Hy-Vee offers to rehire disabled worker fired over 20 cents
Kyle Dowie a 43 year old mentally disabled employee of Hy-Vee in Urbandale Iowa was fired Nov 2 after 20 cent discrepancy in bottle deposit receipts Hy-Vee offered him a job at its West Des Moines corporate offices and awaits his decision Dowie and his mother have sought civil rights relief alleging disability based firing and the ADA The case proceeds with unemployment benefits pending.
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Michael J. Crumb
Associated Press
Des Moines
Kyle Dowie
Urbandale
Johnson
Ruth Comer
Hy-Vee
Comer
Kyle
West Des Moines
Brooke Timmer
Dowie
Iowa Civil Rights Commission
Iowa
Timmer
Former Cedar Rapids mayor Frank Bosh dies in Arizona
Frank A. Bosh 88, mayor in 1968 and part of 1969, died in his sleep January 22 in Prescott Arizona. Born 1923 in La Grange Illinois he attended Coe College and served in World War II before entering Cedar Rapids politics. He later moved to Arizona seeking relief from rheumatoid arthritis.
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Rick Smith
Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Prescott
Ariz
Frank A. Bosh
la Grange
Coe College
Coe
Bosh
Arizona
If Zuuz
Wayne Murdock
City Hall
Murdock
Don Canney
Native Iowan Medal of Honor recipient dies at 66
John F. Baker Jr. of the Quad Cities, the only MOH honoree from that area, died at 66 after a heart attack at home in Columbia South Carolina on January 20. Baker, 110 pounds and 5 foot 2, earned the Medal of Honor in 1968 for heroism on November 5 1966. He taught U S military history and served veterans groups while remaining a quiet local figure. His life linked Davenport Moline and Port Byron to the Vietnam era and the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.
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Wuaa City Jim
John F. Baker Jr
Baker
Quad Cities
Columbia
S.C
Ray Hamilton
Port Byron
Moline Is
U.S
Army
Salvatore Giunta
Hiawatha
Mississippi River
Davenport
Moline
South Carolina
Vietnam Veterans of America
Congressional Medal of Honor Society
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C.R
City
the Gazette
Anarn
Julia Cavelier
Mount Mercy University
Lawier
Lauren Kramer
Hopkinton
Kramer
Elizabeth Juarez
Fairfield
Nikole Hanna
The
Gazett
East Moline, Jr
KCRG
PRO
Metro Honor Orchestra
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