Floatzilla has a new challenger. On Saturday, June 5th, Pittsburgh hosted Paddle at the Point, an event organized around an attempt at the Guinness World Record for the "largest raft of canoes and kayaks." The event was reported as a success with an unofficial count of 1,800 canoes and kayaks, thus significantly raising the bar over the previous record of 1,104 achieved by One Square Mile of Hope in Inlet, New York. This new record, however, falls short of Floatzilla's ambitious attempt to rally 2,010 canoes and kayaks on August 21st, 2010. Floatzilla offers the Quad Cities a unique opportunity to trump Pittsburgh's impressive accomplishment less than three months after Paddle at the Point and to demonstrate the resources and vitality of a thriving Midwestern community.

The Quad Cities is a premier place to live, work, and play, and is home to a wealth of paddling opportunities on the Mississippi River and its many smaller tributaries that rival some of the best anywhere. Floatzilla isn't just a record attempt put a celebration of our community and its waterways and River Action welcomes paddlesports enthusiasts near and far to join us on August 21st as ambassadors of the sport and to share the experience of this epic event. Floatzilla is an unparalleled opportunity to encourage family, friends, co-workers, and any other interested party to give paddlesports a try and take to the water with thousands of other participants.

Grab your paddle and register today at www.floatzilla.org. The registration fee is $10/paddler, which includes one Floatzilla t-shirt, commemorative boat sticker, registration wrist band, one ticket to "River Roots Live", free parking, and free shuttle to off-site parking for "floats." Premium registration is available for $20 and includes the basic registration package plus coupons for local hotels, restaurants, and retailers.

Floatzilla is coordinated by River Action, Inc. For additional information please call 563-322-2969 or email riveraction@riveraction.org.

Keep young minds sharp over the summer with educational programs at Rivermont Collegiate! Rivermont is offering an assortment of Summer Adventures for children from preschool age and up.  Programs cover a wide variety of interests - from cooking to aviation - to French and band Camp. Children from any school may register. Each one week session 8:30-11:30 a.m. or 12-3pm is $110. Rivermont strives to prepare students who are grounded in the basics, yet able to think analytically and creatively, to confidently meet the challenges of the 21st century.  Check out full class descriptions and obtain a registration form at www.rvmt.org.

Preschool - Junior Kindergarten - Kindergarten

• June 21-25 What's Cooking

• June 28-July 2 We Dig Dinosaurs!

• July 12-16 Animal ABCs

• July 19-23 Take Me Out to the Ballgame

• July 26-30 Planes, Rockets and Aviation

Ages 7-11

• June 14-18 Just Dig It!

• June 21-25 Bits, Bites and Hopefully NO Bugs!

• June 28-July 2 Mosaic Art (8:30-11:30am)

• June 28-July 2 Une Semaine à Paris! (12-3pm)

• July 12-16 Whoooo is a Genius?

Specialty Classes

• August 10-12 Mini Band Camp (open to band students of all ages!)

For enrollment information on Rivermont Collegiate contact Cindy Murray at 563-359-1366 ext. 302 or murray@rvmt.org.

For additional information on Summer Adventures at Rivermont Collegiate contact Tammi Burrell at 563-359-1366 ext. 337 or burrell@rvmt.org.

Rivermont Collegiate is the Quad Cities' only independent, non-sectarian, PS-12 college preparatory school, ranked #1 on Iowa's AP Index.

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Quad Cities, USA -  The Discovery Channel will be premiering the program "River Warriors" this Thursday, June 10th at 8pm CST.  The program is about the work the Living Lands and Waters (LLW) Crew does on the Mississippi River and is hosted by Mike Rowe.  Please see this link for to the Discovery Channel for more information: http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-schedules/special.html?paid=1.14951.26200.0.0.

Help us celebrate this Premiere at The Capitol Theatre, 330 West 3rd Street, Davenport, IA on Thursday, June 10th.  This free event is co-hosted by The River Music Experience and The Capitol Theatre.  Doors will open at 7pm, Ellis Kell and Andrew Landers will perform a set prior to the show and then the show will begin at 8:00pm.  "Even if you haven't been to a cleanup, please feel free to come to this event and help us celebrate", says Chad Pregracke, Founder and President of LLW.

"The Discovery Channel is airing our program after a documentary on the oil spill in the Gulf," says Pregracke, "The Discovery Channel did this to give people hope and a way to help out.  I think we all feel so helpless when we see what's happening down there.  What we do up here eventually reaches the Gulf.  So, we hope our program inspires people to get involved.

Living Lands & Waters is a 501(c) (3) environmental organization established in 1998 and headquartered in East Moline, Illinois. Beyond Community River Cleanups such as the "Great Mississippi River Cleanup", LL&W conducts Big River Educational Workshops, the MillionTrees Project, the Riverbottom Forest Restoration and the Adopt-a-River Mile program on both the Mississippi River and the Illinois River.

Choosing a grad school? Don't miss this June 30 event!

DES MOINES, IA (06/07/2010)(readMedia)-- If you've wished you could step into a lab to see current students in action and actually witness students' skills before picking your graduate school, you can't miss Discover DMU Day.

On June 30, from 2 to 5 p.m., Des Moines University (DMU), a medical and health sciences university offering nine graduate degrees, is opening its doors for undergraduate students and advisors to explore, observe and investigate the school.

"Discover DMU Day was developed as a chance for college students from the midwest to see our school unfiltered. It's an opportunity for the students to choose what most interests them and prioritize where to spend their time while visiting campus," explained Margie Gehringer, director of DMU enrollment. "Advisors and parents are also welcome."

Visitors can check out aspects of the school that interest them, meet faculty and attend a health professions fair.

Some of the options for discovery include a chance to examine the lifelike human simulators and sit in on a suturing session or laparoscope demonstration. Also an option is the chance to experience the simulated clinical setting students train in before entering a real clinic. Demonstrations of osteopathic manipulative medicine will also be ongoing through the afternoon. Current DMU students will be on hand as guides around campus.

For more information call 515.271.1456 or visit www.dmu.edu/rsvp/discoverDMU to reserve a spot. Attendance is free.

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Des Moines University is the only private medical school in Iowa, offering graduate-level, professional degree programs in osteopathic medicine, podiatric medicine, physical therapy, physician assistant studies, biomedical sciences, anatomy, health care administration and public health. Founded in 1898, the institution offers superior academics in a collaborative environment. DMU students' pass rate on national examinations and board certifications is consistently higher than the national average and the rates at similar institutions.