Information Booth Host Keeps McGregor Visitors Connected
Thelma Vick, 80, has run McGregor’s information booth in Triangle Park since 1942, guiding 12,000 visitors yearly and sharing local attractions from Spook Cave to Pikes Peak State Park. She worries the booth may move with a Highway 18 bypass but cherishes meeting people from 40 states and 27 foreign countries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cgregor
McGregor
Thelma Vick
Thelma
Triangle Park
Kiwanis Club
City Chamber of Commerce
Highway 18
Spook Cave
Effigy Mounds National Monument
Yellow River Forest
Pikes Peak State Park
Marquette
Villa Louis
Prairie du Chien
Wisconsin
Circus World
Baraboo
Wis
Ringling Brothers
Moody’s Museum
Red Cedar Inn
Bruce Bucknell
Cedar Rapids
Survey finds mixed views on publishing health inspection scores
Johnson County Health Department survey of 111 restaurant owners shows 50 approve and 53 disapprove of publishing inspection scores in local newspapers with eight undecided. Some praise public accountability while others fear misinterpretation and customer loss. The board chair Mary Beth Dewey noted the findings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Johnson County Health Department
Johnson County Board of Health
Mary Beth Dewey
Birthdays for notable figures span seven decades
Today celebrates Isaac Bashevis Singer aged 82 Terry Thomas 75 Gerald R Ford 73 Douglas Edwards 69 Ingmar Bergman 68 John Chancellor 59 and Rosey Grier 54. The list highlights writers actors presidents and broadcasters marking milestone years.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
Terry Thomas
Gerald R. Ford
CBS
Douglas Edwards
Ingmar Bergman
NBC News
John Chancellor
Rosey Grier
Zoning Lesson Shapes Cedar Rapids School Board Meeting
Cedar Rapids planners will brief the Cedar Rapids Community School Board on zoning this afternoon at the Educational Service Center. The board will also decide whether to restart plans for repairing auditorium and theater wiring across three high schools and consider selling under an acre at Harrison School to Meth-Wick Manor for 5 001 per acre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kurt Rogalinn
Ette Education
Cedar Rapids
Dick Schulz
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Rascal
McGregor Area
Dave Rascal
Iowa
Johnson County
Henry Witwer Witwer Insurance
IE Tower
C.R
Mary Ann Kucera
Kucera
Kennedy, Jefferson
Washington
Acme Electric
Robert Gender
Jefferson
Jefferson Little Theater
Dennis Rabenow
Kennedy High School
Schulz
Amana
Iana
Nck
Ades
Hoover
Smulekoff
Hitachi
Radarange
Frigidaire
MTS
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