Light wine joins beer at local grocery stores
Iowa's P L Distributing brings 6 percent alcohol light wines to Cedar Rapids markets under state law change. Villa Sorrento Winery products age like regular wine, then reduce alcohol to five percent by weight, enabling grocery sale. By week’s end all major stores in Iowa plan to carry Chablis burgundy and rosé lights with expansions in November.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
P.L. Distributing Co
Council Bluffs
Econofoods
Westdale
Bob Stoner
Cecil Ellison
Ellison
California
Villa Sorrento Winery
Stoner
Area couple visiting Egypt find quiet in wake of tragedy
Harley and Laura Ransom of Belle Plaine and their son Tom, a Bank of America manager in Cairo, are in Luxor and Maadi while Sadat's assassination quiets Egypt. They plan to return to Iowa Tuesday amid reduced TV programming and mourning customs. Dick Ransom in Cedar Rapids watches closely.
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Egypt
Ali
Cairo
Belle Plaine
Maadi
Iowa
Harley Ransom
Laura
Tom
Bank of America
Ransom
Cedar Rapids
Luxor
The
Gazette
Nile River
Kirsten Ransom
Katherine
Vicky
Anwar Sadat
U.S
Fourth purse snatching eyed in east side spree
Marion police investigate a fourth purse snatching in less than two months in the east area. A 64 year old woman was pushed and robbed of about 60 dollars in the Drug Town parking lot at 2790 Seventh Ave. two teen males are suspects. Earlier attempts involved teenage males in the same area.
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Marion
Seventh Ave
DeWees Resigns from Marion School Board Over Job Demands
Marion Independent school board accepting Virginia DeWees resignation after four years on the panel cites new employment hours as incompatible with duties. Board considers filling the vacancy via applications. special meeting set next Thursday.
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DeWees
Marion Independent School Board
Virginia DeWees
Bill Huntoon
Pat Turner
Longfellow Administration
Bencke
Marion Briefs Show Art at City Hall By Knapp Butz
Marion residents learn Arlene Knapp Butz displays at Marion City Hall sponsored by the Marion Creative Events Council. Hall hours are weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Also notes include political ads for Patrick Grady and Begley council race, a home purchase by Tim and Mrs. Mooney, and a going out of business sale at Marion Hardware.
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Begley
Cammack
Russ Roby
Roby
Darrell Helgens
Linn Mar
Huntoon
Helgens
Longfellow
Marion Public Employees Credit Union
Marion
Arlene Knapp Butz
Marion City Hall
Marion Creative Events Council
City Hall
Tim Mooney
Hiawatha
22Nd St
Midwest Development Co
Skogman Realty
Marion Hardware
Adv
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Tony Lizarraga
Kirsten
Pakistan
Iran
Dick Ransom
the Gazette
Sadat
Janet Jones
Free Lance
Marion News
Turner
Jim Bencke
Iowa Association of School Boards
Roene Cammack
Tom Begley
Patrick Grady
Council At Large
Pol. Adv
Killians
McClurg
Kathy Kelly
Iinter
Witter
Peck’s
Blairs Ferry Rd
Flower & Garden
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