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Celebrating the people behind an Iowa community’s living history
They held a garden party. I didn’t go. Not because I did not want to see old friends, but I wasn’t invited. I could have gone anyway, and I would have been welcomed. I, however, would have felt like the kid who showed up for the first two practices for football, dropped out and then wanted to sit up front at the victory celebration. I did not attend because I hadn’t earned my letter.
Cedar Rapids Preparing As They Could Get Moderate Flood Damage
(Cedar Rapids, IA) -- The Cedar River has crested in Waterloo and Cedar Falls. It is expected to crest in Cedar Rapids at 14.5 feet on Saturday. Cedar Rapids is preparing as they could get moderate flood damage. Several roads and parks are expected to close ahead of the crest.
City Attorney Retires
Bill Werger started his 41 year legal career after graduating from the University of Iowa Law School and being admitted to the Iowa Bar on June 17, 1983. After being admitted to practice in Iowa, he joined a law firm in Iowa City, spent several years in the General Counsel’s office of Farm Bureau Insurance in West Des Moines and twenty years in private practice in Manchester before moving to Waverly in the summer of 2009 where he spent the last 15 years.
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