Monday Morning Read: New spin on fidget spinners, low opioid prescriber numbers, Cedar Rock 'friends' step up

TODAY'S WEATHER — Partly cloudy, chance of storms. High 73, low 51.

NEW SPIN ON FIDGET SPINNERS — Students in Nolen Wrage's engineering class at McKinley Middle School are clearly excited and appear to be taking a lot of pride in their current assignment. But it's not a class project most middle school teachers would likely take on these days. That's because Wrage's students are designing and printing their very own fidget spinners on a 3-D printer. Read more: https://www.thegazette.com/news/cedar-rapids-teacher-puts-a-different-spin-on-fidget-spinners/

LOW OPIOID PRESCRIBER NUMBERS — Only two in five Iowa doctors and other medical professionals who prescribe opioids are registered with a state program that is designed to help address an opioid addiction epidemic that is killing hundreds of Iowans each year. The state is in the process of updating that system, called the Iowa Prescription Management Program, to make it more streamlined and user-friendly, hoping to get more prescribers to participate. Read more: https://www.thegazette.com/news/less-than-half-of-iowa-prescribers-in-program-to-cut-opioid-spread/

CEDAR ROCK 'FRIENDS' STEP UP — About 50 people turned out this weekend to celebrate the $200,000 restoration of the unique boathouse at architect Frank Lloyd Wright's Cedar Rock home — a project park leaders acknowledged would not have happened without the leadership and determination of the Friends of Cedar Rock. Read more: https://www.thegazette.com/news/cedar-rock-state-park-friends-step-in-to-preserve-piece-of-history/

IOWA's 2017 RUNNING BACKS — Taking a look at the 2017 Hawkeyes. Today it's the running backs' turn. Read more: https://www.thegazette.com/sports/four-downs-iowas-2017-running-backs/

QUOTABLE — 'It's not an easy sport. And, it's an opportunity for people from a lower-income neighborhood to integrate and understand the larger community — break out of their bubble — and also feel the support from their community.' Tony Branch, youth program director of Neighborhood Centers of Johnson County, about donated bicycles helping to fuel expansion of the Youth Off-Roaders bike club