City bids come in well under engineer estimates
Cedar Rapids Asphalt won the 1982 repaving project bid at 159 317 dollars, 42 683 under the 202 000 estimate. Ray Bertelli Sons Inc. led the storm sewer extension bid at 48 370 against a 62 000 estimate. The council also moved to apply for UDAG funds and elected 1982 83 Ex Club officers.
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Cedar Rapids
Ray Bertelli & Sons Inc
Forest Drive
Meadowbrook Drive
Ridgeway Drive
Bertelli
Shellsburg Names John Van Pelt Elementary Principal
John Van Pelt, a 1967 Cedar Rapids Washington High School graduate, has been hired as Shellsburg elementary principal. He taught junior high at Hanna Wye last year and will begin duties August 1, teaching some fifth grade classes in addition to administrative duties.
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Shellsburg
John van Pelt
Cedar Rapids Washington High School
van Pelt
Hanna, Wye
Urbana Board Rejects Kirkwood Class Tower Plan
Urbana school board members decide against installing a telecommunications tower costing 6800 dollars in the first year. The tower would beam Kirkwood Community College classes into district classrooms, a feature the board found too costly to pursue at this time.
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Urbana
Kirkwood Community College
Kirkwood
Iowa Supreme Court hears appeal in Morrison extortion case
The Iowa Supreme Court received an appeal from former Washington County District Court Judge Ira Morrison who is serving up to five years for extortion. Attorneys argue sentence was abused discretion and punitive since Morrison was a judge. Morrison pleaded guilty to offering probation for testimony in a drug trial tied to an April 25 1980 incident.
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Iowa City
James Emery Rouse
Johnson County
William Eads
Rouse
Cedar Rapids
Ronald Milton Thompson
Des Moines
The
Scalise
Morrison
Nichting
Washington County
Iowa
Richard L. Cleland
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John “Demmy"’ Battin
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Five Seasons Hotel
Cargill Inc
Cargill
St. Luke's Health Care Foundation
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St. Luke's Auxiliary
Second St
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Laurie Young
Young
Martinson
Wilson Employees Credit Union
Third St. S
Harry A. Rote
Fifth Avenue SE
William Krapfl
Lillian Jacobs
Summer Circle
Linn County
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30Th St
30Th Street
Phillip W. Stamps
Johnson Ave
14Th Street
Dennis B. Dohrmann
Ave. NW
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Carol A. Cowan
Buckingham Drive
16Th Ave
Michael E. Griffith
Ninth Ave
Marion
Sixth Street
33Rd Avenue
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Delores Webber
Mechanicsville
Doris Thimmel
Highway 1
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Webber
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Thirty-Second
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