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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY PARTIES FOR MATCHES! JOIN THE FUN!

Since March, Big Brothers Big Sisters has been celebrating match anniversary party will be provided with a dessert to enjoy! anniversaries in the office. These parties are a good way to celebrate your match, meet other matches, hear their stories and get ideas on We want to celebrate your match and thank you for being in the activities to do for your upcoming year together. program, so when you see your anniversary is coming up, make sure to mark your calendar for your party! Or if you can’t make the party The parties are from 5p.m. to 6p.m., every second Monday of the let your match coach know and schedule another day in the month month. Your match coach will update any information that may have to meet. We look forward to celebrating with you! changed as well as discuss how the year went with your match. We also plan goals for your next year together, whether it is doing an The upcoming match anniversary celebration is activity you have never done together or improving performance in August 12, at BBBS office, from 5p.m. to 6p.m. a class. You’ll also be presented with a certificate to show our RSVP to your match coach to attend or to schedule another day! thanks. And of course what is a party without dessert?! Every match

25TH ANNIVERSARY REUNITE PICNIC—Rescheduled for Sept. 28th Most of you have heard by now that the 25th Anniversary Reunite Picnic to be held at Modern Woodmen Park has been rescheduled for Saturday, September 28 at Modern Woodmen Park. The River Bandits were required to repair the field before the end of the 2013 season and the two weeks over July 20th was the only time they had to get that construction done. We still plan to start the event at 4:30 p.m. and go to 8 p.m. followed by a FREE movie shown on the jumbotron at 8 p.m. (to 9:30—10 p.m.) We are planning around 20 activities and organized games and Performance Food Group is providing the picnic food for us. If you have an interest in attending ($10 per match + $2 for additional family members) please call your Match Coach or go to www.bbbs-mv.org, events and click on Picnic.

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YARD / BAKE SALE Aug 23, 24th RAVE about your Little Healthy Kids article “New Kids on the Block”—Match story Community Calendar “Do What’s Right” Davenport Police Whiteside County Updates Anniversary Parties for Matches

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25th Anniversary Picnic Rescheduled Dear Match Coach Maintain a Healthy Match! Match Anniversaries HAVlife upate Bicycle donation from Sheriff’s Dept. REUNITE! Attention former Littles! Career Navigators go to Old Navy

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AUGUST—MATCH ANNIVERSARIES! YEARS

LITTLE’S NAME

BIG’S NAME

5 years

Ryan

Dennis

Reynolds

4 years

K'yi

Bill

Mitchell

8 years

Savannah

Sandi

Davis

1 year

Abigail

Shirley

Williams

1 year

Antoinette

Ashanti

Brown

1 year

Alissa

Cindy

Walls

CONGRATULATIONS!

ASK A FRIEND AT WORK TO BECOME A BIG! It will make it more fun for you and for them!

RAVE ABOUT YOUR LITTLE Over the summer months school-based matches are allowed to write or communicate via phone if the information was exchanged at the end of the school year. Big Brothers Big Sisters also has summer activities that school-based matches are allowed to meet at. Claudia and Adam were one school-based match that took advantage of this, this summer.

When school was over Claudia and Adam were nominated for School-Based Match of the Year, which they won! They were invited to attend the Big Impact Event to accept their award. Both Claudia and Adam wanted to go so, on June 25th, Adam and Claudia got to hang out for a night and see each other over the summer. Adam had to get a ride from his family and meet Claudia there, since school-based Bigs cannot transport Littles. Claudia and Adam met at the Big Impact Event and had a fun evening together meeting each other’s families and pro football players, Julian

Vandervelde and Mike Daniels. They even accepted their award together! At the end of the night Adam’s grandma gave Claudia their phone number so they could communicate over the summer. Claudia has been in touch with them over the summer and can’t wait to see Adam again in school!

