Amount: $1,694.86 To: 4 Imprint For: Purchase of Celebration shopping tote bags, including $74.86 in freight fees. Amount: $2,979.79 To: A Tec Recycling Inc. For: Payment for recycling fees for Edmunds ($46.51) and Jefferson ($2,933.28). Amount: $19,187 To: A+ Lawn and Landscape Inc. For: Payment for mowing services
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Posted August 28, 2013in Locker Room
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! America’s true pastime can be found in heaven… er, Iowa. Let’s face it, baseball has lost some of its luster with today’s generation, and the incredibly long playing time amounts to very little action. Last year the NFL pulled far more fans to the
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Posted August 28, 2013in Cover Story
Cityview’s inagural Bartender’s Ball yielded fantastic results from the local nightlife crowd. About 250 people showed up to honor their favorite local service industry personnel. Nearly 500 were nominated by readers for this first annual contest. Here are the results of the awards ceremony that took place at The Venue
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Posted August 21, 2013in Civic Skinny
It looks like the renovation of the Younkers store downtown — rumored for what seems like decades — is really happening. Two bond issues, totaling $24,450,000, are coming to market this week to finance the project, a construction loan has been arranged and construction is supposed to start next week.
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Posted August 21, 2013in Political Mercury
Nationally syndicated talk-radio host Steve Deace, an Iowa native who has built a national brand as an in-house critic of the conservative movement, says Democrats are out-gunning Republicans on strategy and message. “Say what you will, the Democrats offer solutions,” Deace said. Meanwhile, the GOP issues statements that come across
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Posted August 21, 2013in Film Review
“Kick-Ass 2” 1 star Rated R 113 minutes Action Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse Exploitation-indoctrination cinema doesn’t come any more crass than this unnecessary follow-up to the first “Kick-Ass” (2010) movie. Adapting Mark Millar’s “creator-owned” comic book (illustrated by John Romita Jr.) to the movies is a
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Posted August 21, 2013in Cover Story
Nothing says an end to summer like harvest time in Iowa and guilt-laden love handles in the wake of the fun but oh-so fattening Iowa State Fair binge. Kids are backpacking to the bus each morning and hard work has never deserved more play, and what better way to beat
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Shirley Shiffler Harper 4/23/13 $26.99 496 pp. As often happens at Beaverdale Books, a customer recently asked me what I’ve enjoyed reading lately. I immediately handed her “The Golem and the Jinni.” She took one look, shook her head and said she did not
Read More →The good Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa (BBBSCI) recently received a $4,000 gift from the Darden Foundation’s Restaurant Community Grants program, which will support BBBSCI’s Community Based Mentoring programs for young people ages 5-18 in five Iowa counties. Nonprofits are considered for this grant if they possess one
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