Cedar Rapids Jaycees Christmas Toy Project Opens November 1
The Cedar Rapids Jaycees announce their annual Christmas Toy Project begins November 1 with toy collection across Cedar Rapids and neighboring districts. Community response after a December 1981 fire at Eisenhower School boosted donations. Toys will be sorted at the Jaycees clubhouse and distributed December 18 and 19 with pickup November 20.
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Cedar Rapids
Eisenhower
46Th St. NE
Marion Independent
College Community
Linn-Mar
Jaycees Club
Fifth Ave
Burglary Seizures Reported by Bennie Maier
Bennie Maier reports a weekend burglary at 1252 33rd St NE. A German made .357 revolver valued at 350 dollars was stolen with jewelry holster ammunition an antique coffee server rings and tie tacks. Total value 590 dollars.
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Bennie Maier
33Rd St. NE
Volunteer opportunities and help needed across multiple programs
The notice lists numerous volunteer openings including tutoring program organizers at Youth Shelter, Big Brothers Big Sisters awaiting 60 boys and 10 girls, financial counseling positions with the Iowa Department of Social Services, YMCA Camp Wapsie project help, United Cerebral Palsy handicapped swimming and bowling volunteers, Kinship couples for weekly visits, ARC volunteers for mentally retarded adults, a weekly physical fitness volunteer for UCP, afternoon helpers for Fifth Avenue Care Center, and Leaders In Volunteerism coordinators. It notes the U.S. backing an arms embargo in principle toward South Africa.
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Foundation II
Larry
Don
Big Brothers
Big Sisters
Iowa Department of Social Services
Sylvia
Michelle Graci
UCP
Claudia Wolfe
Fifth Avenue Care Center
Gerry Schwartz
L.lv
Edie Liotis
Cedar Rapids high school surveys favor home and family courses
A Cedar Rapids district survey shows 82 percent of parents view home and family classes as important and 67 percent favor a required independent living course. The Home and Family Committee weighs adding or replacing graduation requirements amid district-wide changes and limited schedule room.
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Cedar Rapids
Rapids
Ralph Plagman
Washington High
Plagman
Board of Education
Home and Family
Dixie Rathjen
Metro High School
Home and Family Committee
University of Iowa
Rathjen
Cedar Rapids school board to vote on new graduation plan
The Cedar Rapids Community School Board will vote tonight on a staff committee’s plan implementing higher graduation requirements for the class of 1988. The agenda includes selling Hayes School property and a Kingston Stadium press box project with a public hearing.
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Cedar Rapids
Second Ave
Hayes
D St. SW
Kingston Stadium
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Ations
Westdale
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Goodwill Industries
Association For Retarded Citizens
HACAP
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