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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1988
Page
4
Sam Stahle leads a community effort to raise funds to rebuild Solon Community Schools football baseball and softball facilities. The group aims to raise 40 000 with a 10 000 school match and hopes to expand seating lighting and amenities while preserving youth access and local pride.
Melvin Leimer, 78, has retired as a Southeastern Community College instructor each of the last 13 years. He explains a loophole lets the director rehire him, keeping him on as part time. Leimer, a Missouri native with degrees from Southeast Missouri State and Missouri, began teaching in 1950 and now teaches chemistry for nursing and arts students and an auto mechanics course.
Bloomfield Iowa backs Curt Bader in a bid for the U S Olympic kayak team. A local committee raised funds and presented a 400 check and a city plaque. Bader, sixth fastest American, has trained in Fisher Lake and Arizona and leaves for Florida before the Olympic trials in Indianapolis.
John Morrell and Co told between 50 and 70 UFCW Local 304A members to report for work at the Sioux Falls plant Monday morning. About 2,300 union members have been idle since last May due to a sympathy strike supporting a Sioux City picket. KELO-TV cited calls back on a seniority basis and unclear whether these workers will return to their old jobs.
Louis Braille, inventor of the tactile reading system for the blind, was born in Coupvray France on this date in 1809. The event marks the origin of Braille and its impact on literacy for visually impaired readers.
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