NO REPORT TODAY  

LOW TO MID 90'S TODAY.

MAQUOKETA HAS A SKATE PARK. DAN SPRENGER, MCHS 9TH GRADER, SPEARHEADED THE PROJECT.
HE WAS ON QUAD-CITY TV LAST NIGHT, TALKING ABOUT THE NEW PARK FROM ITS LOCATION JUST NORTH OF
OF THE CITY, WHERE TENNIS COURTS WERE ONCE LOCATED...ON THE ROOF OF THE CITY'S CONCRETE UNDERGRUND WATER STORAGE TANK. THE MAQUOKETA PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION GAVE $10,000 AND THE MAQUOEKTA AREA FOUNDATION, ALSO $10,000 PLUS OTHER MONEY WAS RAISED TO COMPLETE THE FINANCING. THE EQUIPMENT WAS DELIVERED MONDAY AND SPRENGER AND 15 FRIENDS AND ADULTS BEGAN PUTTING THE RAMPS TOGETHER. DAN IS THE SON OF RANDY AND MARGO SPRENGER.

SEVEN RARE POKEMON CARDS ALONG WITH 5,000 OTHERS WERE TAKEN FROM THE CHARLOTTE MEYER HOME ON NORTH ELIZA STREET. THE CARDS BELONGED TO HER SON...AND HAVE A VALUE OF $3,500.

NO DEATHS OR BIRTHS.

NO HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS THESE DAYS.

THE FAIR IS OVER.

ITS QUIET IN MAQUOKETA.

HOPE ALL IS WELL WHERE YOU ARE.

FOUND OUT THIS MORNING, THE MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF '62 WILL HAVE THEIR 40TH REUNION ON AUGUST 17TH AT THE COUNTRY CLUB. ALICE GILMORE IS ON THE COMMITTEE AND I'VE BEEN TOLD, SIGRID ALLEN BATTJES OF PASADENA IS COMING HOME FOR IT AND WILL BE IN THE PROGRAM.

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CLOUDY AND COOL...AS OF 1 P.M.

LOTS OF RAIN HERE. SATURDAY MORNING, NEARLY 2-INCHES AND LAST NIGHT, AN INCH AND A HALF.

SATURDAY, RAGBRAI BIKE RIDERS HAD TO PEDAL IN THE RAIN FOR THE EARLY PART OF THE MORNING, BEFORE THE SUN CAME OUT. SATURDAY'S RAIN ALMOST CANCELLED THE STOCK CAR RACES AT THE FAIR THAT NIGHT. THEY HAULED IN $1,400 WORTH OF GRAVEL TO SPREAD AROUND THE FAIRGROUNDS SATURDAY MORNING.

RAGBRAI WENT WELL...SO DID THE FAIR.

THE 2002 FAIR PAID ATTENDANCE CAME TO 15,783...DOWN FROM LAST YEAR'S 16,716. LAST YEAR'S WEATHER WAS PERFECT...THIS YEAR..ON THE HOT AND HUMID SIDE MOST OF THE TIME.

A MAQUOKETA MAN HAD A SEIZURE YESTERDAY MORNING
RESULTED IN HIS VEHICLE RUNNING INTO SEVERAL PARKED CARS ON THE BRAD DEERY LOT. GARY LEE MILLER, AGE 42, HAD A SEIZURE WHILE DRIVING NORTH ON 2ND STREET...LOST CONTROL OF VEHICLE AND HIT 3 DEERY CARS. DAMAGE TO HIS VEHICLE, $2,000...AND TOTAL DAMAGE TO DEERY'S 3 VEHICLE, $6,000. NO CHARGES FILED.

KENNETH WATTERS, AGE 76, OF DAVENPORT DIED SATURDAY. HE WAS A 1943 MAQUOKETA HIGH GRAD..AND A 50-YEAR MEMBER OF THE MAQUOKETA AMERICAN LEGION POST. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE, AND 4 DAUGHTERS, ALL OF DAVENPORT AND 4 SISTERS, INCLUDING JEAN FRANDSEN OF MAQUOKETA.

THE WAL-MART STORE IN MAQUOEKETA IS UNDERGOING
EXTENSIVE REDECORATING.

THE CLINTON COUNTY FAIR IS UNDERWAY..NOW THRU WEDNESDAY AT DEWITT. I'LL BE ON MY WAY TO DEWITT SHORTLY TO DO THE FIRST OF 3 HALF-HOUR REMOTE BROADCASTS FROM THE FAIRGROUNDS. SAME FOR TOMORROW AND WEDNESDAY.

THE NEW TWO-STORY CLASSROOM ADDITION AT FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH IS UP..ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE OLD EDUCATION BUILDING.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

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89 TODAY.

THE JACKSON COUNTY FAIR IS GOING WELL...WITH GOOD ATTENDANCE. FULL GRANDSTAND FOR THE BULL RIDING SHOW LAST NIGHT...AND GOOD CROWD FOR BOTH DAN SEALS SHOWS. I GOT A NICE RADIO INTERVIEW WITH DAN.

BAD FIRE LATE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT THE GREAT WALL CHINESE RESTAURANT IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA.
FIRE STARTED IN AN EXHAUST FAN AT REAR OF BUILDING AND RESULTED IN A LOT OF DAMAGE TO THE KITCHEN AREA. DINING ROOM OKAY....ALSO NEWLY RENOVATED UPSTAIRS APARTMENT OK... LIVED-IN BY THE CHINESE FAMILY. SMOKE DAMAGE OF COURSE...INCLUDING AT MCAFEE'S RESTAURANT, WHICH WAS CLOSED TODAYA FOR CLEANING AND SMOKE ODER.
TWO OF CHINESE TAKEN TO LOCAL HOSPITAL AND TREATED FOR MINOR THINGS. ALSO A COUPLE FIREMEN TAKEN TO HOSPITAL ALSO FOR MINOR THINGS.
FIREMEN AT THE SCENE FOR 3-4 HOURS. HOPEFULLY, THE NICE RESTAURANT WILL BE ABLE TO OPEN SOON FOLLOWING REMODELING OF THE REAR AREA OF BUILDING.

RAGBRAIA BICYCLE EVENT GOES THROUGH JACKSON COUNTY TOMMORROW...DOWN FROM CANTON, THRU ANDREW AND SPRINGBROOK AND ENDING UP AT THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AT BELLEVUE. WE'LL BE DOING SOME REMOTE RADIO BROADCASTS IN ANDREW AND BELLEVUE...TALKING TO SOME OF THE BYCYLISTS.

LEROY GNADE, AGE 79, OF MAQUOKETA AND LONGTIME ANDREW FARMER WHO RETIRED IN OUR TOWN, DIED YESTERDAY AT HIS HOME. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE JEANETTE, A STEPDAUGHTER AND A SISTER.

HAROLD CLARK OF ELY,NEVADA, FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY. SURVIVED BY A SON, STATIONED IN KOREA AND THREE SISTERS, INCLUDING ANNA ADAM OF MAQUOKETA.

LEARNED YESTERDAY THAT ANDY KARSON KOMASA, IN HIS 70'S..DIED THIS SPRING IN WISCONSIN AFTER A LONG ILLNESS. HE WAS KMAQ'S NEWS DIRECTOR IN 1964 AND 1965..USING THE NAME KARSON. THEN LEFT MAQUOKETA TO WORK FOR A LONG TIME IN
DODGEVILLE, WISCONSIN'S RADIO STATION. HE WAS DIVORCED...AND SURVIVED BY AT LEAST 1 CHILD, A DAUGHTER.

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.

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IN THE 80'S...MIGHT HIT 90 TOMORROW.

BUT THEN...ITS FAIR WEEK.

YES..THE JACKSON COUNTY FAIR STARTED LAST NIGHT WITH A LONG, 90-MINUTE-PLUS PARADE.

THE 2002 FAIR QUEEN WAS ANNOUNCED. SHE IS MEGAN
MUHL, AGE 18, OF WHEATLAND, DUAGHTER OF CRAIG AND ARLA MUHL...A 2002 GRADUATE OF MIDLAND HIGH SCHOOL IN WYOMING.

$50 BILLS WERE WON LAST NIGHT BY: JUDY LYON OF MAQUOKETA...AL MOHR OF MAQUOKETA...RHONDA DECKER, NO ADDRESS GIVEN...PAMELA KEMP OF SPRAGUEVILLE...A FATHER AND SON TEAM, JACK AND DAVE KRAMER OF BELLEVUE...DEAN KROGMAN OF CLINTON...STEWART WILSON OF MILES...KEITH KLEMME OF BELLEVUE AND HELEN SNELL OF MAQUOKETA. THEY GIVE AWAY 10 FIFTY-DOLLAR BILLS EACH NIGHT.

ATTENDANCE AT THE FAIR LAST NIGHT WAS 1,817 .. NEARLY IDENTICAL TO LAST YEAR.

IN SCHOOL BOARD NEWS..CHUCK FARNUM, A GRADUATE OF MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL, IS COMING BACK HOME TO BE A TEACHER AT THE HIGH SCHOOL. HE WILL BE A TEACHER-ASSOCIATE IN THE BEHAVIORAL DISABILITIES PROGRAM. FARNUM HAS BEEN WORKING IN THE IOWA CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM.

KEVIN BOWMAN IS THE NEW HALF-TIME ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANE AND ACTIVITIES DIRECTOR AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL. HE'LL CONTINUE TO TEACH FOUR CLASSES OF LANGUAGE ARTS AND HIS TOTAL SALARY WILL BE $40,781.

BOB STOCKHAM, AGE 79, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS WEST BOUND ON GROVE IN HIS MOTORHOME AND AS HE ATTEMPTED A RIGHT TURN ONTO OLIVE, THE REAR PASSENGER SIDE WHEEL WELL OF THE MOTORHOME STRUCK THE DRIVER'S SIDE FENDER OF A LEGALLY PARKED CAR OWNED BY JUDY BOWLING OF MAQUOKETA.
STOCKHAM WAS CHARGED WITH STRIKING AN UNATTENDED VEHICLE. DAMAGE TO THE RV, $3,000 AND TO BOWLING'S CAR, $1,000.

DOROTHY KOEHN, AGE 86, OF MAQUOKETA DIED.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE TWO SISTERS, VIVIAN MILLER AND MILDRED HENEKE, BOTH OF MAQUOKETA.

SERVICES PENDING AT HAYLOCK,O'HARA AND LAHEY FUNERAL HOME IN MAQUOKETA FOR MARY NOEL, AGE 94, OF MAQUOKETA.

SERVICES ARE PENDING AT THE CARSON AND SON FUNERAL HOME IN MAQUOKETA FOR LEROY GNADE, AGE 79, OF MAQUOKETA AND FORMERLY OF ANDREW.

I'M HEADING FOR THE FAIR.

HOPEFULLY, I'LL FIND TIME TOMORROW TO DO ANOTHER REPORT. FAIR TIME IS A BUSY, BUSY TIME HERE AT KMAQ.

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NICE DAY...80 DEGREES.

THE IOWA HIGH SCHOOL CO-ED GOLF MEET WAS HELD YESTERDAY AT ANKENY. 105 TEAMS PARTICIPATED.
A CEDAR RAPIDS COUPLE WON THE EVENT WITH A 69 ON THE PAR 71 COURSE. FOR MAQUOKETA, BROOKE DAVIS AND STEVE FERGUSON PLACED 18TH WITH A 78 AND BRITTNEY DAVIS AND JACK OSTERHAUS PLACED 48TH WITH AN 83.

SUNDAY NIGHT, 6 MILES EAST OF MAQUOKETA, TODD MERRICK, AGE 27, OF RURAL MAQUOKETA, FAILED TO NEGOTIATE A CURVE AND WRECKED HIS CAR. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE LOCAL HOSPITAL AND THEN TRANSFERRED TO UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS IN IOWA CITY WHERE HE IS LISTED IN FAIR CONDITION. DAMAGE AT$6,000 TO HIS CAR AND HE WILL BE CHARGED.

GARY IHRIG, OF RURAL MAQUOKETA, HIT A DEER AND SO DID DAWN LANGE, OF MAQUOKETA.

MATT BAKER, A 2000 MCHS GRAD, RECENTLY COMPLETED TRAINING AT THE MARINE CORPS RECRUIT DEPOT IN SAN DIEGO.

CONNIE HOYLE, RN,AGE 53, OF MILAN, WAS KILLED IN A CAR ACCIDENT SUNDAY NEAR ELDRIDGE. SHE WAS A 1967 GRAD OF MCHS AND IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, JERRY...HER MOTHER, MARIE HEINRICH, MAQUOKETA, AND TWO BROTHERS, JOE AND PAUL, BOTH OF MAQUOKETA AND ALSO A SISTER, JUDY WOLF OF PRESTON.

THANKS AGAIN FOR ANOTHER VISIT.

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A COUPLE SHORT RAIN SHOWERS THIS MORNING...THEN PARTLY SUNNY REST OF THE DAY...WITH A HIGH TODAY OF 84, .. 10 DEGREES COOLER THAN YESTERDAY.
STILL COOLER WEATHER PREDICTED FOR TOMORROW AND WEDNESDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF THE JACKSON COUNTY FAIR HERE IN MAQUOKETA. THIS WEEKEND..COULD BE BACK TO HOT WEATHER AGAIN.

THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD MEETS TONIGHT.
THEY HAVE LOTS OF PEOPLE TO HIRE TONIGHT...AND THEY ALSO HAVE A COUPLE RESIGNATIONS. ELAINE KAHLER, HIGH SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT AND STUDENT SENATE ADVISOR IS LEAVING TO WORK AT HER HUSBAND'S LAW OFFICE DOWNTOWN AND ELEMENTARY ART TEACHER, CECIL BENTLEY IS RESIGNING.

SCOTT ALTHOFF, AGE 24, OF ELDRIDE AND FORMERLY OF LAMOTTE, WAS KILLED IN A HIT AND RUN ACCIDENT SUNDAY MORNING JUST WEST OF LAMOTTE ON 300TH STREET. THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT IS INVESTIGATING AND ASKING FOR HELP FROM THE PUBLIC. ALTHOFF IS THE NEPHEW OF KEN ALTHOFF OF MAQUOKETA.

JACKSON COUNTY'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN JUNE WENT UP FROM MAY. MAY WAS 4.8 AND IT WENT UP TO 5.4 IN JUNE. THERE ARE 550 RESIDENTS OF JACKSON COUNTY LISTED AS UNEMPLOYED.

SOME WEEKEND ACCIDENTS. ERVIN JUEHRING, 84, OF MAQUOKETA FAILED TO STOP AT A RED LIGHT AND COLLIDED WITH A CAR DRIVEN BY MARIAN SHORT, AGE 70, OF RURAL MAQUOKETA. NO INJURIES.
WAYNE CLARK, AGE 72, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS SIGHTED ON FOUR CHARGES AFTER AN AFTERNOON ACCIDENT SATURDAY ON NORTH ARCADE. HE CROSSED THE CENTERLINE AND STRUCK AND EAST BOUND CAR DRIVEN BY DEBRA BURKEY, AGGE 21, OF MAQUOKETA. NO INJURIES.

SALLY CLEARY, AGE 74, OF MAQUOKETA DIED FRIDAY AT CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME. SURVIVORS INCLUDE 5 SISTERS, INCLUDING JEAN WATTERS OF MAQUOKETA.

RAYMOND GRAVERT, AGE 81, OF DELMAR,DIED FRIDAY AT CRESTRIDE NURSING HOME. SURVIORS INCLUDE:
HIS WIFE, JEAN, A SON DOUGLAS IN MAQUOKETA AND A SISTER, RUTH WALL OF MAQUOKETA. HE OWNED A CONSTRUCTION FIRM AND RETIRED IN 1980.

A WELL-KNOWN MAQUOKETA WOMAN DIED YESTERDAY MORNING AT A DUBUQUE HOSPITAL. ANN HOYE, AGE 62, HAD A HEART BYPASS OPERATION LAST FRIDAY AND WAS DOING OKAY, BUT THEN LATER DIED SUDDENLY FROM COMPLICATIONS. SHE WORKED AT THE FORMER BEN FRANKLIN STORE IN MAQUOKETA, AT THE FORMER MIDLAND FINANCIAL IN MAQUOKETA, AT THE FORMER GOLDEN SUNS PLANT IN MAQUOKETA, THEN AT THE MAQUOKETA COUNTRY CLUB AS BOOKKEEPER AND WAS CURRENTLY WORKING AT KLEPPE POWER SPORTS IN MAQUOKETA. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, JUST RETIRED TEACHER CLAIRE HOYE, ALSO 1 DAUGHTER, SHELLEY HOYE OF MAQUOKETA AND 1 SON, TRENT, WHO LIVES WITH HIS WIFE AND SON IN NORWALK, CT.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

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88 TODAY.

NEARLY 1 1/2-INCHES OF RAIN LAST NIGHT AND OVER-NIGHT. AT MONTICELLO, ON THE FAIRGROUNDS WHERE THE FAIR IS GOING ON...THEY MEASURED 4 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN OVERNIGHT.

HERBERT SCHULTZ, AGE 52 OF MAQUOKETA AND LEE RUTENBECK, AGE 39, OF MAQUOKETA,WERE IN A ACCIDENT YESTERDAY MORNING ON PERSHING ROAD.
NEITHER INJURED. SCHULTZ BACKED HIS VEHICLE INTO THE FRONT OF THE RUTENBECK TRUCK. EACH VEHICLE RECEIVED ABOUT $700 IN DAMAGES.

THE 26TH ANNUAL THRESHER'S EVENT IS BEING HELD THIS WEEKEND AT MILES, IOWA. A PARADE KICKS OFF ACTIVITIES TONIGHT.

POLICE BLOTTER: JESSICA ELLITHORPE, NORTH OTTO, REPORTED HER BIKE WAS MISSING AFTER SHE LEFT IT UNATTENDED AT LITTLE BEAR PARK.

SHAWN SPAIN AND SHAWNA EAKER ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN MONDAY. AND CODY KLEMANN AND STEPHANIE FEY ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL,ALSO BORN MONDAY...BOTH BORN AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.

MARY SCHNOOR, AGE 85, OF EMILINE,DIED THIS MORNING AT HER HOME. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HER HUSBAND, HENRY....2 DAUGHTERS, SALLY OF CASCADE AND KAY TRACY OF MAQUOKETA....1 SON LARRY OF MAQUOKETA...A BROTHER, WILLIAM ALDEN OF MAQUOKETA...AND 2 SISTERS, MABEL SCHNOOR AND CHARLOTTE REGENNITER,BOTH OF MAQUOKETA.

A FORMER KMAQ EMPLOYEE, DON PETERSON, DIED THIS PAST WEDNESDAY AT HIS HOME IN ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS...FROM A BRAIN TUMOR. DON PETERSON WAS NEWS DIRECTOR FOR KMAQ FROM 1961 UNTIL 1964.
WHEN I HIRED HIM, HE WAS WITH KDSN IN DENISON.
HE LEFT MAQUOKETA TO WORK FOR THE BIG TV STATION IN WATERLOO AND WAS AN ANCHOR FOR SOME OF THEIR NEWSCASTS. HE LATER WORKED FOR UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WHERE HE RETIRED IN
ABOUT 1993. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, JOAN, THREE DAUGHTERS, AND SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN. FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE SATURDAY AT ARLINGTON HEIGHTS AND LATER HE WILL BE BURIED AT HIS HOMETOWN OF MANSON, IOWA. HE WAS A NICE GUY, WITH A GREAT SENCE OF HUMOR. WAS VERY GOOD IN HIS WORK AND ALSO GOOD AT RAISING HIS FAMILY. MY SYMPATHY TO THE ENTIRE FAMILY.

MARGE FLEMMING, FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, WAS HONORED RECENTLY AS WOMAN MANAGER OF THE YEAR BY THE ROCKFORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. SHE IS CURRENTLY MANAGER OF McGLADREY, AND PULLEN LLP IN ROCKFORD. WHEN IN MAQUOKETA, SHE WAS MARRIED TO BASKETBALL COACH BILL FLEMMING. THE FLEMMINGS HAD 1 DAUGHTER AND 2 SONS.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY

 

96 TODAY..RAIN POSSIBLE TONIGHT.

AN 18 YEAR OLD MONTICELLO BOY WAS KILLED TUESDAY NIGHT IN A MOTO-CROSS RACE AT THE OPENING FREE SNEEK-PEEK NIGHT AT THE GREAT JONES COUNTY IN
MONTICELLO.

LARRY MCMURRAY'S MAILBOX WAS DESTROYED LAST NIGHT ON 117TH STREET.

JOHN BECKETT, A MANAGER OF BRAD DEERY MOTORS..REPORTED SOMEONE THREW A GLASS BOTTLE AT A NEW CAR, CAUSING $800 DAMAGE.

MARY SCHNOOR, AGE 85, DIED THIS MORNING AT HER HOME IN THE COUNTRY.

BIG TURN-OUT THIS MORNING FOR RIDICULOUS DAY
IN MAQUOKETA.

MILES IOWA THRESHER DAYS ARE THIS FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.

JERRY BREITBACH HAD A HOLE-IN-ONE THIS AFTERNOON AT THE MAQUOKETA COUNTRY CLUB...ON FAREWAY #9.

