Downtown senior citizens center move proposed in Linn County
Madge Phillips reported at the Tuesday Health Center board meeting that a plan to repurpose the Witwer building space now used by Handicapped Systems for a senior citizen center has the support of the Linn County Task Force of the Heritage Agency on Aging. A planning committee has formed with Signi Falk Viola Gibson Henrietta Tolley Virgil An.
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Linn County Health Center
Madge Phillips
Linn County
Heritage Agency On Aging
Witwer
Second Avenue
Handicapped Systems
Health Center ad hoc group eyes joint workshop facility
A Linn County panel including Mrs. Phillips and representatives from the Health Center, Department of Social Services, Elderly groups, and area churches discussed planning a shared facility for Downtown Work Shop Squaw Creek Workshop and Handicapped Systems. The group may seek county space funding and a new building proposal with a Jan 9 meeting scheduled. ON THIS DATE in 1975, six terrorists burst into a Vienna oil nations ministers meeting, killing three and taking 70 hostage.
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Phillips
Squaw Creek
Marion
Vienna
OPEC
Native Talent registration open Tuesday career open house
Registration desks at Operation Native Talent will open at 11 30 a m next Tuesday in the Town House Convention Hall for Eastern Iowa College seniors not pre registered The program starts at 12 30 p m seniors who pre registered should arrive then The event offers personal data sheets and extra copies for outreach officials say Cedar Rapids Marion Chamber coordinators sponsor by the Personnel Managers Committee
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Native Talent
Town House Convention Hall
Eastern Iowa College
Harold Ewoldt
Chamber of Commerce
Cedar Rapids-Marion Area
Women’s Shelter funding deferred by Linn County Health Center
The Linn County Health Center board sent a proposed six month $4100 continuation for the Women’s Emergency Shelter to its evaluation committee for review. YWCA administrator Carol Rickey outlined capacity and age range shifts, with eight years of residency changes and space availability as key points.
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Linn County Health Center
Health Center Board of Directors
Carol Rickey
YWCA
Virgil Andrew
Andrew
Rickey
Department of Social Services
Theft at Tegler Conoco service station reels in cash
Burglars entered the Tegler Conoco service station in Dyersville on Tuesday night and took $115 in cash. Also noted: Hanoi refused to deliver Christmas packages to American prisoners in North Vietnam a decade ago.
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Dyersville
Tegler
Conoco
Hanoi
North Vietnam
Smith to head Chamber's downtown merchant group
Deane Smith, senior vice president of Killian's, elected 1978 chairman of Cedar Rapids Central Retail Merchants Bureau. Jerry Miller terms as past chair 1976 and 1977. Floyd J. Mounts faces drunken driving charge. Jerry Rivinius elected 1978 vice chairman. 1978 executive committee includes Smith and others. Sam Becker posthumously memorialized on the committee. Bureau promotes downtown Cedar Rapids as the shopping center for a 40 county trade area.
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Deane Smith
Killian’s
Central Retail Merchants Bureau
Cedar Rapids-Marion Area
Jerry Rivinius
Osco’s
Smith
Rivinius
Miller
Gene Arnold
Willis Daugherty
Joe Enzler Jr
Blake Garske
Tuck Erickson
Herman Ginsberg
Nancy Littlefair
Richard Wholthaus
Joanne Karns
Dale Sawyer
Norman Schroeder
Robert Tibbits
Joe Wood
Sam Becker
Becker
Peoples Furniture
Cedar Rapids
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Senior Citizens’ Center
Mary Burke Gazette
Mary Burke
Linn Health Services
Ann Weir
Miss Weir
Board of Supervisors
Weir
Health Center Board
Midwest
Ruth Mund
St. Wenceslaus
Iowa Department of Social Services
Reality 10
Citizens Committee On
Sandy Taylor
University of Iowa
Social Services Division
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act
Empire Photo, Inc
First Ave
Iowa
Floyd J. Mounts
Second St
First Avenue
Eighteenth Street
Glassic
Lindale
Iowa City
Stiles Ace Hardware
Wilson Ave
Bowling St
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