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Budget-Friendly Decorating Tips
Published on - October 16th, 2010 (by J.D. Roth)
In April, Rebecca shared a guest post about how she generates extra income by letting strangers pay her rent. She has homes in Portland, Oregon and New York City. When she's in one city, she rents out her place in the other. By doing this, she's able to subsidize her housing payments.
Rebecca's full of good advice. Soon after sharing her story, she also entered the Get Rich Slowly video contest. In her two-minute video, she offered a series of budget-friendly decorating tips:
How does Rebecca save money while decorating her home?
First, she shops at thrift stores. Thrift stores are loaded with knick-knacks and furniture, and not all of it is junk. In fact, if you're patient and particular, you can find some great deals.
Next, she scours Craigslist for decorating material. To make things easier, she adds her Craigslist searches to Google reader so that she gets automatic updates on the items she's interested in.
Finally, Rebecca's not afraid to make stuff. This is a great way to do some personalized home decorating. If you and/or your friends are artists, or even if you just find something you like on the internet or in a magazine, you have cheap sources of decorating material. (In our old house, I hung dozens of comic books on the wall of one room as my contribution to the decorating scheme. Kris just shook her head, but I loved it!)
What sorts of things do you do to decorate your home on the cheap?
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I liked the video. It's a great way to get your point across in today's society. Shop at thrift stores, search craigslist, and make stuff. Got it.
Has anyone ever had success with painting their kitchen appliances? I have a mishmash of working beige appliances and I would like them to all be white. Any words of wisdom?
Watch out for bedbugs in used furniture!
Framing childrens' and grandchildrens' art an be surprisingly jazzy. Recently, we shopped a going-out-of-business sale at a local furniture store and picked up a great wine-inspired metal wall-hanging for our dining room.
Second hand furniture stores generally have loads of art at less-than-new prices. Although it's not as cheap as the thrift store, it's still good and the variety and quality are generally better.
We buy much fewer pieces than we did in our 30-something days. It's easy to cultivate a love for a simplistic, streamlined look when you realize the $400 chair you bought for your front entry gets sat in by…well…no one. We also combine our love for travel with decorating by bringing home one piece per trip that we LOVE and that has memories for us as well.
Sunny, there is appliance paint. I think we got ours at Sears- but it has been a LONG time.
Maureen- all of our walls are covered with "travel art". Paintings that we purchased for $5 someplace is fabulous on the wall. Our kids' friends used to call us the museum. It they had only known that all the art cost less than the couch! My son enlarged some of the photos of places we had traveled and hung them. My daughter has had lots of luck finding great art in thrift stores near a military base. We have very little furniture- but lots of art:>)
@ Sunny – My dad once painted the front panel of a dishwasher in black (remember the 90s when black appliances were en vogue – LOL). It looked great and lasted as long as the dishwasher did. I don't know what kind of paint he used. I suspect if you search for painting kitchen appliances on the internet you'll find out what works and what doesn't.
I've recently been doing some painting in my house. First of all I waited to buy my supplies from the hardware store when I had a 10% off coupon – those are fairly abundant for the major hardware stores. I bought one brush, tray, tray liners, trim cup, painter's pad, refills, plastic dropcloth, masking tape. I wash and reuse everything so I don't have to buy more. Obviously the painter's pads only have so many uses in them. I'll do two rooms with them and then toss. Using the 10% off coupon saves me tax plus a little more.
As for the paint I'll only use Sherwin-Williams cause it is such high quality and looks great on the walls. It'll last far longer than cheap paint. I'm partial to cashmere quality cause it goes on like butter. Anyway SW usually runs a 30% off coupon in the coupon section of the Sunday paper every so often. Basically 30% off is $12 per gallon. I bought paint for 4 rooms the other day and saved $72. You can get other paints for much cheaper, but it doesn't look nearly as good nor will it look good in 5-10 years from now.
So if you are doing things that you can use coupons with I highly recommend that. Don't sacrifice quality on things that you plan to last for a few years.
Rebecca great video. I love that thrift store. If I went there I'd probably would be broke. Such selection!
Paint is a great way to spruce up your home. It's amazing what a couple gallons of paint can do. You don't have to paint every wall, just a few.
People think that when you have to buy furniture you have to buy a set. Just add pieces that you like as you go.
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Sunny – you can buy appliance paint. I used melamine paint and it worked fine. Just takes a long time to dry.
I needed a duvet cover for 2 bedrooms. Found duvet covers to be expensive and limited in styles. But you can easily make a duvet cover from two flat sheets, which offer a lot more variety and are a lot cheaper. You probably need a sewing machine, but you can try to use fabric glue, or hand stitch if you have the patience. Lots of instructions available online.
I also want a pelmet box over a large window, which would cost A Fortune but can easily be made to custom size and style with lumber, hinges, paint and scraps of fabric. But I would recommend testing your desired style and colors using cardboard first. Some folks make their pelmet boxes strictly out of cardboard, but for a large window, this is hard to do without it eventually sagging out in the middle.
Lots of DIY decorating ideas can give you a very expensive looking home without the expense. You can just google DIY decorating. I find a lot of inspiration from looking at magazines and websites that feature interior design/decor, and even walking around expensive interior decor stores, just to get ideas. If you see something you really like, you can ask yourself, "Could I make that or fake that?" and often you can. If you can't think of a way, go home and google it, and I bet you'll find instructions.
I second the recommendation to spend time at thrift stores or GoodWill. A fellow reader of a design blog recently found a pink Victorian revival loveseat at her local GoodWill for $70.. something that would normally cost upwards to $1000. You can also find sconces, mirrors, frames, sheets (for fabric), and other items that can be used in decor and would cost 10 times as much in a retail or antique store.
This is one of those situations, though, where you have to decide if you would enjoy doing these things, and if not, if your time is more valuable than the money you would save. I am in a lot of groups with people for whom this is a hobby, but if you have other hobbies, I can see how this might all sound like a pain in the rear.
