Homers -- What's going right

TOUGH TEST TAKERS: Many high school students in the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City Corridor are working to get a jump on their college education. Four of the top five Advanced Placement test-taking schools in the state, including No. 1 Cedar Rapids Washington, are located in our region. AP exams allow students to earn college credit for advance classes they take before graduating from high school. The other high-ranking Corridor schools are No. 2 Iowa City Regina, No. 3 C.R. Kennedy and No. 5 Iowa City West.

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LITTER WALKS: Twice a month, volunteers in the Cedar Rapids Oak Hill Jackson Neighborhood pick up trash, building pride and beautifying an area that sustained heavy damage in the 2008 flood. The litter walks were launched this spring by the new resource coordinator, Dawn Stephens, at the Oak Hill Jackson Resource Center, as a community-building project. It's also helping prepare the city for RAGBRAI cyclists coming here in late July.

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FEWER FATALITIES: Last year, Iowa recorded the lowest number of traffic fatalities - 364 - since 1944.

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