Get Your Feet Wet in Careers at Kirkwood KEY program
A Kirkwood Community College and area high schools cooperative program called KEY offers students hands on exposure to health care, auto mechanics, building trades, agriculture, welding, electricity and data processing. The one semester courses provide high school credit and potential nurses aide certification after training and hospital or nursing home visits.
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Kirkwood expands career education through six centers
Kirkwood officials say their project fulfills the college’s objectives to aid secondary students. A survey of local high school career education convinced officials to boost offerings through a cooperative effort. Courses provide field specific information and training enabling students to enter the job market after completion. Centers are in Monticello Center Point Cedar Rapids Iowa City Williamsburg and Washington with students attending five days a week.
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Beetles Develop Resistance to Pesticides in Northeast
New Haven reports show the Japanese beetle resurging across 14 Eastern states as pests. Experts like Dr. Dennis Dunbar of Yale note beetles resist current biological controls, with major lawns and the Yale golf course already damaged.
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Dennis M. Dunbar
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
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United States
Yale University
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Foot care topic in Kirkwood OREO program at YWCA
The Office of Retirement Education Opportunities at Kirkwood Community College presents a foot care program led by podiatrist Florence Reading as part of the weekly Live and Learn series for seniors. The event starts at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the YWCA, with a $1 senior membership for the seven-session health maintenance series.
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Office of Retirement Education Opportunities
Kirkwood Community College
YWCA
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Record of vast 1889 Red Sea locust swarm
The largest swarm of desert locusts (Schistocerea gregaria) ever recorded covered about 2,000 square miles as it crossed the Red Sea in 1889. The swarm held an estimated 250 billion insects weighing around 500,000 tons.
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Arkansas Income Tax Collections Rise 29 Percent in 1974
State reports show tax receipts grew by 29 percent in 1974 compared with the previous year, despite no percentage increase in tax rates. The rise reflects higher filings and economic activity across Arkansas.
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