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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1994
Page
1
Linn County Attorney Denver Dillard asks the Board of Supervisors to add one attorney and one secretary, a request totaling about $83,000 over the 1995 budget guidelines. Details on page 3B.
Iowa Public Television invites pledges during March fund drive offering 80 raku-fired pots by retired art professor Ray Mullen of North Liberty as incentives. Details on page 1B.
Five hundred Iowa firefighters will uphold a 20 year old outdoor water fight tradition in Coralville this weekend. Details on page 2B.
Kodak states color print backs will retain Kodak branding while Gold and Ektar film names change. The company also plans a new discount brand named Funtime. Further details appear on page 4C.
The Hawkeyes defeated the Northwestern Wildcats 86 to 76 on the road in a hard fought game. Iowa overcame a tough host environment with steady scoring in the second half.
Gov Terry Branstad has hired replacements for spokesman Richard Vohs and education aide Phil Dunshee who left to take other state jobs. Details on page 6A.
In Motoring page 7C readers learn that visible white smoke from cold day exhausts is mostly water vapor. Click & Clack explain the basic science behind the effect and when it indicates a potential engine issue.
David Strassman and his puppet cast are billed for a weekend appearance in Cedar Rapids. The act blends ventriloquism with live puppets, drawing curiosity about who truly runs the performance.
Linda Topinka heads plea to Iowa Attorney General and Linn County to review possible hate crime charges after an interracial couple was attacked at Bleachers bar. Tonya Bounds-Verry and Denny Verry say they were targeted for their relationship, with wounds requiring hospital treatment and six arrests made.
A $12.5 million nine tenant shopping center named Northland Square is unveiled for Collins Road and Northland Avenue NE. Tenants include Kohl’s, TJ Maxx, OfficeMax, Barnes & Noble, Olive Garden, and Perkins with one national retailer to be named. Construction starts next month and aims for a pre Christmas opening.
Weather service reports thunder with freezing rain sweeping east-central Iowa. Precipitation started as snow, then froze as ice causing outages for 3 200 TES Utility customers in Marion and Bowman Woods. Two semis slid in Interstate 380 median but no injuries were reported.
Earl LeRoy Kirklin, 35, Cedar Rapids area resident, is jailed on a second degree sexual abuse charge in the April rape of a 19 year old jogger at Coe College track. The case marks Linn County's first prosecution using FBI DNA test results.
Cedar Rapids businessman Clark McLeod testified that a statewide fiber network linking every Iowa public school would cost about 35 million dollars annually. The plan would expand the ICN from 120 backbone locations to 500 more, adding 10 million dollars in annual costs, with 600 thousand students affected by 180 school days.
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