Travel Waterloo Episode 3: Dig Outdoor Recreation
Dig outdoor recreation and more in Waterloo! This week's episode of Travel Waterloo highlights a few of the many recreational activities available at George Wyth State Park, including the Cedar Valley Trails.
Comfort Inn Waverly, Waverly (Iowa), USA, HD
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The Comfort Inn hotel is located off Interstate 218 and Highway 3, one mile from Wartburg College. This hotel is minutes from the University of Northern Iowa, George Wyth State Park, the Bremer County Historical Museum and the Waverly Civic Center. The Waterloo Regional Airport is 15 miles away.
Waverly is the site of the annual Bremer County Fair, which is held in early August at the Waverly Fairgrounds. Take a ride along the Waverly Rail Trail, one of northeast Iowa's finest and Bremer County's only scenic bike trail.
Area businesses within one mile include CUNA Mutual Group, Nestlé Brands Company, TDS Automation, Inc., GMT Corporation and Terex Cranes Waverly Operations.
This Waverly hotel features amenities such as free wireless high-speed Internet access in all rooms and free local calls.
Breakfast is full of options, featuring eggs, meat, yogurt, fresh fruit, cereal and more, including your choice of hot waffle flavors!
Guests of this hotel will enjoy relaxing in the indoor heated pool, hot tub and sauna. Be sure to take advantage of the on-site exercise room, open daily 8 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Guests will be pleasantly surprised by the warmth and friendliness of the hotel. Warm marble floors and cool granite counters add to the beauty of the lobby and breakfast areas.
Business travelers will appreciate conveniences like work desks in all rooms and access to copy and fax services at a nominal charge.
All guest rooms have coffee makers, desks, hair dryers, irons, ironing boards and cable television. In addition, some rooms come equipped with microwaves and refrigerators. The hotel has four luxurious whirlpool bathtub suites. Non-smoking rooms can be requested.
Fort Dodge Vintage Market
The Fort Dodge Vintage Market will be held October 16th, 17th & 18th at the east campus of ICCC in Fort Dodge. This is their on-screen ad to help promote the event!
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Happy Thanksgiving from Travel Waterloo! #IDigWaterloo
Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving from the Travel Waterloo family to yours!
Travel Waterloo Episode 17: Dig an Open-Air Concert with the wcfsymphony
Dig an open-air concert with the wcfsymphony in Waterloo! During this week's episode of Travel Waterloo, we'll give you a preview of the wcfsymphony's upcoming concert Water Music. Enjoy an evening of food, friends and festive music overlooking the Cedar River in downtown Waterloo.
Dig Sports & Recreation in Waterloo
Dig a Bicycle Shop & More in Waterloo
In this week's episode of Travel Waterloo, we'll visit our friends and bicycle enthusiasts at Waterloo Bicycle Works. We'll learn how a hobby for bike repair and cycling became a full-time job that benefits visitors to Waterloo.
Crime Stoppers and Waterloo Black Hawks honor fallen officers
Written by Amanda Gilbert, Multimedia Journalist, KWWL
Posted: Feb 05, 2016 7:54 AM CST
Updated: Feb 05, 2016 8:00 AM CST
WATERLOO (KWWL) -
Watch sports and help police.
Not something you hear every day.
One Iowa team is partnering with officers, all to raise money to help fight crimes.
There's six jerseys being auctioned off.
Two representing each of the following: Cedar Falls police, Waterloo police, and the Black Hawk County sheriff's office.
The Cedar Valley Crime Stoppers are teaming up with the Waterloo Black Hawks.
They started a raffle to honor our fallen officers and deputies and raise money.
These jerseys are the prizes you can win in the raffle.
Each jersey represents a different fallen officer or deputy in the Cedar Valley. Deputies Tim Peterson and Doug Norton are two of the people who are being honored.
As well as two officers who were shot and killed while at work in 1981.
The raffle is going on until March 12. You can buy tickets at the games.
Travel Waterloo Episode 35: Dig a New Mayor
Dig a new Mayor in Waterloo! During this week's episode of Travel Waterloo, we'll spend some time chatting with Waterloo's new Mayor. See what Mayor Quentin Hart digs most about his hometown of Waterloo.
Travel Waterloo Special Episode: Dig My Waterloo Days
Dig My Waterloo Days in Waterloo! This special episode of Travel Waterloo features one of everyone's favorite festival traditions. Watch as we take a hot air balloon ride over Waterloo!
Enter the #IDigWaterloo Bobblehead Contest
The contest is free, fun and a great way to experience some of Waterloo's best places to eat, shop and play. Enter the #IDigWaterloo Bobblehead Contest today for a chance to win awesome prizes! More info and contest rules: TravelWaterloo.com.
Dig Dining & Nightlife in Waterloo
Dig Waterloo's Cultural & Entertainment District
In this week's episode of Travel Waterloo, we join Main Street Waterloo for a whirlwind tour of downtown Waterloo. We'll highlight the many locally-owned eateries, bars, retail shops and more located within the Cultural & Entertainment District.