Claudia Neuman and Adam

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DEAR MATCH COACH: HOW TO REENGAGE YOUR LITTLE! Dear Match Coach, School is just around the corner. What should I do as a Big to reengage my Little when our school-based visits resume? As a Big in the school-based program, it is important that you are just as excited to resume visits with your Little. Your match coach will contact you in August with updated information about your Little such as their new teacher’s name, their lunch time and if needed, their new school. To prepare for your first visit with them, you can think of questions to ask your Little about their summer and their expectations and goals for this school year. This is a great time to change your routine and/or set new patterns. Do more of what you liked last year and less of what you didn’t. For example if you found yourself buying lunch for each visit for both of you and you felt obligated rather than wanting to do it, set up a new routine such as a rewards program where you buy lunch when they receive certain grades on their report card or reach certain milestones. It is up to you. Different matches spend their time differently.

For both school-based and community-based matches, it is important to be positive cheerleaders to your Littles to help them with school and stay engaged and motivated throughout the school year. Help them start with good habits such as keeping a schedule, staying organized and with improving their time management skills. If they are involved in extra curricular activities such as band or sports, ask for their activity schedule so you can attend some events to motivate them even more to succeed. It would also be a good idea to ask your Little’s school for a copy of their school calendar for the year so you know when they have scheduled days off. Since the 25th Anniversary Picnic was rescheduled to September 28, you could ask your Little to attend that with you so you can start off the new school year with something exciting to look forward to together. (Please let us know because we would need to arrange transportation with their family—school -based Bigs cannot transport their Littles, even to a BBBS event).

If you have any other questions or suggestions of ways to improve the quality of your match, don’t hesitate to ask your match coach. BBBS is working on updating activity boxes that will be kept at each After all, that’s what we are here for! school for you and your Little to utilize. If you have any ideas of things that you would like to see in these activity boxes, please inform your match coach so we can try to get that for you.

$150 Text Only Brick

$150 BBBS Logo Brick (for current or past Bigs or Littles)

$250 Corporate Logo Brick

Honor your mentor relationship With your purchase of a brick on the BBBS Mentor Lane, you will receive an engraved brick placed on either the walk way or patio at the Big Brothers Big Sisters offices in downtown Davenport and the option to include your story of mentoring and a photo to be featured on the Mentor Lane website.

ORDER YOUR BRICK BY 9/20/13 Go to www.mentorlane.org

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$30,000 RAISED AT GOLF OUTING TO SUPPORT BBBS!

Winning Team: Geneseo Communications!

BIGS Team sponsored by Ryan & Associates featuring a hole-in-one winner, Mike Erdmann

The 25th Anniversary Golf Outing at Fyre Lake on July 20th raised more than $30,000 in support of one-toone mentoring through the programs of BBBS. It was a beautiful day for golf and 27 teams who played 18 holes at this Jack Nicklaus designed course in Sherrard. A BIG thanks to our Presenting Sponsor, Galaxy One and to Fyre Lake for being our host. We’d also like to thank all of our sponsors, players and volunteers!

QC Kidney Center along with the Galaxy One “Hopper”.

The John Leinart Team with “The Hopper”.

One of the Galaxy One Teams having lots of fun!

Thanks to all or our Hole Sponsors and those who signed up to play! Also, a BIG thanks to all our sponsors including: Galaxy One—Presenting Sponsor Fyre Lake Golf Club—Host Hornbuckle Heating and Air Conditioning Tee Gift Sponsor Reference Audio Video & Security Hole In One Sponsor

Treiber Construction—Beverage Tent Sponsor Tri-City Electric—Beverage Tent Sponsor Village Corner Deli —Lunch Sponsor American Bank & Trust—Breakfast Sponsor PRODUCT SPONSORS: Stern Beverage, Mississippi River Distilling Co. and Irish Dog Mike Long / Adidas Golf—Raffle Prizes The Grape Life—Raffle Prize

SCOTT COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT DONATES TEN BIKES FOR LITTLES! Community Restoration Officer, Donald Rupe

Ah, summer. The sun shining, birds chirping and children playing. Such a great and easy time for kids to get in the 60 minutes of exercise that they need each day. With the rise of childhood obesity in our country, it is becoming more and more important to get kids outside and active! Thanks to the Community Restoration program of the Scott County Sheriff’s Department, ten of our Littles will have a great opportunity to

Elizabeth loves her new bike!

Little Sister Kelley with her new bike!

get out and enjoy the fresh summer air! Each year, the Sheriff’s Department collects and refurbishes bikes to give to local children, and BBBS was excited to have our Littles chosen as recipients. Some of these kids have never had a bike, and others just needed this prompting to get off the couch and get moving! A big “thank you” to the Sheriff’s Department for making this happen!

