Eastern Iowa Band Festival Parade Heads Through Cedar Rapids
The 33rd annual Eastern Iowa Band Festival fills downtown Cedar Rapids this Saturday with at least 19 bands. The parade opens at 10 a.m. from Third Avenue and Sixth Street SE, loops via Second Avenue to Second Street SE, returning to Third Avenue and ending at Fifth Street SE. The event includes Miss Eastern Iowa 1979 selection with Dana Etzel and Joni Balcom named among candidates.
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Cedar Rapids
Third Avenue
Sixth Street
Second Avenue
Second Street
Fifth Street
Iowa
Dana Etzel
Linn-Mar High School
Joni Balcom
Marion High School
The
Cedar Rapids Jaycees
Chamber of Commerce
Retail Merchant’s Bureau
Greater Downtown Association
Laborers to vote on tentative Cedar Rapids wage deal
Laborers Local 43 members in Cedar Rapids set a 8 a.m. Saturday vote to accept a tentative wage proposal. A hopeful iron workers agreement anticipated Monday could end a two week work stoppage. Other unions have settled. the wage talks have spanned three years of an existing contract.
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Cedar Rapids
Local 43
Iowa
Iowa City
Two Men Rob Northeast Side 7 Eleven With Shotgun
Police report two men armed with a sawed off shotgun robbed a northeast side 7-Eleven at 2910 Center Point Road NE around 10 45 p m Thursday night. They ordered the clerk to hand over cash and fled on foot with an undetermined amount of money.
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Center Point Road
Cedar Rapids plans ozone attainment by 1982 with rural dust allowance
The Iowa Air Quality Commission approved Cedar Rapids plan to meet EPA ozone standards by December 31, 1982 without extra local industry controls. The plan allows subtracting rural dust from secondary standards, while primary standards must be met, and the commission will finalize the state plan for EPA review.
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Iowa Air Quality Commission
Federal
Environmental Protection Agency
Cedar Rapids
EPA
Jim Woll
Iowa Department of Environmental Quality Air Planning Division
Woll
Iowa
Des Moines
Mason City
Sioux City
Davenport
Ankeny
Waterloo
Commission
Keith Erickson
Linn County
First St
Jane Boyd
Center Point Road
Grant Wood Area
Erickson
Pute
Four charged with drunk driving in Linn County arrests
Four persons faced drunk driving charges in Linn County after Thursday evening and early today arrests. Bruce K. Shoon twenty of Anamosa was jailed after a crash at 15th Avenue and C Street SW injuring three passengers. Additional charges included failure to have control of his vehicle.
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Linn County
Bruce K. Shoon
Anamosa
15Th Avenue
C Street
Shoon
St. Luke’s Hospital
Marvin D. Machacek
Coralville
Walford
Machacek
Donald L. Lutgen
Gilbertville
First Avenue
Genetic Tests Are They Safe
Parade preview notes upcoming genetic testing discussion this Sunday. Readers are urged to consider safety and privacy aspects as experts weigh benefits and risks in that feature.
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C.R
Dick Hogan
Lee
Ings
Lutgen
Terry A. Medulan
E Ave
Britt Airways, Inc
Chicago
O'Hare Airport
CEDI
CHIC
Rapi
Got
Tod
Edar
Igoquency
Idsequency
Ross Root
Wm Fes
Yanrmarts
Jobe
Low
Killian’s Lindale Mall
Killians
Killian
Lindale
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