Archive for Community

  • Iowa's Older Iowans Beware: How to Spot and Avoid EBT Scams Iowa’s Older Iowans Beware: How to Spot and Avoid EBT Scams

    By Milestones Area Agency on Aging Scammers are aggressively targeting Iowa's Older Iowans with fraudulent calls, texts, and emails aimed at stealing Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) funds used for SNAP benefits. These criminals impersonate the Iowa benefits office or SNAP customer service, tric...

  • YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY West/Midwest Region YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY West/Midwest Region

    Davenport Social Security Administration 4319 N. Brady Street, Davenport, Iowa (855) 420-8556   Mon.–Fri. 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Rock Island Social Security Administration 2350 4th Avenue, Rock Island, Illinois (866) 414-9166   Mon.–Fri. 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Social Security Celebrates 90 Years...

  • The Colors of September The Colors of September

    By Eloise Graham Editor-in-Chief September’s colors include a mix of summer’s end and fall’s beginning. Deep blues, browns, rusts, green, gold and purple are the colors that come to mind when thinking of September. The deep blue of the sapphire and the azure September sky come to mind when y...

  • A Pause for Poetry A Pause for Poetry

    By Gary Heath Poet in Residence for 50+ Lifestyles.       Ghost Town Where is the downtown I knew? I find it nowhere now in view! It seems so desolate downtown, Shuttered windows now abound! I have many great memories so fond, Now youth wander aimlessly around, Ami...

  • Kari’s Kitchen Kari’s Kitchen

      Fall Harvest Chex Mix Ingredients: 1 cup salted (2 sticks) butter, melted 1 cup brown sugar, packed 2 TBS. vanilla extract 12 oz. box Rice Chex cereal 7 oz. bag Bugles 4 cups mini mini pretzel twists 1 cup candy corn 1 cup candy corn pumpkins 8 oz. bag R...

  • Milestones SEPTEMBER 2025 Clinton and Scott County Meal Site Noon Meals Milestones SEPTEMBER 2025 Clinton and Scott County Meal Site Noon Meals

    All meal inquiries call 1-855-410-6222 Cancellations ONLY call 563-484-3108 Mealsites are now open. Please call for required reservations 1-2 days in advance. Contact your Community Café or call 563-484-3108 Site listings: Cumberland House 332-9339, Edgewater on Third 484-3108, Eldridge 285-0...

  • PUBLISHER’S CORNER PUBLISHER’S CORNER

    Seventeen Years — the End of an Era By Eloise Graham 50+Lifestyles has been a major part of my life for the past seventeen years. I have been contributing articles for the past sixteen years, but now it is time to say good-bye to my involvement in this publication. What an exciting and learning ...

  • Calendar of Events | AUGUST 2025 Calendar of Events | AUGUST 2025

    If you have an upcoming event that you would like published, please mail info to: 50+Lifestyles, P. O. Box 2125, Davenport, IA, 52809  Attn: Eloise or email: publisher@50pluslife.com Attn: Eloise. Please submit by the 10th of the month prior to the month you want activity listed. Support Grou...