Marcellis Gillis, a 7-year-old second-grader at the time of the 2008 flood, was one of the students immortalized in his …
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Marcellis Gillis, a 7-year-old second-grader at the time of the 2008 flood, was one of the students immortalized in his …
Molly Duffy Community Jun. 10, 2018 2:02 pm2649d ago
By 3 a.m. June 12, 2008, Jim Steinfadt had been working to keep the Penford Products plant, near the 12th …
Community Jun. 10, 2018 2:00 am2650d ago
Two other communities upriver from Cedar Rapids — Palo in Linn County and Vinton in Benton County — suffered heavy …
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IOWA CITY — The 2008 flood has forever changed the landscape of Iowa City. Dubuque Street is being elevated, the …
By The Gazette
Community Jun. 10, 2018 2:00 am2650d ago
The following events will recognize the 10-year anniversary of the 2008 flood: Flood of Ideas When: Friday, June 8, …
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CEDAR RAPIDS — A Cedar Rapids doctor and kayaking enthusiast, thinks it’s time Cedar Rapids considered a whitewater park in …
Community Jun. 10, 2018 2:03 pm2649d ago
Alan Lawrence had been the principal timpanist for the Cedar Rapids Symphony for 11 years before his instruments — heavy …
Regenia D. Bailey, guest columnist
Guest Columnists Jun. 10, 2018 10:35 am2650d ago
Nothing feels natural about a natural disaster. Even in a community as accustomed to change as Iowa City, the scope …
Clint Twedt-Ball, guest columnist
Guest Columnists Jun. 10, 2018 10:36 am2650d ago
For the past ten years, Matthew 25 has very intentionally positioned ourselves in places of pain and loss in the …
Rod Lehnertz, guest columnist
Guest Columnists Jun. 10, 2018 10:36 am2650d ago
Like so many people, as spring 2008 unfolded, I could not have anticipated the changes to my life and career …
Ron Corbett, guest columnist
Guest Columnists Jun. 10, 2018 10:36 am2650d ago
Yes, it has been a decade and, yes, it just seems like yesterday. June marks the 10-year anniversary of the …
Chuck Grassley, guest columnist
Guest Columnists Jun. 10, 2018 10:36 am2650d ago
The whims of Mother Nature tested Cedar Rapids 10 summers ago when the river banks overflowed, flooding 10 square miles …
Chet Culver, guest columnist
Guest Columnists Jun. 10, 2018 10:35 am2650d ago
Cedar Rapids is my family’s hometown. My mother and father grew up there, and they graduated from Roosevelt and Franklin …
Ann Poe, guest columnist
Guest Columnists Jun. 10, 2018 10:36 am2650d ago
Disasters are personal. Each person affected grieves and remembers their own reality of June 13, 2008. On the day of …
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