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Letter: Bellringer recommends the experience to others
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Just finished a two-hour volunteer shift for The Salvation Army Red Kettle in front of the HyVee on the Avenue of the Cities. I've done it several times in the past but had to miss it last year. It didn't take too long today to remember why I volunteer. The several God Bless yous and watching the young children get excited dropping change into the kettle refreshed my memory. A lady stopped to put some money in the kettle and shared her story of how the Salvation Army had helped her family for a time and that she never passes a kettle without putting some money in it. Ringing the bell and wishing people Merry Christmas is an experience that I would recommend. Bill Gabbard, Silvis 
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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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