Iowa Physics Olympics set for March 25 at UIU
Seventeen teams and more than 200 students will compete in Dorman Gym at Upper Iowa University in Fayette for the Iowa State Physics Olympics. Events include bridge building, mousetrap car, windup wind mill, hickory hickory shot, and can can grand prix, with the grand champion crowned.
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Northeast Iowa Bureau
Fayette
Upper Iowa University
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UIU
Keystone Area Education Agency
Iowa Junior Academy of Science
East Iowa earns seven state fitness awards
Gazetted by the Des Moines Bureau Gov. Terry Branstad awarded seven Eastern Iowa entities including Life Investors Inc Cedar Rapids Vinton Community Schools Iowa City Parks and Recreation Van Eaton School Waterloo John Deere Fitness Club Wat erloo Rudd Rockford Marble Rock Community Schools and Wartburg College for outstanding employee junior high school community handicapped and college fitness and sports programs.
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Des Moines
Iowa
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Governor’s Council On Physical Fitness
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Life Investors Inc
Cedar Rapids
Vinton
Iowa City Parks and Recreation Department
van Eaton School
Waterloo
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Rudd-Rockford
Marble Rock
Wartburg College
Waverly
Oelwein Register Names New Managing Editor
Brian Meyer will become managing editor of the Oelwein Register next Monday, succeeding Ken Schmith who becomes general manager. Meyer, 23, longtime Iowa native, graduated from Iowa State in 1983 after stints at Boone News-Republican and Eagle Grove Eagle. Thomson group owns both papers.
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Brian Meyer
Oelwein Register
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West Union Area
Iowa State University
Boone News-Republican
Eagle Grove Eagle
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Schmith
Mike Mahoney
Austin, Min
Bike crash kills boy in Charter Oak
AP reports 11 year old Christopher Hernandez moved to Charter Oak, Iowa last week and died Thursday after his bicycle with no brakes struck a utility pole at an intersection while riding downhill. State Patrol identified Hernandez as the rider in the fatal crash.
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Iowa State Patrol
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Sex abuse suspect acquitted and paroled in Des Moines case
A Des Moines man, Dennis Parsons, was acquitted of sexually abusing a child after a judge ruled the prosecution failed to prove he was at least 18. The Iowa Board of Parole then revoked his parole unanimously due to allegations of lascivious acts with a 5-year-old girl. Parsons was on parole when charged with molesting the girl in her parents’ home.
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Iowa Board of Parole
Dennis Parsons
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Polk County
Ray Hanrahan
Iowa
Cook-off showcases Jack Lirio with demos and prizes
The Gazette Cook-off features guest Jack Lirio, famed cookbook author and cooking school owner in San Francisco. He will give two cooking demonstrations. Prizes include an Amana Radarange from Amana Smulekoff's, a San Francisco trip for two from American Travel & Tour and Frontier Airlines, and an $800 Hy-Vee grocery package.
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Me Too
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Nelson’s Meat Market
Amana/ Smulekoff
American Travel & Tour
Frontier Airlines
Hy-Vee
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