River Action, Inc. President Jim Standaert presents "Eddy Awards" to recognize individuals and organizations for "going against the flow" in promoting environmental stewardship of the Mississippi River. This year's winners, presented during Earth Day clean-up at Pigeon Creek Park, Bettendorf, were: Earl Hanson School, Rock Island (education); Kunhild Blacklock (art); MetroLINK and its Channel Cat Water Taxi (river activity); City of Davenport (design work for creation of Centennial Park); Dan Carmody, executive director of Development Association of Rock Island (revitalization); and former Quad City Times reporter Barb Arland-Frye (stewardship).
Bettendorf's Splash Landing stands empty as construction work begins on renovation to replace the old aluminum pool and remedy the recurring water quality problems at the facility. The entire Splash Landing, including the children's wading pool area, will be closed all season to enable the work to be completed in time for the 2003 swimming season.
Brittany Dally, Bettendorf Middle School 8th grader, will sing the national anthem at the Quad City River Bandits game Friday, May 10 at John O'Donnell Stadium.
Dally has been singing since she was a three-year-old in Oklahoma.
She has sung often at the Bettendorf Christian Church and at school and church functions. She's also preformed with her friends in the Children's Holiday Pops for the past five years.
The warmer breezes of spring have arrived and this year, without the threat of flooding along the Mississippi River. The Interstate 74 (Iowa-Illinois Memorial Bridge) arches toward the Illinois shore and downtown Moline.
Hundreds of father, mothers, boys and girls took to the baseball diamonds this week as tryouts for the Bettendorf-Pleasant Valley Youth Baseball program got under way. The tryouts for the Pinto, Mustang, Bronco and Pony leagues aren't to limit players, but evaluate players according to their abilities for equal distribution and equal competition among the dozens of the teams. The youth baseball season is to begin later this month despite the colder-than-usual spring weather.
A fertilizer spill this month in southwest Iowa killed nearly all the fish in a 60-mile stretch of river with an estimated death toll of more than 750,000, according to Iowa and... more
The Iowa Senate on Monday sent a bill to the governor’s desk restricting stormwater and topsoil regulations, a measure Democrats say unfairly limits local control.
An India online media company, Quint Digital Limited of Delhi, has purchased a 10 percent stake in Lee Enterprises, Inc., owner of the Quad City Times, the Dispatch/Argus and more than 70 other media properties.
Quint Digital and three of its owners, Raghav Bahl, Ritu Kapur and Vidar Bahl... more
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