Nora stood up against a bevy of highway men/engi- neers at the local public hearings. All to get truckers from Jersey Ridge to Marquette Street three minutes faster. In the early 1970s, the Cross-Town Ex- pressway threat ened to destroy every historic district in Davenpo rt, from the Villag e of East Davenport to downtown’s Washington Square/ West Third Street old-town district to the Gold Coast. Thanks to Nora’s suc- cessful effort to save venerable old Davenport High School, as many as four generations of Davenport families – including my own – have now graduated from that historic building.
The courage of her convictions was never more apparent than the night that a school-board member unplugged her microphone – and had a police officer escort her out of the public meeting – for no more a show of civil disobedience than stand- ing at the mic, repeating over, and over, the passage out of the school board’s own operating procedures that would not allow it to deplete the school’s 10-year maintenance fund on a new construction project.
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Nora successfully led the public’s fight to save their iconic school – by proving that the historic building was both structurally sound and economically feasible to renovate up to modern code standards. In the mid-1970s, the Davenport school board doggedly ignored three defeated public referendums in their quest to sell off Daven- port High School, threatening to denude the central city of an irreplaceable core community resource. Friends from a broad spectrum of com- munity groups will be attending her Davenport memorial to help celebrate the indelible mark she left upon our town. Her early career as a public-school teacher, community organizer for Eastside Development Corporation, and nutri- tional counselor for the Iowa State Extension service took her to all corners of the central city and familiarized her with many diverse public causes. Ambrose Chapel, Celtic bagpip- ers leading the way to the cem- etery, and live Celtic music at an afternoon luncheon/ reunion at the German American Heritage Center. This will be a funeral to remember with a mass at St. Nora died in Pennsylvania on January 10 after a five-year battle with breast cancer. I’ve had a busy one! It’s been a good one, I’m not complaining.N May 21, Nora DeJohn’s children will bring their mother back to Davenport for burial. I think it needs to be a celebration of life, and not get too down in the dumps. None of this cremation stuff, none of this burial stuff – just get the ashes and chuck them in the air. “It’s a bit of a depressing question, isn’t it? I mean, I personally would like to be a firework.
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We’ve not had a chance to go out in the clubs and do that yet, says the 46-year-old! I’ll whack on the whole ‘Chromatica’ album full blast.”
“At the moment, if I’m getting ready, jumping in the shower or getting up to go and do stuff, it’s this one. Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande – ‘Rain On Me’ Karaoke is all about fun, having a few drinks and being merry together.” It’s such a chick flick moment, isn’t it? If you’re with the girls, what are you gonna do? Crowdpleaser! You don’t want to sing a song that’s too nice, because you need to get everyone in the mood. “If I’m with Claire from Steps it’s ‘Enough is Enough’, if I’m on my own it’ll be ‘It’s Raining Men’. My son loves it too – we’re now bashing him with all our favourites!”īarbra Streisand and Donna Summer – ‘No More Tears (Enough is Enough)’ / The Weather Girls – ‘It’s Raining Men’ It stamps a moment in time – obviously delivering history but the production of it’s got a really classic sound which I think still stands up today.
“It made such a huge impression on me when I was younger, but also it’s just so clever. It’s a real family in the car moment, so that’s the one that always draws me back.” We absolutely love this song in particular and it just reminds me of when we are driving off on holiday together.
My family up here is my husband and my son, and we’re huge fans of the Guardians of Galaxy albums. “There are different types of home for me at the moment and I’m going to go with this one because I live up in the northeast these days. It was so daunting but seeing those three powerful women standing up there with that attitude – it was amazing.”Īliotta Haynes Jeremiah – ‘Lake Shore Drive’ It was such a huge building, I’d never been to an arena concert before and they left such a huge impression. “I was invited to go to a Bananarama concert with my then ballet partner, my little fella Douglas Bateman who is now very happily married to his husband.