Iowa City Ronald McDonald House opens after three-year drive
Iowa Gov. Branstad leads dedication for the two story sixteen bedroom house at 730 Hawkins Dr near the Carver Hawkeye Arena serving families from Iowa City Mercy Hospital and University of Iowa Hospitals. The Children’s Family Living Foundation runs the house with support from 6 000 donors. annual operating costs are estimated at 60 000 to 70 000 dollars with further fundraising planned.
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Ronald McDonald House
Iowa City
University Hospitals
Carver-Hawkeye Arena
Iowa
Terry Branstad
Hawkins Dr
Carver- Hawkeye Arena
Branstad
Des Moines
Ronald McDonald Houses
James O. Freedman
University of Iowa
John W. Colloton
Uni
Versity Hospitals
Betsy Bloom
Michigan
Mercy Hospital
Children’s Family Living Foundation Inc
McDonald’s
Illinois
Linn-Mar Considers Language Survey and Be Lingual Plan
Linn-Mar Community School District moves to mail a survey on elementary foreign language desires within two to three weeks. The board approves continuing Be Lingual for grades three to six with provisions for needy students and later class times.
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Wzette
Tom Sweeney
Lumir Dostal Jr
Glen Easterday
Easterday
Tom Gatto
Robert Neilly
Vicki Blackledge
Glenda Rhoten
Chery! Goble
Kwik-Way lays off sixty workers in Marion strike fallout
Sixty Kwik-Way Manufacturing employees, about half the production staff, are temporarily furloughed in Marion citing delayed raw materials after a four-week strike. Tom Gavin, senior vice president, says a two week return is hoped as orders hold up. Union members struck July 31, ended August 25, with gradual recalls starting August 27.
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Kwik-Way Manufacturing Co
Marion
Tom Gavin
Gavin
Marion Briefs Advertise Fall and Winter Sale
Local notices announce Engle's Fashion Corner offering 35 percent off all new fall and winter merchandise with sale ending September 7 1985 and summer stock at half price or more. Also listed are a water softener salt sale at Culligan and discounted vanilla ice cream at Midwestern Dairy Store with store hours and contact details.
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Engle’s
7Th Ave
Culligan
12Th St. Marion
LeFebure to close electronics department in Cedar Rapids
LeFebure Corp plans to discontinue its electronics department in Cedar Rapids eliminating 18 jobs. Union says company seeks to cut hourly pay from 9.89 to 5.42 and remove cost-of-living increases with a counterproposal of 7.89. The firm founded in 1892 by Emile LeFebure and now a Kidde subsidiary makes banking equipment and security systems.
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LeFebure Corp
Cedar Rapids
United Auto Workers Union
Emile LeFebure
Kidde Inc
New Jersey
LeFebure
Subcontractor halted on Cedar Rapids Airport project
The Cedar Rapids Building Department ordered K and W Electric Inc to stop conduit and wiring work on the taxiway due to lack of Cedar Rapids electrical contractor license. The project costs 117000 dollars and other work may continue. Licensure and supervision requirements could push completion to Sept 20 or lead to subcontracting under a licensed firm.
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Cedar Rapids
K & W Electric Inc
Waterloo
Karen Maifeld
Hudson
Wanda van Duyn
Cedar Falls
Gib Boxa
Boxa
Six arrested in Benton County alcohol cases near Urbana
Two incidents within 15 minutes at Interstate 380 and Highway 150 north of Urbana led to six arrests for drunken driving public intoxication and related offenses. In Waterloo and Milan Illinois suspects faced charges and hearings, while a separate bicycle collision injured a rider on Cedar Rapids southwest side.
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Vinton
Illinois
Benton County
Urbana
Iowa Department of Transportation
Michael D. Blair
Waterloo
Blair
James Clark
Scott A. Bulow
Victor Bienfang
Washburn
Robert D. Brower
Milan
Ill
Keith J. Stafford
Moline
IDOT
Brower
Stafford
St. Luke's Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Robert Curtis
29Th Ave
Wilson Avenue
J Street
Terry Pizinger
Wisconsin St
Curtis
Old City
Harold Henry
Ely Rd
Linn District Court
United Wrecking Co
Des Moines
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McDonald House
Linn-Mar
By Eric Strand
Urbandale
Sondra Justice
Eldon Wohlleben
25Th St
Jonathan
Dale
Center Pt. Rd
Co’ A. O
Metro-Iowa
Stewart
Herman Ginsberg
Ave. NW
Interstate 380
Evansdale
Coralville
I-380
Don Clow
Jerry Stewart
Far West
Five Seasons Center
A Ave. NE
Michael Backstrom
Regis
The
Royalist
Columbia Scholastic Press Association
Columbia University
New York City
CSPA
All Columbian
George H. Gallup
Quill and Scroll
Greene Square Park
Fifth Street
Fourth Avenue
Plymouth
England
Boston
Pierson’s Flowershop & Greenhouses
Ellis Blvd
Cash & Carry
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