Beginning Sunday January 8^th 2012, the German American Heritage Center, 712 West Second Street, Davenport, Iowa, will be featuring the exhibit “The White Rose.” The exhibit explores one of Germany’s most famous civilian resistance groups, formed by a small group of university students in Munich during 1941-42. The leaders were brother and sister Hans and Sophie Scholl and friends. Using only their ingenuity and youthful fearlessness, they outwitted the Nazis to issue several leaflets that urged their fellow students and citizens of Munich to resist Nazi tyranny. These leaflets were the first to print accusations that the Nazis were systematically exterminating Jews and other minorities. Nearly all of the original White Rose students and their professor Kurt Huber were captured after a furious Gestapo manhunt, given a sham trial, and then brutally executed. After the war the Scholl’s sister, Inge, worked diligently to tell the story of the sacrifice made by the group. Sophie Scholl has been voted the “most admired woman in German history” in numerous public polls for decades.

This record of civil and personal courage is one of the brightest spots during a very dark time; you will be heartened and astonished to learn how it unfolded. This exhibit comes to GAHC on a national tour from the White Rose Foundation in Munich. GAHC’s partner in this exhibit and companion programming is the Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities.

Open Tuesdays through Saturday 
open 10 am – 4 pm; Sunday open 12 – 4 pm.

1 Hundred Giveaways at 1 Hundred West!  We will be having drink specials and weekly prizes from January 14 thru March 10, 2012.  So come on out and join us for a chance to win one of our dazzling Grand Prizes!

Grand Prizes:

$500 Shopping Spree at Necker's Jewelers

Spa Day at William Wesley Grand Salon & Spa

Weekend Getaway at BEST WESTERN PLUS Dubuque Hotel with Dinner for 2 at Champp's Americana

2 Lady Antebellum Tickets

For more information please visit us on Facebook or call 563-386-6900.

Friday, January 27^{th -} Racing starts at 6:30 PM

Saturday, January 28^th (Illinois State Qualifier) Double Points – Racing starts at 12:30 PM

Sunday, January 29^th – Racing starts at 12:30 PM

Saturday’s race is the first Illinois State Qualifier of 2012. The expected rider count should hit 150 plus riders from all over Illinois and Iowa.

Rock Island Indoor BMX is the only track in the country racing on concrete with wooden jumps.

The races are run by the volunteers from the East Moline BMX Speedway. These events are free to the public.

This area is now celebrating 19 years running BMX events

Doors: 8pm/ Show: 9pm/ Tickets: $8
Opening Act: Poets & Peasants
Age Restriction: 19

Don't miss the Giving Tree Band with opening act, Poets & Peasants in the Redstone Room at the River Music Experience.

For brothers Todd and Eric Fink of The Giving Tree Band, there is no distinction between playing music and just plain living. Their bodies and instruments become a singularity that is just trying to get in tune, stay in tune, and add a little harmony to the grand symphony of life. Descending from legendary folk hero Mike Fink and Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto on their mother's side, the Finks have extended their brotherhood into an epic collective known as The Giving Tree Band.  A band's band, the Brothers Fink and company live, work, and tour the country together - keeping tune with nature, sleeping under the stars, bathing in rivers, and treating time as the only real currency.  Though the story of The Giving Tree Band is still being written, it can already be said that these musical frontiersmen are redefining “virtuosity,” which is traditionally understood as dizzying displays of technical wizardry. But what is missing from this definition is the root word - Virtue.  And it is upon this foundation of Virtue that The Giving Tree Band weaves their musical tapestry - by playing every note with integrity, every part with humility, every song with honesty, and every show with gratitude.

Saturday, January 28, 2012 7:30 PM
RME Community Stage - Dustin Lee

Free Admission

Join us Trivia Nights at the LeClaire Civic Center benefiting local non-profit organizations such as the Library, Little League, American Legion, Lions Club and the Civic Center. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with trivia starting at 7 p.m. Participants may bring beer, wine, snacks and soda. Water and snacks will also be for sale. Up to eight people per table. $10 per person with a $50 table minimum. Everyone will be entered into a drawing for door prizes. 1st place receives their money back; 2nd place receives 1/2 of their money back.

Future 2012 Dates are 1/28/12, 2/18/12, 3/24/12, 4/21/12, 5/19/12.

Contact Chris Cournoyer at chris@ccx.net or 563-505-6703 to reserve a table or for more information.
Don't have a full table? Come as a single, double or more and we will put together a table for you! Everyone is welcome and you don't have to be a genius to have fun!

Saturday, January 28, 2012 10:30 AM
RME Community Stage - Community Drum Circle

$5 for Adults, $2.50 for Children 12 and Under

Join Terry Hanson and area percussionists for a Drum Circle of improvised rhythms on the last Saturday of each month at 10:30am on the RME Community Stage. Some instruments provided, but folks are encouraged to "Bring Your Own Drum" or percussion instrument.

come join for fun and see our mcw star wrestler due there thing

joey grunge,johnny wisdom , bobby dahl,markus crane,big john, robby mccan,and many more.

presale tickets by call 563-676-2556or see your favite wrestler

The Semper Fidelis Club and Royal Neighbors of America Chapter 20028 will host a book club discussion of Kathryn Stockett's novel, The Help.  The Help features three exordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women -- mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends -- view one another.  A deeply moving novel filled with humor and hope, The Help is a universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.

Everyone is welcome to join us for stimulating conversation and free light refreshments.  For more information about our organization and the African American Book Club, visit our website:  www.SemperFidelisClub.com