall and other venues.
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Linn Board of Supervisors
Zoning Board of Adjustment
Linn
Cedar Rapids City Hall
Hiawatha Water Board
Hiawatha City Hall
Citizens Committee On
Alcoholism and
Reality 10
Merged Board
United Way
Third Ave
Cedar Rapids
Linn County and Cedar Rapids Officials Schedule Meetings
Thursday agenda lists 1:30 p.m. Linn County CETA Consortium Board in Cedar Rapids City Hall mayor's office. 2:30 p.m. Linn Board of Supervisors with Cedar Rapids City Council to discuss space. 4 p.m. Civil Service Commission and Summer Day Care Advisory Committee meet at City Hall and St Pauls Church. 7:30 p.m. Community Development Priorities Committee meets in council chambers. No Friday meetings announced.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County Ceta Consortium
Linn Board of Supervisors
Council
Cedar Rapids City Hall
Emerald Knights Drum Corps to Host Awards Banquet
The 100 member Emerald Knights Drum and Bugle Corps returns to Cedar Rapids after Denver nationals to honor summer season achievements at an Oct. 1 awards banquet. President Terry Frank says members to be recognized for outstanding performances across Streator Momence Waterloo DeKalb events. The corps competed in 26 parades and tournaments in June July August.
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Emerald Knights
Cedar Rapids
Denver
Terry Frank
Drum Corps Parents Body
Streator
Momence
Ill
Waterloo
Frank
Rhododendron Diversity and Bats Highlight Global Wildlife
The text notes over 6,000 rhododendron species thriving in mountain regions of New Guinea Malaysia Europe and North America. It also mentions large fruit bats forming colonies in the Philippines and hunted for meat and fur. Alaska is claimed to lack a nickname.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Guinea
Malaysia
Europe
North America
Philippines
Speed Watch Radar and Helicopter Patrol Areas Listed
Periodic speed checks will occur this week using radar and helicopter. Areas include Northwest Ellis Boulevard Gordon Avenue and Kennedy Regis School. Northeast First Avenue. 32nd and 38th streets. Southwest Wilson and 16th avenues. Second and L streets and Jefferson School. Southeast Forest Drive Country Club Parkway and Washington School area.
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Ellis Boulevard
Gordon Avenue
First Avenue
32Nd
38Th
Kennedy and
Regis
Wilson
16Th Avenues
Second
Jefferson School
Forest Drive
Country Club Parkway
Washington School
Dear Genie Letters Seek Iowa Kinfolk and Family Threads
Iowa readers share personal inquiries through Dear Genie seeking long lost relatives and ancestral links. Margaret Ritchey requests contact for Norma Jean Geinzer and family names Pinney McGahan and Arthur Pinney with birth details. other correspondents seek Mary Elizabeth Points and Elizabeth Hancock connections across Iowa Missouri and Illinois.
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Genie
Iowa
Norma Jean Geinzer
David
Ed Huelsenbeck
Margaret Waterbury
Margaret Ritchey
P.O. Box
West Branch
Pinney
McGahen
McGhan
Arthur Pinney
Oskaloosa
Edmund
Harmon Pinney
Warne
Cass County
Judd Pinney
Humbolt
Horace Birney Pinney
Spencer
Silas S. McGhan
Osage
Neil McGahen
Stone Jug Road
Lewisberry
Abandoned Houses Seen as Urban Ills Across Cities
A GAO report calls for HUD to require grant recipient cities to pursue anti abandonment plans and offers new financial incentives to deter vacancy. Based on data from 149 major cities, 113 report some abandonment problems, with most vacant homes privately owned and often far from owners.
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Washington
America
General Accounting Office
Department of Housing and Urban Development
GAO
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Emerald Knights Set
Knights
Santa Clara
Calif
Vanguard
Phantom Regiment
Rockford
Blue Devils
Concorde, Calif
Colorado
Central City
Estes Park
DeKalb
Rockford Phantom Regiment
Alaska
State
Speed
Tre Eee
Linn County Heritage Society
Dear Genie
Gazette
Horace
Addison Arthur
Homer
Duane
Alfred Arthur
Fanny Higby Arthur
James Milholm
W. 2Nd St
Vinton
Mary Elizabeth Points
Appanoose County
William Points
Elizabeth Hancock
Charles Jump
Putnam County
Schuyler County
Mr. Adams
Janet K. Pease
62Nd Place
Arvada
Colo
Rabel
Wrore
Kroehler
Fantastic Mattress & Boxspring Buys
Somme
Smulekoffs
3Rd Avenue
Every Simmons
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