CEDAR RAPIDS – When store leaders saw the crowd gathered outside The Fresh Market before its scheduled grand opening on Wednesday, Oct. 1, they decided to let customers in early. Brian Wittman, vice president for The Fresh Market’s north zone, said customers already were lined up outdoors when he arrived at 7 a.m. Officially, the […]
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Three-way grocery store “race” nears fin
By Cindy Hadish/For the Corridor Business Journal CEDAR RAPIDS — Three east-side grocery stores could open their doors within months of each other, but store leaders insist it’s not a race to see who can finish first. The Fresh Market, New Pioneer Food Co-op and Fareway all will open new stores just a few minutes’ […]
Weekend photo gallery: Honey Fest!
CEDAR RAPIDS – It was an almost-perfect day for Honey Fest at the Indian Creek Nature Center. Children, and adults, enjoyed food, honey lemonade, games, beeswax candle-making and more. The only thing missing was the live bee beard. For that – when a beekeeper allows thousands of bees to swarm and create a living “beard” […]
Last Downtown Farmers Market of the seas...
WASHINGTON, Iowa – This Saturday, Sept. 20, is your last chance of 2014 to see everything the Downtown Farmers Market offers in Cedar Rapids, but don’t dismiss the many other farmers markets that are held in Eastern Iowa, some of which continue through October. Many years ago, my friend Marlene Lucas, in her job as […]
Intrastate rivalry: Cyclones outnumber H...
CEDAR RAPIDS – No one actually took a head count, but one water quality “fan” was wearing a Cyclone jacket during the “Clean Streams and Waterways” panel discussion hosted by the League of Women Voters, so in my estimation, ISU won the numbers game at today’s forum at the Indian Creek Nature Center. Before I […]
The Fresh Market sets Oct. 1 grand openi...
CEDAR RAPIDS – Offering local, organic and all-natural products, prepared foods, custom cuts of meat and bulk spices, The Fresh Market will open its doors Oct. 1 in Cedar Rapids. The store has been remodeling the former Kmart location, 180 Collins Rd. NE, at the same time that New Pioneer Food Co-op has been renovating […]
Learn how to take plant cuttings at Noel...
CEDAR RAPIDS – The landscape at Noelridge Park constantly evolves, giving park-goers something new to see, no matter how often they go. At this time of year, the fall flowers are at their height of beauty, and if that wasn’t reason enough to stop by the park – at Council Street and Collins Road NE […]
Galaxy 16 in Cedar Rapids to host open a...
CEDAR RAPIDS – Opening night – and the day after – for a Midwestern-shot movie will coincide with open auditions for another new film. Ted Trent Studios and Circa 87 will hold open call auditions for their new movie shooting in the Midwest next summer at 13 Wehrenberg Theatres, including the Galaxy 16, 5340 Council St. […]
“Virtual farmers markets” use modern tec
By Cindy Hadish/for Edible Iowa River Valley magazine Kim Burnett-Hanssen is passionate about local foods, but can do without the chaos sometimes found at large farmers markets. “I work nights and I’m not a big crowd person,” said Burnett-Hanssen, a communications specialist at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines. When she heard about the […]
Edible forest movement grows in Iowa: Qu...
By Cindy Hadish/for Radish Magazine Rhonda Dunn is interested in growing food, but not the way her mother gardened. “She’d till every spring and hoe it and weed it,” said Dunn, an Iowa City nurse practitioner. “That was the way she knew and it worked for her, but I don’t want to be out hoeing […]