Archive for Sports
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Calendar of Events – September 2022
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 Groups ...
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Calendar of Events – August 2022
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 Groups ...
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An Invitation from Laura Kopp, President and CEO of CASI
By Laura L. Kopp, MS CASI President/CEO Growing up, golf was a central part of my family’s free time. Both my dad and his mother were avid golfers. Golf leagues during the week and weekend match ups were the norm at my house and as a young girl, I too, took up the sport. I played on an all girls...
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One Hundred Years Ago
By Eloise Graham The world was not a peaceful place in 1922. In Ireland a civil war began in June. The conflict was fought between the Irish Nationalists and the Irish Republicans. The IRA (Irish Republican Army) blew up a cable station in Waterville, County Kerry, cutting communication lines betw...
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER
By Eloise Graham It’s Senior Olympics Time The Senior Olympics are not just field and track sports, they are soooo much more. Do you doodle, string beads, write poetry or prose, paint, sculpt, dance or sing? Well there is something for everyone to do at the Quad Cities Senior Olympics. A f...
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The Hilltop Campus Village – A Race Runs Through It
Did you know that the Quad-City Times Bix 7, one of the premiere foot races, runs right through the heart of the Hilltop Campus Village? If you are running or walking the BIX route you begin in downtown Davenport, but within a couple of blocks you are heading up Brady Street hill - and that is rig...
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Iditarod – The Alaskan Dog Sled Race
PUBLISHER’S CORNER By Eloise Graham The famed and treacherous dog sled race in Alaska takes place this year on Saturday March 5. The race as we know it today began in 1973. The tradition and mission, if you will, is steeped in loyalty to the dog teams, mushers and sle...
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER
By Eloise Graham Trips and Vacation Traveling One of the perks of doing this magazine is that I get to read the articles before sending them on for the magazine format. Mary Schricker Gemberling’s article on page 14 brought back memories of our family trip to Mackinac Island. It was August of...
