Halloween reading night and town events in Marion Cedar Rapids
Halloween Spooktacular at Marion Community Center runs 5 to 6 30 p m for preschoolers and 7 to 8 30 p m for older children with pumpkin decorating contests storytelling by the Marion Tellers music from Jenny Carstens and Barry Hodge co sponsored by the Marion Public Library and Marion Merchants Association Also North Liberty Jaycees Haunted House 7 to 10 p m admission 3 p m lecture on health care reform by Charles Dougherty Mount Mercy College and multiple campus events across Cedar Rapids Mount Vernon and Iowa City with discussions readings and concerts including Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra and University of Iowa programs plus a city calendar of meetings and public notices
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion Community Center
Marion
Marion Tellers
Liars Theatre
Jenny Carstens
Barry Hodge
Marion Public Library
Marion Merchants Association
North Liberty Jaycees
North Liberty
Charles Dougherty
Creighton University
Center For Health Policy and Ethics
McAuley
Mount Mercy College
Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra
Winifred Brown
Paramount Theatre
Studio One
Dean Stevens
Donnelly Center
Veteran recalls first vote and South Pacific shore walks
Gus Schrader writes of voting history since 1944 taking an absentee ballot in Hollandia New Guinea. He recalls six wartime shore trips in the South Pacific including Oro Bay Tacloban Guadalcanal and Ulithi Atoll and notes fights over age and politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liz Taylor
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Hollandia
New Guinea
U.S
South Pacific
Oro Bay
World Atlas
Barney Fife
Leyte
Tacloban
Philippines
Guadalcanal
Florida Island
Samar
MogMog Island
Ulithi Atoll
Okinawa
Taxol price questioned by congressman Wyden
Rep. Ron Wyden accuses Bristol-Myers Squibb of setting an overpriced Taxol amid pending FDA approval. He cites NIH documents tying price to Cisplatin at 680 per treatment cycle. NIH calls Taxol the era's most important new anti cancer agent while trials show breast and ovarian cancer potential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co
Ron Wyden
National Cancer Institute
Wyden
National Institutes of Health
NIH
House
Small Business Subcommittee
Bristol- Myers
FDA
Bristol-Myers
The
Gov
How Far She Went by Mary Hood
A short fiction collection set in the rural South exploring petty tragedies and missed chances. The title story Hindsight follows a woman who learns what she wants only after it has passed. Solomon's Seal portrays a strained marriage through concise, sharp prose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Hood
Flannery O’connor
Southern Review-Louisiana State University
Hood
Ozone tests and new shuttle toilet flown by Columbia crew
NASA reported Columbia astronauts measured atmospheric ozone during a fourth day in orbit and tested a new space toilet. Canadian Steve MacLean bet Toronto Blue Jays would win the World Series, which they did, as the crew conducted Canadian experiments and heat pipe tests while circling Earth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Columbia
Earth
Steven MacLean
Toronto
Mission Control
Steve
MacLean
Toronto Blue Jays
Shuttle
James Wetherbee
Tamara Jernigan
NASA
Epicureans Promote Dining Club in Pensacola Era Move
In June 1977 the Epicurean Club launched in Pensacola under W F Johns to offer discounts at participating restaurants. Members receive a plastic ID card and a daily restaurant schedule with many venues honoring cards locally and in other cities. The local chapter lists 1500 2nd Avenue SE Cedar Rapids and national office in Pensacola for inquiries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
The
Gazette Company
Third Avenue SE
Iowa
U.S
Associated Press
Cedar Rapids Gazette, Inc
P.O
A.D
Pensacola
Florida
W.F. Johns
Bud
Epicurean Club
America
Epicureans
Also Mentioned on This Page
Beems
Cedar Rapids Public Library
Imran Farooqi
Jerry Savitsky
the Rothskeller
the Commons
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
Deborah Eisenberg
Philip Levine
Shambaugh Auditorium
U of Main Library
Iowa Writers’ Workshop
Cynthia Green Libby
Harper Hall
U of Music
Clapp Recital Hall
U of I
Cityline
U.S. Senate
Charles Grassley
Jean Lloyd-Jones
George Bush
Bill Clinton
Ross Perot
Bush
Clinton
Perot
Linn County Conservation Board
County Home Rd
Amana School Board
Cascade City Council
Elkader City Council
Elkader Opera House
Marion Independent School District
Second Ave
Mechanicsville
Oelwein
Walker City Council
Iowa City
Harry
Truman
Oval Office
Gus Schrader
Gazette
Nancy Goldfarb
NCI
Nike Luckey
Newspapf
Features Council
Earth Savers
Hallowe
Kids Gardening
Klutz Press
Tribune Media
Servi
Berne
Bernie
University of Georgia Press
Aperback
City Carton
Sixth St
51St St
Los Angeles Times Service
Lavon
FBI
Sheila
Ginny
1St St. E
Mt. Vernon
Joyce
Wendy
Edgewood Rd
B.C
Athens
Greece
Epicurus
Epicurean
Happels
Nanking
Stillwater
Doc & Eddy's
Carlos O
2Nd Avenue S.E
National Club
N. Pace Blvd
Suite
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