Tennis program stays at junior high for another year
Cedar Rapids Community School Board reversed a June decision to move ninth grade tennis to the high school. After Monday night hearings, only the tennis program remains at the junior high, with softball and baseball moved to high school play next year. Proponents cite growth and fair play. opponents fear reduced participation and overcrowding relief may fail.
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Cedar Rapids
William Rainbow
Monday Night
Jim Bradley
Mary Lou Watkins
McKinley Junior High School
Bradley
Vernon Drive
Rainbow
Ron Moore
Curran Rosser
Tipton Council Schedules Public Hearing on HUD Grant
Tipton City Council set a 7 p.m. on Monday August 4 for a public hearing to review a pre-application for a community development block grant from the U S Department of Housing and Urban Development. ON THIS DATE in 1960 John Kennedy accepted the Democratic party's nomination for president in a speech heralding a new frontier.
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Tipton
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
John Kennedy
Democratic Party
Cedar Rapids debate over holiday observances yields cautious approval
Light turnout at Kennedy High School public hearing on the Holiday Observance Study found general support for guidelines that use religion in classrooms for educational, not sectarian, purposes. The report urges objective presentation by teachers and non-promotional inclusion of beliefs, with further board action expected August 11.
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Angela Reilly
Cedar Rapids
Kennedy High School
Parents For Christ
Roger Goodson
Edgewood Baptist Church
Goodson
Robert Weinhardt
Weinhardt
Malcolm Peel
America
Iowa
Jack Ehrmantraut
Marvin Maire
Maire
Edward Beatty
Beatty
Nancy Klopp
Klopp
Peel
Ehrmantraut
Robinson chosen as 6th District judge in Iowa
L Vern Robinson, 37, has been appointed by Gov. Robert Ray to the 6th Judicial District bench, succeeding John L. Hyland. He plans a swearing in next month, will be based in Cedar Rapids parts of the year, and will continue residence in Iowa City.
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L. Vern Robinson
Robinson
Iowa City
Robert Ray
Iowa Court of Appeals
Iowa
James H. Carter
Court of Appeals
Robert Ford
Ray
Mason City
Hyland
Cedar Rapids
L. Jay Stein
Stein
Kristin Hibb
University of Iowa Law School
Hawkeye Legal Aid Office
Johnson County
Sally
Barbs on facial tweaks and traffic tickets echo nostalgia
The piece wryly notes that smiles at traffic stops come only from a prior tight facelift, while nostalgia recalls cheap haircuts and the lack of six bits to pay the skull gardener, highlighting humor in bygone costs and past mistakes.
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Hiawatha
Otto F. Wiedersberg
Charles Cebuhar
Christian Parents For Heritage Preservation
Phil Pastore
SieDke
Westdale Mall
2Nd Ave. S.E
Max Zebelman
Ramada Inn
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