THEY STARTED BUILDING NEW SIDEWALKS TODAY ON THE FORMER JOHN'S SERVICE STATION CORNER.

SAW ANDY MCKEAN AT THE JONES COUNTY FAIR THIS AFTERNOON. 22 YEARS AGO,HE WAS ELECTED TO THE IOWA HOUSE AS JACKSON COUNTY'S REP. HE LATER RAN FOR THE SENATE AND WAS ELECTED. HE RETIRES AS A SENATOR DECEMBER 31ST AND IS RUNNING FOR JONES COUNTY SUPERVISOR. HAS 3 KIDS AND WANTS TO SPEND MORE TIME WITH THEM BEFORE THEY GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL. IS ALSO AN ANAMOSA
LAWYER...AND MUSICIAN...AND HE AND HIS WIFE ALSO OPERATE A SMALL BED AND BREAKFAST.

THE ST. LOUIS CARDINALS WON TODAY AND ARE DOING FINE AND WE ARE HAPPY ABOUT THAT HERE AT KMAQ..A CARDINAL NETWORK STATION FOR 18 YEARS.

THANKS FOR ANOTHER VISIT.

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92 TODAY. CHANCE OF RAIN TONIGHT AND TOMORROW.

TODAY, DOUG PRATT GAVE THE PROGRAM AT THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY CLUB. HE HAS REPLACED TOM CALLAHAN AS MANAGER OF THE FAIR AND THE PEARSON BUILDING ON THE FAIRGROUNDS. GAVE A GOOD PRESENTATION AND IS DOING A GOOD JOB AS NEW MANAGER. HE IS AN IOWA STATE GRAD.

THE CITY OF MAQUOKETA HAS RECEIVED A GRANT FOR MONEY TO LOAN OUT TO REFURBISH SOME UPPER FLOORS OF BUILDINGS IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA AS WELL AS FOR BUILDLING A HOME ANYWHERE IN MAQUOKETA. THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AWARDED $30,000 TO THE CITY AND THAT MONEY CAN BE LOANED WITHIN ONE YEAR TO TWO PROPERTY OWNERS. THE LOANS WILL HAVE TO BE REPAYED AND WHEN THE LOANS ARE REPAID, THAT MONEY WILL ALLOW MAQUOKETA TO SET UP A REVOLVING LOAN FUND FOR COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT.

SOME 80 ABANDDONED BIKES WILL BE SOLD AT AUCTION THIS EVENING.....BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. ALSO A FEW OTHER THINGS, INCLUDING GOLF CLUBS.
I HAVE MANY TIMES THOUGHT ABOUT ABANDONING MY GOLF CLUBS OVER THE YEARS.

IN MAGISTRATE COURT...DAVID SANDERSON, AGE 39, OF MAQUOKETA AND DAVID WILLGUS, AGE 45, OF BELLEVUE, WERE CHARGED WITH BURGLARY IN THE 3RD DEGREE. THEY TOOK A WEED EATER OUT OF A SHED LAST NIGHT AT 700 PERSHING ROAD.

HARLAN KROGER, AGE 85, OF MAQUOKETA AND FORMERLY OF ELWOOD, DIED TODAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.
SERVICES PENDING AT HAYLOCK, O'HARA AND LAHEY FUNERAL HOME.

MARY L. RALSTON, AGE 91, OF CEDAR RAPIDS AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED THIS MORNING IN CEDAR RAPIDS. SERVICES PENDING AT CARSON'S.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS WERE LEADING 5 TO 3 GOING INTO THE LAST OF THE FINAL INNING LAST NIGHT AND DAVENPORT ASSUMPTION SCORED 3 RUNS IN THE BOTTOM OF THE 7TH TO BEAT MAQUOKETA AND END THEIR SEASON. A REAL HEARTBREAKER.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS LOST 6 TO 2 TO #8 MARION,BUT STILL ADVANCE IN THE TOURNAMENT AND WILL PLAY MONTICELLO THIS FRIDAY NIGHT AT MARION.

TED MAZE, RETIRED, AND FORMER OWNER OF MAQUOKETA LUMBER COMPANY, AND FELLOW MEMBER OF THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY, WILL RIDE IN THE RAGBRAI BIKE EVENT ACCROSS IOWA THIS COMING WEEK. SOMETHING HE HAS ALWAYS WANTED TO DO.

AND SO IT GOES..FOR ANOTHER DAY.

CHECK BACK TOMORROW.

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90 AGAIN TODAY.

THE JOHN BICKFORD GAS STATION BUILDING IS DOWN IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA...JUST SOUTH OF BRAD DEERY MOTORS SHOWROOM AND JUST EAST OF ENGEL INSURANCE.
JOHN SOLD HIS BUILDING AND LOT TO DEERY MOTORS AND KLOCKE EXCAVATING TOOK THE BUILDING DOWN YESTERDAY AND TODAY. IT WILL BE PAVED AND A BECOME A NEW CAR DISPLAY CORNER.

THE JACKSON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION HELD ITS ANNUAL APPRECIATIION DINNER FOR BOARD MEMBERS, STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS LAST NIGHT AT THE FAIRGROUNDS. NANCY AND I ATTENDED. IT ALSO SERVED AS A FAREWELL EVENT HONORING TOM CALLAHAN, WHO RESIGNED HIS FAIR MANAGER JOB AFTER 22 1/2 YEARS TO DO OTHER THINGS. HIGHLIGHTS OF LAST NIGHTS MEETING:....PEACE PIPE PLAYERS GAVE A SNEAK PREVIEW OF THEIR PLAY ABOUT A COUNTY FAIR THAT THEY ARE PRESENTING THIS WEEKEND AT KIRCHOFF THEATRE IN MAQUOKETA.....FLOYD AND LAVONNE PETERS, LONGTIME RURAL ANDREW FARMERS, WERE INTRODUCED AND WILL BE THE PARADE MARSHALLS FOR NEXT WEEK'S FAIR PARADE....THE FAIRGROUNDS WILL HAVE A NEW TICKET BOOTH FOR THE EAST GATE....THERE WILL BE A NEW
SMALL BUILDING THAT WILL SERVE AS THE INFORMATION BOOTH DURING THE FAIR....THE PARADE THIS YEAR WILL START AT 6...A HALF HOUR EARLIER THAN PAST YEARS...AND TOM CALLAHAN WAS GIVEN A NICE GIFT FOR HIS SERVICE TO JACKSON COUNTY.
UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP..THE FAIR AND FAIRGROUNDS ARE IN THE TOP 10 IN IOWA...AND THERE'S MONEY IN THE BACK.

POLICE BLOTTER: ANGELA CURRENT REPORTED THAT SOMEONE PUT SUGAR IN THE GAS TANK OF HER 2000 CHEVY. LORI FARRELL OF B AND G SALVAGE SAID SOMEONE TOOK A CEMENT SAW OVER THE WEEKEND, VALUED AT $816.

A FORMER CITY EMPLOYEE, PETER WEIRUP, DISMISSED THIS PAST APRIL AS A PUBLIC WORKS EMPLOYEE, APPEARED AT THE COUNCIL MEETING LAST NIGHT ASKING FOR HIS JOB BACK. HE WAS REPRESENTED BY A CLINTON ATTORNEY. NO ACTION TAKEN.

WE WELCOME CHERYL CLARK AS A READER OF THIS DAILY REPORT. SHE IS THE CHAMBER ASSISTANT AT THE CHAMBER OFFICE....HAS BEEN FOR MANY YEARS...DOES A NICE JOB AND IS A REAL PROMOTER OF MAQUOKETA. SO IS HER HUSBAND, ANDY, WHO IS THE MANAGER OF THE SUPER 8 MOTEL. SHE CALLED ME TODAY TO REMIND ME THAT THE CHAMBER'S SUMMER SOCIAL WILL BE FOR ALL MEMBERS NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT AT BLUFF LAKE CATFISH FARM NORTHWEST OF MAQUOKETA. NANCY AND I WILL BE THERE...THE ONE TIME A YEAR...WE WON'T HAVE TO WAIT AWHILE FOR A SEAT. NANCY AND HER PARTNER IN THE COTTAGE, KAREN THOMAS, WILL BE TREATING BOB AND I TO THE DINNER THAT NIGHT.

IN COURT NEWS...DAVID SANDERSON, AGE 39, WAS FINED $350 ON CHARGES OF INTERFERENCE WITH OFFICIAL ACTS....$90 FOR PUBLIC INTOXICATION AND $90 FOR VIOLATING THE CITY NOISE ORDINANCE. SANDERSON'S MUSIC AT 414 N. OLIVE COULD BE HEARD BY POLICE TWO BLOCKS AWAY. HE RESISTED ARREST AND APPEARED INTOXICATED.

TODD AND DEB GIESEMANN OF BELLEVUE HAD A BOY FRIDAY. GRANDPARENTS ARE PAUL AND KAREN PORTY OF MAQUOKETA AND GREAT-GRANDMOTHERS ARE HELEN MANNING OF MAQUOKETA AND MARGARET PORTZ OF MAQUOKETA.

REBECCA SAUNDERS AND JOSH SCHNEIDER OF DES MOINES ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN JULY 14TH. MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE DIANE AND GERALD SAUNDERS OF MAQUOKETA.

CHECK BACK AGAIN TOMORROW. THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY



 

88 YESTERDAY.
88 TODAY.
WE EXPECT TO BE IN 90'S BEFORE WEEK IS OVER.

THE GREAT JONES COUNTY FAIR AT MONTICELLO STARTS TOMORROW NIGHT AND GOES THROUGH SUNDAY. STARS TO APPEAR THERE THIS WEEK....AARON TIPIN...GEORGE JONES...TOBY KEITH...AND STEVE HOLY...ALL COUNTRY SINGERS...ALSO LYNYRD SKYNYRD
GROUP. TOBY KEITH HAS THE #1 COUNTRY SONG IN THE NATION THIS WEEK.

BAD, BAD ACCIDENT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, JUST NORTH OF MAQUOKETA AT HURSTVILLE. AN ELDERLY DUBUQUE COUPLE WAS DRIVING OUT OF HURSTVILLE....STOPPED AT HIGHWAY 61...AND PROCEEDED NORTH, BUT DID NOT SEE THE SEMI TRUCK TO THE LEFT. THE TRUCK HIT THE CAR AND AND PUSHED IT SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET THROUGH THE MEDIAN AND THE CAR CAME TO REST ON THE HIGHWAY AND JUST MISSED A CHARTERED BUS.
BOTH FROM DUBUQUE WERE KILLED INSTANTLY. THE DRIVER AND A PASSENGER IN THE TRUCK WERE BOTH TREATED AND RELEASED AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. THE NORTHBOUND HIGHWAY 61 WAS CLOSED OVER AN
HOUR.

CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT AT THE MAQUOKETA CITY HALL. A FOUR PAGE AGENDA.

DORIS HAYES OF MAQUOKETA REPORTED HER PARKED CAR, A 98 CHEVY, WAS HIT SUNDAY AND THE PERSON LEFT THE SCENE. DAMAGE TO HER CAR, ESTIMATED AT $900.

ARNOLD AND ROBBIE BREWER OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 3RD...AT MAQUOKETA HOSPITAL.

TINA AND MAURY GALLALGHER OF HIAWATHA ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN WEDNESDAY, JULY 10TH AT CEDAR RAPIDS AND THERESA AND COREY HAMILTON OF CLINTON, HAS A GIRL ALSO ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 10TH IN CLINTON. NOW...LISTEN TO THIS. BOTH GIRLS' GRANDPARENTS ARE WEAVER AND HAZEL CROUCH OF MAQUOKETA. TWO GRANDCHILDREN ON THE SAME DAY...BORN IN TWO DIFFERENT CITIES....QUITE UNUSUAL.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS WON THEIR OPENING TOURNAMENT GAME SATURDAY NIGHT, BEATING DEWITT 18 TO 8.
TOMORROW NIGHT, ALSO AT DEWITT, THEY PLAY DAVENPORT ASSUMPTION. DAVENPORT HAS A MUCH BETTER TEAM THAN DEWITT HAD...SO...THE CARDINALS WILL NEED TO HAVE A GOOD NIGHT TO WIN.

THE CLASS OF '57 AT MHS HELD THEIR 45TH REUNION THIS PAST WEEKEND IN MAQUOKETA. DINNER AT THE COUNTRY CLUB. KAREN NIMS CAME HOME FOR THE EVENT...STOPPED IN TO SAY HELLO AND PROMISED TO GIVE A REPORT ON THE REUNION SOON ....IN THE KMAQ GUEST BOOK. WATCH FOR IT.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS PLAY A TOURNAMENT GAME TONIGHT AGAINST MT. VERNOON.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY



 

BEAUTIFUL DAY TODAY...HIGH OF 82.

WE HAVE HAD A SERVER PROBLEM AND THEREFORE, NOT EVERYTHING IS COMING UP ON ALL COMPUTERS.
HOPE IT IS BACK FOR MANY, BUT WE ARE STILL WORKING ON IT.

IT HAS BEEN A SLOW NEWS WEEK...ESPECIALLY THE TYPE OF NEWS THAT I NORMALLY PUT ON THIS REPORT.
AS YOU KNOW...I USE MAQUOKETA NEWS HERE ONLY.
ON KMAQ MAJOR NEWSCASTS, WE CARRY NEWS THAT OCCURS IN JACKSON, CLINTON, JONES AND CEDAR COUNTIES. AND I DON'T PUT MINOR MAQUOKETA NEWS ON EITHER...SO SOMETIMES...THERE IS SLIM-PICKING, AS THE SAYING GOES. I DON'T THINK THERE HAS BEEN A LOCAL DEATH ALL THIS WEEK, WHICH IS UNUSUAL.

INTERESTING STORY IN CHARLOTTE. SOMEONE EARLY MONDAY MORNING PUT AN EXPLOSIVE DEVICE IN A POP MACHINE AT THE CHARLOTTE CONVENIENCE STORE.
IT EXPLODED...AND COMPLETELY DESTROYED THE MACHINE. NO OTHER DAMAGE AND NO ONE INJURED.

FIVE TEENS ARE COMPETING FOR THE JACKSON COUNTY FAIR QUEEN TITLE. THERE WILL BE NO PAGEANT AND THEY WILL BE INTERVIEWED BY THE FAIR BOARD. JUDGING WILL BE BASED ON COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT.
THERE IS NO CANDIDATE FROM MAQUOKETA.

THE CEDAR COUNTY FAIR IS UNDERWAY THRU SUNDAY.
WE HAVE BEEN BROADCASTING FROM IT AND TONIGHT, WE WILL BROADCAST THE WYOMING FAIR AND HORSE SHOW PARADE. BUSY DAYS AT KMAQ.

TOMORROW NIGHT, WE WILL BROADCAST THE MAQUOKETA BOYS VERSUS DEWITT BOYS CLASS 3-A DISTRICT GAME FROM DEWITT. MAQUOKETA SHOULD WIN. IN THE OTHER GAME TOMORROW NIGHT, ANAMOSA PLAYS DAVENPORT ASSUMPTION AND THE WINNERS TOMORROW NIGHT PLAY EACH OTHER TUESDAY NIGHT IN DEWITT.
THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS START TOURNAMENT PLAY NEXY WEEK.

THE MAQUOKETA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT'S ANNUAL GOLF CLASSIC ... A FUND RAISER... WILL BE HELD AT THE NEW PRAIRIE CREEK GOLF COURSE IN MAQUOKETA. THEY HAVE OPENINGS IN CASE YOU ARE INTERESTED.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY  

89 TODAY, 6-DEGREES BELOW THE LAST COUPLE WEEKS.

AN ELWOOD,IOWA NATIVE, VERDA McLENDON, BORN IN 1906, (DIED LAST SUMMER)IS GIVING 5 ORGANIZATIONS EACH 1/5 OF HER 2.4-MILLION DOLLAR RESIDUARY ESTATE. HER ENTIRE ESTATE WAS $3.2 MILLIONS DOLLARS. TODAY, AT A 9 A.M. MEETING AT CITY HALL IN MAQUOKETA, REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE 5 GROUPS WERE ON HAND TO GET THEIR FIRST $200,000 CHECK. THOSE RECEIVING THE MONEY LEFT IN HER WILL: THE MAQUOKETA PUBLIC LIBRARY....
THE MAQUOKETA JACKSON COUUNTY PUBLIC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION....THE MAQUOKETA AREA FOUNDATION...
THE DIABETES ASSOCIATION AND THE MCCLLENDON SCHOLARSHP FUND TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE MAQUOKETA AREA FOUNDATION. SHE GRADUATED FROM ELWOOD HIGH SCHOOL IN 1924....WENT ON TO GET HER DOCTORATE...TAUGHT AT BUENA VISTA COLLEGE AND AFTER SHE MARRIED IN 1934, SHE AND HUSBAND BOTH WORKED FOR THE GOVERNMENT. THEY HAD NO CHILDREN. HE DIED IN 1967. SHE HAD A STROKE IN 1999 AND WAS AT THE EXTENDED CARE SECTION OF THE LOCAL HOSPITAL UNTER HER DEATH.

MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL MAY SPEND $35,000 ON A STUDY TO DETERMINE BEST USE OF LAND IN MAQUOKETA...AND FUTURE TRAFFIC CONCERNS.

THE DIALYSIS UNIT AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL IS PROGRESSING AND IT IS EXPECTED TO BE OPENED IN JANUARY. DEMOLITION HAS STARTED ON THE EAST END OF THE HOSPITAL TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE NEW FACILITY. SIXTEEN PEOPLE ARE ON A WAITING LIST TO USE THE DIALYSIS FACILITY....PEOPLE THAT ARE CURRENTLY DRIVING TO DAVENORT, CLINTON OR DUBUQUE.

DON JAY MCDONALD, 36, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH OWI, SECOND OFFENSE. MAQUOKETA POLICE FOUND HIM PASSED-OUT IN HIS VEHICLE, WHICH WAS RUNNING, AT MAIN AND PLATT IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA AT 1 A.M. THIS MORNING.

THE COUNTY RECORDERS OFFICE IS IN THE PROCESS OF REMODELING...AND RECORDER PHYLLIS GERLACH SAID IT WILL BE CLOSED FRIDAY AND NEXT MONDAY.

LOUIE USHER, AGE 76, OF DELMAR, DIED YESTERDAY AT HOME OF HIS DAUGHTER IN DELMAR. HE IS SURVIVED BY 5 DAUGHTERS, INCLUDING KAREN DEMOSS OF MAQUOKETA AND KIM CLARK OF MAQUOKETA.

LOOKING FOR A JOB? FAMILY DOLLAR DISTRIBUTION CENTER IN MAQUOKETA IS STILL HIRING.

MAXINE (WIDEL) ANDERSON OF CONCORD, CALIFORNIA,
IS BACK FOR A VISIT OF RELATIVES IN MAQUOKETA, INCLUDING FRANCIS (WIDEL) WILLEY OF MAQUOKETA.
FRANCIS JUST GOT BACK HOME AFTER A COUPLE MONTHS OF TREATMENT IN DAVENPORT FOLLOWING A STROKE.
I UNDERSTAND SHE IS DOING WELL IN HER RECOVERY.

CHECK BACK AGAIN TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY



 

TWO INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE WEEKEND...AND NOW TODAY..BACK INTO THE 90'S. BUT, TOMORROW THRU THE REST OF WEEK, WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE 10-DEGREES COOLER EACH DAY.

GRETCHEN DAVISON, AGE 21, OF MAQUOKETA WAS CROWNED SATURDAY NIGHT AS THE NEW MISS MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FAIR QUEEN. SHE IS THE DAUGHTER OF DON AND SHARON DAVISON. HER TALENT WASA BALLET DANCE. THIS WAS HER FIRST EVER PAGEANT. SHE WILL REIGN AS MISS MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FAIR IN DAVENPORT AND WILL BE A CONTESTANT NEXT YEAR IN THE MISS IOWA PAGEANT.

4-H IS CELEBRATING 100 YEARS THIS SUMMER. AND JACKSON COUNTY IS SEEKING THE OLDEST MALE AND FEMALE THAT WAS IN 4-H WHILE IN SCHOOL.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS.

REAL QUIET WEEKEND.

KAREN THOMAS WAS 60 YESTERDAY.

61 DRIVE-IN THEATRE HAD A RECORD WEEKEND....TURNED AWAY PEOPLE ALL THREE NIGHTS.
POPULAR DOUBLE FEATURE...TWO OF THE TOP MOVIES IN THE COUNTRY....LILO AND SCOOBY-DOO. MEN IN BLACK II WAS THE NUMBER 1 U.S. MOVIE OF THE WEEKEND...BIG NUMBERS. WE DID OKAY WITH IT HERE IN MAQUOKETA TOO.

RON AND DORIS EVANS....LONGTIME RESIDENTS OF MAQUOKETA....HAVE SOLD THEIR HOME AT THE NORTH EDGE OF MAQUOKETA AND HAVE PURCHASED A HOME IN PELLA AND WILL MOVE IN AUGUST. THEIR DAUGHTER AND FAMILY HAVE LIVED THERE A LONG TIME. ITS A VERY NICE PROGRESSIVE TOWN OF ABOUT 9,000 ON THIS SIDE OF DES MOINES. RON WAS WITH THE MAQUOKETA POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR MANY YEARS AND WAS CHEIF OF POLICE WHEN HE RETIRED A FEW YEARS AGO.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY
WE'LL MISS BOTH.





