Gold garbage can honors longtime Cedar Rapids sanitation chief
Cedar Rapids city official Horace Gates known as Hoddy, 66, received a dented gold trash can at a city council ceremony honoring 28 years of service including five years as sanitation superintendent. Mayor Don Canney noted the tax prudent alternative to a gold watch. Gates plans retirement this June and son Dick now serves as acting sanitation superintendent.
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Horace
Hoddy
Gates
Cedar Rapids
Seventh Ave
Don Canney
Cable TV delays loom in Cedar Rapids project timeline
Cedar Rapids Cable Communications Inc informs the City Council that pole attachment agreements with Northwestern Bell and Iowa Electric must be signed before construction can begin. Engineering is complete, but the first service is unlikely before year’s end. Crews will start after pole access is granted, with office setup by mid November and the tower and receiving station by month end.
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Cedar Rapids Cable Communications Inc
Richard Hook
Cedar Rapids Cable
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
Iowa Electric Light and Power Co
Hook
Cedar River
Eighth Avenue Bridge
Cedar Rapids to file massage regulation ordinance
Cedar Rapids Safety Commissioner Floyd Bergen filed a 13 page ordinance to regulate massage parlors and workers. It requires licensing, building fire and health code compliance, 70 hours training, criminal records and moral character proof, and prohibits sex acts. Violations carry up to 100 dollar fine or 30 days in jail, with new rules effective after six months for new workers. Police Chief Gareth Clift backs the measure for legitimate business operation.
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Cedar Rapids
Floyd Bergen
Gareth Clift
Clift
Golf Center sues over water damage from Kmart West
Ailee Chapman and Edward and Andrea Cole sue Hanover Rapids of Iowa and several partners in Linn District Court for 800000 alleging Kmart West shopping center construction diverted drainage onto Chapman's Golf Center in Cedar Rapids. They claim flooding, a four by four foot drainage channel and a mosquito breeding swamp, seeking 300000 in damages and 500000 in exemplary damages plus an injunction to curb water flow and nuisance.
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Cedar Rapids
Kmart
Golf Center
16Th Avenue
Gard
Hanover Rapids of Iowa Inc
Hanover Equities Inc
Jaywenk Associates
Jack Jacobs and Company
Jack Jacobs
Woodrow Wenkstein
Hanover Rapids Inc
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