Scott County Master Gardeners Colleen Adrian and Rhonda Cooper will present "Herbs: What You May or May Not Know" at 5 p.m. April 14 at the Quad Cities Food Hub, 421 W. River Drive, Davenport.


Adrian and Cooper are Iowa State University Scott County Extension and Outreach Master Gardeners. Their presentation will provide information on selecting, growing and using herbs. The session is free, but the Food Hub welcomes donations. To register, call the Food Hub at 563-265-2455.


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America on Tap comes together with Speedway Fire Rescue (SFR) to present QUAD CITEIS ON TAP at the QCCA Expo Center.  This craft beer sampling event features over 100 different varieties from over 50 breweries from all over the USA.  America on Tap has been traveling the USA and selling out at their beer sampling events since the beginning of the year. On April 18th, they will be here for the first ever Quad Cities on Tap.

The day of sampling also features live music from the Candymakers and delicious food available for purchase from the QCCA Expo Center. Sexton Ford (our safe driver sponsor) will be on hand with the Rock Island Fire department to demonstrate safe child seat practices.

Saturday April 18th from 3pm to 6pm.

Doors open for check in at 2:30pm. Must be 21 or older to attend with valid id

$35 in advance at QuadCitiesonTap.com

$45 at the gate day of the event

$10 designated driver admission available at the door.

Souvenir sample glass upon entry

RIBBON CUTTINGS!

April 11th - Unique Creations & Gifts Grand Opening - Ribbon Cutting - 10:00 a.m. Grand Opening April 10-12. We will be giving away several gift baskets and of course a couple of our unique chalk boards! 118 N. Cody Road, LeClaire. Everyone welcome!

April 23rd - Mindfire Communications - Ribbon Cutting - 11:30 a.m. Come see the beautiful new location! 126 S. Cody Road, LeClaire.

CHAMBER NETWORKING EVENT

April 14th - Chamber Networking Event - El Rio Spa and Wellness Lunch, noon. A representative from the LeClaire Police Department will give a presentation on "Safety".  Everyone Welcome!

CALENDAR

April 11th - Unique Creations & Gifts Grand Opening - Ribbon Cutting - 10:00 a.m. Grand Opening April 10-12. We will be giving away several gift baskets and of course a couple of our unique chalk boards! 118 N. Cody Road, LeClaire. Everyone welcome!

April 11th - LeClaire Community Library Edible Book Contest 11a.m.-1pm to kick off National Library Week. http://www.leclaire.lib.ia.us/adultser.../edible-books-contest

April 11th - Turpentine Wine performing at Antique Archaeology 1-2p.m. 115-1/2 Davenport Street.

April 11th - Trivia night to raise money for the River Valley Optimists' Club (RVOC). 6:30p.m. Gather friends, bring snacks and drinks to the LeClaire Civic Center, 127 S. Cody Road. 50/50 raffle, Mulligans and door prizes. Doors open at 6:30 and trivia will start at 7:00pm. Cost is $10 per person with a $50 minimum per table (up to 8 people per table). All proceeds go towards the RVOC programs for children in the community. Message them here to reserve a table: https://www.facebook.com/events/798739273514369/

April 11th - Turpentine Wine performing at Bierstube, 8p.m.1001 Canal Shore Dr. SW.

April 14th - Chamber Networking Event - El Rio Spa and Wellness Lunch, noon. A representative from the LeClaire Police Department will give a presentation on "Safety".  Everyone Welcome!

 

April 15th - The Friends of the Library Annual Spelling Bee 6pm. This year's event will be taking place at City Hall (325 Wisconsin Street) to make more room for participants and their families.

 

April 18th - Blue Iguana will be open early at 10:00 am for Cars & Coffee.

 

April 18th - "Wine Hop" in Downtown LeClaire 4-6pm Enjoy samples of wine and/or food at Isabel Bloom with Steventon's, Faithful Pilot, Wide River Winery, LeClaire Information Center with Bierstube, 129, Blue Iguana and Grasshoppers. No advance ticket sales. Start at the LeClaire Information Center, 122 N. Cody Road. $20 gets you a souvenir wine glass and sampling. Proceeds to benefit Christmas in LeClaire.

