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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1996
Page
11
The University of Iowa Hawkeyes offer ticket information and an online Hawk Shop via a new site. Gazette Online provides game stories and photos within an hour after games, with expanded coverage and last season features by midnight.
TELUS reports a citywide poll asking if four hours of unpaid parental leave per month to attend school activities is a good idea. Yesterday's results showed 9 percent yes and 91 percent no on teaching gay and lesbian lifestyles in high schools.
Iowa's demographic profile is changing as legal immigration grows and children are increasingly raised outside two parent families. Unwed births reached a large share of 36 790 births last year and marriage ceremonies fell to a 1967 low as experts forecast only 25 30 percent of adults married by 2020. Rural areas show population shifts and a rise in deaths exceeding births in some counties alongside higher personal crisis reports amid ongoing farm credit strain.
The article details smoking shelters installed at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Knoxville and others in Cedar Falls Bettendorf and Davenport. Linda Byam of Duo-Gard calls shelters a long term solution balancing smoking rights with non-smokers’ relief. Bruce Michael at Knoxville notes federal rules require facilities to provide for smoking needs. shelters first appeared in Iowa City five years ago. Connie Russell of Iowa City praises shelters for comfort in bad weather and notes shift to a smoke free facility, while any image of promoting smoking is rejected.
An army spokesman said a base in southern Guaviare state was attacked, killing 12 soldiers and wounding 13. Four police and two rebels died in another clash near Bogota as violence peaks. Rebels linked to drug trafficking retaliate against a U.S.-backed coca eradication program, while Ecopetrol confirmed the National Liberation Army blew up the Cano Limon Covenas pipeline in the northeast.
Principal Dena Chambliss will step back from duties for an independent review amid parent and teacher concerns. Teachers mourn the loss of a respected administrator while parents hope for objective findings and continued staff support at the Cedar Rapids district school.
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