Archive for Personal Growth
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER – Threshing in August
By Dee Deuth, CSA Weerts Funeral Home Having grown up in a small rural community in Minnesota in the 40s, I recall August as the month for threshing the oats crop. Today, the combine has replaced the threshing machine with much more efficiency, and the hybrid production of seeds has resulted ...
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Not the Same Old Song and Dance
By Devon White Augustana College student intern Child Abuse Council Cultural Experiences in the QCA for You and the “Kids” Routine life of eating at the same booth, listening to your song, and doing the same old dance are easy to fall into. Older folks generally go about their routines ...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston It was probably last month that I re-investigated my poetry library, a bookcase with six stacking shelves. I have lots of incoming poetry, but this treasure trove, 95 percent a gift from Dick Mackin of Bettendorf, contains thousands of poems and instructions on how to compose the...
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In and Out of the Quad-Cities – Miles and Miles of Iowa
Contributed by Gail McPike and Toni Hall In and Out of the Quad-Cities; it’s our mission, and maybe our quest. Sometimes we’re in, sometimes we’re out. This past month has found mostly out. Just like Zeus had a thing for Cronus, one might suppose the great god of calendars had a thing for a...
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Bullying Is Not Harmless
By Rondi Doyle Director of Community Relations Child Abuse Council Bullying is in the news, on the talk shows, and recently a presidential candidate admitted to bullying when he was younger. Millions of kids each year are bullied, mostly while at school. With that many kids affected by this ...
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Peaks and Valleys
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home British author G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) once noted, “One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” Not withstanding Chesterton’s prose, mountaintop views can be positively breathtaking; mountaintop ex...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston You may know by now that I put in about 30 years of radio and television broadcasting, reporting farm market prices and situations in agriculture and agribusiness. I continue to listen to radio programs on the farm scene. A very early warmth this year brought, among other topics...
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Meet Roma Taylor
Honorary Survivor Chair for the 2012 Susan G. Komen Quad-Cities Race for the Cure As a nurse and oldest girl from a family of 13 kids, Davenport’s Roma Taylor is the big sister that her siblings turn to when they had troubles. In May of 2003, at the age of 47, Roma went in for her routine...
