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Thank you, Quad-Cities! Christian Care is grateful to each individual in our community who is making a financial donation, volunteering, or providing some service that benefits others. We know full well that if it weren't for caring and generous donors and volunteers, we would cease to exist. Every day we hear heartbreaking stories about why people are homeless -- stories of job loss, a parent dying at a young age, an unresolved physical or mental disability, alcoholism or drug abuse, parental abandonment, domestic abuse, and so on. However troublesome these stories may be, the men, women and children we serve soon learn by sharing their stories with us, that Christian Care exists not only to provide immediate relief from hunger, homelessness and abuse but also to help them transform their lives so that they never have to be hungry, homeless or abused again. Our mission states that "By providing safe shelter, support and resources, Christian Care empowers both the homeless and survivors of domestic violence to make positive changes in every aspect of their lives;" it is at the forefront of what we do every day. This is no easy task. Yet, as a nonprofit organization that thrives on public and private support, we must focus on impact, not intention. We have a responsibility to continually evaluate our mission against the activities and outcomes of what we provide. As a result of the donations we received in 2012, 80 percent of our residential men found work; only 2 percent of our residential women returned to their abusers; we served almost 60,000 meals to the hungry in our community; and we provided over 16,000 bed nights. In-kind donations provided much-needed items like glasses, bus tickets, gift cards, medicine, clothing, toys, gifts on special holidays, additional meals, and so on. Volunteers gave generously of their time to provide haircuts for residents, make repairs, organize our clothing room, teach a wide variety of educational workshops, and share the word of God. Treasure, time, and talent -- each has been generously given by our Quad-Cities neighbors. First Corinthians says, "Three things will last forever -- faith, hope, and love -- and the greatest of these is love." Quad-Cities, it is because of your love for others that Christian Care is able to continue providing hope and healing to those who suffer. We thank you and look forward to partnering with you in the year ahead. Sharon DeFrieze is board president of Christian Care. 
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Today is Tuesday, May 21, the 141st day of 2013. There are 224 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: On Monday the 11th inst. on Center Ridge in Mercer County,some citizens got out their cannon to celebrate the taking of Richmond. The gun wasoverloaded and burst. No one was injured, but one 30-pound piece went though thesecond story of a house.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The old folks concert at the Harper Theater last night to benefit St.Luke's Cottage Hospital, attracted a large audience.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Unless depredation by vandals in Rock Island parks is halted,special policemen will be assigned to night duty to protect the flowers and other property.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Station WHBF has received a special citation from Washington forits participation in Air Mail Week, which was observed this week throughout the nation.
1963 -- 50 years ago: A 10-year high in employment in the Quad-City area was reachedat the end of the last quarter, according to an industrial employment barometer releasedtoday.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Pee Wee teams will be able to play baseball and softball as usualon Diamond Three at Dorrance Park this summer, but after that, the ball field is doomed.County crews have put the diamond back in shape after heavy trucks marred the playingfield earlier this spring. Illinois Department of Transportation crews drove onto it to makeborings for the relocation of the junction of Illinois 84 and the Port Byron-Hillsdale road.
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