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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 2017
Page
7
The Gazette and the African American Museum of Iowa partner for Black History Month in Cedar Rapids. Read about Ivory Winston, famed as Iowa’s First Lady of Song, her early training, stage career, and role in community events including a 1948 birthday tribute to President Truman in Iowa.
Ottumwa native Ivory Winston faced racism while moving to a new neighborhood even as she earned state recognition in 1950 for atop Des Moines Cavalcade of Music, Meredith Wilson talent, and national radio performances. She died August 6, 1996 aged 84. Her family notes there are few surviving recordings.
Iowa City judge dismisses Harreld open meetings suit against the University of Iowa presidential search committee after plaintiff Harold Hammond died in 2016. The ruling cites failure to substitute a new plaintiff and late filings, ending the case while a separate suit by Gerhild Krapf moves toward trial on November 6.
Cedar Rapids firefighters will receive a Resusci Anne CPR training unit next week. Randy Kuehl Honda and the National Automobile Dealers Charitable Foundation donated the device, which includes a feedback feature to measure CPR quality and real time guidance on compression rate depth release and hands off time.
The Iowa Commission on the Status of Women invites nominations for the Iowa Women’s Hall of Fame established in 1975 with 168 inductees. It also lists the 2017 Becoming an Outdoors-Woman workshop April 28-30 at Honey Creek Resort State Park with a $260 single or $215 double room and March 26 registration at iowadar.gov bow.
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