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INNER CITY GROWTH: Vegetables are taking root in a dozen city-owned lots where flood-wrecked homes in the flood plain of Cedar Rapids' Time Check Neighborhood have been demolished. The Cultivate Hope urban farm project, created by Matthew 25, a non-profit neighborhood restoration group that has played a key role in restoring and building new housing, gets free lease of the property. Volunteers help raise vegetables for sale. The initiative also aims at educating children and residents about healthy foods and helping rebuild the neighborhood. OPN Architects Inc. of Cedar Rapids and Iowa State University design students assisted with the plan.

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BIG SHIP'S NEW HOME: Iowans living in or visiting Southern California especially note: The USS Iowa, among the largest, fastest and most powerful battleships to serve during World War II, is being rehabilitated and on May 20 will be towed to its new, permanent home in the Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, Calif. The ship, nicknamed “The Big Stick,” will serve as an interactive museum. Iowa contributed $3 million toward the rehab work.

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