Dirt filling at Cedar Rapids home prompts cleanup work
Mr and Mrs Don Hendryx of Cedar Rapids unload dirt Monday in front of their daughter's house on Washington Avenue SE The dirt is used to fill holes where trees had been removed and crews work to restore the area.
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Don Hendryx
Cedar Rapids
Washington Avenue
Troy Mills wins provisional federal grant for sewer upgrade
Troy Mills has a provisional approval for a 75000 community development block grant to upgrade its sewer system. If final approval comes, funds will be matched with local money and combined with EPA and IDEQ grants for a total project cost around 350000.
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Troy Mills
Linn County
Joe Rinas
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Iowa Department of Environmental Quality
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Pirates film and park picnics join library summer programs
The Cedar Rapids Public Library will indoors two showings of a Long John Silver pirate film at 10 30 a m in the Kenwood Branch and 7 p m in the YWCA Room 102 as part of the children summer reading theme Treasures in Your Library. The series resumes outdoor events next Tuesday June 21 at Ellis Park and a Story Picnic at Greene Square at 10 a m. Pam Lane says Wednesdays Creepy Crawlers themed program will read The Ants Go Marching The Very Hungry Caterpillar and There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly followed by a sack lunch picnic.
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Cedar Rapids
Kenwood
YWCA
Park
Ellis Park
Greene Square
Library Children’s Department
Pam Lane
Council delays site decision for Mount Vernon water tower
Mount Vernon Council postpones choosing a site for a new water tower after citizens oppose Memorial Park location. Prairie Park remains a recommended site, with cost estimates rising to 215000 280000 dollars and threats to grant funds. Repairs on the pool are delayed to mid July due to rain and concrete cracks.
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Gretchen Sutherland
Mount Vernon
Fred Dumbaugh
Memorial Park
Robert Sautter
John Moser
Prairie Park
Steve Vanderah
Vanderah
Dick Peters
Planning and Zoning Commission
Gordon Rahn
State Office of Planning and Programming
Harold Foster
Rockton
George Kankowski
Panel to discuss math complaints at Mount Vernon middle school
The Mount Vernon program committee will meet June 29 to discuss letters from 16 families about the math program. Parents object to textbooks and teaching methods. A petition with 54 signatures urged starting a district soccer program and one parent asked for a meeting with interested parents.
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Mount Vernon
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