Local Events Calendar and Performances
Today features multiple meetings from noon to 8 p.m including Linn County and Marion boards and the Linn-Mar Economy Task Force. Venereal disease clinic operates 6 to 9 p.m. at Linn County Health Dept. Theater offerings include Old Creamery productions The Foreigner and A Night with Marquetta plus Myron Floren at What Cheer Opera House.
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Marion Park Board
10Th Ave
Linn-Mar Schools
10Th St
Marion
Marion’s Impact
City
Center Point School Board
Trader St
Grant Wood Area Education Agency Board
Sixth St
Old Creamery Theatre
Garrison
Marquetta
Myron Floren
What Cheer Opera House
City to replace wiring at Tait Cummins softball complex
Cedar Rapids Parks and Recreation will spend 4337 dollars to replace inadequate electrical wiring that heats up and trips fuses during games. Parks Commissioner David Kramer cites undersized wire and possible methane corrosion from the former city dump as contributing factors. Musco Lighting designed the system and a local contractor will perform the replacement.
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Cedar Rapids
Kramer
Musco Lighting
Muscatine
First tax installments due by Sept 30 with 1% monthly penalty
The first installment of 1985 86 property taxes and the second half of 1986 mobile home taxes are due by Sept 30. Payments may be mailed but must be postmarked by Sept 30 to avoid a 1 percent per month penalty starting Oct 1, said deputy Linn County treasurer Mike Stevenson.
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Mike Stevenson
Linn County
City approves sidewalk plan for Wilson Avenue despite protests
Cedar Rapids City Council unanimously approves a two segment sidewalk project on Wilson Avenue and Wilson Avenue Drive SW with total cost about 26000 dollars. Adjoining property owners face assessments capped at 300 dollars and up to ten years to pay. Some residents argue cross street crossings for schoolchildren will increase.
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Wilson Avenue
Wilson Avenue Drive
Cedar Rapids
Larry Kimball
Haven Ct
Kimball
Don Canney
Wayne Murdock
Cleveland School
First Avenue
City officials seek license exemption for traffic signal workers
Cedar Rapids traffic signal technicians asked the City Council to amend the electrical code so they would not need an electrician license. Spokesman Richard Porter said technicians handle signals but licensed electricians perform the service hook up. He noted other Iowa cities do not require licenses for shop work or installation.
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Cedar Rapids
Richard Porter
Porter
Iowa
Blackmun to receive Luther College honorary degree
Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun will be awarded an honorary degree by Luther College in a public ceremony at 9 45 a m Friday in the Center for Faith and Life He is 78 and was nominated by President Nixon in 1970 as an associate justice of the U S Supreme Court Previously he served on the Eighth Circuit U S Court of Appeals
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Decorah
Supreme Court
Harry Blackmun
Luther College
Center For Faith and Life
Blackmun
Nixon
U.S. Supreme Court
Eighth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals
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Department of Human Resource Management
Linn County Board of Social Welfare
Indian Creek Nature Center
Mary Combellick
Julia Ladd
American Power Dispatchers Association
Stouffer’s
Films Theater Times
Iowa City
Oelwein
Sears
SELFS
Toring Door
Gazette
Ok’d
Wilson
Metro-Iown
Alaska
Huong
Peppertree Studios
United States
Vietnam
Peppertree
Coventry Gardens
1St Ave
Eman
Jacks
16Th Ave
Jacqueline
Town and Country Shopping Center
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