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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1997
Page
9
The Cedar Rapids city council considers eliminating the $1.25 curbside recycling sticker fee for extra garbage bags as a citywide program is studied. The three month pilot covered about 14 percent of households and will continue in the pilot area while broader rollout is evaluated. Critics call the fee discriminatory. The agenda for today’s 8:30 a.m. meeting includes this item.
Iowa DNR spokesman says TIP Farm No. 15 will face fines after a weekend manure leak tied to a clogged lagoon connection killed fish along a three mile stretch feeding the Turkey River. Spill ended Sunday. effects and exact figures to be released later. Turkey River flow eight miles away remains unlikely to be endangered.
Drivers on Highway 6 from Riverside Drive to Scott Boulevard in Iowa City face delays due to road work extending to the Muscatine County line. Pavement patching began last week and is to finish by August 16 under a $331,000 contract awarded to Midwest Contractors Inc. of Cedar Falls.
Mount Vernon residents and Cornell College students celebrate the Pizza Palace reopening after a Dec fire gutted the building. The city funded the 39 000 facade restoration on the 1865 structure while owners Faye and Larry Alger report strong post re opening demand with pizzas ranging from 6.05 to 15.02. The couple beat cancer battles and credit community support for a return to a local fixture.
Cedar Rapids police switched from a voice radio to an 800 MHz digital trunked system at about 9 50 am. The move aims to improve efficiency and officer safety though it limits public access to police transmissions. Fire and sheriff departments planned conversions. delays occurred due to jury duty and technical issues. News access is available at a cost, with similar terms offered to the county system.
The University of Iowa unveiled the W.M. Keck Dynamic Image Analysis Facility, a $1 million project enabling 3-D visualization of cell movement. Led by David Soll, the lab maps how cells move using cameras, videotape and computers, with studies on HIV T-cells, embryos and cancer. Future plans include virtual reality, molecular actuation within cells, faster imaging, and laser techniques.
A state and national commission on community corrections begins a three day Iowa barnstorming tour to discuss long term public safety and how communities can reduce crime through prevention, rehabilitation and targeted corrections programs.
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