Iowa City preserve brick streets as history on display
Workers spent two weeks lifting century old bricks from Davenport Street between Linn and Clinton, sorting them for storage while underground utilities are updated. The project forms part of a decade long effort to upgrade 24 blocks of historic clay brick streets, funded by a 20000 dollar pothole repair line item.
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American Concrete
Davenport Street
Linn
Clinton Streets
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Knoche
Johnny Lopez
All American Concrete
West Liberty
Shields Leads Cedar Rapids Worship with Kidney Gift
Iowa profile highlights Christian Shields who led a June 11 worship at Christian Life Church in Cedar Rapids and announced he would donate a kidney to a stranger, the older brother of a friend in Washington state.
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Christian Life Church
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Cedar Rapids
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Washington State
Pastor Gives Kidney to Stranger During Facebook Campaign
Cedar Rapids pastor Bo Molly Duffy quoted as saying Let him with two give to him with none during a kidney donation story sparked by Jay Alexander's Facebook appeal for his ailing brother Matt Alexander. The 47 year old faced stage four renal failure from polycystic kidney disease and sought a living donor.
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Iowa
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Iowa Hog Barn Dinner Highlights Confinement Debate
A Buchanan County pork dinner in a pig barn aimed to show modern pork production and answer officials questions about swine confinement rules. Host Al Wulfekuhle, with G and W Park, emphasized pork jobs, safety, environment, and neighbor impact amid a moratorium push on new confinements and updates to the master matrix.
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Buchanan County
Iowa
Landon
Andy Slattery
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