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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1982
Page
17
Linn County proposes an $36.62 million budget for 1982 83 with property taxes of $19.72 million up 11.6 percent for city residents while the levy falls 6.9 percent from the current year. The rise funds court services debt service and a new jail with a public hearing set for March 9 at 3 30 pm.
The Marion Community Center lists daily programs from Tuesday to Friday and weekend events. Activities include basketball, open gym, learning center sessions, dance lessons, baton and baton lessons, and a headstart program with times ranging from early morning to evening. A full senior citizens listing appears on Sunday's Growing Order page in the Gazette.
A St Jude School Cedar Rapids student won the 14th annual AAA Traffic Safety Poster Contest grand prize with the “See and Be Seen” entry out of more than 1,000 submissions, earning 1000 dollars and a path to the national contest. Other state winners include St Jude peers in grades K-9 with themes on safe following distance and avoiding between parked cars.乃
A 20 year old Cedar Rapids man, Scott Nutt of 318 A St SE, was arrested by Marion police after a customer used a $1 bill altered to resemble a $20 to buy cigarettes at Handi Mart 2020 Seventh Ave. The clerk gave more than $19 in change before noticing the forgery. A witness led to Nutt’s arrest near his job at 206 Collins Road NE.
Grant Sullens of West Point California raised a giant chicken described as ferocious. In January 1973 the bird reportedly crippled a dog and weighed about 22 pounds.
The 1982 Community Workshop on Volunteerism runs 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 10 at the Sheraton Inn Cedar Rapids. Hosted by the Junior League of Cedar Rapids, Leaders in Volunteerism, Linn and Johnson County United Ways, it features sessions on work smarter, marketing, nonprofit accountability, volunteer management, and action planning with names including Charlotte Young, Carl Seff, Peter Bryant, Cliff Ehlinger, Bonnie Strait, Barbara Finch, Kay Jackson, and Pat Martin. Pre-registration ranges from 15 to 20 dollars. at the door 20 to 28 dollars. Contact Kathy Drummond at 398-3644.
Marion Briefs notes Betty Mathney joins Car-Mar Salon and hours extend to Mondays. A Wella heat permanent promo offers $32.50 value at $25.00 for March. Tastee Freez adds Weight Watchers dessert at 916 South 1st Street. Fire and medical calls logged at 11:11 p.m. Thursday and 8:46 a.m. Friday plus 3350 Seventh Ave and 190 Ridge Drive.
A paper boy found six plate glass windows broken at Handy Mart 3434 First Ave NE Friday morning. Window damage valued about 1000 dollars and three gasoline pumps damaged with estimated damage of 900 dollars.
Marion Police Patrolman Robert Smith received a Rotary Club award for outstanding police work after he twice entered a blazing apartment at 412 Fifth Ave to save a resident on January 23. The award cited immense personal risk in extracting the man. In a separate note, a 15,000 pound bomb was dropped on a fortified bunker line 40 miles east of Saigon.
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