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Nicolina Pappas of Rock Island has certainly come out of her shell. The industrious 12-year-old, who’s a 7th grader at Bettendorf Middle School, has been busy the past few months criss-crossing the QC and nabbing proclamations from several cities in her quest to reduce the use of single-use plastic straws as well as other plastic […] ....

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