Residents respond to survey Marion A nice place to live
Marion residents praise the city in a random Fair on the Square survey, with 98 percent agreeing Marion is a nice place to live. The poll, not scientifically controlled, involved 118 visitors and workers out of nearly 19,000, and highlighted views on schools, safety, traffic, redevelopment, shopping, and housing.
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Marion
Jeff Schott
Schott
Garden Theatre
Seventh Avenue
Central Business
Marion Independent
Linn-Mar
Dream car gone but memory lingers for teen winner
Seventeen year old Mark Von Behren won an $18,000 Porsche 924 in a GEZE binding promotion. He couldn’t afford the upkeep and sold the car after months of trying to hold onto the dream. The episode drew national attention, cost him state aid, and left him planning savings for college as he coped with the loss and media glare.
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Mark von Behren
von Behren
Oakland Road
Mark
Geze Binding Company
Littleton
Mass
Marion Ski and Recreation
Las Vegas
Frank Anthes
Marion
GEZE
The
Gazette
Sporting Goods Dealer
the Gazette
Kennedy High School
Marion Briefs Knights of Columbus Meeting Notice
A Marion brief notes a Knights of Columbus event at 5977 Mount Vernon Road with doors at 5 30 and start at 7 00. Also an advertisement for siding or roofing by Warner Brothers at 377 5573.
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Mount Vernon Road
Knights of Columbus
Warner Brothers
Prison terms for paint caper at United Nations
Two self proclaimed Marxists, Steven Yip aged 29 and Glenn Gan aged 30, were sentenced to a year and a day in prison for throwing red paint on U S and Soviet ambassadors to the United Nations. They disrupted a Security Council meeting in protest of imperialist policies.
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New York
U.S
United Nations
Steven Yip
Glenn Gan
San Francisco
Security Council
U.N
William van den Heuvel
Oleg Troyanovsky
New parking proposal stirs Marion Seventh Avenue debate
A letter from Farmers State Bank official Ed Saucer urges delaying any parking ban on Marion's Seventh Avenue for a year while studying the idea. Bank executives say the proposal is his alone and not bank policy. City and state officials note the plan to remove parking to enable left turns and traffic flow, with IDOT willing to share signal costs only if parking is banned. The council will weigh bids on phase two of the Central Business Redevelopment project, with parking still under discussion.
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Marion
Seventh Avenue
Ninth
13Th
10Th
12Th
IDOT
CDB
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Marion Bureau
Rockwell-Collins
Cedar Rapids
LW Ward
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