Weather aficionado offers six week class at Kirkwood
Doug Beadle a 27 year old Marion resident and self taught meteorologist will teach a six week community education course called Understanding the Weather at Washington High School starting Thursday January 13 at 730 PM in room 131. He has worked with WMT TV on forecasts and does wind sensing instrument marketing for J Tec Co. He aims to teach basic science of weather and popular topics like ring around the moon.
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Doug Beadle
Kirkwood College Community Education
Washington High School
Marion
Beadle
Kirkwood Community College
Doug
J-Tec Co
Kirkwood
Iowa State University
American Meteorological Society
Washington
Blouin seeks GAO probe into 2 billion public works funds
Representative Mike Blouin asks the General Accounting Office to review how more than 2 billion in public works funds were allocated to communities last month. He cites 27 projects in Iowa's Second District that he believes qualified for emergency funding but were disqualified, naming specific projects in Lan sing Guttenberg Manchester Oelwein Cedar Rapids and Kirkwood Community college.
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UPI
Mike Blouin
D-Iown
General Accounting Office
GAO
Blouin
Iowa
Commerce Department
Lansing
Guttenberg
San
Four Arrests in Three Cedar Rapids Crimes
Four people were arrested in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday for three offenses. Coffman and Lusk, both charged with two counts of breaking and entering, tied to a Franklin junior high break-in and a Lovely Lane Methodist church theft. McMurrin, also known as Floyd, faces forgery for writing stolen checks. VanVoltenburg is charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor for harboring two runaways.
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Robert C. Coffman
Fourth Avenue SE
Allen E. Lusk
M Avenue NW
Franklin Junior High School
Coffman
Lusk
Lovely Lane Methodist Church
Ment
Sheryl Ann McMurrin
Sheryl Floyd
Tenth Avenue SE
Cindy Garrett
Osceola
Garrett
Burt Adam VanVoltenburg
Thirty-sixth Street
van Voltenburg
Grassley Criticizes New Rules In House Congress
Rep. Charles Grassley of Iowa blasted the adoption of new rules for the 95th Congress saying the majority ramrodded the changes. He warned the rules will boost absenteeism in committees and on the floor and gag debate on important legislation.
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UPI
Charles Grassley
Iowa
House
Grassley
Decorah Lawyer Ordered To Remove Sippi Dam
U.S. Magistrate James Hodges ordered Decorah lawyer Floyd Pearson and three relatives to remove a homemade 40 foot dam on Jackson Island south of Harpers Ferry. The 21 page ruling held the dam on navigable Mississippi River waters viol ating the Rivers and Harbors Act and barred public access to the area until further arguments are filed by Jan. 28.
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U.S
James Hodges
Jackson Island
Harpers Ferry
Hodges
Mississippi River
Asst. U.S. Atty
Alan Kirshen
Floyd Pearson
E.A
Arthur Delphey
Pearson
Robert Sweeney
Lansing
Kirshen
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