College district candidates face heated questions at forum
More than 125 people filled Prairie High School Little Theater for Candidates Night as four hopefuls for Director District 3 and 0 answered audience questions. Incumbent Richard Harger and Kenneth Vogel faced concerns on basics, grades, and student readiness alongside Ronald Nove and Leonard Stolba.
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Prairie High School
Little Theater
Richard Harger
Kenneth Vogel
Vogel
Stolba
School Board
Harger
Nove
Rousseau faces ongoing court martial in Morocco case
Jury selection continued at Quantico for Marine Cpl. Jerry Rousseau charged with the June 3 murder and rape of Dorothy Layton in Rabat. The judge refused to void the enlistment as invalid. a six officer jury was sworn, with delays possible into September. Rousseau, 21, from Farmington New Mexico, served at the U S Embassy and Rabat American School at the time of the slaying.
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Quantico
Jerry D. Rousseau
Rousseau
Farmington
N.M
Dorothy Layton
Rabat
Morocco
Layton
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
Robert E. Switzer
Marine Corps
U.S
Casbah
Jose Trejo Jr
Marine Corps Development and Education Command
Arlington Marine Post
Youth shelter funded from poor fund decision
Linn County Board of Social Services approved shifting 6600 dollars from the poor fund to the youth shelter at 1516 Fifth Ave SE. Executive director Bill McCarty cited unusual conditions as the reason though the shelter care budget totals 150000 with 70000 from the Department of Social Services and the rest from a juvenile home fund.
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Linn Board of Social Services
Fifth Ave
Bill McCarty
Linn County Youth Facilities Department
Department of Social Services
Linn
Polk
Linn County faces Title 20 funding shortfall
Vivian Brendengen, administrator of in home services for Linn County, warns that current spending on Title 20 funds will exhaust about $16,000 in red without extra support. The Department of Social Services cannot deny eligible clients, but decisions loom on extending services or tightening allocations to cover the 12 months and possibly run out by February.
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United Fire and Casualty Co
Second Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Security
United Fire
Scott McIntyre
Second Street
McCarty
Vivian Brendengen
Linn County
Department of Social Services
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Duffy
AMC
Concord
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Duffy Schamberger Motors, Inc
Collins Road
Trejo
Edward P. Smith
New Mexico
Smith
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Marines
Switzer
H.R. Tiede
D.G. Drewelow
J.W. Bower
F.A. McCaughan
B.A. Short
E.A. Norman
J.E. Brown
Col. Tiede
Moscow
Col
Drewelow
Norman
Iowa
Richard Turner
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