Recent content by cattree

One thing I just thought of. I remember someone saying that different county license plates would stick out in Blackhawk county. But...we have UNI here in CF. There seem to be hardly any Blackhawk county license plates in the parking lots there. Plus Highway 20/380 is the easiest way to get to...

It was July 13, right in the middle of detasseling season. And it still takes 2-3 months starting in July. Source: I worked for Monsanto for 2 summers in college. Hybrid seed corn can have very different growing pattern/season than commercial sweet corn.And in Waterloo at least the crews tend to...

OK question slightly off topic... Did they cut down a lot of trees around Angel Park? When you drive by now you can clearly see the park and houses beyond. I don't remember seeing that before a couple years ago. Also, another thing to consider: in summer in Iowa there are a lot of people in...

Also, in regard to Oelwein and the drug culture, etc, Iowa is actually on a drug route from Chicago up to the twin cities (long-time locals told me this when I asked about why I saw so many cars pulled over and being searched). I used to commute up 218 for work and there were a police doing drug...

By checking in hockey, I mean physical play (as in "checking into the boards"). Sorry, it's hockey lingo and not everyone may know what I meant! Also, the other thing that happened that July 13 was that an inmate escaped from the Blackhawk county jail in Waterloo. They did catch him later that...

Thanks! The Waterloo BlackHawks (the Junior league team here) had L&E stickers on their helmets for a year or so, and a lot of local hockey players still have them on their helmets too. I think boys and girls play hockey together until they are 12 (I think??) and they don't start checking until...

Hi, I'm new here and also from the Waterloo area. I'm so glad people are still thinking about this case, I don't know the Collins well, but I played hockey with Drew a couple times in the past couple years. He seems very nice, but obviously this hit him really hard. That was something I...