Travel Waterloo Episode 32: Dig Paintings & Paco
Dig paintings and Paco in Waterloo! In this week's episode of Travel Waterloo, we'll sit down with one of our good friends, local artist Paco Rosic. Watch as we visit his studio and even try our hand at aerosol art.
Words at War: Assignment USA / The Weeping Wood / Science at War
The Detroit Race Riot broke out in Detroit, Michigan in June 20, 1943, and lasted for three days before Federal troops restored order. The rioting between blacks and whites began on Belle Isle on June 20, 1943 and continued until the 22nd of June, killing 34, wounding 433, and destroying property valued at $2 million.
In the summer of 1943, in the midst of World War II, tensions between blacks and whites in Detroit were escalating. Detroit's population had grown by 350,000 people since the war began. The booming defense industries brought in large numbers of people with high wages and very little available housing. 50,000 blacks had recently arrived along with 300,000 whites, mostly from rural Appalachia and Southern States.[2]
Recruiters convinced blacks as well as whites in the South to come up North by promising them higher wages in the new war factories. Believing that they had found a promised land, blacks began to move up North in larger numbers. However, upon arriving in Detroit, blacks found that the northern bigotry was just as bad as that they left behind in the deep South. They were excluded from all public housing except Brewster Housing Projects, forced to live in homes without indoor plumbing, and paid rents two to three times higher than families in white districts. They also faced discrimination from the public and unfair treatment by the Detroit Police Department.[3] In addition, Southern whites brought their traditional bigotry with them as both races head up North, adding serious racial tensions to the area. Job-seekers arrived in such large numbers in Detroit that it was impossible to house them all.
Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government was concerned about providing housing for the workers who were beginning to pour into the area. On June 4, 1941, the Detroit Housing Commission approved two sites for defense housing projects--one for whites, one for blacks. The site originally selected by the commission for black workers was in a predominantly black area, but the U.S. government chose a site at Nevada and Fenelon streets, an all-white neighborhood.
To complete this, a project named Sojourner Truth was launched in the memory of a black Civil War woman and poet. Despite this, the white neighborhoods opposed having blacks moving next to their homes, meaning no tenants were to be built. On January, 20, 1942, Washington DC informed the Housing Commission that the Sojourner Truth project would be for whites and another would be selected for blacks. But when a suitable site for blacks could not be found, Washington housing authorities agreed to allow blacks into the finished homes. This was set on February 28, 1942.[4] In February 27, 1942, 120 whites went on protest vowing they would keep any black homeowners out of their sight in response to the project. By the end of the day, it had grown to more than 1,200, most of them were armed. Things went so badly that two blacks in a car attempted to run over the protesters picket line which led to a clash between white and black groups. Despite the mounting opposition from whites, black families moved into the project at the end of April. To prevent a riot, Detroit Mayor Edward Jeffries ordered the Detroit Police Department and state troops to keep the peace during that move. Over 1,100 city and state police officers and 1,600 Michigan National Guard troops were mobilized and sent to the area around Nevada and Fenelon street to guard six African-American families who moved into the Sojourner Truth Homes. Thanks to the presence of the guard, there were no further racial problems for the blacks who moved into this federal housing project. Eventually, 168 black families moved into these homes.[5] Despite no casualties in the project, the fear was about to explode a year later.[6]
In early June 1943, three weeks before the riot, Packard Motor Car Company promoted three blacks to work next to whites in the assembly lines. This promotion caused 25,000 whites to walk off the job, effectively slowing down the critical war production. It was clear that whites didn't mind that blacks worked in the same plant but refused to work side-by-side with them. During the protest, a voice with a Southern accent shouted in the loudspeaker, I'd rather see Hitler and Hirohito win than work next to a nigger.
The Great Gildersleeve: Leroy Smokes a Cigar / Canary Won't Sing / Cousin Octavia Visits
The Great Gildersleeve (1941--1957), initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. Built around Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve, a character who had been a staple on the classic radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly, first introduced on Oct. 3, 1939, ep. #216. The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest success in the 1940s. Actor Harold Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in a quartet of feature films released at the height of the show's popularity.
On Fibber McGee and Molly, Peary's Gildersleeve was a pompous windbag who became a consistent McGee nemesis. You're a haa-aa-aa-aard man, McGee! became a Gildersleeve catchphrase. The character was given several conflicting first names on Fibber McGee and Molly, and on one episode his middle name was revealed as Philharmonic. Gildy admits as much at the end of Gildersleeve's Diary on the Fibber McGee and Molly series (Oct. 22, 1940).
Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had occasionally spoken of his (never-present) wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series the character was a confirmed bachelor.
In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company (If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve) and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys. The Great Gildersleeve may have been the first broadcast show to be centered on a single parent balancing child-rearing, work, and a social life, done with taste and genuine wit, often at the expense of Gildersleeve's now slightly understated pomposity.
Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon (who wrote The Golden Girls), and grandfather of Deadwood scripter Zack Whedon and Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog).
The key to the show was Peary, whose booming voice and facility with moans, groans, laughs, shudders and inflection was as close to body language and facial suggestion as a voice could get. Peary was so effective, and Gildersleeve became so familiar a character, that he was referenced and satirized periodically in other comedies and in a few cartoons.