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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 2004
Page
7
The Cedar Rapids school board meets at 7 p.m. after a 4:45 p.m. work session in the Educational Service Center boardroom to set district goals and outline plans to boost student achievement under No Child Left Behind. Televised on Mediacom channel 17 and McLeod channel 13.
Coralville will host a free July 3 concert as part of the 2004 Fourth Fest. The band was announced at the 7th Annual Basket Auction at the Coralville Recreation Center. The event included a kids auction with items from local venues, food by the American Legion, a Jimmy Neutron screening, a silent auction, and proceeds supporting Fourth Fest.
Last week brought heavy snowfall the region has not seen in years six inches on Thursday and that pushes season totals to 22.7 inches. Icy and blowing snow caused slick conditions with several fender benders on rural Linn County roads while Dubuque Street between North Liberty and Iowa City was cleared after vehicles slid into ditches. No serious injuries reported.
Michelle and Bennett Kenyon Brown plan a 1500 square foot straw bale home on 58 acres between Mechanicsville and Solon. They live in a trailer during construction while Bennett teaches high school calculus and physics. They estimate 90000 dollars for completion, lower than comparable conventional homes, with labor as a major cost. Michelle works as membership coordinator for the Iowa Renewable Energy Association.
Richard Tosaw, 77, of Ceres California, abandoned the decade long dream to raise Nile Kinnick's airplane from the ocean floor after an expert warned the wreck would be rusted junk after 60 years in saltwater. He said the plan was impractical and driven by amateur enthusiasm.
Richard Tosaw and crew, using Navy records and GPS, located the general crash area five miles off Venezuela in 1943. They aim to return this winter with a magnetometer to pinpoint the wreck and donate the plane to the University of Iowa.
The Gazette outlines its weekly Newstrack segment highlighting prominent local figures and events. Readers can submit tips or questions via P O Box 511 Cedar Rapids Iowa 52406 or contact Doug Beach at the Gazette for guidance.
Gene Herring bought a 1964 1/2 Ford Mustang after seeing the ad in Look magazine in 1964 and, years later, found the same Mustang for sale locally and purchased it again. The first trade swapped a 1959 Oldsmobile for the Mustang in a deal around $1,600 to $1,800. the second purchase totaled $8,975 with no haggling. The Prairie Bronze two door coupe had a 260 V-8 and a floor-shift three-speed, delivered July 24 1964, registered as a 1965 with a $34 annual fee.
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