Oh I second the recommendation for paint, and would like to add some tricks to make a plain room look very stylish:
Break out of the beige-to-white safety zone. Use colors; you can always paint over it if it's a disaster. You can do a whole room or pick a wall to be your "accent" wall and put a bold color on that.
Many stylish rooms have a chair rail or picture rail (the difference is the height), and you can easily get that look by painting your room two different colors (or two different glosses) on the bottom and top halves, and nailing in some trim at the border.
Another idea is to use vertical stripes (on the whole room or the accent wall), and they don't have to be bold clashes of color, they can even be the same color in flat and gloss for a subtle effect.
@Sunny, my husband has even told me about stainless steel paint, if you want that look. We haven't been brave enough to try it on a major appliance yet. I know they make special oven or stove paint, which is heat resistant, so you may want to look into that for a toaster, also. I think Rustoleum makes some.
@Rachel very good warning.
OMG! That was my fav thrift store when i lived in SF… got a rad picture frame there.
I have picked up a lot of great things at yard sales. We got a beautiful piece of artwork for over our bed for $15. Also got a small bench for our front porch for $6. Combining store coupons with clearance got me a Tommy Bahama comforter set originally $269 for $80 at Bed, Bath & Beyond. Ebay can be another good source.
i paint it all white and buy plastic white drawers and white wire racks for shelves and everything white is cheaper plus everything matches plus it makes a small apartment look bigger plus it's never dark and gloomy plus it gives a very bauhaus look plus it helps to avoid clutter because every useless knicknack you buy or any pile of junk will stand out in the whiteness so you clean better, but if you add 1 orange vase and i looks like a religious artifact in a shrine. when it's time to move out i can toss out the plastic boxes or anything worthless and break down the shelves into flat boxes and it's easy to start over anywhere. modern minimalist gypsy decor.
it might help to know i'm slightly bizarre. i like it though.
ps- i hate used stuff (clothes, furniture, anything porous). it gives me the willies. used electronics are ok though.
I've gotten a lot of great looking accessories at discount stores like Marshall's & TJ Maxx. But that's no secret; the real words of wisdom are to know when to stop! I rarely go into those stores any more because I've reached the stage when I'm more likely to improve my decor by subtracting rather than adding.
I also got a lot of great things by shopping Mom's basement. She's quite the packrat, and I scored a lot of vintage china and other nice things that she really had no use for. If I had more wall space, I would grab that collection of tintypes languishing in her cellar . . .
Rebecca video was great, she really is brilliant! The video was extremely well done!
I like her approach to taking care of her real estate much like running a successful business, and by that, I mean keeping expense down by shopping at thrift stores and fully using craigslist!
@other Sunny – we painted our old harvest gold appliances white, used spray appliance paint from big box store. Paint lasted for 14 years (husband did a great job of painting) – we just bought new appliances that probably won't last as long as the ones we painted.
Thanks Rebecca for those tips, amazing amounts you could save with those methods. Really like the vid as well.
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#2 Sunny – I spray painted my icky beige stove white. It looked fantastic, until I started using it and the paint slowly peeled off. It's been a couple years and even with the peeling, it looks better than it did beige! You can always re-paint it.
I agree with everyone who talks about framing travel/family art. I didn't have time to put it in the video, but I LOVE buying cheap frames at the thrift store and framing maps. I even bought a book of old NYC subway maps and framed 4 of them to hang over my bed. The whole thing cost me under $40 and it looks super professional.
Thanks so much, everyone, for all the warm comments on my super-dork video. Makes me feel good that my dorkiness has gone to good use!
For cheap art….especially trendy abstracts–you can easily paint copies of real art yourself (or make up something in a similar vein) even if you aren't artistic!
Just get a large stretched artist's canvas at an art supply or hobby store, then search for art you like on the internet at sites such as art.com and print out a nice copy (or make up something similar). Put it on a grid and blow it up as a sketch onto your canvas and then just copy it. Especially easy to with large one-color block type paintings–very sophisticated style and very easy to copy.
@El Nerdo Loco that is a really good idea! I might only do that in one room, though, I think the white would overwhelm me if it was all through the house. But it's excellent advice for gypsy living!
@Rosa, very good advice. When I am tempted to go to GoodWill or a garage sale and see what kind of neat stuff I can find, I remind myself that I first need to finish working on or incorporating the last things I bought. And THEN I ask myself if I actually need anything. If the answer is no, then something I already have will have to be tossed to make room for anything I *have to have* at GoodWill.
Just livening up drab rooms with paint is a huge *wow* in decorating on the cheap. We moved into the FUGLIEST old house ever. LR had orange stained pine planks on the walls. Super high ceiling, but it was falling apart, a ghastly torn up linoleum floor. We sanded, primed and painted the walls, then painted the high ceiling a darker contrasting color. Tore up the linoleum to find 1910 raw fir floors underneath. We finished the floors ourselves, now a shiny deep brown. Our friends & family were stunned at what we did with the place.
We're hard core second hand. CL, Thrift Stores, garage sales, etc.
I've spent free afternoons rummaging through the bins at the Good Will As Is stores. Stuff is just dumped into bins and you dig your way through. Super cheap because you get charged by the pound, not item. I've found antique furniture, vintage linens & hooked rugs, antique dishes & china, art, beautiful frames, and even a petite crystal chandelier.
Not to hijack this thread, but here are some things I've done with pretty art/picture frames:
1. Small oval frames look gorgeous with pressed flowers under glass, or even with pretty fabric attached to backing via tacky glue. Got some cool old black and white photos of the family or ancestors? Frame them & display in grouping.
2. Large vintage ornate frames – great for framing a mirror. Or, glue velvet to a piece of foam board, then frame it. Using pins, attach vintage post cards, ephemera, travel souvenirs, old photos, ticket stubs, etc to the velvet board. Keep it personal. Your guests will LOVE this display.
3. Use empty pretty frames & framed mirrors as their own collection, grouped together on a wall.
4. Frame cool old album covers under glass. The records may be trashed, but if the covers are in reasonable shape, why not use them?Especially those slick vintage 50s and 60s cocktail themed ones.
