Archive for December, 2011

  • Merry Christmas, Happy Cheer and Gastronomical Fear - In and Out of the Quad-Cities Merry Christmas, Happy Cheer and Gastronomical Fear – In and Out of the Quad-Cities

    Contributed by Gail McPike and Toni Hall Don’t get us wrong – we love the holiday season and simply adore Christmas. We like street carolers – as a matter of fact, the Cub Scout Pack from McKinley School has been kind enough to grace Gail’s front porch with their melodic greetings for as...

  • Everyone needs an RV in their backyard!!! Everyone needs an RV in their backyard!!!

    By Mary Schricker If anyone would have told me a few years ago that I would be promoting the positive attributes of recreational vehicles, I would not have believed them, but circumstances have led me down an interesting path this past year and a half. My perception of RV’ing, or camping as I...

  • Max’s Musings Max’s Musings

    By Max Molleston The art of poetry seems to be divided, in fact, and in fancy with line endings and the spacing of the resulting verse. But there is also a ferocity involved. First, there is a ferocious knowledge of language and its usages. A dictionary refers to ferocious as wild, the way we usu...

  • Education is the Key Education is the Key

    By Bob Morrison Development Director of Ridgecrest Village Have you given much thought to your future care needs, or are you invincible, like so many of us feel? Have you ever had an opportunity to talk with someone 90-plus years old, and they refer to people as “those old people?” It is s...

  • Fulfilling Promises Fulfilling Promises

    By Dan Adams Lighthouse Homecare Every once in a while, even the best caregiver has a personal issue and can’t make it to work. Most of the time, we can fill the shift quickly, and all is well that ends well. Last week, however, it wasn’t going as planned when as we tried without quick suc...

  • Your Advocacy Connection - What does GolderCare Solutions do? – Part 5 Your Advocacy Connection – What does GolderCare Solutions do? – Part 5

    Your Advocacy Connection Offering Comprehensive Care and Financial Advocacy GolderCare Solutions provides long-term care solutions by offering classic and comprehensive care coordination and advocacy. Comprehensive care coordination and advocacy services helps to provide solutions to our clie...

  • Christmas Season Christmas Season

    By Roger Brann Administrator Bettendorf Health Care Christmas time always brings back memories of the good old days for me, when the popular toys were Red Rider BB guns, Schwinn bicycles, board games like Password, Monopoly, Battleship, and Scrabble. Saucer sleds and the old wooden sleds we...

  • Love Lights a Candle Love Lights a Candle

    By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home Linda often has a fragrant candle burning in our home. Wispy spring and summery scents enjoyed for the past several months have been recently replaced by the warm and inviting scents of autumn. As the snow falls to stay, the aromas of everg...