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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 2001
Page
9
The Cedar Rapids City Council will vote on salary increases for the next council. The mayor would earn 72151 in 2002 and 77018 in 2003 while finance, parks, public safety and streets commissioners would earn 68245 in 2002 and 72049 in 2003 representing 4.04 percent and 5.57 percent raises respectively as the council reviews pay every two years.
Katharine Robb an Iowa State University sophomore from Cedar Rapids is charged with making a false report after she claimed she was kidnapped and raped on campus. She turned herself in and faces up to a year in jail while admitting inconsistencies in her tale.
The Department of Natural Resources identified four others involved in the July 3 collision on Lake Delhi that killed Daniel Gombert 9 of Marion. Involved were Dane Clark 16 Alicia Skow 15 Ashley Gombert 16 of Marion and Liz Burgmeier 15 of Cedar Rapids.
The Gazette invites Eastern Iowa groups to submit fall festival or event notices for the annual Call of the Colors guide published Sept 30. October and November events are due by Friday. Send details to Call of the Colors c o Linda Cruise The Gazette Cedar Rapids IA 52406 or by fax email or phone.
A speeding semi loaded with vinyl siding crashed into a pickup and triggered a chain of events that killed the pickup’s driver in Iowa City. Investigators identified Edward Becker of Tennessee as the trucker. a Coralville man is suspected dead pending autopsy. Two other semis were involved and no injuries were reported among the remaining drivers.
Cedar Rapids teen Ryan Sconyers, 17, was left paralyzed from the chest down after falling from an AGRO grain elevator, striking a barge and entering a Mississippi River slough. Doctors at University Hospitals Iowa City are not optimistic about walking again. His friend Troy Ciha, 17, helped CPR and saved his life.
Marion City Council planned a 7 p.m. meeting to decide if a public hearing should be set for Ron Webb’s OPM request to use about 0.25 acre north of Boyson Road for storm detention. A hearing would signal support for granting a permanent easement to OPM to develop 15 two story buildings, with traffic concerns raised on 10th Street. Webb said without the easement the project would shrink by about 30 units and may fail to break even. Council members noted precedents for developers to place detention on their own property. The city owns the land from the Boyson Road extension project and is zoned R6A.
Henry and Emma Rodas, lifelong Littleport residents, express little concern over federal buyout plans to demolish most of the town after flood damage. The 88 and 78 year olds recall a once thriving village along the Volga River and note they will cope whether the town is erased or preserved.
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