Calling all BINGO lovers! Join us for Zoom Bingo. Prizes will be awarded. Registration is required in order to get the login information. Your Bingo cards will be emailed to you on the day of the program. The event URL will be sent via a registration email. Households can use the same Zoom login. Registration […]
Grammy-winning musician Jason Mraz will re-release his first ever album, Live & Acoustic, this fall in honor of its 20th anniversary. Released in 2001, the album encapsulates Mraz’s early but formative days performing in the San Diego coffee shop scene. Live & Acoustic (20th Anniversary Edition) will include two previously unreleased bonus tracks and will […]
Rock Island Public Library children’s librarians will continue to show up at our Longview Park Library2Go bookmobile stop from 2:30 to 3:30 pm on Wednesdays for Full STEAM Ahead. Stop by for some fun with our STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, math) kits. Miss Ranell will bring a new kit each week. This event is […]
For years, Moeller Nights’ GARP Fest has rocked the barn at Codfish Hollow Barnstormers in rural Maquoketa, quickly becoming recognized as one of the Midwest’s best events. But on short notice this year, the barn made the difficult decision to temporarily cease performances, leaving the beloved festival without a venue. After cancelling last year due […]
The Covid pandemic has tested everyone’s patience. But even pre-pandemic, award-winning composer, pianist, and music professor William Campbell was at his wit’s end. Fortunately, he found some peace, wisdom and channeled his boundless creativity into a new album, “All In Due Time,” expressing the in-between moments of anticipation, recovery, and reflection. This collection of evocative […]
MACOMB/MOLINE, IL – Maintaining strong connections with students is vital for a successful college experience, and to ensure that students at Western Illinois University have access to the resources to help them succeed, WIU is launching the new chatbot, “Rocky,” this fall. Through the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief (GEER) fund, WIU partnered with EdSights to […]
MOLINE, ILLINOIS—SAL Family and Community Services (SAL), the nonprofit agency that offers Skip-a-Long Child Development Services and Open Door Crisis Assistance, among other programs, is adding four new members to its board of directors. “Throughout our 50-year history, SAL has always valued the role local community members play in our work by serving on our […]
QUAD CITIES, Iowa / Illinois—Grants of up to $10,000 for projects dedicated to improving quality of life for residents of the Village of Milan, Illinois, are now available through the Grant W. Brissman and Virginia M. Brissman Foundation, a private foundation administered through the Quad Cities Community Foundation. Grants will fund work focused on youth […]
September is Library Card Sign-up Month, a time when Davenport Public Library joins the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries nationwide to remind citizens of the Quad Cities that signing up for a library card is the first step on the path to academic achievement and lifelong learning. There is nothing more empowering than signing […]
Western Illinois University Photography Laboratory Manager Sarah Ritter, of the Visual Production Center, has been named the Al and Elaine Goldfarb Civil Service Employee of the Month for August 2021. Ritter began working at WIU in July 2012 as a digital imaging specialist at VPC, and audited to assistant manager of the laboratory in 2018. […]
