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Men Who Cook Equipping Youth Event at Touch of Class 5977 Mt. Vernon Rd SE, Cedar Rapids, IA Thursday April 14th, 6:30 pm MWC is Equipping Youth’s yearly fundraiser. EY teaches ‘Powerful Choices’ curricula in our area middle schools. Supportive community leaders, who are concerned about our youth, will offer a mouthwatering sampling of dishes as they compete for your vote and the coveted Best of the Best traveling trophy. Come hungry to this FREE event. Please RSVP to 319-861-2747 or e-mail toverton@equippingyouth.org w w w. e q u i p p i n g y o u t h . o r g

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Cedar Rapids annual spring stamp show Cedar Rapids Stamp Club 222 Prospect Place SW (Union Hall) Cedar Rapids, IA Sat April 16th, 9-5 Sun. April 17th, 10-4 Largest annual stamp show in Iowa, competitive exhibits, free admission and parking, free stamps for kids, great rafﬂe prize, free hourly drawings, buy, sell, and trade philatelic items.

APRIL EVENTS (continued): • April has been an eventful month in the world of baseball. In April of 1912, Detroit’s Tiger Stadium and Boston’s Fenway Park both opened on the same day. Eleven years later, Yankee Stadium had its opening day in April. New York Mets’ Shea Stadium was inaugurated in April of 1964. It was an especially memorable occasion when the world’s first domed sports stadium opened in April of 1965. Houston’s Astrodome was built at a cost of $37 million and included a sophisticated air conditioning system to deal with Texas’ July and August average temperatures of 97 degrees. Opening night entertainment at the Astrodome included performances by Judy Garland and The Supremes. The Astros were up against the New York Yankees in an exhibition game, and Mickey Mantle hit the first home run in the Astrodome off Houston pitcher Turk Farrell. •The Titanic departed from the port at Southampton, England, on April 10, 1912, bound for New York City. The ship set sail with 2,227 passengers on board and lifeboats for only 1,178 of those people. In the wee hours of the morning on April 15, two and a half hours after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic, the Titanic sank, taking 1,517 people to their deaths. • You’ve probably never heard of Harriet Quimby, but she’s quite famous in her own right. Quimby was the first woman to earn a pilot’s license in the United States and less than a year later, became the first woman to fly across the English Channel. In April of 1912, she took off from Dover, England, and landed on a French beach 59 minutes later. Unfortunately, her amazing feat didn’t get much coverage in the newspapers, as the tragic sinking of the Titanic had taken place the day before.

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APRIL EVENTS (continued): • April has been a big month for space adventures. In April of 1961, Soviet Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space aboard Vostok I, edging out American Alan Shepard by a mere 23 days. Apollo 13 blasted off on April 11, 1970, commanded by James A. Lovell Jr. and scheduled as the third space mission to land on the moon. Two days later, an oxygen tank aboard the craft exploded, placing the crew in grave danger. They returned safely on April 17. Apollo 16 made an April 1972 flight to the moon, under the command of John Young. The first launch of the space shuttle Columbia also occurred in April, in 1981, and in 1990, the shuttle Discovery headed into space carrying the $1.5 billion Hubble Telescope. • Earth Day was first observed in April of 1970, with 20 million participants. It was the brainstorm of U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, who came up with the idea after touring a disastrous oil spill in the Santa Barbara, California, area. In his words, “It had been troubling me that the state of our environment was simply a non-issue in the politics of the country.” • The press dubbed it “The Wedding the Century” when actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier III of Monaco in April of 1956. Thirty-six seamstresses worked on the 26-year-old Kelly’s wedding dress for six weeks in preparation for the nuptials. She had met the prince the previous April while doing a photo shoot in connection with the Cannes Film Festival. After eight months of correspondence, Rainier traveled to America, met the Kelly family, and three days later, he proposed. Her family was required to provide a dowry of $2 million to him before marriage plans were to proceed. Six hundred guests attended the wedding, and the royal couple departed that evening for a seven-week Mediterranean honeymoon cruise aboard the prince’s yacht.

