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Dave "The Shef" Sheffield will speak on Unleashing the Leader Within You at Butterworth Center, 1105 8th St., Moline. Social is at 5:30 p.m.; dinner at 6 p.m.; program at 6:30 p.m. Cost is $5 for the meal; the program is free. Call (563) 333-6166 or email for meal reservations by Feb. 5.

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  Today is Tuesday, Feb. 9, the 40th day of 2010. There are 325 days left in the year.

1860 -- 150 years ago: We regret to learn that our worthy county surveyor met with an accident last week while engaged in breaking a colt.

1885 -- 125 years ago: The United States Senate committee has reported favorably on the proposed Rock Island-Davenport bridge.

1909 -- 100 years ago: Twenty-seven persons have applied for 16 positions as census takers.

1935 -- 75 years ago: Dr. Claude William Foss, 79-year-old professor emeritus of history at Augustana College, died.

1960 -- 50 years ago: A transoceanic transistor radio was stolen from a window display at Van Goor's, Rock Island, yesterday afternoon. The radio, described as about the size of a cigar box, is valued at $59.95.

1985 -- 25 years ago:It's not uncommon for governmental groups to spawn other groups -- commissions, boards and the like. Friday, the tables were turned. The Rock Island County Board's Forest Preserve Committee voted unanimously to disband the Forest Preserve Citizens Advisory Committee, a group that hadn't met in years and that nobody on the board committee had heard about. They still wouldn't have heard about it if one of the advisory committee members, Norm Moline, hadn't written the county a letter asking that the group either be activated or disbanded.









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