Cedar Rapids Playgrounds Host Week of Knighthood Themed Festivals
Cedar Rapids junior playgrounds plan a citywide festival week centered on Crusades era plays and activities. Dozens of contests, toy and animal shows, bike decorating, bubble gum blowing, dress up days, pantomimes, limbo and swim suit days fill locations like Jones, Kenwood, Riverside, Fillmore, Sinclair, Hoover, Ellis, Noelridge, McKinley, and more. The event features a Playmobile wide grin contest, a shirtless swimsuit plan, and a mothers day visiting program with graduation exercises scheduled Aug 8 across sites.
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Jones
Kenwood
Daniels
Riverside
Reed
Fillmore
Sinclair
Lincolnway
Harrison
Hoover
Apache
Jacelyn
Hayes
Cleveland School
Shawnee
Madison
Franklin
Cedar Valley
Johnson
Sinclair and
Bever
Ellis
Coe
Monroe
Noelridge
Arthur
Cherry Hill
East Side
Arthur Playground
Fillmore Playground
New Camp Director Leads Robbins Lake Day Camp
Miss Holly Brisbin named director of Robbins lake day camp serving about 20 mentally retarded children. She previously led the camp last summer and replaces Steve Schwartz who cannot work due to a leg injury. This week includes a nature hike screen painting fishing and dance classes and a cook-out. A nature notebook will be completed.
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Robbins Lake
Holly Brisbin
Miss Brisbin
Steve Schwartz
Community events lineup and tether ball winners list
Older Children features a week of activities at Riverside and city parks with bike decorating contests stunt track meet backward day director contest squirt gun skills talent show trash pickup and limbo contests Winners of tether ball championships last week include McKinley Adams Erskine Wright Pierce and many others West side winners list includes Grant Wood Ricky Berka Harrison Johnson and several more Brighteners note organizers and locations Riverside Cleveland park and Shawnee listed plus multiple districts and participants.
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Hoover and Ellis
Noelridge
McKinley
Cee
Cedar Valley
Grant Wood
Harrison
Johnson
Shawnee and
Bever
Apache
Cleveland Park
Hayes
Grant
Alandale
Cherry Hill
Erskine
Pierce
Adams
Arthur
Cleveland
Franklin
Lincolnway
Madison
Wright
Riverside
Kenwood
Doyle Stell
Jean Matteson
Dave Stevenson
Steve Safely
Rick Kelzinberg
Marsha Zmoos
Basil Hadjis
Monroe
John Swinton
Susan Langhurst
Bobby Lorenz
Mark Doskocil
Mary Beth Wheeler
Daniels
Cinda Brown
Tom Thomas
Menti Adams
Randy Mangels
Ricky Sizemore
Dave Hollingsworth
Jerji Northrup
Lauri Brown
Coe
Kimberly Bowles
Bob Lockhart
Colin Howie
Gary Thomson
John Lilly
Rick Reinhold
Jeff Glover
Steve McNair
Dave Steninger
Mark Cullen
Sue Peterson
Scott Sarver
Niki Lillies
Sinclair
Steve McKee
Greg Mara
Bruce Harkless
Lora Robinson
Tim Parker
Maggie Mulholland
West Side
Dan Davidson
Theresa
Sheep and mower clash at Funkstown lagoon
Funkstown Maryland debated lawn care when town maintenance man Clarence Stockslager released 17 sheep to graze the lagoon area. After a couple of weeks the grass grew longer and officials grew angrier until the town bought a mower. The sheep remain nearby while the mower does the work.
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Funkstown
Clarence Stockslager
University Bug Lab Houses World’s Largest Insectary
Riverside California AP reports a vast insectary at the University of California Riverside where three barefoot researchers in a sealed quarantine lab inspect globally sourced insects. Dr. Fred Legner leads work against the house fly as the 60 year old facility aids crop pests and serves UN testing duties. At 3:00 pm on KCRG TV Channel 9 TIME FOR AMERICANS separates truth from legends about the Newark riots last summer.
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Riverside
Calif
University of California At Riverside
Fred Legner
Kcrg-Tv
Channel 9
Time For Americans
Newark
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Cedar Rapids
Mike Greenland
Russ McIntyre
Scott Josifek
Lori Alberts
Carol Engle
Bob Bushman
Dan ‘Hines
Mike Pelisek
Mark Johnson
Tracy Schreiner
Cindy Grolmus
Toi-Lot News
Lincoln
Anderson and
Roosevelt
Truman
Bowman Woods
Redmond
Linwood
Jefferson
Buchanan
van Buren
Eisenhower
Dil
Lois
Mitchell
Roberta Andrews
Erskine, Daniels
Jacolyn
Jacolyn and
Town Boys
Beauty Shop
Ohle
Eble
Armstrong
National Children’s
Ike
University
Bugs
United Nations
White Sale
Stevens
Chemstrand
Canterbury
Sale
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