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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 2007
Page
11
Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel will participate in an online chat starting at 9 a.m. today. The event is part of a Gazette sponsored series featuring presidential hopefuls from both parties hosted with The Concord Monitor and washingtonpost.com.
National Weather Service predicts a week of showers with Cedar River cresting near flood stage this Friday in Cedar Rapids and Vinton cresting about 3.5 feet below flood stage Thursday night. Iowa River should peak about 3 feet below flood stage at Marengo, and Iowa City near 4 feet below flood stage Saturday night. Rain totals Sunday topped 2 inches east of Cedar Rapids and 1.3 to 0.53 inches in Marion and Iowa City. Police report an assault in the 900 block of Iowa Avenue, under investigation and not linked to downtown attacks.
Readers are invited to share tips and photo ideas with Cedar Rapids and Iowa City newsroom desks. Tips may be used for future stories or images, with contact numbers provided for assistance.
River Valley Co op at Martello gears up for harvest as warm dry weather shields corn from heavy drying. manager Les Diesing notes fast soybean progress and a strong market demand shaping flows to Oelwein feed mill ADM Clinton and Cargill Cedar Rapids with ethanol demand looming.
Joel Diesing, 34, Marion based River Valley Co-op location manager, reports a 15 percent rise in corn acreage among River Valley members and customers. A new 350000 bushel storage bunker increases facility capacity to 1.5 million, improving throughput during harvest and keeping farmers in fields.
The Chronic Disease Self-Management Program began last winter in Linn County and has graduated at least 70 participants since February. The joint Healthy Linn Care Network Heritage Agency on Aging grant funded effort trains volunteers, expands to Cedar and Jones counties, and adds an Enhance Fitness component at the Stoney Point YMCA to promote activity for adults over 60.
Mount Pleasant author Jean Shook of Springville wrote the musical Springtown about growing up in a small Iowa town in the 1930s. It debuts Oct. 25 at Iowa Wesleyan College Chapel Auditorium in Mount Pleasant with performances through Oct. 28 to raise funds for chapel restoration.
A three year grant of 250000 from the U S Administration on Aging supports a Chronic Disease Self Management Program starting in February in Linn County with plans to expand to Benton Cedar Iowa Johnson Jones and Washington counties. Nearly 17 percent of Linn residents are 60 plus and among them 80 percent have a chronic condition and half have two.
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