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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 2002
Page
10
New Iowa laws modify licensing rules for residents and foreign nationals. Residency criteria include voting, schooling, or tax exemptions, with five year licenses costing twenty dollars and two year licenses for under 18 and over 70. Drivers must slow for emergency vehicles and change lanes when safe on multi lane roads.
Cedar Rapids participants in the Great Cardboard Boat Regatta at Robbins Lake weathered soggy bottoms and still vow to compete next year. Doug Steggall and four Weyerhaeuser Co. colleagues pushed through late night builds and earned praise for ingenuity as Dan and Ryan Kreher won Most Patriotic with Four Cases earning a Titanic Award.
Winners announced for the 15th annual Cedar Rapids BBQ Roundup held during the Freedom Festival. Top prizes awarded in Best Park BBQ, Best BBQ Ribs, Best BBQ Sauce, and the People’s Choice Award with teams from New Jersey to Ohio and Minnesota-based Famous Dave’s taking multiple honors.
A multi-event update announcing a May 8 flag raising at May's Island and a prize-winning essay on freedom. Night events include Freedom Festival at Veterans Memorial Stadium with a Lansing Lugnuts game, rain date Tuesday, and Brucemore performances with price tiers and nightly shows through July 3. Public radio live broadcast in Bever Park features Pieta Brown and Bo Ramsey with prairie heritage activities at Indian Creek Nature Center. Contact CITYLINE or GazetteOnline for latest details.
Janet Martin of Monticello was elected to the Grant Wood Area Education Agency board representing district 2. Her term runs through 2004, and she fills the seat vacated by Ron Barney. Martin serves as a youth development specialist with Iowa State University Extension and volunteers in her community.
Four F-16 fighter jets from the Iowa National Guard will fly over Cedar Rapids at 10 07 a m on July 4 traveling north along Interstate 380. Freedom Festival director Nancy Hedges Wendler said the squadron will also perform flyovers in other Iowa cities. She announced the appearance early to prevent alarm amid terrorism fears.
A rural home owned by Bob and Robyn Keel of Vinton burned in an early Sunday fire near Garrison. Firefighters arrived to find the house engulfed as embers from a nearby brush pile were blamed for the blaze. Loss estimated at 70000 dollars. The Keels had not moved in and were renovating. Keystone Fire Department assisted. Scott Ambrose, 12, of Elk Run Heights, remained hospitalized overnight after a bicycle collision with a car on Franklin and First in Cedar Falls. he was later released. The 19 year old driver was identified as David Truax. Scott was treated at Sartori Memorial Hospital.
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