 

ONE-TENTH OF AN INCH OF RAIN LAST NIGHT IN MAQUOKETA AND THIS MORNING IT WAS LESS HUMID. BUT...BY LATE AFTERNOON TODAY, THE HUMIDITY AND HEAT WERE BACK...HIGH OF 92, COMPARED TO 96 YESTERDAY.

ROYCE EARLES OF MAQUOKETA, WON THE 2002 CHEVY BLAZER IN THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RAFFLE DRAWING YESTERDAY AT BELLEVUE. SHE CAN SELECT $20,000 CASH INSTEAD OF THE VEHIHCLE....AND AS OF THIS AFTERNOON, I HAVE NOT HEARD WHICH OPTION SHE TOOK.
SHE AND HER HUSBAND ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO WON AROUND $18-MILLION DOLLARS IN THE IOWA LOTTERY.
SHE LIVES IN MAQUOKETA'S BEST HOME AT THE SOUTH
EDGE OF TOWN. AS THE OLD SAYING GOES..."SOME PEOPLE HAVE ALL THE LUCK".

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY

 

ONE-TENTH OF AN INCH OF RAIN LAST NIGHT IN MAQUOKETA AND THIS MORNING IT WAS LESS HUMID. BUT...BY LATE AFTERNOON TODAY, THE HUMIDITY AND HEAT WERE BACK...HIGH OF 92, COMPARED TO 96 YESTERDAY.

ROYCE EARLES OF MAQUOKETA, WON THE 2002 CHEVY BLAZER IN THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RAFFLE DRAWING YESTERDAY AT BELLEVUE. SHE CAN SELECT $20,000 CASH INSTEAD OF THE VEHIHCLE....AND AS OF THIS AFTERNOON, I HAVE NOT HEARD WHICH OPTION SHE TOOK.
SHE AND HER HUSBAND ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO WON AROUND $18-MILLION DOLLARS IN THE IOWA LOTTERY.
SHE LIVES IN MAQUOKETA'S BEST HOME AT THE SOUTH
EDGE OF TOWN. AS THE OLD SAYING GOES..."SOME PEOPLE HAVE ALL THE LUCK".

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY

 

94 TODAY....CHANCE OF RAIN TONIGHT.

DAVE UPDEGRAPH TOOK OVER AS PRESIDENT OF THE MAQUOKEKTA ROTARY CLUB TODAY. HE REPLACES JOHN FRAMPTON, WHOSE TERM EXPIRED JUNE 30TH. JOHN IS FROM CLINTON AND WORKS FOR A MAQUOKETA INUSTRY AND DAVE IS HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR FOR THE MAQUOKETA STATE BANK. GARY DOLPHIN, VOICE OF THE IOWA HAWKEYES ON THE HAWKEYE RADIO NETWORK, WAS THE GUEST SPEAKER TODAY. THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON IS LESS THAN 2 MONTHS AWAY.
THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY CLUB WEB SITE HAS NEW PICTURES ADDDED EVERY WEEK....TAKE A LOOK AT IT SOMETIME...www.maquoketa-rotary.org....LAST PICTURES WERE TAKEN AT THE 1ST WARD PARK WHEN THE ICECREAM SOCIAL AND BAND CONCERT WERE HELD THERE.

A MAQUOKETA BOY, CODY BROWN, AGE 9, RODE HIS SCOOTER INTO THE PATH OF A CAR YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AND WAS ADMITTED TO THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.
HE WAS KEPT OVERNIGHT FOR OBSERVATION. THE CAR THAT HIT HIM WAS DRIVEN BY A LADY FROM LOST NATION.

CHAD AND CHRISTINE SPAIN OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN LAST FRIDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.
GRANDPARENTS ARE PHIL AND LEONA GALLADAY OF ARKANSAS, FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA. ALSO DWAIN AND FRAN SPAIN OF MAQUOKETA.

AMANDA LENART OF MAQUOKETA IS THE MOTHER OF A BOY BORN TUESDAY, JUNE 25TH..AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.

AN ELDERLY LADY WHO DIED RECENTLY AND WAS BORN AND RAISED SOUTHWEST OF MAQUOKETA, HAS WILLED
2.4-MILLION DOLLARS TO FIVE ORGANIZATIONS IN MAQUOKETA. A PRESS CONFERENCE HAS BEEN CALLED FOR 9 A.M. NEXT TUESDAY AT THE CITY HALL, TO TELL WHO SHE IS AND DETAILS OF HER WILL.

MAQUOKETA WILL HAVE NO FIREWORKS OR CELEBRATION TOMORROW. JULY 4TH PARADES, FIREWORKS AND OTHER EVENTS WILL BE CLOSE-BY HOWEVER...AT CLINTON, LAMOTTE, BELLEVUE, OXFORD JUNCTION, DEWITT AND GRAND MOUND.

LEIGHTON HEPKER WILL BROADCAST THE BELLEVUE PARADE AT 10 TOMORROW MORNING ON KMAQ-AM AND I WILL BROADCAST THE DEWITT PARADE, ALSO AT 10 A.M. ON KMAQ-FM.

AND..FOR THE 32ND YEAR IN A ROW, BANOWETZ ANTIQUES IS HAVING THEIR BIG JULY 4TH SALE...AND I'LL BE DOING REMOTE BROADCASTS FROM IT TOMORROW AND THIS WEEKEND. PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE TRI-STATE AREA AND BEYOND, COME TO IT EVERY YEAR.
VERL, KATHY,AND SON BEN, SEND OUT AROUND 14,000 BROCHURES AND ADVERTISE ON ABOUT 5 TV STATIONS.

MAQUOKETA BOYS WON A DOUBLE-HEADER OVER ANAMOSA LAST NIGHT, PICKING UP THEIR 19TH AND 20TH VICTORIES OF THE SEASON. THEY PLAY AGAIN TONIGHT.
THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS SPLIT WITH ANAMOSA LAST NIGHT AND THE GIRLS NOW HAVE 10 WINS.

THE ST.LOUIS CARDINALS ARE NOW BACK IN 1ST PLACE.

HAVE A FUN AND SAFE JULY 4TH. FLY THAT FLAG.

DENNIS VOY





 

WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT IS STILL HOT HERE??

AT THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING LAST NIGHT....THE COUNCILMEN FAVORING A BUILDING CODE FOR MAQUOKETA...FRUSTRATED AFTER 2 YEARS OF WORK ON THE NEW ORDINACE...VOTED WITH THE COUNCIL MEMBERS
OPPOSED TO THE CODE...AND NOW..APPARENTLY...THE WHOLE MATTER IS DEAD. THERE WILL BE NO BUILDING CODE FOR MAQUOKETA. THAT WILL PLEASE 1200 RESIDENTS WHO SIGNED A PETITION AGAINST A CODE.
AS A MATTER OF FACT...I'M PLEASED TOO.

FORMER MAYOR JACK ROSENBERG GOT ANGRY LAST NIGHT AT THE COUNCIL. HE ASKED THAT A BIG DUMPSTER PLACED IN FRONT OF HIS STORE, THAT IS BEING REMODELED FOR NEW WELFARE AGENCY OFFICES THAT MUST MOVE FROM THE HOSPITAL. COUNCIL ALVIN BARTEN QUESTIONED WHY THE DUMPSTER COULDN'T BE PLACED ON ROSENBERG'S PARKING LOT, INSTEAD OF TAKING UP A PARKING SPACE ON THE STREET. COUNCILMAN VOTED 3-3 ON THAT AND IT THEREFORE FAILED. COUNCILMAN POTTER WAS ABSENT FROM THE MEETING. ROSENBERG WAS AT HOME WATCHING THE PROCEEDSING ON TV AND RUSHED DOWN TO THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS AND TOLD THEM HE WAS GOING TO ASPHALT PAVE HIS PARKING LOTS AND DID NOT WANT THE HEAVY DUMPSTER ON THE NEW ASPHALT. AND ASKED WHY THOSE CONCERNED DIDN'T CALL HIM BEFORE THE MEETING IF THEY HAD ANY QUESTIONS. AT THE CONCLUSION OF LAST NIGHT'S HOUR AND TWENTY MINUTE MEETING, ROSENBERG AND HIS WIFE PAM HAD HEATED WORDS WITH BOTH BARTEN AND COUNCILMAN TIM CHAPIN ABOUT THE MATTER AND SAID HE WOUJLD RE-APPLY FOR THE DUMPSTER SITE AT THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING.

A NORTH DAKOTA TRUCKER LOST CONTROL OF HIS TRUCK AT 4 THIS MORNING, A MILE NORTH OF MAQUOKETA, ON HIGHWAY 61, AFTER SEVERAL DEER RAN ONTO THE HIGHWAY. HE TRIED TO AVOID THE DEER AND LOST CONTROL. THE TRUCK ROLLED AND CAME TO REST IN THE DITCH SPILLING A LOAD OF FLOWERS. THE DRIVER WAS NOT HURT AND HIS TRUCK RECEIVED ABOUT $6000 WORTH OF DAMAGE.

TAMMIE BESSEE, AGE 38, OF MAQUOKETA APPEARED IN JACKSON COUNTY MAGISTRATES COURT AND PLEADED GUILTY TO A CHARGE OF ALLOWING A DOG TO RUN AT LARGE. SHE WAS FINED $90.

NO DEATHS OR BIRTHS.

MAQUOKETA BOYS AND GIRLS BOTH PLAY A DOUBLE HEADER TONIGHT.

SORRY THE REPORT IS SHORT...

CHECK BACK TOMORROW!

DENNIS VOY


 

SUNNY, HOT, HUMID...95 TODAY...WITH A NICE BREEZE.

THE RELAY FOR LIFE FOR CANCER ALL NIGHT EVENT AT THE FAIRGROUNDS FROM FRIDAY NIGHT UNTIL SATURDAY MORNING, RAISED...SO FAR...JUST OVER $44,000. MORE MONEY IS STILL EXPECTED TO COME IN. LAST YEAR, THE EVENT RAISED OVER $50,000. ONE OF THE ORGANIZERS AGAIN THIS YEAR WAS JUDY MOORE WHO SAID THIS YEAR, THEY HAD A RECORD NUMBER OF
LUMINARIES,AT AROUND 2,500.

DARLENE CARR, AGE 60, OF HAMPTON, ILLINOIS AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA..DIED YESTERDAY.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE HER HUSBAND, RONALD, 1 SON, 5 DAUGHTERS, 2 BROTHERS AND 2 SISTERS. SHE WAS A HOMEMAKER AND ALSO HAD WORKED FOR HOFFMAN PRODUCE WHEN IT WAS STILL IN OPERATION IN MAQUOKETA.
SERVICES AND BURIAL WILL BE WEDNESDAY HERE IN MAQUOKETA.

MARTHA GREGG, AGE 68, OF DELMAR, DIED SATURDAY IN DAVENPORT HOSPITAL. SURVIVORS INCLUDE 4 DAUGHTERS, AND 3 SONS, INCLUDING STEVEN GREGG OF MAQUOKETA.

SIS MCCLIMON, AGE 78, OF PRESTON, DIED SATURDAY.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE A BROTHER, CHARLES SCHNECKLOTH.

ESTHER SCHWIEN OF MAQUOKETA WILL CELEBRATE HER 90TH BIRTHDAY, JULY 4TH. ONE OF HER CHILDREN, SON IVA (RON) CLARK LIVES IN MAQUOKETA.

LEONA MAYBERRY, OF MAQUOKETA, CELEBRATED HER 95TH BIRTHDAY RECENTLY.

JERRY RASMUSSEN WAS 82 YESTERDAY. TREATED US TO DONUTS AT COFFEE THIS MORNING. HE AND DOROTHY FLEW DOWN TO FLORIDA THIS PAST WEEKEND FOR A FAMILY GET-TOGETHER. SAID IT WAS REALLY HUMID THERE.

CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY

JERR

 

GO DOWN FIRST AND READ PART 1...THEN COME BACK TO HERE:

I'M VERY HAPPY TO REPORT...THAT MINUTES AFTER I ENTERED THE FIRST SATURDAY REPORT, CHERYL CLARK, OF THE CHAMBER OFFICE, WALKED INTO MY OFFICE, WITH THE RESULTS OF THE TIMBER CITY ADVENTURE RACE. NOT SURPRISED..THE CHAMBER IS VERY GOOD AT GETTING OUT AFTER-THE-FACT RESULTS.


SO..HERE'S THE STORY, AS IT WILL BE READ ON KMAQ

THE ANNUAL "TIMBER CITY ADVENTURE RACE" HELD THIS MORNING BETWEEN CANTON AND
MAQUOKETA, WAS BIGGER AND BETTER THAN LAST YEAR, UNDER NEARLY IDEAL WEATHER CONDITIONS.

THE RACE STARTED ON THE MAQUOKETA RIVER UP AT CANTON AT 7:30 A.M. AFTER CANOEING DOWN THE RIVER SEVERAL MILES, THE TEAM MEMBER OR MEMBERS SWITCHED TO BIKE RIDING AND ENDED UP RUNNING A COUPLE OF MILES TO THE FINISH LINE IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA IN FRONT OF THE KMAQ BUILDING.

CHERYL CLARK SAID 83 TEAMS ENTERED IN ADVANCE AND THERE WERE 2 NO-SHOWS, SO THE FINAL TOTAL WAS 81 TEAMS. SHE SAID THERE WERE SOME INDIVIDUALS, WHO DID EVERY PHASE ALONE BUT THAT IN MOST CASES, THERE WAS A TEAM OF EITHER TWO OR FOUR MEMBERS.
THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS THEREFORE WAS CLOSE TO 200.

THE WINNERS WERE:

THE BEST TIME OF THE DAY WAS TURNED IN BY TOM WEITZ OF DUBUQUE ... DOING IT ALL ALONE..IN 2 HOURS AND TWENTY MINUTES. FINISHING SECOND
IN THE INDIVIDUAL MALE DIVISION...CHUCK HERRIZ OF DUBUQUE.

INDIVIDUAL FEMALE...WINNER...SARA MCKENZIE OF IOWA CITY..3 HOURS EVEN.

TWO PERSON MALE..WINNERS: GARY LOVE OF WEST DES MOINES AND STEVE GIBLIN OF DES MOINES. JUST UNDER 2 HOURS AND 24 MINUTES.

TWO PERSON FEMALE..WINNERS: JENNIFER EWERT OF NEW HAMPTON AND LESLIE BECTHOLD, NASHUA..A TIME OF 3 HOURS, 7 MINUTES.

TWO PERSON,MIXED...WINNERS: SCOTT BANTZ OF WEST DES MOINES AND DOROTHY BANTZ OF WINTHROP..TWO HOURS AND 12 MINUTES.

FOUR PERSON, MALE...WINNERS: BEN ACCINELLI, TOM KUKLA, ZAK FURST AND PETER MCNAMAR..ALL OF
DUBUQUE AND WINNING IN A TIME OF 2 HOURS, 27 MINUTES.

TAKING SECOND PLACE, FOUR PERSON, MALE..AND ALSO GETTING PRIZE MONEY....GARRATT MCALLISTER, TRAVIS MCALLISTER, BROCK ITA AND LANCE HIGDON, ALL OF DANVILLE, ILLINOIS. THEY WERE AROUND A MINUTE BEHIND THE DUBUQUE TEAM ABOVE.

FOUR PERSON, FEMALEL...WINNERS: DENA KURT, KATHY BRIMEYER, ANNIE POTTER AND ANNIE CORKEN, ALL OF DUBUQUE..IN A TIME OF 2 HOURS, 17 MINUTES...ABOUT 10 MINUTES FASTER THAN THE 4-PERSON MEN'S WINNING TEAM.

FOUR PERSON, MIXED...NO ENTRIES.

TODAY'S 3RD ANNUAL EVENT WAS AGAIN SPONSORED BY THE MAQUOKETA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
CHRIS NISSEN FOR THE 3RD YEAR IN A ROW WAS
EITHER THE CHAIRMAN OR CO-CHAIRMAN.

THE CHAMBER HELD A RAFFLE FOR A SCHWINN MOAB 3 MOUNTAIN BIKE, 24 SPEED, VALUED AT $739.
THE WINNER TOM WEITZ OF DUBUQUE, THE SAME GUY
THAT WAS THE INDIVIDUAL MALE RACE WINNER.
HE REALLY HAD A GOOD DAY.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS!

DENNIS VOY










 

THE HEAT CONTINUES.

THE ADVENTURE RACE....CANOE, BIKE AND RUNNING...
HAD IDEAL CONDITIONS THIS MORNING AND OVER 60 TEAMS PARTICIPATED. BUT..BY SHORTLY AFTER NOON, WHEN IT STARTED GETTING HOT...THE CROWD THINNED WAY DOWN AND AT 1:30 THEY HANDED OUT THE PRIZES
AND STARTED THE CLEAN-UP.
MAQUOKETA WAS A BUSY PLACE FOR A FEW HOURS TODAY.
ITS A GREAT ANNUAL EVENT FOR MAQUOKETA, BUT IT WOULD BE NICE IF THERE WAS A WAY TO GET 600 TEAM ENTRIES INSTEAD OF 60. NO ONE HAS DROPPED OFF RESULTS YET TO KMAQ...SO I HAVE NONE AT THIS TIME. THERE ARE SO MANY EVENTS IN THE KMAQ AREA EVERY YEAR THAT WE PUSH HARD ....LEADING UP TO THE EVENT. THERE IS A PUBLICITY CHAIRPERSON OR TWO AND THEY DO THERE GOOD JOB CONTACTING THE MEDIA, ETC.
BUT...MOST NEVER HAVE SOMEONE TO FOLLOW UP AND
MAKE SURE THE END RESULTS OF THEIR EVENT GOT GOOD PUBLICITY. IT IS SO EASY TO GET THE RESULTS TO THE MEDIA, BUT VERY DIFFICULT FOR THE MEDIA TO
RUN DOWN THE RESULTS FROM SOMEONE.
THE CANCER SOCIETY RELAY FOR LIFE WAS HELD LAST NIGHT AND OVERNIGHT IN MAQUOKETA.. AND AGAIN...GREAT WEATHER CONDITIONS..AND I ASSUME IT WAS A SUCCESS, BUT NO ONE HAS REPORTED A THING TO US ABOUT IT. IN RADIO..WE LIKE RESULTS FAST..AND PEOPLE EXPECT IT...BUT TO CHASE DOWN EVERYTHING, ESPECIALLY ON WEEKENDS...IS A REAL PROBLEM. END OF MY LITTLE SERMON...KEEP IT IN MIND....IF YOU ARE EVER ON A COMMITTEE...TO MAKE SURE SOMEONE ALWAYS FOLLOWS UP WITH GOOD PUBLICITY AFTER THE FACT.

NOW..THERE WAS ONE ANNUAL EVENT TODAY WHERE THE WINNER WAS ANNOUNCED IN ADVANCE! LONGTIME MAQUOKETA VOLUNTEER, MURIEL ALLAN, IS THE 2002 RECIPIENT OF THE GRACE TUBBS MEMORIAL SUMMIT AWARD, DESIGNED TO RECOGNIZE OUTSTANDING VOLUNTEERISM. IT IS NAMED AFTER THE LATE GRACE TUBBS OF MAQUOKETA, WHO WAS A VOLUNTEER FOR MANY AREA ORGANIZATIONS. MURIEL WAS PRESENTED THE AWARD IN A CEREMONY AT 2 THIS AFTERNOON IN THE COMMUNITY ROOM OF THE LIBRARY. SHE IS A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE AND I SHOULD HAVE ATTENDED IT. SINCE I'VE NEVER BEEN IN THE NEW LIBRARY, I WOULD HAVE HAD A CHANCE TO TAKE A PEAK AROUND TOO.
(I WAS IN THE OLD LIBRARY ONLY TWICE IN 40 YEARS...I READ NO BOOKS...BUT LOTS OF MAGAZINES AND PAPERS) MURIEL HAS WORKED TIRELESSLY FOR MANY ORGANIZATIONS OVER THE YEARS, ESPECIALLY CAMP COURAGEOUS NEAR MONTICELLO AND THE LOCAL, STATE AND NATIOAL VFW...VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS...AS SHE WAS A MILITARY NURSE, INCLUDING IN FOREIGN WARS, BEFORE RETIRING TO MAQUOKETA, HER HOME AREA. CONGRATULATIONS TO MURIEL...SHE DESERVED THE AWARD. SHE'S IN HER 80'S NOW..SLOWING A LITTLE..BUT STILL GOING STRONG.

KAREN LUNDIN, AGE 60, FORMERLY OF SPRINGBROOK, DIED THURSDAY IN CRYSTAL LAKE, ILLINOIS, AT THE HOME OF ONE OF HER DAUGHTERS. BURIAL WILL BE IN SPRINGBROOK. LOCAL SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SISTER IN MAQUOKETA, NELLIE THOLA.

THE MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL BOYS AND GIRLS BALL TEAMS ARE BOTH PLAYING ON THE ROAD TODAY.

