Archive for Featured
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER
By Eloise Graham The Rhetorical Question and the Ensuing Conversation If you could have a conversation with anyone, living or dead, who would it?” Have you ever been asked that? How did you reply? I have been asked that. Then, after thinking about it for a while, I would also imagine the convers...
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Just Saying…
Life inside the Postcard By Q.C. Jones Have you ever found yourself lost in a postcard? You see colorful decorations, interesting buildings and palm trees all nestled on the shiny shores of a tranquil see. Looking further, you see children playing in the sands and a few sails off in the distan...
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Ten Thousand Islands
By Mary Schricker Gemberling “By protecting our oceans, we are preserving them for the next generation to enjoy.”.......................... Author Unknown Gary and I are spending the month of January in a somewhat obscure spot in Florida. At the southernmost end of Naples, Florida, just tw...
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Calendar of Events | January 2020
Support Groups and Informational Seminars Open AA Meeting – There are ongoing open meetings every Friday, Saturday or Sunday evening at 7 pm. Location: 1706 Brady Street, Suite 105, Davenport. For more information contact Illowa Intergroup 24 hour (309) 764-1016 or visit www.aaquadcities.org Qua...
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Ella’s Kitchen
Crab Louis Salad 2 cups salad greens, torn into bite- size pieces 1 can (7 1/2 oz.) or frozen pkg. (7 oz.) crabmeat chunks 2 tomatoes, quartered 2 hard-boiled eggs, quartered 1/3 cup ripe or green olives 1/2 cup Louis Dressing Louis Dressing: 1/4 cup plus 2 Tbsp c...
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Squirrels
By John & Joan Maxwell The woods surrounding the house and barns at our farm are full of many different types of trees and wildlife. While at the dinner table, it’s not uncommon for us to see a white tail deer emerge from the woods, often followed by a fawn in the spring. Hawks that hunt the ...
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Calendar of Events December 2019
Support Groups and Informational Seminars Open AA Meeting – There are ongoing open meetings every Friday, Saturday or Sunday evening at 7 pm. Location: 1706 Brady Street, Suite 105, Davenport. For more information contact Illowa Intergroup 24 hour (309) 764-1016 or visit www.aaquadcities.org Qua...
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Just Saying…
By Q.C. Jones A Christmas Quest Christmas comes steeped in, dripping in and richly coated with tradition. I have such fond memories of my mother’s Christmas dinner of Beef Wellington, my paternal grandmother’s famous cherry pie, and the oyster dressing my other grandma turned out each year. ...
