From the monthly archives:

May 2003

Several honored at aviation museum

by admin on May 31, 2003

in Human Interest

The state’s historic aviation museum in Greenfield hosts a dinner tonight and will add new names to its Iowa Aviation Hall of Fame. Creston native Walt Cunningham, Iowa’s first astronaut, will be among them. Cunningham will be signing copies of a book he’s written. New inductees also include Louis Schalk who test-piloted the S-R 71 Blackbird spyplane, and the Wright Brothers, who spent a few formative years when they were just boys growing up in Cedar Falls.

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Backbone beach still closed due to bacteria

by admin 05/31/03 11:56 AM

A couple of state beaches still have problems with high levels of bacteria. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says a swimming advisory remains in place at the Lake Geode beach in Henry County — while the beach at Backbone State Park in Delaware County is still closed. The Lake Geode beach had a high [...]

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Iowa City area features top fossil digging

by admin 05/31/03 11:54 AM

If you “dig” fossil-hunting, thousands of beautiful examples can be found at the Devonian Fossil Gorge, north of Iowa City. The acre-and-a-half area was scoured during the floods of ‘93, unveiling a rich collection of tiny creatures that lived in Iowa more than 300-million years ago. John Castle is general manager of Coralville Lake, which [...]

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May ends up a little wetter than normal

by admin 05/31/03 11:53 AM

Early storms in May helped the state soak up the first above-average rainfall total for the first time in eight months. State climatologist Harry Hillaker says we didn’t go above normal by much. He says the first part of the month was extremely wet, but then it became extremely dry, ending up at four-point-six inches [...]

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Jobless rate moves up

by admin 05/31/03 11:50 AM

Iowa’s jobless rate was up just a tick this month, a tenth of a percentage point. Ann Wagner is labor-market analyst at the state Workforce development office. Says that’s a tenth of a percent higher than the March rate of four-percent, same as it was one year ago. That 4.1% translates into [...]

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Union workers in Quad Cities protest at new store

by admin 05/31/03 11:46 AM

Construction workers will rally in the Quad Cities today (Saturday) to protest plans by builders of a big new Wal-Mart store to hire non-union labor. Rory Washburn is executive director of the Tri-City Building Trades Council and says it’s just one of many big national chains that tend to bring along their own construction [...]

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Governor decides to veto or sign bills

by admin 05/31/03 11:42 AM

Governor Tom Vilsack had 30 days to sign or veto bills that passed the Iowa Legislature’s regular session, which ended April 30th. Vilsack signed the two budget bills that were left for his review, but used his item veto authority to nix some language in the bills — like the wording that set plans in [...]

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