Marion board rejects arts funding amid budget cuts
Over 100 parents students and teachers protested cuts to elementary art and high school vocal music at a Marion Independent board meeting. The board approved overall budget and raised property taxes while preserving most cuts and funding for after school coaching and a tennis program.
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Tom Fruehling
Marion Bureau
Save the Arts
Marion Independent School Board
Frances Renfer
Robert Hale
Washington Elementary
Renfer
Marion
Linn-Mar
Dale Pickering
The
Marion Education Association
Pickering
Hale
Schriner seeks re election as Linn County supervisor
Linn County Supervisor Kenneth Schriner filed nomination papers for re election. The 57 year old Democrat was appointed in 1977 to fill a vacancy and won a four year term in 1978. He is on leave from Wilson Foods after 25 years and chairs the Board. He cited Chain Lakes Bridge and Palo to Benton County road projects as progress and said he has met more citizens on the roads. He notes unemployment and rising demand on county agencies as major current challenges. Salt in a sugar can was the possible killer of seven babies in a New York hospital.
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Linn County
Kenneth Schriner
Schriner
Board of Supervisors
Wilson Foods
Linn County Board of Supervisors
County Conservation Board
Board of Social Welfare
Veterans’ Affairs
Chain Lakes
Palo
Benton County
New York
Fairfax youth given suspended sentence for manslaughter
Richard A. Mitchell, 17, of Fairfax, received a two year suspended prison term after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter in a Palisades Kepler State Park crash that killed 15 year old Beth Garwood of Cedar Rapids. He was placed on probation for two years and ordered to reside in a community corrections center for six months. Mitchell, transferred from Linn County Juvenile Court, pleaded innocent but stated no defense. Associate Judge John Siebenmann presided.
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Richard A. Mitchell
Fairfax
First Avenue
Linn County District Court
Department of Correctional Services
Community Corrections Center
Mitchell
Palisades Kepler State Park
Beth Garwood
Cedar Rapids
John Siebenmann
Rabies treatment begun for Cedar Rapids boy after dog bite
Cedar Rapids youth John Wright, 14, started the rabies vaccination series after being bitten by a large black dog still at large. Animal warden Sarah Dravis says the dog likely a pet and owners fear coming forward. If the dog is found healthy, Wright may stop shots. otherwise the dog could be destroyed if it develops rabies.
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Cedar Rapids
John Wright
Seeley Ave
Sarah Dravis
the Gazette
Dravis
Wright
Marion Park Board weighs new soccer field needs
Jim Rollins from Five Seasons Soccer League told the Marion Park Board that soccer has grown fastest here and Taube Park currently serves as the only, not regulation, field. The board will consider adding another field in future plans while approving April use of city tennis courts for Marion High School coach as enrollments rise.
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Marion
Jim Rollins
Rollins
Five Seasons Soccer League
Marion Park Board
Taube Park
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