5. Peruse vintage magazines for advertisements, and frame those (I have vintage cosmetic ads hung in the bathroom that I gleaned from early 60s Life magazines scored at a garage sale).
Sorry so long, but second hand decorating is my religion!
@ Lindsay– it's impossible to do all white– there's the hardwood floors, there's office chairs that are only available in black, there's the tv which comes in black only, and the stuff that goes on the shelves (books, records, cds) isn't all white, there's the stereo (though the computers are white macs)… we do white linens/towels/ bed covers/ etc though, to simplify the wash. and white plates means no more mismatches ever– maybe a little odd shape or something but easy+cheap to replace. anyway, a bit on the obsessive side i admit, but try it in one room & see how you like it. it's strangely… restful to the eyes, and my wife no longer obsesses about cleaning (i never did– but that's another story )
ps- stick also to modern simple lines– otherwise it looks horrid, like old baby furniture.
pps- also it needn't be hospital white, especially with fabrics you can experiment with off-white like raw cotton/canvas etc which adds subtle changes without too much contrast (plus these fabrics are cheaper)
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JD might appreciate this..I finally stopped pretending to have adult taste and started putting up my collection of comic book art, convention sketches and prints. Ebay has a lot of promotional posters for not too much, many of them autographed. I purchased full penciled pages that were for a proposal for a series that was never published for $20 a page by a professional comic book artist! Also if you need some bold color quick you can't beat nailing together boxes made up of furring strips with a colorful fabric stapled to them. We use those in our home office to cut down on the echo.
are there any blogs or websites dedicated to this type of thing? frugal interior design?


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Editor Jim Wrinn interviews photographer Olaf Haensch in Wernigerode, Germany in September 2012. Olaf Haensch photo.
Harz train steams by the Quedlinburg, Germany, railway station. Olaf Haensch photo.
A Harz 2-10-2T steams at the summit of Brocken, with the lights of Wernigerode, Germany, visible in the valley below. Olaf Haensch photo.
Olaf Haensch is a lucky man. He was born near Wernigerode, Germany, 36 years ago. His family did not own a car, so they traveled by bus to visit nearby relatives, which meant that at an early age he discovered the Harz narrow-gauge railways in a particularly charming part of rural Germany. Thus began his lifelong passion for this meter-gauge steam mecca.
Fortunately for all of us, his love for this railroad evolved over the years, and in 2011, he published his 128-page, 100-photo book of night photos taken between 2005 and 2010. The oversized volume, written in German and called NachtZüge, or Night Train, is compelling because of its amazing breadth of images made after dark. To say they are masterfully creative is a disservice to both the man and the fruit of his imagination — the photos range from the perspective of ballast with an approaching train in the background, to the bottom of the ashpit as a fireman cleans the grates, to a bird's-eye view of an engine terminal from atop a sand tower, to the dizzying view of an overhaul from a shop crane perched directly overhead. But the railroad is not the focal point as much as it is a thread permeating daily life in this mountainous region — the steam trains become the backdrop to everything from soccer games to couples sharing a drink or a lovely fräulein luxuriating in a bubble bath. Such a striking book met with success: The first printing sold out in a month, and it is now well into its second printing.
I had met Haensch two years ago at the Center for Railroad Photography & Art's annual spring conference in Lake Forest, Ill. When I told him I would be visiting Germany for InnoTrans 2012 and making a visit to the Harz after the trade and technology show in September, he was receptive to meeting me at the railroad that has made him the European O. Winston Link of our time. So, I visited with Haensch on a Saturday afternoon when no fewer than five coal-burning 2-10-2Ts were in steam. We sat on a station bench, within feet of where some of the book's most dramatic images were made. We talked about the railroad, his book, and his passion for the subject matter.
"I've known the Harz since childhood, and it is truly special," he says. "No other railroad in the world is like it." That statement is true, given that regular steam in China died just a few years ago. The Harz rosters 25 steam locomotives, 16 of them operable, and it is not uncommon for eight or 10 hot engines to crowd the engine terminal at Wernigerode on a typical night. The Harz is best known as a scenic railroad, carrying tourists to the top of 3,800-foot Mount Brocken, where they hike, bike, and enjoy the view. But the railroad's U-shaped system also regularly transports locals between towns, either by steam train or motorcars — doodlebugs to those of us in the U.S.
Like many such railroads, the Harz runs most trains during daylight hours, but Haensch sought out the handful of trains that run after nightfall and created 150 to 200 images, from which he chose the best for the book. Many took hours of setup time. He most often set up in daylight, carrying in equipment by foot, waiting in knee-deep snow and bitter cold, and hoping that everything would go right. It usually did, but from time to time, radio-synchronized photographic equipment didn't work properly, steam trailed off in the wrong direction, or the train was late. Retakes were frequent, and disappointing when some images took five to six hours of preparation. Making things easier, the railroad cooperated by granting Haensch access and opening up as never before. But it was a project that consumed hours, days, and weeks.
Inspiration came from many sources. Link, whom Haensch hadn't heard of until after the great American night photographer's death in 2001, was one. Another was the late American photographer Richard Steinheimer. Yet another was a most unlikely source: Hollywood. "I love Hitchcock movies with their dramatic lighting," Haensch says. "That and The Lord of the Rings."
The increasing availability of exceptionally good-quality digital cameras is creating a new generation of action night photographers around the globe. Haensch's advice: "Be creative. Never stop developing ideas for new images. Know what you want to try to create, and go for it."
Haensch, who is an editor at the German version of Model Railroader (not related to the U.S. version published by Trains' parent company, Kalmbach Publishing Co.), lectures in Germany frequently on his night photography of the Harz. Inevitably, fans of his work and the railroad ask if there will be a second volume. To this the photographer replies that it is possible, but he makes no promises. The first volume required a lot of time and a tremendous emotional commitment. After a health scare last year that left Haensch hospitalized for two months, he is once again enjoying life. As I told you from the first, Olaf Haensch is a lucky man.
Very Nice! That Harz 2-10-2T photo is a beautiful shot!