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June 22– July 22 What’s all of the fuss about, Cancer? You have so much to be happy about. Don’t let little mishaps at work and home get you off track. Rise above them.

January 20– February 18 Little minds can be impressionable, so be careful what you say, Aquarius. The noose around your neck at work loosens with an addition.

July 23– August 22 Live and learn, Leo. What’s done is done and now you must move on. A tickle of the ivories gets the party going over the weekend. A deadline is moved up.

February 19– March 20 Normalcy returns to your home, as a renovation is completed. Give everyone some time to decompress, Pisces, before you start unpacking.

August 23– September 22 Time to get your game face on, Virgo. Competition is heating up. Keep in mind that presentation counts, and you’re sure to hit one out of the park.

• April has had its share of tragedies. In 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed by Timothy McVeigh. In 1999, Colorado’s Columbine High School shootings occurred. It was also the month of the assassinations of President Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. The devastating nuclear accident at the Soviet Union’s Chernobyl plant also took place in April. • Twenty-seven-year-old James Cash Penney headed out to Wyoming in 1902, and on April 13 of that year in the community of Kemmerer, he opened his ﬁrst dry goods and clothing store called The Golden Rule. He chose the name because it was his philosophy to treat others the way he would like to be treated. In his free time, Penney worked as a lumberjack felling trees. Ten years later, his chain of stores had grown to 34 stores, and he incorporated them all as the J.C. Penney Company. By 1924, he was generating an income upwards of $1.5 million a year. Today, the company operates over 1,100 stores with 150,000 employees and sales approaching $18 billion annually. And that little store in Kemmerer? Still there, operating on a daily basis.

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• On April 17, 1790, American statesman, printer, scientist and writer Benjamin Franklin dies in Philadelphia at age 84. Deeply interested in science and technology, his inventions include the Franklin stove, bifocal eyeglasses and the lightning rod.

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• On April 11, 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France, abdicates the throne and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. He died at age 52 on May 5, 1821, possibly from stomach cancer, although some theories contend he was poisoned. • On April 12, 1908, a ﬁre in Chelsea, Mass., at the Boston Blacking Company leaves 12 dead, 85 missing and presumed dead and more than 17,000 homeless. Due to high winds, a good portion of the city burned. It took nearly 10 years for Chelsea to be completely rebuilt.

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• On April 16, 1943, in Basel, Switzerland, Albert Hoffman, a Swiss chemist, accidentally consumes LSD-25, a synthetic drug he had created in 1938 as part of his research into the medicinal value of lysergic acid compounds. Widespread use of the so-called mind-expanding drug did not begin until the 1960s.

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• On April 15, 1959, new Cuban leader Fidel Castro visits the United States. The trip got off to an inauspicious start when it became Four high schoolPresident boys sufferingDwight from spring D. Eisenhower clear that fever skipped morning classes. After lunch, theywith Castro. had no intention of meeting reported to theEisenhower teacher that they hadwent a flat tire. Instead, to the golf course They were relieved when she smiled and said, to avoid any chance meeting.

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and 13, take out1964, a piece ofSydney paper.” StillPoitier becomes • one Onanother April the first African to win the Acadsmiling, she waited for themAmerican to sit down. Then she emy Award said, “First question:for WhichBest tire wasActor, flat?” for his role as a construction worker in “Lilies of the Field” (1963). He debuted on Broadway in 1946 in an all-black production of “Lysistrata,” and by 1950 he was appearing in Hollywood films, beginning with “No Way Out.” • On April 14, 1975, the American airlift of Vietnamese orphans to the United States ends after 2,600 children are transported to America. Operation Baby Lift lasted 10 days and was carried out during the final, desperate phase of the war, as North Vietnamese This word were means: Flower of the month forces closing in on Saigon.

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