February 27 - 28, 2015

Friday 6 - 9 pm

Saturday 8 am - 12:30 pm

To register, click HERE

Heritage Church Bettendorf Campus

2700 Middle Road

Bettendorf, IA  52722

The 2nd Annual BIG BACON BONANZA is almost upon us! Saturday, February 28th at the RiverCenter Great Hall, 4 - 7 p.m.

Hurry and buy your tickets for a chance to Sample lots of Bacon Deliciousness, hear the Dani Lynn Howe Band in all their Musical Wonderfulness, and See Celebrity Chef Judge Danielle Dimovski in all her World Bacon Champion Gloriousness!!! 

This event promises to be loads of fun, and it directly supports Churches United's Hunger and Shelter ministries, so please HELP US to HELP OTHERS by buying your tickets and joining us for a Bacon Blast!

Churches United - Bacon a difference in the Quad Cities!

Davenport, Iowa - You'd think the title of this story didn't make sense.  That is until you realize the Leprechaun is back, a ghost has been added and the Quad Cities will come together for the 2015 CASI St. Patrick's Day Race on March 14, 2015 to benefit the Center For Active Seniors or CASI as it is known to so many.

In its 33^rd year, CASI's St. Patrick's Day race, presented by Russell Construction, is THE major fundraiser for the Center for Active Seniors.

"Led by a friendly Leprechaun, nearly 3000 runners and walkers race through downtown Davenport, to help raise funds to support CASI's mission of providing services to senior citizens in the Quad City Region," said Laura Kopp, President/CEO of CASI.  "More than $60,000 was raised in 2014 and with a leprechaun on our side, 2015 will be even bigger."

Programs available through CASI include senior advocacy services to more than 5,000 families annually in addition to daily activities, community forums, fitness and health initiatives, educational sessions and much more. All proceeds raised benefit CASI programs.

And the ghost? New for 2015 is "Ghost" race registration allowing everyone to help support seniors.  As a ghost, you don't actually participate in the race. Instead, your $30 registration is a donation which includes a t-shirt available during packet pickup and the peace of mind knowing you, too, are helping Quad City seniors.

Packet Pick-up is Friday, March 13, 2015, at the Figge Art Museum in downtown Davenport on 2^nd Street between Harrison & Main Friday, March 13, 2015 from Noon- 6:30 pm and Race Day, Saturday morning, March 14^th from 7:00 am- 10:00 am.

So become a ghost, see the leprechaun and help support seniors in the Quad Cities by Join in the fun on March 14^th at CASI's 33^rd Annual St. Patricks Day Race. Learn more at www.CASIseniors.org and click on the Get Me Registered Icon.

The Center For Active Seniors, Inc. (CASI) was established in 1972 and serves the needs of older adults by providing a variety of events and activities focused on health and wellness, social engagement, lifelong learning, and community involvement. CASI also provides a senior advocacy program to assist older adults, their families, and caregivers in needs assessment and referral for services. Jane's Place at CASI is the only adult day services center in Eastern Iowa serving adults with Alzheimer's and dementia. For more information about the programs and services offered through CASI, visit www.CASISeniors.org or call (563) 386-7477.

Quad Cities - WVIK, Quad Cities NPR and the Quad Cities Convention and Visitors Bureau (QCCVB) are proud to announce an exciting new collaboration:  They will be combining their online event calendars. Both free, local events calendars, at VisitQuadCities.com and WVIK.org, will now all be fed by the same shared database. A submission to either calendar will show up on both. Additionally, Experience Quad Cities' arts, culture, and heritage calendar at ExperienceQuadCities.com is fed by the same database in a more narrowly, focused manner.

"This is something everybody in the Quad Cities has been asking for and because of our position as a public institution we could lead the way," said WVIK Station Manager Jay Pearce. "Every media outlet in town runs its own events calendar and it can be very frustrating for our listeners to figure out what's going on." One of the major benefits of this new collaboration is the broadcast component WVIK brings to the partnership. WVIK's on-air event announcements will be fed by this calendar for all of WVIK's listeners to hear. While all unpaid, on-air announcements will be made at the editorial discretion of the program producers with the interests of their listeners in mind, WVIK sees this as an improvement in their offerings now that the on-air calendars will directly reflect their online counterparts.

It is the QCCVB's marketing & communications department that built the infrastructure that facilitated this merger. "For as long as I've been in marketing, the wide variety of local calendars has been one of the biggest challenges," says Charlotte Doehler-Morrison, Vice President of Marketing & Communications at QCCVB.  "We were happy we could help make this happen.  It is a valuable partnership for all involved, and many of the events on the calendar will be promoted through the QCCVB's monthly event emails and weekly emails to our QCCVB partners.  Our events calendar is the most visited page on our website.  We want to ensure visitors and residents are getting as much information as possible."

It was the sharing of the QCCVB's calendar with Experience Quad Cities that served as the model for this merger. "When Experience Quad Cities set out to create its website and new online events calendar, the last thing we wanted to do was create one more online calendar," said Experience Quad Cities Board Chair, Carmen Darland. "As anybody in arts marketing knows, you can spend a substantial amount of time submitting events on dozens of local calendars or just searching to see what other events might conflict with your own. Sharing the categories that fit our niche audience with the QCCVB's calendar just made sense. I hope to see the other media outlets in town follow WVIK's lead in this endeavor."