Vilsack selects grant wood based quarter design
Iowa Governor Vilsack unveils Foundation in Education as the new commemorative quarter design based on Grant Wood’s Arbor Day painting. The coin shows a one room schoolhouse yard scene with children and a supervising woman, bearing Wood’s name and the campaign slogan.
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Cedar Rapids
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the Gazette
Anita Walker
Des Moines
Tom Vilsack
Iowa
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Cedar Rapids Airport seeks grant for Continental flights
Cedar Rapids airport seeks a $778 178 federal grant under the Small Community Air Service Pilot Program to start Continental Airlines regional jet service with twice daily flights to Houston George Bush Intercontinental. The plan includes marketing funding and possible non stop Newark service within a year of Houston service onset.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Continental Airlines
Continental
Newark
N.J
New York City
Escapee Brydon Captured After Cedar Rapids Apartment Raid
Thomas Brydon 34 of Marion was found in a Cedar Rapids apartment about 7 30 last night and arrested without incident. Linn County Sheriff Don Zeller said Brydon previously fled custody and was held on 6500 bail for an assault with a weapon charge involving a knife at Palisades Kepler State Park.
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Vue Gazette
Cedar Rapids
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Linn County
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Cedar Rapids Schools Open With Year-Round Plan
About 500 Cedar Rapids district students returned to class marking the first day for Polk and Taylor elementaries. Polk will run a year-round calendar with nine weeks on, three off, and a new after school program funded by a $470,000 federal grant over five years.
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First day tears as grandson starts Polk Elementary kindergarten
Lois Dorsey of Cedar Rapids sheds tears dropping off her grandson Tabion Stewart for his first day at Polk Elementary. School facilitator Marie Wallace comforts her as Tayana Stewart and siblings look on in Cedar Rapids.
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Cedar Rapids
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