27 Aug 1990
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1990
Page
1
The Gazette launches a new look with Sports Plus moving to page 60 four days a week and Youth Plus appearing Mondays on page 1B featuring academic and youth activities. Obituaries shift to page 2 of section B alongside expanded national world and local news. editor John Robertson welcomes comments at 398 8264.
The state Department of Natural Resources ends its Cedar Rapids peregrine falcon restoration program today after stocking endangered birds there for two summers. The program will relocate to another site next year.
DES MOINES AP The director of the Iowa Civil Rights Commission Inga Bumbary Langston 33 will take a one year leave of absence to study at Harvard University on a fellowship for public and private sector administrators Friday was her last day at work before leaving Fraser will return after the program.
The Gazette promotes sustainable printing using soybean ink and recycled newsprint. Readers are urged to recycle newspapers by depositing them in City Carton boxes at 4250 Sixth St SW and at Econo Foods located at 1800 51st St NE.
A light humor item about fathers disciplining with an iron fist as a nine iron on the golf course while mothers stay home with the kids.
Residents along the Wapsipinicon and Turkey rivers face renewed flooding after heavy rains. In Troy Mills, Virginia and Larry Burkey return to a partially submerged home while nearby cabins float and boats rescue residents. Across Linn and Jones counties, 68 communities brace for crests, with officials noting crews sandbagging foundations as streets flood.
U N and Iraqi officials plan talks this week seeking an opening in the Persian Gulf standoff the first mediation effort by the United Nations since sanction enforcement was approved. Meanwhile 52 of 55 Americans evacuated from Kuwait crossed into Turkey with aid workers and diplomats heading to Adana air base for repatriation. a few dependents remained in Baghdad.
Cedar Rapids police will focus on school zones with ground and helicopter patrols as school resumes. Tickets for speeding 25 mph or more near schools will be issued, with 8 am to 5 pm Monday to Friday as the enforced hours. Officers will monitor marked and unmarked crosswalks and reinforce safe crossing habits among children.
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