Cedar Rapids bikes kick off Bike to Work Week with 12 mile ride
Cedar Rapids residents join City Council members including Tom Podzimek and four others for a Monday Bike to Work Week ride. Retiree June, 78, has long biked for health and transit. the group starts at Greene Square Park and follows the Cedar River Trail past AEGON Yellow Book USA and Cedar River Paper.
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Council member wins annual Bike to Work race in Coralville
Johnson County Board of Supervisors Chairman Rod Sullivan finished behind Coralville Council member Tom Gill and Iowa City Council member Ross Wilburn by about 20 minutes in the fourth annual Bike/Car/Bus Race. The event began at 12 30 p m at the Coralville Public Library as part of Bike to Work Week amid comments on transportation speed and gas costs.
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Bicyclists of Iowa City host public bike program events
This week features a Wednesday public presentation by the Bicyclists of Iowa City on a bike friendly community evaluation in the Iowa City area from noon to 1 p.m. in Meeting Room A at the Iowa City Public Library. Later that evening the Ride of Silence begins at 6 30 p.m. at College Green Park to honor bicyclists harmed or killed in traffic incidents.
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Dubuque teen survives 90 foot fall from cliff in Mines of Spain
Regional roundup reports 17 year old Gregory Klauer of Dubuque fell about 90 feet while with a companion at the Mines of Spain state park. He was treated at Mercy Hospital in Dubuque and officials call the incident an accident with no charges.
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Dubuque Carnegie Library to sell assets for renovation
Dubuque The Carnegie Stout Library board of trustees plans asset sales to raise the remaining 1 million needed for a 6.8 million renovation. The Edward Curtis Collection, a 700 plus photograph study of American Indian culture valued 700000 to 1 million, and a Martin J Heade painting valued 475000 are among items offered. Grant Wood works Appraisal and Victorian Survival are excluded from the sale.
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