Linn-Mar Board Hikes Student Parking and Class Fees
The Linn-Mar school board voted to raise student parking fees at the high school from five to ten dollars per year to fund parking lot supervision. They also approved higher 1994-95 fees for orchestra rental, aquaculture classes, plant science and horticulture courses, and summer music lessons citing rising costs.
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Linn-Mar
Cedar Rapids hosts Quake Aid benefit concert
Kirkwood student government sponsors Quake Aid a benefit show for California earthquake victims at 7 p m Thursday at Hawkeye Downs Exhibition Hall. Country band Home Brew and rock group Hostage perform. Advance tickets cost 5 at Relics Records Sixteenth Avenue Music CD Exchange Red Cross offices and Kirkwood Student Activities Office. Door admission is 7.
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Kirkwood Student Government
Hawkeye Downs Exhibition Hall
Home Brew
Hostage
Relics Records
Sixteenth Avenue Music
CD Exchange
American Red Cross
Kirkwood Community College
Water main gas line break after car crashes into Waterloo home
A car driven by a teenage girl on Downing Avenue in Waterloo crashed into a residence at 1803 Downing Ave, rupturing water and gas lines. Two juvenile passengers were hospitalized, and the home suffered about 50,000 in damages while residents were away.
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Downing Avenue
Downing Ave
Veterans seek medals from National Personnel Records Center
Veterans who believe they are owed medals may write or call the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis Missouri. Include service branch dates of service and military identification number to verify eligibility.
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National Personnel Records Center
St. Louis
Day One Bus Run Marks Open Enrollment Plan
In Martelle 38 students rode a Mount Vernon bus to school on opening day. Parents formed the Martelle Open Enrollment Transportation Co to run a leased Mount Vernon bus after Anamosa district blocked home pickups and district funding shifted. The service serves 31 Martelle students morning routes and 12 in the evening with a driver training and insurance setup costing about 3000 dollars.
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Dave Rasdal
Martelle
Mount Vernon
Melisa Pearson
Melisa
Sue Pearson
Anamosa
Mount Ver
Grant Wood Area
Tion
McCauley
South Fork Road
Open Enrollment Transport Co
Defense attorneys withdraw from terrorism case
Two Cedar Rapids defendants in a terrorism case had their trials delayed by two months after their lawyers withdrew. Marcus and Bobby Johnson, both 18, waived speedy trial rights as Judge William Eads appointed new counsel and reset the May 9 start date following the abrupt withdrawals. The Dec 1 shooting at Fifth Avenue and 15th Street SE hospitalized Kendall Irving. the reasons for withdrawal were not disclosed citing attorney client privilege.
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Marcus
Bobby Johnson
Cedar Rapids
Nancy Baumgartner
Jonathan Hammond
William Eads
Eads
Hammond
Johnson Cousins
18Th St. SE
Fifth Avenue
15Th Street SE
Kendall Irving
Johnsons
Thomas Gillespie
Mark Brown
Marcus Johnson
Linn
Rabbits Turned Livestock At Agnes Meyer's Iowa Farm
Agnes Meyer of Belle Plaine raises more than 300 white rabbits in a family operation that began from pets and grew into a full time business. She breeds New Zealand rabbits for meat, sells at markets and packing houses, and treats rabbits as productive livestock with careful breeding and daily care.
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Elle Plaine
Ag Samines Meyer
Agnes
Illinois
New Zealand
California
Florida
Keystone
Belle Plaine
Matilda Mayfield
Charles
Mel
Joe
Pat
Sid
Ron
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