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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1983
Page
7
A nostalgic look at summer rituals in Iowa notes the outdoor grill rise from humble charcoal beginnings to modern elaborate cookers. It highlights family picnics, lawn anxieties, and the male ritual of barbecuing with aprons and chef hats as neighbors savor evenings filled with music, fireflies, and fireworks.
Richard O. Shirk of Oelwein, retired president of Shirk Oil Co, is noted as a former Iowa Library Commission member and ex Republican Party political figure. The item introduces periodic observations by Eastern Iowans, inviting responses and ideas on unlimited topics.
The piece argues English immersion over bilingual schooling for Southeast Asian immigrants, urging extra English classes and summer programs to speed integration. It cites Ulysses Grant on English literacy as a benchmark and warns against segregated language education weakening assimilation.
James Perry of Williamsburg notes repeated misspelling in a sentence about incandescent versus fluorescent lighting. He also flags multiple homophone mistakes in items about Turcotte’s riding career, a duel, misused water terminology, and the archaic interjection lo versus low and behold.
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