Cedar Rapids to cut two city staff positions and end MBE program
Cedar Rapids City Council plans to cut two positions including a clerical float and to end the 414 year old Minority Business Enterprise program on June 30 1989 The program would shift MBE duties and raise project thresholds reducing minority subcontracting on city construction projects under new rules
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Evue Lity
Cedar Rapids
Eugene Jackson
Jackson
Bobby Brewster
Tuegday
FACT
Weekend Tiffin Tournaments Aid Injured Oxford Farmer
A Super Weekend of volleyball bingo and euchre tournaments is planned January 25–26 at Clear Creek High School in Tiffin to benefit Rick Stockman, a 37 year old Oxford farmer injured November 23. Proceeds and donated items aim to reach about 7 500 dollars with additional grain gifts.
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Oxford
Rick Stockman
Clear Creek
Tiffin
Charlie Summel
Stockman
University of Iowa
Rick
Combine
Marion Legion Steak Dinner and Dance Ad
Marion American Legion Post 298 hosts a steak dinner and dance featuring the Marion Warehouse Singers Band on January 17. Dinner runs 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at $7.50 per person for members and guests, with reservations at 377-8320.
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Marion American Legion Post
Marion Warehouse Singers
Center Point resolves flap over records
Center Point council disputes access to city records as Randy Smith seeks copies or a working key. A 3-2 vote limits copies to 25 monthly with public-paid excess, amid turnover and record-keeping delays under acting clerk Karen Kaut.
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Nancy Stevens Azette
Center Point
Randy Smith
Smith
Carolyn Roseberry
Tom “Tj” Neenan
Marilyn Andersen
Richard Butschi
Joe Cook
Paul Roseberry
Roseberry
Neenan
City Attrneys
Karen Kaut
Kau
Kaut
Water Department
Valley Street
Central Avenue
Norway bond issue targets classrooms not gym for school district
Norway Community School District voters will decide Jan 21 on a 275000 bond to add three classrooms a band vocal music room and restrooms to the northeast side of the main building built 1955 with four later additions. The old 1907 building housing two fifth and two sixth graders will close. if approved the gym will be refurbished instead of expanded.
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Norway
Lowell Ryan
Ryan
Conservation board waives director’s county rent
Linn County Conservation Board voted to drop the $1,200 annual rent for director George Hamilton of Pinicon Ridge Park near Central City. He will still pay utilities estimated at about $1,800 yearly amid ongoing house issues.
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Linn County Conservation
George Hamilton
Conservation Board
Hamilton
Pinicon Ridge Park
Central City
Name contest for Squaw Creek Park shelter halted
Linn Conservation Board attorney David A. Elderkin says the board cannot award cash prizes from its funds for a shelter naming contest. Staff proposed 100 and 50 dollar bonds for first and second prizes. The board tabled the idea while seeking private donations.
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Squaw Creek Park
Linn Conservation Board
David A. Elderkin
Conservation Board
Bruce Lodge 665 Reads Off Officers Tonight
Bruce Lodge No 665 will install officers tonight at 7 30 p m in a public ceremony at Knights of Pythias Temple 1101 Old Marion Rd NE Charles Hedges worshipful master John Weldon senior warden Verne Knecht junior warden Richard Slaymaker treasurer Terry Cooper secretary Richard Gallagher chaplain Kenneth Zahrt senior deacon Thomas Carson junior deacon Mark Hensley senior steward Kenneth Roland junior steward Luther Pilcher Tyler.
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Bruce Lodge No
Knights of Pythias Temple
Old
Marion Rd
Charles Hedges
26Th Ave
Marion
John Weldon
Verne
Burt man killed unclogging sewer in Blue Earth incident
A Burt man Roger Boyken 51 and Cecil Heyer 49 along with his wife Florence 46 died in Blue Earth Minnesota Saturday night while trying to unclog a sewer pipe. Deputy Ross Hermanson said poisonous gases from chemicals caused the deaths at Pearl Heinrichs home.
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Council
By Mark Glenn Pares
Karen Herzog
Gazette
Maurie Pitlick
Pitlick
Tiffin and
Cosgrove
Eileen Allen
Iowa
Clear Creek High School
Clear Creek Booster Club
Oxford Elementary
Stockmans
Brian
Cam
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Catholic Foresters
Aes
Bruce Lodge
Coe College
Coe
Coplege
Cee
Pat Morgan
Burt
Boyken
Heyers
Titonka
Hermanson
Blue Earth
Pearl Heinrich
Florence Heyer
Schranck
Schranck’s
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