Early Iowa fall color arrives early this year
State foresters report autumn foliage in Iowa turning early across most counties with northeast regions seeing color up to two weeks ahead. Predicted early changes may disrupt October tourism and festival planning, though rain delays in southwest Iowa push some areas later.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Rick Hall
Iowa State University
Ames
Wayne Fuhlbrugge
Farmington
Jack
Mcsweeny
Yellow River State Forest
Duane Bedford
Chariton
Michael Jones
Jackson County Economic Development Commission
Jones
Bellevue
Paul Waite
Unions reject new contracts at Square D Cedar Rapids
Two unions at Square D Co in Cedar Rapids rejected proposed contracts but will not strike. Machinists Local 831 and Teamsters Local 238 represent about 2,200 workers. agreements expired midnight Sunday. Workers to report day to day. Also notes on Know Your Community guide, local school board changes, a dismissed assault charge, historical display at Cedar Rapids Library, and a UNI censorship talk by Judith Krug.
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Square D Co
Cedar Rapids
Teamsters Local 238
Teamsters
League of Women Voters
Cedar Rapids-Marion
Mount Mercy College
Chamber of Commerce
Linn County Auditor's Office
Hiawatha City Clerk’s Office
Marion
Trailways Bus Systems
Smulekoff's Furniture
EconoFoods
Me Too
Hy-Vee
Johnson Avenue
Gordon Swearingen
Fifth St
Anonymous gift seeds $500,000 St Ambrose scholarship
Davenport AP reports St Ambrose University to create a 500000 dollar scholarship funded by an anonymous donor. The gift marks the largest private contribution in the university’s history. Earlier in 1983 Lee Lohman of Geneseo Illinois a 1957 graduate gave 500000 dollars.
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Davenport
St. Ambrose University
Catholiersity
Lee Lohman
Geneseo, Ill
St. Ambrose
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Thomas Thatman
Helgens
Kacena
Gregory Hapgood
Cedar Rapids Public
Cedar Falls
Judith Krug
Freedom To Read Foundation
Office For Intellectual Freedom of the
American Library Association
University of Northern Iowa
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Rts
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