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Sculpt It! | Kids Saturday, September 8, 2:00pm at Main July • August • September 2018 Browse through millions more items using MOBIUS, While you’re downtown for the Beaux check out a guitar or ukulele, or attend one of our fun Arts Fair, stop by Main to make your staff is also knowledgeable and may be able to answer very own sculpture! News from Public Works questions as well. and educational events. If you really want to dig-in and you have a lot of All FREE to Davenport residents. World War I Lecture Series: Battle Soil Quality Restoration Might be the Right ground to cover, you may want to consider contracting of the Meuse-Argonne | Adults Prescription for your Lawn and Garden ✦ Main (321 Main Street) your soil quality restoration project out. There are a few ✦ Eastern (6000 Eastern Avenue) Wednesday, September 12, If you have to water your lawn and garden all of the area contractors who are able to perform deep (6”) tined ✦ Fairmount (3000 N. Fairmount Street) 2:00pm at Eastern time, or your lawn or garden require fertilizer applications aeration followed up with a compost application. (563) 326-7832 • www.davenportlibrary.com Join Kevin Braafladt, the Army to stay green and healthy, soil quality restoration may be The Partners of Scott County Watersheds and the Sustainment Command Historian at the key to developing a healthier lawn and garden. Department of Natural Resources have cost share programs the , in exploring Poor quality, compacted soils lack the pore space, available for soil quality restoration projects that meet MOBIUS Musical Instrument Lending the history of the Battle of Meuse- organic content and ability to absorb water necessary to certain water pollution prevention standards. has linked Program Argonne. This battle was a major support healthy turf and plants. 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Below are Library’s catalog at davenportlibrary. Thursday, September 13 , Soil quality restoration can help protect water quality as this tells a lot about how healthy your soil is. The higher further details. com, follow the link to the MOBIUS 6:30pm at Fairmount and save you time and money. the organic matter, the higher the nutrient levels and the catalog. Once you have found the Monday September 17, Poor quality soils shed water (and chemicals applied to greater the ability of the soil to retain water. • Available to patrons 8 years and the surface), and contribute erosion. Health soils, lawns item you would like in MOBIUS, 6:30pm at Eastern One way to have your soil tested is to sample and older at Main only and plants don’t require chemical applications and help request that item: Hang out, eat snacks, and share your submit your soil to a local testing lab. There are two • 3 week check out with no renewals to retain rain which reduces run-off and prevents harmful • Click “Request It” ideas on how to make the testing labs in the Iowa Quad City Area: Quad City • Limit of 1 instrument per library card Library awesome! materials from entering our local waterways. Analytical 563.289.3373 and Quad City Testing Laboratory • Select “MOBIUS - Davenport Public For more information about purchasing and using Library” from the drop-down menu 563.391.8500. Another way is to purchase a soil testing Upcoming Events Bananas Party | Kids compost and soil amendment products, visit www. kit, and test your own soil. These kits are available at most and click “Submit” Here are just a few of our upcoming Saturday, September 22, cityofdavenportiowa.com/compost. home and garden centers. While not as comprehensive as • Enter your full name and library card events – visit events.davenportlibrary. 2:00pm at Fairmount Additional information on soil quality restoration the prior option this is a good place to start. barcode, then select your desired com for a full listing! Go bananas at the Library with zany and other things you can do to help protect Davenport pick up location from the songs, crafts, and more! water quality can be found at Sampling your Soil drop-down menu and click “Submit” Golden Girls Party Rerun | Adults www.cityofdavenportiowa.com/naturalresources. If you sample your soil, be sure to sample from 3 areas Lego Night | Fairmount | Kids that represent an unbiased example of your soil quality and/ Saturday, August 25, Restoring Soil Quality MOBIUS also provides access to 2:00pm – 4:00pm at Fairmount Thursday, September 27, or the soil quality of the area you wish to improve. You Aerating the lawn and applying compost is one method Prospector, an additional catalog with Back by popular demand, the Library 6pm at Fairmount will want to extract your sample from at least 6” deep and of soil quality restoration. Properly applied, compost can items you can request. From MOBIUS, is throwing a rerun of the Golden Join us for an hour of free-build with remove any thatch before sending your sample in. Be sure improve your lawn’s organic content and ability to retain click the Prospector