UI Faculty Senate to join ad denouncing campus hate crimes
The Faculty Senate voted to back a full page newspaper ad denouncing campus hate crimes. The ad, funded by the Vice President of Student Services and directed by Dean Philip Jones, will run after Thanksgiving break on November 30.
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Faculty Senate
University of Iowa
Margaret Raymond
Phillip Jones
Julius Carter
Carter
Fire at Chrome City store linked to faulty furnace in Cedar Rapids
A faulty furnace caused a fire at Chrome City, 710 Center Point Rd NE, around 9 a.m. Tuesday. Kody Spray, 20, said heavy smoke appeared when he opened the front door. Firefighters contained damage to the furnace area with smoke elsewhere. a pit bull was found dead. No other injuries reported. Colleen Stevenson, 35, and John Hollingsworth, 50, were involved in a separate two vehicle crash on I 380 and Seventh Street. Stevenson hospitalized at Mercy Medical Center, condition not released. no citations reported.
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Chrome City
Center Point Rd
Kody Spray
Fire Department
Greg Buelow
Colleen Stevenson
Elkhorn Dr. NE
Interstate 380
Seventh Street
Mercy Medical Center
Stevenson
Cedar Rapids
John Hollingsworth
Bertram eyes indoor waste transfer station amid tax relief talk
Bertram Mayor Darwin Harmening endorses privately built indoor waste transfer facility off Highway 13 to cut future water sewer upgrades. He argues the project could lower residents taxes while noting past objections to Cedar Rapids Bluestem plans and comparing to the nearby sewage plant. The dispute centers on area development and odor concerns.
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Dick Hogan
Gazette
Bertram
Cedar Rapids
Bluestem
Highway 13
Harmoning
Linn County
Pudding Spill Ties Up Interstate 380 After Semi Crash
A Zephyr Transport Inc. semi from Waterloo veered off I 380 near Blairs Ferry Road spilling over 100 cases of butterscotch pudding into a ditch and multiple lanes. Rodney Shepard of Waverly uninjured. cleanup started at dawn as traffic slowed to one lane. A second I 380 crash near First Avenue injured an unidentified man.
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Christoph Trappe
Sawatha
Interstate 380
Blairs Ferry Road
Hiawatha
Chuck Allaire
Zephyr Transport Inc
Waterloo
Rodney Shepard
Waverly
Allaire
Shepard
First Avenue
Acoe
Cedar Rapids
Lim Slosiarek
the Gazette
Iowa weighs rules after escaped elk roam Eastern Iowa
A state task force considers allowing the killing and testing of wandering domestic elk to prevent chronic wasting disease in wild deer. Dale Garner of the DNR suggests notifying officials when elk escape and a grace period to reclaim them before lethal action. Elk sightings span Hopkinton and Maquoketa with four animals reported.
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Iowa
Wisconsin
Dale Garner
Department of Natural Resources
Garner
Hopkinton
Delaware County
Maquoketa
Jackson County
DNR
Mike Duverson
Dubuque
Painting runs in family of Scotch Grove artist
John Null, 43, ex terminator turned pest controller and hobbyist painter, paints local Scotch Grove scenes and a Monticello bridge print. He learned to paint from his painter father, with sister Jane Indekof er as an art teacher. he now runs Blade Pest Control across six counties while raising two sons.
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Scotch Grove
John Null
Monticello
John
Y Cotch Grove
Nanci
Steve Ehrisman
Blade Pest Control
Steve
Josh
Joel
Jane Indekofer
Monticello High School
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