QC Family Focus: March 2016

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Royal Family KIDS ® Teams Up with Volunteers to Provide Foster Children with a Free Week of Summer Camp For 25 years, Royal Family KIDS, Inc. has helped make a difference in the lives of children suffering from neglect and other forms of child abuse. Based in Santa Ana, California, the charity operates 190 camps nationwide for children ages 6-12 in the foster care system. In the Quad-Cities, Wendy Bezotte, Co-Lead Pastor/ Worship Director of Mercy Vineyard Church, Moline, has served as the Royal Family KIDS Camp Director for Rock Island County since 2014. Her husband Lee Bezotte, Lead Pastor at Mercy Vineyard Church, helped to establish the camp in the Quad-Cities. This year’s camp will take place in early July. “Each year, we hope to grow the number of children we can serve by increasing our volunteer base,” Wendy said. “In our first year, we hosted 17 kids. In 2015, we brought 26 kids to camp, as well as 16 counselors and 19 other on-site staff members, providing a ratio of campers to adults that was greater than one-to-one. In 2016, our goal is to host 28 to 30 children.” According to Lynda Carlson, who volunteers as Assistant Camp Director, the camp includes a lake, paddle boats, a row boat, bunk houses, a dining hall and an inground swimming pool. “The kids especially enjoy the group birthday party we hold for them,” she said. “Each child gets a present. We do this because many foster kids don’t get birthday parties or presents at home. We also have Camp Grandmas and Grandpas who listen to the kids and write encouraging notes to them.” “This project is much larger than our church alone can do,” Wendy said, “and we are grateful for the assistance and contributions of other churches, organizations, and individuals in the community. They partner with us to provide a week of memories for these kids. We want to continue to spread the word and have even more join us, as we recruit volunteers and raise much-needed funds.” Royal Family KIDS, a 501(c)3 charity, is seeking Quad-Cities area partners to help increase the number of children attending camp. If you would like to learn more or explore the possibility of being a counselor or volunteer, please contact Wendy Bezotte at (309) 269-7408 or contact@royalfamilyqc.org. To donate to Royal Family KIDS in the Quad-Cities, visit moline. royalfamilykids.org. With Ela Ersan Hopewell Elementary, 6th Grade QC Family Focus IRISH APPLE CRUMBLE CAKE Yummy cake that’s kind of like coffee cake ...but better! Serves 6-8 Ingredients: - 4 oz butter plus extra for greasing - 5 oz soft light brown sugar - 2 large free range eggs - 7 oz plain flour, sifted - 1 tablespoon baking powder - pinch of salt - 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon - 11 oz peeled, cored and sliced cooking apple (Shouldn’t be more than one large one) For the crumble topping: - 2 oz of vanilla sugar (or substitute with caster sugar) - 2 oz of plain flour - 28 oz of March butter 2016 - QC Family Focus Method - Preheat the oven to 350°F, grease and line a 8in cake tin with a removable base. With an electric hand mixer, beat the butter and sugar in a large bowl until pale. Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing until they are incorporated. - Fold through the flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon until you have a thick cake batter. Stir through the apple and pour the batter into the cake tin. The batter will be thick, so use a spatula to spread across the base of the tin. - Using a handblender with a food processor attachment, blitz the ingredients for the crumble topping until you are left with rough crumbs. You can also do this by hand in a bowl using your fingertips to combine the ingredients together. Sprinkle the crumble topping on top of the batter. - Bake in the oven for 40-45 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean. Remove from the oven and leave to cool. There’s also a version of this recipe that includes 8 ounces of blackberries mixed in with the apples! Give this great classic Irish recipe a try! Happy St. Patrick’s Day Source: IrishCentral.com
The Quad City Symphony Orchestra is giving away tickets for a group of four to their new Family Concert, The Magical Music of Disney. One Show Only! Saturday, April 9th ● 2:30pm Adler Theatre, Davenport There will be ONE SHOW ONLY, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, April 9, 2016 at the Adler Theatre in Davenport. Here’s your chance to win. Go to our Facebook page, Facebook.com/QCFamilyFocus, and LIKE THE PAGE, not the post! Then, tell us what your favorite Disney song is. We’ll choose one winner (who has three friends or family members to bring to the concert!). Good luck! Imagination Station Learn more at wqpt.org/imagine Saturday, March 19 THE SUPER AWESOME EVENT features games & family fun for everyone Meet your favorite PBS KIDS characters Registration opens Tuesday, March 1 Register online at wqpt.org/imagine for your FREE TICKETS* for either the morning or afternoon sessions. WQPT Kids Club members get awesome benefits, including tickets to Imagination Station VIP Party & Dinner held on Friday, March 18. Learn more at wqpt.org/kidsclub Sponsored in part by funding from Presented by **Join by March 11 *While supplies last. This show will sell out! Get your tickets now! A supercalifragilistic carpet ride through the best-loved Disney scores of all time synchronized to animated images. This program will delight kids of all ages! Featuring music from: Frozen, Tarzan, Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Mulan, Lion King and more! Join us for the FREE QCSO Family Music Carnival Saturday, April 9 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. at RiverCenter! QCSO.ORG | 563-322-QCSO (7276) QC Family Focus - March 2016 9
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