County to switch care facility to gas heat
Linn County plans a natural gas conversion at its all electric care facility despite soaring gas prices. Three bids were opened with Modern Piping of Cedar Rapids winning at 348 878 dollars under the 350 000 estimate. Energy cost savings would be shared with Abbe Center through lease adjustments.
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Dick Hogan
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Board of Supervisors
Allen
Garth Fagerbakke
Alliant Energy
Alliant
Fagerbakke
Iowa Utilities Board
Abbe Center For Community Care
Abbe
Mike Goldberg
No new meningitis cases in Johnson County
Johnson County reports no additional meningitis cases after the Solon teen Lindsey Elizabeth Smith died January 29. Elizabeth Miller of the Public Health Department notes no symptoms reported, vaccine limitations exist, and no link to an ISU student hospitalized with bacterial meningitis.
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Iowa City
Johnson County
Sclon
Elizabeth Miller
Johnson County Public Health
Smith
Iowa State University
Miller
Regis dance marathon raises $1000 for pediatric unit
Regis Middle School students held a January 26 dance marathon that netted over $1,000 for the University Hospitals Iowa City Pediatric Oncology Unit. Eighth grader and cancer survivor Kira Carstensen helped organize the event with the student senate, drawing about 200 attendees. The roundup also notes School Cents results, district honors, and Prairie Middle School geography bee winner Lacey Benter with 835 participants.
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University Hospitals
Iowa City
Kira Carstensen
Regis
University of Iowa
Lacey Benter
Prairie Middle School
David and
Ann Benter
Cedar Rapids
Interstate Swine masters nine-thousand hogs a year
Todd and Ross Wiley operate Interstate Swine in Iowa with nine thousand hogs annually. They hedge production on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to protect profits while maintaining a cost driven focus. An Iowa Pork Producers Association team named them Master Pork Producers in January at the Iowa Pork Congress.
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Todd
Ross
Ross and
Shirley
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Ming
Iowa Pork Producers Association
Convicted sex offender registered in Postville
A notice from Allamakee County Sheriff's Department states that Gene A. Schnuelle, 59, living at 346 N Ogden St Postville, is a risk to reoffend under Iowa sex offender registry. Convicted in 1996 in Allamakee County of lascivious acts with a 16 year old victim. He is described as white, 5 feet 10 inches, 185 pounds, brown hair, blue eyes.
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Postville
Allamakee County
Sheriffs Department
Gene A. Schmuelle
N. Ogden St
Schnuelle
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