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Great Iowa Road Trip Planned to Revive Small Businesses and Local Economies
Great Iowa Road Trip
(Oskaloosa, Iowa) –A special weekend event is planned to help revive Iowa’s small businesses and small towns. The public is invited to participate in The Great Iowa Road Trip, which will be held on April 30 and May 1. The event will be a coordinated mapped route of open doors at businesses and attractions in Southern Iowa.
The event is a partnership of Oskaloosa Main Street and Mahaska Chamber & Development Group with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach and is coordinated by Diane Van Wyngarden, ISU Extension Economic Development Specialist. “This is an opportunity for people to help revive Iowa’s small businesses and towns while discovering their new favorite places,” said Van Wyngarden. “We will provide a map to interesting stops, including small businesses, attractions, and hidden gems. Who knew that revitalizing Iowa’s economy could be so much fun?”
On Aug. 29, 1896, a day before his 15th birthday, Leo E. Welker surprised the crowd at a Colfax 14-mile bicycle race by overcoming a five-minute handicap to win easily. The African American youth and his mother, Alice Battles, had recently moved from the North Dakota frontier boomtown of Devils Lake to Colfax in the same year that 100 Black coal miners arrived there from Oskaloosa.
The first report of a Black bike racer in Iowa had appeared two years earlier in the Sept. 14, 1894, issue of the Iowa Bystander, the state s African American newspaper: Fred Wright of Marshalltown has gone to Eldora to enter bicycle races this week. In the next couple of years bike prices had dropped to the point that working-class people like Welker could afford one.
CEDAR RAPIDS â A proposal to ban traffic cameras throughout Iowa â except on the dangerous S-curve on Interstate 380 by downtown Cedar Rapids â got the green light Thursday from the Iowa Senate Judiciary Subcommittee.
Senate Study Bill 1176 seeks to bar Iowa communities from using automated traffic enforcement systems, reviving lawmakersâ on-again, off-again attempts for years to regulate or eliminate them. Some lawmakers see the cameras as traffic safety tools that reduce public safety costs, while others slam them as cash-generating constitutional violations.
This bill would let cameras stay along the S-curve, though it doesnât specifically say Cedar Rapids: âThis prohibition does not apply to a segment of an interstate road along or reasonably preceding or succeeding an elevated portion of the road with two adjacent circular curves with deflections in opposite directions located in a city having a population of between 120,000 and 130,000 based on t
Parents urge district to return to full-time learning
By Tabi Jozwick
Voice Correspondent
MACOMB Parents and some students in the Macomb CUSD 185 district are urging the district to return to full-time learning.
During Monday’s meeting, Macomb Superintendent Patrick M. Twomey told the Macomb CUSD 185 Board of Education that he wanted to wait until the Illinois Department of Public Health gave its ok before Macomb’s students returned to school full-time. However, parents did not feel the same.
During the public comments section of the meeting, Emily Roberts spoke in favor of having students returned to school full-time. She said Bushnell-Prairie City, West Prairie and several school districts with larger student populations were able to return to full-time learning and believed Macomb should be able to return to full-time learning.