Family Video store touts community image amid adult movies debate
Cedar Rapids owners of Family Video defend a neighborhood aware business model despite Bowman Woods residents protesting the rental of adult films. The store offers free educational and kids videos, free turkeys to the homeless, and free rentals for A grades while asserting First Amendment rights. Local officials will review legal questions, with arguments over porn definitions.
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Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Family Video
Bowman Woods
Boyson Road
C Avenue NE
Chris Pitts
Revere Cr. NE
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Keith
Keith Hoagland
Midwest
Nue
Hoagland
Paul Pate
David Zahn
Family Video Store
Pate
Charlie Hoogland
Hoogland
Terry Coyle
the Gazette
Marion exhibit showcases Sac and Fox settlers history
A Marion Heritage Center exhibit opens at 1 p.m. Saturday detailing the area's 1836 beginnings and Sac and Fox histories. The display, at 590 10th St, features a small Sac and Fox village, a near life-size wickiup, and notes Cedar Rapids' 1919 shift of county seat. Admission is 3 for adults, 1 for children.
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Linda Sutherland
Marion
Sutherland
Kelly Yarnes-Schott
Yarnes-Schott
10Th St
Betty Hoffman
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Dick Yarnes
Linda
Dennis Sutherland
History
Kansas City
Tage
Tama
Expo highlights energy tech and faith community projects
The Iowa Renewable Energy Association hosts a long running expo with more than 60 workshops and 53 exhibitors including Mother Earth News and the Chariton Valley Switchgrass Project. Prairie Woods spirituality center partners contribute straw bale solar heated retreat houses and a wind turbine project with donations sought.
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Iowa Renewable Energy Association
Mother Earth News
Iowa
Energy Group
Rich Dana
Prairiewoods Spirituality Center
Renewable Energy Association
Prairiewoods
Franciscan Sisters
Devel
Ray or Roy: A family mystery unfolds in play
Tom Johnson discusses a dispute over a returned boy claimed to be Ray Elliott or Roy Burke. Witnesses dispute paternity as DNA tests are planned with two elderly Elliott brothers offering samples. The Cedar Rapids and California connections plus a $1000 stake drive the suspense as the audience awaits verification.
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George Elliott
Roy Burke
George
Ray Elliott
Ray Burke
Elliotts
Tom
California
Elliott
Cedar Rapids
Ray
Roy
Dave Rasdal
Rasdal
Gazettecomm
Drediousre Eahimne
Districts seek levies to fund schools and upgrades
Iowa districts plan to raise plant and equipment levies from 11.5 million to 9.7 million with a 1 million gift for an auditorium. Proposals include a 25 cent per thousand property tax increase, a 67 cent levy plus 33 cent current levy, and a five year instructional support levy funded by taxes income surtax and state funds to finance technology, transportation and school improvements. Springville Turkey Valley and Muscatine County voters would approve extended or new levies to upgrade heating electrical systems buses and classrooms and avoid general fund use.
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Muscatine County
Mick Starcevich
Springville
Oran Teut
Teut
Turkey Valley
Five Iowa counties added to West Nile virus list
Five more counties—Cass Muscatine Tama and Winneshiek—reported dead birds testing positive for West Nile virus, while two Mills county horses also tested positive. The tally of affected Iowa counties rises to 86 according to state officials.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Cass
Muscatine
Tama
Winneshiek Counties
Kevin Teale
Machelle Shaffer
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