Finnish composer Jaakko Mantyjarvi talks about two of his works to be performed by the Augustana College choir May 19 at Centennial Hall, Rock Island, Ill.
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Rock Island family's roots run deep on Arsenal
11 May 2012, 2:20 pm
Mike Davis' great-great-grandfather, William Channon, was the Rock Island Arsenal's first civilian employee. Channon helped to build both Quarters One and the Clock Tower. William Channon's descendants followed in his footsteps, and today Mr. Davis, a retired fifth-generation Arsenal employee, is a private contractor on the island.
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Black Hawk Hotel bed making race
10 May 2012, 2:07 pm
Black Hawk Hotel events manager Guyla Ezugha races to see who can make a bed fastest, Thursday, May 10, 2012, at the Black Hawk Hotel. The hotel's executive management team staff competed against each other with house keeping staff judging and coaching. The event was held as apart of the ongoing activities for National Tourism Week at Hotel Blackhawk.
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2012 Polar Plunge Breath-taking!
27 April 2012, 1:42 pm
The 2012 'Law enforcement Torch Run Polar Plunge' was held on March 24th in Wicks Lake at Jumer's Casino and Hotel in Rock Island, IL. Donations raised benefited Special Olympics Illinois Western Area.
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Arsenal at 150: Family Ties
25 April 2012, 9:18 am
Ann and Tom Showalter of Rock Island talk about how their family ties to the Rock Island Arsenal through the generations. Ann's parents met while working at the Arsenal; Ann and Tom met while working on the arsenal, and now one of their daughters works at the Arsenal.
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Keep those Arsenal stories coming!
22 April 2012, 5:46 pm
Dorothy Watts works in the Ordnance Department on the Rock Island Arsenal on April 13, 1943. Readers of The Dispatch, The Rock Island Argus and the Quad-City Times are responding enthusiastically to our call for their personal stories about the Rock Island Arsenal. Keep them coming! Beginning next Sunday, April 29, we'll start publishing your stories in print and online. Some of the stories also will appear in a special broadsheet section we will publish on Sunday, June 10, to mark the 150th anniversary of congressional action establishing the Arsenal.
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Hall's Shoes Closes
20 April 2012, 3:26 pm
Janice and Jerry Hall are closing Hall's Shoes in Aledo after minding the store for part of its 120 year history. The store has been run by the same family since 1892 and believed to be the only shoe store in Illinois that has done so for that length of time. Mr. Hall has been in the family business for over 50 years.
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How to throw a goat party
15 April 2012, 3:32 pm
Wesley Acres Produce in Milan, Ill., and Slow Food Quad Cities held an open house 'goat party' Saturday, April 14, to introduce Quad-Citians to goats and small local farms.
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The Arsenal at 150: Coming in June
13 April 2012, 3:59 pm
To mark the 150th anniversary of congressional action establishing the Rock Island Arsenal, The Dispatch, The Rock Island Argus and the Quad-City Times are collaborating in an unprecedented editorial project, a special section to be published on Sunday, June 10. Readers who wish to share a story and/or photo about their connection to the Arsenal may email ArsenalStories@gmail.com.
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Rock Island's Refugee Community
7 April 2012, 11:05 pm
In January 2012 Patrick Traylor, a Rock Island native and former Dispatch/Argus photo intern, spent a week with the city's growing refugee population. For his master's project at Ohio University Mr. Traylor shared in the lives of the families who live in the Century Woods apartment complex and examined their integration into the Quad-City community.
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Rudy Vallejo keeps Indian tradition alive
6 April 2012, 8:14 pm
Rudy Vallejo plays the Indian hand-drum as he sings a vocable pow wow song at his camp site in the backyard of his East Moline home.
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Niabi Zoo, a wish come true
1 April 2012, 7:26 pm
Julie Adams holds one of her grandchildren, Cadence Cardona, on her lap at Niabi Zoo, Sunday, April 1, 2012. The 49-year-old Alpha woman toured the zoo in a wheel chair with her children and grandchildren, her hospice nurse and a hospice volunteer as part of wish to build some good memories together after learning her cancer has spread to her lungs and her health is deteriorating.
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Box Turtle conservation at Niabi Zoo
31 March 2012, 11:05 pm
Marc Heinzman, Niabi Zoo Interim Director, talks about the zoo's participation in the conservation of ornate box turtles. Ornate box turtles are native to Illinois' sand prairies and very threatened due to habitat loss.
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The Redwood Movement
31 March 2012, 11:05 pm
The Redwood Movement is made up of a group of Augustana College students exploring life outside of the school's Rock Island campus. The group has made two films and will premier their work at Augustana College's Centennial Hall at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 1, 2012.
