Cedar Rapids to reconsider work release center plan
Cedar Rapids Planning Commission will revisit a request to build a 75 bed work release center at 16th Avenue and Rockford Road SW. The final item on today’s 3 p.m. meeting agenda in City Hall faces neighborhood concerns near Jefferson High School amid prior legal and land title issues.
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16Th Avenue
Rockford Road
Cedar Rapids
Floyd Bergen
Department of Planning and Redevelopment
the Gazette
Bergen
Jefferson High School
Planning Commission
City Board of Adjustment
Kirkwood Community College
Benton Hall
Kirkwood
Jim Prochaska
Cedar Rapids City Meetings and Public Events Schedule
A Tuesday agenda lists meetings across Cedar Rapids Linn County and nearby towns including Five Seasons Center City Council Planning Commission and Zoning sessions. Also notes a lace demonstration at Cedar Rapids Public Library and a Womanspeak talk on empowering language at the Chamber of Commerce.
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Five Seasons Center Commission
Five Seasons Center
Cedar Rapids
Linda Bohlken
Beems
Cedar Rapids Public Library
Clear Creek voters weigh two levies in school district election
Voters in the Clear Creek School District face two special tax levies to fund programs and facilities. The first levy seeks 10.1 percent of state income tax plus 55 cents per $1 000 of property value for five years, and the second is 67 percent of a cent per $1 000 for 10 years to maintain buildings and grounds. Polls run noon to 8 p.m. at multiple polling sites across Oxford, Coralville, Tiffin, and surrounding townships.
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Bob Steele
North Liberty
Bernie’s
Madison Township
Harley Davidson
Oxford City
Iowa Township
Iowa County
Hardin Township
Union Township
York Township
St. Peter’s Hall
Cosgrove
Tiffin
Coralville
Clear Creek Township
Amana Society names interim manager
Amana Society will operate with an interim general manager for at least three months. Dennis Schrag resigns Friday after holding the post since January 1986. Don Shoup will run daily operations with executive committee oversight, as the society screens and hires a replacement through a Chicago executive-search firm.
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Dick Hogan
Azette
Amana Society
Dennis Schrag
Martin Roeniig
Society
Roeniig
Don Shoup
Schrag
Roemig
Chicago
Shoup
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Amana
Residents raise 151000 to keep Postville hospital open
Postville residents loaned and donated more than the goal of 150000 to pay short term debts, about 151000 by late Monday, 24 hours before the 4 p.m. deadline. New administrator Richard Phillips praised town support and outlined programs from Savanna City Hospital to boost services. Phillips will replace Roger Lenz who had served temporarily.
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Val Swinton
Iowa Bureau Community Memorial Hospital
Postville
Hospital
Richard Phillips
Dubuque
Phillips
Savanna City Hospital
Savanna
Ill
Community Memorial
Savanna Hospital
Postville Hospital
Roger Lenz
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By Vanessa Shelton
Board of Adjustment
Linn District Court
Thomas Koehler
DCS
Fourth Ave. SE
Jean Kuehl
Iowa
Phil Brammer
Richard Running
Kuehl
Marion Planning & Zoning Commission
City
Nancylee Ziese
Hillcrest Family Services
Chamber of Commerce
Junior League
League
John McIvor
Linn County Humane Society
Freedy
Clear Creek
Pierson’s Flowershop .& Greenhouses, Inc
West
Ellis Bled
Board OF Directors
Roger K. Brooks
Midland Financial Savings and Loan
Central Life Assurance Company
Kent E. Klopfenstein
Donald A. Anderson
Anderson Investment Co
Charles H. Betts, Jr
Betts Cadillac
Blaine A. Briggs
Board Management Service
Ine
Richard L. Bryan
Jerry L. Chicoine
Pioneer
Hi-Bred International, Inc
Robert W. Dahlberg
George Daly
College of Business Administration
University of Iowa
D.T. Dean
Edwin L. Ingraham
Wumsuiail Life Investors, Ine
Robert E. Rich
Jeffrey E. Lamson Belin
Harris
Helmick
Lesdell
Lamson and McCormick
Midland Financial Group
Walnut
Financial Center
Des Moines
FSLIC
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
Fpslic
U.S
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