Posts Tagged Eloise
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER – Optimism: Should We Complain or Be Grateful?
By Eloise Graham Next month is a big election. According to the polls, one half of the country will be happy about the outcome, and the other half will not. But we, as individuals and as a country, must keep moving forward. We can be grateful that we are allowed to go to the polls to plac...
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October – The Days are Getting Shorter
By Eloise Graham As we enter into the last quarter of the year, our hours of sunlight decrease. Sunrise on October 1 is 7 a.m. and sunset, 6:43 p.m. That gives us 11 hours and 43 minutes of sunlight. But, by October 31, we only have 10 hours and 23 minutes. On that day, sunrise is at 7:34 a.m. a...
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August Birthstones
By Eloise Graham The most popular birthstone for August, peridot (pronounced pair- a – doe,) is a gem primarily made up of two minerals: fayalite and forsterite. Fayalite has a high iron content and forsterite a high magnesium content. It is the iron that gives the stone its greenish hue. ...
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER – Lessons from Seussical
By Dan Adams Lessons from Seussical I have to admit, when I dropped my daughter off at the Center for Living Arts, I thought "what on earth can these 24 kids accomplish in only 10 days of the summer?" As I finished my short drive to our office, three blocks away in downtown Rock Island, I al...
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER – June in the Quad-Cities
By Eloise Graham June…the beginning of the lazy, hazy days of summer. Things are supposed to slow down in the summer, but that doesn’t seem to happen for me. Gardens to tend, lawns to manicure and the revolving door of grandkids coming and going during the summer vacation. Then there are bal...
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In Honor of Presidents’ Day
PUBLISHER’S CORNER By Eloise Graham With all of the hoopla of the caucus and the pundits telling me what I heard from the debates, I decided to do a little research on our past Presidents. After all, we do have a national holiday set aside to honor them this month. Here are some facts and tri...
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A Time for Thanksgiving
By Eloise Graham In all things be thankful. I remember my parents instilling that idea in me when I was little. It comes from The Good Book, 1 Thessalonians 5:18 to be exact. I had to look it up! I thought about the early settlers of our country. They gave thanks for all things, and they did...
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER
By Eloise Graham I can not believe that it has been three years since Jim and I purchased 50+ Lifestyles, and two years since his untimely death. In honor of those anniversaries, the Publisher's Corner this month will be excerpts from the column that he wrote two years ago about his love of the F...
