Masonry program grows as trade shortage bites Iowa
The article notes a masonry job shortage affecting projects including a Hy-Vee store in Fort Dodge. It cites 525 active union members, a Kirkwood Community College program reviving masonry training with on the job learning, paid summer wages plus apprenticeships, and local firms forecasting demand and wages from Cedar Rapids to Iowa City.
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Klosterman
Hy-Vee
Fort Dodge
Ruth Mitchell
Iowa Community College
Ellsworth Community College
Philip Rusley
Kirkwood Si
Gary Pribyl
King’s Material
Cedar Rapids
Kirkwood
Masonry Advisory Board
Pribyl
Journeyman
Iowa City
Compromise in works on New York rent laws
Albany reports a conceptual agreement to extend New York rent regulation laws after a midnight deadline. About 1.1 million apartments and over 2.5 million residents could be affected. officials warned evictions may be delayed, with most protections lasting until lease renewals expire and mid-October for hikes.
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Albany
N.Y
Assembly
Sheldon Silver
Manhattan
New York City
Buffalo
Kirkwood launches masonry training program with Local 3
Kirkwood Community College partners with Bricklayers Local 3 and contractors to offer a year long diploma style program. Summer on the job training starts now with formal classes August 25 in a Hawkeye Downs building donated by the All Iowa Fair board. Summer pay is 6.50 per hour rising to 13.50 after one year. Student costs about 2500 for tuition books and tools with scholarship and loan options. 26 weeks of classroom work and six weeks of masonry field experience follow summer training. For details call 398 5659 or 1 800 363 2220 extension 5659.
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Ron Toyne
Kirkwood
Industrial Technologies
Klosterman
Bob Carlson
Rohrbach Carlson
Iowa City
Jim Novak
Novak Design Group
Cedar Rapids
Kirkwood Community College
Hawkeye Downs
All Iowa Fair Board
Watergate burglars quietly retire after scandal
Bernard Barker Virgilio Gonzalez Rolando Martinez and Frank Sturgis, anti Castro operatives, served prison time for the 1972 Watergate break in. James McCord stayed with the CIA connected work. Barker and Gonzalez, now in Miami, say the incident fades as Sturgis died in 1993. McCord retired to Colorado.
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MIAMI
Dolphins
Bernard Barker
Watergate
Barker
Gonzalez
Nixon
George McGovern
McGovern
Castro
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