Ex-Agriprocessors HR worker gets probation
Karina Freund, 31, former human resources employee at Agriprocessors, received one year of probation after pleading guilty to aiding and abetting hiring of undocumented immigrants. The case stems from the May 2008 Postville raid that led to 389 arrests.
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Iowa City Poet Powell Wins $100000 Kingsley Tufts Prize
D A Powell, 1996 Iowa Writers' Workshop alum and former visiting faculty, wins the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award worth 100000 dollars for Chronic. He teaches at the University of San Francisco and will accept the prize April 22 at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. Former alumna Matthew Harvey won last year for Modern Life.
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Swisher Library Holds Grand Opening Today
The Swisher Community Library will hold its grand opening at 10 a.m. in the former Swisher Telephone Co. offices. It serves about 850 residents in Jefferson and Monroe Townships in NW Johnson County.
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Mount Mercy Talk Explores Civil Rights Memory
Belmont University history professor Peter Kuryla will discuss The Imagined Civil Rights Movement and the Art of Memory at Mount Mercy College on February 18 at 7 30 p.m. in Basile Hall Fla nerty Community Room. The event is free and open to the public.
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On Your Mind Reader asks about downtown limits and local library plans
Readers debate what defines downtown, question Library procurement by Emerald Knights and Handler Motors, and wonder about library board make up and past Gazette ties. The note asks for Denny Frary and hints at local civic frictions.
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University of Iowa Dance Marathon Seeks 1700 Participants
Morale Captain Kristin Oberg performs as the 16th annual University of Iowa Dance Marathon aims to attract over 1,700 participants at the Iowa Memorial Union. In 2009 dancers and volunteers raised over 1 million dollars for the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital and the Children’s Miracle Network, underscoring the event’s status as a major student-run philanthropy on campus.
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Corbett unsure how council will vote on library
Mayor Ron Corbett says he does not know how the nine member City Council will vote on a library site for a 45 million dollar project. The library board backs the Gazette Communications block as first choice with Emerald Knights second. The council will decide two weeks after its Wednesday meeting, with FEMA approval required for funding.
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