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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 2013
Page
7
Cedar Rapids hosts a live Dixieland set by The Cedar City Dixieland Stompers. The coffeehouse venue The Blue Strawberry Coffee Company at 118 Second St SE runs from 5 30 to 7 30 pm with free admission.
Cindy Jensen Hy-Vee floral manager leads a Make Your Own Floral Pumpkin event using fresh fall blooms and a carved pumpkin at 6 to 7 p.m. on Edgewood Road NE Cedar Rapids. admission 25 dollars. Also music by Pieta Brown and Lucie Thorne at CSPS and Dan Levitt talk at New Bo Books.
Thousands gathered at Hubbard Park for the 23rd annual University of Iowa Celebrating Cultural Diversity Festival headlined by the Martha Redbone Roots Project. The event showcased music, food from Turkish Baklava to empanadas, Indian and Irish dance, and cultural booths, drawing 3,000 to 5,000 attendees and serving as a kickoff to UI Homecoming Week with multiple events planned through Friday.
The Iowa Composers Forum presents Images of Night a 7 30 p m concert of solo and chamber works by nine regional composers featuring Orchestra Iowa and Luther College players at Opus Concert Cafe Cedar Rapids. Notable pieces include Linda Robbins Coleman s Images Dangereuses and Jerry Owens Mr Raggitys Sublime Dance both tied to Cedar Rapids Symphony residencies. Tickets cost 10 dollars.
Hundreds of Pearson employees join Jumpstart and Pearson Foundation’s Read for the Record to read Otis by Loren Long from 9 30 to 10 am at Waypoint Uptown Kids and area libraries while the Iowa City Downtown District calls knitters to create 135 sweaters for trees in Downtown and Northside Marketplace. Coralville hosts Johnson County Historical Society annual meeting Threads and Artillery of the Civil War with talks by Kelly Schott and Rich Hunt and a Civil War history by Retired Major General Robert Sentman with a 5 piece string band. registration details and cost listed.
In September elections Eastern Iowa boards chose Jan Kreitzer Cresco as Director District 1 first term. Bill Withers Waukon in District 3 secures 31st year. Sandra Gassman Epworth in District 6 begins second term. Galen Reinsmoen Dubuque in District 7 begins second term. Officers to be elected Oct 21 at Elkader.
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