Category: PACG Parties - PACG - Progressive Action for the Common Good

2019 Picnic & Pie Auction - After Action Report

10/2/2019

Picnic/Pie Auction a Great Success! - After Action Report
Sunday, September 15th at 12:00 pm

Longview Park 18th Avenue & 17th Street Rock Island, IL.

PACG Board

Despite some early morning rain, sixty-seven people turned out to enjoy picnic food from Fresh Deli and music by Chris Dunn. Nearby playground equipment provided fun for the kids as well.

There were also several raffle winners, and we were lucky again this year to have Jen Broders, assisted by her husband, Ed, do our famous Pie Auction, which is designed to help fund the many activities of our very active Civil Rights, Environmental, and Health Care Reform Forums. We got to hear short reports from our forum leaders as well as from the Fallow Endowment for Social Justice to keep everybody up-to-date on all the hard work we're doing to forward progressive issues during a time when they are being challenged as never before.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the picnic afforded a chance for everybody to just relax and visit with other progressive minded folks!

Thanks to all who were able to join us this year. It was great to see you again! Enjoy the rest of this beautiful Fall season, and we hope to see you at our Holiday Party in December.

Sincerely,
The PACG Picnic Committee
Allison Ambrose, Ann McCluskey, Susan Meenan, Margie Meija Caraballo, Caryn Unsicker

7th Annual PACG Picnic and Pie Auction

8/11/2019

7th Annual PACG Picnic & Pie Auction
Sunday, September 15th at 12:00 pm

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Longview Park
18th Avenue & 17th Street, Rock Island, IL. (map)

PACG Board

Please join us again this year for great food catered by Fresh Deli, music, raffles, our famous pie auction - and an opportunity to chat and have fun with other progressive minded people!

It would help us plan for food if you pre-register at the link above (preferred) or call the PACG number on the flyer and tell Julie you are coming to the picnic and the number of people you are bringing. You can then pay at the door (although this option leads to longer lines) or mail a check to PACG, Suite 3D 1212 W. 3rd St., Davenport, IA 52802.

Tickets are $10 each or $25 for families. Kids under 10 are free. And there's playground equipment right there, so bring the kids and grandkids! We look forward to seeing you on September 15th!

Ann McCluskey

Caryn Unsicker

Save the Date - 7th Annual Picnic and Pie Auction

6/24/2019

SAVE THE DATE:
7th Annual Picnic and Pie Auction
Sunday, September 15th Noon to 3pm

Longview Park 18th Ave. & 17th St., Rock Island, IL (map)

More details will be provided in the coming weeks.

Toast the Resistance - After Action Report

3/4/2019

Toast the Resistance - After Action Report

On February 23rd, close to 50 people attended our 2nd Annual Toast the Resistance party. We celebrated the RESISTANCE at The Key restaurant in downtown Davenport. Many of the attendees were new to PACG and had come to learn more about our organization and about how they could get involved in making a difference.

Allison Ambrose delivered a "Toast" to the Resistance and membership awards were given for "Most Active New Resister” - Deb Sperry; "Worker Bee Resister” - Susan Meenan; "Behind the Scenes Resister” - Jeannie Price; and, the "Successful Forum Event" award went to the Environmental Forum for the Renewal Energy Conference they presented in November.

The energy in the room was at a high level while everyone discussed with each other the “goods” and the “bads” of the past year. Forum facilitators informed the crowd of the various things being done to advance progressive causes and the PACG Book Club publicized their activities. Those in attendance were encouraged to sign up for a forum and/or the book club.

At the conclusion of the event, the various sign-up sheets were full of names. Everyone had a great time! Cheers!

Toast the Resistance 2019 Register Now

2/2/2019

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Second Annual Toast the Resistance 2019

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Save the Date: Toast the Resistance!

1/28/2019

Save the Date: Toast the Resistance
Saturday, February 23, 2019 4:30 - 6:30 pm

the Key
Union Arcade Building
229 Brady Street
Davenport IA (map)

PACG Message to Our Membership

The year has gotten off to a great start with PACG being active in many progressive issues!

I want you to know how much we appreciate your involvement in our endeavors and invite you to an event on February 23rd!

We will be holding our 2nd Annual "Toast the Resistance" party at one of Davenport's newest restaurants: The Key, in the Union Arcade building from 4:30 to 6:30. This is not only a celebration of all that "the Resistance" has been able to accomplish since 2017, but acts as a membership drive and member appreciation event as well.

We have lots of fun things planned, and I challenge each of you to bring one new potential PACG member to the event. Our causes can be aided by numbers!

Look for more details in future weekly email updates as well as on social media, but for now, SAVE THE DATE: February 23rd, from 4:30 - 6:30. I look forward to seeing you all there!

Allison Ambrose
PACG Board President

Holiday Party Was Another Success!

12/17/2018

2018 PACG Holiday Party - After Action Report

Over 70 people sat down to a potluck dinner on December 6th at the Progressive Action for the Common Good (PACG) Holiday Party at Cobblestone Place in Davenport. More than 26 PACG memberships were renewed or started and many more friendships were formed or deepened during our annual dinner.

