Posts Tagged Quad Cities
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Champagne on the Rocks
By Lora Adams WQPT WQPT’s Champagne on the Rocks, a dinner, auction and diamonds event has become a late January tradition. One of the highlights has been the inclusion of a musical salute to Broadway or popular music and this year promises to have a “Great Performances” flavor to it feat...
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RSVP – Lead With Experience
By Bill Sedlacek Retired and Senior Volunteer Program of Eastern Iowa and Western Illnois Charles Buller: Honoring Memories with Service Charles Buller, age 82, has reported over 6,800 volunteer hours since joining RSVP in 2006! The vast majority of those have been at Trinity Medical Center,...
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What to do?
By Dan Dolan Dan Dolan Homes With the apparent change in momentum forward, there are implications for builders and buyers. For builders, the need is to dig more holes and build! Faster. For instance, if you drive by our Stone Gate East location off Eastern Avenue in Davenport, you will see six ...
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Family Health Matters: Familiarize yourself with commonly-used orthopedic terminology
Have you ever walked out of a doctor’s appointment more unsure and puzzled than when you came in? Did the terms your doctors were using confuse you? Or worse – have you ever been worried you don’t understand the procedure you’re about to have done? At Orthopaedic Specialists (OS), a Quad...
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In and Out of the Quad-Cities
Contributed by Gail McPike and Toni Hall Gail and Toni are Mighty Thankful… and here’s the list to prove it… It’s the Thanksgiving Season. Soon we’ll be bombarded with pictures of pilgrims, freshly toasted turkey and the local merchants will flip the switch on their Mazak system from...
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Gold Star Families Help Honor Flight!
By Bob Morrison Development Director of Ridgecrest Village The 20th Honor Flight of the Quad-Cities was on September 20, 2012. More than 1,900 WWII Veterans have benefited from this free trip to see their memorial. Earlier this year, the board decided Korean War-time Veterans are also invited t...
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We knew it would happen in senior housing, but we didn’t know exactly when. Now it happened.
By Dan Dolan Dan Dolan Homes Sometimes when I say something repeatedly to my children, I get the feeling they either turn me off or they seem to adopt a “who cares” attitude and seem to disregard what I’m saying. In recent months, in this column, I have found myself repeating a future sce...
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In and Out of the Quad-Cities – Halloween!
Contributed by Gail McPike and Toni Hall Fannie Solomon, the Ghost and the Wedding Ring – A Halloween Tale It’s October. The beautiful foliage is splashed with color, and bountiful harvest cornucopias overflow with golden grains. But, as we twist and turn our way through the month, many o...
