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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1978
Page
5
The Cedar Rapids Community School District explores competency based testing as a possible route. A formal recommendation will wait until January while officials weigh costs and program steps.
Parents and the Grant PTSA warn of a possible trend as Grant School's counselor gains duties at Hayes and Hoover elementaries. Aldrich Drahos says the move follows a miscertified counselor at Hayes Hoover. District notes part time counselors at nine schools and enrollment shifts complicate a one counselor per 450 students goal. The Intellectual Freedom Committee backs a study that flagged 105 books as discriminatory. The Multicultural Non-Sexist Advisory Committee has not yet decided on actions for the books.
About 200 residents filed petitions with the city clerk opposing the 29th and 30th Street Drives SE bypass alternate. They cite safety, property values, noise and air pollution, privacy loss, ongoing traffic, higher taxes for street repairs, and cost as key concerns. The Salvation Army also objects, warning its adult rehabilitation center could be affected by the bypass right-of-way.
The Cedar Rapids School Board did not place the proposed $400 per month lease of Eisenhower Elementary to First Covenant Church on the agenda. Church officials cited the need for the congregation's approval before proceeding, with official action targeted for December 11 after prior favorable reception at a work session. Eisenhower was closed last June as a cost-saving measure.
City to consider a resolution to accept William Hennessey and Son Inc. Cedar Rapids bid of 2 773 275 for the third phase of Kenwood Ditch construction. Five other bids arrived last week ranging from 700 000 to nearly 1 million above the 2 85 million estimate. The job covers 17th Street F Avenue NE to 25th Street Eastern Drive NE and part of E Avenue NE with about 6 million spent on the project to date.
Cedar Rapids police arrested Peter S. Hoy aged 19 and Dianne M. Palmer aged 18 in Linn County on drunk driving charges. Hoy was taken into custody at 4:55 p.m. at 14th Avenue and Eighth Street NW, while Palmer was arrested at 10:01 p.m. in the 3300 block of E Avenue NW.
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