The PACG Holiday Dinner is also the platform to announce The Dick Fallow Endowment for Social Justices annual grant awards. The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Quad-Cities and the Teamsters Community Action Network (TeamCan) both received awards to support their work in the QC Community.

The Reverend Jay Wolin of the UU Congregation of the QC accepted the award for the Sanctuary Team and said that they will use their award to hold events to educate the public about immigration policy and the Sanctuary Movement.

Jesse Case, President of the TeamCan Network, accepted their award. TeamCan will use their award to broaden their networks to distribute locally grown organic food to people in eastern Iowa who are food insecure.

The Dick Fallow Endowment was established in 2013 to carry on the life work of Richard E. Fallow, local activist and union member. Each year, the Endowment issues grants to organizations that fulfill his mission by working in the areas of labor / economic justice, environment / sustainability and/or democracy/ human rights.

Greg Coleridge, Outreach Director of Move to Amend, also talked about amending our Constitution to establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights. He encouraged all those who attended to sign a petition reject the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling.

The PACG Holiday Committee thanks you for coming and for celebrating another busy year:
Allison Ambrose, Margie Mejia Caraballo, Susan Meenan, Janice Williams, Caryn Unsicker, and Ann McCluskey.

If you have not done so already please sign up here for the PACG weekly email update to keep on top of our activities for 2019.

Happy Holidays and may you all have a busy 2019 fighting for social justice.

Ann McCluskey
mccluskeyam@gmail.com

Register NOW for Our Upcoming Annual Holiday Party!

11/10/2018

Annual PACG Holiday Party/Potluck - Thursday, December 6th 5:30 pm

Cobblestone Place
1212 W. 3rd St., Davenport (map)

Hi Folks!
Our annual PACG Holiday Party/Potluck will be on Thursday, December 6th, from 5:30 to 8 pm in the 1st floor Community Room at Cobblestone Place.

We promised you more information this week, so here it is!

We are having Fresh Deli cater the entrees: beef pot roast; chicken and rice casserole; and vegetarian polenta. We will provide coffee, iced tea and water. You can bring a salad, hors d’oeuvres, or dessert to share if you like. There is no admission charge - this is PACG's holiday gift to you, our members and supporters.

A $10 annual membership renewal form will be available if you want to renew your membership to PACG. And if you have them, please bring gently used books for the adults and/or children who are residents of Cobblestone Place in lieu of food pantry donations this year.

You'll get to watch us award this year's Dick Fallow Endowment for Social Justice Grant to a worthy local recipient (or two), and you'll get to catch up on everything with old and new progressive friends!

So please follow this link to register for the holiday fun! This will help us know how much food to order. We look forward to seeing you on the 6th!

Sincerely,

Your PACG Holiday Party Committee
Allison Ambrose, Ann McCluskey, Caryn Unsicker
ibcaryn@yahoo.com

6th Annual PACG Picnic and Pie Auction - After Action Report

10/22/2018

Our 6th Annual Picnic was a Success!

Over fifty people came out on Sunday, September 16th from noon to 3 pm at Fejervary Park in Davenport to relax and have fun at the 6th Annual PACG Picnic & Pie Auction. This year, the weather was beautiful, the food and music were great, as usual, and we had a live auctioneer for our pie auction, which made it even more fun and successful! Afterwards, a few of us even shared the delicious pies we had won!

There were brief reports from the Fallow Fund and the active Forums and even a healthcare version of "Blowin' in the Wind" accompanied by Doug McCullom.

Thanks so much to those of you who donated pies and who continue to support the important work of PACG in so many ways! Thanks, too, to the picnic committee who worked hard to put the whole thing together, and to all the volunteers who helped set up and clean up. To those who couldn't make it this year, we missed you, and we hope you can join us for picnic fun next year!

Susan, Ann, Allison, Margie, Caryn

PACG Annual Picnic and Pie Auction!!

9/16/2018

Our 6th Annual PACG Picnic & Pie Auction is today, Sunday, September 16th, from noon to 3pm at Fejervary Park Shelter 1 (just west of the Putnam on the bluff) in Davenport. Join us for juicy pulled pork, potato salad, coleslaw, baked beans, and both vegetarian and meat lasagna and watermelon all catered by Fresh Deli. If you have a favorite dessert, you can bring it to share (optional).

There will be music by Chris Dunn and all kinds of fun things to do, too. Buy tickets to win our 50/50 raffle, and win prizes in our ice breaker game. You can buy PACG t-shirts and compete for the delicious donated pies in our Annual Pie Auction. Don’t forget that pie bakers attend for free!

Finally, just come and have fun with other like-minded progressives. There’s a playground right by us, so bring your kids and grandkids, too.

Tickets are $10 per person or $25 for families (Kids under age ten are free) and you can click right here to register now. If you don’t want to use a credit card online, just put “pending” where it asks for payment and pay at the door.

We very much look forward to seeing you.

Sincerely,

The PACG Picnic Committee (click to email us about the Picnic):
Allison Ambrose, Ann McCluskey, Susan Meenan, Margie Mejia-Caraballo and Caryn Unsicker