DID YOU KNOW THERE IS A NATIONAL MAGAZINE ..."ALL ABOUT BEER MAGAZINE"? GOT A COPY TODAY BECAUSE IT HAS A FEATURE STORY CALLED BEER AND YOUR HEALTH, WHY YOU'RE BETTER OFF WITH BEER. IT SAYS MODERATE DRINKERS HAVE A 32% LOWER RISK OF DYING FROM A HEART ATTACK THAN THOSE WHO DIDN'T DRINK ALCOHOL.

ITS 2:30 SATURDAY AFTERNOON...BEEN HERE SINCE 5:30 A.M....AND TIME TO QUIT RADIO FOR TODAY.
GUESS I'LL GO HOME NOW AND ENJOY A BEER OR TWO.
NO, MY DAY ISN'T COMPLETELY OVER....I THREAD-UP THE PROJECTOR AT THE DRIVE-IN TONIGHT AT 9.
NOT SURE I TOLD YOU...CHANNEL 8 DID A GREAT 7-MINUTE SEGMENT ON THE DRIVE-IN THURSDAY NIGHT.
BECAUSE THE DRIVE-IN IS THE ONLY ONE AROUND..I GET A LOT OF FREE PUBLICITY...PUBLICITY THAT WOULD COST ME THOUSANDS IF I HAD TO PAY FOR IT.

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND...AND KEEP COOL.

DENNIS VOY  

....SUNNY, LESS HUMID AND COOLER TODAY.
4-TENTHS OF AN INCH OF RAIN LAST NIGHT AND THIS MORNING.

BAD BARN FIRE NORTH OF MAQUOKETA YESTERDAY...DESTROYING A 100-YEAR-OLD BARN OWNED BY CARL ZISMER, 5 MILES NORTH OF TOWN, NEAR THE ANAMOSA SILOS FIRM. WHEN FIREMEN ARRIVED, THE BARN WAS FULLY ENGULFED. LITTLE HAY AND A FEW TOOLS IN IT. TWENTY FIREMEN SPENT 4 HOURS BATTLING THE BLAZE.

UNUSUAL CAR ACCIDENT YESTERDAY. JORGE DELLAROSA, AGE 80, OF MAQUOKETA WAS AT THE DRIVE-UP WINDOWN AT THE MAQUOKETA STATE BANK WEST-SIDE OFFICE. WHEN HE LEFT, THE CAR DEVELOPED A MECHANICAL FAILURE AND THE VEHICLE STARTED TO SPEED DOWN THE BANK DRIVEWAY AT 30 MPH....IT CROSSED MCKINSEY DRIVE...WENT THROUGH THE SUBWAY PARKING LOT AND DOWN AN EMBANKMENT AND CAME TO A STOP IN THE JEHOVAH WITNESS PARKING LOT. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT AND HIS CAR, AN 89 CHRYSLER, RECEIVED ABOUT $2,000 IN DAMAGE.

HARLAN DAVISON, AGE 26, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS IN A ONE-CAR ACCIDENT SUNDAY NEAR SPRAGUEVILLE. GOING NORTH ON IRON BRIDGE ROAD, HE SKIDDED SIDEWAYS ABOUT 150 FEET AND WENT OFF THE ROAD AND ROLLED AT LEAST ONCE. NO INJURIES AND $2,000 DAMAGE TO HIS 79 CHEVY.

THE BRITTANY SPEARS OPEN MIDRIFT LOOK AND SNOOP DOG BAGGY PANTS...WILL BE OUT AT MAQUOKETA SCHOOLS THIS COMING YEAR. THE SCHOOL BOARD APPROVED NEW STUDENT HANDBOOKS FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.

A WOMAN TUESDAY TRIED TO HOLD UP THE SKEFFINGTON'S GROCERY STORE IN DEWITT, OWNED BY BOB LEE, FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA. THE CASHIER
DIDN'T GIVE HER THE MONEY AND SHE LEFT...DROVE AT HIGH SPEED TOWARD CLINTON...CAR STOPPED AFTER FLAT TIRE...SHE THEN TRIED TO SLASH HER THROAT
WHEN OFFICERS APPROACHED HER VEHICLE. SHE WAS TREATED AT CLINTON HOSPITAL AND IS NOW IN JAIL.
SHE WAS AGE 32 AND FROM CLINTON.

ROTARY BAND CONCERT AT THE PARK WAS A BIG SUCCESS LAST NIGHT...GOOD MUSIC, CAKE,ICECREAM AND ALL BEFORE RAIN. I ENDED UP BROADCASTING THE BAND CONCERT ON KMAQ-AM.

THE BEAR CREEK NARCOTICS TASK FORCE WAS ONE OF 59 AGENCIES TO RECEIVE A FEDERAL GRANT...AROUND $84,000 ...WITH THE BULK OF IT TO BE USED FOR SALARIES. THE TASK FORCE IS BASED IN MAQUOKETA.

POLICE BLOTTER: ROBERT BOBBIE GRAVES SAID SOMEONE TOOK A NOKIA CELL PHONE AND $5 IN CHANGE FROM HIS VEHICLE YESTERDAY.

MAQUOKETA FIREMEN WERE CALLED TO ANOTHER FALSE ALARM AT FAMILY DOLLAR THIS MORNING...FROM A SMOKE ALARM...THE 16TH FALSE ALARM FIREMEN HAVE BEEN CALLED TO AT FAMILY DOLLAR IN THE LAST 3 MONTHS. NEW EQUIPMENT THAT NEEDS FINE TUNING APPARENTLY.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS THE LAST COUPLE DAYS.

MAQUOKETA BOYS PLAY MIGHTY CASCADE TONIGHT.

SPOKE THIS NOON TO THE DEWITT NOON LIONS CLUB.
SAW LOTS OF PEOPLE I KNEW .. HAD A GOOD LUNCH AND THE TALK WENT OKAY...USED TAPED VOICES OF DEWITT PEOPLE FROM THE PAST ..FOR A TRIVIA CONTEST.
ABOUT 50 PRESENT. I HAVE BEEN DOING THE DAILY DEWITT CALLING SHOW FOR NEARLY 30 YEARS..SO I KNOW MORE ABOUT THE TOWN THAN SOME OF ITS CITIZENS. GOOD CITY. GOOD LIONS CLUB.

GOTTA GO....TV FEATURE ON THE DRIVE-IN TONIGHT AT 6:30 ON WQAD-TV, CHANNELL 8.

COME BACK TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY





 

HOT AGAIN TODAY...96.

MAQUOKETA COMMUNITY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS .. EXCEPT THE SUPERINTENDENT...WILL RECEIVE A 2.43 PERCENT SALARY INCREASE FOR NEXT YEAR. THE RAISE GIVEN BY THE SCHOOL BOARD. KIM HUCKSTADT, SUPERINTENDENT, DURING THE SPRING BUDGET CUTBACK SESSIONS SAID THAT HE WOULD TAKE A SALARY CUT NEXT YEAR.

MAQUOKETA GARBAGE PICKUP WILL REMAIN AS IT HAS BEEN...FREE ENTERPRISE...WITH FOUR HAULERS.
THE CITY COUNCIL HAD DECIDED RECENTLY TO LOOK AT GETTING INTO THE BUSINESS, WITH ONE HAULER, BUT THE PUBLIC SAID....NO. AND THEY LISTENED.

LLOYD EVANS, 59 AND A PASSENGER, LINDA ARNOLD, AGE 50, WERE IN A ONE-VEHICLE ACCIDENT LAST FRIDAY AFTERNOON ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF MAQUOKETA.
BOTH TAKEN TO LOCAL HOSPITAL AND TREATED FOR MINOR INJURIES.

SOMEONE TOOK A ROADMASTER BIKE FROM THE HOME OF PATRICIA DEVER AT 210 N. ELIZA...VALUED AT $80.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

AND REMEMBER..IF YOU EVER HAVE NEWS FOR THIS REPORT, E-MAIL ME AT kmaq@kmaq.com

DENNIS VOY



 

ANOTHER HOT DAY...95 DEGREES

JACK & JUDY BICKFORD'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY TODAY.
KIDS COMING HOME FOR PARTY THIS WEEKEND....ONE DAUGHTER AND FAMILY FROM OMAHA...ANOTHER DAUGHTER AND FAMILY FROM IOWA CITY AND SON AND FAMILY FROM KOKOMO, INDINIA. LEIGHTON HEPKER FROM KMAQ AND WIFE CINDY CELEBRATED 23RD YESTERDAY. HAVE TWO SONS..ONE WILL BE A JUNIOR AND OTHER OFF TO IOWA CITY TO COLLEGE THIS FALL.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRL'S SOFTBALL TEAM PLAYED IN THE MUSCATINE TOURNAMENT THIS PAST WEEKEND AND WON 3 OF THE 4 GAMES THEY PLAYED. THE BOYS WON TWO GAMES FRIDAY NIGHT AND LOST TWO GAMES UP IN DECORAH SATURDAY.

THE MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT.

MINOR INJURIES WERE REPORTED IN A 2-VEHICLE ACCIDENT FRIDAY NIGHT. SARA PETERSON, 16, OF MAQUOKETA AND CHARLES OSTERT, AGE 61, OF MAQUOKETA WERE BOTH GOING WEST ON 150TH STREET WHEN PETERSON HIT A BLACK BULL STANDING ON THE HIGHWAY. THE BULL ROLLED OVER HER VEHICLE AND IT WAS THEN HIT BY THE OSTERT VEHICLE. BOTH TAKEN TO MERCY IN DUBUQUE AND TREATED FOR MINOR INJURIES. BOTH VEHICLE RECEIVED ABOUT $2,000 IN DAMAGE OR MORE...AND THE LOST BULL, OWNED BY RICHARD SCHNOOR OF MAQUOKETA, WAS WORTH $4,500.

A HIT AND RUN VEHICLE ACCIDENT SATURDAY AFTERNOON IN TOWN. RICHARD SORENSON, AGE 74, WAS DRIVING NORTH AT OLIVE AND PLATT AND ANOTHER VEHICLE RAN THE RED LIGHT AND HIT THE PASSENGER SIDE OF THE SORENSON VEHICLE AND THE DRIVER LEFT THE SCENE WITHOUT EXCHANGING INFORMATION. ABOUT $1,000 DAMAGE TO SORENSON'S 95 LINCOLN. HE WAS NOT INJURED. RICH, BY THE WAY, STILL GOES TO THE HIS INSURANCE OFFICE DAILY ON EAST PLATT, BUT WORKS PART TIME AT IT. I THINK HE STILL SELLS HEAD STONES TOO. A LONGTIME MAQUOKETA BUSINESSMAN.
HIS WIFE, LUCILLE, IS STILL ACTIVE IN VOLUNTEER WORK AT THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM. THEY STILL LIVE IN A HOME IN MAQUOKETA'S HISTORICAL DISTRICT...THE STREET THAT GOES WESTERLY FROM THE LIBRARY TO THE CORNER WHERE SQUIRES MANOR BED AND BREAKFAST IS LOCATED. THAT ENTIRE STEET HAS OLD STYLE STREET LIGHT POLES AND GLOBES ON IT.

BEVERLY WILLEY, AGE 78, DIED LAST THURSDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. SHE HAD BEEN TREATED FOR HEART DISEASE. SERVICES WILL BE IN HER HOMETOWN, OF RANDOLPH, WISCONSIN. SHE IS SURVIVED BY A SON, MARK, IN MAQUOKETA AND TWO DAUGHTERS, EMILY AND DAWN, BOTH OUT OF STATE. HER HUSBAND, DUANE, DIED LAST YEAR. HE WAS THE FIRST SALES MANAGER OF KMAQ WHEN IT WENT ON THE AIR IN 1958 AND A YEAR LATER, WAS NAMED THE MANAGER. I FIRST MET DUANE AND BEVERLY THAT SUMMER OF 1958 WHEN I CAME DOWN TO MAQUOKETA TO WORK AS AN ANNOUNCER AT KMAQ.
I QUICKY BECAME FRIENDS OF BOTH. AROUND 1960, DUANE WAS IN A BAD CAR ACCIDENT AND NEVER WORKED AGAIN AND BEVERLY TOOK CARE OF HIM UNTIL HIS DEATH LAST YEAR. SHE ALSO TAUGHT SCHOOL FOR ABOUT 25 YEARS IN BALDWIN AND MAQUOKETA. AFTER RETIREMENT, SHE WAS ACTIVE IN VOLUNTEER WORK, ESPECIALLY AT THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM.
WHEN SHE WAS ABLE TO GET ABOUT, I SAW HER ALMOST WEEKLY AND HAD SHORT VISITS WITH HER. A VERY INTELLIGENT LADY. A VERY NICE LADY. AN EXAMPLE OF HOW A SPLIT-SECOND CAR ACCIDENT CAN CHANGE THE LIFE OF NOT ONLY AN ACCIDENT VICTIM, BUT OTHERS RELATED TO THAT PERSON FOR AN ENTIRE LIFETIME.
MY SYMPATHY TO THE FAMILY.

ANOTHER WELL-KNOWN MAQUOKETA LADY DIED SATURDAY MORNING. HELEN REICHLING, AGE 87. SHE DIED AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. HER LATE HUSBAND, DARRELL AND HIS TWIN BROTHER, OWNED REICHLING OIL COMPANY FOR MANY YEARS. SHE IS SURVIVED BY ONE DAUGHTER, MARILOU RISSER...A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, MONA REICHLING AND A SISTER-IN-LAW, WILMA REICHLING...ALL IN MAQUOKETA. ANOTHER NICE LADY WITH LOTS OF FRIENDS OVER THE YEARS.

GRADING STARTED THIS MORNING FOR THE NEW MOTEL JUST SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA. THEY HOPE TO HAVE IT OPEN BY CHRISTMAS.

AND WORK IS UNDERWAY IN THE NEW BUSINESS PARK JUST SOUTH, ACROSS THE ROAD, FROM FLAPJACK RESTAURANT. ELECTRIC SERVICE IS BEING PUT TO THE PARK FOR THE FIRST NEW BUILDING, BELIEVED TO BE A NEW SIT-DOWN (NOT FAST FOOD) RESTAURANT.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK..AND KEEP COOL.

DENNIS VOY

 

HOT HOT HOT...IN MID 90'S

UNEMPLOYMENT RATES DROPPED IN IOWA AND JACKSON COUNTY IN MAY. IOWA FROM 3.6 PERCENT IN APRIL TO 3.5 PERCENT IN MAY. A YEAR AGO, IT WAS 3.3 PERCENT. IN JACKSON COUNTY, THE RATE DROPPED QUITE A BIT IN MAY. IN APRIL IT WAS 6.2 PERCENT AND IN MAY, IT DROPPED TO 4.8.

WE WILL HAVE A NEW SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER THIS FALL.
AFTER REDRAWING (STATE MANDATED) THE DISTRICT, BILL SCHWENKER AND ZOE MCMAHON ARE IN THE SAME DISTRICT AND COULD BE RUNNING AGAINST EACH OTHER. BILL DEFINITELY PLANS TO RUN AND ZOE IS NOT SURE. NOMINATION PAPERS WILL BE AVAILABLE JULY 8TH AND BE FILED NO LATER THAN AUGUST 1ST AND THE ELECTION WILL BE IN NOVEMBER.

GARY IHRIG, LINDA ROLING AND GREGORY STREETS ALL HIT A DEER THIS WEEK.

I STILL CAN NOT ANNOUNCE THE WELL-KNOWN ELDERLY MAQUOKETA WOMAN WH0 DIED YESTERDAY MORNING AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. ALL FAMILY MEMBERS STILL HAVE NOT BEEN IDENTIFIED. HER BOBY HAS BEEN CREMATED.

IOWA STATE TROOPER JOHN QUINN, AGE 58, DIED EARLIER THIS WEEK IN IOWA CITY, AFTER A SHORT BATTTLE WITH CANCER. THE FUNERAL WAS YESTERDAY. HE RECENTLY HAD BEEN SWORN-IN AS AN IOWA FEDERAL MARSHALL. HE WAS A TROOPER IN THE MAQUOKETA AREA QUITE A FEW YEARS AGO...I WOULD SAY IN THE 80'S.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY  

HOT TODAY...UPPER 80'S....SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, LOOKS LIKE 90 IS POSSIBLE.

LITTLE NEWS.

THE CITY COUNCIL GAVE CITY EMPLOYEES A 3 PERCENT PAY HIKE BEGINNING JULY 1.

SCHOOL BOARD MEETING TONIGHT.

MAQUOKETA BOYS LOST IN HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL LAST NIGHT.

MY TEAM SHOT 2 UNDER AT THE GOLF MEET LAST NIGHT AT PRESTON....BUT TWO TEAMS TIED FOR FIRST AT 31.
THE COURSE IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION..A REALLY NICE COURSE..NOW ABOUT 5 OR 6 YEARS OLD. 44 GOLFERS .. DOWN FROM LAST YEAR A FEW. THEY HAD 3 THINGS TO AUCTION OFF...NO AUCTIONEER...SO MICK CLARK DID THE HONORS. AND HE DID WELL..LOTS OF LAUGHS IN THE PROCESS. MICK..LONGTIME OWNER OF
HIS OWN SMALL ENGINE EQUIPMENT BUSINESS JUST NORTH OF TOWN...FROM LAWNMOWERS TO SNOW BLOWERS TO CHAIN SAWS..AND MORE. ENJOYED DINNER AFTER WITH LINDA STURTZ AND HOLLY WOLD...BIG EATERS..NOT BAD GOLFERS EITHER. HOLLY IS LONGTIME MANAGER OF CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME HERE IN TOWN AND LINDA HEADS UP THE CHAMBER OFFICE AND IS THE CITY'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR TOO.
ENJOYED PLAY WITH JAKE BICKFORD, CHARLIE DIETZ, AND MY NEWEST SON-IN-LAW, SHAWN CLAUSEN OF DUBUQUE. ALL 3 PRETTY GOOD GOLFERS...JAKE, CHARLIE AND SHAWN IN THAT ORDER.

ONE LOCAL DEATH TODAY, BUT HAVE NOT HAD OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION FROM THE FUNERAL HOME YET.
WILL HAVE IT TOMORROW.

COME BACK THEN.

DENNIS VOY



 

RAIN ALL MORNING LONG...AFTERNOON FORECAST CALLS FOR SUNSHINE....NONE YET..AND IT IS 1 P.M. AS I ENTER THIS.

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH HAS SIGNED A PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION DECLARING EASTERN IOWA COUNTIES, INCLUDING JACKSON, A DISASTER AREA.
THE DECLARATION ALLOWS CITIES AND COUNTIES TO APPLY FOR FEDERAL FUNDS TO REPAIR DAMAGE TO STREETS, SEWER PLANTS, ETC. PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS WILL ALSO BE ALLOWED TO APPLY FOR LOW-INTEREST LOANS.

AT THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING MONDAY.... THE FIRST STEP TOWARD ALLOWING AN ATV AND MOTORCYCLE RACING FACILITY IN MAQUOKETA (TO BE BUILT BY GARY KLEPPE)
WAS MADE WHEN THE COUNCIL APPROVED A USE PERMIT TO ALLOW THE TRACK IN AN INDUSTRIAL ZONED AREA.
KLEPPE, WHO HAS AN ATV STORE AT THE SOUTH EDGE OF MAQUOKETA (THE FORMER WAGNER CYCLE BUSINESS) IS IN THE PROCESS OF BUYING 12 ACRES IN THE MAQUOKETA TIMBER CITY INDUSTRIAL PARK....LOCATED
SOUTH OF THE WOODFORM INDUSTRY. A PUBLIC HEARING MUST TAKE PLACE BEFORE THE LAND CAN BE SOLD TO KLEPPE.

A TRAFFIC SAFTY ENFORCEMENT PROJECT WILL TAKE PLACE THIS FRIDAY ON HIGHWAY 61 FROM KEOKUK UP TO DUBUQUE. AROUND 200 OFFICERS WILL BE ON THE STRETCH OF HIGHWAY (188 MILES) MOST OF THE DAY TO CHECK CARS AND OTHER VEHICLES, FOR SEATBELT VIOLATIONS, FAULTY EQUIPMENT, ETC.

THE PAPERWORK IS ALMOST FINISHED FOR THE NEW MOTEL SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA, AND THE HOUSE ON THE PROPERTY IS ABOUT TO BE MOVED.

WHEN WE HAD THE FLOOD A COUPLE WEEKS AGO...THE MAQUOKETA CAVES STATE PARK ALSO HAD A LOT OF FLOODING AND DAMAGE. A WALK BRIDGE WASHED OUT.
AND 6-B'S CAMPGROUND OFF THE CAVES ROAD AND ALONG THE MAQUOKETA RIVER, HAD EXTENSIVE FLOODING.

IT WAS A FULL HOUSE FOR RV SPACE RENTALS LAST WEEKEND AT THE CAVES RV PARK...IT HAS 29 SPACES.

NO DEATHS OR BIRTHS.

PLAYING, THIS AFTERNOON .. WEATHER PERMITTING..IN THE JACKSON COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GOLF TOURNAMENT AT PRESTON...WEATHER PERMITTING.
I HAVE A 7 HANDICAP....I MEAN 107.

SEE YOU TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY


 

SUNNY AND HIGH OF 88 TODAY.

IN HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL LAST NIGHT,THE CARDINAL BOYS DEFEATED A GOOD DYERSVILLE TEAM IN THE FIRST GAME IN EXTRA INNINGS AND THEN LOST THE 2ND GAME.
THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS LOST A DOUBLE HEADER TO DEWITT. ALL 4 GAMES PLAYED ON THE SIDE-BY-SIDE DIAMONDS UP BY THE HIGH SCHOOL.