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Family Reunion
28 March 2012, 7:59 pm
2nd Lt. Dwight Ekstam's family is visited by the Marine Corps' POW/MIA affairs branch who helped identify 2nd Lt. Ekstam's remains 68 years after he died in a plane crash during WWII. The investigators visited the home of Bruce Peterson in Port Byron on Wednesday, March 28, 2012, to detail the recovery of 2nd Lt. Ekstam's remains and begin arrangements for his military funeral.
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An eggs-travagant event
28 March 2012, 2:11 pm
Moline Activity Center volunteers gathered at the center Wednesday, March 28, to fill 12,000 plastic eggs for the city's annual Easter egg hunt on Saturday, March 31, 2012.
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Circa '21 seeks a Bruiser
24 March 2012, 6:43 pm
A look at Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse's auditions for a Chihuahua to play the role of Bruiser in its production of "Legally Blonde."
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Fire damages two-story East Moline home
24 March 2012, 5:06 pm
East Moline firefighters gather outside a two-story home at 721 17th Ave., in East Moline, just before 2 p.m. Saturday, March 24, 2012. Firefighters had to cut through the roof and one exterior wall to get to the flames. Captain Gary Robertson said the the cause of the fire is still under investigation. He said no one was in the building and the fire department was till seeking out its owners. A motorist on 17th Avenue noticed smoke coming out of the building and called 911.
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Release and catch in Davenport
23 March 2012, 4:17 pm
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources conducted its biannual trout release at West Lake Park in Davenport on Friday, March 23, 2012. About 1,800 rainbow trout and 200 brook trout were released into Lake of the Hills while eager fishermen lined the shoreline.
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Erie farmland auction brings in over $7 million
22 March 2012, 12:09 am
Arden Schrader, Columbia City, Ind., signals a bid in front of R.D. Sharder, both of Schrader Real Estate & Auction Company, during the auction of 1,322 acres of farmland near Erie Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at the Erie High School commons. The land, which was owned by Proventus LLC and Proventus II LLC, brought just under $7.7 million.
Taking flight at Circa 21 On Tuesday June 9, 2009 Circa 21 theater in Rock Island Ill. demonstrated the flying special effects for their upcoming production of Peter Pan.
2009 Indianapolis 500 There's nothing quite like the sound of a full grid of 33 IndyCars hitting the starting line under full power and heading into Turn 1 at the 100 year-old Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Peter and the Wolf at Horace Mann in Rock Island Wednesday’s performance of "Peter and the Wolf" by Ballet Quad Cities’ professional dancers with Horace Mann 4th-grade student was the culmination of a unique three-week ballet residency with Ballet Quad Cities titled “Dance for Life,” funded by the Illin
Deer stranded on Lock & Dam 15 roller A female deer caught the attention of the Quad Cities Friday after a passerby noticed the stranded on one of the Lock & Dam 15 rollers. No rescue was attempted due to the extreme risk to human life. The deer was euthanized around 4:45 pm.
The Final Launch: Orion High School 85 Orion High School students participated in the 7th Annual Launch Day. The event marks the culmination of five months of work by students in the trigonometry, physics and industrial technology classes.
Honor Flight: WWII combat photographer Fred Marzolph Retired Dispatch photographer Fred Marzolph talks about life as a WWII combat photographer and his upcoming trip to Washington DC as part of Honor Flight of the Quad Cities.
The Rock Island Armory Thursday April 9, 2009 marked the beginning of the end for the historic Rock Island Armory as the wrecking ball started to take the building down. The event was highlighted by a song performed local musician Chris Dunn.
Today is Wednesday, May 16, the 137th day of 2012. There are 229 days left in the year.
1862 -- 150 years ago: Those children's hoop skirts and a fine lot of knitting cotton have arrived in the stores of our city.
1887 -- 125 years ago: The Rock Island fire department is planning its annual reunion and dancing party at the armory on May 26.
1912 -- 100 years ago: A Belgian monoplane has arrived here for an exhibition on Sunday in Exposition Park, Rock Island.
1937 -- 75 years ago: More than 400 boys are registered for the annual free learn-to-swim-classes at the YMCA according to L. V. Burch, boys work secretary at the Y.
1962 -- 50 years ago: Mrs. Isado I. Katz and her daughter, Miss Judith Katz, Rock Island, will present the program Saturday at the annual luncheon of the Woman's Club of Rock Island, to be held at 12:30 p.m. in Memorial Christian Church parlors. Featured will be dramatic highlights from Broadway plays. The mother-daughter duo have had extensive experience in such presentations and have given programs for varied audiences.
1987 -- 25 years ago: Thirty-one Moline High School student bakers showed up for class Thursday with flour, pie-filling and measuring cups in hand as hopeful entrants in the school's Tenth Annual Pie Baking Contest. The student bakers, mostly from foods and nutrition and independent living classes, sweated over a hot baking oven on an unusually humid morning. The heat didn't dampen the bakers' eagerness to win the blue ribbon for best pie, but it did put a dent in more than one meringue. Eleven boys and 20 girls
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