Victims find support in counseling in Cedar Rapids
Herman Sarday, 53, benefited from Horizons credit counseling after the Cedar River flood. The nonprofit received a $300,000 city grant to expand services, adding five new staffers and helping clients like Sarday obtain moratoriums and loan options to rebuild homes in the flood plain.
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Dorm phones fade as campuses ditch landlines
Talk back to us You can talk to Diane Heidt about this story live from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday at www GazetteOnline.com By Diane Heidt land line telephone wasn't among the necessities when Charlie Conlon packed for his first semester at the University of Iowa. Conlon and his roommate didn't even mention a phone when they discussed what furnishings they'd bring for their Slater Hall room. "We weren't even thinking about it," the 19-year-old freshman from Dubuque said. "I've never seen a land line phone in anyone's dorm." Those old-school telephones in student dorm rooms aren't quite extinct, but they seem to be joining typewriters and word processors as quaint technological memories. Many colleges, including the UI, don't provide room phones anymore. Students must bring their own. Given the ubiquity of cell phones among the college age set, most students just shrug and wonder why they ever would need a land line. "There is one girl on my floor who has one, but I don't think she ever uses it," US freshman Peggy Meyer, 18, said. "Every single student I know has a cell phone." Iowa State University is moving toward not even providing the local phone line. Beginning next year, ISU will turn off phone service in dorm rooms and students who want it will have to pay to hook it up. ISU's Department of Residence will put the $700,000 annual savings toward installing wireless Internet in all rooms, at a cost of $6 million.
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Americans brace for bailout impact on Main Street
Americans nationwide report tightened spending as a $700 billion rescue unfolds. Shoppers and small-business owners fear the relief may be slow or insufficient, cutting back on dinners out and nonessential purchases while awaiting clearer results before the holidays. In Dallas a shoe store owner notes shoppers hesitate, and in Morgantown a showroom manager says dining out has dropped and generic products rise in use.
Pediatricians Warn Against Unusual Pets for Young Kids
The American Academy of Pediatrics urges that children under five avoid exotic pets such as hedgehogs hamsters baby chicks lizards and turtles due to disease risks and higher chances of bites scratches or claws. The warning notes developing immune systems and kids' habit of putting hands in pet bedding.
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