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MATCH CLOSES OUT—NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK! By Evan Clark It’s tough being the new kid. There’s the initial territorial squabbling on the bus, the grasping of playground politics, and ultimately the decision of allegiance with which recess posse seems most fitting. No one understands the pressures of elementary school assimilation better than little Chris Rossback, whose geographical journey growing up resulted in a justifiable detachment from peers.

and frisbee golf were common occurrences between the two as their relationship continued to strengthen. Chris was even able to network with other Littles he knew from school to orchestrate joint ventured trips with other matches from picnics to a BBBS outing of the Brookfield Zoo just outside of Chicago.

While bonding with Chris was a top priority for Ryan, he saw a deeper “I was born in Louisiana, and my family moved around a lot when I was element to their match that was rooted from his own observations as young,” The eighteen year old said. a teenager. “Then we moved to Davenport because my parents got a divorce. I “Growing up in Dubuque, I had a was having some issues in school number of friends when I was young and my teachers brought up the who I don’t talk to anymore for specific Big Brothers Big Sisters program to reasons. We were all brought up in the me and asked if I was interested. I same area and exposed to the same thought I’d give it a shot.” things, but I went down a different path than them. Some of them have been in Chris’s risk paid off, and the eighth and out of prison for drugs, violence, grader was matched with Ryan etc, and looking back, the one thing I Foley, a manufacturing engineer at think was so much different between us John Deere, whose relatable were our parents. It was always sunny at mobile upbringing proved to be the my house so to speak, where most of my launching pad to their friendship. friends came from broken and violent homes.” “My youth is a very similar story to Chris’,” Ryan reminisced. “I was born in Cedar Rapids, and my family The result of Ryan’s experiences with troubled acquaintances has moved around a bunch until I went to high school in Dubuque. I seemed to motivate him to be a persistent positive influence for Chris. decided to get involved with BBBS through work at John Deere with And judging by Chris’s recent involvement with a local youth group the career navigators program, and when I met Chris, we just seemed that volunteers through helping out at homeless shelters, Ryan’s to click right away.” perseverance appears to be rubbing off. While the intentions of volunteering seemed evident for Ryan, he admits a slight anxiousness in his first meeting with Chris, perhaps an allusion to the old first days of a new school. “It was nerve wrecking at first, I had never done anything like this before. I didn’t know what to expect, or what I was getting myself into, but I found Chris really easy to talk to, and what really helped me with communicating with him was his openness. We were talking about things that I remember very vividly dealing with in high school, and I kept thinking that I wish I had somebody to talk about these sort of things when I was his age.” Chris’s experience with various neighborhoods and schoolyards seemed to serve as preparation in opening up to Ryan, who while twelve years his senior didn’t intimidate Chris in the slightest. “Usually I’m very shy at first and take a while to warm up to new people, but with Ryan it was pretty easy. I’ve always hung out with people older than me cause there were never people my age in the neighborhood, so I could be myself around Ryan, and honestly there aren’t a whole lot of people who I can do that with.”

As Chris looks on towards his senior year of high school this fall and college beyond that, his match with Ryan has recently expired due to his eighteenth birthday. However, after four years since their introduction, both parties have no intention of ceasing their friendship. “It seems like we just met yesterday,” Chris recalled. “But since we’ve got the go ahead to meet without BBBS, it’s now basically as if me and my brother were hanging out, and I don’t see any reason not to get involved with BBBS when I’m older.” As far as their experiences and encounters go, it’s safe to say that these two “brothers” have now been around the block a few times. But it was through his Little that makes Ryan reflect on how his decision to become a Big was probably more therapeutic for himself than for Chris.

“One of the biggest things for me, selfishly speaking, is how much my perspective on everything has changed since I met Chris. I remember being Chris’s age and thinking why don’t my parents get it? But now that I’m in the real world, dealing with all the real world issues, you lose some of that youth adolescence and what it means to be young After initially serving as lunch buddies, the two opted for a community and how you used to think when you’re young. So thankfully, being based match, and took off from there. Weekly games of pool, bowling, with Chris has allowed me to keep that sort of thinking.”