April 18th - Trivia Night at the LeClaire Civic Center, 127 S. Cody Road. Doors open at 6:30pm; Trivia starts at 7pm. 8-person teams; $10 per person. Everyone will be entered into a drawing for door prizes. Mulligans are 10 for $10. Each team may bring its own snacks, beer, wine, and soft drinks. Proceeds to benefit the LeClaire Riverfront Farmer's Market. Call Debbie at 563-349-4403 or email Smith5Grand@gmail.com to reserve a table.

April 22nd - LeClaire Community Library - Adults Book Club 'My Name is Mary Sutter' by Robin Oliveira.

April 23rd - Mindfire Communications - Ribbon Cutting - 11:30 a.m. Come see the beautiful new location! 126 S. Cody Road, LeClaire.

 

April 24th-25th - 5th Annual LeClaire Girls' Getaway Weekend! Grab your gal-pals and get registered for the "5th Annual LeClaire Girls' Getaway Weekend". The event includes a style show featuring fashions from LeClaire shops and dinner at the award-winning Steventon's Restaurant overlooking the Mississippi River. Aubrey Jackson from KWQC and Paula Sands Live will be the evening's emcee. $50 per person includes Dinner, Style Show, Door Prizes, Special Offers and Demonstrations from participating LeClaire Shops. A portion of the ticket proceeds will go to "Winnie's Place", helping women in need in the Quad Cities. This event is limited to 125 participants, so make your reservations today! El Rio Spa and Wellness, a new spa offering ultimate relaxation and wellness, is coordinating the event this year. Other participating businesses and sponsors include Artswork, Aunt Hattie's Fanciful Emporium, Bierstube, Blackhawk Bank & Trust, Dwellings, Everfield, The Faithful Pilot Café & Spirits, First Central State Bank, Grasshopper's, Happy Joe's Pizza & Ice Cream, Isabel Bloom, LeClaire Canning Company, LeClaire Chamber of Commerce, LeClaire Olive Oil Co., Mississippi River Distilling Company, Razzleberries, Reusable Usables, Steventon's, Style with P.M. Interiors, Unique Creations & Gifts (10% off purchase), Vignette's, Wide River Winery, and Wild Horse Canvas Prints.   There will also be plenty of time to shop in the unique stores in downtown LeClaire, catch a demo on window coverings at Style with P.M. Interiors, tour the Mississippi River Distilling Company, enjoy wine tastings at Wide River Winery and Grasshoppers, get creative with a fun re-purposed craft class at Reusable Usables, and much more. Complete details and registration can be found at www.leclairegirlsgetaway.com or visit www.visitleclaire.com, or call 563-289-4242 x61135info@visitleclaire.com

April 24th - Steventons will be closed to the General Public to kick off the Girls Getaway Weekend with a special dinner and style show.

April 26th - Faithful Pilot - Blind Wine Tasting $15.00 for 15 wines from 3:00-5:00.  A Blind Tasting where the better you taste the wine, and guess the grape you get a better chance at wining prizes!

 

April 27th - Economic Development Meeting City Hall, 8:00a.m.

SAVE THE DATE

 

May 1st - First Friday in LeClaire

 

FYI

Go Fish Marina Bar & Grill Summer Dinner Specials have started! Monday: Burger Baskets Tuesday: Tacos - Wednesday: 50 cent Wings - Thursday: BBQ Ribs - All day Sunday: Jumbo Peel 'n Eat Shrimp

Princeton Community Center The fourth Wednesday of each month through October we will have An Afternoon of Euchre beginning around 12:30 p.m.  Anyone interested in lunch can meet at 11:30 a.m. and we will order from Go Fish (lunch is on their own) and have it delivered to the Center with Euchre to start after that. Zion Lutheran and Thrivent Financial are co-sponsors of the event.  There will be coffee and dessert included.  There will be no fee to play, just enjoy a fun afternoon near the Mississippi.

