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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1998
Page
9
A Prairie High School student hospitalized with potential meningitis symptoms may have the flu. Tests for bacterial meningitis were negative, and doctors stopped treatment while officials note a viral meningitis cluster at nearby schools.
State Sen. Mary Lundby Paul Phelan Jr. and District Court Judge William Thomas named recipients of Alternative Services 1998 Child Advocate Awards. The trio are the first honorees for improving Iowa children's lives through policy, volunteer efforts, and innovative child welfare work. The awards are to be presented Oct. 25. Lundby from Marion is recognized for The Children's Voice role in public policy. Phelan of Cedar Rapids led the Gearing up for Kids effort to install playground equipment in eight elementary schools. Thomas of Cedar Rapids advances child welfare through the Linn County Child Advocate Committee and the Kids First program supporting divorce-affected children.
Kevin Lynch, injured in the 1997 helicopter crash, says he has turned in his retirement papers for medical reasons and is living one day at a time from his Mount Vernon home. Lynch suffered extensive burns when the Hughes 269 struck power lines after takeoff near the Blue Stem landfill.
A large Cedar Rapids crowd at the Paramount Theatre enjoyed three hours of improvisational rock by Widespread Panic. The band delivered raw, Door s era esque jams with standout percussion by Domingo Ortiz and tight guitar work from Michael Houser and John Bell.
Orchard owner Jim Anderson, 63, faces ruined pumpkins and an apple crop loss with no insurance options. He plans to sell 10 acre plots to rural buyers after abandoning replanting and focusing on jelly making. He notes weather drove crops to early maturity and fruit bottoms rotted.
City and county calendars list forums for candidates Bob Rush and Sally Pederson, exhibits in downtown Iowa City, lectures at Coe and Cornell colleges, farmer markets, and a busy public notices section. Local police logs include arrests tied to immigration and several fires and alarms reported in Marion and surrounding areas.
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