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Pancake and Sausage Breakfast Kenwood Park United Methodist Church, 175 34th Street, NE. September 18 7:30 AM to 10:30 AM Adults $5.00 and children (ages 6 to 12) $2.00. The Cedar Rapids Noon Lions Club is hosting this event. Proceeds go to sight preservation and hearing assistance. Donations of used eye glasses and hearing aids will be accepted

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Annual Holiday Market

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Natural arches show the remarkable beauty of nature. It is phenomenal to see the rock structures that occur with only nature as the architect. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society (NABS) created a list of the “Big 13” natural arches that have spans over 200 feet (61 m). Of those, six are in Utah, four in China, and one each in Colorado, New Mexico and Chad. The NABS assembled experts to come up with standards and definitions for measuring natural arches, but a simple definition of the span is, “the horizontal extent of unsupported rock.” Their website is a great resource for information about arches: w w w. n a t u r a l a r c h e s . o r g . • According to the NABS, the largest arch in the “Big 13” is Fairy Bridge on Buliu River, Guangxi, China, with a span of 295 feet (90 m). Raft trips under the arch are a popular tourist attraction in the area. • Utah is home to Arches National Park, which contains over 2,000 natural stone arches. The 73,000-acre (29542 ha) area is full of spires, balanced rocks, canyons and magnificent sandstone arches. • President Herbert Hoover signed legislation on April 12, 1929, creating Arches National Monument, and then on November 12, 1971, Congress changed the status to Arches National Park.

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ARCHES (continued): • The Chinese are known for their mystical and mythical reasoning that is reflected in their building, design and just about everything they do. The Dagu Bridge in Tianjin, China, has two asymmetrical arches said to resemble the sun and moon. The bridge crosses the Haihe River and its motto is: “The sun and the moon dance with the golden dragon.”

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ARCHES (continued): The park is a Mecca for hikers and bikers and arch-seekers in the fall and spring. Since this area of Utah has a “high desert” climate, the summers can be very hot. Delicate Arch is one of the most famous arches in Arches National Park. It is the arch seen on Utah license plates, advertisements, tourism magazines and pamphlets. One of the largest of the 2,000-plus arches in the park collapsed in 2008. Wall Arch was the 12th largest in size with an opening beneath the span that was 71 feet (22 m) wide and 33-1/2 feet (10 m) high. No one saw it collapse. Landscape Arch in Arches National Park is the second largest on the NABS list of the “Big 13.” It has a span of 290 feet (88 m) and in the thinnest section is only about 6 feet (2 m) thick. According to the NABS, “This arch could collapse at any time: any day, any year, any decade, or any century.” Plan a trip to see it now before it is too late! Next in line to Landscape Arch in size is Kolob Arch in Zion National Park, Utah, with a span of 287 feet (87 m). Another park set aside to protect natural arches is Arches Provincial Park on the western side of Newfoundland. There are three arches (There were four; one collapsed.) that are all 15 feet (4.6 m) high. Two interesting temporary bicycle arches were built for events in 2006 and 2007. Toronto had a bike arch that was constructed in the summer of 2006 at Queens Quay. The second bike arch was built at the Burning Man Festival at Black Rock Desert, Nevada, in 2007. The first monument dedicated to world peace is astride the international border between Blaine, Washington, and Surrey, British Columbia. The International Peace Arch, dedicated in 1921, represents the longest undefended boundary in the world with one foot anchored in Canada and the other in the United States.

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ARCHES (continued): • The Peace Arch is one of the first earthquakeproof structures to be built in North America. It is 67 feet (20 m) high, made of concrete and reinforced steel. The foundation has 76, 14-inch (36 cm) pilings driven 25-30 feet (7-9 m) in the earth. The inscription on the east side of the Peace Arch reads, “May These Gates Never Be Closed.” It is one of the few world landmarks listed on the Historic Registries of two countries. • Jackson, Wyoming, (the area is known as Jackson Hole) has four elk antler arches at the corners of Town Square Park in the center of the Western town. The arches were first put up in the 1960s by the Rotary Club, using antlers gathered from the nearby National Elk Refuge. Male elk shed their antlers every spring and grow new ones in the summer. Each arch, made from about 2,000 antlers, weighs 7,000-10,000 pounds (3175 – 4500 kg). A campaign to replace the antler arches started in 2006. The Rotary Club of Jackson Hole has been auctioning off the old arches and replacing them with new ones. These are definitely tourist attractions worth keeping. Millions of tourists from all over the world have had their pictures taken under the arches. • By the way, elk antlers are gathered by Boy Scouts on the Elk Refuge property each spring for an auction the Saturday before Memorial Day each May. The scouts donate about 80 percent of the proceeds to the Elk Refuge. $25 off a lovable pet portrait! For the first 5 people this week who call and mention this ad.

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