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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1998
Page
7
The Gazette seeks reader nominations of local individuals businesses churches schools and agencies as successes. Submissions should be brief and in writing by Wednesday for the Sunday March 29 edition. Send to Phyllis Fleming at Gazette Cedar Rapids IA with fax email or mail in by the deadline.
Paul Sweeney a 49 year old from Hiawatha was pronounced dead at St Luke s Hospital after a pickup crash on Blairs Ferry Road at Deer Ridge Drive near Palo. The Linn County Sheriff s Department said the cause of death was not yet determined and Sweeney was ejected when his vehicle went into the ditch and struck a culvert. Funeral set for St Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Hiawatha Tuesday at 2 p.m. Survivors include wife Patricia a son P J and a daughter Amanda.
Two people were stabbed during a Sunday fight at Confetti's nightclub in Cedar Rapids. Christopher Jacobs and Matthew Sevareid, both 20 or 21, were treated at St. Luke's Hospital and released. Police arrested Ronald Coleman and Mickey Puckhaber on assault with a weapon willful injury and public intoxication charges, jailed on $20,150 bonds. Brandon Daugherty was arrested for public intoxication and two counts of simple assault and released after a court appearance.
The Iowa Arts Festival will hold its inaugural KidsFest from March 27 to 29 at the North Liberty Recreation Center. The event is funded by an 18500 dollar grant from the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs.
Tim Niess, 40, regional manager for the Farm Bureau, travels among offices in Dubuque Jackson Jones Cedar and Clinton counties while performing a two hour solo show Give em Hell Harry about President Truman. He writes songs drawn from farming life and has roots in Osage dairy farming.
Iowa State University Extension veterans Russell Swenson and Joe Legg spent weeks in Mozambique teaching marketing and business skills to eight village traders. They found seed and fertilizer firms sell locally at retail prices with a 37.5 percent government markup and scarce credit, planning future shifts toward tighter supplier relationships and more local outposts.
Mozambique, independent since 1975, endured 16 years of civil war. Swenson notes farm averages of 3 to 5 acres with 4 percent arable land and 50 percent of GDP from agriculture. Japanese Sasakawa Foundation supports demonstration plots to boost seed and fertilizer use for renewed production.
Major events include December consumer prices at 7 30 a m Tuesday from Labor Department and December retail sales at 7 30 a m Wednesday from Commerce Department. The Cedar Rapids Area Credit Association meets 5 30 p m Tuesday at Sheraton Four Points Hotel Tivoli Gardens room with Christine Harstad on Credit Education in the Schools. The Heartland Chapter of Meeting Professionals International meets 5 p m Wednesday at Fairfield Inn Waterloo. Weekly jobless claims and November business inventories are released Thursday, Freddie Mac posts weekly mortgage rates at 11 a m, and the Federal Reserve reports December industrial production at 9 15 a m Friday.
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