Cedar Rapids Robert Bob Eugene Carson went to be with the Lord on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021, at age 85. Private family services will be held. All invited guests are respectfully requested to wear a mask and practice social distancing. A livestream of the funeral service may be accessed on the funeral home website tribute page for Bob, under photos and videos or media, starting at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 6. Murdoch-Linwood Funeral Home & Cremation Service in Cedar Rapids is assisting the family. Born Feb. 10, 1935, in Iowa City, Iowa, to Emil and Margaret (Bream) Carson, Bob was the oldest of five children: Donna, Tom, Carol and Mary Ellen. He attended Iowa City schools, graduating from City High in 1953 while also working a full-time job at Western Union.
“Make me a park!” The message is written on posters taped to a 6-foot chain-link fence. And shouted, loudly, by Lewis Weitzman, a resident of Cambridge. Weitzman is shouting about Jerry’s Pond a fenced-off pond completely closed to the public, sandwiched between the Alewife T Station and Russell Field in North Cambridge. He s at the pond on a fall day, running a clean-up event with Friends of Jerry’s Pond, a community group he co-founded with Eric Grunebaum. Lewis Weitzman during the clean-up day at Jerry s Pond. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) “We could create a lot more space here,” says Grunebaum, “and that space could be used for off-road bike paths, meandering nature walks, some boardwalks through the woods. It would improve the natural landscape, but also give people access to it.”