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Joffe-Bouska's Work Still Evolving
With Airbrush At Hand . . . Marcia Joffe-Bouska stands by one of her recent plexiglass paintings. Eighteen of her works - 12 paintings and six drawings - will be displayed beginning Tuesday at the Artists' Cooperative Gallery.
Art From A Tube
Showing Result . . . of more than 100 hours' airbrush work, Joffe-Bouska poses with "Bicursal," one of the paintings in her Co-op show. Swooping curved tubular shapes are her dominant artistic interest.
First Jews Came To Bluffs 100 Years Ago - Rabbi Korb To Review History Friday Night . . . .
Chevra B'Nai Yisroel Synagogue . . . was destroyed by fire March 5, 1930. Cornerstone for this building at 618 Mynster St. was laid June 19, 1904.
LDS Church Buys Old Beck Property - Red Cross Home Goes To Jewish Group
Council Bluffs' Jewish Community Center . . . purchased from the Red Cross for $15,000.
Chevra B'Nai Yisroel Congregation
Chevra B'Nai Yisroel in Council Bluffs was organized Oct. 21, 1903 . . .
Bluffs Ecologist Is Honored - Wes Jespersen Day Declared
A Key To The City . . . is presented by Mayor Raymond Pogge to Wes Jespersen, who was honored for efforts in beautifying the city. He also received the Operation Pride Pine Award and was named volunteer of the month.
Let's Chat . . . With Wes Jespersen
Wes Jespersen
Ecologist Likes Bluffs Neighbors
Sacking Trash . . . in the Bennett Avenue area is self-appointed ecologist Wes Jespersen. His trusty bike waits for him to finish the work day.
New Bike For Jespersen
Showing Off His New Bicycle . . . is Wes Jespersen, 102 1/2 W. Broadway. Jespersen was given $110 by Manawa residents in appreciation of his volunteer work in cleaning up litter around the lake. The money was used to buy a new three-speed bicycle.
Jepsen At Full Throttle
Roger Jepsen
Senator's Wife Speaks Out On Women's Issues
Dee Jepsen . . . wife of U.S. Sen. Roger Jepsen, R-Iowa, signs a copy of her new book for John Hartog of Carter Lake at the Living Word Wednesday afternoon.
Iowa Senate Battle Heats Up - Jepsen: Going On; Harkin: I Run A Race
Roger Jepsen: We've got to keep on keeping on.
New Ideas, Not New Taxes
Jepsen - AP Wirephoto
Sidewalk petition may force installation assessment plan
Council Bluffs City Councilman Sam Irwin has filed a petition from 26 residents asking the city to install a sidewalk along Madison Avenue from Palmer Avenue to Bennett Avenue. There are currently no sidewalks on either side of Madison Avenue--a…
Man Defeats River in Flood Threat of 1952
Cots Fill Gymnasium...at Abraham Lincoln High School, the main evacuation center set up by the Red Cross. More than 250 evacuees took refuge in this center as the appalling river threatened their homes. Other Red Cross shelters cared for a total of…
No Time to Be Lulled Into False Sense of Security; Stand-by Crews at Levees
At Trouble Spot on North Levee...army engineers are building a tie-back levee from the hill through Big Lake park and joining the main levee between the North western and Illinois Central railroad tracks.
IC Works From Both Ends to Repair Flooded Track; 12-mile Stretch Damaged
Roller Coaster Roadbed...faces Illinois Central crewmen for two miles where rails and ties sagged of their own weight when roadbed was washed out.
Council Bluffs--History--Flood (1952)
Older man with cane sitting on chair, with 3 young boys sitting on the floor around him; man is speaking to the boys.
Council Bluffs--History--Flood (1952)
Man in work clothes and boots, lying on his back across three folding chairs next to a radiator; arms are crossed over his eyes.