CEDAR RAPIDS – Demonstrators braved sweltering heat Wednesday to protest Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids. Nearly 100 people stood across the street from the headquarters of the largest employer in the city while Pence, accompanied by U.S. Rep. Rod Blum (R-IA,) spoke to workers inside. Less than a handful […]
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Photos: Kolache baking and tour of Bohem...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – Czech School students learned how to bake kolaches today, with help from the expert kolache-makers from St. Monica’s Circle at St. Wenceslaus Church. Students rolled balls of the dough, used a glass to form a perfect circle in the center and filled the dough with poppyseed, cherry, apricot and prune filling, […]
Photos: Czech School students learn art ...
Master Czech Folk Artist, Marj Nejdl of Cedar Rapids, led the older division Czech School students through the steps of kraslice, the art of decorating eggs. Students learned how to use wax and dye to create designs and layers of color and even how to blow the yolk out of the eggs, at the Glovik […]
Stewarding our planet’s resources: one r
By Cindy Hadish/for Lure magazine Chris and Eryn Cronbaugh had multiple reasons to “go solar” with their home in Cedar Rapids. The two cited their concern for the environment, a stewardship of the Earth’s resources and economics behind their decision to retrofit the 1929 home with a ground mount system. “It seemed like a good […]
Cedar Rapids marking 10-year flood anniv...
By Cindy Hadish/Homegrown Iowan The coming week begins a retrospective on the 10 years that have passed since the epic 2008 floods in Eastern Iowa, including Cedar Rapids. For those who say the June 11-13 disaster was the best thing to ever happen to this city, it’s not a stretch to guess what they did, […]
Photos: St. Ludmila Kolach Festival
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — The Kolach Festival has been an annual tradition at St. Ludmila’s Catholic Church for decades, first getting its start in 1938. This year’s festival, from June 8-10, 2018, was particularly poignant, as St. Ludmila’s School closed at the end of this school year, due to declining enrollment. Part of the Holy […]
Photos: Czech National Cemetery Memorial...
CEDAR RAPIDS – It’s been years since the Czech National Cemetery’s Memorial Day Service was actually held at the cemetery, at 2200 C St. SW in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Weather on Memorial Day in Iowa often fluctuates between wet and dreary and, as was the case today, hot and humid, so the St. Wenceslaus Glovik […]
Photos: Opening day at the Downtown Farm...
CEDAR RAPIDS – Organizers of the Downtown Farmers Market pushed the opening day of 2018 into May, instead of June, but the season was still off to a sultry start on Saturday, May 26. Shade and a light breeze made temperatures that soared into the 90s tolerable and market vendors saw steady crowds. Those selling […]
American Idol winner Maddie Poppe to per...
CEDAR RAPIDS – She was still an American Idol contestant when Maddie Poppe was announced as one of the performers at Market After Dark, the nighttime version of the Downtown Farmers Market. After being crowned the winner of this season’s American Idol on Monday, May 21, organizers of the market note that Poppe still plans […]
Photos: Houby Days 2018 in Cedar Rapids,...
CEDAR RAPIDS – It was nearly a clean sweep in the morel contest during this year’s Houby Days, a three-day festival that celebrates the springtime mushroom and the city’s Czech heritage. Mike Haugsted of Cedar Rapids won the largest, smallest and best mushroom displays in the annual contest. Brody Driscoll of Hiawatha broke Haugsted’s streak […]