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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 2003
Page
11
After 23 years in business at Westdale Mall Bishop's Buffet closed without notice Tuesday. The company which owns Bishops Farr's Restaurant Group filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy Jan. 6. The Bishop's at Lindale Mall will not close, a company official told KCRG TV9.
A late night fire at 6707 Winslow Road, part of Blackford Farms near Hunter's Ridge golf course, razed a chicken house containing junk cars. Ralph Blackford and his three sons own the property. Wayne Blackford notes the contents were junk cars. Marion fire crews will determine the cause once smoke subsides.
State Patrol stopped a speeding car near Durant and found about $2 million in cocaine hidden in the trunk. The drivers, Alfonzo Roberto Hernandez Esparza and Diana Urrutia Garcia de la Cadena, both of Chihuahua Mexico, were jailed in Cedar County on charges of possession with intent to deliver and drug tax stamp violations with bail set at $130,000.
Voters in the Turkey Valley school district approved a five year extension of the 67 cent physical plant and equipment levy by 256 to 130. The levy generates about $94 000 annually and would have expired June 30. Because the levy was already in effect, approval does not change the district tax rate.
Jesup voters approved a 5 million dollar bond to fund a new elementary and middle school and a varsity gym. The tally was 935 yes to 357 no, about 72.4 percent in favor. The plan also includes a 1 million state grant and 500 thousand from the general fund with a 45 cent per 1000 tax levy increase.
Kevin Harris, a man sought as a witness in the shooting death of Joseph Harris, rode in a vehicle stopped by police near the burning car where Joseph Harris' body was found. Miguel Jones, 23, drove the Jeep Cherokee in which Harris rode. Jones faces second degree arson and obstruction of prosecution charges.
Nearly 400 Linn-Mar Middle School sixth graders built imaginative classrooms using cardboard, pipe cleaners, and glue in Marion as a pilot for a Disney Channel Mediacom program. Disney Imagineering designer Steve Beyer led the workshop with sixth graders each receiving a cardboard square. Lalaine from Lizzie McGuire appeared to urge creativity and teamwork.
The Cedar Rapids School Board awarded the renovation contract for science classrooms and locker rooms at Franklin, McKinley, Roosevelt and Wilson to Jelinek Olmstead Construction of Cedar Rapids for 997 226 total with wood cabinets. Ken Hook Construction protested as the lowest base bid was 978 515 but the alternate wood cabinet bid pushed Hook above the winner. The project fits within a 46 million bond approved in 2000 and will begin this summer. the board also approved changes to administrative vacancy and reassignment handling by a 6 to 0 vote.
After the Sept 11 attacks the USS Kitty Hawk steamed to the Arabian Sea. The carrier served as a staging area for air strikes and special operations into Afghanistan. Brooks Defhant states they are the 9/11 carrier and must respond to any threat.
In the Gazette stock page details, Dechant 21 of Mari on learns his mission as the Kitty Hawk carrier and its aircraft depart for Japan, with rumor of a Middle East deployment. Eastern Iowans like Michael Stamm 21 of Anamosa and his father brace for possible sent overseas as Stamm serves in the Marines on F-18 jets, previously on USS Theodore Roosevelt.
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