Flag raises atop Hiawatha City Hall with VFW help
VFW Post No 5349 leader Robert Quinby and volunteers replaced the water tank with a flagpole to fly Old Glory over Hiawatha City Hall. The group plans more firsts including flags for Shiloh Cemetery and a future Little League sponsorship as membership grows.
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Robert Quinby
VFW
Quinby
Hiawatha Post
Shiloh
Blairs Ferry Road
Highway 150
Hiawatha Fire Department
Iowa Manufacturing Co
City Hall
Hiawatha
Bob Quinby
Tom Theis
Jim Fass
Carl Ransford
Sampson Munson
Keith Kress
Hiawatha Vfw
Kress
Americanism
Student paper blasts school board over court challenge
The Little Hawk editorial derides the Iowa City School Board for spending 23,356 on an appeal of an arbitrator’s ruling denying a 1000 raise to Richard Bristol for the 1981-82 year. It argues budget cuts and a binding contract were ignored and taxpayers and students lose.
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Tom Walsh
Johnson County
Iowa City
Iowa City School Board
Little Hawk
Theresa Porter
Raise
South East
Richard Bristol
Bristol
Johnson County District Court
Iowa Supreme Court
Iowa City Education Association
Porter
Community Volunteer Opportunities Listed for December
Sixty volunteers are sought for a holiday gift wrap project from December 4 to 22 with day and evening shifts. Also needs schedulers at Red Cross training provided. deliveries to a dialysis patient in southeast Cedar Rapids. an activity-department helper at a care facility. a Wednesday night fitness program helper. conservators and budget advisers. and bowling league scorekeepers at Cedar Rapids Bowling Center. Call numbers provided for each posting.
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Jenny Nelson
Red Cross
Becky
Cedar Rapids
Liz Selk
UCP
Claudia Wolfe
Sylvia
United Werenial Palsy
Wayne Shaull remembered for lifelong Ladora store service
A large potluck in the HLV gym honors Wayne Shaull, longtime Shaull's Store operator in Ladora. The 37 year grocer ran a 24 hour business, baked, banked, and mentored locals while memories of his community shop endure.
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Ladora
Wayne
Harold Nail
HLV
Harold
Shaull
Wayne Shaull
Marlene Dietrich
Gazette
Emma
Ladora Area
Odds and Ends: Locating Ladora Near Marengo
The Gazette notes Ladora population 289 is six miles west of Marengo the county seat with 2308 residents. Jo Hellopeter objects saying Marengo lies six miles east of Ladora highlighting common local geography.
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Marengo
The
Gazette
Ladora
Jo Hellopeter
Iowa
Police car won’t work on weekends in Hartford
Hartford officials report a 1982 Plymouth police cruiser stalls only on Saturdays and Sundays. Fire Chief Harold Walker Jr notes sudden engine failures with no warning while Councilman Donald Smith cites the car’s eighth repair this year after a $7,650 purchase. The city plans to consult Plymouth’s engineering department after the next breakdown.
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Hartford
Mich
Harold Walker Jr
Donald Smith
Plymouth
Smith
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