HACAP Aims to Lift Needy Through Broad Services
The Hawkeye Area Community Action Program HACAP provides utilities help home insulation furnace repair meals and guidance on debt. Executive Director Don Maniccia emphasizes it is a help up not a handout with 11 000 families aided last year and 3000 volunteers contributing labor and donations.
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Vanessa Shelton
Eee Cref
Hawkeye Area
HACAP
Don Maniccia
Maniccia
Johnson County
Coe Choir previews European program before tour
The Coe College Choir will give a free Jan 3 performance in Sinclair Auditorium at 7 p.m. as a preview to a six city European tour from Jan 4 to Jan 25. The group will perform only American works in Coventry, Cologne, and Amsterdam, with study sessions in London and Salzburg. Allan Kellar leads about 30 students. Jeff Weiler will guest as soloist.
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HACAP
Maniccia
Vinton
Williamsburg
Iowa City
Anamosa
Toddville
Central City
Lisbon
Washington
Cedar Rapids
Linn
Golden Enterprises
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Department of Human Services
Eighth Avenue
11Th Ave
Health Center
Third Ave. SE
Coe College
Sinclair Auditorium
Europe
Coventry
England
Cologne
West Germany
Amsterdam
Holland
Morley College
London
Salzburg
Austria
Allan Kellar
Coe
Jeff Weiler
Northwestern University
Native Talent
Mike Millard
Roosevelt Hotel
Millard
Iowa
Cedar Rapids-Marion Area
Fire destroys Chelsea farmhouse leaving family homeless
The Carl Iezek family lost their rented farmhouse four miles south of Chelsea to a fast-burning fire started by a wood-burning stove. Firefighters from Chelsea Belle Plaine and Brooklyn rescued a survivor who reported the family was not home at the time and likely lost most possessions. The family was staying with relatives after the blaze.
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Chelsea
Carl Lezek
Iezek
Richard VanDeWalle
Terry
VanDe Walle
Belle Plaine
Brooklyn
Iezeks
Dennis Beer
White Pine Drive
Aldo Nunez
Townhouse Drive
Russell Franklin
42Nd St
Ice Rinks Open As Cold Snap Continues
Prolonged cold weather allows Hayes and Bever rinks to open while Noelridge and Lou Dennis lagoons stay closed. Six inches of ice is deemed safe for skaters and plowing. Hayes Bever rinks form by spray-on water and run 5 to 9 30 p.m. Lighting covers Jones Park toboggan run 5 to 10 p.m. weekdays and 2 to 10 p.m. weekends. Hotline 389 5067 for skating conditions.
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Hayes
Bever
Noelridge
Lou Dennis
Jones Park
Recreation Commission
Burglaries Hit Two Cedar Rapids Homes on Christmas Day
Burglars struck two Cedar Rapids residences during Christmas Day hours. Items valued over 5300 were taken from Patty Hunter’s home at 803 10th St. SW including a microwave, diamond ring, camera, cash, lamps, a typewriter, kerosene heater, and stereo gear. Denise Bates’s apartment at 726 L St. SW was ransacked with 100 cassette tapes worth 800 stolen.
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Cedar Rapids
Patty Hunter
10Th St
Denise D. Bates
L St
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Charles Baird
Inkh Baccam
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Norman Drive
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Richmar Lane
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Fox Meadow
Carolyn McCool
Blake Blvd
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Juniper Drive
Kathi Sunder
Larry
Sigourney
Stacy Dietrich
West Liberty
Carol Greenwood
Marengo
Randy
Ray McKean
Independence
Ginger Packard
Kathryn Ripperdan
Coralville
Matt Sheeley
Urbana
John Suchomel
Traer
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Northwood Knolls
American Cancer Society
Harry A Lando
Iowa State University
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Council Bluffs
As Peoples Natural Gas Co
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