Kenwood Sewer Bids Come In Well Below Estimate
The Kenwood storm sewer project bids were opened by the city council and are well below the 1.8 million dollar estimate. Millstone Construction bid 1 183 497 for Cedar Lake to beyond Fourteenth Street NE and a 10 by 18 foot concrete box will be installed. Armco Steel bid 416 000 for the outlet from Cedar Lake to the Cedar River. Awards to be examined by engineering and likely at next week’s meeting. Work may start in July or August and involve closing the Center Point Oakland and E avenues NE intersection two months. The project will connect with laterals at Twenty fifth Street NE and proceed southward. Full completion expected in the early 1980s.
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Kenwood
Millstone Construction, Inc
St. Louis
Cedar Lake
Fourteenth Street
Armco Steel Corp
Topeka
Kan
Cedar River
Center Point
Oakland
E Avenues
Twenty-fifth Street
Twenty-first Street
Sixteenth Street
Public Works
Jon Janda
Rent Hike Eyed for County Offices in Coliseum
Linn county occupies 14 306 square feet in the coliseum for courts and related offices. The city council tentatively raises rent to 3 per square foot for a one year lease and requires advance payment. County may pay $42 918 annually under the new rate.
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Coliseum
Linn County
Hal Schaefer
Robert McMahan
Non-Alcoholic Communion Drink To Be Offered
In Richmond Virginia a Presbyterian church will use grape juice at Communion services to avoid tempting alcoholics. The Second Presbyterian Church notes the switch aims to be fair to members with alcohol problems and will distinguish the juice from wine with color cues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
David Lee Morgan
Second Presbyterian Church
Morgan
Rose Show Winners Told
The Queen of the Show award at the 29th annual Linn County Rose Society show went to Mrs. Elmer Beems for an American Heritage bloom. King of the Show was John N. Steel, with other top trophies to Roscoe Markert Marian Thomson Don Stanford and Charles L. Martin. Horticulture sweepstakes went to Roscoe Markert and Artistic Arrangement to Helen Venneman. Novice division honors were won by Donald J. Williams. On this date in 1928 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic as a passenger on a Wilmer Sultz-piloted plane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn County Rose Society
Elmer Beems
D Avenue
John N. Steel
Roscoe Markert
Marian Thomson
Don Stanford
Charles L. Martin
Helen Venneman
Lee Street
Roscoe Markett
John N., Steel
Donald J. Williams
Twentyninth Street
Amelia Earhart
Atlantic Ocean
Wilmer Sultz
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16Th St. N.E
Tipton
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