Archive for Community
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MARCH 2024 Clinton and Scott County Meal Site noon meals
All meal inquiries call 1-855-410-6222 Cancellations ONLY call 563-484-3108 Mealsites are now open. Please call for required reservations 1-2 days in advance. Contact your Community Café or call 563-484-3108 Site listings: Cumberland House 332-9339, Edgewater on Third 484-3108, Eldridge 285...
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Your Advocacy Connection
We Solve Long Term Care Problems Medicaid Update - It’s Not Your Grandmother’s Medicaid By Gail Glockhoff-Long GolderCare Solutions Benefits Advocate Medicaid has changed over the years – some good changes and some not as good. Before 1988 a couple had to spend down to $3,000 for one ...
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Calendar of Events | February 2024
If you have an upcoming event that you would like published, please mail info to: 50+Lifestyles, P. O. Box 2125, Davenport, IA, 52809 Attn: Eloise or email: publisher@50pluslife.com Attn: Eloise. Please submit by the 10th of the month prior to the month you want activity listed. Support Grou...
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Just Saying…
Warming the Cockles of the Heart By Q.C. Jones Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, allow me to place a public service weather report. January was cold. As I sit shivering, fighting hypothermia, frostbite, and brain freeze, I can hear the furnace of my circa-1870 hovel of an office struggle...
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Putting the Brakes on Feeling Old!
By Mary Schricker Gemberling “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning is young” ... Henry Ford It is early afternoon on a Monday in January, and I have just returned from my garden club meeting. We had...
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Your Advocacy Connection
We Solve Long Term Care Problems By Gail Glockhoff-Long GolderCare Solutions Benefits Advocate February is a Time to Show Your Love I remember Grade School days at Hillcrest in East Moline this time of year. We decorated construction paper envelopes with hearts in art class. On Valentine’...
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Become a “Super-Ager”
By Milestones Area Agency on Aging Staying active and engaged as we age can not only add years to our lives, but also make those years richer and more fulfilling. This is the message from a recent Northwestern University study of people known as “Super-Agers” – individuals who live exceptio...
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Mardi Gras – February 13
What is Mardi Gras? By Eloise Graham Mardi Gras is synonymous with Shrove Tuesday or Fat Tuesday. Mardi Gras is French for “Fat Tuesday.” Mardi Gras has become known to be more than just one day. It refers to the events of the Carnival celebrations beginning on or after the Christian feasts of...
