26 Jun 2001

LeClaire Ambulance Closes Doors

By Joe Collins
• Saturday, June 30, will mark the end of LeClaire Ambulance Service. In December, the company, which has been in business for 36 years, had its license suspended for six months by the Iowa Department of Public Health after an incident in which the former ambulance-service director took 23 minutes to respond to a call.
19 Jun 2001

High Speed Train Might Come to Iowa

By Joe Collins
• Plans are continuing for a high-speed Amtrak passenger railroad route across Iowa that would connect Chicago and Iowa City. The route - which would cost $4 billion - would reach Omaha and would be part of a network that would include Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin.
12 Jun 2001

Symphony In Bloom Renamed, Picks Site

By Joe Collins
• The Quad City Symphony Orchestra Association has picked Davenport's River Center as the site of its 2002 Symphony in Bloom fundraiser. The show, to be renamed the Midwest Regional Lawn, Garden, & Flower Show Featuring Symphony in Bloom, will be held March 1 through 3, to coincide with the Quad City Symphony Orchestra's March Classical Series concerts.
06 Jun 2001

Blood Centers Merge

By Joe Collins
• The Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center (MVRBC) and Southeast Iowa Blood Center this week merged their operations to create the largest not-for-profit blood center in Iowa, with service to 25 hospitals in 23 counties throughout eastern and southeastern Iowa and western Illinois.
29 May 2001

Adler to Undergo Seating Makeover

By Joe Collins
• The Adler Theatre will be closed down from approximately July 9 through the first week of September to allow for renovation of the theatre's seating. This $353,460 capital-improvement project will ensure that each seat is reupholstered, foam padding and panes are replaced, seat backs are refinished, and self-rising mechanisms are installed.
22 May 2001

Kayakers for Charity Get Big Welcome

By Joe Collins
• On May 15 at 10:13 p.m., the Scott County Sheriff's Department was notified by concerned citizens that they saw flashlights and what they believed to be people in distress in the middle of the Mississippi River in the Princeton area.
15 May 2001

Iowa Legislature Runs Up $196,000 Overtime Tab

By Joe Collins
• Based on the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau's estimate that it costs $28,000 per working day after a session is scheduled to end, the cost of the Iowa legislature's overtime comes to $196,000. (Legislators were scheduled to finish business on April 27.
08 May 2001

A Variety of Flood Aid Available

By Joe Collins
• U.S. Bank and Firstar Bank will offer discounted loans to individuals in cities and surrounding communities of Moorhead, Minnesota; Fargo and Wahpeton, North Dakota; and Davenport, Iowa. The discounted loans, which will be available April 30 through May 18, are designed for customers who have flood-related expenses or who need to repair their homes because of the rising waters.
01 May 2001

Davenport Awarded Brownfield Grant

By Joe Collins
• Davenport has been awarded a $250,000 grant by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to assess brownfields, areas of former industrial sites. The area to be studied includes most of west Davenport in the vicinity of the Mississippi River and the area surrounding Nahant Marsh - the largest urban marsh on the upper Mississippi and a recently completed EPA Superfund project.
17 Apr 2001

Ozone Season Begins

By Joe Collins
• The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has resumed monitoring ground-level ozone, often called smog. State and local agencies use the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Air Quality Index to provide general information to the public about air quality and associated health effects.

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