link on the Girls' Party! Are you a Rose, Blanche, the library’s thousands of Legos! to label your samples with the location they were taken so more water to support a healthy lawn. You can find right-hand side of the page. You can Dorothy, or Sophia? Throw on your you are able to match the results of the test to the area DIY resources for soil quality restoration at request items the same way as you shoulder pads and join us for another Little Makers | Kids of concern. www.cityofdavenportiowa.com/sqr. Our Compost Facility ~ Contributed by Davenport Public Works would with MOBIUS. afternoon of Golden Girl trivia, crafts, Wednesdays (September thru and cheesecake. Both new and old November), 3:30pm at Eastern Mayor and Council Golden Girls fans are welcome. Now at a new time! Come get creative! Please note: Maria Dickmann Rich Clewell City Hall We'll have plenty of craft supplies and Frank J. Klipsch • MOBIUS and Prospector is only Mayor Second Ward Alderman Sixth Ward Alderman 226 West Fourth Street Genealogical Perspectives: Tech a special project each week. available to Davenport Public Tools for Newspapers | Adults JJ Condon Marion Meginnis Mike Matson Davenport, IA 52801 Library card holders Seventh Ward Alderman Mayor’s Office Tuesday, August 28, 6:30pm at Main Visit Alderman at Large Third Ward Alderman • There is a limit of 30 MOBIUS and Kerri Tompkins (563) 326-7701 Kyle Gripp Raymond A. Ambrose Newspapers are vaults of family www.davenportlibrary.com Eighth Ward Alderman (563) 328-6726 Fax Prospector items per library card Alderman at Large Fourth Ward Alderman history. Join us in unlocking this or call Tiffany Thompson City Council’s Office • MOBIUS and Prospector items must Rita Rawson resource by watching Lisa Louise 563-326-7832 for more Rick Dunn Administrative Assistant to City (563) 888-2070 be returned to a Davenport Public Fifth Ward Alderman Cooke’s video, Getting the Scoop Part information! First Ward Alderman Council & Administration (563) 328-6728 Fax Library location 2 – Tech Tools for Newspapers. We will ~ Contributed by the Davenport Public Library This newsletter is published quarterly by the City of Davenport Communications Office. For questions regarding solid waste collection, call 326-7732. For questions regarding billing, call 326-7707. Summer Camp No Sticker Yard Waste Weeks Check Out City Art Collection at the Figge Are your kids looking for something fun to do this summer? Fall Reminder One of the most beloved artworks in the City of Davenport AdventureCamp is the traditional day camp for children ages Art Collection, which is on view at the , 6-12, that runs at Park and the Roosevelt Com- No Sticker Yard Waste Weeks are Monday, October is “Fisher Boy,” a highly realistic painting of a young French munity Center. AdventureCamp runs from 7:00 am—5:30 pm, 15th through Saturday, November 24th. Residents boy leaning against a weathered Monday through Friday, June 6th–August 17th. At Adventure- may place yard wastes for collection in a kraft ply wall with a few fish for sale. His Camp, each day is a new adventure, kids will receive a mini- Park shelter reservation now available online! bag on their regular garbage day without a sticker ragged clothes and torn sock mum of 60 minutes of active play and learning though various during No Sticker Yard Waste Weeks. Yard wastes show that he is poor, but he has enrichment activities, crafts and field trips around the Quad Pick. Click. Reserve! may also be dropped off at the Compost Facility a wooden hoop balanced on his Cities, all focused around our weekly theme. The weekly Visit us online at cityofdavenportiowa.com/parks without a disposal fee during these weeks. leg, ready for play once he has rate of the camp is $125 (resident)/$150 (non-resident), the $40/Day • *$50/Day for electricity sold his catch. “The boy had a shy and dreamy expression Roosevelt Community Center is a licensed center and accepts PARK SHELTERS Childcare Assistance. There is an additional one Time Reg- that appealed to me,” wrote the istration fee of $55 for each camper. For a complete list of • Centennial • *Garfield Let’s Make All of Davenport a Community artist, Alexander Harrison, to dates & themes or to register please visit our website at www. • • Junge of Opportunity! Charles Ficke, who purchased cityofdavenportiowa.com/parks • Duck Creek • Marquette the painting in 1913. Ficke came • Emeis • Northwest The Davenport Civil Rights Commission held a Symposium to Davenport from Germany • *Fejervary • Sunderbruch this past April to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the with his parents at the age of Fair Housing Act. The Symposium included a keynote two, and grew up on a farm presentation by researcher Richard Rothstein, who presented in Long Grove. He trained as from his book The Color of Law, which chronicles the a lawyer, served two terms as history of deliberate government-imposed residential racial Mayor of Davenport, and spent segregation in metropolitan areas nationwide, whose effects