MAQUOKETA IS GETTING A NEW BUSINESS THIS FALL...CURVES...A NATIONAL CHAIN THAT SPECIALIZES IN WOMEN'S EXCERCISE AND FITNESS PROGRAMS. WILL LOCATED IN THE BUILDING NEXT TO MAX RAY JEWELRY.

APAC TELEMARKETING FIRM IN MAQUOKETA CLOSED YESTERDAY, WITHOUT GIVING NOTICE TO CITY OFFICIALS. 165 WERE WORKING THERE. THE COMPANY HAS BEEN IN MAQUOKETA ABOUT 6 YEARS. THEIR DOWNTOWN BUILDING HAD BEEN SOLD EARLIER THIS YEAR AND THEY HAD BEEN LOOKING FOR A NEW LOCATION.
AROUND 100 WORKERS ARE BEING OFFERED A JOB AT THE DUBUQUE OFFICE AND IN CLINTON'S OFFICE. THE OTHER WILL RECEIVE SEVERANCE PAY. A LOT OF YOUNG PEOPLE .. IN THEIR TEENS ...WORKED THERE.

THE MAYOR AND TWO COUNCILMEN WERE ABSENT FROM THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING LAST NIGHT, SO NOT TOO MUCH WAS ACCOMPLISHED.

RANDY AND BRENDA HUFFMANN OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN FRIDAY, JUNE 14, AT LOCAL HOSPITAL.

A WELL KNOWN DELMAR FARMER, DAVID SEYFERT, AGE 64, DIED THIS MORNING AT A DAVENPORT HOSPITAL AFTER A BATTLE WITH CANCER. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, LORELIE, 3 SONS, HIS MOTHER, AND A BROTHER, PAUL.

HAVE A GOOD EVENING.

DENNIS VOY  

LITTLE NEWS...NO REPORT...SORRY  

WINDY, SPRINKLES AND COOL THIS AFTERNOON..AROUND 60.

SCOOBY DOO COMES TO MAQUOKETA TONIGHT...AND ALL OVER AMERICA T0O.

MORE BAD NEWS.

LUKE OSTERHAUS, AGE 39, OF EAGAN, MINNESOTA AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY AT HIS HOME AFTER A SHORT BATTLE WITH CANCER. SERVICES MONDAY AT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN EAGAN. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, JILL AND TWO DAUGHTERS STILL AT HOME. ALSO SURVIVED BY PARENTS, BOB AND ANN OSTERHAUS OF MAQUOKETA AND BY MOTHER-IN-LAW RUTH ANN ZIMMERMAN OF MAQUOKETA. ALSO 6 SISTERS: JANE OSTERHAUS OF PARK CITY, UTAH....KATE CORRIGAN OF LAGRANGE PARK, ILLINOIS...MOLLY WHITMORE OF EDEN PRAIRIE, MN....MEG MCNAUGHT OF AUSTRALIA.. AMY MOISAN OF WOODBURY, CT....AND BETSY HAND OF ST. PAUL, MIN...ALSO 3 BROTHERS, FATHER MARK OF CEDAR RAPIDS...JOHN OF SEATTLE AND MATT OF MAQUOKETA.
HE WORKED FOR JOSTEN'S IN MINNEAPOLIS AND ROSE TO THE POSITION OF DIRECTOR, SALES TRAINING.
LIKE ALL THE OSTERHAUS KIDS, WHILE IN SCHOOL HERE IN MAQUOKETA, HE WORKED AT HIS DAD'S PHARMACY STORE IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1965, NOW RUN BY HIS BROTHER MATT. DAD, BOB IS AN IOWA ST. REPRESENTATIVE AND FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL PHARMACY ASSOCIATION.

DOROTHY RISSER, AGE 93, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED WEDNESDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND,DR. C.K. RISSER (NOW AGE 102)...ONE SON IN NORTH CAROLINA AND TWO STEPSONS, ROBERT RISSER OF OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS AND WILLIAM RISSER OF MAQUOKETA.

MORE JUDY GJERDE OBIT: JUDY GJERDE, IN ADDITION TO BEING SURVIVED BY HUSBAND AND TWO CHILDREN, AS REPORTED EARLIER ON THIS REPORT....IS ALSO SURVIVED BY HER PARENTS IN WILLIAMSBURG, IOWA...TWO SISTERS AND ONE BROTHER. SHE ATTENDED WARTBURG COLLEGE AND GOT HER BA THERRE AND GOT HER MASTERS AT DRAKE IN DES MOINES. WAS SPANISH TEACHER AT MCHS FROM 1987 TO NOW.
WAS ONE OF THE TWO MAIN ORGANISTS AT FIRST LUTHERAN, A MEMBER OF THE BELL CHOIR TOO AND WAS THE DIRECTOR OF THE CHURCH CHOIR SINCE 1990.

KENNETH FELTEN, AGE 40, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS INVOLVED IN A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT AT 5:15 A.M. YESTERDAY ON HIGHWAY 30 JUST EAST OF CLINTON.
THE REAR TIRE OF HIS MOTORCYCLE WENT FLAT, CAUSING FELTEN TO LOSE CONTROL OF THE CYCLE AND IT WENT INTO THE DITCH AND HE, LUCKILY, WAS EJECTED AND DID NOT GET HURT. DAMAGE TO HIS 2002 HARLEY,ABOUT $6,000.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS DEFEATED DUBUQUE HEMPSTEAD IN EXTRA INNINGS, 1 TO 0 LAST NIGHT AND HAVE WON 9 STRAIGHT.

THERESA CELENTANO IS KMAQ'S NEW TRAFFIC DIRECTOR AND BOOKKEEPER AND RECEPTIONIST....HIRED TO REPLACE PAT WEIRUP WHO IS RETIRING JULY 1ST.
SHE HAS BEEN ON THE JOB ALREADY 2 WEEKS AND IS LEARNING THE ROPES FROM PAT AND DOING VERY WELL.
SHE IS A GRADUATE OF MCHS AND HER PARENTS ARE MR. AND MRS. PETE HANSEN OF MAQUOKETA. HER HUSBAND DIED QUITE A FEW YEARS AGO, WHILE IN THE MILITARY AND THEY HAD TWO CHILDREN. HER SON LIVES IN COLORADO AND DAUGHTER (WH0 HAS HER ONLY GRANDCHILD) LIVES IN KENTUCKY. ITS NICE TO HAVE THERESA ON THE KMAQ STAFF, BUT IT IS NOT NICE TO BE LOOSING PAT. WE ARE HAVING A FAREWELL PARTY FOR PAT IN EARLY JULY.

EVERYONE, FROM MY FAMILY, IS WONDERING IF I WILL BE PUTTING THIS ON MY DAILY REPORT.
I GOT STOPPED THE OTHER NIGHT DOWN NEAR THE DAIRY QUEEN BY THE LOCAL POLICE.
SEEMS THEY NOTICED MY SEAT BELT WAS NOT BEING USED. OFFICER KEN SPARKS GAVE ME SOME GOOD ADVICE ON SEAT BELTS AND GAVE ME A WARNING TICKET.
SO, I'M GOING TO TRY AND DO BETTER. WE RUN SEAT BELT REMINDERS ON KMAQ DAILY...AND I GENERALLY USE IT WHEN ON THE HIGHWAY SOMEWHERE....BUT IN TOWN, NOT OFTEN. GUESS I BETTER CHANGE...NEXT TIME SPARKS WON'T BE AS GENEROUS. IT WAS NOT MUCH FUN SEEING ALL THESE CARS GO BY WHILE HE WAS WRITING UP THE TICKET.....I THOUGHT HE'D NEVER GET FINISHED WITH IT SO I COULD PULL AWAY FROM THOSE FLASHING LIGHTS. SPEEDING? YUP, DO THAT A LITTLE TOO...BUT HAVE NOT HAD A TICKET IN YEARS.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND...AND HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO ALL THE DADS, GRANDDADS AND GREATGRANDADS OUT THERE.

BY THE WAY, THIS DAILY IS GROWING. THE OTHER DAY, HAD 379 HITS IN THE 24-HOUR PERIOD...THE MOST EVER.

DENNIS VOY  

NO REPORT TODAY  

NO REPORT TODAY  

FOR THE 2ND DAY IN A ROW..SUNNY AND A HIGH OF 84.

ANOTHER BAD ACCIDENT TO REPORT TODAY. A FORMER MAQUOKETA WOMAN AND WIFE OF A FORMER MAQUOKETA MINISTER WAS KILLED IN A CAR-TRUCK ACCIDENT LATE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON IN MINNESOTA. CORA DRESCHER, AGE 46, OF BLUE EARTH, MINNESOTA, DIED AND HER HUSBAND, PASTOR DAVE DRESCHER WAS INJURED.
DAVE DRESCHER WAS THE FOUNDING PASTOR OF THE FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH ON WEST SUMMIT STREET IN MAQUOKETA. THEY LIVED IN MAQUOKETA SEVERAL YEARS AND MOVED TO MINNESOTA SEVERAL MONTHS AGO. CORA WORKED FOR THE MAQUOKETA STATE BANK WHEN THEY LIVED HERE. DAVE IS IN STABLE CONDITION. THE PICKUP TRUCK DRIVER WAS TREATED AND RELEASED.
SERVICES FOR CORA DRESCHER ARE PENDING AT THE PATTON FUNERAL HOME IN BLUE EARTH.

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR JUDY GJERDE, AGE 50, WHO DIED YESTERDAY IN A CAR-TRUCK ACCIDENT (SEE STORY IN YESTERDAY'S REPORT) WILL BE HELD MONDAY AT 11 A.M. AT THE FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH IN MAQUOKETA. FRIENDS MAY CALL SUNDAY FROM 2 UNTIL 7 P.M. AT CARSON AND SON FUNERAL HOME IN MAQUOKETA.
A JUDY GJERDE MEMORIAL FUND HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED AND MEMORIALS MAY BE MADE TO FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH IN MAQUOKETA. FURTHER ARRANGMENTS ARE PENDING.

THE MAQUOKETA STATE BANK ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT THEY WILL ESTABLISH A BANK OFFICE IN PRESTON BY THIS FALL. THE LOCATION TO BE ANNOUNCED. THE BANK WILL BE RUN BY GARY SAELENS, WHO RECENTLY LEFT THE METROBANK LOCATED IN PRESTON. HE WAS PRESIDENT OF THAT BANK AND WAS WITH IT FOR OVER 10 YEARS. SAELENS SAID HE'S LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING IN THE PRESTON COMMUNITY AGAIN. THE MAQUOKETA STATE BANK ALSO HAS A BANK OFFICE IN ANDREW.

JUDY SCHECKEL OF W. MAPLE IN MAQUOKETA REPORTED THAT THE DOOR TO HER APARTMENT HAS BEEN KICKED IN AND MISSING IS HER PET DOG.

WANDA DAVIS, 95, OF BELLEVUE AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOEKTA DIED YESTERDAY AT THE MAQUOKETA HOSPITAL. SHE WAS A HOMEMAKER. SHE IS SURVIVED BY 2 SONS, RICHARD DAVIS OF MAQUOKETA AND DEAN DAVIS OF FT. MYERS.

ERMA EDWARDS, AGE 72,OF MAQUOKETA, DIED THIS MORNING. SHE AND HER LATE HUSBAND, ROBERT, FARMED NORTH OF IRON HILL FOR MANY YEARS. SHE IS SURVIVED BY 2 DAUGHTERS AND 5 SONS...INCLUDING BOB, JIM AND BRUCE ALL OF DELMAR AND BUTCH OF MAQUOKETA.

FRANK HULTING,AGE 95, OF DEWITT DIED LAST WENESDAY, JUNE 5TH AT HIS WINTER HOME. HE RAN AN APPLIANCE STORE IN DEWITT FROM 1938 TO 1974.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SON, ALAN, OF MAQUOKETA.

THANKS FOR CHECKING-IN AGAIN TODAY.

DENNIS VOY

 

THERE ARE TWO REPORTS TODAY...BELOW.  

WILLIAM J. MCANDREW, AGE 72, OF RURAL MAQUOKETA,DIED YESTERDAY AT FINLEY HOSPITAL IN DUBUQUE. HE FARMED ALL HIS LIFE IN ANDREW, LOST NATION AND MAQUOKETA AREA. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, JOYCE, 6 DAUGHTERS AND 4 SONS, INCLUDING DENNIS OF MAQUOKETA AND JOHN OF DELMAR.

BERNICE YAROLEM, AGE 86, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED LAST NIGHT AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. SHE AND HUSBAND FARMED IN THE MAQUOKETA AREA. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, BILLY YAROLEM OF MAQUOKETA, 2 DAUGHTERS, INCLUDING BEV ENGEL OF MAQUOKETA, 5 GRANDCHILDREN AND 10 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY.

DENNIS VOY  

A HALF INCH 0F RAIN YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AND ANOTHER HALF INCH EARLY THIS MORNING. THEN SUNNY AND WARM, HIGH 84 TODAY.

A WELL-KNOWN MAQUOKETA WOMAN WAS KILLED IN A TWO-VEHICLE ACCIDENT THIS MORNING IN CLINTON COUNTY.
JUDY GJERDE, AGE 50, WAS WEST BOUND ON HIGHWAY 30 AT THE WEST EDGE OF GRAND MOUND. SHE CROSSED THE CENTERLINE AND WAS STRUCK HEAD-ON BY A SEMI LOADED WITH GRAIN. THE EAST-BOUND SEMI WAS OPERATED BY DUANE GANNON, AGE 30, OF RURAL DELMAR. HE WAS NOT HURT. GJERDE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. JUDY GJERDE WAS A LONGTIME SPANISH TEACHER AT MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL AND IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, PASTOR GERALD GJERDE, OF THE FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH IN MAQUOKETA. SHE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY A SON RYAN AND A DAUGHTER JILL.
SHE HAD JUST BEEN GRANTED A ONE-YEAR LEAVE FROM TEACHING BECAUSE OF MEDICAL REASONS. THE CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT HAS NOT BEEN DETERMINED AND THE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES. MAQUOKETA SCHOOL SUPT. KIM HUCKSTADT CALLED THE ACCIDENT A TRAGIC EVENT AND SAYS ANY SCHOOL STAFF MEMBER IS INVITED TO MEET AT 8 TOMORROW MORNING AT THE HIGH SCHOOL. HE SAID HOPEFULLY THIS WILL ALLOW STAFF MEMBERS TO GET TOGETHER AND SHOW THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE GJERDE FAMILY. SERVICES FOR JUDY GJERDE ARE PENDING AT THE CARSON AND SON FUNERAL HOME IN MAQUOKETA. THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY IS SADDENED BY THIS TRAGIC ACCIDENT.

ANOTHER LONGTIME TEACHER AT THE MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL HAS RESIGNED. SALLY FELTEN HAS RESIGNED AS A BUSINESS TEACHER. SHE SAYS HER PLANS ARE INDEFINITE AND THAT SHE IS INTERVIEWING BOTH IN AND OUT OF EDUCATION. SHE HAS BEEN THE BUSINESS TEACHER FOR 16 YEARS AND 27 YEARS TOTAL AS A TEACHER. FELTEN SAID IT WAS TIME FOR A CHANGE.

AT THE BOARD MEETING LAST NIGHT, TWO NEW TEACHERS WERE HIRED. RYAN STREETS OF WYOMING AS THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL VO AG INSTRUCTOR. HE WILL ALSO BE AN ASSISTANT FFA ADVISOR AND REPLACES BRANDON TOLLE WHO IS GOING TO THE CENTRAL SCHOOLS IN DEWITT. STREETS TAUGHT VO AG AT RIVERDALE HIGH SCHOOL IN MUSCODA, WISCONSIN. CURRENT AG TEACHER JENNY NABB MOVES UP TO FFA ADVISOR WITH 45 DAYS ON HER CONTRACT FOR THOSE DUTIES. THE BOARD ALSO HIRED MICHAEL KNIGHT AS THE NEW INDUSTRIAL TECH INSTRUCTOR,REPLACING TED LAMB WHO RESIGNED TO TEACH NEARER HIS FAMILY IN ILLINOIS.
KNIGHT COMES TO MAQUOKETA FROM FULTON HIGH SCHOOL IN ILLINOIS.

AN ATTEMPTED BREAK-IN LAST NIGHT. PAT WIRTH AT 304 S. VERMONT SAID LAST NIGHT THAT SOMEONE ATTEMPTED TO GET INTO THEIR GARAGE THROUGH A WINDOW. HOWEVER, ENTRY WAS NOT GAINED.

TWO MORE MAILBOXES STOLEN IN JACKSON COUNTY LAST NIGHT.

IN COURT NEWS, BRENT CLARK, AGE 23, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH ASSAULT AND CRIMINAL MISCHIEF INTHE 2ND DEGREE. MAQUOKETA POLICE SAY OFFICERS WERE CALLED TO THE 800 BLOCK OF WEST PLATT AT ABOUT 10 LAST NIGHT AND TOMMY DEARTH SAID CLARK HIT HIM IN THE HEAD WITH A BEER BOTTLE. WHILE CLARK WAS ENROUTE TO THE JAIL,HE KICKED OUT THE BACK PASSENGER WINDOW AND FRAME AND PULLED DOWN THE HEADLINER OF THE SQUAD CAR.

OBITS COMING UP ON PART 2 OF TODAYS REPORT.  

HOT TODAY, HIGH OF 92....THEN CLOUDS ROLLED IN LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOW IN THE FORECAST FOR THE REST OF TODAY. ALSO TOMORROW. WE COULD USE A LITTLE RAIN...AGAIN...A LITTLE.

A MAQUOKETA NATIVE HAS RETURNED TO BE THE NEW POSTMASTER FOR THE CITY OF MAQUOKETA. DOUG SWANSON WAS NAMED POSTMASTER EFFECTIVE JUNE 1. HE'S BEEN ACTING POSTMASTER FOR SEVERAL MONTHS. HE CAME SOON AFTER MIKE MILDER RETIRED LATE LAST YEAR. SWANSON WAS PREVIOUSLY POSTMASTER FOR FIVE YEARS IN ELDRIDGE. BEFORE THAT, HE WAS POSTMASTER IN DURANT FOR FIVE YEARS. A MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE, SWANSON IS THE SON OF HAROLD AND RACHEL SWANSON OF MAQUOKETA. HE AND HIS WIFE, SHARON, HAVE SIX CHILDREN AND LIVE IN ELDRIDGE. SWANSON SAYS HE DOESN'T PLAN ANY CHANGES HERE AT THE MAQUOKETA POST OFFICE. HOWEVER, THERE ARE SOME CHANGES IN THE POST OFFICE IN GENERAL THAT WILL BE IMPLEMENTED IN MAQUOKETA. DOUG SAYS THE GOAL IS TO CONTINUE TO GIVE GREAT SERVICE AND ALLOW THE EMPLOYEES TO DO THAT IN A SAFE MANNER. PERSONALLY, I AM GLAD DOUG IS BACK IN TOWN AND I BELIEVE THE LOCAL POST OFFICE IS IN GOOD HANDS.

MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD MEETING TONIGHT. LOTS OF PERSONNEL MATTERS TONIGHT. YOU'LL HEAR ABOUT SOME NEW STAFF MEMBERS ON THIS REPORT TOMORROW.

NANCY AND I ATTENDED THE FIREMEN'S BREAKFAST YESTERDAY...GOOD TURN OUT...AROUND 1,000...BUT NOT A RECORD. GOOD FOOD AND SERVICE TOO.

WE ALSO ATTENDED THE OPEN HOUSE OF THE OLD SALVATION ARMY CITADEL AT HORSESHOW POND PARK YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. THE NEW BASEMENT WAS 99-PERCENT FILLED WITH FLOOD WATER LAST WEDNESDAY.
BUT, BOY SCOUTS AND LEADERS AND OTHERS...RON YEAGER AND ALVIN BARTEN...TO NAME A COUPLE...SPENT A LOT OF HOURS PUMPING OUT THE WATER AND GETTING IN BACK TO NEAR NORMAL. SOME
WALLS WILL BE REPLACED AND PROBABLY THE NEW FURNACE AND AIR/CONDITIONER. UPSTAIRS WAS NOT DAMAGED AND THERE, VISITORS ENJOYED MUSIC BY RED...LEMONADE AND COOKIES...AND TALKING ABOUT THE GOOD OLD DAYS WHEN THE SALVATION ARMY IN MAQUOKETA FOR A LONG TIME WAS THE OLDEST CORPS WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. LOTS OF WORK AND IMPROVEMENTS STILL TO COME, AND WHEN IT IS FINISHED,IT WILL BE A GOOD ADDITION FOR THE CITY.
THE BOY SCOUTS WILL USE IT FOR THEIR MEETINGS AND OTHER GROUPS WILL BE ABLE TO USE IT ALSO. THEY STILL NEED CASH...SO IF YOU CARE GO GIVE...SEND YOUR CHECK TO KMAQ AND I'LL FORWARD IT TO THE COMMITTEE.

A HALF A DOZEN MAILBOX VANDALIZM INCIDENTS OVER THE WEEKEND IN JACKSON COUNTY.