I've covered the entire Harz system a few years ago but not at night. Great photos!
If you want to see more of the Brocken station and HSB trains, try this link:
Just remember the time difference (+5 hours from EST/+8PST) and you'll see more 2-10-2T's! There are some other webcams available from other stations, but the Brocken is the most interesting.
Thanks for writing about HSB. I've only ever been to the summit at Brocken in a raging blizzard. I enjoy TRAINS Magazine but the breadth of coverage and the number of quality magazines for modeling and "reality" in Germany alone, far outstrip what TRAINS, MR, RMC, RAILFAN & RAILROAD provide stateside. It would be interesting to profile railfanning and or modeling here in Europe. Many, many nice stories and top notch photography like this HSB profile abound here in Germany.
My new book begins with the fateful accident in the Park Avenue Tunnel that led to creation of Grand Central Terminal. It's called "Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America." Hope you all enjoy it!

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Zappos will honor $1.6 million pricing mistake
The online retailer earns praise from customers, but some think it's merely a PR stunt.
A pricing-engine mistake at a Zappos.com sister site, 6pm.com, capped all prices at $49.95 for the first six hours of Friday before the error was caught. Now, in a brilliant customer-service move, Zappos says it will honor all of the orders placed and eat the $1.6 million mistake.
Hopefully, someone somewhere got the $1,000 GPS for just under 50 bucks. Customers overall, it appears, are impressed with the company's response.
"Wow, you mean they didn't pull an Amazon and just canceled all those orders? Crazy!" a reader commented at CNET News. Amazon acquired shoe and apparel online retailer Zappos last year.
This is certainly a departure from how many online retailers handle pricing mix-ups and gaffes. For instance:
- Buy.com agreed to a $575,000 settlement after 7,000 customers sued because they couldn't get a $588 Hitachi monitor incorrectly advertised for $164.
- Best Buy got tons of condemnation -- and lots of free publicity -- when it listed a 52-inch high-def TV online for $9.99. The erroneous offer was not honored.
- Amazon incorrectly priced comic-book collections that normally sell for $125 or so for only $14.99. Amazon made good on some of the orders and gave other buyers $25 gift certificates.
- Bing: Online pricing errors
Here's what else Zappos did right:
It announced the mistake, rather than hope no one would notice. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh initially tweeted about the mistake on Sunday afternoon, adding, "I guess that means no ice cream for me tonight." He later gave a further explanation on the blog at Zappos' website.
Even though our terms and conditions state that we do not need to fulfill orders that are placed due to pricing mistakes, and even though this mistake cost us over $1.6 million, we felt that the right thing to do for our customers was to eat the loss and fulfill all the orders that had been placed before we discovered the problem.
Hsieh added that he didn't have ice cream on Sunday night.
Zappos turned the error into a feel-good moment for everyone, including potential customers. That's not surprising for a social-network-savvy retail site that built $1 billion in sales in 10 years -- growth "driven primarily by repeat customers and word of mouth," the Harvard Business Review says.
Zappos put a human face on this. A recent article in Advertising Age recommends, "When reaching out to the offended masses on Twitter and Facebook, try not to impersonate Lumbergh (the robotic-voiced boss in the movie 'Office Space')." Zappos gets it. Thus, we get the mea culpa on Twitter and the ice-cream remark.
Some customers appreciate such insight. Another reader of CNET News remarked: "$1.6 million for national exposure and media attention -- about the same price as two Super Bowl ads . . . (still, I wouldn't want to be the employee that was responsible for this!)." No one will be fired, Hsieh said.
Still, some people are skeptical.
"There were that many people shopping at 6pm.com through the middle of the night? I was thinking this is some sort of publicity stunt myself," reader "janccm" posted at PCMag.com.
Some customers pointed out that they saw items selling for more than $49.95 during the mix-up. Hsieh later explained that items for sale at both Zappos and 6pm.com were not affected by the mistake. "So there you have it: Zappos is an online force for good, not evil. Now if only its parent company would employ the same customer-friendly strategy when it screws up," Caleb Hannan wrote at Seattle Weekly's Money blog.
BTW: Hsieh's book, "Delivering Happiness," is coming out soon, "so this million-dollar computer mishap, and Hsieh's response, could evolve into a savvy marketing event," wrote Edward Moyer at CNET News.
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The Bedford Police Department, with help from Bedford's American Legion post, has decorated a police cruiser to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day.
The hood of the car is covered by a wrap which shows scenes from D-Day surrounding scenes from the National D-Day Memorial.
"We wanted to do something to commemorate the Bedford Boys," commented Bedford Police Chief James Day.
Lynch Manley's nearly half century of service to the Bedford Lifesaving Crew was honored at the crew hall last week when Congressman Robert Hurt presented a flag, flown over the Capitol, to Manley's wife, Julie.
Manley, who died in March, was still running calls in 2013 at the age of 80, driving the ambulance.
A Fox News crew showed up at the National D-Day Memorial to shoot video that will be used in a D-Day documentary, slated to air on Fox News Sunday at 10 p.m. and again at 1 a.m.
Last year, when Bedford gave up sponsoring a fireworks show, Bedford's Moose Lodge stepped in. This year the group would like to expand the fireworks to 25 minutes, according to Andy Dooley, chairman of the Moose's fireworks committee.
They are going to need some help. Dooley said, at a meeting last week, that they have $1,400 in sponsor money, so far. They will need an additional $4,000.
The fireworks display is scheduled for Saturday, July 5, beginning around 9:30 p.m.
Bedford Main Street, as part of the D-Day 70th anniversary, has a campaign called "Bedford Remembers."
According to Bill Mosley, Main Street is encouraging Centertown business and building owners to set up displays to recognize the soldiers of D-Day "and in particular, the Bedford Boys," Mosley said. It's part of the same effort as the World War II era propaganda posters that a number of buildings are already displaying.
The 70th anniversary of D-Day will be observed in Bedford with activities June 6-8, and the National D-Day Memorial Foundation is seeking to get the town ready in expectation of visitors from all over the world.
After 11 years on the CASA staff in Bedford, Angela Mayfield is leaving.
