Cedar Rapids Seeks Applicants for City Boards and Commissions
The city invites residents to apply for the Accessible Parking Review Committee City Band Commission Five Seasons Facilities Commission Hotel Motel Committee Library board of trustees and SSMID. Applications are at cedar-rapids.org or via the City Manager's Office at 319 286 5080. Deadlines set for noon Monday.
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Cedar Rapids
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Five Seasons Facilities Commission
Hotel Motel Committee
Library Board of Trustees
SSMID
Cedar-Rapids.org
Library Friends seek book donations for sales and programs
The Friends of the Cedar Rapids Public Library ask for books CDs videos and other media to fund library projects including Babies n Books America Reads and Reading is Fundamental through fall and summer sales and in lobby book carts. Donations may be dropped at the library or picked up by arrangement call (319) 393 5123.
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Cedar Rapids Public Library
Second Street
Crlibrary.org
Friends
Old Highway 30
Old Lincoln Highway
Story County Fairgrounds
Nevada
Fairgrounds
U.S. 30
First Avenue
I Avenue
Iowa Barn Foundation
Roxanne Mehlisch
Iris keeper opens Cedar Rapids garden to visitors this weekend
Wanda Lunn, a Historic Iris Preservation Society member, welcomes the public to her northwest Cedar Rapids yard to tour 325 varieties of historic iris on a 1/3 acre. Her husband Bill is an ICU nurse, and the couple has tended beds amid day lilies and perennials for 18 years. Visitors learn about varieties like Francina from the 1920s and Gibson Girl from 1946 while Lunn shares iris lore and gardening tips.
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Gazette
Edar Rapids
Wanda Lunn
Lunn
Cedar Rapids
Lynn
Historic
United States
Oregon
Iowa
Cinnamon Girl
Wanda Lunn Gardens Open on Weekend at 526 Bezdek Dr NW
Residents can visit Wanda Lunn’s gardens at 526 Bezdek Drive NW from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Reporter Cindy Hadish notes her Homegrown blog on GazetteOnline for gardening insights.
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Bezdek Dr
Lunn
Cindy Hadish
GazetteOnline. Com
Cedar Rapids teen Shelby Hendryx pursues opera dream
Shelby Hendryx 17 of Cedar Rapids is a prodigy singer with a goal of becoming a professional opera star. Her training spans lessons with Karla Goettel, multiple scholarships, and roles at Prairie High School and Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre productions. She won regional NATS auditions and precollege honors, planning studies at Walnut Hill and time at La Scala in Italy.
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Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Shelby Hendryx
Walker United Methodist Church
Hendryx
Mike
Karla Goettel
Goettel
Shelby
Roxann Hendryx
Prairie High School
Kelly Truax
Gabriel Faure
Francesco Morlacchi
Walnut Hill Arts Academy
Walnut Hill
Academy
Italy
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Verona
Iowa
Iowa Arts Council
Beethoven Club
Bert Andrews
Cedar Rapids Symphony Guild
National Association of Teachers of Singing
Illinois
Missouri
Iowa Music Teachers Association
Simpson College
Simpson
Mother Abbess
Prairie
Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre
the Gondoliers
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Kristina
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