In a college further down the road in Cedar Rapids, the 76-year-old congressman, standing in front of a funky modernistic stainless steel statue, points out gleefully that there doesn't seem to be anyone over 40 at his rally.
On Wednesday, he will begin his trip with an event in the Cedar Rapids area, followed by an event in the Phoenix area.
However, when twenty-three-year-old Sydney Provence, a University of Iowa physics grad student, picked me up in her Toyota Corolla at the airport in Cedar Rapids the first stop on my surfing odyssey I immediately confessed my misdeed.
The board had planned to meet in Cedar Rapids the following day, Sept. 12, to hear a five-year plan from Jones, who became president and chief executive earlier that year.
Under a proposed consent decree filed in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, the company would scrap that option in favor of onboard storage.
Arthur Collins, a 22-year-old ham radio junkie, launched the Collins Radio Co. in 1931 in the basement of his Cedar Rapids home.
And when the clock ran out, the Rapids were the best team in American soccer.
In 2005 Shaw lent his slippers to the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minn. (birthplace of Garland, n??e Frances Gumm).
Pointing towards a bluish mass of ice in a distant valley, he explains that in the 1930s the Black Rapids Glacier became the fastest moving ever recorded, sometimes advancing as much as 200 feet a day.
The drive to reconstruct an ecological piece of the past in Grand Rapids comes despite rising river levels that reached historic heights during heavy rains in late April, cresting at more than 21 feet and testing floodwalls.
Flying in the teeth of an unprecedented slump in commercial aircraft and strict budgetarians at the Pentagon, this Cedar Rapids, Iowa company hasn't missed a beat.
Robert A. Sirico is president and co-founder of the Acton Institute in Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Officials said Friday they're adding the Grand River in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Created by Sharon Matt Atkins, the museum's managing curator of exhibitions, and Shelley Bernstein, its chief of technology, "GO" was modeled after ArtPrize, the annual event in Grand Rapids, Mich.
An MP at just 25, he was an archetypal Victorian hearty: a double blue in rowing and running at Oxford, he had subsequently swum the Niagara rapids twice, climbed the Matterhorn three times and represented his country at fencing in the unofficial 1906 Olympics.
Cyndy Vogt, a spokeswoman for the YMCA of Greater Grand Rapids, says its seven clubs in the area have a policy that requires athletic shoes to be worn at all times.
In the last two years, it has added the spaces to spas in Hawaii and Grand Rapids, Mich.
The Democratic candidate is to head to Rochester, Minnesota, before making a stop in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and ending the day in Ohio.
It is also a great place to get your feet wet if you are not ready to tackle the heart-pounding rapids of the New and Gauley Rivers in neighbouring West Virginia.
Jeff Chaney, a Grand Valley football center in the 1980s, drove from Grand Rapids to join the search Tuesday.
At the Witwer Senior Center in Cedar Rapids last Monday, surrounded by health-care professionals, Bradley looked as if his mind were a million miles away.
He was expected to meet with a Republican women's group at a Cedar Rapids-area home in the afternoon and speak at a county GOP breakfast Saturday.
Kroenke already owns the Colorado Rapids, the Denver Nuggets and the Colorado Avalanche sports teams in his native Colorado.
Kroenke Sports Enterprises and its U.S. football team, the Colorado Rapids, have a marketing alliance with Arsenal to promote the Gunners in the U.S., including via KSE's TV sports network, and make Arsenal's highly regarded player development expertise available to the Rapids.
She has criss-crossed America, from scholarly Cambridge in Massachusetts to punchier places like Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Mobile, Alabama, to tell the American in the street her idea of foreign policy.
At ten she was gliding round to the waltz and the foxtrot at social-dancing classes in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Forest ranger Arthur Perryman, who paddled along in a solo boat and tested some rapids before the rest followed, said it's important to go faster or slower than the current to control the canoe.
Eight small boats exploring stretches of the Hudson opening to canoeists in the central Adirondacks all made it through seven moderate rapids interspersed with long flat-water stretches on a 7.3-mile trip through deep forests of evergreens and hardwoods.
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