Linn County Emergency Management Agency levy may cost homeowners more
Linn County officials expect a new supplemental levy for the Emergency Management Agency to run about 4.8 cents per $1,000 of assessed value, possibly totaling about $2.64 annually for a $100,000 home. Current levy is 2.5 cents per $1,000, about $1.38 yearly, with urban taxpayers facing possible higher charges if city budgets do not cut spending.
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Emergency Management Agency
Coe College Wins NSF Grant for China Glass Research
The Coe College Physics Department secures a 25 555 travel grant from the National Science Foundation for a three year joint project with Fudan University in Shanghai. Professors Mario Affatigato and Steve Feller with two students will visit Fudan for optical testing of Coe glasses while two Fudan physicists visit Coe to continue the work. Wang Wencheng of Fudan visited Coe earlier this year and his daughter Liman Wang is a 1996 Coe chemistry graduate. NSF notes the project will share expertise and facilities.
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National Science Foundation
Fudan University
Shanghai
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Coe
Mario Affatigato
Steve Feller
National Natural Science Foundation
Cedar Rapids man injured in bank ceiling fall charged
A Cedar Rapids man, Robert M. Flanders, 41, fell through a Hills Bank ceiling at 132 E. Washington St in Iowa City early Sunday. He suffered injuries, damaged ceiling tiles, and left blood on carpet and a phone, triggering a fourth-degree criminal mischief charge after he unlocked a side entrance for responding officers. He did not know how he entered the bank.
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Council St
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E. Washington St
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Indianapolis nurse Cheryl Atwood shot dead in front of patient home
Police say no leads or suspects in the Dec. 11 shooting death of Cheryl Atwood a 48 year old nurse. Atwood was shot five times in the back while walking to a patient’s home in Indianapolis. Her family traces her roots to Kansas and Des Moines where she trained as a nurse. Her body was buried in Frankfort Kansas after a ceremony last week.
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Kansas
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Charles
Washington
Iowa
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Frankfort
Kan
Charles Atwood
Clerk of Court Giardino retires after 21 years in Washington
Giardino, who raised 10 children after her husband’s death, retires as clerk of court in Washington after 21 years in the post. She won election in 1976, became appointed in 1986, and recalls guiding the office through marriage licenses and birth certificates shifts while cherishing community support and her large family.
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Celine
Washington
Arthur McGivern
Iowa Supreme Court
County Recorder’s Office
Carol Giardino
Washington County
Raeann Wyngarden
Joe Giardino
Jim Giardino
Paula Greiner
Kristen Hilling
Rick Giardino
Pat Folkema
Teri Roth
Greg Giardino
Peg Ryan
U of I finds impaired workers face higher on job injury risk
A University of Iowa study of 459,827 non farming Americans shows workers with disabilities such as blindness and deafness have higher injury risk. The study, published in JAMA, finds general laborers and machine operators suffer injuries at two to three times the rate of executives and professionals.
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Gazette
Johnson County
Bureau
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Craig Zwerling
U of I
Journal of the American Medical Association
Zwerling
Injury Rates by Occupation in a JAMA Study
The Journal of the American Medical Association study found service personnel injured at work nearly twice as often as executives. Sales was the only profession with a safer rate than executives, and self employed individuals had about half the executive injury rate. Zwerling attributed differences to control over work conditions.
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Zwerling
Cedar Rapids Man Arrested After Grocery Robbery
Cedar Rapids police nabbed Jeffrey A. Johnson 18, after the Clark Super Valu robbery on Ellis Blvd. NW. A plainclothes detective spotted him fleeing, two blocks away, with a ski mask and a six inch hunting knife. Johnson faces a first degree robbery charge and is jailed in Linn County.
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K Avenue
Linn County
Cedar Rapids to host 56 member National Guard fuel unit
Cedar Rapids gains a 56 member National Guard petroleum transport detachment to operate from the Armory near the airport with headquarters in Sheldon. The unit will recruit both genders, add about 240 thousand dollars annually to the local economy, and serve in a 5 ton tractor truck operation hauling 7 500 gallon tankers, with Iowa support stations nearby.
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National Guard
Sheldon
Army
King
United States
Iowa
Iowa National Guard
Ron Smith
234Th Signal Battalion
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