Not Ordinary Hobbyist Refinishes Gym Floors
Joe Heath, supervisor of buildings and grounds for the Marion Independent School District, refines gymnasium floors in his spare time. He plans a busy retirement after 20 years in the Marion district on June 30, with prior 10 years in the same role in West Liberty. He began floor refinishing as a sideline during vacations, learning the trade in West Liberty and later going independent about ten years ago.
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Joe Heath
Marion Independent School District
Heath
Marion
West Liberty
Heath refinishes gym floors across Eastern Iowa
Heath describes refinishing work on gym floors at Iowa State University Hilton Coliseum and Iowa Fieldhouse and similar projects at Ellis YMCA and Iowa Wesleyan. Joe has built a long career, estimating about 200 schools reached, with equipment including sanders edgers and a buffer. He paints lines by hand and notes high demand with limited competitors. Heath notes 12 year floor life with maintenance. they live in Marion and plan retirement there with Alaska trip.
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Heath
Iowa
Iowa State
Hilton Coliseum
Joe
Highway 30
Ellis Ymca
Iowa Wesleyan
Mt. Pleasant
Coe Fieldhouse
Grinnell
West Liberty
CCC
Mt. Vernon
Drakesville
Palisades-Kepler State Park
Strawberry Point
Heaths
Masons Honor Folkers and Novotny at Longbranch Night
Marion Royal Arch Masons plan a banquet honoring Victor H. Folkers grand high priest and Richard Novotny grand sentinel. Novotny will be installed as grand Chapter KJ PEO. various lodge and club meetings follow in Marion area venues with notices for additional contact.
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Marion
Royal Arch Masons Chapter
Victor H. Folkers
Richard Novotny
Grand Sentinel
Longbranch
Novotny
J.J. Keith
Marion Boulevard
del Adkins
Sentinel
Folkers
Saudi Arabia
RAM
St Josephs Fun Days Benefit Church Building
St Josephs church hosts a three day fundraiser on the school grounds at 1430 Fourteenth Street to aid a new church and rectory being built at Brockman Avenue. Highlights include a carnival, Davidson United Shows, pig roast, games, a country store, and a Dale Thomas band dance from 9 p m Friday to 1 a m Saturday. Saturday features a fire department waterball contest with 25 to 30 teams and an auction is set for Sunday at 2 p m. Prairie Grass from University of Iowa performs Saturday night from 8 p m to midnight.
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St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Fourteenth Street
Marion
St. Joseph's Church
Brockman Avenue
Zobac Construction Co
Cedar Rapids
Seedorf Construction Co
Strawberry Point
St. Joseph's School
St. Joseph’s
Davidson United
Dale Thomas
Iowa
Prairie Grass
University of Iowa
Iowa City
National Historic Landmarks honor Black figures nationwide
The interior department designates 33 new National Historic Landmarks honoring Black Americans, including Jackie Robinson and Duke Ellington homes in New York, Ralph Bunche in New York, Louis Armstrong, W. E. B. Du Bois in Massachusetts, and Charles R. Drew. The list spans 10 states and D C, reflecting achievements from pioneer days to the present.
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Washington
Interior Department
Jackie Robinson
Duke Ellington
Ralph Bunche
Park Service
Afro-American Bicentennial Corp
District of Columbia
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
Chicago
Atlanta
New York
Brooklyn Dodgers
Benjamin Banneker
Arlington
Drew
Banneker
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Larry Tanner Marion Bureau
Marion Nature and Garden Club
Rainbow Real Estate
Hiawatha
Thomas E. McGowan
Milwaukee Railroad Women’s Club
Pearl Wilber
Elsie Nelson
United Transportation Union
Eighth Street
Sorosis Club
Indian Creek Country Club
Roger Messerly
Linn- Marcourt
8Th Ave
Adv
Deanne Stallman
Thirteenth Avenue
Jim Faris
Theristrial Club
Robert Peskey
Fourteenth Avenue
US Circle
YMCA
The
Marion Ymca
Warner Brothers
Barbara Kouba
Twenty-seventh Street
Barbara Morgan
B & J Auction House
50Th St
Dunn’s
Grove City
Rebekah Lodge
IOOF
Hauskins Singers
Robish Art Circle
Amana
Bishops Buffet
Trojan Masonic Lodge
Masonic Temple
Castle Lanes
Mary Lowe Dickinson
King’s Daughters
Lucille Knight
Eleventh Street
Robert Mitchell
Women’s Relief Corps
Sirloin ’N Brew
Weather Shield
Chetmu
Aluminum
United
Uss
United States Steel
Weather Shield Corp
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