Valley High Team Takes Third in National Debate Tourney
West Des Moines Valley High School finished third in varsity debate at the National Debate Tourney held in Cedar Rapids. Other results include Valley tied for third with Oak Park Ill and Valley’s Mark Kelsey winning oratory, while Roosevelt Cedar Rapids won poetry with Rebekah Jeffrey. The event expanded to include an oratory contest for high schoolers and a poetry contest for juniors.
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West Des Moines
Valley High
Cedar Rapids
West Atlanta
Hillsboro
George Washington Debate Society
Merchants National Bank
Rebekah Jeffrey
Roosevelt Junior
Pat Coleman
Wilson Junior High
Angie Myres
Taft
Mark Kelsey
Valley
Jonah Posner
Bronx Science High
Jeno Berto
Davenport West
Robert Harris
Cary Stamp
Chris Landgraff
Atlanta, Ga
Heart lung transplant patient dies in Phoenix
Judy Livingston, 40, of Guttenberg, died Sunday morning at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix after receiving a heart and lung transplant on January 6. Born with a congenital heart defect and lung issues, she was evaluated and accepted as a transplant candidate about a year earlier.
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Phoenix, Ariz
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Phoenix
Judy Livingston
Two dead two injured in Iowa highway crashes near Readlyn and Winterset
A 19 year old from Dunkerton died when his eastbound car crossed the center line on Highway 3 near Readlyn. Alan Moudry 23 from Calmar was critically injured and Carolyn Weiler 21 also injured in the crash. In Madison County an Indianola woman, Margaret Newell 21, died when her car rolled over near Winterset. Robert Wingfield 23 of Des Moines was driving and unhurt others in the vehicle were injured. Dirk Godsey 33 of Anamosa was listed in serious condition after a crash with a semi on Highway 151. The incidents occurred Friday night into Saturday morning and deaths were confirmed by local sheriffs departments and area hospitals.
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Readlyn
Edward George Shares
Dunkerton
Alan Ronald Moudry
Calmar
Bremer County
Carolyn K. Weiler
Sheriff's Department
Margaret Newell
Robert Wingfield
Des Moines
Dirk Godsey
Anamosa
Mercy Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Highway 151
Langworthy
Jones County Sheriffs Department
Godsey
James Behnke
Durango
Behnke
Historians seek school survey grant in Decorah Iowa
Winneshiek County Historical Society applied for a grant to inventory rural Winneshiek County schoolhouses and document findings. County supervisors approved a $2,255 grant request to the Office of Historic Preservation for the project with a local share of $2,730 and work due by Sept. 1. The board also approved a Bruening Rock Products change order raising the Freeport Sewer Extension contract from $197,000 to $249,000, funded in part by a $350,000-per-year Community Block Grant.
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Decorah
The
Winneshiek County
Office of Historic Preservation
Iowa State Historical Department
Bruening Rock Products
Freeport
Lawyer accused of withholding sex abuse evidence in Iowa case
Polk County prosecutors accuse Des Moines attorney Larry Scalise and associate Ann Fitzgibbons of resisting a subpoena seeking photographs of nude male juveniles and diaries tied to David Graham, a suspended Weeks Transitional School teacher tied to a ring of five men alleged to have facilitated encounters with teenage boys. The judge has not ruled on turning over any materials.
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DES Moines
Polk County Attorney's Office
Larry Scalise
Ann Fitzgibbons
David Graham
Scalise
Fitzgibbons
Graham
Polk County
Louis A. Lavorato
Scalise and Fitzgibbons
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Neil Willenson
Mequon
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Washington High School
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Wingfield
Highway 169
Madison County Sheriff's Office
Newell
Madison County Hospital
Anamosa Man
Gregory Biehler
Biehler
Drake University
Drake
Five Seasons
the Ee Drake
Holiday Inn
Williams Blvd
S.W
Joy Finch
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
P.O
Rapids, Low
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