If Humility Homes & Services can’t raise over $300,000 by Nov. 1, it will not expand capacity in its Davenport homeless shelter Dec. 1, as it does each winter. Humility executive director Ashley Velez said she’s gotten commitments of about $90,000 so far from local funding sources (including city governments and the Downtown Davenport Partnership). […]
Nicolina Pappas of Rock Island has certainly come out of her shell. The industrious 12-year-old, who’s a 7th grader at Bettendorf Middle School, has been busy the past few months criss-crossing the QC and nabbing proclamations from several cities in her quest to reduce the use of single-use plastic straws as well as other plastic […]