Floyd Jones to resign from Cedar Rapids Civil Rights Commission
Floyd Jones, executive director, will resign effective Nov 16 to take a similar post in Des Moines with a larger budget and staff. He led the agency for nearly a decade and says his effort raised credibility and service to complainants and employers needing training. The commission meets at 5:30 p.m. to begin selecting a successor.
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Floyd Jones
Cedar Rapids
Civil Rights Commission
Tommy Tucker
Jones
Commission
Vision screening planned in Marion and Linn-Mar districts
The Marion School District will test students for vision on Oct 29 and 30 and through November. The Grant Wood Area Education Agency will screen Linn-Mar students through November. Referred students will be advised to see an eye doctor. Last year 195 of 125? students referred in Linn-Mar. 131 of 1233 Marion students were referred.
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Marion
Grant Wood Area Education Agency
Linn-Mar
Grant Wood Aea
Cedar Rapids Driver Unhurt in Car Fire on I 380
A driver on Interstate 380 near 32nd Street NE detected smoke inside the car and stopped safely. Cedar Rapids resident Kevin Hudson was unhurt. the cause of the blaze remains under investigation by the Cedar Rapids Fire Department.
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Interstate 380
32Nd Street
Cedar Rapids
Kevin Hudson
Cedar Rapids Brown Bag series opens with Scottish ballad reading
The Cedar Rapids Public Library launches Brown Bag Briefings with a noon session in Beems Auditorium. Mary Mollman reads The Man in the Boat by Betsy Whyte and sings a Scottish song with guitar. Janet Rater coordinates this lunchtime program for adult storytellers and artists.
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Cedar Rapids
Wendy's restaurant on 42nd St NE damaged by grease fire
A grease fire at Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers on 42nd Street NE in Cedar Rapids damaged kitchen equipment but left other areas largely intact. Firefighters arrived at 9 33 a.m. and contained the blaze to cooking equipment. District supervisor Greg Smith said reopening next week depends on equipment suppliers.
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Wendy’s
42Nd St. NE
Greg Smith
Smith
Armstrong Race seeks 10 year tax breaks for Armstrong Block renovation
Armstrong Race Realty Co seeks city study and council approval for a decade of tax relief tied to renovating the Armstrong Block on Third Ave SE. The plan envisions 100000 square feet converted to retail or offices, mainly offices, with city approval already given to a related project nearby.
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Jeff Burnham
City Hall
Armstrong Race Realty Co
Armstrong
Don Canney
Armstrong Race
Jon Dusek
Second
Third Streets
Third Avenue
Third Street SE
U.S. Attorney Office collects record assets in Iowa district
The U.S. Attorney for Iowa's Northern District reported FY ending Sept 30 total collections of 4.61 million by the Financial Litigation and Asset Forfeiture Units, with 1.02 million from asset forfeitures a new high. Major items include a 400 thousand bankruptcy payment to the Commodity Credit Corp and large forfeitures from four drug offenders including Michael Britt and others in Cedar Rapids and Ottumwa.
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Dick Hogan
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Iowa
U.S
Charles Larson
Larson
Commodity Credit Corp
Michael Britt
Ottumwa
Ronald Kelley
Cedar Rapids
Rodney Jiruska
Richard Cooksley
Strawberry Point
Polk Elementary to mark 100th anniversary with tours
Polk Elementary at 1500 B Ave NE celebrates a century with a Friday event featuring a 1 to 1 cm tour 1 45 pm reception 2 30 to 3 15 pm slides and music. Students display 20 year history projects by grade and each class demonstrates period lessons.
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B Ave
Polk
Cedar Rapids assaults woman in kidnapping stabbing and assault
Police seek help as Cedar Rapids woman recounts being beaten dragged from a car on Third Street NE and driven to rural Johnson County where she was stabbed eight times and sexually assaulted before being abandoned. She remains in serious condition in ICU. witnesses saw the suspect fleeing after the attack. Police describe the suspect as a 20 year old white male, about six feet tall with shoulder length hair and possible mustache.
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Cedar Rapids
Werni
E Ave
Third Street
Glen Fox
Fox
Johnson County
Solon
Ely Road
Highway 382
Truck Nearly Ditched After Tight Turn On Mount Vernon Road
A semi-trailer truck driven by Jim Hanson ended partly in a ditch Monday afternoon after picking up a sheet steel load at Intertrade Steel on Mount Vernon Road. Tim Kleiman of Coonrod Wrecker and Crane Cedar Rapids attached a chain and pulled the truck upright with a crane.
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Jim Hanson
Hanson
Mount Vernon Road
Tim Kleiman
Kleiman
Coonrod Wrecker and Crane
Cedar Rapids
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