Tuesday, March 2A Cornerstone Ceremony will take place at 10:30 a.m. at the Davenport Public Library’s Eastern Avenue Branch construction site located on the 6000 block. Thirteen Adams Elementary students will read their short essays The Things I Like Most about the Davenport Public Library as part of the activities. The branch is scheduled to open in the summer of 2010. Call 563-888-3371 for details.
Rock Island Parks and Recreation’s Prom Dress Sale will run at the Hauberg Civic Center through March 6. Sale hours are Tuesday and Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., and Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For more information call 309-732-2132.
Friends of the Rock Island National Cemetery meet the first Tuesday each month from March to December at 1 p.m. in Building 118 of Arsenal Island. The group helps with gardening and projects to help at the cemetery in various flower beds. For more information, call (563) 823-0322.
Rivermont Collegiate will host a No Erasers! First Grade Open House at 6:30 p.m. For additional information on Rivermont Collegiate or No Erasers! First Grade Open House, contact Cindy Murray at (563) 359-1366 ext. 302.
A Traveling Book Group discussion of Greg Grandin's book Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City will be held at the Musser Public Library in Muscatine at 7 p.m. For information, call 563-263-3065.
A discussion of Margaret Atwood's novel The Blind Assassin with the Pageturners Book Group will be held at 7 p.m. at the Moline Library. For information, call 309-762-6883.
The new Ocean Voyagers: People of the Pacific exhibit at the Putnam Museum will run until May 23. For more information, consult the Putnam Museum website.
Through Mar. 20, Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse in Rock Island will present Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. There are evening performances on Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, and matinees on Wednesdays. For tickets, call (309) 786-7733, ext. 2.
Wednesday, March 3
Quad City Arts welcomes Visiting Artist tuba player Deanna Swoboda who will perform at noon in Room 101 of Building 4 of Black Hawk College in Moline. The public is invited to
attend a free concert at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Bettendorf on March 13th at 7pm. Call (309) 796-5479 for details on either event.
The Science Fiction Book Club will meet at the East Moline Library at 6 pm to discuss four rising stars of science fiction. Call (309)755-9614 for additional details.
Open mic night for youths and adults begins at 6:30 p.m. at Mojo's Cafe, River Music Experience in Davenport. Call (563) 326-1333, ext. 102 for details.
Painter Robert Shetterly will give this year's St. Ambrose University Woodrow Wilson Visiting Scholar lecture entitled Americans Who Tell the Truth at 7 p.m. at the Rogalski Center of St. Ambrose University. For more information, call 563-333-6158.
Marjorie Bond, will be the discussion leader for the next Great Decisions program Global Crime at 7:30 p.m. in the Tartan Room in the Monmouth College’s Stockdale Center. The public is invited to participate in the series. For more information, contact Ira Smolensky at 309-457-2102
On Saturday, March 6, The Pen in Hand Writing Conference will be held at the Midwest Writing Center in Davenport. Five workshops will be offered - The Page as Visual Art at 8:30am; Fiction as Dream at 10:30am; Big Profits on a Shoestring Budget at 1:15pm; Building the Image (for middle-school students only) at 1:15pm; Publishing, Self-publishing and Otherwise at 3:15pm. For information, call 563-324-1410.
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