CURT AND LANNA KAUFMAN OF WALFORD, IOWA AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA ARE THE PARENTS OF TWIN GIRLS BORN JUNE 6TH AT IOWA CITY HOSPITAL. THE PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE TERRY AND JANNA KAUFMAN OF MAQUOKETA.

SERVICES ARE PENDING HERE FOR WILLIAM J. McANDREW, AGE 72, OF RURAL MAQUOKETA. HE DIED THIS MORNING AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.

4:30 AND IT IS RAINING NOW IN MAQUOKETA..LITTLE THUNDER AND LIGHTNING TOO.

RAN INTO EDDIE ORTELL AND FRIEND YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT THE CITADEL OPEN HOUSE. LOOKING GOOD...AND STILL MAINTAINING TWO RESIDENCES...HIS HOME IN CALIFORNIA AND HIS HOME AT LEASURE LAKE AT BERNARD, WHERE HE HAS A BIG TELESCOPE TO VIEW THE NIGHT SKY. A LOCAL GUY THAT MADE GOOD IN CALIFORNIA AS A COLLEGE PROFFESOR BUT NEVER FORGOT HIS TIES TO JACKSON COUNTY...AND FRIENDS HERE.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY


 

NICE SUNNY DAY..HIGH OF 82.

THE MAQUOKETA RIVER IS NOW BELOW FLOOD STAGE.

THERE ARE STILL SOME COUNTY ROADS STILL CLOSED BECAUSE OF BEING SOFT AND IN ONE CASE, BECAUSES OF A BRIDGE THAT WAS DAMAGED.

IN MAGISTRATE COURT, STEVEN PHILLIPS, AGE 16, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH SEXUAL ABUSE IN THE SECOND DEGREE. MAQUOKETA POLICE OFFICER ROBERT SIMONSON SAID PHILLIPS IS ACCUSED OF PERFORMING A SEX ACT ON A 10-YEAR-OLD FEMALE MAY 26TH IN MAQUOKETA.

RUTH HILL, AGE 88, OF DES MOINES AND FORMERLY OF ELWOOD, DIED THIS WEEK IN DES MOINES. SHE IS SURVIVED BY 1 SISTER, ELEANOR BUSCH OF MAQUOKETA.

CARL J. HARDIN, AGE 58, FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY AT THE HOME OF HIS DAUGHTER IF BUFFALO, IOWA. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS FATHER, WILLIAM HARDIN OF MAQUOKETA....TWO BROTHERS, JAMES OF DELMAR AND STAN OF MAQUOKETA,..ALSO 3 DAUGHTERS AND 1 SON.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS HIGH SCHOOL TEAM WON A DOUBLE HEADER OVER CAMANCHE LAST NIGHT AND THE GIRLS SPLIT THEIR DOUBLEHEADER WITH THE INDIANS...ALL GAMES PLAYED HERE.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND. ITS GOING TO BE A HOT AND DRY ONE HERE.

DENNIS VOY  

SUNNY, BREEZY AND HIGH OF 75....NICE DAY FOR DRYING OFF THE LAND.

WATER STILL HIGH ON WAPSI AND MAQUOKETA RIVERS, BUT GOING DOWN.

A BRIDGE OVER THE NORTH FORK OF THE MAQUOKETA RIVER IS THE LATEST CASUALITY OF THIS WEEK'S FLOOD. IT IS IN SECTION 10 OF BRANDON TOWNSHIP ON 60TH AVENUE NORTHEAST OF EMILINE AND WAS CLOSED THIS MORNING BECAUSE A TREE WAS LODGED UNDER IT, CAUSING DAMAGE. AN INSPECTION WILL HAVE TO BE DONE TO DETERMINE THE AMOUNT OF DAMAGE AND WHETHER IT CAN BE RE-OPENED. THE 6 TON LIMIT BRIDGE FOR NOW IS CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

TERRY WUESTENBERG, AGE 58, OF MAQUOKETA WAS IN AN ACCIDENT ON HIGHWAY 61...NEAR 180TH STREET...CAUSED BY HYDROPLANING DO THE HEAVY RAIN. DAMAGE TO HIS TRUCK ESTIMAED AT $4,000.
HE WAS NOT HURT...AFTER THE VEHICLE LEFT THE ROAD AND OVERTURNED IN THE DITCH.

CLEANUP (THE NEW BASEMENT WAS FILLED WITH MUD AND WATER) HAS BEEN COMPLETED IN THE FORMER SALVATION ARMY CITADEL BUILDING NOW ON THE HORSESHOE POND GROUNDS AND THE PLANNED OPEN HOUSE THIS SATURDAY WILL BE HELD AS SCHEDULED.
THERE WILL BE MUSIC BY RED HENTON...AND REFRESHMENTS FROM 1 UNTIL 5 P.M.

DUTRAC COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION HAS THEIR FAMILY NIGHT FOR ANYONE IN MAQUOKETA, CUSTOMERS OR NOT, AT THE 61 DRIVE-IN. GAMES FOR THE KIDS, REFRESHMENTS, AND THE MOVIE SHREK. I'LL BE DOING SOME REMOTE BROADCASTS THERE FROM 5:30 UNTIL 6:30 WHEN THE CARS START ARRIVING. SHOULD BE A NICE NIGHT AT THE MOVIE UNDER THE STARS.

HOT DRY WEEKEND COMING UP...MAY BE AROUND 90 ON SUNDAY.

COMING HOME TO VISIT MAQUOKETA THIS SUMMER?
STOP IN AND SAY HELLO!

DENNIS VOY

 

CLOUDY MOST OF TODAY, WITH A HIGH IN THE 70'S.
JUST SPRINKLES THIS MORNING FOR AWHILE.

THE FLOOD IS STILL HERE. FLOODING ALONG THE MAQUOKETA RIVER WAS STILL A PROBLEM TODAY.
BUT, THE RIVER WILL CREST SOON, AROUND 34 FEET (FLOOD STAGE IS 24) AND SHOULD START DROPPING TOMORROW. ROSS AND BETTY DAVIS HAD TO BE RESCUED FROM THEIR HOME EARLY THIS MORNING AS WATER LAPPED AT THE FOUNDATION. THE MAQUOKETA RESCUE SQUAD USED THEIR NEW BOAT TO GET TO THE DAVIS RESIDENCE ON OLD HIGHWAY 61 NEAR HURSTVILLE. THE COUPLE WAS RESCUED WITHOUT INCIDENT. ROSS DAVIS SAID IT THE FIRST TIME THEY'VE HAD TO LEAVE THIER HOME FROM ANY FLOODING ON THE MAQUOKETA RIVER AND ROSS HAS LIVED THERE ALL HIS LIFE. THREE INCHES OF WATER SPLILLED INTO THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT BUILDING ON NORTH MAIN AT AROUND 9 THIS MORNING. VOLUNTEERS WERE CALLED TO FILL SAND BAGS TO PROTECT THE BUILDING AND ALSO THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT NEAR BY. NORTH MAIN STREET IS CLOSED AND THE BALL DIAMONDS ARE UNDER A COUPLE FEET OF WATER JUST NORTH OF OWL FURNITURE. ON THE SOUTH SIDE, CLEANUP STARTED AND THE WATER HAS DISAPPEARED AROUND HORSESHOW POND. WARMER WEATHER TOMORROW AND HOT WEATHER FORECAST FOR THE WEEKEND, SO BY EARLY NEXT WEEK, WE SHOULD BE BACK TO NEAR NORMAL AROUND HERE. GOV. TOM VILSACK HAS DECLARED JACKSON AND SIX SURRONDING COUNTIES A DISASTER AREA. THIS MEANS STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDS WILL BE AVAILABLE TO THOSE WHO QUALIFY.

IN THE ELECTION YESTERDAY, ROGER STEWART OF MAQUOKETA WAS A BIG WINNER IN THE 3-COUNTY RACE FOR THE NEW IOWA SENATE SEAT. HIS TOTAL WAS 1,454 VOTES AND HIS OPPONENT FROM CLINTON, HIGHLAND NICHOLS, GOT ONLY 612 VOTES.
STEWART, DEMOCRAT, WILL NOW FACE CHARLES BURKEN, REPUBLICAN, IN THE NOVEMBER ELECTION. IN JACKSON COUNTY, ONLY 1,802 (13 PERCENT) VOTED YESTERDAY....A VERY LOW TURNOUT. THE FLOOD WAS PART OF THE REASON OF COURSE.

DON ATKINSON, AGE 72, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY AT HIS HOME. HE WAS A POLICEMAN IN NEVADA, IOWA FROM '55 TO '66 AND THEN MOVED TO
MAQUOKETA TO BE A DISTRICT MANAGER FOR VIGORTONE FEEDS. HE RETIRED IN 1986. SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SON, DAN, IN AMES....4 DAUGHTERS, PATTY IN DIXON....CONNIE IN DONAHUE....KAY IN CALAMUS....AND JOANIE BOWMAN IN MAQUOKETA. ALSO A STEP-SON TONY OF MAQUOKETA AND SPECIAL FRIEND, HELEN KNIGHT, OF MAQUOKETA.

MAQUOKETA STATE BANK'S ANNUAL FAMILY FUN NIGHT IS TONIGHT AT THE DRIVE-IN THEATRE...AND THAT'S WHERE I'M HEADING TO NOW. THE DRIVE-IN ALSO HAD SOME BAD WASHOUTS YESTERDAY....AND 5 LOADS OF GRAVEL HAS IT BACK TO NEAR NORMAL.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY



 

WEATHER MADE THE NEWS TODAY.

IT STARTED EARLY THIS MORNING AND IT DIDN'T STOP UNTIL LATE MORNING.....RAIN. I WAS ON A KMAQ BUS TRIP TO MILWAUKEE YESTERDAY AND IT RAINED TO MILWAUKEE AND RAINED ALL THE WAY HOME. WE ARRIVED BACK IN MAQUOKETA AT 2:30 THIS MORNING AND IT WAS RAINING AND WATER WAS STANDING ON EAST PLATT STREET. BUT, THE WORST WAS STILL TO COME.
BY 7 THIS MORNING, WATER OVER THE ROAD CLOSED PARTS OF HIGHWAYS 61, 64 AND 136. WATER COVERED OVER THE HORSESHOW POND PARK. OLD HIGHWAY 61 GOING PAST IT WAS CLOSED. THE SUNRISE RESTAURANT COULD NOT OPEN. MANY PEOPLE REPORT WATER IN THEIR BASEMENTS. ALL BALLGAMES SCHEDULED FOR TODAY WERE POSTPONED. THE MAQUOKETA RIVER FLOOD STAGE IS 24 FEET. AT 4 THIS AFTERNOON, IT WAS FLOODING BADLY AT 30 AND 1/2 FEET. THE PREDICTED CREST OF 31` FEET WILL OCCUR SOMETIME TONIGHT. THE RECORD CREST WAS 34 FEET BACK IN THE 40'S. MAQUOKETA RECEIVED 5 AND 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN TOTAL...BUT DUBUQUE HAD 8. FLOODING IS ALSO OCCURING ON THE WAPSI AT BOTH ANAMOSA AND DEWITT. THE FORECAST FOR TONIGHT IS MUCH IMPROVED. LIGHT RAIN IS FORECAST AND SUNNY SKIES TOMORROW. BY TOMORROW AT THIS TIME, THE FLOOD SHOULD BE HISTORY. A HECTIC DAY FOR MANY AND THE NIGHT AHEAD COULD CAUSE SOME GRIEF YET, BEFORE THE RIVERS CREST.

LLOYD D. BLOCK,AGE 59, OF SANFORD, FLORIDA AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED ON MAY 23RD. THE BODY WAS CREAMATED AND BURIAL WILL BE AT SEA ON JUNE 8TH. LLOYD BLOCK ATTENED MAQUOKETA SCHOOLS, WAS A US ARMY VETERAN AND AND AUTO SALESMAN. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, SUE AND ONE SON AND TWO DAUGHTERS. ALSO FIVE BROTHERS, EUGENE, GARY, CHUCK, AND DICK, ALL HERE IN IOWA.

ITS ELECTION DAY IN IOWA AND TOMORROW, I WILL HAVE RESULTS FOR YOU. POLLS CLOSE AT 9 TONIGHT. BIG LOCAL QUESTION....WILL ROGER STEWART OF MAQUOKETA DEFEAT HIS OPPONENT FROM CLINTON AND RUN FOR STATE SENATE THIS NOVEMBER?

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY


 

ANOTHER HOT DAY...86. LAST NIGHT, ABOUT 9, SOME
PRETTY GOOD SIZED HAIL FELL BETWEEN PRESTON AND MILES.

ONE OR TWICE A YEAR, THE DUBUQUE RACING ASSOCIATION GIVES GRANTS, ACCORDING TO IOWA'S GAMBLING LAWS. ABOUT A WEEK AGO, IT WAS TIME TO ANNOUNCE WHO GETS THEIR GRANTS THIS TIME....AND THE AMOUNT GIVEN, 2.2 MILLION DOLLARS, TO 322 ORGANIZATIONS IN THE DUBUQUE AREA, INCLUDING MAQUOKETA. SUNSHINE SCHOOL IN MAQUOKETA RECEIVED $2,889 FOR MATS....DAC OF MAQUOKETA, $5,140 FOR COMPUTERS AND PRINTERS....JACKSON COUNTY SENIOR CENTER IN MAQUOKETA, $2,000 FOR CEILING TILE REPLACEMENT....MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL, $3,021 FOR COMPUTER NETWORK WIRING....MAQUOKETA FIRE DEPARTMENT, $4,875 FOR TURNOUT GEAR...AND...MAQUOKETA RESCUE SQUAD, $4,720 FOR AIR PACKS.

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY  

90 DEGREES TODAY...4 SHORT OF THE 1934 RECORD.

FAMILY DOLLAR HELD A GRAND OPENING TODAY OF ITS DISTRIBUTION CENTER JUST SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA.
IT WAS BY INVITATION ONLY...AND I WAS HAPPY TO BE ONE OF AROUND 100 INVITED. THE EVENT STARTED AT 10:45 IN ONE OF THEIR CONFERENCE ROOMS. IOWA LT. GOV. SALLY PEDERSON GREETED THE FAMILY DOLLAR DIGNATARIES AND THE GUESTS, SAYING HOW HAPPY IOWA IS TO HAVE THIS BIG COMPANY....RANKED 443 ON THE FORTUNE 500 LIST. DAVID ALEXANDER, CEO, FROM THE COMPANY HEADQUARTERS IN CHARLOTTE, NC....THEN SPOKE AND SAID THE NEW CENTER, IN OPERATION ONLY ABOUT 60 DAYS ALREADY IS THE MOST EFFICIENT OF THEIR SEVERAL CENTERS. THEN...ABOUT 8 GROUPS WERE FORMED TO TAKE A TOUR OF THE FACILITY. LOTS OF WALKING ON THE TOUR AS THE BUILDING IS EQUAL TO 20 FOOTBALL FIELDS IN SIZE. LOTS OF FORKLIFTS RUNNING AROUND...OVER 9,000 FEET OF CONVEYORS..LOTS OF COMPUTERS AND ABOUT 170 PER SHIFT TO KEEP THE STORE ITEMS MOVING FROM THE TIME THEY ARRIVE FROM THE FACTORY UNTIL THEY ARE INTO A SEMI AND HEADED FOR ONE OF 500 STORES
SERVICED BY THE MAQUOKETA CENTER. I AND EVERYONE WAS VERY IMPRESSED WITH THE FACILILTY, WHICH IS IN OPERATION MONDAY THRU FRIDAY, WITH 2 SHIFTS AND A 3RD FOR MAINTENACE, PLUS. AFTER THE TOUR, WE WERE ALL TREATED TO A CATERED DINNER OF BEEF AND CHICKEN...AND DESSERT TOO. THE LUNCH HOUR MEAL WAS SERVED IN ONE OF TWO EMPLOYEE LARGE LUNCH AND BREAK ROOMS. THERE IS ALSO AN OUTDOOR BREAK AREA WITH OUTDOOR GRILLS AND THE ONLY PLACE FOR THE SMOKERS. THE COMPANY WILL NOT HAVE A PUBLIC OPEN HOUSE. THAT'S TOO BAD...PEOPLE WOULD REALLY ENJOY VISITING THIS NEW HUGE DISTRIBUTION CENTER. BUT, THE COMPANY HAS SOME VERY GOOD REASONS WHY NOT TO HAVE A PUBLIC OPEN HOUSE, THAT WOULD PROBABLY DRAW THOUSANDS.

A SURPRISE AT THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING THIS WEEK IN MAQUOKETA. THE POPULAR,WELL-LIKED FFA AND AG TEACHER BRANDON TOLLE RESIGNED AND HAS ACCEPTED AN INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY POSITION AT CENTRAL SCHOOLS OF DEWITT. HE WILL HAVE LESS WORK HOURS THERE. ALSO LEAVING, TO MOVE CLOSER TO HOME IN
ILLINOIS, TED LAMB, INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY TEACHER.

MORE HOSPITAL BOARD MEETING NEWS. THE HOSPITAL BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR CALLS FOR A PROJECTED INCOME OF $10,271.795....WITH EXPENSES ESTIMATED AT 10,103,184....LEAVING AN OPERATING INCOME OF 95,700. BUT, THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE TAX MONEY FROM THE COUNTY, OF $795,000...SAME AS LAST YEAR.

JACK BOLLINGER, AGE 74, OF MAQUOKETA DIED YESTERDAY MORNING IN HIS RURAL HOME, AFTER A SUDDEN ILLNESS. HE WORKED FOR CLINTON ENGINES AND ALSO FARMED. SURVIVED BY: 1 DAUGHTER, CAROL DION OF MAQUOKETA....2 SONS, JOHN AND MARK OF MAQUOKETA...3 SISTERS AND 2 BROTHERS, INCLUDING TOM BOLLINGER OF MAQUOKETA.

PAULA SUE HEISER, 35, OF DAVENPORT AND FORMERLY OF DELMAR, DIED SUNDAY IN DAVENPORT FROM INJURIES FROM A BEATING. TWO MEN HAVE BEEN ARRESTED.
SHE IS SURVIVED 2 DAUGHTERS, HER FATHER AND MOTHER...AND ALSO A SISTER IN MAQUOKETA, JODI HEISER.

MAQUOKETA'S HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION WILL BE AT 2 THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON.

KMAQ WILL BROADCAST THE CEREMONY.

KEEP COOL.

DENNIS VOY
 

A COUPLE INCHES OF RAIN THIS MORNING AND SUNNY AND HOT AND HUMID THIS AFTERNOON. HIGH 82.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS HAD TO SETTLE FOR 3RD PLACE IN THE STATE GOLF TOURNAMENT TODAY AT GRANGER, NORTH OF DES MOINES. GRINNELL (3 STROKES BEHIND MAQUOKETA YESTERDAY) TOOK FIRST PLACE WITH A 36-HOLE TOTAL OF 681....CLEAR LAKE FINISHED 2ND AT 683 AND MAQUOKETA 3RD AT 700.
YESTERDAY, THE DAVIS TWINS EACH HAD AN 82. TODAY, BROOKE HAD AN 80 AND BRITTNEY A 93.
3RD IN THE STATE...STILL GREAT. GRINNELL THE DEFENDING CHAMPIONS.

THE JACKSON COUNTY HOSPITAL BOARD OF TRUSTEES MET YESTERDAY AND APPROVED A LOW BID FROM PRISM CONTRUCTION OUT OF KIELER, WISCONSIN, FOR CONSTRUCTION OF PHASE ONE AT THE HOSPITAL...A NEW DIALYSIS AREA AND TEMPORARY REHAB SERVICE OFFICES.
THE 2ND LOW BID WAS BY G.L. STOCKHAM AND SONS IN MAQUOKETA...$17,000 HIGHER THAN THE PRISM BID. THE WINNING BID WAS $362,834...AND THEY RECEIVED A TOTAL OF 8 BIDS. WORK ON THE PROJECT WILL BEGIN IN JUNE...WITH 90 DAYS FOR COMPLETION.

THE HAYNES GREYHOUND KENNELS AT LAMOTTE, OWNED BY JASON AND LYNN HAYNES, HAD 3 DOGS IN THE BIGGEST GREYHOUND RACE IN THE NATION, MONDAY, IN KANSAS CITY AND TWO OF THE DOGS FINISHED 1ST AND 2ND IN THE FEATURE RACE AND WON OVER $175,000. BOTH MALES ....AND...THEIR MOTHER ALSO WON NEARLY $7,000. PRETTY PROFITABLE DAY...AND THE FIRST TIME THEY HAD DOGS THAT QUALIFIED FOR THE RACES. BACK IN THE 80'S, JASON WAS A JACKSON COUNTY SUPERVISOR.

JACK BOLLINGER, AGE 74, DIED THIS MORNING AT HIS HOME IN RURAL MAQUOKETA. SERVICES PENDING AT CARSON'S.

GOT AN E-MAIL FROM A FORMER MAQUOKETA RESIDENT WANTING TO KNOW THE WHEREABOUTS OF JOHN RUFF.
ANYONE WITH INFORMATION CAN JUST E-MAIL ME AT kmaq@kmaq.com AND I'LL GET BACK TO THIS PERSON.

THAT'S IT FOR ANOTHER REPORT.