CASA stands for Court Appointed Special Advocate. These are trained volunteers who the Juvenile and Domestic Relations court can appoint, in cases that involve children, to investigate and advocate for the children's interests. Mayfield served as the advocate manager for the Bedford area.
Mayfield's first experience with CASA was as a volunteer in 2001.
From the young to the elderly, the Bedford Area Family YMCA is helping area residents embrace healthier lifestyles. The hidden secret is the local Y is much, much more than a gymnasium—in who it touches, in what it offers to the community—it's a cause.
And May 14, the Y kicks off its campaign to raise funds so it can provide services to those who otherwise couldn't afford them.
The Y—So Much More
Beth Hawse, youth development agent at Bedford's Virginia Tech extension office, grew up with 4-H camp.
She went for the first time in the summer after she finished fourth grade, the first year she could go, and went "every single year." She went as a camper. Later, as a teen, went as counselor in training and, after that, as a teen counselor. After graduating from college, with a bachelor of science in biology, she went as an adult volunteer. She said it was a very meaningful experience.
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The role of ICTs as development enablers is more widely understood today as access to new technologies, particularly mobile phones, has grown exponentially. Mobile phone subscriptions exceeded six billion by the end of 2012, three-quarters of which were in the developing world. However, women are at a disadvantage: they are 21% less likely to own a mobile phone than men, according to the latest Broadband Commission Report (PDF, 2.4Mb). Development presents an opportunity to effectively address this and other gender gaps. I am speaking here about sustainable human development, about the ability to make choices and lead a healthy, long and educated life with all that we value. Let us bear in mind that ICTs are not neutral. Existing gender inequalities, pervasive in many countries, can be exacerbated by ICTs, when unequal access to education for example turns into digital ignorance. Not having female teachers and lack of local security are powerful triggers of girls' dropout. Women will not be able to access ICT community centers if safety issues are not properly addressed. We are determined advocates of democratic governance and for us women's access to ICTs is a governance issue. Public policies and the private sector need to address theRead More
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When I was first posted to Serbia in 2001, the country and its people were still shaken and scarred by years of conflict. Returning in 2009 to lead the United Nations presence there, I was deeply impressed by the swift and substantive progress made. Belgrade had new trams and buses, neighborhoods and parks had been refurbished, and efforts to consolidate democracy, build a more inclusive economy, and establish credible mechanisms to fight corruption were well under way. Serbia is now emerging as an increasingly powerful source of security and stability in the region, contributing scores of peacekeepers to international forces, fighting organized crime, collecting and destroying some 100,000 illicit and unregistered firearms, and integrating women in the military and police forces. Ministries are moving to adopt individual anti-corruption strategies known as integrity plans, and dozens of investigations have opened since the new government took office barely six months ago. Parliament is engaged in more robust review and scrutiny, and its Speaker, Nebojsa Stefanovic, is spearheading a new initiative with UNDP to strengthen parliamentary oversight of spending. These and other governance initiatives aim explicitly to promote accountability, reduce vulnerability and risk of loss, and build the credibility and legitimacy of state institutions.Read More
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High unemployment and inequality fuelled Arab Spring uprisings that began in 2010, but the Arab world needs broad governance reform to achieve sustainable, equitable growth. Ousting dictators alone isn't enough. People want bread, but they also want social justice and freedom. Experts at the UNDP Regional Center in Cairo reached that conclusion after lengthy study, culminating in the Arab Development Challenges Report that has now been launched in capitals around the world. Having spent nearly three decades in the field, I believe this is indeed the case—governance and rule of law are essential to the sustainable, inclusive development the Arab world so acutely needs. In Egypt, the problem wasn't simply political exclusion--it was political and economic exclusion. Reform will succeed only when it addresses both. Unemployment remains a critical challenge, but reliably measuring joblessness is difficult in countries without unemployment insurance and a system of registering for it. Enormous challenges such as food security, water scarcity, and management of natural resource also remain. Arab states must invest better in managing water resources and improving irrigation and agricultural productivity and devise incentives for investment in renewable energy. Governance failures helped create this situation: Here we see institutions that perpetuate themselves, corrosive constituenciesRead More
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A couple months ago, I asked: "What is Orange County's biggest hidden issue?" What is the biggest issue in Orange County that ISN'T being talked about, in any way, in any news outlet?
There are a lot, obviously. Even in a county as per-capita prosperous as this one, there's bound to be room for improvement in numerous areas—and as for "not being talked about," well, I've already used this space to drone on about the limited resources available to modern-day media. Enough with that.
But of all the un-discussed issues in Orange County, what's the biggest? What's the most pressing?
Many of you responded.
Is it the old-boy network? Twitter user @W0CG0 wrote: "Quite simply, (it's) the attempt by older residents to limit activities and access of those under the age of 50."
Is it overpriced housing? "The subtle effect of the anti-development, anti-growth zealots is to keep housing prices inflated due to lack of supply. A good example is the Estes Road plan. People want less development to keep up home prices. The road needs to be widened."
Or—related—is it the lack of workforce housing? "We can build a homeless shelter, but god forbid we build apartments or town homes for police, teachers & firefighters."
(That's all @W0CG0, by the way.)
Mark Marcoplos suggested home rule, or rather the lack thereof — the extent to which state law restrains local governments from doing much of anything without permission from the General Assembly. "I consider this to be the biggest obstacle to progressive policy that we face," he wrote. This has come up recently in a variety of issues — most notably Chapel Hill's attempt to ban cell phone use while driving or to update its towing ordinance — but Marcoplos said it's more wide-ranging than you think. "It's an unnecessary shackling of local governance."
And another responder (who chose to remain anonymous) pointed to "administrative cover-ups (and) misappropriations in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools," as well as an unequal distribution of resources from one school to another — both of which, the responder says, contribute to "poor working conditions (and) teacher dissatisfaction."
But easily the most common responses revolved around the prevalence of poverty in Orange County — notwithstanding our status as North Carolina's wealthiest.
