Trend pushes parents to choose unusual baby names
The rise of celebrity driven naming trends fuels unique choices like Heavenly Imoke Rice and Harmone Symone Morrow. Experts warn extreme spellings can burden children while noting ethnicity influences names and memory aids for teachers.
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Venus Osborne
Cedar Rapids
Heavenly Imoke Rice
Harmone
Har-Mo-Nay
Los Angeles
Rosenkrantz
Rosenkratz
DeShawn
Shanice
Cody
Caitlin
Nber
Shannon Bisgard
Linn- Mar
Bowman Woods
Marion
Diverse Iowa City Cedar Rapids Tech Corridor Drives Growth
Migration data show Polk Story Linn and Johnson counties gaining residents due to a diverse economy with manufacturing health care information services and university linked public service jobs. Linn County gained 1203 former Black Hawk residents while 879 moved to Black Hawk.
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Margie Hanson
Office of Social Economic Trend Analysis
Iowa State University
Hanson
Joe Rose
Iowa City
Cedar Rapids
University of Iowa
Raso
Linn
Johnson Counties
Rose
Polk
Story
Johnson County
Dubuque
Scott
Linn County
Black Hawk County
Beranek Exlowan Top Acoustic Design Expert Receives Medal
Leo Beranek, a Harvard acoustics pioneer and author of Concert Halls and Opera Houses, is honored with a National Medal of Science. The 1935 Cornell College graduate and Mount Vernon native rose from repairing radios to shaping auditorium sound. He plans to attend the White House ceremony with his wife Gabriella and two sons.
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Beranek
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
Washington, D.C
San Francisco
Main Street
Glenn Browning
Harvard
Leo Beranek
Cornell
Browning
F.W. Hunt
Hunt
Arthur Collins
Collins Radio
Cedar Rapids
White House
Gabriella
James
Thomas
No Dice contributors in gambling referendum listed
In the gambling measure, donors of 100 or more include Craig Bairdin Cedar Rapids with 11500 Task Force 3 LLC Cedar Rapids 5000 Camden Inc Cedar Rapids 4000 Leonard Hadley Cedar Rapids 1000 Differentiation Strategies Inc Cedar Rapids Go Daddy Software Scottsdale Arizona 500 Leonard Dolezal Cedar Rapids McJones C Marion 300 William Shuttleworth Cedar Rapids 200 Andrew R Barden Cedar Rapids William Allison Cedar Rapids 120 Jeff Wheeler Hiawatha 100 Donald M Ross Cedar Rapids Carol G Wickey Stephen C Nelson Daniel McGrail Clifford D Koop Clifford A Sheets David J Hahn Brian K Milford Cedar Rapids David E Osterberg Mount Vernon.
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Craig Bairdin
Cedar Rapids
Task Force 3 LLC
Camden Inc
Leonard Hadley
Differentiation Strategies Inc
Go Daddy Software
Scottsdale
Ariz
Leonard Dolezal
McJones C
Marion
William Shuttleworth
Andrew R. Barden
William Allison
Jeff Wheeler
Hiawatha
Donald M. Ross
Carol G. Wickey
Stephen C. Nelson
Daniel McGrail
Clifford D. Koop
Clifford A. Sheets
David J. Hahn
Brian K. Milford
David E. Osterberg
Mount Vernon
In-kind Contributions From Local Firms Listed
Big Bear Design Co of Marion contributed $905 in brochure design while TM Craig Bairdin of Cedar Rapids provided $229.26 for phone installation and supplies.
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Big Bear Design Co
Marion
Craig Bairdin
Cedar Rapids
Local gambling backers raise funds in Linn County race
The No Dice group reports 54511 dollars in contributions with nearly 1756 dollars in kind. Cedar Rapids figure Craig Rairdin leads with 11500 plus 229 in kind. He opposed Mohawk Park casino in 1996 and runs Bible study software company. Another past over 100000 raised was Cedar Rapids RiverRun sales tax defeat.
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Linn County
No Dice
Craig Rairdin
Cedar Rapids
Rairdin
Mohawk Park
RiverRun
Czech Village
Falcon R13 dies in aerial combat over Des Moines
Iowa wildlife officials report Falcon R13 died after an aerial clash with a challenger that drove her from a nesting site. The on-site challenger remains. officials see the event as a sign the reintroduction program is advancing despite the loss.
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Jadeane Cancilla
Macbride
Iowa
Schlarbaum
Washburn
Dubuque
Gazettecommunications.com
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