City tests new Huey jet helicopter for air ambulance use
Cedar Rapids Mayor Don Canney and city officials test the newly acquired Huey helicopter, readied as an air ambulance. Test flights last 15 minutes each with 108 knot speed, while authorities plan training, telemetry checks, and fee structures before potential service.
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Cedar Rapids
Don Canney
Canney
John Saddler
St. Luke’s Hospital
Sam Wallace
Saddler
Mercy Hospital
Wallace
Language requirements force three districts toward reorganization
Wilton Central City and Norway districts must raise foreign language offerings to state minimums within a year or risk removal from approved status. Officials cite low student interest as the core issue despite available courses and teaching staff.
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Wilton
Central City
Norway
State Department of Public Instruction
Carl Miles
Lowell Ryan
Ryan
Atlantic Community College Offers Holiday Gift Certificates
Atlantic City area two year college Atlantic Community College is selling holiday gift certificates in any amount usable for tuition. Spokeswoman Ellen Kaplan notes the certificates can be as small as $2 and that a 15 credit semester costs about $250. Major credit cards are accepted.
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Mays Landing
N.J
Atlantic Community College
Atlantic City
Ellen Kaplan
Probe clears officers in lounge incident
Cedar Rapids police internal investigators found no wrongdoing by Cedar Rapids officers or Linn County deputies in the December 7 altercation outside the 20th Century Lounge. Public Safety Commissioner Floyd Bergen stated he received a verbal report from Police Chief Gareth Clift, with no written report yet. Three men faced charges related to the incident, including assault and interfering with official acts, while Rick L. Rodriguez was also arrested.
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Cedar Rapids
Randall Ridenour
Lth
St. SW
Jack C. Schneider
Rick L. Rodriguez
Bergen
Linn
Police defend officers in tavern restraint case
A police chief said three men including Driscoll and Schneider were involved in a scuffle outside a tavern on Point Road NE after an internal fight ended inside. He stated no brutality charges were filed and called television reports sensationalist while confirming an investigation supported officers' actions.
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Point Road NE
Rodriguez
Driscoll
Schneider
Linn District Court Actions On Four Cedar Rapids Defendants
Robert D. Walker 22 received probation revocation and up to five years in Anamosa reformatory for a stolen property case after a prior June conviction and alleged November 11 department store theft with a wound to a security officer. Sylvester Tate 18 got a suspended sentence up to 10 years and three years probation for burglary. James E. Frendle 35 drew one year jail with nine months suspended and probation for a second offense drunk driving arising from an Aug. 9 arrest.
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Linn District Court
Robert D. Walker
Cedar Rapids
Anamosa
Walker
Sylvester Tate
James E. Frendle
Belle Plaine woman injured in Cedar Rapids fall
Grace S. Thompson, 79, of Belle Plaine, is in St. Luke's Hospital with a broken hip after a fall on Cedar Rapids' Second Avenue SE Thursday afternoon. Police report says she tripped on a downtown sidewalk while walking in the 200 block. 20 YEARS AGO A Soviet flyer searched frozen Antarctic wastes for four Belgian explorers.
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Grace S. Thompson
Belle Plaine
St. Luke’s Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Second Avenue SE
Antarctic
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