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• Not too many music fans are familiar with the name Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin, but millions have heard the music of Enya. Enya Brennan is an Anglicized approximation of how this Irish singer’s name is pronounced in her native Donegal dialect. As of 2009, her album sales stood at over 70 million. This multi-talented FILLER PAGEall2the instruments and vocals musician performs 1Q08 of her songs and has sung in 10 in the majority There will be music, socializing, as well as attendance by the Czech Heritage Foundation Royalty. different languages WEEK 1 in her recordings. Her vocals Contact President Carol Wohlleben for areDEC layered to 80 30 up - JAN 5 times during recording to more details. 319-377-0753. achieve her distinctive sound. If you’ve seen the movie “Fellowship of the Ring,” you’ve heard her composition “May It Be,” the ﬁlm’s 34th Annual Houby Days theme, a song for which she received an Oscar May 13th - 15th PRESENTS nomination. She is Ireland’s second-biggest Friday 5:00 am - 9:00 pm musical artist. Saturday 7:00 am - 10:00 pm TRIVIA NEWSFRONT™ by Kara Kovalchik & Sandy Wood Sunday 7:00 am - 4:00 pm • If Enya is No. 2 in Ireland, who’s number one? Friday evening May 13, 2011, 5-7 p.m Held at the St. Ludmila Catholic Church Social Hall, 211 – 21st Ave. SW, Cedar Rapids. This year 12 samples for $10.00 will make a meal. This food feast of appetizers, soups, meat dishes, side dishes, and desserts kicks-off Houby Days Food samples will be from several Czech Village Association restaurants and the Guild members' favorite recipes from their available cookbooks.

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After a few years, the Army Corps of Engineers developed a plan to accomplish Cedar Rapids this by controlling the flow of water from tributary rivers. They determined that the best approach for many of these rivers would be to construct a flood control water reservoir. Each reservoir would only be designed for flood control and not recreation. The concept was to hold back water as necessary and slow release the water when possible, and allowing the reservoir not to hold any water during the winter months. (Please note that this should be reviewed by the Army Corps of Engineers as if this is true, then the life expectancy of the current reservoirs needs to be re-examined as the original designs may not have included the pressures of year round water saturation of surrounding soils and could allow for breaches as in other man made project failures). Shortly after the Army Corps of Engineers submitted their plans, we entered World War II and funding was not approved until well after the war ended. Discussing the Coralville water reservoir, ground breaking begin in 1950 and was finished in 1959. However construction was halted during the Korean war which may have been as much as three years right in the beginning of the project. Without any urgent need to complete the project, the time to construct this project was obviously less than 10 years. By the time this and other reservoirs were completed, congress revised their plans and set minimum water levels for the Army Corps of Engineers to maintain for water recreation. Well the Army Corps of Engineers are very smart and realized that they no longer could properly control flooding of the navigable rivers. Therefore why continue to build more reservoirs if the current ones could not contain all the excess water during the summer months. The Army Corps of Engineers seemed to know that someday water would need to be released in excess of desired amounts and possible overflow past the spillways. (Speaking of spillways, as I understand it, the amount of water that went over the Coralville spillway in 2008 would only fill the reservoir by less than a quarter of its total capacity. The amount that would have been captured to prevent flooding had the reservoir been empty in the spring would have only filled the reservoir half way.) Other problems with the higher water level in the spring is regular flooding upstream also. I understand that Marengo always has had problems with spring thaws as the area is rather flat. However since 1950 they have experienced worse flooding as the river now exceeds it’s banks regularly and that they have had to install dikes along the river because of this higher water level. So people upstream of reservoirs have had to pay a high price for people who want to use the reservoir for recreation. (I myself have a boat and enjoy using it, however I would not like to think that it is at other peoples expense that I would get any pleasure by using the reservoir area to boat in). Sure, people who live along the reservoirs may see a slight property value decrease, however they will not be completely wipe out as thousands were and will again someday lose everything when the water exceeds the limits of the reservoir. People who have built or purchased a home or business can adapt to the new and originally planned wildlife area that sometimes has varying water levels. 2010, the Nashville flood should have been prevented by not allowing the reservoir there to keep water year round as they also have a flood control only reservoir. That reservoir was also not designed for recreation. We the people (Tax payers) have allowed congress to allocate money to build very expensive flood control only structures. But we the people have allowed for these flood only structures to not be properly be used. Thus causing we the people to allow our government to spend billions of dollars to rebuild what was destroyed by floods that could have been prevented. Federal tax money is being spent all the time including by some people reading this letter when all along we should have been protected by proper flood control that the Army Corps of Engineers spent tax money to devise a great plan to prevent these problems. The reservoirs were not meant to save cities like Coralville and Iowa City. But with good sound planning, that was the spin off benefit for protecting the Mississippi from flooding. However the Army Corps of Engineers would need to build additional reservoirs along hundreds of other rivers across the country in order to complete their original goal to protect rivers with barge traffic. As I understand it, the Army Corps of Engineers had planned to put a reservoir upstream of Waterloo. The Cedar River will never flood Cedar Rapids with only localized heavy rain. High waters from upstream need to be present before Cedar Rapids could ever flood. If a water reservoir was built north of Waterloo, then all communities and farm land could be protected from flooding downstream. (Considering that the reservoir was only used for flood protection or if it would be designed as a dual purpose reservoir with recreation water levels figured into the original plans). Then all of our worries and planning would be resolved and we could concentrate on other issues to better our way of life. In fact with better control of river water levels, plans for river walks and other recreation along the rivers could flourish since flooding would no longer need to be considered for these types of projects. The city of Cedar Rapids sent out a weekly flyer after the flood. I’m working from memory as I don’t have that flyer at hand now. But it listed various flood measures they are considering. The number one item they listed that would protect the city by 100% was a water reservoir. Keep in mind this was shortly after the 2008 flood and they obviously knew of the flooding that was below the Coralville water reservoir. Now they stated in the flyer that they will need to take ten years to plan what to do. However as stated above, the Coralville reservoir took less than ten years to construct and now they stated that a reservoir would take too long to build. They also stated that a reservoir would be too costly to build. I strongly disagree with this statement since the payer is the Federal Government and the Federal Government is the one who will be paying for most projects along the Cedar River. I’m sure that the cost of a single water reservoir would not exceed what both Waterloo and Cedar Rapids planners have in mind. However Cedar Rapids planners are probably only considering that they want Federal money spent in this town and not somewhere else. This would be very short sided of people as a reservoir would protect all communities, including those that will never see any separate flood control measures installed around them. Next on the flyer had several different projects, and if all were completed (Levies, flood walls, neighbourhoods let to flood etc..) they stated that they would prevent future floods by 70%. What is wrong with this concept??? Why would anyone even consider anything less than 100% protection when it is possible to achieve? Moving levies and building high flood walls will only cause flood waters to flow around them further upstream. The sheer volume of water that came through our communities during the 2008 flood was so great that it is hard to fathom the height needed to protect the communities, but yet could be held back by a reservoir. I have sent off my comments to many politicians, but only one has ever responded. He has some good ideas about establishing wet lands and other areas to temporally flood, however when a single project could be all that is needed, why spend all the time, energy and tax money to reinvent a flood plan. If anyone has comments, facts or other information they would like to share with me I would gladly appreciate it as I cannot back up much of what I have written here. But all that I have written seems to make sense and I currently stand behind it all. It is obvious that something does need to be approved and started as soon as possible. Sincerely, Russ Swart russ@tidbitpapers.com

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