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4 days ago | 
ourquadcities.com | Gavin Waidelich |Brian Weckerly
by: Gavin Waidelich, Brian Weckerly Posted: Jun 2, 2025 / 06:37 PM CDT Updated: Jun 2, 2025 / 06:37 PM CDT With a growing film scene, a new partnership could provide a boost to filmmaking in the QCA with the Quad Cities Regional Film Office. As Our Quad Cities News reporter Gavin Waidelich shows us, one goal for success is to keep artists in the area.
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1 week ago | 
ourquadcities.com | Gavin Waidelich
Fifth graders at Madison Elementary School are lacing up for their next journey, middle school. The Bix, United Way Quad Cities and Quad City Bank & Trust gave them all new shoes during graduation so they can start out on the right foot.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Gavin Waidelich
Chiropractor by day, musician by night. Bettendorf Chiropractor Victor Dean released an album, with every noted being played or sung by himself. Dean grew up in a rural town in New York. (Gavin Waidelich, OurQuadCities.com)“The neighbors and the people in the neighborhood would save their cardboard boxes so that I could practice on them and cardboard boxes were out pretty quickly as you could imagine,” said Dean, owner of PROFORM Chiropractic & Sports Performance.
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1 week ago | 
ourquadcities.com | Gavin Waidelich
Chiropractor by day, musician by night. Bettendorf Chiropractor Victor Dean released an album, with every noted being played or sung by himself. Dean grew up in a rural town in New York. (Gavin Waidelich, OurQuadCities.com)“The neighbors and the people in the neighborhood would save their cardboard boxes so that I could practice on them and cardboard boxes were out pretty quickly as you could imagine,” said Dean, owner of PROFORM Chiropractic & Sports Performance.
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2 weeks ago | 
ourquadcities.com | Gavin Waidelich
Now that it’s $22 million and a few years later, the City of Bettendorf’s summer and winter hot spots are complete. After a short winter season with the ice rink, the city is excited to unveil its water park, The Landing. The Landing in Bettendorf is getting ready for opening day. (Bryan Bobb, Our Quad Cities News)“For what we think will be the success of the pool, look no further than across at the ice rink,” said Bettendorf Parks & Recreation Director John Byrnes.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Gavin Waidelich
Quad City area veterans are raising money to build a statue to honor Vietnam veterans at the Davenport Veterans Memorial Park. (Gavin Waidelich, OurQuadCities.com)On Friday, Chapter 776 of the Vietnam Veterans of America took donations outside Hy-Vee 53rd and Utica Ridge Road. The group wants to raise $10,000. The veterans want to represent how they were perceived with such negativity when they came back home from the war.
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2 weeks ago | 
ourquadcities.com | Linda Cook |Gavin Waidelich
Quad City area veterans are raising money to build a statue to honor Vietnam veterans at the Davenport Veterans Memorial Park. (Gavin Waidelich, OurQuadCities.com)On Friday, Chapter 776 of the Vietnam Veterans of America took donations outside Hy-Vee 53rd and Utica Ridge Road. The group wants to raise $10,000. The veterans want to represent how they were perceived with such negativity when they came back home from the war.
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2 weeks ago | 
ourquadcities.com | Gavin Waidelich
by: Gavin Waidelich Posted: May 22, 2025 / 05:33 PM CDT Updated: May 22, 2025 / 05:33 PM CDT City leaders celebrated the Aledo Bark Park with a ribbon cutting ceremony today. It is the city’s first dog park. (Gavin Waidelich, OurQuadCities.com)The park is divided into two sections: one for small dogs and one for large dogs. It has water fountains, waste bags and a shaded area.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Gavin Waidelich
The 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage is crossing 10 states, over 30 thousand miles and even the Mississippi River. Peoria Diocese Bishop Louis Tylka met with Davenport Diocese Bishop Dennis Walsh to pass the blessed sacrament. It’s a tradition with a recent resurgence. (Gavin Waidelich, OurQuadCities.com)“There hasn’t been a Eucharistic congress like this for many many years,” said Walsh. “This is sort of a revival, the practice of having Eucharistic congresses and processions again.
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2 weeks ago | 
ourquadcities.com | Gavin Waidelich
The 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage is crossing 10 states, over 30 thousand miles and even the Mississippi River. Peoria Diocese Bishop Louis Tylka met with Davenport Diocese Bishop Dennis Walsh to pass the blessed sacrament. It’s a tradition with a recent resurgence. (Gavin Waidelich, OurQuadCities.com)“There hasn’t been a Eucharistic congress like this for many many years,” said Walsh. “This is sort of a revival, the practice of having Eucharistic congresses and processions again.
