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Taken by Farwell T. Brown on Saturday, August 24, 1996, this photograph documents the ribbon-cutting ceremony which marked the official opening of the newly-widened Grand Avenue near the underpass leading to Lincoln Way, at the intersection with Fifth Street. Various member of the Ames City Council, the city manager and other city employees, and other people involved with the project are pictured near the ribbon. From left to right: Tom Manatt, head of Manatt's Inc.'s Ames operation (company that did the paving); Phil Ingersoll, Ames Police Dept.; Jon-Scott Johnson, risk manager for the City of Ames; an unidentified blonde woman talking to another unidentified woman; city Councilwoman Sharon Wirth with her head turned and holding the big scissors (she was acting mayor in the absence of Mayor Larry Curtis); Councilwoman Judie Hoffman; unidentified man probably from the office of either Sen. Harkin or Sen. Grassley (U.S. senators from Iowa); Councilman Ted Tedesco (in the print shirt with his back to the camera); Asst. City Manager Bob Kindred (with his face partly obscured, next to an unidentified man in glasses); Mark Tyler, Ames Dept. of Public Works/Traffic (man in baseball cap, facing forward); Art Barton, Ames Dept. of Public Works/Engineering; Anthony Edward "Tony" Gammon (in the back), an Iowa State University Student who was working for the summer in Public Works; John Forth (in baseball cap), Ames Dept. of Public Works/Facilities Maintenance; City Manager Steve Shainker (standing back with head partially obscured by man's arm); Daniel L. Krieger, president of the First National Bank of Ames (tall white-haired man next to Shainker); Robert Younie, an engineer from the Iowa Dept. of Transportation (last person holding onto the ribbon in the far right of the photograph); and John Knipfel, Ames Dept. of Public Works/Operations (man in sunglasses standing back in the far right).