Car Collides On First Avenue Near Roosevelt Hotel
A car wreck in Cedar Rapids blocked First Avenue by the Roosevelt Hotel and the U S Cellular Center after 11 pm. Police provided no injury update as debris including glass and a lamppost littered the sidewalk. Fire officials noted two arson fires and aided a displaced family from a separate kitchen grease fire.
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First Avenue
Roosevelt Hotel
Roosevelt
U.S. Cellular Center
Temacher
29Th St. NW
Marion East Robins Road closure and resurfacing plan
Marion East Robins Road between Cedar Rapids C Avenue and Alburnett Road Marion will be closed for patching today and Tuesday Road resurfacing begins Thursday with one traffic lane open to vehicles and work ongoing.
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East Robins Road
C Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Alburnett Road
Marion
Young artists imitate masters in Urbana elementary class
Thirteen ABANA elementary students join a weeklong Great Artists class at Diane Nemec's Urbana home. They study Michelangelo Andy Warhol Grandma Moses and Marc Chagall painting in crafts dying eggs making chalk paint and performing a final exhibition with songs about the artists. Enrollment for the $30 sessions limits to 13 students.
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Duane Crock
the Gazette
Jessica Meyers
Center Point
Diane Nemec
Urbana
Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel
Vatican
Marlene Lucas
Gazette Abana
Iowa
Center Point-Urbana
Nemec
Andy Warhol
Grandma Moses
Marc Chagall
John Lennon
Ceila
David
Moses
Brian Markowski
Markowski
Warhol
Chagall
West Nile victim battles ongoing health problems in Cedar Rapids
William Brooks, 64, says he is about 90 percent recovered from West Nile virus contracted in 2002 after a high fever and other symptoms. He recently spent five months hospitalized following spinal surgery and faced a staph spinal infection. doctors stop short of linking these issues to West Nile.
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Cindy Hadish
Gazette
Cedar Rapids
William Brooks
Brooks
West Nile
Rockwell Collins
Barbara
Barbara Brooks
Leighton Jones Gives Pedal Tractors Parade Life on Float
At 79 Leighton Jones of Williamsburg preserves his youth by placing pedal tractors on a parade float with stuffed dummies built by Bonnie Jones. He recalls humble farm beginnings and founding J&S Farm Supply with wife Jeanne, now raising a family and maintaining a growing tractor collection of 18 models from John Deere Farmall and Minneapolis Moline brands.
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Tilliamsburg
Leighton Jones
Bonnie Jones
Greeley
Cole
Leighton
Williamsburg
J&s
Jeanne
Bob
Jim
John Deeres
J&s Farm Supply
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