All-Iowa Fair crowds labeled sightseers as poor spenders
Midway vendors report increased attendance on the Fourth of July but say most fairgoers arrive without buying. Concessionaires describe sales as dismal, blaming the economy and a trend of sightseers skipping games and rides. Some hope the weekend will boost business, while Cedar Rapids supporters push for stronger turnout.
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Iowa
Harry Matthews
John
Emmons
Cedar Rapids
Buster Brown
Bill Hames
Brown
Grinnell youth stacks top heifer at All-Iowa Fair
Stacey Gropper, 16, captures supreme champion heifer and junior show supreme steer at the All-Iowa Fair. Tammy Clark, 17, shows the reserve supreme champion and other youths claim multiple breed titles as 160 heifers enter a new junior field record. Breeds include Angus Hereford Shorthorn and Chianina with several reserve awards.
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Stacey Gropper
Stacey
Earl Gropper
Chianina
Hillary
Missy
Tammy Clark
Kenneth Clark
Wayland
Angus Heifer
Katherine Bollman
Doran Bollman
Pulaski
Heifer
Marshall Temptress
Angus Keifer
Hereford
Jim Boddicker
Jeff Pilkington
Ralph Pilkington
Ankeny
Foundation funds Cedar Rapids Resources Center
A Human Services Planning Resources Center for the Cedar Rapids area will begin operations October 1 with Hall Foundation funding. The center will collect and share data to aid planning, coordination, and funding of Linn County human services, involving major agencies and organizations and supported by United Way.
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Cedar Rapids
The
Hall Foundation, Inc
Linn County
Linn County Board of Supervisors
Department of Social Services
Hawkeye Area Community Action Program
United Way
Linn County Health Center
Heritage Agency On Aging
Iowa State Extension Service
Interagency Council
Kirkwood Community College
Cedar Rapids Community Schools
Grant Wood Area Education Agency
Cedar Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce
Linn County Regional Planning Commission
HACAP
Human Services Planning Resource Center
Tom White
Hall Foundation
Eleven Convicted in Jobless Pay Fraud Case
DES MOINES UP I says eleven individuals including three from Linn County were convicted of defrauding the state by claiming unemployment compensation. Benefits ranged 268 to 999 dollars with fines or suspended sentences imposed.
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Des Moines
UPI
Department of Job Service
Linn County
Luke Hill
Robert Weisenstein
Reinbeck
Waren
Reagan Leads In The Gazette Straw Poll At All Iowa Fair
Republicans trail the independent bid of John Anderson in the latest straw poll tallies at the All Iowa Fair. Reagan gained 156 votes to Anderson 149, boosting Reagan to 925 total while Anderson holds 866. Carter and Kennedy trailed with 542 and 378 respectively. Political party totals show Democrats lead in congressional races, and ERA support stands at 391 yes to 98 no. Final results are due Monday.
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Gazette
Anderson
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Jimmy Carter
Sen
Edward Kennedy
Gerald Ford
Ed Clark
California
John Culver
U.S
Culver
Charles
Grassley
Robert Hengerer
Iowa
Iowa Era Coalition
Exhibition Hall
Hawkeye Downs
The
Fair Schedule for Saturday July 5 Events and Times
A detailed July 5 timetable lists Simmental judging at 10 am in the Livestock Arena, Carnival and Exhibition Building opening at noon, Music by the Memories, Family Living Center and Fine Arts Building openings at 1 pm, Junior Pony Show at 1 pm, Sewing Tops and T shirts seminar 1 to 3 pm, Quassars High Wire Act at 1:30 pm in the Mall Area, Shorthorn judging at 2 pm, Demolition Derby at 2 pm in the Grandstand, Sewing Machine Embroidery seminar 3 to 5 pm, more Music by The Memories at 4 pm and 6 pm in the Mall, Junior Horse Show at 5 pm, and another Demolition Derby at 7:30 pm with a final Quassars act at 9:30 pm in the Mall.
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The
Memories
Family Living Center
Quassars High Wire
Memories — Mall
Quassars High Wire Act
Predict hot dry July in Ames crops face stress
UPIs Ames report cites S Elwynn Taylor Iowa State extension climatologist warning July could be hot and dry with rainfall below four inches. National Climate Analysis Center forecasts Iowa temperatures above normal and crops may experience stress as corn silks late month and soybeans set pods while insects like European corn borers and grasshoppers may flourish.
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Ames
UPI
S. Elwynn Taylor
Iowa State University Extension
National Climate Analysis Center
Iowa
Taylor
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