25 Years and Lots of Flowers

The 2013 Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Mississippi Valley Annual Plant Sale was a great success! All 1,400 hanging baskets were sold at the Bettendorf location, which was at Ruhl&Ruhl Realtors, 1228 Middle Road, Bettendorf. Over 2,600 flats of annuals were sold over the course of 9 days. 

All proceeds from this event benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters to support one-to-one mentoring programs in our communities. This is the second year that Ruhl&Ruhl hosted a plant sale location. “It’s always a fun event,” said Caroline Ruhl, President of Ruhl&Ruhl Realtors. “We love that we can host this incredible organization and help raise funds for such an important cause.”

 “We had much more traffic and outstanding efforts by everyone,” said Kayla Kiesey, Director of Events and Community Partnerships for Big Brothers Big Sisters.

This year marks the 25^th anniversary of Big Brothers serving eastern Iowa and western Illinois. Over that time, the organization has helped over 30,000 children achieve academic and social success through the support of a caring adult mentor. Big Brothers Big Sisters makes meaningful, monitored matches between adult volunteers (“Bigs”) and children (“Littles”), ages 6 through 18, in communities across the country.

A family-owned company since 1862, Ruhl&Ruhl REALTORS has grown to more than 301 sales associates, 58 employees and twelve offices, selling nearly 5,000 homes in eastern Iowa, western Illinois and southwest Wisconsin. The company has residential sales offices in Bettendorf, Burlington, Cedar Rapids, Clinton, Davenport, DeWitt, Dubuque, Iowa City, Maquoketa, Muscatine and Washington, Iowa; and in Moline, Illinois. In addition to residential sales, the company offers services in relocation, property management, real estate investments, new home sales, land development, farm sales, senior services, home vendor services, insurance services through the Nelson Brothers Agency and mortgage services through Shelter Mortgage. For more information on Ruhl&Ruhl REALTORS, visit their website at www.RuhlHomes.com.