State to lay off 910 positions across agencies
Iowa plans 910 job cuts in the Veterans Home and the Department of General Services with a broader projected total of at least 160 more layoffs across agencies. DHS will lose 108 staff in 2002 46, while Regents schools and other state bodies prepare budget reductions and reallocate resources.
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Rasmussen
Frank Stork
State Board of Regents
Jeff Vonk
State Department of Natural Resources
DNR
Fred Scaletta
State Department of Corrections
Verizon Wireless
Motorola
Motorola, Inc
State Parks Hit by Broad Cuts and Closures Across Iowa
Iowa park sites will close or reduce services with estimated statewide savings of 517662 dollars. Parks cut museum staffing and close picnic areas and access points including Backbone CCC museum Pine Lake and Maquoketa Caves with further reductions in mowing and latrine service. Education department cuts threaten 5.5 vacant positions and 30 million in budget reductions affecting early intervention programs and community colleges.
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Backbone
Volga River
Big Rock
Brush Creek Canyon
Hunter Access
Fort Atkinson
Hogsback
Horseshoe
Pine Lake
Alice Wyth Road
George Wyth
Wapsipinicon
Maquoketa Caves
Nine Eagles
Honey Creek
Lake Wapello
Shop
Ely's Ford
Lacey-Keosauqua
Johnson
Goode
Kathi Woods
State Department of Education
State Education
Iowa
DOE
Ted Stilwill
Unac
Reader Looks Younger Now Dating Again
Dear Patty discusses a reader who, after using EBS Facial Cream, reports looking younger and resuming dating. The pharmacist Heldfond claims EBS combines five creams in one for wrinkles throat firming and moisture, marketed to women of all ages.
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Patty
Thankful
Seattle
Heldfond
Jcpenney
ebS.com
Brothers await heart transplants amid donor drive
Fred and Richard Behrendt, both on national organ donor lists, face separate needs for different heart types. Fred, after LVAD support and rehab, returned home to study at Indian Hills Community College before a fluently timed relapse. Richard, older and lighter, also faces imminent surgery. Donna Ford urges public awareness and school talks to boost donations.
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Fred
Indian Hills Community College
Ottumwa
US Hospitals
Richard
Behrendt
Donna Ford
Informs
Iowa
Information on Organ Donation Contact
For more information about becoming an organ donor, call 148008314131 Iowa Donor Network. Web site www iadn.org provides details and resources.
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Iowa
Iadn.org
Buchanan rural water project eyed with polls to decide
The plan creates a rural water system supplying softened water to Buchanan County towns Rowley Quasqueton Aurora Stanley and Masonville along with Delaware County residents near the Buchanan system. Voters in each town would decide via utility referendums next spring. If approved residents may join or be required to use the system. funding relies on federal grants loans and monthly charges.
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Buchanan County
Rowley
Quasqueton
Aurora
Stanley
Delaware County
Masonville
Lake
Buchanan
Central Iowa Water Association
Kristie Wilding
Central Iowa
Wildung
Independence
Ed Fitzgerald
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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For Life
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