Cedar Rapids hosts the 40th RAGBRAI event
Cedar Rapids prepares for the 40th RAGBRAI with as many as 28 000 cyclists. A $400 000 budget funds a Counting Crows concert for 250 000 and public safety along routes. City parks will serve as campgrounds with showers rest rooms and tents.
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George C. Ford
Gazette
Edar Rapids
Cedar Rapids
Marilee Fowler
Fowler
Sandi Fowler
Jeff Pomeranz
Counting Crows
Peregrine donors may be forced to return gifts
St Lukes Hospital and the University of Iowa Foundation along with other groups face potential liability to repay Peregrine Financial Group donations. The firm filed for bankruptcy after founder Russell Wasendorf Sr. attempted suicide. Wasendorf is jailed on charges of false statements in a $200 million fraud scheme.
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St. Luke’s
Emily Christensen
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Peregrine Financial Group Inc
Peregrine Charities
Laura Range
Beecher, Field, Walker, Morris, Hoffman and Johnson P.C
Peregrine
Russell Wasendorf Sr
National Futures Association
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Wasendorf
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Eastern Iowa
St. Luke’s Hospital
University of Iowa Foundation
Charities Handles Grants and Donations Between 2009 and 2011
Peregrine awarded 44850 to St Luke s Foundation Cedar Rapids for a CinemaVision goggle system for MRI children. Two grants to University of Iowa Foundation 42210 for FACS machine and 100000 to boost discovery fund for pediatric research. 2010 donation 34446 to Allen Foundation Waterloo for vein finders. Wasendorf pledged 2 million to UNI athletics and gave 100000 to UNI.
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Peregrine
St. Luke’s Foundation
Cedar Rapids
University of Iowa Foundation
Peregrine Charities Discovery Fund
University of Iowa
Allen Foundation
Waterloo
Wasendorf
University of Northern Iowa
Cascade native dies in Afghanistan attack
US Army sergeant Michael E. Ristau 26 a Cascade native and Rockford Illinois resident was killed when his vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device in Zabul province Afghanistan. He died Friday in Qatar from wounds, the Defense Department said.
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Dubuque
Michael E. Ristau
Rockford, Ill
Cascade
Zabul
Afghanistan
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Hope Rae
Mercy Medical Center
Hall-Perrine Cancer Center
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