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Also on today's calendar: Free Bra Fittings to Support Breast Cancer Awareness and 12 more events.
Today's riddle: What has a cap but no head? 🤔 (Answer below!)
• ImpactLife presents check for $4,000-plus to River Bend Food Bank (ourquadcities.com) — River Bend Food Bank's Davenport site just received a $4,380 donation from ImpactLife, funded by local blood donors who chose to direct their rewards to hunger relief. The gift is part of a broader Good Giving campaign that steered more than $23,000 to food banks across eastern Iowa and western Illinois, highlighting how Davenport donors can turn blood donations into extra community support.
• Beloved Midwest pizza chain that invented taco pizza has been sold (cleveland.com) — Happy Joe's Pizza & Ice Cream, founded in Davenport and famous for inventing taco pizza, has been sold to a group of Quad Cities investors. The sale includes the company-owned Davenport and Bettendorf restaurants, with new leadership promising consistent recipes, refreshed restaurants, and renewed focus on family birthday celebrations while keeping headquarters in the Quad Cities.
• Second person sentenced in East Moline fatal stabbing (kwqc.com) — A woman has been sentenced to six years in prison for her role in a 2020 fatal stabbing of an East Moline man, a case that ended with her and a co-defendant found in the victim's car in Davenport. The co-defendant previously received a 20-year sentence for first-degree murder. Davenport readers see how a nearby homicide case with local ties concluded in court.
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