by Heid Huiskamp Collins | Jan 9, 2021 | News
If you happened to pick up a January 2020 edition of Healthy Cells, you’ll remember that I started a series on the basics of finance by addressing all you ever wanted to know about stocks. Again, if you have a business degree, this article is not for you. But if you...
by Heid Huiskamp Collins | Jun 5, 2020 | Community Involvement, Education Planning, Financial Planning, For Women, Legacy Planning, News, Uncategorized
I can’t NOT speak, but I hesitate to find the right words as anything I say threatens to highlight my white privilege. I feel such deep pain for my black and brown sisters and brothers, our community, and our country, and I feel some very real shame at how relatively...
by Heid Huiskamp Collins | Apr 9, 2020 | News
Dear Friends, Last week was a harrowing week: mounting infection and death counts, a huge spike in our country’s unemployment rate, reports of local, national and international businesses struggling. Just turning on the news or scrolling social media has become an...
by Heid Huiskamp Collins | Apr 1, 2020 | News
Friends, as a Rock Island girl, I’m writing this note from my home office while in “lockdown”. Our worlds have been turned upside-down. What we thought we knew even a week ago has been turned on its ear. Since we have no control over the pandemic, the...
by Heid Huiskamp Collins | Mar 20, 2020 | News
In these turbulent and uncertain times as we grapple locally, nationally and internationally with the COVID-19 threat, I want to send out my best wishes to all in our community, especially our small business friends. As a result on social distancing practices,...
by Heid Huiskamp Collins | Dec 6, 2019 | Community Involvement, News
It was a cold, clear day in early December. I was bundled up against the chilly air with full-on long winter coat and toasty lined gloves. In front of the WQAD building in Moline, I stood with their news anchor, Katherine Bauer, and a uniformed marine to speak on...
