Women’s shelter revival after two grants in 1978
The Women's Emergency Shelter, a YWCA led program, resumes after funding cuts. Grants from Hall Foundation and Department of Social Services will support two full time and three part time staff totaling salaries. Susan Cory, head of the Women's Resource Center, will direct the renewed operation.
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YWCA
Linn County Health Center
Hall Foundation
Department of Social Services
Montrose Hotel
Susan Cory
Women’s Resource Center
Carol Rickey
YWCA expands counseling services across five counties
The YWCA plans a $11,000 per full time position and a nearly $15,000 Social Services grant to extend counseling to Linn Cedar Johnson Benton and Jones counties. The program will run for one year and seeks a four bedroom house to lease, aiming to start by mid October.
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Linn
Iowa
Cedar
Johnson, Benton and
Jones
Rickey
Night sky lights spark debate across Northeast Iowa
McGregor residents and others in Iowa and Wisconsin saw eight to ten objects with red and green lights for about 90 minutes near bridges and towns. Officials offered weather balloons and atmospheric effects as explanations while others insisted on UFOs observed from McGregor to Waterloo and La Crosse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McGregor
Iowa
Wisconsin
Todd Miller
Lucy Rodenburg
Lynn McKeeter
Prairie du Chien- Marquette Bridge
University of Chicago
Miller
McGregor Bluffs
Prairie du Chien High School
Maurice Oehlers
Wyalusing State Park
Dennis Denning
Monona
George Balekos
Clayton County
Waterloo
Edgewood
LaCrosse
Wis
Iowa-Illinois gets go-ahead for Louisa Generating Station
The Iowa State Commerce Commission approved advance site preparation for the Louisa Generating Station five miles south of Muscatine. The 650 megawatt coal fired plant, costing about 500 million dollars, is expected to begin producing by January 1983 with early 1979 as the earliest construction permit date. The project is led by Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Co., owner of 46 percent, with partners Iowa Power and Light 33 percent, Iowa Public Service 15 percent, Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative 5 percent, and the city of Tipton 0.5 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisa
Muscatine
Iowa State Commerce Commission
Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Co
Dean R. Sticknoth
Iowa-Illinois
Brown and Lambrecht Earthmovers Inc
Joliet, Ill
Swanson Contracting Corp
Worth
Iowa Power and Light
Des Moines
Iowa Public Service
Sioux City
Eastern
Iowa Light and Power Cooperative
Tipton
Stone accuses Hall over Marion cable TV plan
Janice Stone a Republican candidate for state representative in the 29th District told the Linn County Republican Central Committee that Marion councilman Hurley Hall uses his office to campaign for the November election. She said his cable contract proposal appears to be a publicity move and a vote buying giveaway.
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Janice Stone
41St St. NE
Marion
Hurley Hall
Linn County
Republican Central Committee
Stone
Chicago
Ill
Atlanta, Ga
Scolaro hearing continues in C R
The Iowa Commission on Judicial Qualifications held a closed door session with Linn Associate District Judge Anthony R. Scolaro at the Third Avenue courthouse. The investigation, started last February, concerns alleged court conduct. Proceedings may extend into next week. Scolaro, 54, has served in Linn District Court since 1971.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Commission On Judicial Qualifications
Linn
Anthony R. Scolaro
Third Avenue
Scolaro
Iowa Attorney General’s Office
First Avenue
Linn District Court
17 year old rider injured in Manchester area motorcycle crash
A 17 year old rural Ryan boy named Lance Lange was hospitalized in Cedar Rapids in fair condition after a motorcycle accident near Manchester on Wednesday afternoon. He lost control on loose gravel while riding about seven miles south of Manchester at 4 30 p m.
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Manchester
Ryan
St. Luke’s Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Lance Lange
Donald Lange
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Lowans
Prairie du Chien
C.R
Kirkwood
Scottish Rite Charitable and Educational Foundation
Kirkwood Community College
Bob
Johnson Ave
Eagle Phoenix
Enro
Palm Beach
Manhattan
London
Alleson
1St Ave
Town & Country
Bank Americaid
Davenport
Moline, Ill
Beau Monde
The
Sherwin-Williams Company
BankAmericard
Visa
Decorating World
K-Mart
Collins Rd
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