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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 2006
Page
27
A Cedar Rapids nature center director warns woodchucks or ground hogs can devastate a garden in hours. Mother chucks avoid nursing mothers but bring kits to lettuce patches when ready, while powerful diggers create 4 to 6 inch tunnels under porches and brush piles. Remove cover to deter them. fences may block entry. sometimes removal is needed.
Rosie Streit, 17, a Kennedy High School graduate now at Kirkwood Community College, uses a 0.5 mm mechanical pencil to create lifelike black and white art with shading that implies color. Dennis Schmuecker, an art instructor, calls her one of the most talented artists they've had and credits her depth and realism to precise pencil work.
Streit, a quiet student from Hiawatha, rises with digital art and portraiture. Guided by Schmuecker, she skips prereqs, earns 2006 Visual Arts All-State nod, sells commissions and prints, and eyes Drake University as her college art career begins.
First lady Christie Vilsack and Brig. Gen. Mark Zirkelbach will speak at the 4 p.m. ribbon cutting on Grand Street for the Mary Lovell LeVan Monticello Renaissance Center. The event includes dedicating the relocated Veterans Memorial and tours, with a reception and dinner to follow.
The Grant Wood Art Festival resumes in Anamosa after a 30 year gap for its 34th edition. Festivities run Saturday with a 3 to 11 p.m. kickoff at Chamber Park and Sunday along Main Street with juried art, workshops, and music. Bus tours to Stone City and the Antioch School precede a Wood presentation at the Lawrence Community Center.
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