Archive for Personal Growth
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Lifelong Learning – a Key to Living Longer
By Jamie Lange CASI Director of Marketing As we’re still struggling to hold to our New Year’s Resolutions for a healthier more active life, I challenge you to include stretching your mind this Spring. Lifelong learning and a thirst for knowledge are not new concepts, but I am increasingly am...
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In Like a Lion and Out Like a Lamb and Celebrating Strong but Gentle Women Every Day In Between
By Eloise Graham In like a lion, out like a lamb. Or is it the other way around? I remember learning this little “fact” of predicting March’s weather. It seems to be as good as any other way to determine the weather a month out. And, I would say this statement is accurate… at least 50 per...
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Calendar of Events – February 2017
Support Groups and Informational Seminars Quad Cities Alzheimer’s Association – Are you or someone you know a caregiver for someone with Alzheimer’s? Free educational classes are being offered for people with dementia, their families, and those who professionally serve them. Caring for People...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Women Poets of the Past Over the years, (your writer gets busy on a monthly deadline for Max’s Muse), women poets have been featured in more columns than I imagined. Going back 13 to 14 years is not impossible, but undone. I found three female poets featured in 2015, April, Augu...
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RSVP | Lead With Experience
Rock Island County Senior Center: A Great Place to Volunteer By Bill Sedlacek Retired and Senior Volunteer Program of Eastern Iowa and Western Illnois RSVP Director note: We have begun honoring RSVP partner agencies for leading by example by providing meaningful volunteer opportunities and by e...
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Your Advocacy
By Julie Arndt GolderCare Solutions Izzy and Dean – Not Zero to Hundred The year was 1949. Izzy and Dean, high school sweethearts, married quickly after graduation, preparing for Dean to leave for the Korean War. They had such plans. The years would bring a full and wonderful life rich with lov...
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER
By Kari Smith He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not My husband and I were college sweethearts, and we dated for a couple of years before he proposed to me. Both of us left our home state to go to college, so we spent holidays and summer breaks apart during those years. We didn’t have cell phones or e...
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January Calendar of Events
Support Groups and Informational Seminars Quad Cities Alzheimer’s Association – Are you or someone you know a caregiver for someone with Alzheimer’s? Get support from our 24/7 Helpline, www.alz.org/greateriowa 1-800-272-3900, or local address and phone: 2208 E. 52nd St., Ste. B, Davenport, IA...
