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• Tues., June 24, 1997 GO! GazetteOnllne www.gazetteonline.com Obituaries, 2B ® Money/Farm, 5-7B TV schedule, 8B IOWA TODAY CEDAR RAPIDS NEWS JOURNAL Man drowns in Iowa River MARION Iowa City police haven't determined Gibson to leave school board • Marion Independent school board identity of victim President Gordon Gibson announced at last night's board meeting that he will By John Kenyon not seek re-election this fall. Gibson is Gazette Johnson County Bureau completing his fourth three-year term IOWA CITY — Police were on the board. seeking clues last night to Bill Huntoon, the other Marion board identify a man who drowned member up for re-election, told The Monday in the Iowa River Gazette after the meeting he is planning near Burlington Street. to run again. Huntoon, a 20-year board Police described the man as member, has served as president and being approximately 40 years vice president. old, 5 feet 8 inches tall and The Marion Independent district also about 220 pounds. He has light will be seeking to fill the remaining two colored hair, cut in a flat top. years of a seat previously held by Mark He carried no identification. Smith, who resigned this month after Workers repairing the chim- being called to extended active duty ney on the University of Io- with the U.S. Army Reserve. wa's Hydraulics Lab first spot- Election petitions can be Filed after ted the man and notified July 7. Deadline for filing is July 31. police at 10:24 a.m. The work- ers saw the man climb the rail on the south side of the Child safety program postponed bridge, and drop into the wa- • Marion police have canceled safety ter above the Burlington education programs scheduled for today Street dam. Police said while at Linn-Mar Intermediate School. the man did not jump from the Police, in cooperation with St. Luke's bridge, it appeared he inten- Child Protection Center, scheduled the tionally dropped into the wa- two sessions after what may have been ter. two child abduction attempts in Marion. Rescue workers tried several The Linn-Mar school, however, has times to reach the body, start- an interruptible power contract and was ing just downstream from the notified Monday its power would be cut Burlington Street bridge. Res- today because of anticipated high cuers were forced to move Gazette photo by Buzz Orr electrical demands. The safety programs equipment several times as Rescue workers under the Highway 6 bridge in Iowa City pull a drowning victim from a rescue boat Monday morning along the will be rescheduled later, according to the body quickly drifted face- bank of the Iowa River. Police do not know the identity of the man, who was pronounced dead at University Hospitals. Marion police Lt. Steve Glenn. down on the fast-moving river. The sheriffs rescue boat ambulance personnel tried for University Hospitals. and westbound lanes of the dam and then not become was put in between Burlington 20 minutes to revive the man. Burlington Street bridge. caught in debris at the bottom CEDAR RAPIDS and Benton streets. The body This is the first drowning of the river in that area. was recovered by a crew on Workers still were administer- near the Burlington Street Police Capt. Pat Harney said School board OK's staff changes that boat between Benton ing CPR around 11 a.m. when dam since October 1994, when the quick recovery of the body • The Cedar Rapids school board Street and Highway 6. It was the body was placed in the Cameron Inghram, 22, was surprising. He said it is For updates on this story approved several personnel items last brought out under the High- ambulance. The man was pro- drowned after he fell through unusual for a person to make — — call 363-7000 or night. way 6 bridge, where fire and nounced dead on arrival at a gap between the eastbound it over the Burlington Street 337-7000, category 2553. As part of the district's reorganization plan, Austin Mueller is moving from special services director to the newly created position of executive director of special services. His salary Police: Death is a homicide Landfill restriction will increase from $64,634 this year to A prayer service for Even- $75,000. Slain C.R. woman's aunt: She son will be at 7 p.m. today at Nancy Raw, associate director of the Brosh Chapel. (See obitu- sent back to board was just a good, normal kid ary, 2B.) special services, will become Van Buren By Steve Stepanek Elementary School principal at a salary Evenson's death is the first By Rick Smith Gazette news Intern of $60,000. Pat Wilson, the district's homicide in Cedar