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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1999
Page
11
Daily NoteBoos asks readers to vote on Clinton foreign policy and other topics through CITYLINE numbers or online forum. It outlines categories and deadlines for today’s poll while referencing yesterday’s US China security view and local political questions.
Today features multiple meetings: Linn County Supervisors work session 8:30 a.m. at the county office, Springville City Council 6 p.m., Marion School Board 7 p.m., Walford City Council 7 p.m. In outdoors activities there is a Lake Macbride nature walk meeting at 8:45 a.m. at the senior center. Farmers markets run Noelridge 4–6 p.m. and Coralville 5–8 p.m.
Vital statistics items note births on June 3 to June 6 at Mercy and St. Luke's hospitals with multiple couples listed. Lottery results show Iowa Illinois Pick 3 and Pick 4 draws, Powerball and Cash 4 Life outcomes, noting no Powerball winner and a $50 million upcoming jackpot.
Polk Elementary School receives a $10,000 grant from the Singing for Change Charitable Foundation to run a summer and after school program at the Madge Phillips Center for children staying in area shelters including Domestic Violence Shelter and Catholic Worker House. Joan Minney coordinates with area homeless families while the district catalogs 406 homeless students. The grant helps restore a program cut last year and aims to counteract declines in academic skills during shelter stays. Dennis Goettel named Northeast Iowa Athletic Director of the Year. Deb Mortensen named Iowa Teacher of the Year.
The Marion Independent School District will name a new principal for Emerson Elementary at tonight’s 7 p.m. meeting in the administrative boardroom at 777 S. 15th St. Marion. The appointee succeeds Laurene Lanich who left earlier this year to become principal at Prairie View Elementary in the College Community district.
The Center Point Urbana school district seeks a 10 year instructional support program to replace state incentive funds ending July 1. It would raise about 267000 annually starting 2000 2001 using state surtax property tax and state aid while maintaining current programs.
Dave Hoeksema of the Renaissance Group is hired to gauge public support for Marion History and Cultural Center to convert the Sixth Avenue NAPA site into a city museum with spaces for performances and events. The project would anchor a proposed two block historic district with a nearly $1 million renovation and endowment need, funded by a McLeod Foundation grant and up to $6,500 city hotel motel funds.
The Simons consider Disney's petting zoo as Mickey the Calf's new home. They fear a pregnancy could be fatal, preferring a warm, real environment after a Florida trip. Children visit the farm to photograph with Mickey, who appears gentle and unbothered by young visitors.
Linn County Supervisors postpone a decision on a 36 lot 126 acre Secrist Road rezoning near Springville. Planning commission recommended denial citing agricultural area, traffic, distance to towns, and village-like impact. Supervisors seek site tour and plan to revisit June 15.
Marion City Council approves materials for a drainage system at Moundview Manor a 40 unit senior housing project near Highway 13 and Highway 151. The project by the Marion Churches Senior Living Community Foundation and MidAmerica Housing Program faced wet ground delaying access and runoff from Squaw Creek Village Mobile Home Park. The city will supply pipes and the churches group will install them with labor funded from storm water budget eight to ten thousand dollars.
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