"Poverty and children going hungry," wrote Rachel Hawkins. "No excuse for it."
Vicki Vars Boyer agreed: "Too many of our kids are on free/reduced lunch" — another stat that's unequally distributed from school to school, incidentally — "and in need of backpacks of food to take home so they can get through the weekend."
And it's not just backpacks. "At Chapel Hill High this week they are running a granola bar drive," wrote Kathy Kaufman (in November). "(T)he school social worker needs a ready supply to give to kids who don't have lunch money and may not have had breakfast either. There are other ways hungry kids are quietly helped in the school as well."
Ricky Spero took the issue beyond the schools. "With the recent drop in SNAP benefits, I'm curious to learn where we have food security issues in our community," he wrote. "As a national issue, it's a bit overwhelming to think about how our family could help, but as a local issue, it's an area where we could pitch in."
And George Cianciolo added that solving the problem would require more than just dealing with immediate food security issues. "As in many other areas of the country, the disparity in income levels continues to widen here with no easy solutions in sight," he said, so "(m)ore jobs paying living wages are desperately needed."
Poverty is something we've discussed on WCHL and on Chapelboro.com, but there are many facets of the issue that have gone unexamined — and even as it gets reported, that old notion still lingers that poverty's not really an issue here.
So as promised, I'll be writing more about poverty in the months to come. Thanks to everyone for their contributions.http://chapelboro.com/columns/aaron-keck/orange-countys-biggest-hidden-issue-part-ii/
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CHAPEL HILL – Year after year, Orange County consistently ranks as the wealthiest in the state of North Carolina—but poverty, even here, continues to be a nagging and serious issue.
"There's a big disparity between wealth, (and) there continues to be growth in childhood poverty," said Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce president Aaron Nelson at his annual State of the Community presentation this week. "That is (a statistic) that we need to pay close attention to."
Orange County ranks first in the state with a per capita income of $48,683 in 2011, well above the state average of $36,000. But in spite of that, our poverty rate is also well above the state average: in 2011, 16.9 percent of Orange County residents were living below the poverty line, compared to 16.1 percent of all North Carolinians (and 14.3 percent of all Americans). The percentage is even higher in Chapel Hill alone, where 22.1 percent of residents lived below the poverty line in 2011.
"Some folks have often discounted that–(because they think) that's just the student population…but our poverty level is high," Nelson says. "We ought not to discount it simply because it includes students."
For the first time, researchers this year were able to distinguish between students and non-students when analyzing wealth and poverty in the area. Students do account for much of the poverty rate in Chapel Hill—but that poverty rate is still elevated even when they're taken out of the equation. About ten percent of Chapel Hill's non-student population lives below the poverty line—a poverty rate that's less than the state average, but still more than twice as high as nearby communities like Apex and Cary.
And the poverty rate increases when the focus is narrowed to children. "That is on the rise," says Nelson, "and in a pretty serious way."
The key increase is in the percentage of "economically disadvantaged" children, which is to say children who qualify for free and reduced lunch. 26.5 percent of Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School students and 41.6 percent of Orange County School students qualified for free and reduced lunch in 2011-12—the highest percentage in both districts since at least 2006, when the Chamber began collecting data.
And the high level of need in Orange County is at odds with the common perception of Chapel Hill as a wealthy community—a disconnect that actually makes it harder for governmental and non-governmental organizations to address the real need that exists.
"(It's called) 'Chapel Hill Syndrome,'" Nelson says. "Donors get this: it's a belief that we don't need anything, Orange County doesn't need anything–we have the highest per capita income, the University's there, the hospital's there, your economy's bulletproof–but the reality is that some of us feel that way and forget to reinvest and take a look under the rocks on what's going on in our community with respect to poverty, particularly children in poverty."
Nelson delivered his State of the Community report on Tuesday at the Friday Center. You can see the full presentation at this link.http://chapelboro.com/news/business/orange-county-wealthy-on-average-but-poverty-still-lingers/
CHAPEL HILL – Orange County is one of the wealthiest counties in the state—but when affluence is prevalent in an area, poverty and those affected by it can be pushed aside.
Jamie Rohe is the Homeless Program Coordinator for the Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness.
"The housing situation has gotten worse because of the recession, and also because of a lack of funding from the state and federal level. A lot of public housing has been privatized over the years. We've hundreds of thousands of public housing over the last several decades," Rohe said.
Rohe joined other panelists on the Inconvenient Truths discussion for WCHL's community Forum.
She says there have been enormous cuts in federal funding for affordable housing. Between 1978 and 1983, the Department of Housing and Urban Development experienced a 70 percent drop in their budget.
Orange County commissioner Mark Dorosin the state has a wealth classification system for its counties, made up by three tiers. He says there's certain funding that counties have access to if it's a Tier One or Tier Two. Orange County is Tier Three—the wealthiest classification.
"So in some ways if you're a low-wealth person, you have better access to getting resources if you're not in a wealthy county. That is the disparities make it harder to access resources," Dorosin said.
He says periodically, the community is confronted with the wealth disparity. He cited the challenges in provided services and reparations to the Roger Road Community, and Carrboro's recent history with an anti-lingering ordinance that he says has a discriminatory impact on Latinos.
Dorosin believes Carrboro town leaders missed an opportunity when the housing complex Collins Crossing—which was predominately low-income housing at that time— was for sale. He says it could have been purchased and kept those units as an option for low-income families.
"The challenge is how to have that reality to match the rhetoric," Dorosin said.
Earlier this year, Governor Pat McCrory and the state legislature voted against the Affordable Care Act expansion of Medicaid. Jill Edens, Pastor of the United Church of Chapel Hill, says this also negatively affected low-income families.
"This is just devastating when we don't have this funding for health care overall and when the state is rejecting that expansion, as churches and with the IFC and with all our partnerships, we're looking at an ocean of need," Edens said.
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Fran DiGiano, President of Clean Jordan Lake, also addressed his concern over the lake which provides water for 250,000 people and possible more in the future.
"Cause we're all interconnected by way of what we call watersheds and the ones I'm concerned about are the ones that feed into Jordan Lake," said DiGiano.