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WHITESIDE COUNTY—BBBS UPDATE Now - Aug 16 August 1-11 August 2 August 6

August 7 August 8 August 8 – 11 August 9 & 10

Check out the “Capturing the Rock” art exhibit at Woodlawn Arts Academy Monty Python’s SPAMALOT at Timber Lake Playhouse Downtown Sterling’s Hot Dog Days “National Night Out” 5:30-7:30 @ Lincoln Park, Douglas Park, Wallave Park, Propheter Park in Sterling or Centennial Park in Rock Falls (Whichever is closest to you) Sterling Municipal Band Summer Concert at Sterling’s Grandon Free Movie in the Park at Sterling’s Grandon: Hotel Transylvania Carroll County Fair in Milledgeville Sterling Street Faire

August 10

Rock Falls Riverfront—Family Fund Day Corn Boil 11 a.m.—4 p.m. sponsored by the Rock Falls Optimist Club. August 14-17 Whiteside County Fair in Morrison www.whitesidecountyfair.org August 17 Team Underwires Proud to Wear Pink Event call Sandy Ivey at 815-441-4458 for more information August 22 Free Movie in the park at Sterling’s Grandon: Shrek August 23 Fourth Fridays in downtown Sterling August 23 & 24 Sterling Street Faire August 24 YMCA’s Annual “Outdoor Adventure Festival”– go fishing in their pool with tons more activities August 30 & 31 Sterling’s Storytelling and Arts Festival at Woodlawn Arts Academy August 31 Sauk Valley Car and Bike Show Fundraiser for Happy Tails Humane Society

HAPPY MATCH ANNIVERSARY!

Congrats to Staci and Brooklyn on their one year anniversary on July 31.

ATTENTION WHITESIDE CO. COMMUNITY-BASED VOLUNTEERS If anyone is in need of an updated match information card please let Loni know so those can be made for you. They have the child’s information and medical release so these should be kept in your wallet and with you whenever you meet with your Little. They are also proof of being in the program and will help you to receive discounts around the area. Call or email Loni at 815-441-9118 or lmckinney@bbbsmv.org to receive your new card as soon as possible.

A BIG THANK YOU FROM ALL OF OUR LITTLES!

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SPREAD THE WORD! MATCHES REUNITE! Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Mississippi Valley is celebrating it’s 25th Anniversary this year (2013). Since we started matching adult volunteer mentors with children, we have served more than 10,000 children in the 14-county Mississippi Valley area. Many of the children who were involved in the program back in 1988 are now adults. Some are over 40 years old! Although BBBS-MV has records of most of our “Bigs” over the past 15 years, in many cases we have lost track of our “Littles” and so have their former “Bigs”. Adult (former) Littles in many cases have moved several times since the were involved in BBBS and many of the girls are now married with different names. This year, our national BBBS has launched a reunite campaign and are encouraging former “Littles” to contact the agency they were matched through back when they were children. If a former “Little” contacts us or registers through the national website (www.bbbsa.org), we do the best job we can in tracking down the former “Little’s” past “Big” to see if they want to reunite. The September 28th picnic is a great place to reunite! You can help us get the word out by posting this notification on your Facebook wall or newsfeed:

REUNITE!

ATTENTIONI FORMER BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LITTLES! If you were a former “Little” in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program and would like to “reunite” with your former “Big” go to www.bbbs.org and click on REUNITE NOW! You can register online and the national organization will contact the local BBBS office you were matched through and they will try to find out how to get in touch with your former Big Brother or Big Sister and contact you. Go to: www.bbbsa.org

ASK YOUR MATCH COACH ABOUT HAVlife! There are many exciting opportunities for children to get involved with in the Quad Cities. Sports, music, or the arts. Unfortunately, those activities sometimes just cost too much, and the child ends up disappointed and with lost potential. BBBS has partnered with the HAVlife Foundation to ensure that any Little who wants to be involved in an extra-curricular activity has the ability to do so. The HAVlife Foundation exists to help bridge the financial gap and eliminate “lost potential” in students by providing funds for various activities in athletics, music and arts. Need ideas? BBBS maintains a list of available activities that might interest your Little. Contact your Match Coach to learn more.

HAVlife helped Akugri continue his involvement with soccer!