 

LeClaire Community Library Teen Advisory Group (TAG): Join our Youth Services Coordinator every 3rd Thursday of the month from 4-5pm for TAG. Help make the library improve their services and programs for teens AND earn service learning credits for school. Email Emily Arnold at eaarnold@leclaireiowa.gov for more details.

 

Faithful Pilot - April, May, June, July, and August

Mondays - Half Priced Martini's

Tuesdays - Tequila Tuesday $5.00 unique, and interesting tequila cocktails for $5.00

Wednesday - Half Priced Bottle of Wine Night

Thursday - $1.00 Oysters & Buckets of Beer on the patio

Saturday - Saturday Brunch 11-2 - yes Brunch is back at The Pilot on Saturdays

Sunday - reserved for wine tastings and private events.

Visit the LeClaire Chamber of Commerce website www.leclairechamber.com and see us on Facebook!

If you would like to attend a Chamber Board Meeting in order to present a topic, please contact the Board in advance at LeClaireChamber@gmail.com in order to be included an upcoming agenda. Board Meetings are held the 4th Tuesday of each month, 8a.m. at LeClaire City Hall.

SERVING THE COMMUNITY AND BEYOND

First Presbyterian Church, LeClaire Wednesday evening program: Halftime! For kids, 5-11 years old. It's half way through the week - and it's a time of fun for the kids. We meet from 5:30-7pm, every Wednesday - there is school, through May 6. We serve dinner, play games, have a lesson and a craft. Have your child join us for a week or two to see what we are doing. We are located across from Bridgeview Elementary School, at 200 South 12th street. For more information, call Pastor Melody at 563-381-7777.

LeClaire Information Center Volunteers Needed! Contact Cindy Bruhn at info@visitleclaire.com or 563-650-7963 to volunteer.

PROPERTY LISTINGS

House for Rent - LeClaire 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, nice kitchen, dining, living and great neighbors! No garage, off street parking. Water/sewer paid. $1100/month plus deposit. PV Schools. Available Mid-April 2015. Call Sherry - 563-210-5754

Riverview Apartment for Rent - Downtown LeClaire. One Bedroom. $1250/month. Call 563-940-3742 for more information.

Commercial Property for Sale 613-617 N Cody Road, LeClaire IA 52753. Contact Jeff R. Heuer, NAI Ruhl Commercial Company, jheuer@ruhlcommercial.com, Office: 563-355-4000, Direct: 563-823-5107.

Commercial Property for Sale Cody Road, LeClaire IA 52753. Description: contact John G. Ruhl, NAI Ruhl Commercial Company, jruhl@ruhlcommercial.com, Office: 563-355-4000, Direct: 563-823-5126.

Commercial Property Available Eagle Ridge Road, LeClaire, Iowa. Please call: Mike Burke - Mel Foster Co. mburke@melforsterco.com, Mobile: 563-349-2705, Direct: 563-823-5272

Do you have Residential or Commercial property available? Please contact the LeClaire Chamber of Commerce, leclairechamber@gmail.com, with a property description, complete contact information including phone numbers and rental or purchase pricing.

LECLAIRE EVENTS COMING UP!

April 18th - Cars and Coffee on the Levee

April 18th - LeClaire Wine Hop!

April 24th-25th - Girls' Getaway Weekend!

June 5th-6th - City Wide Garage Sales

CHAMBER NETWORKING EVENTS - EVERYONE WELCOME!

April 14th - El Rio - Lunch - noon

May 12th - Go Fish - Evening - 5:30-7p.m.

June 9th - Big Dave and Holly's - Lunch - noon

When you begin at the Rock Island Library, you open up worlds of unlimited possibilities. And conveniently enough, that's also the nationwide theme for National Library Week, April 12-18, 2015.  Follow the stories below for a look at the wonderful possibilities for learning and personal enrichment next week: 

Monday: Read with Rover, and a special history program on a World War I flying ace from Illinois, Howard Knotts. 

