Green coming Up Green Square Park renovation begins
Cedar Rapids Parks Department on Monday started phase one of renovations at Greene Square Park along Third Avenue SE. Sod removal will yield a sitting plaza, exposed aggregate paving and concrete planters, with a new 12 foot wide sidewalk replacing the existing walk. Completion is slated for December 3. Rick Hermanson, Mike Dyson, Dave Hughes and Jim Panosh are pictured removing sod.
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Greene Square Park
Cedar Rapids
Third Avenue
Rick Hermanson
Mike Dyson
Dave Hughes
Jim Panosh
College Community Considers Sub District Reapportionment
College Community Schools Board to study reapportionment of director sub districts following an Iowa AG opinion that 49 districts are out of compliance with one person one vote rules. A study committee will review sub district populations ranging from 4600 to 1000 and report by the Nov 16 meeting.
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College Community Schools Board of Education
League of Women Voters
College Community
Iowa
William Bach
College Community Director
William Boland
Richard Harger
Harger
Garland Ashbacher
Norman Humble
Iowa Association of School Boards
College Community School Board
Mount Vernon school board studies football facilities plan
Booster Club President Colin Squiers reported on football facilities and recommended not perpetuating the middle school field, seek use of Cornell College field, and proceed with track area development. The board will reconvene with facilities members Sept 27.
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Mount Vernon
Colin Squiers
Cornell College
Paul Christiansen
Tom Ipson
Charles Litts
Adrian Ringold
Kougias Named Director Of Linn County RSVP
Sue Ann Kougias was selected as the new director for the Linn County Council on Aging Retired Senior Volunteer Program. The board approved the appointment last night and accepted Katherine Drummond’s resignation with deep regret. The council also endorsed self funding through a United Way Health Insurance plan and coordinated a Thanksgiving Dinner with Cedar Rapids District approval for Washington High.
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Sue Ann Kougias
Linn County Council On Aging
Katherine Drummond
RSVP
Douglas
Lisbon
Cedar Rapids
HACAP
United Way Group
Council On Aging
Dick Osing
Washington High School
Osing
Challed Sworn In As Cedar Rapids School Board Member
In a 15 minute session Cedar Rapids Community School Board swore in David Challed to Ed Beatty’s at large seat and re elected Curran Rosser as president Lauree Gerber as vice president Oaths were also given to Mary Ann Kucera in District 3 and Gerber in District 2 Kucera will serve as board delegate to the Iowa Association of School Boards Legislative Network Letelier’s 1976 assassination in Washington D C is noted in the article.
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Ringold
Claude Harrison
Harrison
Ringold, Litts
Guy Booth
Sharon Hill
League of Women Voters
Ipson
Cedar Rapids
Rosser
Kucera
Iowa Association of School Boards Legislative Network
Pompadour Recognized Mistress at Versailles 1745
On this date in 1745 Madame de Pompadour was officially recognized as Louis XV’s mistress in Versailles, marking a pivotal moment in the French court and political influence.
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Madame de Pompadour
Versailles
Louis XV
France
Smoke test prompts false alarm in Arlington home
Mrs. Craig Seedorff of Arlington alerted when smoke entered her East Street home last Tuesday. Fire crews and officials confirmed smoke was from a Municipal Pipe and Tool Company sewer line test in Hudson, Iowa. No major damage due to missing trap in the sewer line.
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Arlington
Craig Seedorff
East Street
Arlington Fire Department
Three Eagle Scouts Help Build Cedar Valley Trail
Three Eagle Scout candidates contributed to converting the former Illinois Central Gulf Railroad into the Cedar Valley Nature Trail. Steve Hingtgen planked a 120-foot trestle with 10 assistants west of Center Point. Jeff Zimmerman supervised six assistants on a second bridge. Stuart Barnum led a major fencing job on a farm north of County Road E-34. The work occurred earlier this summer.
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Illinois Central Gulf
Cedar Valley Nature Trail
Steve Hingtgen
Crandall Drive
Center Point
Jeff Zimmerman
Pine Grove Drive
Stuart Barnum
Windsor Drive
Civil rights director to take second job at Cornell College
Cedar Rapids civil rights executive Floyd A. Jones will assume a second post as minority student adviser at Cornell College while remaining executive director of the Cedar Rapids Civil Rights Commission. He will start later this month, working evenings and weekends. Jones cites economic need, with a Civil Rights Commission salary of 26,291 a year.
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Cedar Rapids Civil Rights Commission
Floyd A. Jones
Cornell College
Jones
The
Civil Rights Commission
Cornell
Washburn University
Topeka
Kan
Kansas Commission On Civil Rights
Cedar Rapids
Former Linn janitor sentenced in theft case
Ronald Vowels 29 pleaded guilty to fourth degree theft and false use of a birth certificate. He received 125 days concurrent jail time with credit for time served since May 19, with a felony falsifying a public document charge dismissed due to certificates not being public records.
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Linn County
Ronald Vowels
John Siebenmann
Vowels
Larry Conmey
CETA program places 199 in jobs in Linn County
Director Bob Ballantyne told the consortium board that 199 people were placed in jobs this year from a $303,309 CETA program investment, earning a total $1,697,967. The 49 percent success rate is ten points above the national CETA average.
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Bob Ballantyne
Consortium
Ballantyne
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