First-of-its-kind shipping container home rises in Cedar Rapids
A Cedar Rapids partnership named Cargohab is building an 1800 square foot home at 527 30th St. Dr. SE from steel shipping containers. The ground level uses two containers with two more on top, welded to foundations and steel plates. A 75-ton crane placed the modules earlier this month.
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Liz Martin
the Gazette
Fred Zehr
John Armon
30Th St. Dr. SE
Cedar Rapids
Zehr
Armon
Cargohab
Trafficking truck from Iowa linked to San Antonio deaths
A sweltering semi from northwest Iowa carried dozens of illegal immigrants and caused at least ten deaths in a San Antonio Wal-Mart lot. Driver James Bradley Jr. and owner Brian Pyle denied knowing how people entered the trailer as eight died at the scene and two others died after hospitalization. Authorities say some survivors may have brain injuries.
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San Antonio
Iowa
James Matthew Bradley Jr
Florida
Brian Pyle
Schaller
Sac County
Wal-Mart
Texas
United States
Private colleges win Mellon grant for language community outreach
Coe and Cornell colleges receive a 50000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a two year foreign language program. Students will apply skills to concrete issues by partnering with Cedar Rapids and Mount Vernon nonprofits to aid Spanish and French speaking immigrants and refugees. The plan includes language training for hospitals and cultural competency, with a possible certificate of intercultural competency.
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Coe
Cornell
Cedar Rapids
Mount Vernon
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
John Gruber- Miller
Gruber-Miller
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