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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1998
Page
9
A city poll invites readers to answer today’s question via CITYLINE, with numbers from yesterday showing 75 percent high satisfaction, 2 percent average, 23 percent low. The new question asks if Clinton scandal damages the country, noting nonscientific sampling by TELUS.
Your Two Cents on fylowa.com hosts discussion on the White House scandal seriousness local option sales tax in Linn County and state recreation spending levels. Readers weigh the impact and policy choices in a compact online forum format.
Morning sessions across Cedar Rapids Linn County and surrounding towns include budget work and special meetings at City Halls and court houses. Evening city council hearings in multiple towns precede films at Effigy Mounds and concerts by Pantera Baltimore Consort and Grinnell College lecture on stage presence and human rights.
No one won the Powerball jackpot or the Super Cash Lotto. Friday night Powerball and daily games posted numbers 7 2 7 for Pick 3 Evening and 1 8 6 2 for Pick 4 Evening. Wednesday jackpots rise to 21 million and 640 thousand respectively. Lottery numbers available via CITYLINE city lines.
Jan 30 Jill and William Clark, 6527 Medford Lane NE, a son. Jan 31 Ami Mulholland and Tim Steel, 1281 Grand Ave., Apr 8 Marion, a son. Feb 1 Laura Swenzinski, 3610 Jonquil Ct., Marion, a daughter. Also listed: Christina Beranek Walford a daughter and Sharon Langguth 2915 Circle NE a daughter. Later: Rebecca Roberts 26 of 306 Cayman St Iowa City arrested downtown for drunken driving. Notes: info from The Gazette. charges subject to county attorney review.
Sigourney school board moves ahead with expansion options after five years of additions to the high and elementary schools. The board weighs church property sale including a gym and land, checks costs and feasibility, and eyes a new parking lot purchase and a DOT building for a bus barn. FFA growth prompts discussion of using church land for test plots and a greenhouse.
Rev Steve Sabin and his Lord of Life congregation face an ecclesiastical trial over a policy that bars practicing homosexuals from ministry. Sabin argues the church’s stance contradicts its teachings of God’s love for all as supporters rally at services in Des Moines.
Kirkwood Community College hosts Beyond Rubies'98 a two day women’s seminar March 20 and 21 with more than 90 sessions on topics from exercise and wellness to financial counseling parenting handwriting analysis and computer skills Keynote speakers include Marlene Caroselli Salome Raheim Sheryl Nicholson and Kay Kuhlman The event is organized by Kirkwood Continuing Education with Coe and Cornell colleges and sponsors Registration is 50 for both days or 35 for a single day includes lunch Contact Janet Slimak at 398 1284 for materials
A 10 part video series on global political social and economic topics will be shown on KTS Kirkwood Community College cable. The first program airs today and each episode features material from Iowa City Foreign Relations Council meetings.
A 52 year old man from southwest Iowa, Henry Frahm, sought in connection with his estranged wife’s death, was found dead near a farmhouse three miles south of Burchard in Pawnee County Nebraska. The county attorney ruled it a death by own action.
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