Camp Good Health Hosts Hemophiliac Session At Cedar Rapids
Camp Good Health returns to its roots with a weeklong session for hemophiliacs along with sibling attendees. Twenty one campers and siblings gather at Mount Vernon Road SE as the facility aims to expand future hemophilia sessions and continue free camping supported by donations and medical suppliers.
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Amy Duncan
Gazette News
Good Health
Camp Good Health
University of Iowa
George Estle
Cedar Rapids
Estle
Mount Vernon Road
Cutter Biological Laboratories
Alpha Therapeutic Corp
Armour Pharmaceutical Co
Travenol Laboratories
American Red Cross
Western Medical Specialties
Jenny Jones
Jones
Centers to bring elderly meals and activities to Linn towns
The Falcon Civic Center in Central City and the Southeast Linn Community Center in Lisbon plan new facilities to serve congregate meals and social activities for area seniors and other groups. HACAP will run programs, kitchens will support Cedar Rapids area meal prep, and city offices will be housed in Central City. Groundbreaking for Southeast Linn is July 31 with completion by year end. Lisbon and Mount Vernon leaders oversee a joint board and a $129,450 grant plus local funds.
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Lisbon
Central City
Falcon Civic Center
Linn
Falcon Center
Laurence
Vera Falcon
Lisbon Center
Hawkeye Community Action Program
HACAP
Springville
Cedar County
Cedar Rapids
Mount Vernon
Iris Plattenberger
Ed Sauter
Sauter
Citizens Committee
Scott Olson
Tracy recalls early air traffic control and its dangers
Retired air traffic controller Robert Tracy discusses the pre radar era at Cedar Rapids airports. He recalls using flight progress strips and radio beacons to separate planes, lining up landings during Iowa football games, and the shift after radar and radios modernized the job.
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Tracy
University of Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Town City
Byways Cheap robots homes loom in town's future
Monticello celebrates 150th birthday as fifth and sixth graders envision 2036. Students predict robot cashiers and cheaper goods, computer control, a solar dome for electricity, and underground routes with spaceships instead of cars, mirroring Cedar Rapids 1986 features.
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Monticello Express
Jane Kucharik
Stacy Orcutt
Monticello
Sesquicentennial Word Jokes and Four Corner Center
Monticello Express editor Mike Kent jokes about the tricky word Sesquicentennial during the Monticello celebration. Belle Plaine residents Dean Dickel and Jane Hrabak win $50 gift certificates for proposing the name Four Corner Industrial Center.
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Monticello
Monticello Express
Mike Kent
Belle Plaine
Four Corner
Dean Dickel
Jane Hrabak
Dickel
Hrabak
Skydiver jokes spark a campfire tale from Belle Plaine
Jim Magdefrau recalls a camping trip anecdote about a first time skydiver who jumps from a plane and meets a man coming up. The diver asks about parachutes and Coleman stoves as the ascending man replies he knows nothing about both.
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Jim Magdefrau
Belle Plaine Union
Linn County studies shifts in juvenile services funding
Linn County will study keeping troubled juveniles in county and increasing funds for services. A broad study will review home based options versus costly institutional care such as the Iowa Juvenile Home in Toledo and seek more state and federal dollars. A committee from local and state agencies will lead the review.
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Dick Hogan
Lazette County
Linn County
Linn
Iowa
Toledo
Marc Baty
Department of Human Services
Iowa Department of Human Services
Law Enforcement
Youth Bureau
Juvenile Coalition
John Brandt
Human Resources Management Department
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von Willebrand
Falcon Civic
Linn Community Center
Gilad
Robert Tracy
Will
Kent
Baty
The
Linn Department of Human Resources
Brandt
Jean Oxley
Oxley
Kirkwood Summer College
Kirkwood Community College
Kirkwood
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