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As Gustav nears, New Orleans a ghost town
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Sioux City Journal - NEW ORLEANS -(AP) - With Hurricane Gustav just a day away from a possible monster hit on New Orleans, the mayor Sunday pleaded with the last of its residents to get out, imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on those who stay and warned looters they will be sent directly to prison....
Aniston will make return visit to NBC
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Restoration Ingersoll update
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WHO 13 News - The Restoration Ingersoll project is supposed to draw more people to the Ingersoll area. But before business see a boost, they must make it through the mess....
Gulf braces for heavy rain
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Telegraph Herald - Forecasters downgrade powerful storm to a tropical depression By The Associated Press...
Book enthusiasts can fall into good reads
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Telegraph Herald - Moore, Obama and Woodward hitting the shelves By hillel italie of The Associated Press...
Lights, camera, Landlocked
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The Gazette - IOWA CITY and#8212; Alcatraz always was known as a place inmates wanted to escape.So why would any ex-inmates of the former federal prison on San Francisco Bay want to return to the island for a reunion?"It's almost unthinkable," says John Paget, director of "Alcatraz Reunion," a documentary about the 2004 Alcatraz gathering to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the prison's 1934 opening. "It would be like, 30 years from now, if former prisoners at Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo Bay got together for a reunion.""Alcatraz Reunion" will be screened at this week's Landlocked Film Festival in downtown Iowa City. The four-day festival, now in its second year, features more than 70 independent films being shown for free at the Englert Theatre, Iowa City Public Library, U.S. Bank, hotelVetro and Sheraton Iowa City.Landlocked co-director Bruce Heppner-Elgin founded the festival last year with fellow co-director Mary Blackwood. Heppner-Elgin, who is in his late 30s and lives south of Iowa City in Washington, is a filmmaker and screenwriter who is president of the Iowa Digital Filmmakers Guild and vice-president of the Iowa Motion Picture Association."One of my biggest interests is promoting filmmaking and filmmakers in Iowa," Heppner-Elgin says. "While there are quite a few film festivals in Iowa, we don't have one on the level of (Utah's) Sundance Film Festival, which is the direction we'd like to take Landlocked."...
Chase stars in charity softball game
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Rasdal: Will CR's historic organs make music again?
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The Gazette - A pair of pipe organs silenced by the floods will rise to center stage once again if longtime aficionados can hit the right notes.Staples of the silent movie era, the Mighty Wurlitzer at the Paramount Theatre and the Rhinestone Barton at the old Iowa Theater gave life to black and white films.Now coated with remnants of black mud, the 80-year-old organ consoles sit forlornly in pieces in, of all places, an old automobile parts store."We're all going to pitch in and do what we can," says Darren Ferreter, president of the Cedar Rapids Area Theater Organ Society (CRATOS).Days earlier I had gasped at the scene and#8212; the mud soaked side boards, the exposed wires, the gored guts of the once Mighty Wurlitzer and#8212; through the large plate glass windows of the former NAPA auto parts store at Second Avenue and Sixth Street SE. I felt like the guy who comes upon the damsel in distress tied to the railroad tracks.What to do? What to do?Darren invited me to join other interested parties at their second meeting to further just that cause.Darren, 40, talks with Dave Kelzenberg, 56, of Iowa City and Neal Marple, 39, of Cedar Rapids, the vice president and secretary, respectively, of CRATOS. Paul Montague, 61, of Swisher, represents Cedar Rapids Barton Inc., the non-profit group that owns and maintains the Rhinestone Barton organ from today's Theatre Cedar Rapids building, while Mike Wilson, 83, represents the ingenious and ever helpful Rockwell Collins Retiree Volunteers.After introductions, the front door opens and George Baldwin, 88, makes his entrance. With a Charlie Chaplain sad face, this maestro of both keyboards sees the damaged Mighty Wurlitzer for the first time since the flood; this organ he first heard in 1928; this organ he has played regularly since 1961."It's just devastating to me, all the enjoyment I've had all these years playing them," says George. "Sure I was worried about them. I was worried about my Steinway piano at home, too."Fortunately, George's piano stayed