Freedom Festival attendance seen around 310000 says director
Festival director Nancy Wendler estimates 310000 attendees across 11 days with 410 venues. Celebration of Freedom fireworks drew about 100000 spectators amid sunny weather and other popular events including Creedence Clearwater Revisited and Symphony Night drawing thousands.
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May’s Island
Allianz Energy
Creedence Clearwater Revisited
Kirkwood Community College
Fire damages SW duplex in Cedar Rapids. pets perish
A Sunday blaze at 362 Eighth Ave SW Cedar Rapids heavily damaged a two story duplex. A cat died and a snake perished while a resident family was away. The Fire Department investigated the cause as undetermined. In a separate SE Cedar Rapids home fire smoke alarm alerted residents. no injuries. Red Cross and Salvation Army assisted both sites.
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Cindy Hadishite
Cedar Rapids
Eighth Ave
Joel Moser
Joan Kalmerton
Moser
15Th St. SE
Janetta Crouch
David Walters II
Crouch
Eli Khairallah
Red Cross
Salvation Army
Gephardt Linn Area Leadership Team Named
Democratic presidential candidate Dick Gephardt named a nine member Linn Area Leadership Team from Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas. The group includes State Sen. Wally Horn State Rep. Todd Taylor Supervisor James Houser Linn County Treasurer Mike Stevenson activist Connie Clark former lawmakers Pat Kane Terry Dryland Vaughn Holmes Morley James McClintock and Cedar Rapids natives.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Dick Gephardt
Linn
Wally Horn
Todd Taylor
Public Employees’ Union
James Houser
Gephardt
Mike Stevenson
Connie Clark
Terry Dryland
Pat Kane
Marion
Alburnett
Vaughn Holmes
Central City
Morley James McClintock
Deaths in Masonville and nearby communities
LaVina M. Goos, 82, formerly of Masonville, died July 5 2003 in Good Neighbor Home Manchester after a short illness. Services July 8 at Silver Creek United Methodist Church rural Masonville. Gwendolyn Miriam Gwen Gipple, 80, died July 5 2003 in Mercy Iowa City after brief illness. Services July 7 at Jones Eden Funeral Home Washington. John F. Skipton, 58, died July 5 2003 near Keota from injuries in a motorcycle crash. arrangements pending at Powell Funeral Home Wellman.
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LaVina M. Goos
Masonville
Good Neighbor Home
Manchester
Silver Creek United
Bryce
Robert
Alvin Goos
Marshall Wade
Cedar Rapids
Betty Wilson
Naomi Cook
Eugene
Ore
Mary Hutchinson
Robert Ammeter
Monticello
Gwendolyn Miriam
Gwen” Gipple
Mercy
Iowa City
Dudey Jones
Columbus Junction
Rita Chapin
Cameron, Ill
George Sheldon
Bella Vista, Ark
John F. Skipton
Keota
Powell Funeral Home
Wellman
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