Learning
I.C. West students, retirees not so different, they learn
IOWA CITY — Dylan Carew and Jim Corwin have much in common. They love sports, especially University of Iowa wrestling, and learned at an early age that you have to work for what you want in life. Both athletes, that’s what they did. “There’s not really that much different between us,” Corwin said. Some might think that Corwin being a resident at Melrose Meadows, a retirement community, and Carew, 17, a senior at Iowa City West High School, is a big difference. They would be wrong.
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In a couple of weeks, Jon Reynolds will fly from Cedar Rapids to Bahrain to visit his good buddy Crown Prince Shaikh Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa, of Bahrain. They’ll celebrate the 10th anniversary of the birth of an extraordinary college scholarship program they created together.
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