Lack of funds delays Linn County group home access
Mary Lou Van Cleve details Linn County funding limits that block 62 mentally retarded adults from group homes, despite coalition efforts to open slots for county residents. She recalls John and Jim, both employed, ready to move into Crest Home or Discovery Village, urging timely access and shared costs.
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Mary Burke
Iké
John van Cleve
Evelyn Drive
Linn
Linn County
John
Crest Home
Discovery Village
Linnhaven Group
Mary Lou van Cleve
Mary Lou
Jim
Missouri
Art
Cancer Society volunteer honored Linn County’s first Outstanding Unit Volunteer
Robert P. Blahnik, immediate past chairman of the Linn County Unit, was named the state’s first Outstanding Unit Volunteer at a hotel luncheon during the Iowa Division ACS annual meeting. He led the unit to new crusade, education and service records and chaired a United Way contract committee.
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Des Moines
Robert P. Blahnik
Linn County
The
American Cancer Society
ACS
Fort Des Moines
Iowa
Blahnik
Kent Court NE
United Way of
East Central
Iowa Division
Linn
Dean H. Gesme Jr
Regis Weland
Cedar Rapids
Gary Streit
Richard Cornish
Marcia Holley
Iowa Division Board
Jan Miller
Robert C. Moorman
Beamer Breiling
Daryl Stamp
Miller
Stamp
Speed radar patrol to check listed streets this week
Periodic radar checks will be conducted on Northwest Ellis Boulevard B Avenue Johnson Avenue F Avenue Southwest Kirkwood Boulevard C Street Sixth Street First Street Northeast C Avenue 29th Street 32nd Street and First Avenue this week to enforce traffic speed limits.
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Ellis
Johnson Avenue
Kirkwood Boulevard
C Street
Sixth Street
First Street
C Avenue
29Th Street
32Nd Street
First Avenue
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Developmental Disability Service Coalition of
Nonce
Dick Beavers
Linnhaven
Coalition
Beavers
Joe Rinas
Rinas
Jean Oxley
Sharon Barnhart
Association For Retarded Citizens
Joe
Cornell College
Department of Mental Health
Lisa Wilkin
Goodwill Industries
Center Point Road
Crest Microfilm
Hiawatha
Ken Schriner
Forbes Johnson
van Cleve
the Gazette
Cancer Society
Marie Pigman
Sara Owen
Madge Dougan
Robert Barry
Veryl Hansen
Ann Briggie
SPEED
Country Club Parkway
Memorial Drive
29Th Street Drive
Mount Road
Goodyear Welt Construction
Our
Collins Rd
16Th Ave
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