Archive - May 2015

Betty M. Sedlacek, 88, of rural Iowa City, died Saturday, May 9, 2015, at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
Funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, May 14, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Iowa City (Sunday Parking Ordinance will be in effect for streets near the church). Burial will be at the St. Joseph Cemetery in Iowa City. Visitation was Wednesday at Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service where a parish vigil service was held. Online condolences may be sent for her family through the web @ www.gayandciha.com

Sometimes I think this column should be called Bik’n instead of Walk’n as I do much more of the former and less of the latter each year. The change is brought on by physical problems, gout and sciatica to be specific. As I age, my attention span becomes shorter and biking more accurately reflects how my thoughts flit about to different topics.
Besides, I’ve started a new company, Orange Hat Bicycle Touring. I could kill two birds with one stone by telling you about upcoming rides like the one to see the Cedar Rapids Kernels the weekend of June 27 and 28.

NORTH LIBERTY– The North Liberty Community Pantry is ready to cultivate a new generation of gardeners.
Community members officially celebrated the pantry’s new project, the Growing Together Garden, with a ribbon cutting, poetry reading and tree planting on Saturday, April 25. Funded by a $38,850 grant from the Wellmark Foundation and matching dollars raised throughout the community, as well as in-kind donations of time, materials and labor, the garden is an extension of the pantry’s services to provide food to those in need.

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ASBURY– West High’s Women of Troy finished third in the 2015 Mississippi Valley Conference (MVC) golf Supermeet Monday, May 4, hosted by Dubuque Senior High School at Meadows Golf Club in Asbury.
Cedar Falls took the meet with a team score of 340, followed by Dubuque Hempstead (343) and Iowa City West (347). City High was sixth with 394.
Dubuque Senior’s Maddie Hawkins was the top individual golfer with 75, West High’s Mackenzie Marsh was sixth with 84 and Avery Kout was eighth with 86.

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TAMA– Cedar Rapids Prairie took the top team honors Tuesday, April 28, at the South Tama Invitational track and field meet, leading the field of 13 teams with 107.5 points. Clear Creek Amana’s (CCA) varsity boys tied with Grundy Center for 11th overall just 21 points behind fellow WaMaC teams Vinton-Shellsburg (fourth), Center Point-Urbana (fifth), Williamsburg (sixth), South Tama (ninth) and Benton Community (10th).
Drew Wagner produced the Clippers’ only first-place showing by winning the shot put with a 50-1 throw.