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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 2016
Page
6
The Gazette urges a July 19 special election to fill the Iowa City school board vacancy left by Tom Yates. It argues elections empower voters, noting cost and turnout concerns favored a special election over another appointment. Petitions are due by June 24, with candidate details to follow.
Gary L. Roberts of Center Point argues against harming geese in response to Rich Patterson’s May 22 guest column. He urges humane coexistence and suggests flushing feces away with high pressure water, noting the birds’ gifts exceed any problems and advocating learning from them.
A reader criticizes the tendency to avoid accountability after the Cincinnati Zoo incident and urges owning errors from both sides. She also voices concern about a new mini roundabout at 35th Street and 29th Avenue in Marion, citing traffic congestion, safety worries, and unpleasant aesthetics, urging City to reconsider.
Lenore Skenazy writes about the quiet rituals and feelings when a long time neighbor Lolita Walters dies at 95 in a New York apartment building. The column blends personal memory with reflections on community, loss, and the absence of formal obituary etiquette among neighbors.
Lynda Waddington reports on Donald Sorby volunteering in Rural Grocery Summit efforts linking food retailers to healthy meals. The Cooking Matters Minnesota program, a U of Minnesota Extension and No Kid Hungry alliance, trains two meals per class with budgeting tips and provides ingredients for home replication, benefiting about 80 to 100 families over four to five years.
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