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How to raise monarch butterflies
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Press release submitted by Janet Moline Join naturalist Bob Motz as he shows how to raise monarchs from egg to adult, tag the adults, where they go in Mexico and how to follow their migration. Wed., August 15 at 7:00 at Singing Bird Center, 15th St. and 43rd Avenue, Rock Island. Free. 309-788-9536 Mr. Motz has been to two monarch sanctuaries, Rosario and Chincua in Mexico. He'll show photos of the sanctuaries. He'll demonstrate how to find monarch eggs on milkweed plants and how to raise the caterpillars for release. Two recommended books are "Monarch Magic" by Lynn M. Rosenblatt for ages 4-12 and "The World of the Monarch Butterfly" by Eric S. Grace for their natural history. Good websites include: www.learner.org/jnorth/monarch and www.monarchwatch.org 
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Today is Sunday, May 19, the 139th day of 2013. There are 226 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: The Rt. Rev. Harry I. Witherspoon, D.D. Bishop of Illinois, willpreach in Trinity (Episcopal) Church, in this city this evening.
1888 -- 125 years ago: At 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Mississippi River flooded itsbanks at Rock Island, destroying the warehouse of the Rock Island Lumber companyand damaging the Lumber Company and arsenal power plant. Total loss isestimated at $100.000.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Residents of South Rock Island township are circulating a petitionfavoring the annexation of that area to the city of Rock Island.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Mrs. Thomas Ackles, of Rock Island, has been elected president ofthe Playcrafters for the next season. She succeeds Warren Leonard.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Some 8,000 people filed through the gates of Rock Island Arsenal on Saturday to view a display of a part of the nation's armed strength. The occasion was theannual observance of Armed Forces Day.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Willis Kuschmann, of Moline, who already has won his laurels as oneof the most artistic men in the Quad-Cities area, has a new hobby. He is deeply involvedin miniature railroading. At the age of 88, when many other seniors are dozing in theirchairs or sitting before the television, Mr. Kuschmann is planning and working on hiscollection.
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