DiGiano says it'll take time to correct what he calls "a 30-year legacy of trash." He wants a community-wide effort to clean up the liter and invited volunteers.
Pilar Rocha-Goldberg, President of El Centro Hispano, additionally said she hopes to bridge relationships to help Hispanics integrate into the community.
"It's telling people, 'We are here and you need to acknowledge that.' We made a decision and now we are living here. This is our town, our county and our country," Rocha-Goldberg said.http://chapelboro.com/news/community-forum/wealth-disparity-in-chapel-hill-a-widening-gap/


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After a slow start, Rangers captain Ryan Callahan said the team got a lift from Rick Nash's goal in the first period that gave them the 1-0 lead over the Buffalo Sabres, en route to a 3-1 win in northern New York. After the game, Callahan explained how the Rangers' power play played a big part in the Blueshirts' win.
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The memories of a down-and-out life on the streets are still so vivid for a south Richmond mother, she feels compelled to help others avoid that harsh existence.
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As Federal Environmental Executive, Joe Cascio works with federal agencies to promote sustainable environmental stewardship throughout the federal government. In this interview, Cascio outlines the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive's (OFEE) successes and goals and explains how implementation of environmental management systems can benefit federal agencies.
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Please provide a brief description of your professional background and of your position as Federal Environmental Executive.
I have 26 years of experience in the environmental field. I spent 14 of those years in environmental management at IBM and 12 years as a consultant, mostly working with federal agencies. From 1991 to 2003, I was chair of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group that represented the U.S. in the development of the ISO 14000 series of management standards.
In my current position as Federal Environmental Executive, which is appointed by the President, I work with federal agencies to promote sustainable environmental stewardship throughout the federal government. No matter what an agency's mission, each has office buildings, owns or leases fleet vehicles, uses office electronics and purchases goods and services. The government environmental footprint is large and gives us a tremendous opportunity to lead by example and to engage in actions that reduce energy and water use and benefit human health and the environment.
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What new developments or accomplishments have recently taken place in each of these areas? Does OFEE plan to pursue any new areas of environmental stewardship?
OFEE promotes the use of organizational- and facility-level environmental management systems. In addition to our core program areas, we work closely with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Department of Agriculture to implement and promote their programs related to these areas.
The most significant development is President Bush's 2007 Executive Order (EO) 13423, "Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy and Transportation Management." This EO builds on the federal government's success in increasing energy and water efficiency, purchasing green products, using renewable energy, building green buildings, managing electronics, using alternative fuel vehicles and alternative fuels and reducing the use of toxic and hazardous chemicals. It provides a holistic approach to implementing these programs, rather than continuing to address them as separate issues.
We have made much progress in each of these areas. Our 2004-2006 report to the President, which is available on our website (www.ofee.gov), documents hundreds of examples of federal successes in each of these areas. Highlights are as follows:
With so much more to accomplish in each of these areas, we are not pursuing any new areas at this time.
Does OFEE share its successes with state and local governments so they may adopt similar sustainable practices and policies?
OFEE shares successes with the public and private sectors and academia via our website, our quarterly newsletter (which is available on our website), our listserve and presentations at conferences.
You served as Chair of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group and head of the U.S. ANSI delegation to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) committee that created the ISO 14000 series of environmental management standards. How has this experience helped you in your position as Federal Environmental Executive?
It gives me greater credibility and authority when I provide guidance to the agencies on how they should implement management systems. I believe this will the increase the energy that agencies put into greening efforts, and we will see even better results.
By drawing all of the practice areas under one EO and promoting the use of environmental management systems, the EO encourages agencies to bring together the key functions needed to fully implement its requirements. The EO is not just the province of the environmental and energy managers. Implementation requires the active assistance and participation of facility management, fleet management, the chief information officers and the acquisition community. Several agencies, including the Departments of Defense and Agriculture, have created senior-level workgroups to ensure that key functions in their organizations participate in the achievement of EO goals.
EO 13423 requires the use of environmental management systems. What types of environmental management systems do the federal agencies use, and how does OFEE determine which system(s) best suits the needs of each federal agency?
EO 13423 requires environmental management systems at appropriate facilities and/or organizational levels. We will soon send guidance to the agencies on what we mean by "organizational-level environmental management systems." Whether the system is oriented to a facility or to an organizational level, it is expected to conform to the requirements of the ISO 14001 standard. No requirement exists for third-party certification, but systems must have independent second-party declaration of conformance audits at least every three years.
To assist federal agencies, we have also made a generic system model available to all agencies through the FedCenter website. The standardized procedures, programs and templates in the model should serve to ease the implementation efforts for those environmental management systems that have yet to be started. Existing environmental management systems will also benefit by comparing their approach against the model and by making any necessary adjustments or upgrades as appropriate. OFEE does not determine which system(s) best suits the needs of each federal agency. Each federal agency does that for itself by applying the elements of ISO 14001 to its own unique needs and requirements.
OFEE works under the authority of the Council on Environmental Quality. We work with various DOE and EPA programs through daily contact, interagency working groups, assistance with information dissemination, such as disseminating applicable EPA or DOE regulations or guidance, and participation in the development of regulations and guidance.
For the last 14 years, the White House Closing the Circle Awards have recognized federal employees and their facilities for outstanding contributions to environmental stewardship. Have award winners' contributions led to any long-term or groundbreaking changes within the federal government's environmental practices over the years?
Groundbreaking, yes, but in quiet ways. Just looking at this year's winners, a Department of Defense agency worked with an affiliate of the National Industries for the Blind to create biobased cutlery, which is now offered to its customers. From March 2007 to January 2008, more than $2.4 million worth of this cutlery was sold. This creates jobs for the blind and markets for biobased materials. An interagency workgroup created environmental management system metrics, which makes it easier for agencies to measure and improve their environmental management system implementation and to do so in a uniform way.
In past years, agencies have created enhanced communication and outreach strategies as well as outstanding recycling programs to cite some examples. These are not earth-shattering, but they can have a significant impact because the awards provide ideas to other federal facilities about practices and programs that they can also implement. For example, other federal agencies frequently adopt winning recycling or waste prevention ideas.
