Campground owners upgrade landmark Burgers at Hunt’s Cedar River
Campground owners refurbished the large fiberglass family of burgers that has long identified Hunt's Cedar River Campground to travelers. An aspiring Eagle Scout coordinated a wetland restoration at the Solon Recreation and Nature Center. Venus Williams wins her second Wimbledon title with aggressive play on Sunday.
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Cedar River Campground
Solon Recreation and Nature Center
Williams
Letters tell tales of love and war in memoirs
A World War II medic’s correspondence with his wife anchors memoirs about love and war in the South Pacific. The feature notes a librarian finding 1823 newspaper items mentioning a game called base ball. Classifieds include a tip for trimming a sedentary cat’s claws at home.
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Iowa City
South Pacific
Cedar Rapids Pool Tax Drive Faces Little Resistance
In Cedar Rapids SPLASH promotes a one year 1 percent sales tax to raise about 16 million dollars for replacing three city pools and upgrading the remaining three. The campaign has collected 30992 dollars for a yes vote and runs yard signs ads and phone banks. Linn County auditor Linda Langenberg notes the tax cannot be extended beyond one year without a new election as stated on the ballot for a Jan 1 2002 start and a Dec 31 2002 end.
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Cedar Rapids
Splash
Linn County Local Option Sales Tax Vote on Jan 1 2002
Linn County voters decide on a one cent local option sales tax for one year starting January 1 2002. Polls open 7 am to 8 pm. SPLASH chair Jim Voss notes Midwest outdoor pool life 30 to 35 years and cites three aging city pools Bever Jones Noel ridge ready for replacement if tax passes.
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Linn County
Jim Voss
Cedar Rapids
Splash
Midwest
Bever, Jones and Noelridge
Cherry Hill
Ellis
Voss
Storms pound Eastern Iowa with high winds and damage
Storms packing heavy rain and winds up to 80 mph swept through eastern Iowa on Sunday. Trees, tents and signs were toppled, power outages were reported, and residents aided others after the damage. Local scenes showed Michael Henderson helping Eileen Done from a church parking lot and Leroy Karr surveying damage to his son Ed Karr’s home in Cedar Rapids.
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Iowa
Michael Henderson
Iowa City
Eileen Done
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Leroy Karr
Cedar Rapids
Ed Karr
Bush administration expands testing for missile defense program
The United States plans a broader testing program and higher spending to develop a reliable ballistic missile defense. A Pacific test bed from Alaska to Kwajalein will host more realistic intercept tests, with July 14 scheduled as the next flight test after last year’s failed attempt.
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Kwajalein
Clinton
Defense budget outlines layered missile defense plan
The 2002 defense budget proposal to Congress on June 27 requests 8.3 billion for missile defense a nearly 40 percent rise from the current budget. It forecasts tens of billions more before a retooled system is ready, arguing layered defense with land sea and air based weapons targeting boost descent and midcourse phases.
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Congress
Bush Administration
Defense
Donald Rumsfeld
Iowa studies rising e waste as landfills face surge
Merry Rankin of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources leads a year long project with state and national partners to measure e waste in Iowa. The study will assess quantities reuse options and recycling methods and report final findings in June 2002.
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Des Moines Bureau
Des Moines
Iowa
Merry Rankin
State Department of Natural Resources
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