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I'm Dee Canfield from Moline, and WVIK is my NPR station.

Music of Leopold Mozart now, a Sinfonia in G major.

Bodan Varko leads the Slovak Chamber Orchestra.

And with them now opening the indoor portion of the I don't know, the grounds, I guess we'll call it like it's just a neighborhood.

For those of those of my listeners who aren't in the Quad Cities, it literally Mercado is just a weekly festival that they have, like in a neighborhood in Moline, Illinois.

Yes, it's.

like they have they do have their own their own building that they usually mostly kind of like use for storage um but like they finally opened that up for as kind of a mini venue for at least scw pro yes inclement weather so like i i am hoping to see some more scw pro and we'll call it the off months uh when they're not doing just the outdoor stuff over there as well yeah but yeah But I think that's one like the an exhilarating, a corollary to why wrestling is beautiful is because it can happen anywhere in time.

As I was putting things together and trying to figure things out for the trip that I'm planning on taking...

It was actually significantly cheaper to fly out of Moline than any of the other options.

Nice and easy.

And I thought, well, this I like.

The 2026 North American Airport Satisfaction Survey.

This is something that J.D. Power puts together, where they evaluate medium, large, and mega airports.

So Moline is not on the table here.

Too small of an airport to be included in this.

The Quad Cities Business Journal reports John Deere has announced plans to bring back 375 employees it previously laid off to work at two Quad Cities factories.

The workers will return to Deere's seeding and cylinder facility in Moline and Harvester Works in East Moline.

In the announcement, the manufacturer said the additional workforce is meant to help build dealer inventory and position the company to operate through all business conditions, including upcoming labor negotiations with the United Auto Workers Union in 2027.

The Cedar Rapids

In total, the company has brought back or hired more than eight hundred employees across Iowa and Illinois since January.

The company will return one hundred fifty employees to seeding and cylinder operations in Moline and approximately two hundred twenty-five employees to Harvester Works in East Moline.

The additional workforce will help build dealer inventory ahead of upcoming planting and harvesting cycles, support long-term operational planning, and position the company to continue serving customers through all operating environments, including future labor negotiations, according to a news release.

In quotes, "Planning ahead is part of our commitment to customers and our manufacturing workforce." This was Dustin Lemon, a spokesperson.

This one here is a man suffers injuries in a firework, firework incident, and it's written by Grace Kinnicut.

Forty-one-year-old man was severely injured when a firework he was holding exploded.

According to the Rock Island County Sheriff's Office, at about 2:30 PM on Saturday the 12th of September, deputies responded to a residence in the 16,000 and 6000 block of Route 84 North in East Moline.

Deputies responded to a call regarding a firework incident that resulted in severe injuries.

I want you guys to, to, to look this up so you have it.

There's a Northpark Mall in Iowa, and there's a South Park Mall in Illinois, right across the river, and I think Illinois needs it a little bit more than Iowa does, although we all need it, right? Although we all need it.

But we're gonna do both.

Now, the reason I say we're not gonna go any further out is because there's an airport right in Moline, East Moline, Illinois.

I figured since we're so centrally located, the people that can't afford to fly, which is pretty much all of us these days, might be able to afford to drive, you know, anywhere from three to eight hours to get here if they really wanna be a part of this.

Ruger Red said, "So was that Northpark Mall?" There's two.

There's Northpark and South Park.

Northpark Mall is in Iowa.