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Celebrate Independence Day with East Moline
The City of East Moline invites you to enjoy fireworks and family fun at the 2024 Independence Day Celebration!. Kick off the holiday Wednesday, July 3 with fireworks at River Bend Park, located at 900 Bend Blvd., East Moline. The kids’ zone is 5:45-8:15 p.m., featuring carnival games, face painting, tattoo stations, bubble magic and balloon art. Enjoy live music from For Those About to Yacht from 6:30-9:30 p.m.
IDOT hosts career fair at the Rock Island Holiday Inn June 11
Aisha Price, Recruitment Section Manager at IDOT, says the department is looking for secretaries, accountants, highway maintainers, civil engineers and more. All IDOT positions are within the Quad Cities, and applicants need not worry about bringing a pen or pencil. "Just their ears to listen about what we have and...
East Moline launches ‘book walk’ throughout downtown
EAST MOLINE, Ill (KWQC) - A book walk is on display throughout downtown East Moline for families to enjoy reading and the outdoors. It’s the first fully established book walk in the Quad Cities. President of East Moline Main Street, Patricia Hansen says it’s a project eight to 10...
Red, White and Boom Lights Up the QCA July 3
The annual bi-state Red, White and Boom in downtown Davenport and Rock Island returns this year on July 3, 2024. Family-friendly activities will take place that evening in Davenport and Rock Island. At 9:30 p.m. fireworks will be shot, in sync to music broadcast on 97X, from two barges in the middle of the Mississippi River.
QC Flood Resiliency Alliance to meet in Riverdale
The Quad Cities Flood Resiliency Alliance will meet at 3 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 16, at Riverdale City Hall Community Room, 110 Manor Drive, Riverdale, a news release says. City/county/village leaders and administrators; emergency management personnel, floodplain managers, public works personnel, local and state-level elected officials, residents and property owners in the region are welcome.
Food Truck Fight setting up at The Rust Belt this year
EAST MOLINE, Ill. (KWQC) - A dozen food trucks will set up in East Moline for this summer’s Food Truck Fight. The event comes to The Rust Belt for the first time from noon to 8 p.m. July 20. Pre-sale tickets can be purchased online for $10. Admission is...
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