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00 1 CEDAR VALLEY Sunday, november 3, 2019 wcfcourier.com SeCTIon CaLL THe CourIer Once the foxnation.com free trial is over and it becomes a paid-for-programming, will we have to endure commercials? FOX customer support told us: should be no commercials when you stream a program on FOX How does the University of Iowa Stead Family Hospital plan to use the $3 million Carson King donated to them? This gift will go into a special fund that will target areas iden- tified by King and other con- tributors, according to an Oct. 11 press release from the hospital. Examples of how the money may be used include funds to help ease financial pressures for families when their child is hospitalized, new technology and equipment to treat sick infants and children, transport service for patients, professional development and continuing education for care providers, among other things. When will the Cedar Wapsi bridge be completed? Work is expected to be com- pleted by December 2020. The existing bridge is expected to remain open during most of the construction process.

What is the status of 1720 Black Hawk Road as far as being a legal junk yard? The property was denied a salvage yard license as neither the fire department nor Black Hawk County Health Department would sign off on it. Are there any 55-plus apart- ment buildings in Waterloo or Cedar Falls that cost less than $600 per month or go by your income level? Yes. We going to call all of the private landlords for every rental unit in the area, but here is a list of the income-based elderly housing projects in the Cedar Valley: College Square Manor and Horizon Towers, both in Cedar Falls; Evansdale Senior Residences; and Camelot Apart- ments, Mt. Village II Apartments, Park Towers Apartments, Renais- sance Park, Mt. Carmel Handicapped Association; Cedar River Tower; Crossroads Square and Liberty Manor, all in Water- loo.

Does the Iowa State Patrol still use airplanes to monitor speed on the highway? Yes. Does Bill Cosby perform com- edy acts for the inmates while in prison? According to a June USA To- day report: Cosby is doing in prison, giv- ing motivational speeches to his fellow inmates and working out consistently to get in shape behind bars, his spokesper- son Andrew Wyatt said. Wyatt confirmed reports Cosby is in high-demand at SCI Phoenix, the maximum security prison about 20 miles from Philadelphia where he began serving a three- to 10- year prison term in September. Cosby, roughly three months ago, had been requested by a number of inmates to come and speak at some of their support groups, and he debated about it and decided to take them up on their Wyatt said by phone Tuesday. group that he consistently speaks to is a group called These are guys that are going to be paroled in a few months, and he is talking to these guys because a lot of them have been in and they are afraid of going back to (their) TIM JAMISON tim.jamison@wcfcourier.com WATERLOO The long de- tour and east-side traffic snarls have come to an end.

The Iowa Department of Transportation has opened the new U.S. Highway 63 bridge between Dane and and Newell streets following two construc- tion seasons. City and business leaders gathered at the site Friday to celebrate the milestone, which completes a seven-year, $56.5 million rebuilding of the high- way from Jefferson Street downtown north to Donald Street. is a project that the city of Waterloo, the Cedar Valley and the entire state can said Waterloo Mayor Quentin Hart. truly now a corridor for our visitors and citizens to use safely and draw more investment to the Water- loo community.

is personal for me, because I grew up a mile away from this location and watched my mom actually walk 19,000 times across Highway 63 to go from our house to Allen Hospital for he added. Former Mayor John Rooff, who pounded the pavement for funds to pay for the proj- ect in the late 1990s, showed up for the ribbon-cutting event. The project also cut through the administrations of mayors Tim Hurley and Buck Clark. good for the citizens and really good for our Rooff said. to the mayors and the councils that saw this thing The IDOT bought out 26 homes and two businesses that were demolished or relocated in 2010 to make way for the project.

The actual construction started in 2013, when contractors began rebuilding the stretch north of Newell. A second phase to rebuild the U.S. Highway 63 overpass finally opens KeLLy WenZeL, COURIER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER People listen as Mayor Quentin Hart speaks at the U.S. Highway 63 Bridge opening on Friday afternoon. AMIE RIVERS amie.rivers@wcfcourier.com CEDAR FALLS Becoming a geologist was in Alexa Sed- blood, as it were.

The associate professor of environmental science at the University of Northern Iowa grew up in the Amanas, where people inter- ested in she said. In homage to her grandmother who graduated in the 1950s as the lone female geology major in her class, Sedlacek decided to take a geology course and it turned out the third-genera- tion geologist also had a passion for it. back in the Lost Worlds this is so Sed- lacek remembered thinking of her class. Sedlacek and others sought to spark that same passion in a group of around 100 Cedar Val- ley middle-school girls during the 6th annual Expanding Your Horizons conference on Satur- day on campus. The daylong conference in- troduced girls to science, tech- nology, engineering and math- ematics careers, or STEM, with dozens of sessions taught by faculty as well as employees of Cedar Valley businesses like Deere and Taylor Veterinary Hospital and Doerfer Compa- nies.

Students from middle schools as well as schools in Hudson, Independence and Aplington-Parkersburg could learn how to program a robot, launch a two-stage rocket, learn fingerprint analysis, fig- ure out the mathematics of how the board game Monopoly was rigged or make and take home their own metal-cast project, among other things. like showing girls there are so many different avenues in Sedlacek said. important, she said, because women are still under- represented in STEM careers and science needs all hands on deck to solve difficult problems like climate change. think the more diversity we have in STEM, or any field, the better the science will be able to answer Sedlacek said. more perspectives you have, the more directions you are coming at a problem, the better chance we have of solving a Those without family connec- tions like Sedlacek might have Girls just wanna do STEM KeLLy WenZeL PHoToS, COURIER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Grace Sliwinski tries to keep her paper airplane flying with a piece of cardboard while in the Physics of Flight class during Expanding Your Horizons at UNI on Saturday morning.

Detour, traffic snarls have come to an end UNI conference fosters love of math, science in middle school girls Gabriella Galvan, left, and Aubrey Fry laugh together as they blow up balloons to be shot like rockets during the Launch a Balloon Rocket class while attending Expanding Your Horizons event at UNI on Saturday morning. Please see STem, Page B2 Please see overPaSS, Page B2 DistinguisheD DetaileD DesigneD General Contractor 1705 Waterloo Road Cedar Falls, iowa 50613 www.mageeconstruction.com Magee is the Key to your interior remodeling or new home construction. Call for a free quote 319-277-0100 Remodeling additions outdooR living space Roofing dRiveways patios Basement wateRpRoofing new Home constRuction insuRance RestoRation.