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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 2003
Page
29
The Calendar item notes a 10 a.m. meeting of the Mound View Neighborhood Association at Central Park Presbyterian Church.
A roundup of regional festivals including CelticFest 2003 at Ushers Ferry and Seminole Valley Park with Scottish games music and food, Harvest Home Festival at Hoover Museum, Heritage Days at Osborne Conservation Center, Heritage Farm Fall Fest near Hudson, the International Writing Program Festival at Iowa City, Lincolnway Flower Farms Fall Festival near London, hayrides straw maze pumpkins exotic animals and family activities across several dates and venues. Tickets and details via listed phone numbers and websites.
Kingston Stadium hosts the IHSMA State Marching Band Festival with 18 bands. Admission adults five dollars, students one. The Cedar Rapids Barbershoppers Convention runs at U S Cellular Center with finals at seven thirty p m and a weekend pass priced thirty two dollars. Cedar Rapids Symphony Chamber Series presents Chamber Internationale at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art with a small ensemble program and ticket prices sixteen dollars adults eight dollars for students and seniors. Old Gold Singers Fall Festival performs at Clapp Recital Hall with admission ten dollars and eight dollars for seniors and youths. Would You Like Cream with That at Wild Bill's Coffeeshop features stories music and entertainment with seven p m start time.
Halloween events run daily with multiple venues. Knight's Farm Corn Maze in Springville features hayrides pumpkins a kiddie maze and a blacksmith shop near Whit tier Road. Shrine Kids Day Maze is west of Cedar Rapids on Highway 94 with prizes and pumpkin patch. Nightmare Manor Haunted House on H Street offers evening fright with pricing and dates. Frightmare Forest behind Xavier High School hosts adult and child rates with parking. Shrine Haunted Cornfield west of Cedar Rapids on Highway 94 charges seven dollars and free for under five. Calendar page notes North Liberty listing on page 2D.
The text notes Herbert Hoover born in West Branch and leaving as an orphan to Oregon. Hoover's Quaker ancestors were early West Branch settlers and the town now has full storefront occupancy. It also mentions Hoover retiring from banking in West Branch.
Readers are invited to share historic street photos of downtown areas from the 1930s to 1960s. Contact staff photographer Duane Crock at (319) 350-5457 or email duane.crock gazettecommunications.com before sending images to The Gazette.
Vital statistics place West Branch in southwest Cedar County near Interstate 80 east of Iowa City with 2,188 residents and a 36.5 median age. David Tatum claimed land on Wapsinonoc Creek in 1850, followed by eight families by 1853, including Eli Hoover the Quaker carpenter whose famous grandson was born there.
Marengo Memorial Hospital plans expansion from 21 000 to 46 000 square feet doubling capacity and adding outpatient clinics a lab X ray imaging and a new emergency department with three rooms Groundbreaking hoped for next spring with completion by June 2005 financing of 5 5 million approved by the hospital board through Ryan Securities.
A Cedar Rapids Iowa City profile features Candy Wong a 51 year old minority market executive and chairwoman of Plaricom Inc. She describes Cedar Rapids as an open evolving community and reflects on her career travels family and values learned from a family restaurant background. The interview covers education notes and personal interests.
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