Friday is deadline to sign up for dodgeball tournament fundraiser for Special Olympics

Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - 2:10pm
Police

UPDATE - Registration extended to Friday, Oct. 30

Dodgeball players: There’s still time to register teams for a dodgeball tournament scheduled next month to help raise funds for Special Olympics in Iowa. The deadline to sign up to play and receive a tournament t-shirt is this Friday, Oct. 30.

Cost is $200 per team. Each team must include seven players to start, although teams can have up to 10 players on their roster. All players must be 12 years of age or older. To sign up, visit www.firstgiving.com/soiowa . Funds raised will...

Tickets Available for Rev Up for Rotary, Rev Up for Reading Raffle

Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - 1:41pm
Iowa City Public Library

There’s not much time to buy your tickets for the Rev Up for Rotary, Rev Up for Reading raffle drawing. This special raffle by the Iowa City Noon Rotary Club is in celebration of 100 years of service. Proceeds will benefit the Iowa City Public Library, the Coralville Public Library and the North Liberty Community Library, as well as Iowa City Noon Rotary community projects. Buy your tickets now for a chance to win a 2015 Toyota Highlander XLE AWD. Tickets are $25 each or five for $100. Tickets can be purchased at the libraries or from an Iowa City Noon Rotary Club member until noon on...

Oakcrest and Night/Weekend Oakcrest routes are detouring due to road work effective immediately

Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - 1:13pm
Contact: 
Curtis Brenton
Transit

Effective immediately, the Oakcrest and Night/Weekend Oakcrest bus routes are detouring using Woodside Drive due to road construction taking place on the 600 block of Greenwood Drive. The bus stops located at Woodside Place and Greenwood Drive (stop 8120), Greenwood Drive and Benton Street (stop 8121), and Seville Apartments (stop 8122) will be out of service for the duration of the project. Customers can use alternate bus stops located at Oakcrest Drive and Woodside Drive (stop 8118) or at the bus shelter located at Benton Street and Oaknoll Drive (stop 8123). This detour will be in...

Reminder: Public input meeting scheduled Wednesday for Lower City Park

Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - 10:43am
Parks and Recreation

Due to the continued challenges caused by seasonal flooding in Lower City Park, the Iowa City Parks and Recreation Department is planning a redesign of the area. The public is reminded that the City will host an open house on Wednesday, Oct. 21 from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Social Hall of the Robert A. Lee Recreation Center, 220 S. Gilbert Street, to present and gather ideas and feedback on a new master plan for Lower City Park.

Confluence, a Des Moines-based landscape architecture firm that has been hired to develop the park master plan, will be available to present details of some of...

Volunteers needed for Wetherby Park Edible Forest projects

Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - 10:41am
Contact: 
Joyce Carroll
Parks and Recreation

Volunteers are needed this Friday, Oct. 23, to help build pathways and a natural playscape in the Wetherby Park Edible Forest at 2400 Taylor Drive in Iowa City. The event, hosted by Backyard Abundance and the City of Iowa City Parks and Recreation Department, will be held from 8 to 11:30 a.m.

Participants will seed grass in pathways, help with light weeding, and establish a natural playscape made from buried logs and stumps. Volunteers are asked to wear jeans, boots, and gloves, and bring steel rakes, shovels, pitchforks, and wheel barrows if possible. Refreshments will be provided...

Farmers Market season comes to an end next week

Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - 10:39am
Contact: 
Tammy Neumann
Recreation

The Iowa City Farmers Market season will be wrapping up next week. Final weekly market dates for 2015 will be Tuesday, Oct. 27 for Mercer Park Market at 1317 Dover Street; and Wednesday, Oct. 28 and Saturday, Oct. 31 for the markets in the Chauncey Swan Parking Ramp, across from City Hall at 410 E. Washington Street. Hours for the markets are 3 to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, 5 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, and 7:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday.

HOLIDAY MARKETS

The annual Iowa City Holiday Markets, which give Farmers Market patrons and area residents a chance to buy...

Lucas Farms Neighborhood plans Halloween Costume Sale

Monday, October 19, 2015 - 5:02pm
Contact: 
Marcia Bollinger
Neighborhood Outreach

Still searching for that perfect costume for Halloween? The Lucas Farms Neighborhood Association is hosting another costume sale this year to help raise funds for neighborhood activities and improvements. Last year, the sale helped raise funds for improvements to their neighborhood park, Highland Park.

This year, the sale will be held from Thursday, Oct. 22 to Friday, Oct. 30 at 330 E. Third Street in Iowa City, behind the Kum and Go station on Gilbert and Highland Streets. Hours are noon to 6 p.m. each day.

Costumes are $10 or less, and everything must go!

For more...

Deadline to purchase tickets for Annual Human Rights Awards Breakfast is Friday

Monday, October 19, 2015 - 4:20pm
Contact: 
Stefanie Bowers
Equity and Human Rights

This Friday, Oct. 23, is the deadline to purchase tickets for this year’s Annual Human Rights Awards Breakfast. Tickets are $20 per person and are available for sale at the Cashier’s Desk in City Hall, 410 E. Washington Street. Credit card purchases may be made by calling 319-356-5066. Tickets will not be available the day of the event.

The 32nd annual breakfast is scheduled Wednesday, Oct. 28 at the Iowa Memorial Union, 125 N. Madison Street. Breakfast will be available at 7:15 a.m., with the program starting promptly at 7:30 a.m.

Orville H. Townsend, Sr., an adjunct...

Lane reductions planned Wednesday for fire hydrant work

Monday, October 19, 2015 - 3:17pm
Engineering

Weather permitting, beginning on Wednesday, Oct. 21, E. Court Street traffic lanes between Terrace Road and Elmridge Avenue will be shifted to the north, and Crestview Avenue south of the E. Court Street intersection will be reduced to one lane of alternating traffic. These traffic alterations are necessary to facilitate the replacement of a fire hydrant. It is anticipated that E. Court Street and Crestview Avenue will reopen to normal traffic by late afternoon on Friday, Oct. 23.

Motorists are encouraged to allow extra travel time or to seek an alternate route during this time...

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