Grant Wood agency restructures in three areas
The GWAEA board approved 1977 78 restructurings in administration special education and educational services. New roles include a community relations supervisor and public information post in administration and early childhood and emotionally disabled program supervisors in special education.
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Grant Wood Area Education Agency
GWAEA
Kay Graber
Dwight Bode
Lauree Gerber
Cedar Rapids
Bode
Reid Zehrbach
Champaign-Urbana, Il
Ron Rodee
Inservice
Larry Rickey
John Cordes
Educational Services
Cordes
May Expenses Authorized by Agency Board
May expenses totaling 399063 were approved by the agency board in the board room. The breakdown includes administration 46647 educational services 76669 media 34991 special education 240537 and encumbrance 217. Year to date expenses reach 5000883 with no further context provided.
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Grant Wood Area Education Agency Board
Agency
GWAEA approves multiple bids for equipment and facility upgrade
Grant Wood area education agency board approves bids totaling for hearing and vision testing gear including a $7,885 reduction copier from Xerox Cedar Rapids. Other bids from Electro Medic Gordon Stowe and Associates PHI Inc. and Argosy Manufacturing, plus a $26,624 rooftop unit, are authorized. Board debates tax-priority in price quotes with no consensus.
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Grant Wood Area Education Agency
GWAEA
Xerox Corp
Cedar Rapids
Electro Medic, Inc
Minneapolis
Minn
Gordon Stowe and Associates
Northbrook
PHI Inc
Omaha
Neb
Ilten’s, Inc
Sixth Street
Youth Facilities Agreement Set
GWAEA and Linn county board of supervisors authorize a joint operation of the Linn county youth facilities educational program. GWAEA will supervise curriculum development evaluation and funding via state rules while the supervisors provide facilities and non school program funding.
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Grant Wood Area Education Agency
GWAEA
Linn County
County Board of Supervisors
Youth Facilities
State Department of Public Instruction
Newton Outstanding College Alumni Honored at Kirkwood
Wayne Newton of Luzerne was named outstanding alumnus at Kirkwood Community College first alumni awards. About forty alumni were nominated. Newton, a 1974 graduate, serves on the college board and advisory committee. Also honored were dental laboratory program graduates Richard Jacobi and Steve Sandover for starting a scholarship fund. Jane Russell turns 56 today.
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Wayne Newton
Luzerne
Kirkwood Community College
Newton
Kirkwood
Tie
Benton Community School
Agri-Business and Natural Resources
Cedar Rapids
Kenneth Haupt
Rudolph, Wis
Dental Laboratory
Extra Filing Window For Homestead and Property Tax Credits
Cedar Rapids area officials announce a Saturday 8 am to noon extension for homestead and personal property tax credits filing. Deadline remains 5 pm Friday July 1. City and county assessor offices, plus the county recorder, will assist at May's Island locations with rear courthouse entrance open Saturday for access.
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Cedar Rapids
Dale Piersall
City Hall
May's Island
Recorder’s
Blames Human Error in Fatal Cedar Rapids Plane Crash
A National Transportation Safety Board investigator said human error likely caused the Cedar Rapids night plane crash that killed two teenagers. He concluded there was no mechanical malfunction after studying the mishap. The official based his findings on the Monday afternoon inquiry.
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C.R
Cedar Rapids
del Valle
National Transportation Safety Board
Kansas City
Free Concert by Cedar Rapids Municipal Band in Jones Park
The Cedar Rapids municipal band will perform a free outdoor concert at 8 p.m. in Jones park with Frank Piersol conducting. Soloist Dennis M. Hodge will play Portrait of a Trumpet. A plane crash near Squaw Creek school killed two people, with witnesses noting flour sacks were dropped during the flight and pilot Kabelitz failed to recover.
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Cedar Rapids
Jones Park
Frank Piersol
Karl L. King
Hamlisch
Lang
F. Kovarik
U.S. Field Artillery
John Phillip Sousa
Panella
Dennis M. Hodge
Route Three
Marion
Nestico
Hodge
Coe College
Coe
Squaw Creek School
Civil Air Patrol
Mark Kabelitz
Indiana Street
Joyce Foster
Outlook Drive
Valle
Kabelitz
Transcendental Meditation Hosts Two World Wide Events
The Transcendental Meditation program sponsors two events this week for its Summer Festival for the Age of Enlightenment. A Tuesday 7 p.m. courtyard ceremony at Doctors' Court 4245 First Avenue SE includes awards candle lighting and cake cutting with a poet and musicians. A Wednesday 1 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. talk titled Its Nature and Benefits also at Doctors' Court is free and open to all.
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Doctors’ Court
First Avenue SE
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