Little Sister, Grace, recently attended a 3-day basketball camp with the Harlem Globetrotters and discovered that she’s pretty good at basketball, even with all the tough drills they made her do! This was thanks to the HAVlife grant administered by Big Brothers Big Sisters, which provides the necessary funds for our Littles to experience such things as playing an instrument, attending art classes or traveling with a soccer team. Currently, 15 Littles have experienced new activities through the HAVlife grant. Little, Amarette, is learning to play the guitar and her match coach is excited to hear her perform a song! Little Sister, Andrea, loves to dance, but could never afford dance lessons. Because of the HAVlife grant, Andrea is learning to dance and loving every minute of it! Little Brother, David, is excited to hone his archery skills next month as he attends archery camp. With school starting soon, your Little will have many opportunities to try new sports or activities. Don’t let money be an obstacle to exploring new interests! For more information about how your Little can be a part of the excitement, contact your Match Coach. If your Little has participated in an activity that was funded by HAVlife, please share photos from the events; we would love to see this grant in action! Email Jaime at jkeller@bbbs-mv.org.

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HEALTHY KIDS: EMERGENCY ROOM VS. URGENT CARE By Unity Point Health—Trinity Staff Healthy Kids: When to go to the Emergency Room vs. Urgent Care If you’re not feeling quite right or have a minor emergency, sometimes, it’s hard to get into your regular doctor right away. And if it’s not a life threatening situation, the emergency room can be a long wait while they attend to higher priority cases. That’s the time to visit a walk-in facility like UnityPoint Clinic – Express Care. What can be treated at an urgent care or express care facility? “You’ll be seen by a provider for everything from colds, flu, sprains, allergies, sore throats, coughs and burns to sports physicals,” says Dr. Miramar Prasad of UnityPoint Clinic – Express Care in Bettendorf, Moline and East Moline. When to go to the emergency room “Of course, if you’re experiencing a life-threatening situation like a possible heart attack or stroke, serious burns or compound fractures, call 911 immediately, or go to the emergency room,” says Dr. Prasad. “Think of it this way, if it’s too complicated for your regular doctor, then you should be treated at the hospital.” Benefits of walk-in clinics A lot of things can be treated at a walk-in clinic making it fast, cost effective and convenient. You don’t need an appointment and they have late and weekend hours. Plus, your insurance is billed as a regular doctor’s office visit, not an ER bill. The co-pays are usually less, too.

Here is a list of ailments that can be treated at ExpressCare: Colds Flu Simple cuts and small lacerations Minor burns Fevers Coughs Allergies Allergies Strains Sprains Sore Throats Earaches Abdominal pain Infections Eye Irritation Sports, school and work physicals Headache Back pain Skin rashes Asthma attack Suspected UTI Vomiting/diarrhea Should you need to go to ExpressCare, you can check out UnityPoint Clinic – ExpressCare wait times at http://www.trinityqc.com/Medical-Services/ Medical-Services/Emergency---Urgent-Care.aspx. You can find their hours there, too, including hours on both Saturdays and Sundays. You can also check on the ER wait times at UnityPoint Health – Trinity Bettendorf there as well.

Thanks to Unity Point Health—Trinity for their support of our Healthy Kids Program!

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YARD/BAKE SALE TO SUPPORT MATCH ACTIVITIES! Moving? Spring Cleaning? We would love to take your unwanted items off your hands! We are currently accepting new/gently used, clean donations for our yard/ bake sale fundraiser being held on

Fri, Aug. 23rd and Sat, Aug. 24th Yard sale items may be dropped off at our office at 130 W. 5th St., Davenport weekdays between 8 AM and 5 PM until the day of the sale. Individually wrapped bake sale donations may be dropped off the day before the sale. All donations are tax deductible. For any questions regarding donations or the sale, please call (563) 323-8006.

MATCH ACTIVITY AUG. 23 & 24

Join us for a community service match activity by helping us with the yard / bake sale to support future match activities. To help support us, you can bring items to donate to the sale, bring baked goods, help us with maintaining cleanliness during the sale, pricing, bagging items for customers etc. The dates are Aug 23 and 24 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Set up begins at 7 a.m. Call your Match Coach to sign up today!

