Cedar Rapids council to discuss highway projects and mall lease
The Cedar Rapids City Council agenda focuses on Center Point Road and its I 380 connection, Highway 100, and the Marion bypass amid IDOT funding doubts. Officials consider financing options to proceed without state participation while also reviewing a Second Street SE downtown mall lease and financing status.
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Metropolitan Area
Center Point Road
29Th Street
Marion
IDOT
Cedar Rapids
Janda
29Th
32Nd Streets
Second Street SE
Abbott Lipsky
Second Street
Second
Fourth Avenues
Ground Transportation Center
Iowa City
Arthur St
Iowa Tests May Narrow Course Options for Cedar Rapids Sophomores
Cedar Rapids high school sophomores scoring below the 25th percentile on the Iowa Tests of Educational Development will take the Adult Performance Level Assessment and may receive remedial programming. Remedial work could limit elective choices as the district pilots a competency based testing program. Officials expect 75 to 90 students need help and urge parental support to keep students in class during testing week.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Cedar Rapids Community
Robert Foley
George Ross
Mischief Charge in Oelwein After Tire Iron Flight
Allen Dale Oakes, 20, was charged with criminal mischief in the third degree after allegedly throwing a tire iron through the windshield of a police car parked outside Oelwein City Hall.
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Oelwein
Allen Dale Oakes
Oelwein City Hall
Signs for Cedar Rapids candidates draw complaint
City records a complaint about a political sign blocking visibility near a street. Building Department officials will instruct homeowners on city code for political signs and seek compliance from both sign owners and candidates. Rules limit signs to 16 square feet, 6 feet long, five signs per lot, and 45 days before an election with removal within 10 days after.
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Cedar Rapids
Mary Anderson
Jeff Cook
Anderson
Iowa Chiefs of Police Convention Opens With Terror Negotiation Focus
About 400 Iowa law enforcement officers join the 72nd annual Iowa Association of Chiefs of Police and Peace Officers convention in Sioux City starting today. Sgt. Boyd Spaulding says the main seminar on hostage and terrorism negotiations will be led by FBI agents Howard Teeten and Charles Wiley. Attendance is expected from municipal police, sheriffs deputies, railroad detectives, and officers from the Iowa Department of Public Safety and the Department of Transportation.
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Sioux City
UPI
Iowa
Iowa Association of Chiefs of Police
Boyd Spaulding
FBI
Howard Teeten
Washington
Charles Wiley
Omaha
Neb
Spaulding
Iowa Department of Public Safety
Department of Transportation
Cissy Baker Campaign Tour Visits Cedar Rapids and Iowa City
Cissy Baker 23 daughter of Senator Howard Baker camps in Iowa promoting her Republican candidate father. She attends receptions in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City then visits University of Iowa and opens Iowa Baker headquarters in Des Moines Tuesday. A 15-year-old boy was charged with arson in two northeast Cedar Rapids fires, one at 3751 H Ave NE on Sept 2 and another on July 3, 1977 at 3700 H Ave NE.
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Cissy Baker
Howard Baker
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Baker
Tennessee
Miss Baker
Nashville
Timothy White
Blake Blvd
Steve Richardson
James Barnes
Georgia Blangy
H Ave
Barbara Liggett
H Ave. NE
Road closure at North Western Railroad crossing
Edgewood Road SW will be closed at the North Western Railroad crossing south of Beverly Road starting Tuesday. The railroad will upgrade the crossing and the work is projected to take about four days.
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Edgewood Road
North Western Railroad
Beverly Road
Vandals Strike Cedar Hills Neighborhood Over Weekend
Cedar Rapids police report yard vandalism at at least 10 homes in the Cedar Hills area. Incidents occurred on Elder Lane Mayberry Drive Ivy Lane D Avenue and Plainview Drive with electric yard lights near sidewalks as the primary targets.
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Cedar Hills
Cedar Rapids
Elder Lane
Mayberry Drive
Ivy Lane
D Avenue
Plainview Drive
United Way sets record campaign goal for 1979
The 1979 United Way Campaign aims at a record 1 909 831 dollars, a 10.6 percent rise from last year, funding 17 agencies and administration. Chairman Vyrl Justice cites helping elderly and disabled residents, children and youth, and those in need, with 3,000 volunteers supporting the drive.
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United Way
United Way Administration
Vyrl Justice
Justice
Judge rules no discrimination in Bechtel layoff suit
A federal judge ruled Bechtel Power Co did not discriminate against Charles Ligons when it laid him off in 1974 for not meeting welder qualifications on the Palo Duane Arnold nuclear plant project. Ligons, once a Cedar Rapids mayoral candidate, is now a welder in Arizona. The trial occurred mid June in U.S. District Judge Edward J. McManus’s court.
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Cedar Rapids
Palo
U.S
Edward J. McManus
Bechtel Power Co
Charles Ligons
Ligons
Bechtel
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Boy Scouts of America-Hawkeye Area Council
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Council On Aging
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