BELLEVUE HAS A NICE WEB SITE...www.bellevueia.com

DENNIS VOY









 

HIGH TODAY OF 87.

AT THE CHAMBER MONTHLY LUNCHEON TODAY, THE HEAD MAN AT THE LOCAL FAMILY DOLLAR DISTRIBUTION CENTER HERE IN MAQUOKETA SPOKE. HE IS BRIAN BIVONA AND HIS TITLE IS VICE-PRESIDENT OF DISTRIBUTION. HE HAS HELPED OPEN 4 OTHER CENTERS LIKE HERE IN MAQUOKETA...ALL IN THE PAST 5 YEARS.
THIS TIME, HE HAS PURCHASED A HOUSE IN MAQUOKETA AND HE AND HIS WIFE AND 3 CHILDREN PLAN TO STAY HERE FOR SOME TIME. HE HAS BEEN WITH THE COMPANY, ORGANIZED IN 1959, FOR 10 YEARS. THE MAN WHO STARTED THE FAMILY DOLLAR CHAIN OF STORES IS STILL ACTIVE. NOW, FAMILY DOLLAR HAS 4,300 RETAIL STORES IN 39 STATES. THE COMPANY DID 3.6 BILLIONS DOLLARS IN SALES IN FISCAL YEAR 2001.
MAQUOKETA'S DISTRIBUTION CENTER COVERS 21 ACRES UNDER ONE ROOF AND SERVES 500 STORES. OVER 2,500 PEOPLE APPLIED FOR A JOB HERE, AND TO DATE, 425 HAVE BEEN HIRED AND THAT WILL GROW TO 500 BY LATER THIS YEAR.

AT THE STATE GOLF TOURNAMENT TODAY, THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS DID GREAT...AND AFTER THE FIRST 18 HOLES, THEY ARE IN FIRST PLACE. THE FINAL 18 HOLES WILL BE PLAYED TOMORROW. MAQUOKETA SHOT A 341 TODAY AT THE GRANGER GOLF COURSE.

PAYING A VISIT TO MAQUOKETA LAST THURSDAY, RETIRED ASSEMBLY OF GOD PASTOR, DON CRAWFORD, NOW LIVING IN BURLINGTON. LEFT MAQUOKETA IN THE 80'S. WIFE WAS WITH HIM, BUT I DIDN'T GET TO SEE HERE.

VISITING A COUPLE DAYS OVER THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND...
SHERRY WATTERS....VISITING HER PARENTS LOUIE AND ELAINE WATTERS AND FAMILY. SHERRY HAS BEEN IN NEW ORLEANS FOR OVER 20 YEARS. SHE IS AN ATTORNEY. SHE WORKS FOR THE STATE WITH CHILD ABUSE MATTERS AND ALSO WORKS SOME FOR THE PUBLIC DEFENDERS OFFICE.

BETTY WEETS MOTT OF LONGMONT, COLORADO, DIED SUDDENLY LAST WEDNESDAY THERE. SURIVORS INCLUDE HER HUSBAND, ROBERT, TWO SONGS, TOW DAUGHTERS, FOUR SISTERS, INCLUDING MARLONA STEINER OF MAQUOKETA AND TWO BROTHERS, INCLUDING STANLEY WEETS OF MAQUOKETA.

COUNTRY STARS GEORGE JONES, AARON TIPPIN, TOBY KEITH AND STEVE HOLY WILL APPEAR AT THIS SUMMER'S GREAT JONES COUNTY FAIR AT MONTICELLO...JULY 17-21.

STOP BY AGAIN TOMORROW....FIND OUT IF WE HAVE THE STATE GOLF CHAMPS HERE.

DENNIS VOY
 

SUNNY AND WARM TODAY, HIGH OF 76.

CHUCK BURNETT OF MAQUOKETA, A LONG TIME DISPATCHER FOR THE IOWA STATE PATROL WAS HONORED LAST NIGHT AT THE MAQUOKETA OPTIMIST CLUB RESPECT FOR LAW BANQUET HELD AT THE COUNTRY CLUB. HE RETIRED EARLIER THIS YEAR AFTER 32 YEARS WITH THE PATROL.

IN COURT NEWS, MATTHEW D.BAKER OF MAQUOKETA, AGE 32, WAS CHARGED WITH SELLING TOBACCO PRODUCTS TO A JUVINILE WHILE HE WORKED AT HOV'S PUB IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA.

BEULAH NELSON, AGE 86, OF CLINTON,DIED SUNDAY AT A CLINTON HOSPITAL. SHE WAS A NURSE AND SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SISTER IN MAQUOKETA, PEARL BLOOM.

ARNOLD MEYER, AGE 81, OF MAQUOKETA DIED EARLY THIS MORNING AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL, FOLLOWING A 33 YEAR BATTLE WITH MS. HE WAS A FARMER AND MECHANIC MUCH OF HIS LIFE, UNTIL STRICKEN WITH MS. THEN, HE WORKED PART TIME FOR ME AT MY THEATRES. HE IS MY FATHER-IN-LAW. A GOOD MAN.
ARNOLD IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, HELEN, ONE DAUGHTER, MY WIFE, NANCY, AND 3 SONS, FRED IN MAQUOKETA, GARY IN ALBEQUERQUE AND DON IN CLINTON, OKLAHOMA, ALSO A SISTER, CHARLENE RUPP IN MAQUOKETA AND 3 BROTHERS. ALSO SURVIVED BY 12 GRANDCHILDREN AND 13 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN. HE WAS A GOOD KMAQ LISTENER TOO....AND ST. LOUIS CARDINAL FAN...HE HAD NO CHOICE REGARDING BOTH.
MY LAST REAL CHAT WITH HIM WAS ABOUT A MONTH AGO WHEN THEY HAD ME OVER FOR NOON LUNCH OF HAM AND BEAN SOUP AS ONLY HELEN CAN MAKE IT. ARNOLD...KEEP LISTENING UP THERE.

THAT'S IT FOR TODAY. LOTS OF RELATIVES COMING OUR WAY THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS.

GOOD NIGHT.

DENNIS VOY  

IT JUST HAPPENED AGAIN....ALMOST DONE WITH NICE REPORT AND LOST IT. I DON'T HAVE TIME TO DO IT AGAIN...BUT WILL MAKE TIME....

SO..HERE GOES FOR A 2ND TIME.

SUNNY, WINDY TODAY..HIGH IN 70'S.

AT SCHOOL BOARD MEETING THIS WEEK, THE BOARD ADDED MORE MATH REQUIREMENTS IN ORDER TO GRADUATE FROM MCHS. ALSO, THE BOARD HEARD THAT 135 SENIORS WILL GRADUATE JUNE 2ND. ONE MORE POSSIBLE, IF HE/SHE COMPLETES WORK ON REQUIREMENTS TO GRADUATE.

THE MAQUOKETA M.E.A.....EDUCATION ASSOCIATION...HELD THEIR ANNUAL DINNER LAST NIGHT AT MICKEL'S CATERING HALL. M.E.A. PRESIDENT BETH KROGRMAN PRESIDED. THE FRIEND OF EDUCATION AWARD WENT TO FORMER SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER BRUCE PAULS, OWNER OF PHYSICAL THERAPY SERVICES IN MAQUOKETA. TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD WENT TO LUJEAN GOHLMAN GOCEK, WHO IS RETIRING AFTER 33 YEARS AND MOVING OUT EAST. OTHER RETIREES HONORED LAST NIGHT: ALICE HAGER, JEAN RENNER, CLAIRE HOYE, WARREN ROBERTS AND KEN BRADY. KATHY DURKOP WAS INTRODUCED AS NEW PRESIDENT FOR THE COMING YEAR.

I THINK IT WAS IN YESTERDAY'S DAILY REPORT THAT I MENTIONED A PUBLIC OPEN HOUSE IN EARLY JUNE AT THE NEW FAMILY DOLLAR DISTRIBUTION CENTER JUST SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA. I WAS WRONG. IT IS NOT FOR THE PUBLIC. IT WILL BE A PRIVATE GET-TOGETHER FOR THE EMPLOYEES AND THEIR FAMILIES.

DROVE THROUGH HORSESHOE POND PARK SOUTH OF TOWN AFTER TODAY'S NOON ROTARY MEETING. COUNTED 18 RV SITES. ALSO HAS NEW DUMP-STATION FOR THOSE...AND THERE'S A NEW RESTROOM AND SHOWER BUILDING, WITH A TOURIST MAP AND POP MACHINE, ALL WELL LIT. THE OLD SALVATION ARMY BUILDING IS OUT THERE AND LOOKS GREAT....OPEN HOUSE PLANNED FOR IT IN JUNE AND IT WILL BE USED BY THE BOY SCOUTS AND FOR COMMUNITY MEETINGS. THERE IS A NEW STEP-WAY TO UP ON THE HILL WHERE CAMPING CAN BE DONE. THE POND ITSELF LOOKS AS GOOD AS I CAN EVER REMEMBER....NO SILT OR WEEDS...AND NICE PLACE FOR A DAD TO FISH WITH HIS KIDS FROM THE SHORE OR PIER. AND FOR PICNICS, LOTS OF PICNIC TABLES AND TWO SHELTERS, PLUS PLAYGROUND FOR THE KIDS. TAKE A DRIVE THROUGH IT YOURSELF NEXT TIME YOU COME ON HOME TO THE TIMBER CITY.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS.

REMEMBER, IF YOU EVER HAVE ANY NEWS OR COMMENTS FOR THIS DAILY REPORT...JUST E-MAIL ME AT
kmaq@kmaq.com

THANKS FOR CHECKING IN AGAIN TODAY.

DENNIS VOY





 

BEAUTIFUL DAY...HIGH OF 64.

AT THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING LAST NIGHT, IT WAS LEARNED THAT THIS FALL IN THE SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION, CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS BILL SCHWENKER AND ZOE MCMAHON WILL BE RUNNING AGAINST EACH OTHER. CURRENTLY, THEY'RE IN SEPARATE DISTRICTS, BUT A NEW MAP REALIGNS THE DISTRICTS WITHIN THE CITY OF MAQUOKETA. THIS IS REQUIRED BY THE STATE ABOUT EVERY 10 YEARS TO ADJUST FOR POPULATION.

THE MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASEBALL TEAM, COACHED AGAIN THIS YEAR BY BRIGGS ELEMENTARY PRINCIIPAL PAT BOLLMAN, WON THEIR FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON, HERE IN TOWN, OVER SOLON.

JIM DEAN AND KATHERINE BRAUN, OF NORTHPORT,NEW YORK, ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN MAY 14TH.
GRANDPARENTS ARE JIM AND MARILYN DEAN OF MAQUOKETA.

H. PAULINE WILSON, AGE 83, OF MAQUOKETA,DIED LAST NIGHT AT A DUBUQUE HOSPITAL. SHE WORKED FOR MANY YEARS, WITH HER FIRST JOB AT SPIRO'S GROCERY STORE ON NORTH MAIN STREET. AFTER THAT SHE WORKED FOR SEVERAL OTHER COMPANIES IN MAQUOKETA, INCLUDING NATIONAL TEA, CLINTON ENGINES, JC PENNEY AND THE JACKSON COUNTY ABSTRACT COMPANY,RETIRING IN 1974. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, HARLEN, PLUS 2 DAUGHTERS, CAROLYN IN SAIPAN...AND PAULA IN ANDREW..AND 2 SONS, RICHARD IN ARIZONA AND CHUCK IN MAQUOKETA.

PAULINE BANOWETZ, AGE 95, OF SUGAR CREEK, DID YESTERDAY. SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SON, VIRL BANOWETZ IN MAQUOKETA.

SORRY FOR THE SHORT REPORT.

DENNIS VOY

 

SUNNY AND COOL, HIGH OF 57....WARMER WEATHER COMING.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL GOLF TEAM IS GOING TO STATE....THE FIRST FOR A CARDINAL GIRLS TEAM SINCE 1989. THAT YEAR, MAQUOKTA WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP TOO. THE CARDINAL GIRLS TODAY WON THE REGIONAL TOURNAMENT WITH A 342 TEAM SCORE. BROOKE DAVIS WAS MEDALIST WITH A 78. HER TWIN SISTER SHOT AN 82. NIKKI GOODALL HAD A 90, VALERIE CRIST A 92 AND STACEY MANDERSCHEID A 105.
THEY WILL PLAY AT JESTER PARK GOLD COURSE AT GRANGER, NEAR DES MOINES, ...18 HOLES ...BOTH TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NEXT WEEK, MAY 28TH AND 29TH. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS GOLF TEAM AND THEIR COACH TERRI TAYLOR.

LAST SATURDAY, THE DEWITT GIRL'S TRACK TEAM WON THE STATE 2-A TRACK CHAMPIONSHIP AT DRAKE STADIUM IN DES MOINES.

A 17 YEAR OLD MONTICELLO TEENAGER WAS KILLED IN A TWO CAR ACCIDENT AT 6:40 THIS MORNING SOUTH OF ANAMOSA AND LAST NIGHT AROUND 8 P.M...A CLINTON MAN WAS KILLED IN A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT JUST SOUTH OF SABULA.

JOHN QUINN, AGE 58, FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, WAS SWORN IN FRIDAY AS THE U.S. MARSHALL FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF IOWA. THE CEREMONY WAS AT HIS HOME IN CEDAR RAPIDS. HE WAS WITH THE IOWA STATE PATROL FOR 34 YEARS AND WAS CHOSEN IN MARCH BY PRESIDENT BUSH FOR THE US MARSHALL OPENING.

THE CITY COUNCILL MEET TONIGHT.

THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD MEETS AT 6 TONIGHT IN DELMAR WITH THE DELWOOD BOARD AND THEN AT 8 WILL HAVE ITS REGULAR MEETING HERE IN MAQUOKETA.

BACCALAUREATE SERVICES FOR MAQUOEKETA COMMUNITY
COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS WILL BE AT 7 PM WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE HIGH SCHOOL GYM.
SPEAKERS WILL BE HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS TIM HORST AND ALI RORAH AND GUEST SPEAKER WILL BE JIMMY SNOWDEN WHO GRADUATED FROM MCHS TWO YEARS AGO AND IS NOW ATTENDING HANNIBEL LA GRANGE COLLEGE IN MISSOURI. THE DELIVERANCE BAND FROM THE SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH IN MAQUOKETA WILL PROVIDE THE MUSIC. THE EVENT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND WILL ALSO BE BROADCAST LIVE ON KMAQ-AM.

THE APRIL IOWA UNEMPLOYMENT RATE ROSE FROM 3.4 IN MARCH TO 3.6 IN APRIL. HERE IN JACKSON COUNTY, THE RATE WAS 6.8 IN MARCH AND WENT DOWN TO 6.3 IN APRIL....STILL VERY HIGH WHEN YOU CONSIDER AROUND 300 OR MORE PEOPLE WENT TO WORK THIS SPRING AT THE NEW FAMILY DOLLAR DISTRIBUTION PLANT SOUTH OF TOWN.

FAMILY DOLLAR WILL HAVE A BIG OPEN HOUSE ON SATURDAY, JUNE 8TH.

THE GENERAC PLANT, ALSO NEW ON MAQUOKETA'S SOUTH SIDE....STILL HAS FEW EMPLOYEES...A LITTLE MORE THAN A HANDFULL. WHEN CONSTRUCTION BEGAN AND THE PLANT WAS ANNOUNCED FOR MAQUOKETA, IT WAS ESTIMATED THAT IT WOULD HAVE AROUND 200 EMPLOYEES THE FIRST YEAR AND EVENTUALLY GET UP TO 600. APPARENTLY THE DEMAND FOR THE LARGE GENERATORS IS NOT GOOD AT THE PRESENT TIME. EVERYONE IS HOPEFUL THEY WILL GET ORDERS AND SOON WILL BE EMPLOYING MORE PEOPLE. IT IS A BEAUTIFUL NEW FACILITY.

MARVIN SCHAUF, 67, OF CLINTON DIED SATURDAY. SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SON, DEAN, OF MAQUOKETA.

53 FROM KMAQ AREA WENT UP TO MILWAUKEE YESTERDAY TO SEE THE CUBS FINIALLY WIN A GAME, BEATING MILWAUKEE IN 11 INNINGS. THE BUS WAS SPONSORED BY KMAQ TRAVEL. GOOD TIME BY ALL.
WE HAVE ANOTHER BUS GOING TWO WEEKS FROM TODAY AND SEATS ARE STILL AVAILABLE ON THE BUS.

BORING GAME FOR ME, A ST. LOUIS CARDINALS FAN.
BUT, IT WAS FUN WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD PUT UP ALL THE WINNING RUNS FOR THE CARDINALS YESTERDAY IN THEIR GAME AGAINST THE REDS...AT BUSCH STADIUM. THE CARDS ARE HOT.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY

 

LOTS OF RAIN THIS MORNING...CLOUDY SKIES THIS AFTERNOON WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 50'S.
NOT A NICE DAY..AND THE FORECAST FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK COULD BE BETTER.

LAST NIGHT, I ATTENDED THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY CLUB'S ANNUAL SCHOLASTIC DINNER AT THE METHODIST CHURCH SOCIAL HALL, WHERE THE TOP 20 MCHS GRADUATING SENIORS WERE RECOGNIZED AND GIVEN A CERTIFICATE FOR FRAMING. EACH ROTARIAN HOSTED A STUDENT AND PARENTS. ROTARIAN JACK WILLEY WAS THE EMCEE....SUPT. KIM HUCKSTADT GIVE A SHORT SPEECH AND THERE WAS SOME MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT.
THE 20 HONORED: MEGAN ANDRESEN...DAN TAYLOR...
AMY KOOS...KAREN HORA...JESSICA SCHAU...PETER CUENA...ADAM BRIMEYER...JOE IHRIG...BRENDA DUHME...MEGAN LAWSON...ABBY FLENKER...JOSHUA SCHAUF...NICHOLAS PETAROS...JENNIFER STROYAN...JUSTIN HEPKER...JOSHUA SEVERIN...STACY MANDERSCHEID...BRITTNEY SHIREMAN...RENEE SMALL...AND ALI RORAH. I HOSTED JUSTIN HEPKER ALONG WITH HIS PARENTS, LEIGHTON OF KMAQ..AND CINDY. IT WAS ALSO ANNOUNCED THAT GRADUATE BRIAN HAYWARD, SON OF RICH AND MARY HAYWARD WILL BE A FOREIGN EXCHANGE STUDENT NEXT YEAR.

JACKSON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS YESTERDAY DECLINED TO ACT ON A REQUST FROM THE CITY OF MAQUOKETA CONCERNING A TAX INCREMENT FINANCING PROJECT SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA. THE CITY HAD ASKED THE COUNTY TO APPROVE A T-I-F PROJECT FOR LARRY MCCAULLEY WHO IS BUILDING A SEED STORE NEXT TO BRIDGEPORT AUTO ON OLD HIGHWAY 61 SOUTH. THE BUILDING HAS GONE UP THE LAST TWO WEEKS AND IS LOCATED IN THE COUNTY. MCCAULEY WANTS TO HOOK ONTO THE CITY'S WATER AND SEWER LINES. THE SUPERVIORS WANT THE COUNTY ATTORNEY TO LOOK OVER THE DOCUMENTS BEFORE TAKING UP HE MATTER AGAIN.

THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS BEEN AWARDED AN
$84,068 GRANT TO FIX THE BRIGGS ROOF, AND REPLACE AIR-CONDITIONING UNITS AND OVERHAUL HEATING UNITS AT CARDINAL SCHOOL. THE GRANT WAS AWARDED THROUGH THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL DEAN OF STUDENTS DENNIS STREETS HAS BEEN NAMED WALMART TEACHER OF THE YEAR FOR MAQUOKETA. WITH THE HONOR GOES A $500 CHECK PAYABLE TO THE SCHOOL. HE WILL NOT COMPETE ON THE STATE LEVEL.

ON THE STORK REPORT....JASON AND WENDY GAVIN OF RICHMOND, VIRGINA, ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN MAY 14TH IN THAT CITY. THE PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE JACK AND BEATRICE GAVIN OF MAQUOKETA.

ALSO..JOHN AND NETA NISSEN OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN MAY 8TH IN THE QUAD CITIES.

SERVICES ARE PENDING AT THE HAYLOCK, O'HARA AND LAHEY FUNERAL HOME IN MAQUOKETA FOR LUCILLE E. EFFERING, AGE 86, OF MAQUOKETA, WHO DIED THIS MORNING AT THE MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER.

AND THAT'S IT FOR TODAY...

THANKS FOR CHECKING-IN.

DENNIS VOY
 

BEAUTIFUL TUESDAY....SUNNY AND HIGH AROUND 60.

MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL HAS A NEW VARSITY GIRL'S BASKETBALL COACH. TRACY WILKINS AND HE WILL ALSO BE THE NEW TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS TEACHER AT THE HIGH SCHOOL. HE REPLACES WARREN ROBERTS AS BUSINESS TEACHER. WARREN IS RETIRING. IN THE COACHING JOB, HE REPLACES MARK KURTZ, WHO RESIGNED THAT POSITION AFTER THE SEASON. HE WILL BE PAID $29,922 PLUS ANOTHER $3,907 FOR THE VARSITY GIRL'S BASKETBALL COACHING JOB. WILKINS HAS TAUGHT AND COACHED AT NORTH MAHASKA HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS AND WANTED TO GET INTO A LARGER DISTRICT. HE AND HIS WIFE HAVE 2 CHILDREN.

