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Call for entry to QCA Artists from Family Resources
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Press release submitted by Family Resources Call for Entry to QCA Artists – Family Resources Seeks Works of Art to Benefit Children and Families in Crisis Artists in the Quad Cities area are invited to participate in an art awareness project in conjunction with Family Resources Opening Doors Gala, to be held April 12 at the Quad-Cities Waterfront Convention Center in Bettendorf. The deadline for entries is April 1, 2013. Artists are asked to submit works in any medium that bring awareness to the issue of family crisis, children in crisis, domestic violence and family violence using the central themes of opening doors, safe places, hope and/or new beginnings. Art works must be delivered to Family Resources by April 1 for display at the Opening Doors Gala. Artists will agree that the art will be displayed publicly at the Gala and also at the Venus Envy event at the Bucktown Center on May 3-4. The art will then be part of a traveling exhibit that will be displayed in various places throughout the community for the following year. At the end of the year, the art may be returned to the artist or auctioned/raffled at the Gala event in 2014. "Each year, the Opening Doors Gala is an emotional event," said Jenni Venema, chair of Family Resources Opening Doors Gala Committee. "Last year, area students painted and designed doors with messages and images that genuinely moved people. We're very excited to see how local artists interpret the theme this year." Family Resources provides a safe place for children, women and families in the Quad Cities and Eastern Iowa. More than 35,000 people are touched by the nonprofit organization's programs and services each year, either directly through programs and services or by training and public awareness. The Opening Doors Gala raised $75,000 for Family Resources last year. Artists seeking more details on the art awareness project may call Family Resources at (563) 468-2140. Web: www.famres.org www.facebook.com/FamRes www.familyresourcesblog.org 
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Today is Sunday, May 19, the 139th day of 2013. There are 226 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: The Rt. Rev. Harry I. Witherspoon, D.D. Bishop of Illinois, willpreach in Trinity (Episcopal) Church, in this city this evening.
1888 -- 125 years ago: At 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Mississippi River flooded itsbanks at Rock Island, destroying the warehouse of the Rock Island Lumber companyand damaging the Lumber Company and arsenal power plant. Total loss isestimated at $100.000.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Residents of South Rock Island township are circulating a petitionfavoring the annexation of that area to the city of Rock Island.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Mrs. Thomas Ackles, of Rock Island, has been elected president ofthe Playcrafters for the next season. She succeeds Warren Leonard.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Some 8,000 people filed through the gates of Rock Island Arsenal on Saturday to view a display of a part of the nation's armed strength. The occasion was theannual observance of Armed Forces Day.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Willis Kuschmann, of Moline, who already has won his laurels as oneof the most artistic men in the Quad-Cities area, has a new hobby. He is deeply involvedin miniature railroading. At the age of 88, when many other seniors are dozing in theirchairs or sitting before the television, Mr. Kuschmann is planning and working on hiscollection.
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