Hall Foundation grants Cedar Rapids Police Academy expansion
The Hall Foundation will give Cedar Rapids $65,000 to remodel and add a single story classroom to the Police Academy on C Street SW. The project includes roof work and structural upgrades, with the addition serving as a classroom during sessions and a training meeting space otherwise.
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Hall Foundation
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Cedar Rapids
Police Academy
C Street
Ray Baker
Baker
Floyd Bergen
Public Safety Commissioner
Bergen
Recreation Department
Cedar Rapids arrests tied to weekend disturbances and burglaries
Three adults were charged after police were called twice to a Friday fight on 12th Street NW. Robert J. Wicher and Lee Anna Wicher face interference with official acts with Robert also charged for intoxication. Max Middleton faces assault. A 16 year old was arrested for first degree robbery connected to an earlier Dairy Maid Store crime. Burglary reports include thefts at 3602 Caribou Court NE and 1304 First Ave NE. The juvenile is in Linn County Detention Center.
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Cedar Rapids
12Th Street
Robert J. Wicher
Lee Anna Wicher
B Ave
Max Middleton
A Ave
Wichers
Robert Wicher
Middleton
Dairy Maid
Sixth St
Linn County Detention Center
Thefts Reported From Two Local Homes Friday Morning
Rickey Lewin of 2060 Glass Road NE reported jewelry boots and a jacket worth over 1380 dollars stolen from his home during Friday morning. Teri Silver of 1311 E Ave NE reported a color television eight track stereo and speakers valued at 500 dollars missing from her apartment at 9 50 a m Friday.
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Rickey Lewin
Glass Road
Teri Silver
E Ave
Police correct report in assault arrest at service station
Police learned Friday that reports on the arrest of George Ratliff and Terry Watkins for assault and criminal mischief were based on incorrect information. Watkins said Obie Dixon was not the driver and that his sister Judy Watkins, both residents of 1630 Texas Ave NE, was the car’s driver, prompting corrected details in police reports following a Gazette query.
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George Ratliff
Terry Watkins
Texas Ave
Watkins
Obie Dixon
Ratliff
the Gazette
Judy Watkins
Texas Avenue
The
Gazette
Barbs on soggy cardboard and cold showers spark odd questions
A quirky barbs column ponders past pizza packaging before shelf pizzas, riffs on a brisk cold shower prompting one to settle debts with a gas company, and muses on dogs teaching humans to walk on demand.
False Culvert Rescue Sparks Emergency Response
Fire units police cars and an ambulance rushed to Edgewood Road NW after a 9-year-old boy said two playmates were trapped in a culvert. The search found the boys were not in the culvert and were later located in a nearby field. Authorities are unsure if it was a prank or an innocent incident.
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Edgewood Road
Toastmasters unveil new public leadership program
Toastmasters International launches the public Success Leadership Program with seminars on parliamentary procedure meetings listening and speech craft. Ed Bick says the Cedar Rapids convention hosts about 250 attendees from district 19 across Iowa Nebraska the Dakotas Minnesota Montana and three Canadian provinces.
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Ed Bick
International Board of Directors
Bick
Sioux Falls
S.D
Cedar Rapids
Sheraton Inn
33Rd Ave
Rick
Iowa
Nebraska
North Dakota
South Dakota
Minnesota
Montana
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Travel council names Marlyce Heidt president
Des Moines Iowa Travel Council members elected Marlyce Heidt to lead the group as president. Heidt is executive director of the Cedar Rapids Area Convention and Visitors Bureau and will chair a council formed in 1980 by major sectors of Iowa travel industry to promote member agencies and raise state wide awareness. The council includes associations for campground owners travel agents host attractions gas dealers restaurants hotels and motels and others.
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Cedar Rapids Area
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First Ave
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Sun
Walton
Buresh Rental
Ist Ave
Marion
Diai 911
Ron Rath
Hawkeye
Toastmasters
Quad-Cities
Iowa City
Five Seasons
FMC
Amana Refrigeration
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Rath
Sheraton
Edrick
Air Lines
List Daily
Fine Jewelry Dept
Holiday Glitter
Westdale Mall
Petersen Harned von Maur
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