08 Apr 2008

Project NOW Receives Weatherizing Grant

By Administrator

Project NOW Incorporated has received an Energy Conservation Home Repair Grant to assist homeowners within a targeted area of Silvis with weatherization. The targeted area encompasses Second/Hero Street to Eighth Street and First Avenue to Second Avenue C. Qualified homeowners will receive assistance with home repairs including furnace work, attic and wall insulation, door and window repair or replacement, water-heater replacement, small plumbing and electrical measures, and minor siding repair. Interested applicants should contact the weatherization department at (309) 793-6391.

 

02 Apr 2008

Edgerton Opens Women's Health Center

By Administrator

Edgerton Women's Health Center has opened a new family-planning clinic located at Friendly House, 1221 Myrtle Street in Davenport. With two Edgerton locations in Davenport, women in the Quad Cities area will now have more access to low-cost or no-cost birth control, the newest long-term, reversible contraception methods, pregnancy testing, and emergency contraception. Theses clinics also offer the Women, Infants, & Children (WIC) program as well as obstetrical care. To learn more about Edgerton Women's Health Center, visit (http://www.qcwomenshealth.org).

 

26 Mar 2008

Rearranging the Pieces: New Figge Director Sean O'Harrow Wants to Reinvent the Still-Young Museum

By Administrator

Reader issue #678 Sean O'Harrow, the Figge Art Museum's executive director for the past seven months, sounds diplomatic. He says all the right, polite things about collaboration and about serving the community.

 

"I'm very keen on building bridges," he said last week.

 

26 Mar 2008

Last Legislative Forum of Season to Be Held Saturday

By Administrator

 

The last Scott County forum of this legislative session will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 29, at the Rogalski Center on the St. Ambrose University campus. Coffee and cookies will be provided starting at 10:10 a.m. The public is invited to discuss issues with representatives and senators from Scott County. These forums are sponsored by the American Association of University Women, Davenport Business & Professional Women, Scott County Farm Bureau, and UniServ.

 

 

 

19 Mar 2008

Paint the Town Green

By Administrator

Reader issue #677 When the City of Rock Island created its "Green Team" last year, one thing it did was initiate an in-house recycling program.

 

Yes, the City of Rock Island - which likes to consider itself progressive - had no recycling program within city buildings.

 

Some recycling was done, said Tim Ridder, assistant to the public works director, the city's environmental-services coordinator, and the staff person who leads Green Team efforts. "It just wasn't uniform throughout the city," he said, and it wasn't being collected as a function of city government.

 

This isn't offered as proof that Rock Island is out-of-step. Rather, it shows how far the Quad Cities have come in the past year. Environmental initiatives range from obvious little things to multi-million-dollar projects, and it's evident that municipal government has gone green.

 

 

 

19 Mar 2008

Convention Bureau Receives National Accreditation

By Administrator

The Quad Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau (QCCVB) has announced its designation as an accredited convention and visitors bureau from the Destination Marketing Accreditation Program, developed by the Washington, D.C.-based Destination Marketing Association International. The only other destination marketing organizations in Iowa and Illinois to receive this accreditation are the Des Moines Convention & Visitors Bureau and the Greater Woodfield Convention & Visitors Bureau in the Chicago area. For more information on the QCCVB, visit (http://www.visitquadcities.com).

 

12 Mar 2008

Rescuing Alice: Stacy A. Cordery, March 29 at Moline Public Library

By Administrator

Stacey Cordery Stacy A. Cordery didn't want to rescue Alice Roosevelt Longworth from her reputation.

12 Mar 2008

Moline Foundation Awards Grant to River Music Experience

By Administrator

The Moline Foundation has awarded the River Music Experience a grant of $3,000 to help low-income and at-risk youth participate in its programs. Applicable programming includes The Sound Lab recording classes, Rock Camp USA summer sessions, and individual music lessons. Interested parties may apply for financial assistance by requesting an application form specific to a particular program. For more information, contact Ellis Kell at (563) 326-1333 extension 113 or (ekell@rivermusicexperience.org), or visit (http://www.rivermusicexperience.org).

 

05 Mar 2008

Work in Progress: The Capitol Theatre's New Life

By Administrator

Reader issue #674 There are eight dressing areas in the Capitol Theatre in downtown Davenport, on eight different levels, accessible from the stage by an elevator. One of them has a toilet at the end of a long room too narrow for anything except walking to said toilet. It's evident that they were an afterthought, put wherever there was room when the facility, opened in 1920 as a movie house, began hosting vaudeville.

05 Mar 2008

Strange Interludes: Author Elizabeth McCracken, at Augustana College March 13

By Nicholas Depew

Elizabeth McCracken The literary works of author Elizabeth McCracken include a novel about an unusual romance between a 26-year-old woman and a boy 15 years her junior; a period piece exploring the 30-year friendship between two vaudeville performers; and a short-story collection that includes tales of a wife who allows her tattoo-artist husband to use her body as a canvas, and a man who grows his hair irrationally long so his comatose spouse can cut it upon her awakening.

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