Ul festival celebrates cultural diversity at UI Field House
The 19th Celebrating Cultural Diversity Festival at the University of Iowa Field House drew students from many cultures with food crafts music and activities. Organizers note the event highlights community traditions and inclusive participation while recalling last year’s ice storm cancellation. Local attendees including Corie Fritz Cat Fritz and visitors from England and Kalona shared impressions and memories.
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Iowa City
Cat Fritz
Corie
Cat
Anamosa
University of Iowa
Marcella David
Equal Opportunity
David
Jerry Etheredge
Kalona
Etheredge
Will Sedley
Sedley
Iowa
Cliff Jette
the Gazette
Imani
Quad Cities
Mount Mercy adds six new majors for 2008 09
Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids announces six new majors including communication studies journalism multimedia design public relations management information systems and an early childhood licensure option. The programs start in 2008 2009 and clarify identity for four former concentrations while preserving existing requirements.
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The
Gazette Cedar Rapids
Mount Mercy College
Weapons charge leads to prison sentence
Timo thy Hildreth 22 of Coralville was sentenced in the Southern District of Iowa to 15 months in prison for conspiring to possess and manufacture an automatic weapon. U.S. District Judge James Gritzner ordered two years supervised release and $100 to the Crime Victim Fund. He pleaded guilty Sept. 19 to conspiring between Oct. 17 and Oct. 27, 2005 to manufacture a fully automatic weapon.
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Des Moines
Timothy Hildreth
Coralville
Iowa
U.S
James
Gritzner
Hildreth
Crime Victim Fund
U.S. Attorney's Office
Mark Steyn to Speak at Cornell College Kimmel Theatre
Mount Vernon mark steyn renowned journalist and author of America Alone will speak at Cornell College Kimmel Theatre at 7 30 p m Admission is free and open to the public Best selling author to speak at Cornell March 4 Steyn writes on politics war arts and culture for publications such as the Orange County Register Jerusalem Post Hawke s Bay Today National Review and The New Criterion His weekly column runs in the New York Sun Washington Times and other papers.
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Mount Vernon
Mark Steyn
New York Times
America
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Kimmel Theatre
Steyn
Orange County Register
Jerusalem Post
Hawke’s Bay Today
New Zealand
United States
National Review
Happy Warrior
New Criterion
New York Sun
The
Washington Times
Marion board to hear report on district math curriculum
Marion Independent school board will hear a report on the district math curriculum at 4 30 p m in the administrative boardroom 777 S 15th St Marion. The session is part of a series evaluating curricular areas and will include bids for a new district phone system funded by the local option sales tax.
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Iowa News Service
Marion — Marion Independent
Marion District
S. 15Th St
Marion
Residents oppose Marion road name change to Echo Hill
Marion residents on Randolph Road resist the plan to rename the northern side Echo Hill Road while the Linn County panel lines up to rename the southern portion. The change accompanies Echo Hill Elementary School opening this fall and may require residents to cover changing legal documents and mail notices.
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Marion
Grace Petersen
Randolph Road
Echo Hill Road
Linn County Board of Supervisors
Petersen
Linn-Mar
Alburnett Road
Echo Hill
Knoll Drive
Hiawatha
Robert Berridge
Smithland
Cedar Rapids boardbacks Kennedy geothermal bid
The Cedar Rapids school board may award a nearly 5.4 million dollar contract to Day Mechanical for the first phase of Kennedy High School geothermal heating and cooling. The project uses the towns 1 percent local option sales tax and aims to finish by 2010 with summer work mostly.
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Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Kennedy High School
Day Mechanical
Kennedy
Jefferson and
Washington
Taft and
Harding
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