the latter part of his life pursuing are still felt today. The Symposium also included sessions on his passion for collecting art. In 1925 he gave his collection Grab a blanket or lawn chair and join the Friends of Vander topics such as neighborhood trauma, using disparate impact of 334 paintings to the city, on the condition that it open a Veer & Davenport Parks and Recreation at Vander Veer Botan- analysis to challenge the displacement of communities, the Municipal Art Gallery, the forerunner of today’s Figge Art ical Park. Before each movie families will be able to purchase intersection of segregation in housing and education, predatory Museum. Come see “Fisher Boy” and the many other treasures food from local food truck vendors, and participate in family Summer Theme: Pirates of Vander Veer lending, and other topics. We would like to keep that in the City’s collection! friendly activities. Ahoy mateys! Pirates have raised their flags and invaded momentum going because not everyone in Davenport has the Ages: All Vander Veer! Enjoy marauding through the pirate themed same ability to be free from neighborhood violence, lead paint, Make sure to mark your calendars for upcoming Figge 7/13/18: Annie (original) Sing-a-long floral displays, and plundering for treasure (map found at the pollution or discrimination. Nor do all persons in Davenport exhibits. The exhibition “John Bloom: Close to Home” opens 8/24/18: People's Choice: Cinderella, Wonder, Conservatory). Don't miss pirates, plants, and plunder this have the same access to fresh food, housing, transportation, on August 30 and the exhibition “William L. Hawkins: An Finding Dory, Despicable Me 3. summer, sponsored by The Friends of Vander Veer. health care, employment, education, lending, and goods Imaginative Geography” opens on September 20. Followed by Location: Vander Veer Botanical Park, and services. French Moderns in October. Time: 6 PM Food trucks will be available 215 W. Central Park Ave ~ Contributed by The Figge Art Museum 7 PM Children’s Activities Days/Times: Conservatory open Tues-Sun, 10 AM-4 PM Would YOU Help Us Make Every Neighborhood 7:30 PM Costume Parade (closed Monday) (dress like your favorite character from the movie) Ages: All in Davenport a Community of Opportunity? Is the child seat in your car installed properly? *Movie begins at Sunset* Fee: Free The first step you could take is to join ourThe Color of Law The Davenport fire Department is here to help! Book Discussion! The Commission and the Davenport Public Library are partnering to host this book discussion delving Location: Vander Veer Botanical Park (Please use the west Quad City Earth Coalition Davenport Fire has 16 firefighters who park entrance off of Central Park Ave) into the information brought to light by Richard Rothstein to are nationally certified technicians who Fee: Free Earth day through Labor day, journey to discuss how we can rectify inequities and make Davenport an the wild places, explore your neighbor- even better place to work, live and play! The book group will can educate and inspect for proper car No rain dates. Cancellations will be made by 3 PM the day of seat installation. The service is offered the movie. hoods natural spaces, and meet all of the be held at Main Library, 321 Main Street, on four Wednesdays eco-friendly faces in the ! at 6:30 p.m.: July 11, 18, 25 and August 1. If you don’t through the department’s Car Pas- Fall/Winter Youth Sports Download your Summer Passport at already have a copy of The Color of Law, the Library has 10 senger Safety Program on the fourth Registration www.qcearth.org/summerpassport. copies of the book that can be signed out and returned at the Saturday of the month. It runs until Here's how it works: last session. Just go to Main Library to sign out a copy of September. Fall Soccer the book or call (563) 326-7832 for more information! No Registration Dates: Visit our partner locations to receive your passport stamp. registration is required. 4/1/18 - 8/31/18  Some locations will have letterbox clues to lead you to To schedule an appointment at Season Dates: the stamp. The Davenport Civil Rights Commission will also have more Central Station contact 9/15/18 - 10/20/18 Each passport stop will have lanyards available to help events later this year – including more book discussions – to Fall Flag Football protect your passport. continue the momentum, so provide us with your e-mail or Lt. Zach Soliz in the Registration Dates: Season Dates: Receive 5 stamps and turn your passport in at one of the phone number and we will notify you of these transformative Fire Prevention Bureau at 4/1/18 - 6/30/18 9/15/18 - 10/20/18 listed passport stops before Labor Day for your QC Earth endeavors! Contact us at (563)326-7888, TTY (563)326-7959, 563 326-7907. Winter Basketball Coalition certificate and patch! Those completing the or [email protected]. Thank you and be safe! passport will also be eligible for our prize drawing! 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