Parents face written appeal to GWAEA over bus route ruling
Cedar Rapids parents opposed to bus eligibility for Carroll drive SE must file a written appeal with the Grant Wood area education agency secretary before the matter can be reviewed. The board left Carroll drive status unresolved while approving Thirtieth street drive SE as a bus route due to hazardous walking conditions. The GWAEA handles transportation appeals and future action depends on the appeal process.
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Cedar Rapids
Grant Wood
Carroll Drive
Arthur
Cedar Rapids Board
Thirtieth Street
Needles Road
Thirtieth Street Drive
GWAEA
College Board Sets Teacher Aide Pay Rates
College Community school board elected Daryl Hynek as chairperson and William Boland Jr as vice chairperson. Mary Cerveny Stroleny joined as director of district No. 5, first woman on the board. The board aligned CETA Career Exploration pay with district rates for teacher aides, moving from a flat $3 per hour to $2.67 during probation and $2.94 after, with district financials showing positive general fund balance and carried funds in other accounts. An asphalt project change order was approved and the next meetings were scheduled with an executive session on Oct. 4.
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Daryl Hynek
Swisher
William Boland, Jr
Fairfax
College Community School Board of Directors
Prairie High School
Hynek
Boland
Mary Cerveny Stroleny
Route 2
Cedar Rapids
College Community Board
CETA
Ron Marek
Mosebach, Griffith, Simmer and Co
Food Service
Kutchera Construction Co
Prison Terms and Suspended Sentences in Linn District Court
Linn district court reports multiple actions. Timothy Lyon, 28, Cedar Rapids, received 42 days penitentiary consecutive to another term for escaping a Cedar Rapids halfway house on July 3. Julia A. Collins Hodge, 28, Cedar Rapids, faces up to five years reformatory time for shoplifting tied to a June 9 Marion supermarket incident. term to run concurrently with a seven-year reformatory sentence from December 1, 1975. Carla S. Garrels, 26, Cedar Rapids, got a suspended sentence up to five years and two years probation for shoplifting in Marion. Others with suspended sentences and two years probation include John E. Williams, 31, Cedar Rapids, for second-offense drunk driving. Howard F. Moses, 26, rural Ely, for reduced second-offense drunk driving. Deferred sentences allow erasure by good behavior: Anthony D. Kennedy, probation to June 30, 1979 for receiving stolen property. Eddie Johnson Jr., three years probation for larceny. James R. Fountain, three years probation for nighttime larceny of a canoe from a Hiawatha resident.
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Linn District Court
Timothy Lyon
Cedar Rapids
Julia A. Collins Hodge
Reformatory
Marion
Carla S. Garrels
John E. Williams
Anthony D. Kennedy
West Union Accepts Sewer Bid for 1977 Extension
West Union city council on Monday night accepted the low bid of 8770 dollars for the 1977 sanitary sewer extension on the southwest side from Wunsch Plumbing and Heating Co. Greene. One other bid was submitted. Final action scheduled for Oct 3.
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West Union
Wunsch Plumbing and Heating Co
Greene
Growth and effects of Cedar Rapids urban expansion debated
Panelists at a League of Women Voters forum on Cities in Transition debated urban growth in the Cedar Rapids Marion area. YWCA director Carol Rickey warned of low cost housing loss, while economist John Chapman stressed individual definitions of quality of life shaped by growth.
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Cedar Rapids-Marion
League of Women Voters
Coe College
Carol Rickey
YWCA
Rickey
John Chapman
Coe
Chapman
Martin Andreas
McMahan
Karen Pickett
League
Pickett
Did You Know Facts on Water and Snakes
Did You Know notes that 67 percent of U S water use comes from streams and mentions the Coachwhip as the fastest snake with a top speed of seven miles per hour. The item presents two disparate trivia facts in brief.
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The
United States
Grant Wood Board Sets Six Meetings in Area
The Grant Wood area education agency board approved six regular bi monthly meetings for 1977 78 to be hosted in local school districts across seven counties. Outlying district dates are Oct 17 Nov 21 Feb 23 March 20 April 17 and May 1 with hosting districts announced later.
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Grant Wood Board
Grant Wood Area Education Agency
GWAEA
The
Area Education Agency
Area X
Weinhardt Heads Cedar Rapids Community School Board
Robert A. Weinhardt was sworn in as president of the Cedar Rapids Community School Board at the organizational meeting at the Educational Service Center. Also sworn in were Curran Rosser and Ronald Moore to new terms, all unopposed in the election, with delegates chosen for the Iowa Association of School Boards assembly in Des Moines.
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Coralville
Susan Turner
Cedar Rapids
Ann Fedderson
North Liberty
Iowa Assn. of
Des Moines
GWAEA
Sixth Street
Robert A. Weinhardt
Linden Drive
Cedar Rapids Community
Educational Service Center
Edward Beatty
Weinhardt
Barbara Bjornson
Curran Rosser
Ridgeway Drive
Ronald Moore
Indian Hill Road SE
Moore
Iowa Assn. of School Boards
Rosser
Beatty
Lauree Gerber
Mary Ann Kucera
Wayne Howes
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Christie Wallace Gozette
Iowa Assn
Area Education
IPERS
Iowa
Area Education Boards
Loomis Brothers General Contractors
College Board
Eddie Johnson, Jr
James R. Fountain
Hiawatha
Andreas
Corn Sweeteners
Jack Tessin
Labor
Tessin
Bob McMahan
Wes Eimong
Iowa Department OF Transportation
Delaware and
Dubuque Counties
Epworth, Iowa
Agency
Monticello
Williamsburg
Dary-In
Leomos
Commercial Credit Commercial Credit Plan, Inc
Center Point Road
N.E
Davenport
Sioux City
Waterloo
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