WVIK Community Calendar

Tuesday, March 15


Palmer Hills retirement community in Bettendorf is hosting a fundraiser breakfast to benefit Disabled Veterans of Scott County from 8 to 10 a.m. To learn more, please call Palmer Hills at 563-332-5955.

The Family Museum Spring Break Spectacular continues featuring an insect zoo today and tomorrow. On Thursday, Opera Iowa! Will present Sid the Serpent Who Wanted to Sing at 10 a.m., plus a musical instrument petting zoo from West Music. For more information, call 563-344-4169.

James Grizzard will speak on different types of rainwater systems, their installation and the costs and savings these systems can provide at noon at the Bettendorf Fire Station on Crow Creek Road. The meeting is free and open to the public, but reservation are requested from those who would like lunch. Call Clare Kerofsky at 563-391-1403 ext. 3.

The Humane Society of Scott County is hosting a low-cost rabies vaccination clinic from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at 2802 West Central Park Avenue, Davenport. For a three-year rabies vaccination, pet owners should bring the expiring vaccination records. All others will be noted as one-year rabies vaccinations. For more information, please call 563-388-6655.

Community Caring Conference and Rock Island Township will host the Rock Island City Council Candidates Forum at 6:30 p.m. at the Rock Island Public Library.

Tom Wahl of Red Fern Farm will present Money Really Does Grow on Trees, or Opportunities in Agroforestry at 6:30 p.m. at the Nahant Marsh Education Center in Davenport. For more information, call 563-323-5196.

Tim Mooney will combine his two one-man shows – Moliére Than Thou and Lot o’ Shakespeare into an evening of 17th-century passion, drama and hilarity at 7:30 p.m. in Monmouth College’s Wells Theater. The performance is free and open to the public.

New Ground Theatre will present the drama And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson at the Village Theatre in Davenport at 7:30 p.m. Thursday thru Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. For tickets or more information, call 563-326-7529.

Harrison Hilltop Theatre in Davenport will present the drama Frost/Nixon at 8 p.m. Thursday thru Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. For tickets or more information, call 563-449-6371.

Playcrafters Barn Theatre in Moline will present Visiting Mr. Green at are 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday; and at 3 p.m. on Sunday. For tickets or more information, call 309-762-0330.

Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse in Rock Island will present the musical revue All Shook Up thru March 19. For more information or tickets, call 309-786-7733, ext. 2.



Wednesday, March 15

Learn to Save Green by Going Green at the Smart Energy Design Assistance Center Workshop, which will be held from 8:30 a.m. to noon at the Quad City Botanical Center in Rock Island. For more information, contact Jenny Garner at 309-756-9978 Ext 44.

Today is the deadline for entries in the Carl Sandburg College 2011 Paul Simon Student Essay Contest. This year’s theme is How My Community College Has Changed My Life. For questions or to submit an entry, contact Carol Petersen at 309-341-5416.

Peace Soup, the annual supper and discussion series held on the Wednesdays of Lent, is will be held at 6 p.m. in St. Boniface Hall in Clinton. This week’s program is The History of U.S. Immigration How did we become ‘a nation of immigrants’, featuring an illustrated discussion with Dan Vondra, immigration attorney. The series is free, open to the public and no registration is required. For details on the 2011 Peace Soup series, call the Prince of Peace Parish at 563-242-3311 or the Sisters of St. Francis at 563-242-7611.

William Urban, Lee L. Morgan Professor of History & International Studies, will introduce the topic The Caucasus at the final Great Decisions program of the spring semester at 7:30 p.m. in the Tartan Room of Monmouth College.

Tomorrow, police investigator Matthew Davis will present an insider’s perspective on criminal justice during a free public lecture at 10:30 a.m. in Augustana’s Centennial Hall. The lecture is titled CSI and Anthropology: What do they have in common? For more information, call 309-794-7721.

Tomorrow, Aaron Baker, author of Mission Work winner of the 2009 Glasgow/Shenendoah Prize for Emerging Writers, will read from his book in Room 102 of the Science Building of Augustana College at 7:00 p.m.

To support Augustana’s new engineering physics major, the college will welcome Victor Schutz of Industrial Light and Magic and Aaron Brown of NASA to the Hanson Hall of Science this month. Special effects technical director Victor Schutz will speak tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. in Hanson Hall of Science room 102. NASA’s Aaron Brown will deliver a lecture titled Why NASA Matters on Thursday, March 24, at 4:30 p.m. in Hanson Hall of Science room 304. Both lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, call 309-794-7721.

On Friday, the Monmouth College Chorale will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. in the Kasch Performance Hall of the college’s Dahl Chapel and Auditorium. The concert, which will conclude the Chorale’s 2011 Spring Tour, is free and open to the public.

A three-hour workshop on the connections between racism, sexism and homophobia will be held at the Quad Cities Botanical Center at 1 p.m. on Friday, March 25. There is no cost to participate, but space is limited. To register by the Friday, March 18 deadline, call 309-762-9481.