What is your vision for OFEE for the remainder of 2008? What goals does OFEE expect to achieve by the end of this year?
We are completing guidance documents so they can be disseminated prior to the next Administration taking charge after the January 2009 inauguration. We do not want to saddle the new officials with unfinished work. We are also compiling the status of environmental management systems that have yet to be implemented. This information will be packaged for the new Administration's benefit.
We are providing tools and additional training on environmental management systems to assist agencies in their efforts to make further progress in their implementations. We are also initiating a program with EPA to provide assistance to federal facilities from the bottom up on strategies and tools for meeting EO 13423's requirements. The direction and assistance these facilities receive from the top of their agencies must be complemented with assistance from the bottom to achieve the desired outcomes. EPA has stepped up to provide such support to facilities, and OFEE will work closely with them to bring out that support as quickly and as strongly as possible.
From 1991 through 2003, Cascio was chair of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group and head of the U.S. ANSI delegation to the ISO committee that created the ISO 14000 series of environmental management standards.


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EAST LANSING, Mich. - The Michigan State women's basketball team provided the Spartan fans with a pre-Thanksgiving treat, beating Albany 67-35 on Wednesday night at Breslin Center. The Spartans, who improve to 4-0 on the season, were led by 19 points from junior Klarissa Bell, one of four MSU players in double figures.
Bell was 7-for-10 from the field en route to her game-high 19 points. She also added six rebounds, five assists and a tied a career high with three steals. Sophomore Jasmine Hines was strong again off the bench, totaling 14 points in a career-high 24 minutes. Senior Jasmine Thomas and junior Annalise Pickrel each chipped in 11 points on the night. Thomas also added a game-high seven assists with only one turnover, while Pickrel hit three 3-pointers, tied her career high with seven rebounds and dished out three assists.
The Spartans jumped all over the Great Danes (2-2) in the first half, shooting 62.1% in the half, including 6-of-10 from behind the arc, to open a 46-26 halftime advantage. Albany scored the first two points, but MSU ran off 14 of the next 16 to lead 14-4 with 13:32 on the clock. A 3-pointer from Albany was followed by a 17-2 run by the Spartans over the next four minutes to pretty much put the game away.
The second half was an impressive defensive effort by the Spartans, as MSU held the Great Danes to nine points on 3-for-25 shooting. Over the final 15:43 of the game, Albany had just three points.
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In a state famed for education and a city renowned for arts, literature and quality of life, I am grateful to live in Iowa City and to serve the University of Iowa. In many ways, our mission at this university is enriched and strengthened by a deep and broad partnership with another dynamic learning institution—Kirkwood Community College.
Those first days and weeks of school each year send me tumbling into the past. I dream of new–stiff, brown leather shoes, new crayons with none of the points yet broken, that Big Chief tablet of lined paper with its red cover, new teachers, old friends, new names to learn, trying to remember which desk in the new classroom belongs to me. It's both daunting and exciting.
It was love at first sight.
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Robert Lee Christensen, 74, of Dike, died Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011, at Sartori Memorial Hospital in Cedar Falls.
He was born July 28, 1937, in Cedar Falls, the son of Ejnar and Helen (Fisher) Christensen. He graduated from Dike High School in 1955. On June 19, 1959, he was united in marriage to Margaret A. "Maggie" Allspach at the Reformed Church of Stout in Stout, Iowa.
Robert worked for Dike Hardware Plumbing and Heating from 1960-1968 and owned and operated Dike Pump Service from 1968 until his retirement in 2001.
John F. Haman Jr., 73, of North Liberty, died unexpectedly at his home Aug. 31, 2011.
John's wishes were to be cremated. Mass of Christian Burial was held Friday, Sept. 2, at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church with Reverend Michael Phillips officiating. Burial was in St. Joseph Cemetery in Iowa City.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the American Heart Association, The Czech-Slovak Museum or The Regina Foundation.
Theresa J. Heumphreus, 74, of Hiawatha, died Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City.
Visitation was held Aug. 31. Graveside services will be private at Oak Hill Cemetery in Coralville. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the Theresa Heumphreus Memorial Fund.
Theresa was born Oct. 24, 1936, in Toledo, Ohio, the daughter of Charles A. (Sr.) and Mary A. Forman. Moving to the Iowa City/Coralville area as a young girl, Theresa attended Iowa City High School and worked as a training supervisor for more than 15 years at ACT in Iowa City, retiring in 1998.
Christine Louise Humphries, 56, of Solon, died Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011, at her home. Funeral services were held Sept. 4 at the Coralville United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Doug Williams officiating. Private graveside services will be held at a later date.
Online condolences may be sent for her family and friends at www.gayandciha.com.
Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service in Iowa City is caring for her family and services.
Alton C. "AC" Johnson, 92, lifetime resident of the Iowa City area, died Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011, at Mercy Iowa City. He was cremated at Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service in Iowa City.
AC Johnson was born Nov. 30, 1918, in rural Johnson County, the son of Clay and Neva (Zager) Johnson. He was married to Betty Jean Yeslinek on Nov. 8, 1960, until her death in 1979. He married Karen Marie Graef on July 7, 1986, in Iowa City.
Norma Jean (Steffen) Kean, 70, of Cascade, passed away peacefully Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, surrounded by family at Shady Rest Care Center in Cascade.
Services were held Aug. 30 at St. Martin's Catholic Church in Cascade, with the Rev. Douglas Loecke officiating. Burial was in Calvary Cemetery, Cascade.
Norma was born Feb. 26, 1941, in Cascade, daughter of Sylvester and Marie (Lehman) Steffen. Norma attended St. Mary's Catholic School.
Therese Spaight, 93, of Cedar Rapids, died Friday, Aug. 26, 2011, at the Hiawatha Care Center. Funeral Mass was held Aug. 29 at All Saints Catholic Church, with the Rev. David O'Connor officiating. Burial was in St. John's Cemetery, Cedar Rapids.
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