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...retrospect, I overreacted. When the Cedar Rapids Kernels offered to let me throw out a first pitch, I shouldn't have run by the editors' offices yelling "I bet your precious Calvin Trillin has never thrown out a first pitch!" I called my new favorite minor-league team immediately and accepted, drunk on my own power and assuming Cedar Rapids wasn't really far away. It is. From anywhere...
...third inning, I'd made lots of friends. I did color in the radio booth with John Rodgers, who explained how Cedar Rapids was a city of five seasons: winter, spring, summer, fall and "time," which they always make sure to enjoy. I think of Cedar Rapids as the city with a poor grasp of the word season...
PLAY SAFE Two out of five playground injuries result from inadequate parental supervision. To make these areas less dangerous for little ones, the National Program for Playground Safety in Cedar Falls, Iowa, is offering guidelines for redoing sites from the '60s and '70s that have concrete aprons and hidden passages. In their place it recommends colorful ramps and stairs with clear sight lines for parents...
...wouldn't want to waste my life that way [doing nothing]." Mmmmmm...I think the first night this spring that I walk outside to sit and listen to the frogs croaking in the distance, I'm going to unplug the computer and take my son with me! LORI DUTTER Cedar Grove...
...more land," she says. Another souvenir from the hunt: four bricks from her great-grandparents' house in Tennessee. Local newspaper archives can tell you more than you want to know. Dennis Rawlings, a Fort Myers, Fla., real estate broker, unearthed an account of his great-grandparents' wedding in Cedar Bluffs, Neb. The guests were named, the bride's dress described and the presents listed, including five pickle casters. "Pickle casters must have been the late 1800s equivalent of can openers," Rawlings jokes...