The Amer­i­can Can­cer Society’s Relay For Life is a fun, fam­ily ori­ented, community-based event to Cel­e­brate, Remem­ber and Fight Back.

We cel­e­brate the lives of peo­ple who have bat­tled can­cer. The strength of sur­vivors inspires oth­ers to con­tinue their fight. We Remem­ber loves ones lost to the dis­ease. At Relay, peo­ple who have walked along­side oth­ers bat­tling can­cer can grieve and find heal­ing. We Fight Back. We Relay because we have been touched by can­cer and des­per­ately want to put an end to the disease.

The Scott County Relay for Life seeks com­mit­ted vol­un­teers to help on our plan­ning com­mit­tee.  Open­ings include a vari­ety of roles:

• Team Recruit­ment
• Team Men­tor­ship
• Logis­tics
• Enter­tain­ment
• Sur­vivor Programs
• Pub­lic­ity
• Web­mas­ter

The Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety is a fan­tas­tic orga­ni­za­tion to vol­un­teer with and gain expe­ri­ence with a national orga­ni­za­tion. To find out more about vol­un­teer­ing for Relay For Life, please contact:

Natalie Johansen
nataliej@tagmarcom.com
402–301-6267

www.relayforlife.org/scottcountyia

Dis­cover what makes River­mont Kinder­garten unique! 

Thurs­day, Feb­ru­ary 9^th from 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. 

This infor­mal set­ting is the per­fect oppor­tu­nity to ask ques­tions and learn more about Rivermont!  

Kinder­garten at River­mont fea­tures sub­ject specific-teachers in sci­ence, for­eign lan­guage, music, art, and library, as well as a vari­ety of field trips and spe­cial events to extend learn­ing beyond the class­room.  Rivermont’s Kinder­garten sci­ence cur­ricu­lum focuses on explo­ration into insects and spi­ders, the solar sys­tem, color and light, and more, while for­eign lan­guage cur­ricu­lum includes songs, games, and cul­tural cel­e­bra­tions that cre­ate a language-rich envi­ron­ment.  In addi­tion, each class­room, K-5, fea­tures a Promethean inter­ac­tive whiteboard.

Join us to explore River­mont Col­le­giate – no pres­sure, just information! 

RSVP to Brit­tany Mari­etta, Direc­tor of Admis­sion, at (563) 359‑1366 ext. 302 or marietta@rvmt.org.

River­mont Col­le­giate is the Quad Cities’ only pri­vate, inde­pen­dent college-prep school for stu­dents in preschool through grade 12 — visit us on the web at www.rvmt.org!

Share the power of a wish! The Iowa Chap­ter of the Make-A-Wish Annual Din­ner, Dance, and Auc­tion is to be held Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 4, 2012 at the Water­front Con­ven­tion Cen­ter, Bet­ten­dorf, Iowa. Silent Auc­tion and Cock­tail Hour begins at 6:00 p.m. with the Din­ner, Pro­gram, and Live Auc­tion at 7:30 p.m. Black-Tie optional. $80 per per­son or $600 per table (8 guests). R.S.V.P. by Jan­u­ary 28.  Con­tact Paula at 563.529.4335 or pmc@salzmanintl.com. Spon­sored by Mutual Med and North­west­ern Mutual Finan­cial Network.

Head out on the town dur­ing a fun-filled week­end of dis­counts dur­ing the annual “Be a Tourist in Your Own Back­yard Week­end” on Jan­u­ary 13–16, 2012, and Feb­ru­ary 17–20, 2012. The Quad Cities Con­ven­tion & Vis­i­tors Bureau (QCCVB) is expand­ing the pop­u­lar win­ter pro­mo­tion to two hol­i­day week­ends this year.

Over 50 Quad Cities busi­nesses and orga­ni­za­tions have issued coupons that are good for these week­ends and con­tin­u­ing into March. Over 20 hotels/motels in the Quad Cities area are offer­ing spe­cial rates and pack­ages for the week­end. And 30 other area attrac­tions, busi­nesses, spas, and restau­rants are offer­ing great discounts.

Go to www.visitquadcities.com/beatourist for a list of all thes­pe­cials and dis­counts for the week­end and to eas­ily print the coupons thatyou’d like to use.

Bethany for Chil­dren & Fam­i­lies is part­ner­ing with the Mis­sis­sippi Val­ley Regional Blood Cen­ter to host another blood drive on Feb­ru­ary 15 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m at the Bethany Moline loca­tion (1830 6th Avenue). To sign up for an appoint­ment time please con­tact Pat McKil­lip at 309–736-6635 or email him at pmckillip@bethany-qc.org. Please note, your last dona­tion must be on or before 12/13/2011.

The Moline Com­mu­nity Devel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion may be able to assist you! The Moline CDC is non-profit orga­ni­za­tion with a mis­sion to fos­ter improve­ments in Moline’s low– to moderate-income neigh­bor­hood com­mu­ni­ties and to con­duct neigh­bor­hood revi­tal­iza­tion projects.
In accor­dance with this mis­sion, the Moline CDC has part­nered with the Illi­nois Hous­ing Devel­op­ment Author­ity; Moline CDC is a pro­gram spon­sor for the Illi­nois Hard­est Hit Fund, a mort­gage assis­tance pro­gram designed to assist home­own­ers who have fallen behind on their mort­gages due to unem­ploy­ment or under­em­ploy­ment through no fault of their own. Appli­cants may be eli­gi­ble for as much as $25,000 in assis­tance funds!
What are the Hard­est Hit Fund eli­gi­bil­ity cri­te­ria?
• Prop­erty must be located in Illi­nois.
• House­hold must have a doc­u­mented income reduc­tion of 25% due to unem­ploy­ment or under­em­ploy­ment through no fault of their own.
• House­hold income must be at or below 120% of the area median income.
• Prin­ci­pal loan bal­ance must not be more than $500,000.
• House­hold liq­uid assets can­not exceed 3 months of mort­gage pay­ments.
• Prop­erty must be the pri­mary and only res­i­dence of all borrowers/owners.
• Prop­erty may be a 1–4 unit build­ing, pro­vid­ing the house­hold resides in one (1) of the four (4) units.
• Home­own­ers must carry a fixed or adjustable rate loan. Interest-only or neg­a­tive amor­ti­za­tion loans are not accept­able.
• Cur­rent ser­vicer of the mort­gage must agree to accept pay­ments.
• Applicant(s) must not have been con­victed of a mortgage-related felony in the last ten years.

Please con­tact the Moline Com­mu­nity Devel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion for fur­ther infor­ma­tion at (309) 736‑6640 or (309) 736‑6635 or visit www.illinoishardesthit.org .