Saturday 145 Years Ago A warm theater: The Theatre will be thoroughly warmed on Saturday night. This is a very important matter as the times go. A comfortable auditorium and a pleasing program will prove.
This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.
Even today, Easterners view the Midwest as far better ground in which to plant corn than culture. They would almost certainly have held out little hope that Edward Spencer would make something of himself in this world. Edward was the first child born in Stephenson the town that later became Rock Island.
Edward Spencer was born in 1835, only three years after the Black Hawk War had opened the region to American settlement. Stephenson was a brand new, a raw frontier village of a few dozen people with no schools and no churches. Hardly the place to nurture proper boys and girls, as an Easterner could tell you.
Navigate Donates $125,000 for Rental and Mortgage Assistance in Alabama
Funds can be used to help local families as the CDC eviction ban expires
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ The Navigate Affordable Housing Partners Board of Directors is donating $125,000 to the Salvation Army of Greater Birmingham for rent and housing assistance. This donation will help at-risk families stay in their homes as the CDC eviction ban expires on December 31, 2020. We believe quality housing is a fundamental human right, said Board Chair Spencer Ragland, But COVID-19 has left many people unable to pay their rent. Thousands of Alabama families are at risk of eviction. We hope this will help people stay in their homes.