Washington County offers six nature day camps for grades 1–7
Washington County Conservation Board presents six Marr Park nature camps for students entering grades 1 to 7. Each camp runs Monday to Friday 9 am to noon, costs 15 dollars, limits to 12 students, with activities from hiking to canoeing and crafts. Pre register by the Thursday before start. Scholarships and volunteers needed. call (319) 657-2400 for details.
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Discovery The Gazettes Club Directory Aug 7 Issue
The Gazette invites area clubs lodges and organizations to submit a brief group description meeting time contact name phone email and mailing address for a directory update to be published Aug 7. Include current details even if listed before and send by June 15 to Cedar Rapids address fax or email.
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Iowa hike book author chronicles 110 trails
Iowan Elizabeth Corcoran Hill wrote Hiking Iowa detailing 82 public land trails visited during a nine thousand mile road trip and four hundred hiking miles. The 23 year old former City High graduate studied ecology in the Pacific Northwest and Oregon and Sweden before returning to author the Globe Pequot Press title.
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Hiking Iowa Inspires Deep Prairie and Hill Country Beauty
The writer describes researching Iowa’s birds plants and geology with experts then spending three months writing in isolation. She praises Iowa scenery from the southeast hills to the Loess Hills and northwest roots while working on a prairie restoration project at Honey Creek State Park and marveling at Iowa’s beauty.
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No one forgets Iowa's name in Oxford tale
Suzanne Barnes reports on Iowa Horn a 95 year old Oxford resident whose life spans a century of local history. Born to a single mother after her father died in 1918 she recalls growing up in Oxford West of Iowa City. She and her husband Faye known as Friday ran ventures along Highway 6 from a restaurant to gas station. A memory of Louis Armstrong dining at their Iowa Friday Silver Inn highlights a vibrant early life.
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Words of wisdom from area seniors in the community
The piece recalls local seniors sharing life lessons and memories from early days of segregation and postwar hardship. It notes performances by a band, a Horns family business, teaching careers, and historic moments such as Margaret Truman’s 1948 campaign stop and 1998 wind damage on Wilson Street.
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