Labor Day holiday calendar and weekend events list
Government offices close for holiday. Amana Renaissance Festival features jousting demonstrations and theater with 8. Adults 8, children 4. Ringling Bros circus at The Mark of the Quad Cities 1 p.m. Tickets 16 or 11. Five Seasons Ski Team water show at Ellis Park 5 p.m. Amana Colonies dog show 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Buckskin Congress Horse Show at Kirkwood Cedar Rapids 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Laura Ingalls Wilder Re membered at Hoover Museum 1 p.m. Ralston Creek Labor Day Fair in Iowa City 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Howard Dean at 2:15 p.m. Iowa City picnic. Dennis Kucinich 6 to 8 p.m. Old Brick Church. Noelridge Farmers Market 4 to 6 p.m.
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Middle Amana
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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Quad Cities
Moline
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Ellis Park
Cedar Rapids
Amana
Kirkwood Community College
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Herbert Hoover Museum
West Branch
Hoover
Nara
Ralston Creek
Uptown
Bill's
Howard Dean
Iowa City
City Park
Upper Shelter
Dennis Kucinich
Ohio
Old Brick Church
Market and
Clinton Streets
Community Calendar highlights from Iowa City and Cedar Rapids
Prairie Lights hosts Curtis White at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Iowa City with free admission. Cedar Rapids hosts a school board candidates forum at 7 p.m. Wednesday co sponsored by The Gazette and LWV Cedar Rapids Marion. John Domini reads at Prairie Lights at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Taste of the Iowa City Farmers Market runs 5 to 7 30 p.m. Wednesday with free samples and music. Old Creamery Theatre presents Always Patsy Cline at 8 p.m. in Amana with adult and student ticket pricing.
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Curtis White
Prairie Lights Books
S. Dubuque St
Iowa City
Prairielightsbooks
Cedar Rapids School Board
Educational Service Center
Second Ave
Cedar Rapids
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League of Women Voters of
Marion
Chauncey Swan
Grace & Beauty
Mad River Band
Old Creamery Theatre
Patsy Cline
Price Creek
Amana Colonies
Amana
Oldcreamery
Laughing Lilac Opens In Cedar Rapids Gift Shop Venture
In Cedar Rapids the Laughing Lilac gift shop revives the former 606 Fifth Ave SE house with purple trim after extensive restorations. Kathy Sills and her mother transform the property into a bright store offering original art jewelry, whimsical decor, and contemporary items.
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Cedar Rapids
Fifth Ave
Marge Ipsan
Ipsan
Kathy
Heidi Sills
Sills
Susan
Rags To Riches
Marion
Chicago
Arizona
Jess Boyer
Roosevelt Middle School
Cedar Rapids designer Heidi Sills starts Rags to Riches store
Heidi Sills of Cedar Rapids with husband Mike and children Jack and Marlee started Rags to Riches after studying interior design at Kirkwood and Iowa. She previously ran a Kansas City furniture store and worked at Phelan’s Interiors. Contact Suzanne Bames at GazetteCo. ng.com.
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Cedar Rapids
Laughing Lilac
Kirkwood Community College
University of Iowa
Mike
Jack
Marlee
Marge
Dave Losan
Sills
Phelan’s Interiors
Kansas City
Suzanne Bames
Gazetteco
Ng.com
Cedar Rapids teen follows brothers into math and science success
Philipp Gaebler, 15, joins older brothers Rob and Dave Gaebler who scored perfect 800s on SAT II math and earned multiple awards. He teaches himself via books and summer tests, enjoys algebra and chemistry, has taken college courses, and plans college with a math or science focus.
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Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Bob
Dave Gaebler
Sally Gaebler
Rob
Dave
Gaebler
Philipp
Philipp Gaebler
Sally
Coe College
Harvey Mudd College
Claremont
Calif
Rob Gaebler
Williamsburg graduation moves to city recreation center
Williamsburg High School will use most of the recreation center floor for graduation related activities for about seven hours for awards night and the ceremony. The gym floors will be unavailable for 83 hours while the rest of the facility stays open for public use. A 28E agreement allows shared facility use between the city and the school district, with 200 hours annually allocated to the district.
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the Gazette Williamsburg
Williamsburg High School
Gary Wanner
Traci Eckenrod
Wanner
Warner
Benton County bids for pulp plant in Iowa countryside
Benton Development Group proposes Benton County as a site for a $500 million pulp mill using corn stalks. Three farmland sites between Vinton and Mount Auburn are considered with owners Edward McGivern, Shirley Schlitter and Charles Patten. Decision expected mid September.
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Vinton
Benton Development Group
Ron Mells
Des Moines
Benton County
Ranae Tharp
Mount Auburn
Edward McGivern
Shirley Schlitter
Charles Patten
Poweshiek Rural Water
Iowa Northern Railroad
East Central Iowa Council of Governments
Iowa Department of Economic Development
East Central Iowa Rec
Alliant Energy
Council of Governments
Department of Economic Development
Mells
Tharp
Iowa
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