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

Inaguration Celebration Help Needed! - What You Can Do Now

11/26/2020

2021 Presidential Inaguration Celebration Planning - Volunteers Needed!

A Message from the President

Hello Progressives!

Interested in ways to get involved? I am looking for a few volunteers to help plan a fun and interactive virtual Inaugural Celebration! Young people, we could really use your perspectives!

This commitment will involve a few idea-sharing meetings and tasks to complete independently, and then meetings to work on the implementation plan. We always have a lot of fun planning events so please JOIN US!

If you are interested or have questions please email me at ambroseallisons@sau.edu.

Allison Ambrose

8th Annual Picnic and Pie Auction

9/16/2020

PACG's 8th Annual Picnic and Pie Auction via Zoom
Sunday, October 4th from 4:00 to 5:30 pm

Join your PACG friends to celebrate our 15th Anniversary at the 8th Annual PACG Picnic and Pie Auction! We will have a virtual picnic but real enchiladas! With music, a raffle and pies, this promises to be a uniquely memorable event! We will have more details in next week's WEU.

Allison Ambrose

Save the Date - PACG Picnic and Pie Auction

8/20/2020

PACG's Annual Picnic and Pie Auction via Zoom
Sunday, September 20th at 3:00 - 4:30 pm

Save The Date

PACG's annual picnic is on! We will celebrate the success of the Y15K Fundraiser, have socialization time, and hold our traditional pie auction virtually.

Sound fun and unique? You bet! Look for details to come!

Allison Ambrose

PACG Holiday Party - After Action Report

12/14/2019

PACG Holiday Party Was A Great Success! - After Action Report
Friday, December 6th at 5:30 pm

German American Heritage Center
712 W 2nd St, Davenport

Thank you to all of the seventy plus people who attended PACG's Annual Holiday Party. We had a great group of people sharing great conversation and fantastic food provided by Maria Lopez.

We also presented the Dick Fallow Social Justice Endowment Grant to Project Renew, an extremely worthy local organization that Dick would have loved. We feel very fortunate to be part of such a fine community.

There are lots more photographs of the event on PACG's Facebook page: facebook.com/PACG-holidayimages.

Thanks again to the PACG Holiday Party Committee - especially to Ann McCluskey - for all the hard work!

Julie Ross

Annual Holiday Party - Thursday, December 5th at 5:30 pm

11/12/2019

Join Us for the PACG Annual Holiday Party
Thursday, December 5th at 5:30 pm

German American Heritage Center
712 W. 2nd St., Davenport, IA (map)

PACG Board

Please register now to join us at the German American Heritage Center for a meal and celebration of another year of PACG. This is a free event to thank and celebrate with our supporters. Maria from Cafe Mundo will be catering the main entrees. You may have heard of the amazing tamales Maria has been selling to cover her treatment for her second battle with leukemia. She has agreed to cater our event with her delicious tamales and sides. Both meat and vegetarian options are available.

Please bring a side dish or dessert to share.

Optional Holiday Gift: We are asking for gently used books for the library for Cobblestone residents, either adult or children's books. They do not need to be wrapped. We will collect them in a box to donate to Cobblestone.

We will again present the annual Dick Fallow Social Justice Grant Award to a worthy local recipient.

Please join us again this year for food, fun and festivities. If you’re one of our many new members this year, come find out how much fun we progressives can have in the holiday season!

There is parking in the rear of the building or across the alley as well as on 2nd or 3rd Streets - but not on Gaines.

Ann McCluskey
mccluskeyam@gmail.com

Julie Myerson Ross, PACG Office Manager
pacgoffice@gmail.com

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

Register here

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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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