CAREER NAVIGATORS EXPLORE RETAILING CAREERS Last month, Littles learned what it is like to work at Old Navy. They learned how to run the cash register and help customers check out their items. They also learned the basics of math and how to count back change. Some helped out at the fitting rooms, learning how to greet the customer and help them get set up in the fitting rooms. Others learned the process of getting products from the back room out to the showroom/sales floor. This was a great learning experience for Littles thinking about getting their first job in retail or working with customers. Watch for information regarding Take Your Little to Work Day as well as Career Navigator tours starting back up this month!

SIGNS OF A HEALTHY MATCH RELATIONSHIP

There are many different aspects to a healthy match relationship: trust, respect, open communication, flexibility, the list can go on. If you are wondering how your match relationship is progressing and whether or not it is heading down the right path, take these things into consideration. In a healthy match relationship, your Little will trust you enough to talk openly with you. This could be about school, their home life, and their friends. Open communication is a two way street. It is okay for you to voice some of your concerns as well. Be honest with your mentee about your likes and dislikes, and your feelings. A healthy match will meet regularly and consistently. You build trust by making and keeping commitments. Your activities are also a good indication if your match relationship is healthy or not. The activities you do

are not pertaining to just your interest but also your Littleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, the activities are also different each time and not the same thing for each visit. Along with a variety of activities that interest your Little as well, comes flexibility. Being flexible in your match relationship is very important to becoming a healthy match. If your Little doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem interested in the activity you have planned, it is important for you to be open to a different idea for that visit. The most important sign of a healthy match relationship is mutual respect. Your Little will learn to respect you as much as you respect them. Let them make mistakes and then help them learn from it, provide them with guidance. All of these signs are important to a healthy match relationship but most importantly is to have fun!

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An action group of Davenport Police Department employees joined together and were charged with providing a solution to the question, “What can the Davenport Police Department do to help prevent a mass shooting in our community?” Through small group collaboration, research, and weekly meetings, the team learned that prior to most mass shooting incidents, other people knew about the attacker’s idea and/or plan to attack. With this key piece of information , the team embarked on finding a medium for an individual to synonymously report information that is seen or heard allowing actions to be taken to prevent an act of violence from occurring. Findings that led to “Do What’s Right”  7 mass shooting incidents occurred in 2012 resulting in 151 victims.  25 mass shooting incidents have occurred since 2006.  63 mass shooting incidents have occurred over the past 30 years.  Prior to most mass shooting incidents, other individuals knew about the attacker’s idea or plan to attack.  Most attackers engaged in some behavior, prior to an incident, that caused others concern or indicated a need for help. “Do What’s Right” Goals:  Prevent acts of violence that take the lives of others.  Provide an anonymous means for citizens to report information that may prevent an act of violence.  Assess a threat before it becomes an action.  Determine an appropriate response with a focus on early intervention.  Provide an anonymous means for citizens to report information that may lead to the identity of a suspect prior to additional crimes being committed.

How to submit a tip to “Do What’s Right” For immediate response—Call 911 Davenport Police Non-Emergency Online Report / CopLogic—24 hours / day at www.CityofDavenportIowa.com Twitter: Davenport IA Police— @ DavenportPolice You Tube—DavenportIAPolice

Non emergency Police Phone Number: Mon.—Fri. 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. 563-326-7979 Action Center—Report Problems / Ask Q Ask Questions / Provide Feedback—24 / Day at www.CityofDavenportIowa.com Facebook—Davenport, IA Police Department

How “Do What’s Right” Works:  Individual submits a tip.  Davenport Police receive the tip in the office that is staffed 24 hours / day, 7 days / week.  Supervisor reviews tip, assesses threat and submits to the next level supervisor.  Shift Commander completes assessment. Makes a decision to have emergency response, call in detectives to investigate further or assign for follow up.  Level of threat determines if a phone call, text message and / or email is disseminated to an identified group of employees.  Threat assessment may involve communication and partnerships with mental health professionals.

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR — AUGUST 2013 1

AUGUST, 2013 Mississippi Valley Fair

Mississippi Valley Fair

2 Mississippi Valley Fair Columbus Ship Replicas at Oneida Landing.

Mississippi Valley Fair

Whitewater Junction