Evacuees Arrive in Cedar Rapids from Katrina Run
Six families expected to relocate to the area with MAHP housing aid as part of a broader evacuee arrival effort. Delta flight delivered 13 men 5 women a teenager and young child from New Orleans to Des Moines. The group joins twenty evacuees at the State Fairgrounds as agencies await a fuller response.
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Gazette Edar Rapids
MidAmerica Housing Partnership
MAHP
Mary Schoen-Clark
Cedar Rapids
State Fairgrounds
Ned Wright
Linn County Emergency Management
Delta Airlines 737
New Orleans
Des Moines
Iowa
Fernando Martinez
Martinez
Martinezes
Iowa Red Cross spokesman revisits Katrina’s New Orleans relief
Peter Teahen of Cedar Rapids wavered between tears and fatigue as he prepared to return home from hurricane battered New Orleans. Gazette reporters describe two Iowa volunteers manning a Red Cross shelter in Hammond Mississippi and the stark scenes of levee breach and military activity.
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Brian Ray
the Gazette
Peter Teahen
Cedar Rapids
American Red Cross
River Center
Baton Rouge
New Orleans
Red Cross
Teahen
Gazette
Aton Rouge
Orlan Love
Hammond, Miss
Iowa student with MPGN II earns Spirit of Service award
Jenna Smith, a University of Iowa sophomore and pre med art major, has MPGN II causing early kidney failure. Dialysis six days a week, she funds kidney research with her family and speaks to Kidney, while advancing calculus at home.
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the Gazette
Iowa City
Jenna Smith
Smith
University of Iowa
The
American Association of Kidney Patients
Las Vegas
Gothic Masterpiece Returns to Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Grant Wood’s American Gothic returns home in Cedar Rapids with a museum opening. Executive Director Terry Pitts lauded the display as decades in the making and opened to the public with attendees including Steve Feller and Barbara Feller from Robins and others from Iowa City. The exhibit runs through December 4.
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The
Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Laura Segall
the Gazette
Steve Feller
Barbara Feller
Robins
Jeff Backerman
Dan Opsal
Adam Beecher
Iowa City
Grant Wood
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Linda Melvin
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Cliff Jette
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