Seat of Pants Road Rally Highlights Local SCCA Events
The Eastern Iowa SCCA hosts road rallies and autocrosses in Cedar Rapids featuring cars from a 27-foot motor home to a Chevrolet pickup. Navigators use landmarks to hit time targets while autocrosses judge fastest stopwatch times. Members pay fees for rallies and autocrosses with safety checks, helmet use, and a path from local to national competition.
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Preston Terrace Court
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C Ave. NE
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Nature Center offers Wildlife Week hikes and programs
Indian Creek Nature Center marks National Wildlife Week March 18 to 24 with a hike titled Animals by Sight Sound and Sign at 2 p.m. The event is free for members and 1 for non members, with habitat hikes offered Tuesday through Friday at 2 30 p.m. for families.
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Indian Creek Nature Center
National Wildlife Federation
Nature Center
Barb Binhammer
KOJC-FM Expands News and Youth Programming
KOJC-FM Cedar Rapids 89.7 adds Mutual Black Network world news daily and hourly current events. Three new children join Saturday shows 9 to noon with DJ sets in Top 40 disco and soul. A June Cultural Fair funds Muscular Dystrophy Association. locals invited to exhibit cultural heritage.
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Kojc-Fm
Cedar Rapids
Mutual Black Network
MBN
Jim Shore
Pam Kean
Diyonda Avant
Becky Avant
Shore
Bikers Plan Cedar Rapids to Des Moines Ride for Statehouse Talks
About 15 riders led by Mrs Gene Geiger of Mount Vernon will leave Jones Park Cedar Rapids at 8 am Saturday for a two day ride to Des Moines to press legislators to back Iowa bike trails including a Cedar Rapids Gilbertville route. The group aims for 50 riders at the Legislature.
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Mount Vernon
Iowa Statehouse
Geiger
Jones Park
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
Iowa
Gilbertville
Swisher
Blacktop
Highway 149
Amanas
Highway 6
Grinnell
Wisconsin
Still time to enter 1979 Cedar Rapids Soap Box Derby
Eastern Iowa youths may register for the Cedar Rapids Area Soap Box Derby with a 1:30 p.m. registration at the Central YMCA. A car building clinic focusing on brakes and steering runs with the third in a series. Entry is open to boys and girls ages 10 to 15, Cedar Rapids area or not.
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Derby Association
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Cedar Rapids Stamp Show Set for April 7 8
The Cedar Rapids Stamp Club hosts its annual show April 7 and 8 at IBEW 405 Hall 1211 Wiley Blvd SW. Hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday with free admission. About 20 dealers will offer stamps covers and supplies while 90 frames feature U S U N and foreign collections for trophies and prizes. A temporary postal station will operate with a special cancellation and cadet-designed stamps.
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Cedar Rapids Stamp Club
IBEW
Wiley Blvd
U.S
U.N
Betty Rutherford
Marion
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