‘Corridor’ overtaking Cedar Rapids’ identity

Thirty-four years ago, my family moved to Cedar Rapids. We enjoyed the city as a good place to raise our family. My wife and I became active in school and Scout activities.

Early on, we subscribed to the Cedar Rapids Gazette to find out things that were happening in town. When our son was in the Navy, we would go out to the Cedar Rapids airport to get him when he would come home on leave. Now I find out I live in a place called the Corridor.

There are the Des Moines Register, the Iowa City Press-Citizen and the Waterloo Courier. We have something called The Gazette.

We now have The Eastern Iowa Airport. Waterloo and Dubuque have their own commercial airports and they are in Eastern Iowa. Maybe ours should be called The Eastern Iowa Airport-Southern Division.

Even the Cedar Rapids Symphony has changed its name to Orchestra Iowa.

The next step will probably be to change the high schools to Corridor Kennedy and Corridor Washington.

Whatever happened to Cedar Rapids?

Vern McKenzie

Cedar Rapids