Tuesday: Toddler Tales at 30/31, and a wonderful Spring craft just right for families at Southwest. 

Wednesday: Toddler Tales and LEGO time at Southwest, a Children's Make-It Craft on marshmallow engineering at Main, and another special local history program, this one on the history of the Rock Island Library. 

Thursday: Teen Superhero Night at Main.

Friday: Toddler Tales at Main.

Saturday: The kick-off to Money Smart Week, with a free Community Shred Day event at Main. Plus, a second chance to make a colorful kite wall hanging at Southwest.

Check it all out on our website calendar!
Former Good Morning America host, Joan Lunden, speaks at the RiverCenter tomorrow during the Gilda's Club Annual Fundraiser presented by Genesis Cancer Care Institute. Join this award-winning journalist, motivational speaker, successful entrepreneur, and mom of seven as she brings insight to top issues in America. For fun of a very different kind on Saturday, you'll find unlimited beer samples, a commemorative glass, live entertainment, and tons o' bacon at the RiverCenter during the Bacon & Beer Festival!
 Right next door, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra performs Masterworks VI at the Adler on Saturday. With the help of multiple choirs, this performance highlights Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and Schoenber's Friede auf Erden. Be sure to get your tickets for Ballet Quad Cities': The Sleeping Beauty next Saturday and Jersey Boys April 21 - 26 while you're there.

 The smell of hot dogs, popcorn, and springtime fill the air this weekend as the Quad Cities River Bandits celebrate their Opening Day! Kick-off the 2015 baseball season the right way by cheering the Bandits to a win on Sunday. If you can't make it Sunday, have no fear! The Bandits will also be home Monday and Tuesday evening as they take on the Clinton LumberKings. Check out some awesome promotions scheduled for the 2015 season here.

 What do you get when you fuse together jazz, classical, bluegrass, southern rock, and Indian ragas? The Galactic Cowboy Orchestra! Hear how they combine these sounds with their own original style Saturday at River Music Experience. Singer/songwriter Mason Jennings also returns to the Redstone Room tomorrow performing a show of rugged, acoustic-guitar-driven indie-folk.
 Whether you're looking to paint your own piece or peruse the works of others, there are plenty of resources downtown to get your art fix in. Create a masterpiece of your own by participating in Vino van Gogh or classes at Re-Cre8 Studio. Support local artists by exploring works at Art on Third or Bucktown Center for the Arts. Don't forget to swing by the Figge Art Museum and German American Heritage Center for their many exhibits open now, too.
See you downtown! Sponsored by the River Cities' Reader
for more events, click here
April 25,26:  Black Hawk Gem and Mineral Club Spring Rock, Gem and Jewelry Show, Clarion Hotel 5202 Brady St, Davenport, IA 52806 Sat. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.  The show will feature rocks, minerals, fossils, agates, geodes, tumbled stones, beads, silver and beaded jewelry, carved stones, spheres, arrowheads and much more. There will be demonstrations on Glass bead Making, Faceting, and Flint Knapping. You can learn to make arrowheads and/or Crack you own Geodes. Admission is free. For information call (563) 445-3034

Rock Island, IL: From April 12 to 18, the Rock Island Library will join libraries nationwide in celebrating National Library Week, and the unlimited possibilities available through libraries. Quad Citians with an interest in local history can explore the impact of World War I in Illinois, and see library history photos from library archives.

Illinois historian Tom Emery will present "Howard Knotts and World War I in Illinois" at 6:30 pm on Monday, April 13 at the Rock Island Main Library, 401 19th Street. Knotts, 1895-1942, shot down six German planes from his Sopwith Camel biplane during one month in 1918. Knotts was one of five aces from Illinois, and the only one from outside Chicago.  In addition to discussing the life of this little-known Illinois war hero, Emery will also discuss the influence of the war on Illinois politics, public opinion, military camps, economy and life on the home front.

