WEST DES MOINES, IOWA (September 23, 2025) — Des Moines University Medicine and Health Sciences has been named a 2025 Great Colleges to Work Fora, a national workplace recognition program administered by ModernThink and showcased by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

The results, released on September 19 in a special Chronicle insert, are based on employee feedback from 199 participating colleges and universities.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (September 23, 2025) — The Bettendorf Homecoming Parade will be starting at the Bettendorf Middle School at 6pm on Thursday, October 2.

The parade will begin on 18th St going north and will end at Bettendorf High School. 

Come support BHS clubs, music groups, and athletics, alongside the BMS Student Council.

BCSD elementary schools will be joining, along with the mayor of Bettendorf and the biggest Bulldog.

DAVENPORT, IOWA (September 23, 2025)  On Saturday, September 13, nearly 800 Quad Cities area residents participated in the Walk to End Alzheimer’s at Vibrant Arena at The Mark. Walkers helped raise over $100,000 so far to fund the care, support, and research programs of the Alzheimer’s Association.

DAVENPORT, IOWA (September 23, 2025) — Tapestry Farms invites the community to gather under the autumn sky for its first-ever Harvest Moon Celebration, an evening of music, poetry, and traditional Arabic sweets in support of refugees rebuilding their lives in the Quad Cities.

The event will take place on Tuesday, October 7, 7PM, at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 121 W 12th Street, Davenport.

DES MOINES, IOWA (September 23, 2025) — Drake University was ranked among the top 200 best colleges in the nation by the US News and World Report national university rankings, competing against the largest private and public universities in the country. Drake also secured a N° 69 national ranking for “Best Value,” placing it first in Iowa among all schools.

Within the National University category, Drake secured high marks in several categories, including:

BETTENDORF, IOWA (September 23, 2025) One in five US adults experience mental illness each year, and one in six US youth aged six through seventeen experience a mental-health disorder annually. Yet less than half of them receive treatment. As the American public increasingly understands the critical nature of accessible, affordable mental-health-care, so do the demands on NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, known locally as NAMI Greater Mississippi Valley.

ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS (September 23, 2025) — Royal Neighbors of America, one of the nation’s oldest and fastest growing women-led fraternal life insurance organizations, has named Lynda Sargent, Founder and President of Heart of Hope Ministries, as a 2025 Nation of Neighbors℠ empowerment award recipient.

CLIVE, IOWA (September 23, 2025) — The Iowa Pork Producers Association is proud to announce a renewed name, image and likeness (NIL) partnership with Iowa State University football standouts Tyler Moore and Caleb Bacon.

ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS (September 23, 2025) US News and World Report has named Augustana College one of the nation’s most innovative liberal arts institutions, recognizing how the college is reshaping a classic liberal-arts education to meet the needs of today’s students.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (September 23, 2025) — The Women’s Choice Center will hold a ribbon-cutting on Friday, October 10, 2PM, to celebrate their rebranding. They are located at 2740 Happy Joe Dr in Bettendorf, Iowa.

Women's Choice Center supports women facing unexpected or unsupported pregnancies in the Quad Cities.

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