Quincy Exchange Club

If you haven't seen the Quincy Exchange Club's Field of Honor with 1000 American Flags the last three years, you will get another chance in November during Veteran's week at Madison Park at 24th and Maine in Quincy.

The 27th Annual Gus Macker Basketball event will be held this Saturday and Sunday on the streets of Quincy with some 1600 players playing on some 400 teams.

The year was 1974. The city was Lowell, Michigan. The location was Scott McNeal’s driveway. The participants were 17 of his friends. Combine all that and you had the start of Gus Macker, but how did it get to Quincy?

The 27th Annual Gus Macker Basketball Tournament will be held in Quincy on Saturday, May 27 and Sunday, May 28. The event has been hosted by the Quincy Exchange Club with all proceeds going to community project in the area. Thousands of dollars has been put back into the community over the previous 26 years. In helping you, the Exchange Club could use some help back especially for those who live a

Remember those 1000 American Flags from the "Field of Honor" set up at John Wood Community College last November? Well, you can have one of those flags placed in your yard on four different Holidays for just $30 as part of the Quincy Exchange Club's "Flags of Honor" program.

They say with time things become easier to handle but I am not so sure. I have never handled the loss of my best friend John Tripp seven years ago today very well. You would think after seven years that it would be easier to accept, but its not.  He was 58 when I got the call of his passing from a heart attack. It was a call that numbed my body from head to toe. I was driving to Kansas City and do

Every year the Quincy Exchange Club presents the Golden Deeds Award to a dedicated volunteer who gives endless hours of their time and talents toward making our community a better place to live. That award was presented today to Jack Mackenzie at a noon Golden Deeds Banquet held at the Elks Lodge in Quincy.

The 26th Annual Gus Macker 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament in Quincy, presented by the Quincy Exchange Club, will be held on May 28 and 29. The time to register initially has passed but the deadline has been extended until Monday, May 16th. To register before this Monday go to www.macker.com.

Every November the Quincy Exchange Club displays the Field of Honor at the Illinois Veteran's Home.  The display of 1000 American Flags is set up for Veteran's Day on November 11 and there is no cost to view the display.

Special Olympics of Western Illinois recently received some great news in their efforts to reach out to more Special Olympians in the area. That news has to do with The Quincy Public School District partnering up with Special Olympics.