City Market Opens 1979 Season Saturday at Riverside
The City Market will begin its 1979 season at 5 a.m. Saturday at the Riverside Roundhouse with hours 5 a.m. to noon on Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays through Oct 27. The Roundhouse is 1320 A St. SW. Market master is Jerry King. Fresh home grown produce flowers and daily baked goods will be sold. Stalls are leased but bake-sale tables may be rented via the Recreation Commission at 2000 Mount Vernon Road SE, 398-5065.
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Riverside Roundhouse
Roundhouse
Jerry King
Recreation Commission
the Commission
Mount Vernon Road
Laborers strike looms as talks resume in Cedar Rapids
Laborers Local 43 and 700 members seek an offer from general contractors after a Tuesday wage deadline passed. Talks opened at 10 am with Allied Construction Interests declining comment. Tentative wage terms with cement finishers seen, while plumbers and sheetmetal workers already settled. The strike halts work on Westdale Mall, Rockwell Collins, and the city sewage plant.
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Cedar Rapids
Local 43
General Contractors
Hoover Hubbard
Allied Construction Interests
Westdale Mall
Rockwell- Collins
Tentative funds outlined to save Linn youth shelter
Linn County faces shelter funding crisis as a tentative DSS contract proposes 22866 for May and June to operate the Shelter Care Facility at 1516 Fifth Ave SE. Officials weigh private management or funding shifts while a July 1 deadline looms and DSS final approval is pending.
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Linn Youth Facilities Department
Department of Social Services
DSS
Linn
Fifth Ave. SE
Youth Facilities Department
Polk
Bill McCarty
McCarty
County Board of Supervisors
Roger Reid
The
Gazette
Board of Supervisors
Glenn Johnson
Brent Harstad
Paul Kilburg
Reid
Three Arrested in Cedar Rapids Marion Meat Theft
Cedar Rapids police detained Gerald Hepker Cindy Hopker and Francis Edgeton all shown as residents of Cedar Rapids after employees reported a theft at the Hy Vee store. The trio accused of stealing about 250 dollars worth of meat and other items from at least four grocery stores in Cedar Rapids and Marion. Edgeton also charged with drunk driving.
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Marion
Cedar Rapids
Gerald Hepker
Cindy Hopker
Rockford Road
Francis Edgeton
Drexel Drive
Edgeton
Seventh Ave
Marion Police Chief Zier to attend FBI Academy
Marion Police Chief Robert Zier has been selected to attend the six week FBI National Academy in Quantico Virginia. He is the first Marion officer chosen for the program and will attend from July 1 to September 14.
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Marion
Robert Zier
FBI
Quantico
Zier
Marion hosts public meeting on Boyson Road extension
Marion holds a public information meeting on the Boyson Road extension Tuesday May 29 at 7 p.m. at the Marion Community Center. A public hearing could follow if objectors request it. Linn-Mar High School trio places 20th statewide in math exam among 161 schools, with Terry Byrne Doug Sawyer and Julie Makinster on the team.
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Boyson Road
Marion Community Center
Linn-Mar High School
Terry Byrne
Doug Sawyer
Julie Makinster
Linn-Mar and
Jefferson High School
Cedar Rapids
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Lindale
Lown City
Killians
Iown City
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Killean
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