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Come to purchase pansy baskets, geranium pots, garden art, perennials, homemade pies of every flavor. unique gift and bakery items. Lunch served until 2 PM. Washington High School Japanese Club

Japanese Dinner April 28, 2012 - 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Washington High School, 2205 Forest Dr. SE, Cedar Rapids Authentic Japanese dinner prepared by Washington Japanese Club. Also Sushi rolling and Origami demonstrations. Adults $10; kids $5 for 10 and under; age 4 and under, free. Tickets at door or call Julie Cain, teacher, 558-3225. Proceeds help fund Club’s student exchange program with Okinawa high school. Bertram United Methodist Church Annual Bertram Spring Community Dinner Saturday April 28th, - 5 to 7 p.m. 211 Angle Street/Bertram $6 for adults and $3.50 for children 6 to 12 years old

All proceeds will benefit children’s programs and other community services at Bertram United Methodist Church. Everyone is welcome.

Peoples Spring Music Festival May 5, 2012 - 7pm - 9pm 4980 Gordon Ave NW, Cedar Rapids

Featured will be blues man Dale Beeks, the Deep Dish Divas, and Peoples own choir and musicians. Full church members: $20 advance sale: $25 at the door. Church friends and general public: $25 advance sale; $30 at the door. Tickets will be available after Sunday services, or anytime by contacting Bryan or Kris Davis: bryanandkris@gmail.com, or 294-5010

Walk in A Child’s Shoes Saturday, May 5, 2012 Noelridge Park Cedar Rapids

Begins at noon at the Lagoon Pavilion! Join us for an afternoon of family fun for a great cause. Proceeds fund FHF’s Shoe Voucher Program that provides shoes for children in foster care or relative placement.

Annual Spring Dinner May 5, 2012 - 4 to 7 p.m. 5th and Main Streets Central City, Iowa

Beef and Homemade Noodles or Ham, Mashed Potatoes, Corn, Choice of Salads and Drinks, Homemade Pies and Cakes. Enjoy our our Plant Sale and Candy Booth! Adults: $8.00 Children under 10: $4.00

A railway tea at the museum Belle Plaine Historical Society Belle Plaine, Iowa Sunday, May 6 at 2:00 p.m.

Bottomless cups of brewed tea or coffee, entertainment, door prizes, and take-home goodies are also included in the price of $15 per person or $65 for a table of 6. Entertainment will be music by the Manifests.

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• Chester Carlson spent a good part of his life perfecting the copy machine, receiving a patent in 1937. However, the world didn’t share his vision of one-touch copying, and 20 companies, including IBM, rejected his presentation before it was finally marketed for the first time in 1959 under the name “Xerox 914.” By 1968, Fortune magazine ranked Carlson among the richest people in America. • The 1950s brought all kinds of innovations to the modern home. Velcro, power steering, pocket transistor radios and Legos all hit the scene during this decade. The world’s first credit card, the Diners Club card, was introduced in 1950. Issued in New York City, it offered credit at 27 restaurants. The American Express card came along eight years later. • When your eyes begin to age, you’ll be thankful for one of Benjamin Franklin’s innovations. Our founding father invented bifocal eyeglasses at the age of 79. • Travelers have had the convenience of pulling into a Holiday Inn along the road since the chain opened its first hotel in 1952 in Memphis, Tennessee. • Masking tape was developed by the 3M Company, a sandpaper-making firm, in 1925. One of the company’s young engineers, Richard Drew, was testing sandpaper at an automobile plant and noticed that painters were having difficulty painting the newly popular two-tone cars. Drew went back to 3M and immediately began work on a product to solve the painters’ dilemma. Waterproof transparent “Scotch” tape came along five years later, also the creation of Richard Drew. A 3M co-worker of Drew’s invented the tape dispenser with a built-in cutter blade in 1932.

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• Do you run faster in your Nikes? No one did, prior to 1972. That’s the year the company introduced its first running shoes, named after the Greek goddess of victory. The company was originally named Blue Ribbon Sports, and remained so until the name change to Nike in 1978. • Listerine wasn’t named after its inventor, Dr. Joseph Lawrence, but rather after the acclaimed British surgeon, Dr. Joseph Lister, a pioneer in establishing sanitary operating room procedures. When Lawrence originated the formula in 1879 in his St. Louis laboratory, he intended the concoction to be used strictly in the medical profession as a surgical antiseptic. It wasn’t offered to the public until 1914 when it was marketed as the first over-the-counter mouthwash. • What would sports fans do without instant replays? There was no such thing until 1963, when this was introduced in that year’s Army vs. Navy football game. Fans became so confused, TV stations were flooded with telephone calls. • Housewives across the country were thrilled when the Hurley Machine Company of Chicago launched The Thor, the first electric-powered washing machine, in 1908. It was a drum-like machine with a galvanized tub and electric motor. • Due to the efforts of Lillian Gilbreth, we have shelves and butter and egg trays inside refrigerator doors, an electric food mixer, an improved electric can opener and a trash can with a foot pedal lid opener. The mother of 12 children, this industrial engineer was immortalized in the book “Cheaper by the Dozen.”

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• On April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. The original plan involved a simultaneous assassination of Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward. • On April 24, 1936, a group of firemen responding to an alarm in Camden, N.J., is televised. It was the first time an unplanned event was broadcast on television, anticipating the development of live TV news coverage. • On April 25, 1947, President Harry Truman officially opens the first White House bowling alley. Eisenhower closed the two-lane alley in 1955 and turned it into a mimeograph room. Nixon had a onelane alley installed underground directly beneath the North Portico entrance of the White House.

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March 21– April 19 Spring flowers remind you of the work that has yet to be done outside and inside. Attack it one task at a time, Aries, and don’t be afraid to get others involved.

September 23– October 22 Dictate and defy, or delegate and deliver? What’s it going to be this week, Libra? You know the answer. You just need to implement it.

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November 22– December 21 Your calendar begins to fill up, and you must work hard to get everything in. Try not to fuss, Sagittarius. You won’t be this busy forever.

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Computerized Wheel Alignment ● Front End Component Replacement Brakes, Shocks and Struts ● CV Joints and Boots, Coil Springs Oil Changes and much more!