Emery is a freelance writer and historical researcher from Carlinville, IL, and a frequent contributor to Illinois newspapers. He is the author of 22 books and booklets, and the winner of seven awards from the Illinois State Historical Society.

On Wednesday, April 15, library guests can learn about the history of one of Illinois' longest serving libraries with "Rock Island Library: A History." Reference Librarian James Shearouse will share details and photos from the library's more than 140 years of service, including the beginnings of the library in 1872, the construction of the present-day Main Branch in 1903, and other history highlights gleaned from library archives. The program will be presented at 6:00 pm in the Main Library Community Room, 401 19th Street.

Both events are free and open to the public. For more upcoming library events, visit library locations or the website at www.rockislandlibrary.org, follow Rock Island Library on Facebook or Twitter or call 309-732-READ (7323).

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Calendar of library programs: http://rockislandlibrary.evanced.info/signup/eventcalendar.aspx

Founded in 1872, the Rock Island Public Library provides resources to enhance personal achievement and stimulate the imagination through Main, 30/31 and Southwest Branches, community outreach efforts, and online opportunities.
Davenport, Iowa:  Your trivia skills and knowledge could help someone live in a safer home. Rebuilding Together Quad Cities is looking for teams who want to help it support its work by playing at its trivia night fundraiser on Friday, April 17 at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 1111 W. 35th Street, Davenport.

Doors open by 6:30 pm, with play starting at 7:00 pm.  Cost to play is $10 per player. Tables of eight are available for reservation by calling (563) 322-6534 or emailing rebuilding@RTQC.org, or registering via the group's Facebook site at rebuildingtogetherquadcities. Teams may bring snacks, but all drinks must be purchased from the Knights of Columbus.

For extra ways to win, players may also purchase mulligans and doublers, or bid on a "rent-a-geek" in latter rounds of play.  Proceeds from the fundraiser will help the organization continue its work of repairing homes for elderly, low-income and disabled Quad City homeowners.  The trivia night comes just eight days before the group's April 25 home repair workday on National Rebuilding Day, where it plans to repair up to eight homes in the Iowa and Illinois Quad Cities.

Rebuilding Together Quad Cities, once known as Hearts and Hammers, has repaired more than 800 homes since 1999. As a 501c3 organization, donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. Online donations are welcomed at www.rtqc.org.

For more information about the group's work and project application procedures, please call the Rebuilding Together Office at 563-322-6534 or email Rebuilding@RTQC.org.

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On Monday,  4/13/15, Dwight Ford, Director of the Martin Luther King Center, will be the Keynote Speaker at the NAACP Davenport Youth Council. This will be at Scott Community College. Please call to purchase tickets or reserve a table.

Reserved seats $25.  $15 for those ages 17 and under

563-505-0903 or 563-323-4307 (Tickets WILL NOT be sold at the door)

Contact: Hannah- Teleah - Loryn - Carly

Dear QC Leaders,

The news around the world in the past few years has become increasingly troubling. Nobody feels this unease more than the local Muslim Community. Attached please find a flier for an Open House to be held at the Muslim Community of the Quad Cities (Bettendorf Mosque).

Please feel welcome to come and meet with local Muslim leaders and community members, experience the rich diversity of this community, take a tour, and visit cultural, art, and religious displays and booths representing Muslims around the world. Members of the local Muslim community will be on hand to answer questions.

What: Open House at the Bettendorf Mosque (Bridging Faiths in our Community)
Where: Bettendorf Mosque; 2115 Kimberly Road; Bettendorf Iowa (near Hobby Lobby)
When: Saturday, May 2nd from 2:00-5:00 PM
Who: Quad Citians of all faiths or of no particular faith

Brief welcome by Anne Wachal, executive director of Churches United, and local mayors, and a young QC Muslim, starting at 3:00 PM
Light cultural finger foods will be served.

For more information contact me, (Dr. Lisa Killinger killingerlisaz@gmail.com or 563-650-5733; President; Muslim Community of the Quad Cities.
Media, please call in advance to arrange an interview.

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