safe on the main floor as 7 feet of water flooded his F Avenue NW basement. So the scene here and#8212; George once played the Rhinestone Barton 16 days in a row for Christmas programs and#8212; isn't of a tragic end, either, but the genesis of a new script.While these men can't write the plot, they're confident the finale will include restored organs rising on rebuilt lifts at both theaters.The players are many, from the Carl and Mary Koehler History Center which donated use of the spacious, temperature-controlled former NAPA store to all of the volunteers who rescued the consoles and want to rebuild them even though parts haven't been manufactured since the 1930s."If the technical experts can tell us what to do, we'll make the parts," says Mike. "Basically an organ is just wood and wires put together in a unique way.""We're glad to have them," says Dave about the Rockwell volunteers. "There's going to be a lot of work in reconstructing parts."First up is the Barton organ, since restoration has begun at Theatre Cedar Rapids. The Mighty Wurlitzer must wait for Cedar Rapids officials to decide what will become of the city-owned Paramount.At both locations, the organ pipes survived and#8212; 14 ranks of 73 pipes for the Barton and 12 ranks of 73 for the Mighty Wurlitzer. Restoring the consoles is tabbed at $50,000 each.While still in emergency mode, the organizations have made nationwide appeals for financial assistance on National Public Radio and CNN, in USA Today, even at the recent American Theater Organ Society annual meeting.Locally, you can contribute to the cause or spend $20 for a CD of Scott Foppiano's 2003 show tunes concert, "Back in the Black," on the Barton by going to www.cr-atos.comIn the meantime, you can follow the story on the CRATOS Web site or drop by the restoration center."If the door is open, come in," Darren says. "Take a look around. Ask questions. See the progress as we go along."...
Once illiterate man gets his story published
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Quad City Times - McCAUSLAND, Iowa ?It?s a story of perseverance, from start to finish....
Red Cross, Salvation Army receive foundation funds
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The Gazette - CEDAR RAPIDS and#8212; The first grants from the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation's flood recovery fund are just a start toward rebuilding the finances of two local agencies.And the two agencies are just the first of dozens of area non-profits affected by the flood."Our shelters were open for a month, which is really long for us," said Angela Schmucker, CEO of the Grant Wood Area Chapter of the Red Cross."We are back in the upper level of our building," said Mindy Kayser, communications and development director for the local Salvation Army. "Our lower level is still a total loss."The $50,000 grants each agency received Thursday morning and#8212; the first from the GCRCF's Flood 2008 Fund and#8212; will make small dents in their needs.In addition to $500,000 flood damage at the Salvation Army's center at 1000 C Ave. NW, Kayser said the agency spent at a rate of about $20,000 a day for the first 30 days of the emergency.The Red Cross chapter's costs haven't been calculated yet, but Schmucker said the organization has spent $15 million statewide on flood response. The Grant Wood Chapter serves nine counties.And the spending continues. The Salvation Army continues to make direct grants to flood-displaced families and individuals, and Schmucker said the Red Cross' aid to renters and#8212; the agency will pay the deposit and the first month's rent on a new apartment and#8212; seems limited only by a shortage of suitable housing.The news conference at Kirkwood Community College's Center for Continuing Education, the GCRCF's home since its offices at 200 First St. SW were flooded, was called to highlight that the foundation is now taking applications from other flooded non-profits for Flood 2008 grants.Dan Baldwin, GCRCF president and CEO, said the Flood 2008 Fund has taken in $2.4 million in donations. The money will go directly to affected organizations and#8212; not to an endowment or to administrative costs."One hundred percent of this money is going to be granted for recovery and rebuilding within Linn County," Baldwin said.Baldwin expects the Flood 2008 Fund also will make grants directly to individuals, a first for the foundation. The process for that effort is still under development.The foundation has another $3 million in flood recovery funds earmarked for small businesses and job creation.Donations to the Flood 2008 Fund may be made by check to the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation, 200 First St. SW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52404. Flood donations should be noted in the check's memo line.Grant proposals may be submitted to the same address or online at www.gcrcf.org....
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