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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1986
Page
6
J F Hladky Jr serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors in a leadership role at the organization, guiding strategic decisions and governance.
The Gazette argues Hollywood should push Congress to require video recorders to include an anti copy device. It notes past surcharges on recorders and blank tapes failed due to fairness and legal-use concerns, urging industry funded, private sector action rather than federal legislation.
Congress settles a century of discussion by making the marigold the official national flower. The Senate approved last year and the House followed this week, with no veto threat from the president, as focus shifts back to deficits and nuclear issues.
The city sponsors a free Toxic Cleanup Day with 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. drop off at Hawkeye Downs in Cedar Rapids. Materials including hazardous household chemicals are disposed of safely by professionals, under EPA funding and guidance from Dick Freeman and local groups.
Readers defend civil liberties and victim rights, rebutting Elderkin's ACLU critique, praising the Fourth through Sixth Amendments and the ACLU ICLU. The column urges protest of U.S. actions in Central America, cites World Court rulings and contras funding, and invites readers to join Pledge of Resistance with a contact number.
An 81 year old speaker laments unjust courts and law enforcement, urges strong parental roles, and calls for welfare reform to protect life and home. She stresses constitutional rights to live in peace, safety, and secure homes for herself and future generations.
Instructions require letters to cover issues and events rather than individuals, with writer name street address and signature, anonymous publication not allowed. Include a non published phone number for authentication. Limit to 400 words, no verse, one letter per writer every 30 days.
Alicia Villanueva, an ESL teacher at Washington Junior High in Salinas, recently named National PTA Educator of the Year, guides a diverse class of Mexican Filipino Vietnamese and Eastern European students. Many come from farmworker families with limited English and low income yet 74 graduates from Alisal High School earned scholarships to Harvard Yale Princeton Cornell Stanford and Columbia.
Periodic observations from thoughtful Eastern Iowans invited to express themselves here. The topics are unlimited and the views are theirs.
Cedar Rapids author Elizabeth Young reflects on her travel writing and a San Francisco upbringing while detailing lessons from Washington Junior High and Alisal High. The piece cites educators George Shirley and Pam Bernhard guiding disadvantaged students, and features quotes from Ricardo Rodriguez on improving education, immigration concerns, and the value of immigrant contributions to the United States.
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