Linn-Mar board rejects storm day plan and adopts bus, policy items
Linn-Mar School District keeps full day operation when all bus routes are open despite a contingency proposal to run only on hard surface roads. The board approved new bus purchases, immunization enforcement, a one mill tax for the schoolhouse fund, and a pregnancy leave with no precedent setting, while debating energy efficiency measures and auditing bids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn-Mar
Glen Easterday
Lumir Dostal
Cedar Rapids
Ken Hoffman
Dostal
Margery Scheie
David DeWalle
DeWalle
Easterday
Bowman Woods
Joy Worcester
Open Air Farmers Market Sought for Marion Parks
Marion Park Board invites residents to join an Open Air Farmers Market at Thomas Park this summer with tentative participants. Interested individuals should contact the Parks Department at Marion Community Center. early contact helps planning and does not obligate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park Board
Marion Park
Thomas Park
Parks Department
Marion Community Center
Linn-Mar Drivers Contract Sets 6.5 Percent Pay Hike
Linn-Mar board approves a negotiated settlement with drivers for the 1978-79 school year. The package offers about a 6.5 percent overall increase and marks the first of five groups in the district to settle. The district seeks deals with food service, maintenance, secretaries, aides, and the Linn-Mar Education Association. The negotiating team includes David DeWalle and former administrator Charles Farris.
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Linn-Mar Board of
Linn- Mar Education Association
David DeWalle
Charles Farris
Marion appoints Jack Bross acting public services director
City Manager Lawrence Asaro names Jack Bross street superintendent to serve as acting public services director until a permanent appointment by the City Council. Bross is an 11 year city employee who became street superintendent on Aug 1 1970.
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Lawrence Asaro
Jack Bross
Bross
Russell Ward
Coon Rapids
Minn
Asaro
Marion Public Services Department
Public Works Department
Telxon countersues Norand over disputed patents
Telxon Corp of Houston filed a countersuit in Cedar Rapids seeking invalidation and unenforceability of Norand patents for a data collection system and a bar code scanner. Norand had held the patents since 1974 and 1976. Norand had earlier sued Telxon in Illinois for patent infringement.
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Texas Corporation
Norand Corp
Cedar Rapids
Salvation Army sponsors prison visitation trip
The Salvation Army in Waterloo sponsors a Fort Madison Penitentiary visitation trip for families of inmates. A Cedar Rapids bus departs at 7 30 a m and returns that evening between 6 30 and 7 p m allowing four hours of visiting time. Cost is 5 for one person and 2 for each additional person or 10 per family. Call 364 9131 to sign up.
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Salvation Army
Fort Madison Penitentiary
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
Fort Madison
Conservation awards to three area Boy Scouts
A Cedar Rapids Scout and two Solon youths will receive the World Conservation Award from Hawkeye Area Boy Scout Council officials. Recipients are Paul Hamilton of Cedar Rapids, and Solon residents Tom Ballantyne and Tom Trump. The Wildlife Fund of Washington, D C funds the award to emphasize global interdependence of natural resources. Hamilton belongs to Troop 60. Ballantyne and Trump to Troop 120.
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Cedar Rapids
Solon
Hawkeye Area
Boy Scout
Leonard Garbau
Linn-Mar Pto
Ballantyne
Trump
James Shulista
American Legion
Solon Fire Department
Solon Optimists Club
Kirkwood Telenetwork to Start with Small Enrollment
Kirkwood Community College will begin a 11 course telenetwork Monday with only 32 preregistered students, a capacityof 990. Directors heard the system may operate on a low enrollment basis at first while hoping demand grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kirkwood Community College
Charles Canning
Educational Services
Vernon Pickett
Kirkwood board sets superintendent search details and budget notes
Luzerne board member Wayne Newton stresses a strong first telenetwork class start to boost attendance. The board approves the superintendent job description and application materials with a March 1 deadline, and notes Gov. Ray’s 1978-79 budget of 47.47 million for Iowa area colleges, up from last year but below college requests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayne Newton
Luzerne
Robert Ray
Iowa
Who Raises Children conference at Kirkwood College
The Cedar Rapids event titled The State and the Family Who Raises Our Children takes place at Kirkwood Community College from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday with informal registration from 8 to 9 a.m. in Iowa Hall West Dining Room. Speakers include Martin Miller Iowa State University Hanna Weston Drake University Minnette Doderer and Joan Lipsky among others. The program covers juvenile law history court intervention standards and family rights with panels of practitioners and community resource experts. The conference is free with no lunch provided and is sponsored by the Iowa Civil Liberties Union and the Iowa Board for Public Programs in the Humanities.
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Cedar Rapids
Kirkwood Community College
Iowa Hall
Martin Miller
Iowa State University
Hanna Weston
Kirkwood
Janet Johnson
Drake University Law School
Iowa
Minnette Doderer
Iowa City
Thomas Walz
University of Iowa School of Social Work
Versity
al Schulte
State Department of Social Services
Mike Turner
Shelter House of the Foundation
I Runaway Youth Service
Jim Swaim
United Action of Youth
Richard Jenkins
University of Iowa
Bob Rush
James Redmond
Joan Lipsky
Iowa Civil Liberties Union
The
Iowa Board For Public Programs
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Longfellow Administration
Marion
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Christie Wallace
Washington
Monticello
Anamosa Reformatory
van Horne High School
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Washington Hall
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O.F. Paulson Construction Co
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Jones Hall
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