Linn County Supervisors to pick chief public defender
Linn County supervisors plan to choose a chief public defender Monday from two finalists John W. Logan and Dean Olson Jr. after interview by the Sixth Judicial District judges. The winner may be announced Tuesday with the new office expected to open in January to represent poor defendants and cut 675000 in annual private attorney costs.
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Linn County
Sixth Judicial District
Ken Schriner
John W. Logan
Burlington
Dean Olson, Jr
Waterloo
Linn
Schriner
Allamakee County Wrinkles Shaken By Cadillac Ranch Note
In a Notes from the Cadillac Ranch column Mary Pladsen humorously imagines smoothing out Allamakee County by shaking it like a rug from the edge of Wisconsin toward Decorah. The piece recalls Cedar Rapids roots and northern farming quirks in Allamakee’s small fields and hidden corners.
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Paul Bunyan
Mary Pladsen
Cadillac Ranch
Waukon
Wisconsin
Mississippi
Allamakee County
New Albin
Harpers Ferry
Allamakee
Winneshiek
Decorah
Cedar Rapids
Dyersville Hawkeye Corner Opens in Emporium Plaza
Dyersville residents celebrate a Hawkeye display space in Emporium Plaza. Owner Roger Kearns has installed astro-turf from Kinnick Stadium and filled the shop with Hawkeye memorabilia including letter openers shoelaces leg warmers clothing and Hawkeye Model T Bank by Ertl. A homemade Tiger Hawk banner with a black ribbon marks the space after the Iowa State game awaiting a Hawkeye victory.
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Hawkeye
Dyersville
Emporium Plaza
Roger Kearns
Kinnick Stadium
Hawkeye Model T Bank
Ertl
Kearns
Reunion ties Kingsland family across states and generations
Walter Kingsland born in New York's Episcopalian home for children was part of a 1905 orphan train to Strawberry Point. He built a plumbing and heating business, married Eva Brandenburg, and had two daughters now in Des Moines and Toledo. Eva learned of a Nutley New Jersey reunion a month after Walter died at 81.
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Walter Kingsland
Strawberry Point
New York
Midwest
Walter
Clayton County
Frank Partch
Eva Brandenburg
Arlington
Des Moines
Toledo
Ohio
Kingsland
Nutley
N.J
New Jersey
Eva
English Accent Impresses Iowa State Fair Booth Patron
Mark Brady an American Field Service student from England recalls a booth encounter at the Iowa State Fair where a food vendor marveled at his English accent. The woman urged him to speak again and exclaimed she loved his accents, saying her friends would not believe it.
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Oelwein Husky Register
Mark Brady
Oelwein
England
United States
Iowa State Fair
Wartburg Starts Cedar Rapids Area Special Gifts Drive
The Cedar Rapids Area Special Gifts Program for The Wartburg Design for Tomorrow launches with a dinner and reception at Stouffer s Five Seasons Center Cedar Rapids. Funds support Phase III approval at Wartburg College board in October and Phase II building progress begun in July housing the business admin and economics departments plus a new campus bookstore and admissions offices.
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Waverly
Cedar Rapids
Dickinson fire marshal bid questioned in Iowa
An Iowa Firemen's Association official questions retiring state patrol chief Col Edward Dickinson taking the fire marshal post. Mike Schechinger cites Dickinson lack of fire inspection training and advocates appointing a candidate with fire service background. The association seeks Public Safety Commissioner William Miller to reconsider.
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DES Moines
Iowa Firemen’s Association
Iowa
Edward Dickinson
Mike Schechinger
Westhalia
Dickinson
Schechinger
Leo Buechamp
Washington
Public Safety
William Miller
Association
Iowa Storytellers Guild Forms in Waverly
Prospective storytellers in Iowa form a group in Waverly named Northlands Storyfest. Patricia Coffie at the Waverly Public Library invites interested persons to contact for information on an organizational meeting and the first newsletter. The plan follows the Cedar River Storytellers Festival held Sept 17–19 at Wartburg College in Waverly.
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Waverly
Iowa Storytellers Guild
Patricia Coffie
Northlands Storyfest Group
Wartburg College
Barry Commoner to Speak on Energy and Politics in Pella
Ecology expert Dr. Barry Commoner will discuss Energy and Politics at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Douwstra Auditorium Central College Pella. A 2 p.m. panel on Technology Resources and the Third World follows in Geisler Learning Resource Center room 203. Both events are free and open to the public.
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Barry Commoner
Pella
Iowa
Douwstra
Central College
Geisler Learning Resource Center
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