Posts Tagged Christmas Eve
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Spread Holiday Cheer this Season
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home At the age of 15, I began working as a CNA in a skilled-care nursing facility in my hometown. As a new part-time employee, I wasn’t at all surprised to be scheduled to work on Christmas Eve that year. Admittedly, I grumbled a ...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Here we are again poised for what is for most of us a joyous period of the year. In Judeo-Christian background are never to be forgotten events of long ago, celebrated as best we can in houses that hold forth for the religions and in our homes. We, as people, accept much of th...
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In and Out of the Quad Cities
Contributed by Gail McPike and Toni Hall I’ll be home for Christmas Remember good old Bing Crosby? In 1943 he earned is fifth gold record with a song that rang a chord with the American public. Almost immediately, the record shot to number one at USO’s all across the world, as soldie...
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December History
By Jennifer Kohel December 1 World Aids Day December 3 International Day of Disabled Persons December 5 Bathtub Party Day December 6 Coats and Toys for Kids Day December 6 St Nicholas Day December 7 National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day December 11 UNICEF Birthda...
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Bettendorf Library News
BETTENDORF PUBLIC LIBRARY’S MYSTERY BOOK DISCUSSION A discussion of “Murder, With Peacocks” by Donna Andrews led by Donan McAuley will take place in the Bettendorf Public Library’s Malmros Conference Room, Saturday, November 14, from 9:30 A.M.-11:00 A.M. The Mystery Discussion Group...
