Coe College Honors Black Heritage Week Events
Coe College opens a Black Heritage Week with lectures films dances and a soul food dinner. Notable speaker Lennox Hinds director of the National Conference of Black Lawyers discusses justice and Blacks at 8 p.m. Thursday in Cherry Auditorium. The Black Genesis Dance Troupe of Iowa City performs Friday in the Dows Center theater. A Black Film Festival is planned Sunday evening in Gage Union. A Monday soul food dinner serves 5 to 6 15 p.m. in Gage Memorial Union.
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Coe College
Coe
Lennox Hinds
National Conference of Black Lawyers
NCBL
Cherry Auditorum
Hinds
Rutgers Law School
U.S
Canada
Virgin Islands
Black American Law Student Association
Black Genesis
Iowa City
Dows Center
University of Iowa
Gage Union
Paradise
Harlem
Coe Bsec
Gage Memorial Union
Black Consciousness speakers and gospel program at Sinclair
Community events list meals at Gage Union Box Office with advance reservations and phone line. Lu Palmer speaks on Black Consciousness at Cherry Auditorium Monday eight pm, with Merri Dee presenting a two part lecture on Future Roles of Women in the Media Wednesday. Friday features Joseph D. Linton and St Louis gospel group performing The History of Black Music in America in Sinclair Auditorium.
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Gage Union
C Avenue
Center Point Road Northeast
Lu Palmer
Cherry Auditorium
X-Press
Palmer
Chicago
Associated Colleges of
University of Iowa
Merri Dee
Wgn-Tv
Radio
Dee
Hillman’s Foods
Kraft Foods
Continental Bank
Merri
Joseph D. Linton
Gospel
Evangelists
Musicians and Chorale Association of
St. Louis
Mount Zion Baptist Church of
Cedar Rapids
Sinclair Auditorium
America
Liquor Store Cuts Hit Six Locations Across Iowa
Sixteen part time workers at six state liquor stores will lose their jobs on March 1 as evening hours ending at 10 p.m. are rolled back to 6 p.m. Normal hours and layoff details affect Bettendorf Coralville Dubuque Cedar Falls Des Moines and Cedar Rapids stores. The Center Point Road Cedar Rapids shop confirms three losses. hours shift to noon 8 pe weekdays and 10 6 Saturdays starting March 1.
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Des Moines
Center Point Road
Cedar Rapids
the Gazette
Rolland Gallagher
Iowa Beer and Liquor Control Commission
Gallagher
Bettendorf
Coralville
Dubuque
Cedar Falls
Council Bluffs
Sioux City
State General Fund
Robert Keene
End supervision and lights at Lou Dennis and Noelridge rinks
The Recreation Commission announced that Lou Dennis and Noelridge skating rinks will no longer have supervision warming shelters or night lighting. Daytime maintenance will continue pending weather and budget. Vandalism at Noelridge interior was reported last weekend and suspects were apprehended.
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the Recreation Commission
Lou Dennis
Noelridge
Arthur, Bever, and Apache
Cedar Rapids Man Receives Red Cross Certificate of Merit
Duane Elsbury of Cedar Rapids received the American Red Cross Certificate of Merit for lifesaving aid after he used mouth to mouth resuscitation to revive Steve Moss following a November 1977 motorcycle crash. Moss survived the incident on Elmhurst Drive NE with Elsbury applauding the rescue.
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Duane Elsbury
Cedar Rapids
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Elsbury
Iowa Manufacturing Co
Steve Moss
Elmhurst Drive
Moss
Fund-raising events set for crippled children drive
Three benefit events for crippled children are scheduled by the Cedar Rapids Horseman's Club. A March 4 dance will be at the Club five miles south of Kirkwood Community College on old Highway 218. A March 10 dance is at the Town House Convention Center. A March 11 auction runs 1 to 5 p.m. at the IBEW Hall with Linn County merchants donating goods. ON THIS DATE in 1820 Susan B Anthony was born.
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Cedar Rapids
Town House Convention Center
First Ave
Ibew Hall
Wiley Blvd
Linn County
Quaker Oats Union Talks Set For Thursday
Union and Quaker Oats Co officials will meet Thursday at 10 a.m. to resume negotiations on a new labor contract. The two-year pact with Local 110 of RWDSU expired last Friday, with workers continuing on a day-to-day extension. Key dispute remains contract length with the company seeking three years and the union one year.
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Quaker Oats Co
Quaker
Driver Charged With Drunk Driving in Marion Incident
Debra Ann Hollingsworth, 24, of Steamboat Springs Colorado, was charged with drunken driving after a 12:39 a.m. arrest in the 1100 block of Sixth Avenue in Marion.
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Debra Ann Hollingsworth
Steamboat Springs
Colo
Sixth Avenue
Marion
Japanese Prince Mikasa to Visit China in September
Tokyo reports Prince Mikasa, 62, brother of Emperor Hirohito, will tour China in September becoming the first imperial family member to visit the country since World War II. He teaches history at Tokyo Women’s College.
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Hirohito
Prince Mikasa
China
Yomiuri Shimbun
Tokyo Women’s College
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