Garry Perkins will stay on as mayor for another year Picture: DAVE COX Garry Perkins is staying on as mayor of Swindon for another year. Councillors have agreed Coun Perkins should have 12 more months as Swindon’s first citizen – partly because his term which started last May was so severely restricted by the Covid-19 pandemic but also because deputy mayor Brian Mattock died in March. Coun Perkins said: “Normally the deputy mayor has a year in post to learn the job, but Brian died and it means there wasn’t someone who’d one that year who could take over. The deputy mayor this year will be Abdul Amin.”
For more than 10 years, a 1930 former bishop s house on the property of Davenport s Trinity Episcopal Cathedral has stood vacant, not a practical home for today s clergy.
Now, though, this large, nearly 5,000-square-foot limestone building is springing to new life, becoming home to the Quad-City Music Academy, a nonprofit founded last year to give music lessons.
The academy is the brainchild of Hannah Holman, principal cellist for the Quad-City Symphony Orchestra, a cellist with the New York City Ballet Orchestra and resident of Iowa City, who for the past several years has dreamed of improving the quality of music instruction in the Quad-Cities and making it available to talented youth who might not otherwise be able to afford it.