There is a particular kind of worry that quietly settles over a family as a parent or grandparent grows older. It rarely arrives all at once. It comes in small moments — a missed dose of medicine, a fall that didn't quite happen but nearly did, one more long drive across town to one more specialist. And beneath all of it sits a heavy, unspoken question: How long can Mom stay in her own home?
Mark your calendars for June 30 and join Rotary/One President Nancy Kalchbrenner for a one-of-a-kind bus-and-walking tour across Chicago, honoring the city's memorials, flags, and the birthplace of Rotary itself.
At our June 1 meeting, the Rotary Club of Davenport welcomed Joyce Klopp, director of Hope at the BRICK House, who shared the remarkable story of a building — and a neighborhood — turned around.
The two-story brick building at 14th and Ripley wasn't always a place families could count on. For years it operated as the Brick House Bar, with blacked-out windows and a reputation for drug activity, before sitting vacant. Roughly three decades ago, mission-minded volunteers took it over and gave it a new purpose. Today, that same corner is one of central Davenport's most dependable places for kids — a former bar and drug house now devoted entirely to hope.
Scholarship fund born from a WWI memorial continues its century-long mission of investing in Davenport students
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