Cedar Rapids Soap Box Derby registration meeting set
An information and registration meeting for Cedar Rapids Soap Box Derby's 20th anniversary will be held Saturday at 1 30 p m at the Central YMCA. Eastern Iowa youths ages 10 to 15 and their parents are invited to learn derby details and attend. The club will run March car-building clinics and pre-derby races. derby on July 11 features two divisions with a $5 registration fee.
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Cedar Rapids
Central Ymca
Iowa
Nevin Leichliter
Leichliter
Cedar Rapids Soap Box Derby Association
Derby Association
Washington High School to host Arts Outreach concert
Washington High School students attend a Feb 24 event with University of Iowa Arts Outreach Program featuring Evangeline Noel Glass and Beaumont Glass presenting a lecture on German lieder. The program includes Washington Singers Momentum Swing Choir Washington Concert Choir the new 12 member Madrigal Choir and a contemporary piece Brothers and Sisters with eight groups from Washington High and McKinley Junior High performing at 7 30 p m in Washington Auditorium. Tickets are 1 50 for adults 1 for students with free admission for activity ticket holders and seniors.
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Washington High School
University of Iowa
Evangeline Noel Glass
Beaumont Glass
US Opera Theater
Schubert
Schumann
Brahms
Hugo Wolf
Richard Strauss
Washington Singers
Momentum Swing Choir
Washington's
Washington Madrigal Choir
Brothers and Sisters
Washington High
McKinley Junior High
Washington Auditorium
Weiler to sing Crespel in Hoffmann at Northwestern
Jeff Weiler, a masters voice student and graduate choral assistant with the Alice Millar Chapel Choir, will perform Crespel in Jacques Offenbachs The Tales of Hoffmann at Northwestern University Evanston Illinois in February and March 2026.
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Jeff Weiler
Country Club Parkway SE
Crespel
Jacques Offenbach
Northwestern University
Evanston, Ill
Weiler
Alice Millar Chapel
Visit Wilson Junior High for Education Awareness Week Tours
Today through Friday Wilson Junior High hosts school tours at 11 45 a m led by student council reps. Visitors eat lunch for 1 25 and may tour rooms 106 and meet attendance staff before joining tours. Parents may join classes and band members may participate in performances across Wilson Van Buren Coolidge and Madison schools.
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Wilson Junior High School
Wilson
Madison School
King of the Hill in a Cedar Rapids snowpile
Six year old Wayne Jeffrey Carlisle stands atop a dirty snow hill at the corner of 4th Avenue and 15th Street SE. He is visiting his grandmother at the 1400 block of Fourth Avenue SE in southwest Cedar Rapids.
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King OF the
Wayne Jeffrey Carlisle
4Th Avenue
15Th Street
Cedar Rapids
Fourth Avenue
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Derby
John Pepper
Unity Swing
McKinley
van Buren Elementary
Coolidge Elementary
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