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The Bettendorf Parks and Recreation Foundation's golf cart tours of Bettendorf's Duck Creek Recreation Trail will be held at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. The tour will be about an hour and a half long. It will run from Palmer Hills Golf Course to Duck Creek Park and back, with stops at points of interest. Participants may drive the carts, or operators will be provided. Beverages will be provided. Parking is at Palmer Hills Golf Course parking lot (2999 Middle Road). Reservations required by 4 p.m. May 17; call 563-344-4113 starting May 3. Rain date is Tuesday. The tour is now full.
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Today is Monday, May 20, the 140th day of 2013. There are 225 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: A petition is being circulated asking the city council to order awell bored in Market Square. It would be a great accommodation to the public.
1888 -- 125 years ago: At 1 p.m. on May 18 the Mississippi River flooded its banks atRock Island and destroyed the warehouse of the Rock Island Lumber Co. and damagedRock Island Arsenal power plant. Total loss is estimated at $100,000.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Residents of Sough Rock Island Township are circulating apetition favoring the annexation of that area to the City of Rock Island.
1938 -- 75 years ago: A group of state members of the National Grandmothers Clubmeeting in Rock Island are making plans to petition for the observance of a NationalGrandmothers Day.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Deere and Co. reported today that its U.S. and Canadian sales forthe first half of the 1963 fiscal year set an all time record of $323,716.628.
1988 -- 25 years ago: William G. Lawrence, first administrative director, has retired fromPECO Enterprises, Inc. Prior to his service at PECO, Mr. Lawrence was the civilianpersonnel officer at the Rock Island Arsenal.
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