Secret Beer Batter Runs Through Cedar Rapids Hot Fish Shop Tale
In Cedar Rapids reminiscences, Ken Berzinski recalls the Hot Fish Shop founded by his brother Dick in 1949. The restaurant’s famous thin beer batter for walleye fried in fresh grease became legendary before the Shorewood name replace it and eventually closed in 1980. Also notes Iowa Seniors Golf Association rules and local golf memories.
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Cedar Rapids
Ellis Boulevard
Ken Berzinski
Ontario
Berzinskis
Timberland
Ken
Johnson Avenue
Minnesota
Third Avenue
Fritz McPartland
Uptown Village
Park
Canada
Hawkeye Express
Boston
Shorewood
Hot Fish Shop
Collins Road
Center Point Road
Boar’s Head
Iowa
Seniors’ Golf Association
John Lardner
Woman survives 150-foot fall at Koosah Falls
Maureen Elizabeth Johnson, 34, of Laytonville California, fell 150 feet into a creek below Koosah Falls at the McKenzie River headwaters. She climbed out, waited as her husband Charles rigged a rope descent, then rescuers arrived. Johnson suffered multiple bruises and was treated at McKenzie-Willamette Hospital in Springfield.
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Salem, Ore
Maureen Elizabeth Johnson
Laytonville
Calif
Koosah Falls
McKenzie River
Linn County
Art Martinak
Johnson
Charles
Martinak
McKenzie-Willamette Hospital
Springfield
Iowa harness racing gains momentum at state fairgrounds
The Iowa Racing Commission heard that harness racing handle rose 31 percent to 2.25 million this summer at the State Fairgrounds and What Cheer. Attendance jumped 34 percent to 34,897 as 159,892 Iowans bet 8.3 million over 110 days, funding 410,000 in improvements at county fairs and state facilities. A Prairie Meadows track near Altoona is on schedule for a March 1, 1989 opening with initial racing rules approved.
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Judy Daubenmier
Des Moines
Rowland
William Masterson
Altoona
Iowa
Racing Commission
Jack Ketterer
NTSB urges slower speeds through track work after Iowa derailment
The National Transportation Safety Board votes to urge railroads including Burlington Northern to cut passenger train speeds to restricted levels through track repair zones following last October's Iowa Amtrak derailment. Investigators faulted BN crews and a rusted signal banner for contributing to the crash that injured 122 people but caused no deaths.
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Washington
National Transportation Safety Board
Amtrak
Iowa
Burlington Northern
NTSB
Drucella Anderson
Burlington Northern Railroad
Gary Telfer
Tim Sundquist
Ottumwa
Russell
Anderson
School official commits suicide after recantation emerges
In St. Petersburg Florida Douglas Tarrant 41 an assistant superintendent for finance at Pinellas County schools died of carbon monoxide poisoning after learning his accuser had recanted her lewd act allegations. The Times reported the teenager’s mother said she hoped someone told authorities the story had changed. Tarrant had been on medical leave since June and faced charges of lewd acts.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Douglas Tarrant
Pinellas County
St. Petersbug Times
Tarrant
Cedar Rapids extends downtown valet parking through January
The City Council approved extending the downtown Cedar Rapids valet program through January after a May 2 three month trial and a plan to assess longer. The service costs about $3,000 monthly and aims to boost downtown spending and offer an alternative to parkades and meters.
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Heather Sloman
Woodin Gazette
Alet
Cedar Rapids
Mel Meyer
Don Canney
Canney
Third Avenue
Armstrong’s Department Store
Meyer
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St. Andrews
Scotland
John Rosenberg
Blairs Ferry Road
Bob Zirbel
Nick Lillies
Rosenberg
Mike Hall
John Jacobs
Don Bergman
The
Gazette Company
Ceedar and Peay
U. Territories
Gazette
Vice
Associated Press
AP News
Cedar Rapids Gazette, Inc
P.O
Joyce’s Crafts
Iliness
Fairgrounds
Prairie Meadows
Sanyo
World Radio
Third Ave
Mall of Banclowa
Ec al
Center Point Rd
Kimball Ave
Waterloo
Ron St
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