Czech Bagpipes Doc Boosts Protiwia Event At The Mint
Czech-American bag piper Michael Cwach and Czech violinist Alice Janotova perform traditional Czech folk songs and present the Czech bagpipes before the screening of Call of Dudy the first full length documentary on the Czech bagpipe tradition. The Mint hosts the free event with CD release and guest Jeff Brown in attendance starting at 2 p.m. Saturday.
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Michael Cwach
Alice Janotova
Jeff Brown
Mint
S. Main St
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Bowl For Kids Sake Week kicks off in Cedar Rapids area
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cedar Rapids and East Central Iowa launches Bowl For Kids Sake Week January 7 to 11 to recruit bowlers and donations for its largest fundraiser. More than 3 000 bowlers are expected from 90 area companies with aim to raise over 300 000 dollars. A separate ReStore event Light Up Lives runs January 18 with a children's playhouse auction at 6 to 9 p m at 725 North Center Point Rd Hiawatha tickets 40 dollars by Monday 45 dollars after.
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Big Brothers
Big Sisters
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Trina Juills
Bowl For Kids
Sake
ReStore
Cedar Valley
Habitat For Humanity ReStore
North Center Point Rd
Hiawatha
Habitat For Humanity
Bassoon Student Finds Focus Through All-State Music
Daisy Daily, a sixth grader who discovered the bassoon after a painful first lesson, has continued to excel at the All-State Music Festival for four years. Now a high school junior, she balances music with student council, NHS, golf, and community service while planning a non music college path.
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Anne
Daisy
Ames
Daily
Val Daily
Anamosa
Letitia Ceynar
Cedar Rapids
Ceynar
International Club
Win With Wellness
Anamosa High School
Anne Daily
Long Gone author recalls Iowa farm life from childhood
Richard Willis, raised on a Marengo farm, revisits his rural youth in the Iowa memoir Long Gone. Now in New York City, he reflects on the era's details from husking corn to knee-deep sludge, noting the vanished farming way of life and its influence on his writing and dreams.
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Terry McCoy
Gazette
Richard Willis
Marengo
New York City
Manhattan
Willis
Iowa
Linda Barry
Brooklyn
New York
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