Parkview Profile, Chinese VP, and What to do with our Sycamore Blues?: Iowa City Daily Links, Feb. 13

It looks like this week the temperature is going to fluctuate above and below freezing, leading to a mix of rain, snow, ice, black ice, sleet and everything in between. Be careful out there.

On to the Links!

From this Site

We have a new feature up profiling local places of worship. This week's profile is on .

Meet , a black cat that was a social butterfly in a previous life. He's our featured pet this week in need of a good home.

Just a few hours left to vote in our Valentine's Day contest up that is pitting three restaurants against each other for the best Valentine's Day location. You will !

Iowa City's University Camera is keeping in a digital world.

Five Burlington men were charged this weekend from a moving vehicle at the Caliente Night Club Saturday morning.

In today's Parent Talk, we are asking how parents should punish their kids .

From Other Sites

Gregg Hennigan of the Gazette has an interesting story on what China's vice president visiting Iowa will mean for the economic relationship between China and Iowa.

The University of Iowa has a new Golden Girl.

U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack was positive, but vague, in giving his pitch for reelection to some University of Iowa students, writes Anna Theodosis of the Daily Iowan.

Tara Bannow of the Iowa City Press-Citizen has a nice article up asking if Sycamore can survive the loss of Von Maur.

Meanwhile, at the other Iowa City mall, a steamed burger merchant is looking to franchise.

Alesha Crews of the Press-Citizen writes that the Iowa City School board will hold twice monthly listening posts as a way to reach out to the community.

The helmet law supported by West High students was defeated, but there are still those who see a need for helmets, writes Audrey Dwyer of the Daily Iowan.

The February edition of West High's newspaper is now out.

Iowa City Daily Links Excerpt of the Day

The listening posts, which will have no more than three board members in attendance, will not have to be posted as official School Board meetings, and therefore will not be limited by the same guidelines.

“The idea is to make board members accessible so that the community can bring up any issue on their mind and bring it up in an informal setting,” Hoelscher said. “(They should realize) that none of us can speak for the board as a whole, but we can certainly accept community input and bring it back to the board.”