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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 2002
Page
79
The city will cut the ribbon at 10 a.m. Saturday for its Veterans Memorial outside Veterans Memorial Stadium. Peter Welch, chairman of the Veterans Memorial Commission, says the ceremony will include a surprise addition and marks 17 months of work to relocate the memorial after it was uprooted for a new minor league ballpark.
Raymond Rowson 88 and Alma Rowson 85 of De Witt died in a two-vehicle crash near Highway 30 and County Road 7-24 in Clinton County. The tanker truck driver Alva Melchers 61 of Anamosa was uninjured.
A night crash left Casey with injuries after losing control of a motorcycle on Holy Cross Road north of Farley at about 5 30 p m He was airlifted to University Hospitals in Iowa City for evaluation.
Today is the deadline for submitting Veterans Day activities to The Gazette. A listing of events will be published Saturday. Notices may be faxed or emailed with date time location nature and a contact name and phone number.
Iowa DOT released a draft 2003 to 2007 five year transportation plan totaling about 2.1 billion in highway work through June 2007. Projects average roughly 410 million annually, despite a 100 million cut to address revenue shortfalls and potential delays in Des Moines Fairfield and Fort Madison areas.
Jefferson High School graduate and journalist Rob Merritt and Brooks Brown will promote No Easy Answers at Barnes & Noble in Cedar Rapids from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday and visit Jefferson High School on Monday to discuss Columbine. The book argues enviromental factors at Columbine contributed to the deadly 1999 shooting, with no simple explanations.
Monticello residents Matt and Julie Lux saw their four percent year old tiger striped Tommy finish second in Arm and Hammer’s Coolest Cat Contest. Elvis from Geneva New York won, with Bob of Valley City North Dakota in third after Tommy’s video could not be performed in New York.
Cedar Rapids dentist Jim Martin brings back Christkindlmarkt for a sixth year at the Riverside Roundhouse. The event features stalls with hand blown glass ornaments German nutcrackers Moroccan wares and crafts from the Czech Republic reflecting a German Christmas market vibe in downtown Cedar Rapids.
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