Rapids LINN COUNTY Gazette staff writer In a unanimous vote, the social studies facilitator, will become not involving a vehicle since mission's three-hour ses- Cedar Rapids police detectives on Monday March 1995, when a 15-year- Linn County Planning and Garfield principal at a salary of $60,000. called the weekend death of 22-year-old Traci Zoning Commission last sion and, in the end, it was All the changes are effective July 1. old Chicago man was gunned the need to stay consistent Evenson a homicide, but said little else. down in a drug-and-gang-re- night reaffirmed its deci- Also last night, the school board gave Evenson's mother, sister and aunt didn't sion that the county's land that carried the day. preliminary approval to a plan to lated murder in the south- need to add much more: Seeing the three said east part of the city. use plan be amended to improve the parking lot at Hiawatha it for them. Trad Evenson prohibit landfills from be- The 65 CSR requirement, Elementary School. Plans are to add 28 1st C.R. homicide Police Lt. Kenneth Wash- ing placed on prime farm has been a part of land use; parking spots — increasing the number since March 1995 burn declined to reveal the land. policy in Linn County for- "SHE WORKED AND she didn't bother other zoning issues fori of spots to 58 — and another entrance to anybody," said the dead woman's mother, cause of Evenson's death, but the parking lot. The second part of the he emphasized that it was a homicide when The commission met in more than 20 years, Com"-; Norma Zillyette, as she and the two other : job requires the approval of Hiawatha asked if her death might be something else: a special session in response mission Chairman Pat Pisa. - women, alone with themselves under an unre- to the recent action by the rik said. To not include it'. building and zoning officials. lenting sun, entered Brosh Chapel mortuary to suicide or a drug overdose, for instance. Paul Drahos, construction project "This is all we are releasing at this time," he Board of Supervisors, when siting a landfill would: plan a funeral. which rejected the first be questionable, he said. *.- supervisor, said $55,000 is budgeted Evenson, a 1994 Washington High School said. from the schoolhouse fund for the reading of the amendment graduate, worked two jobs and was studying on the grounds that it The first part of the meet: " project. computers at Kirkwood Community College, ON SUNDAY, HE had estimated the death to have happened sometime within 36 hours of the might not withstand a court ing consisted of a review oh her mother said. challenge. all restrictions affecting' Health grants are given "She didn't drink, didn't smoke," said Even- body's discovery at 9 a.m. Sunday. The county's planning landfill sites, to include- • Young Parents Network in Cedar son's sister Jodi Jackson, the one who found Dr. David Kresnicka, assistant county medi- both those imposed by law I Evenson's body Sunday morning in her sec- cal examiner, continues to investigate the staff had indicated that lim- Rapids is one of 11 organizations iting the location of a fu- and those voluntarily adopt- : ond-floor apartment at 438V2 Ninth Ave. SW. death, his office reported Monday. receiving health improvement grants ture landfill to areas with ed by the Citizens Advisory; from the Wellmark Foundation, a "She was just a good, normal kid," said the Uniformed police officers remained at the Commission (CAC), the- homicide scene during the day Monday. corn suitability ratings private, non-profit affiliate of Wellmark aunt, Betty Nyberg. (CSRs) of less than 65 might group charged with investK Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Meanwhile Monday, both of Evenson's em- gating various landfill-relat-; ployers, APAC Teleservices and Hy-Vee Food illegally limit the number Young Parents Network will receive NONE OF THE THREE women wanted to of suitable sites. ed options. '.• $50,000 to enhance its outreach prenatal discuss the details of the death or possible Stores, took time to speak highly of her. services program in Linn County suspects. "We're saddened by her death," said Bruce This was the single issue through advanced training of program "We don't know anything yet," Nyberg said. debated at the zoning com- • Turn to 3B: Landfill;. managers and volunteers. "I wish we did." • Turn to 3B: Homicide Ghost Town Club members visit unfinished Youngville cafe hen you get a taste Newhall. "When we get it open, it'll be the only for the unknown, potty stop between Cedar Rapids and Toledo." 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