Cedar Rapids to hire its first woman firefighter soon
Cedar Rapids officials expect the city to name its first female firefighter on the next Civil Service recruit list. The city plans an agility training program to improve test fairness and help candidates pass seven events including a 125 pound sandbag obstacle.
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Cedar Rapids
Edsel McMickle
Cedar Rapids Civil Service
Jude Barnswell
City Equal Employment Opportunity Officer
Jerry Powers
Powers
Fire Department
Barnswell
Cedar Rapids Meats Workers Seek Wage Recovery
The United Food and Commercial Workers Local P-3 at Cedar Rapids Meats plans tougher bargaining this summer to recover two years of wage cuts. The plant, bought from Wilson Foods by Keith Barnes for 16 million, has a Sept. 1 contract expiry and a June 24 50 cent raise pending from the old agreement.
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Cedar Rapids Meats
Cedar Rapids
United Food and Commercial Workers Local P-3
Wilson Foods
Wilson
Barnes
the Gazette
Washington man accused in robbery in Iowa incident
John Williams Hicks, 39, of Washington Iowa, is held without bond after an armed robbery at Rum & Go convenience store. He was arrested near a Donutland store with a bag of cash and a fixed blade knife. Police say the clerk was threatened and money and merchandise were taken before the suspect fled toward downtown Washington.
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Washington
Iowa
John Williams Hicks
Donutland
Rum & Go
Hicks
Squeeze on summer jobs for teen workers in Iowa
Des Moines AP reports Job Service of Iowa says teen job search this summer is easer with opportunities similar to last year despite national teen unemployment running at about twice the adult rate. Detassling remains a main source of work while bean walkers decline due to more bean buggies. fast food jobs look somewhat easier to obtain.
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DES Moines
Job Service of Iowa
Jim Reed
U.S. Department of Labor
Iowa
Reed
Broadcaster Faust Honored by Iowa Association of Broadcasters
E G Red Faust former co owner and general manager of KJAN AM FM in Atlantic received the Iowa Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame award at the IBA convention in Cedar Rapids Faust longtime IBA president 1966 1967 helped repeal a state advertising tax and served on a late 1970s Iowa Supreme Court advisory committee on media coverage of trials He and partners Bob Einhaus and Frank Miller sold the station last week William R Sanders of KICD Spencer elected IBA president
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Iowa Broadcasters Association
IBA
Cedar Rapids
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Faust
Bob Einhaus
Frank Miller
Iowa Supreme Court
Iowa
William R. Sanders
KICD
Spencer
Association
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City Civil Service Commission
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Associated Press
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Pulsar
Boyson’s
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