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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 12, 2007
Page
9
About 4,258 signatures were submitted to the City Clerk's Office by the Committee for Healthy Choices on Friday to raise the bar age to 21 from 19. Verification will finish by month end and the City Council would then have 60 days to enact an ordinance or place the measure on the ballot.
The Iowa City school board will hold a closed session Monday afternoon to discuss Superintendent Lane Plugge’s recommendation to expel a student. Associate Superintendent Jim Behle said the district does not release expulsion details to protect student identities.
A juvenile from Illinois driving a stolen sport utility vehicle fled Iowa police on I-80 around 5:30 pm and struck another vehicle near Highway 965. Iowa State Patrol said officers are consulting Rock Island investigators to determine if the SUV was stolen there.
The Iowa Department of Transportation will close Stoney Point Road SW from US 151 to Palmetto Circle starting Monday for road reconstruction. The closure continues until mid June with local resident access via Dean Road.
Cedar Rapids former agent Harriette Cooper admitted on the witness stand that she split cash payments to dodge IRS reporting rules during a drug dealer’s home purchase. Prosecutors say two separate instances totaling over ten thousand dollars each were divided into cashier’s checks to avoid reporting. Cooper, 53, could receive about three years in prison, far above a six month sentence initially discussed.
Benton County juniors and seniors from Van Horne and Blairstown drove tractors to Benton Community High School for a Friday show off run. Da vid Manternach piloted a John Deere with Megan Pohlman aboard, while Seth Newton rode with Emily Van Deusen. Neighbors beeped and gawked as cars passed, and students called it a fun publicity stunt for the FFA group.
Patricia Westphal a 39 year old Monticello resident earns an associate degree in human services from Kirkwood Community College and plans to study social work at the University of Iowa. Her vision loss began at age 30 from a virus and she persevered to graduate.
A 39 year old from Monticello who majored in human services plans to study social work at the University of Iowa after Kirkwood Community College graduation at 10 a.m. at the U S Cellular Center Cedar Rapids. Legally blind with peripheral vision only she describes spending years at home before eight months in 2004 at the Iowa Department for the Blind adult orientation center in Des Moines to cope and prepare for work.
Cedar Rapids high schools showcase many valedictorians with 4.0 GPAs or higher, including Washington with 60 and Kennedy with 22 or 23. Principals Ralph Plagman and Mary Wilcynski defend wide recognition, while debates on precise meaning and plural forms persist.
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