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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 2001
Page
13
An 8-year-old girl reported a man in a red SUV tried to lure her into his car near Coolidge Elementary at 6225 First Ave. SW Thursday afternoon. Principal Mary Lehner says she warned area schools, sent parent letters, and noted no immediate witnesses. police are investigating with no further similar reports.
Tama City Council will hold a special meeting Monday evening at 5:30 in Tama City Hall council chambers to discuss the Tama Beef Packing plant. The session was requested by Mayor Richard Gibson. city officials had no further details. The plant opened last fall after IBP Inc. closed it in 1999 due to worker shortages and shrinking beef supplies.
The Gazette invites readers to submit success stories for the 2001 Success issue, the eighth edition. Submissions should be written in several paragraphs and may focus on entrepreneurial achievements, community impact, or inventive methods by individuals, churches, schools, towns, or volunteers. Deadline is January 12, with publication planned for March 11, send to Phyllis Fleming via fax, email, or mail.
West Liberty High School students in video publications and social studies are filming Tribute to American Heroes, a documentary honoring veterans from World War II to the Gulf War. Teachers Tom Carter and Dave Kerr received a $600 FEE grant to produce a compact disc for libraries and schools. The project aims to air on a cable channel and to let students hear firsthand accounts from 12 World War II veterans, two Korean War veterans, and one from Vietnam and Gulf Wars.
Edar Rapids readers describe a Plymouth minivan painted like a Holstein cow with a GRAMMOO license plate. Vicki Ehrenberger and husband Chet live on Gordon Avenue NW and Franklin Avenue NE, hosting a cow themed home with 250 cow items and a bedroom nicknamed the cow shed.
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