TWO MORE DEER HIT. ORVILLE STEINES,JR. OF BELLEVUE HIT ONE LAST NIGHT NEAR ANDREW AND ARLO YAROLEM OF MAQUOKETA HIT ONE YESTERDAY MORNING NEAR MAQUOKETA. NO INJURIES.

AN 18-YEAR-OLD FROM FISHERS, INDIANA, WAS FINED $155 FOR SELLING DOOR-TO-DOOR IN MAQUOKETA WITHOUT A PEDDLER'S LICENSE. HE WAS ARRESTED LAST NIGHT ON SOUTH PROSPECT FOR SELLING CLEANING PRODUCTS.

SHELLY DEWITT, AGE 24, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH OWI AND STRIKING AN UNATTENED VEHILCLE EARLY LAST SATURDAY MORNING.

SHOWN FLAGEL, AGE 26, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS FINED $90 ON CHARGES OF VIOLATING THE CITY NOISE ORDINACE. MAQUOKETA POLICE SAY HE WAS RUNNING A STOCK CAR IN HIS GARAGE AT 2:20 SUNDAY MORNING ON NORTH 5TH STREET.......2:20 IN THE MORNING.

MORE ON DON SIDERS...WHO DIED SATURDAY MORNING AT MILL VALLEY CARE CENTER IN BELLEVUE. HE GRADUATED FROM MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL. HE WAS MARRIED IN 1960 AND HIS WIFE DEANNA DIED IN 1998. HE OWNED AND OPERATED 'QUO-MO-KETA' ANTIQUES, RURAL MAQUOKETA, FOR MANY YEARS. HE IS SURVIVED BY A FOSTER SON IN MINNESOTA. HE WAS 71.

BIG MYSTERY IN TOWN...WHO BOUGHT ATTORNEY CORLIS BATY'S LAW OFFICE BUILDING FROM CORLIS.. ON WEST PLATT, WHICH HAS SEVERAL RENTALS INCLUDING THE LAW OFFICE.
WE HAVE BEEN TOLD IT IS NOT BRAD DEERY. BRAD DEERY DID BUY JOHN BICKFORD'S GAS STATION.
IT WILL BE TORN DOWN.

TROY AND RAEANN THEIDE, OWNERS OF THE DECKER HOTEL AND RESTAURANT, HAD TO TURN AWAY OVER 100 PEOPLE WHO CAME FOR THE MOTHER'S DAY BREAKFAST.
TOO BUSY...NOT ENOUGH ROOM. THEIR RESTAURANT IS VERY POPULAR.

RAY MARTIN IS THE NEW MANAGER AND GROUNDSKEEPER AT THE NEW PRAIRIE CREEK GOLF COURSE JUST SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA. FAMOUS GOLFER J MICHAEL KENYON AND HIS WIFE JOAN, PLAYED THE NEW COURSE LAST FRIDAY.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRL'S WON THE GIRL'S DISTRICT GOLF TOURNAMENT YESTERDAY HERE IN MAQUOKETA. CASCADE WAS SECOND AND DEWITT THIRD. ALL 3 TEAMS MOVED ON TO THE REGIONAL NEXT MONDAY. THE CARDINALS SHOULD MAKE IT TO THE STATE MEET.

THANKS FOR ANOTHER VISIT.

DENNIS VOY



 

WE GOT AN INCH AND A QUARTER OF NEEDED RAIN OVER THE WEEKEND....MOSTLY SATURDAY. SUNDAY, MOTHER'S DAY, WAS MAINLY COOL AND CLOUDY.

TODAY...CLOUDY THIS MORNING...SUNNY PART OF THIS AFTERNOON AND NOW, LATE AFTERNOON, HEAVY RAIN COMING DOWN. TODAY'S HIGH, 65.

MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD MEETING TONIGHT. THEY MAY HIRE A NEW GIRLS VARSITY BASKETBALL COACH AND BUSINESS TEACHER FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL.

FRIDAY, MARLENE BENDIXEN, AGE 47, AND LINDA WILKE, AGE 29, BOTH OF MAQUOKETA, WERE IN A FENDER-BENDER 2-CAR ACCIDENT...NO CHARGES AND NO INJURIES.

SOMEONE TOOK SUE ANDERSON'S 20-INCH BIKE FROM HER GARAGE AT 719 W. QUARRY, ON FRIDAY. BIKE VALUED AT $100.

DICK GORRELL, AGE 73, LONGTIME (1953-1990)
MAQUOKETA OPTOMITRIST DIED SATURDAY AT HIS HOME IN DUBUQUE. HE HAD BEEN LIVING THERE SINCE RETIREMENT. SURVIVED BY WIFE, ROSEMARY, A DAUGHTER, CAROL, IN COUNCIL BLUFFS, AND 3 SONS, PAUL IN DUBUQUE, LEE IN JAPAN AND DR. DEAN IN URBANDALE. DICK AND I WERE IN LIONS CLUB TOGETHER FOR A LOT OF YEARS. NICE GUY.

SERVICES ARE PENDING FOR DONALD SIDERS, AGE 71, OF MILL VALLEY CARE CENTER IN BELLEVUE AND FORMERLY OF ANDREW AND MAQUOKETA. HE DIED SATURDAY MORNING AT MILL VALLEY.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS WON THE DISTRICT 2-A GOLF TOURNAMENT TODAY. THEY HAD A VERY GOOD 343 TEAM SCORE, WITH CASCADE COMING IN SECOND. BRITANY DAVIS OF MAQUOKETA WAS MEDALIST WITH A 78.

DEAN PENNINGROTH OF MAQUOKETA WAS OUR BINGO WINNER TODAY ON KMAQ.

MARCELLA HENEKE, FORMER DOWNTOWN BUSINESS OWNER
(FOR MANY YEARS, SHE OWNED DOLLS AND DOODADS) AND THEN RETIRED. NOW SHE IS IN CHARGE OF THE MAQUOKETA TOURISM WELCOME CENTER....A VOLUNTEER POSITION. THE BUILDING, BUILDT BY HIGH SCHOOL SHOP CLASS, IS LOCATED ON CORNER OF MCDONALDS LOT. SHE WILL BE ON JUST TALK TOMORROW TO TALK ABOUT IT. NUMBER 1 QUESTION THAT IS ASKED BY PEOPLE WHEN THEY STOP IN......WHERE IS THE MAQUOEKTA CAVES STATE PARK? MARCELLA WON'T BE WORKING MUCH THERE HERSELF, BUT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SCHEDULING VOLUNTEERS TO TAKE A SHIFT AT THE BUILDING. MARCELLA'S HUSBAND LARRY WON'T BE HELPING HER MUCH OUT THERE...HE IS A BIG GOLFER. RETIRED FROM RUNNING THE LAKEHURST DAM FOR MANY YEARS.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY








 

YESTERDAY WAS A BEAUTIFUL FRIDAY.

TODAY, RAINY ALL DAY..AND COOL....

TONIGHT MORE RAIN AND NOT A GOOD FORECAST FOR MOTHER'S DAY TOMORROW.

A MAQUOKETA WOMAN, AIDA COOK, AGE 31, IS IN THE JONES COUNTY JAIL ON A $19,500 CASH BOND, AFTER CHARGED BY JACKSON COUNTY DEPUTY RUSS LONG OF IDENTITY THEFT, A CLASS D FELONY AND ALSO FOR FOR FALSE USE OF A FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT. SHE TOOK $5,000 WORTH OF CASH FROM HER LIVE-IN BOYFRIEND, TODD DECKER, OF RURAL MAQUOKETA, AND ALSO USED DECKER'S CREDIT CARD WITHOUT PERMISSION TO PURCHASE APPROXIMATELY $13,000 IN MERCHANDISE TO BE DELIVERED TO ANOTHER RESIDENCE OUT OF STATE.
DEPUTY LONG SAID COOK WAS APPARENTLY MAKING ARRANGEMENTS TO LEAVE THE STATE. COOK CONFESSED TO USING DECKER'S CREDIT CARD TO MAKE THE PURCHASES. COURT DOCUMENTS SHOW SHE LISTS HAVING NO JOB...AND SHE ALSO HAS A CHILD. JIM BEAR, PRESTON ATTORNEY, IS HER COURT-APPOINTED ATTORNEY.

JOSEPH BERZLE, AGE 45, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS FINED $90 ON CHARGES OF PUBLIC INTOXICATION AND $255 ON CHARGES OF DISORDERLY CONDUCT. HE WAS ARRESTED THURSDAY NIGHT NEAR BILL'S TAP IN MAQUOKETA.
POLICE OFFICER ROBERT SIMONSON SAID BERZLE ARGUED WITH A BAR PATRON, THEN KNOCKED THE PERSON OFF THE STOOL AND ONTO THE FLOOR UNDER THE POOL TABLE. THE VICTIM ALLEGEDLY RECEIVED A BROKEN RIB IN THE SCUFFLE.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS.

MOMS... AND GRANDMOMS...HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY.

DENNIS VOY




 

SUNNY, WINDY AND COOL TODAY, HIGH OF 60.

JUST A COUPLE STORIES.

VELMA DURKOP, AGE 87, DIED LAST NIGHT AT THE MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER. SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SISTER IN MAQUOKETA, VERA PAVLISTA.

THE MAQUOKETA MEN'S BOWLING ASSOCIATION HELD ITS ANNUAL GOLF MEET, DINNER AND AWARDS NIGHT, LAST NIGHT AT THE MAQUOKETA COUNTRY CLUY. OVER 100 IN ATTENDANCE, INCLUDING ABOUT 40 OUT OF TOWN AREA MEMBERS FROM NEIGHBORING TOWNS. ALL ENJOYED A PRIME RIB DINNER, INCLUDING MYSELF.
I WAS INVITED AND MADE AN HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATON. GOT A NICE PLAQUE. JOHN RINGEN WAS THE EMCEE. RON AND SUE HOVEY, OWNERS OF HOV'S PUB, DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA, WERE NAMED SPONSOR OF THE YEAR. THEY HAVE SPONSORED A BOWLING TEAM FOR OVER 20 YEARS. MICK CLARK, OF CLARK EQUIPMENT, WAS INDUCTED INTO THE HALL OF FAME.
LOTS OF FUN HAD BY ALL. BOWLING IS A HEALTHY SPORT IN MAQUOKETA. LOUIE AND JACQUE CLASEN ARE OWNERS OF TIMBER LANES AND HAVE A GOOD BUSINESS.

SHORT REPORT..SORRY.

DENNIS VOY

 

A HOT AFTERNOON...IN THE 80'S.

CHARLES ANDERSON OF ATHENS, GEORGIA, SENT ME AN E-MAIL LAST NIGHT AFTER READING YESTERDAY'S DAILY REPORT, SAYING HE KNEW MARGARET BUTLER WELL. HE SAID HER FAMILY LIVED NEXT DOOR TO HIS ON SOUTH FOURTH STREET. HER DAD WAS SUPERINTENDENT OF MAQUOKETA SCHOOLS AND HER MOTHER A NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT FOR THE CLINTON HERALD. HE SAID HE COULD RELATE A LOT OF INFORMATION ABOUT HER FAMILY IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE HIS E-MAIL ADDRESS, LET ME KNOW.

THE 12TH ANNUAL BETTY CLUB LUNCHEON WILL BE HELD AT THE SENIOR CENTER IN MAQUOKETA, ON JUNE 3RD.
AGAIN THIS YEAR, ONE OF THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS IS BETTY HAGY. ANYONE WITH A BETTY OR ELIZABETH NAME .. OR ANY COMBINATION... IS INVITED.

THE MAQUOKETA KIWANIS CELEBRITY GOLF TOURNAMENT IS A WEEK FORM TODAY, MAY 15TH, AT THE MAQUOKETA COUNTRY CLUB COURSE. THERE WILL BE A DINNER AND AUCTION TOO. ERIC JURGENS, MAQUOKETA'S ALL AMERICAN WRESTLER WILL BE IN IT. ALSO JODY STRITTMATTER, ANOTHER ALL AMERICAN WRESTLER WILL BE THERE.
ALSO, SOME AREA TV COMMENTATORS AND OTHERS WELL- KNOWN IN IOWA, WILL PLAY THE 4-PERSON BEST SHOT TOURNAMENT. A SHOTGUN START AT 2 P.M. AND ANYONE CAN STILL SIGN UP. IF INTERESTED, E-MAIL KMAQ'S LEIGHTON HEPKER AT THE KMAQ E-MAIL ADDRESS, kmaq@kmaq.com.

A MAQUOKETA MAN, ROBERT BENISCHEK, AGE 42, 1022 GERMAN STREET, WAS ARRESTED AT 12:45 YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY CALLED A MAQUOKETA WOMAN AND TOLD HER HE HAD PLANTED A BOMB IN HER CAR. THERE WAS NO BOMB AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS BELIEVE IT WAS A RANDOM CALL AND THERE WAS NO PERSONAL THREAT INTENDED. BENISCHEK WAS RELEASED ON $650 UNSECURED BOND THIS MORNING ON CHARGES OF TELEPHONE HARRASSMENT AND POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHENALIA. HE PLEADED NOT GUILTY AND MARK LAWSON WAS NAMED HS COURT APPOINTED ATTORNEY.

THE POST OFFICES ARE BACK TO NORMAL TODAY AFTER THE ARREST OF THE PIPE BOMBER WAS MADE YESTERDAY NEAR RENO ON I-80. PATRONS NO LONGER NEED TO LEAVE THEIR MAILBOX DOOR OPEN TO GET MAIL.

BISON JERKEY WAS TAKEN FROM THE IOWA BISON COMPANY, IN ANDREW,THE FORMER ANDREW LOCKER.
SIX CASES WERE TAKEN, VALUED AT $1,800.
ALSO ON THE SHERIFF'S BLOTTER, ANGELA WARD OF LAMOTTE REPORTED FOUR TIRES WERE SLASHED ON HER VEHICLE WHILE PARKED IN LAMOTTE EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING. $800 WORTH OF TIRES ON HER 88 LINCOLN. AND..KAY LUBBEN, JUST SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA, REPORTED THAT SOMEONE HAD CUT THEIR FENCE AND A COW AND CALF GOT OUT, BUT WERE RETURNED.

TWO NEW HOMES ARE GOING UP AT THE NEW GOLF COURSE.
BOTH WILL BE FOR SALE. HERE'S YOUR CHANCE TO MOVE BACK TO MAQUOKETA AND LIVE IN A BIG NEW BEAUTIFUL ROOM OVERLOOKING THE GOLF FAREWAYS AND GREENS. CALL RICH HAINSTOCK IF INTERESTED.

THE MAQUOKETA FIREMEN'S BIG BREAKFAST THIS YEAR WILL BE SUNDAY, JUNE 9TH...AT THE FIRE STATION....THE BIGGEST BREAKFAST OF THE YEAR IN MAQUOKETA.....AVERAGING AROUND 1,000 PANCAKES AND EGGS EATERS. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT ADDED A NEW MEMBER LAST WEEK AND IS AT FULL STRENGTH, AT 35 MEMBERS. WE HAVE A GREAT DEPARMENT. AT ROTARY TODAY, WE SAW A DEMONSTRATION OF THE NEW $14,000 CAMERA THAT CAN SEE THRU SMOKE AND DARKNESS IN A BURNING HOME. NEXT PROJECT, TO BUY EACH FIREMEN A NEW OUTFIT TO WEAR WHEN BATTLING A FIRE, AT A COST OF AROUND $1,000 EACH.

ROBERT HUITT,AGE 82,OF DES MOINES, DIED YESTERDAY.
HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, 1 SON AND 2 DAUGHTERS, INCLUDING JUDITH SCHEER OF WAUKON AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA.

RICHARD MEIERS, 59, OF TIPTON, DIED MONDAY. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE, TWO SONS AND ONE DAUGHTER, DEBRA GERARDY OF MAQUOKETA.

THANKS FOR CHECKING IN AGAIN TODAY. YESTERDAY, I HAD A NEAR RECORD 300 CHECKS-INS IN ONE DAY.

DENNIS VOY

 

HIGH TODAY OF 69.

A MAILBOX BOMB HOAX YESTERDAY AT RURAL DELMAR, AT THE BRIAN SCHMIDT FARM. CLINTON COUNTY SHERIFF RICK LINCOLN SAID THE INVESTIGATION IS COMPLETED AND NO CHARGES WILL BE FILED. LINCOLN SAID TWO YOUNG FAMILY MEMBERS HAD PLACED THE DEVICE IN THE MAILBOX IN AN ATTEMPT TO PLAY A PRACTICAL JOKE ON ANOTHER FAMILY MEMBER AND FORGOT TO REMOVE THE ITEM AFTER THE JOKE WAS COMPLETED.

THE IOWA FARM BUREAU HAS AWARDED $1,000 TO THE OHNWARD FINE ARTS CENTER ON EAST PLATT IN MAQUOKETA. THE NEW AUDITORIUM IS GOING UP NOW...THE STEEL FRAMING WORK IS BEING DONE THESE DAYS BY THE VOLUNTEERS. IT WILL COST AROUND $700,000 AND MOST OR ALL OF THAT HAS BEEN RAISED, BUT MORE MONEY IS BEING SOUGHT TO GO INTO A FUND FOR ONGOING OPERATION OF THE AUDITORIUM.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS GOLF TEAM TODAY WON THE BIG BEND CONFERENCE GOLF TOURNAMENT AT THE MAQUOKETA COUNTRY CLUB COURSE. MAQUOKETA'S TEAM SCORE WAS 348. TAKING 2ND, WESTERN DUBUQUE AND 3RD PLACE WAS WON BY CASCADE. SCORING FOR MAQUOKETA...
BROOKE DAVIS 83, NIKKI GOODALL 83, BRITTNEY DAVIS (BROOKE'S TWIN SISTER, BOTH SENIORS) AN 87, VALERIE CRIST, 95, ABBY WIDEL, 95 AND STACY MANDERSCHEID, 109. THE TOP FOUR SCORES ARE COUNTED IN THE TEAM TOTAL.

SOME OF YOU WILL REMEMBER MARGARET BUTLER...A LONGTIME MAQUOKETA SCHOOL TEACHER. SHE DIED ABOUT 3 YEARS AGO. HER DAUGHTER AND FAMILY FROM CALIFORNIA HAVE BEEN IN MAQUOKETA FOR A VISIT AND STOPPED INTO THE COTTAGE THIS WEEK. SHE KEEPS UP WITH MAQUOKETA THRU THIS WEB SITE.
SORRY, I DON'T EVEN HAVE HER NAME. WISH SHE WOULD SIGN OUR GUEST BOOK AND TELL US WHAT SHE IS DOING. PLUS... IF SHE WOULD E-MAIL ME HER E-MAIL ADDRESS (kmaq@kmaq.com) AND I WOULD THEN HAVE IT FOR ANYONE WANTING TO CONTACT HER. SOME PEOPLE PREFER TO SIGN THE GUEST BOOK WITH NAME AND CITY ONLY, AND NOT ENTER E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR FEAR THEY WILL GET ON JUNK MAIL LIST. SO WHAT'S NEW?? EVERY DAY, I GET ADVERTISING OR JUNK MAIL AT MY ADDRESS FROM OVER 25 PLACES...SOMETIMES MORE. NICE THING ABOUT E-MAIL....IT COSTS ME NOTHING AND TAKES ME ONE SECOND TO HIT DELETE.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS TO REPORT TODAY...

SO WILL CLOSE SHOP FOR ANOTHER DAY. PEACE BE WITH YOU!

DENNIS



 

LIGHT RAIN EARLY THIS MORNING.....TODAY SUNNY AND HOT..HIGH OF 85.

I'M SURE MOST OF YOU HAVE READ OR HEARD ABOUT THE MAILBOX PIPE BOMBINGS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY HERE IN EASTERN IOWA, WESTERN ILLINOIS AND NEBRASKA.
NO INCIDENTS IN JACKSON OR CLINTON COUNTY... BUT IN ALL COUNTIES AROUND US.

MAQUOKETA CITY EMPLOYEES WILL LIKELY SEE A 3% SALARY INCREASE BEGINNING IN JULY. THIS CAME OUT IN A PERSONNEL COMMITTEE MEETING THIS MORNING.

POLICE BLOTTER: PAM MORALES REPORTED SATURDAY AFTERNOON IN MAQUOKETA THAT HER 93 CHEVY LUMINA WAS TAKEN FROM HER RESIDENCE AT 708 E.PLATT.
I THINK IT IS STILL MISSING.

JUDY STEINER REPORTED HER FRIEND DOUG HILL'S
VEHICLE WAS DAMAGED WHILE PARKED AT HER RESIDENCE AT 310 N. DEARBORN FRIDAY NIGHT AND UP TO SATURDAY MORNING. SOMETIME DURING THAT TIME PERIOD A CHEMICAL WAS POURED ON THE 2001 FORD MUSTANG....DAMAGES ESTIMATED AT $500.

FOUR VEHICLE-DEER ACCIDENTS OVER THE WEEKEND AGAIN. NO ONE INJURED.

MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT..LONG AGENDA.

SCHOOLBOARD MEETING ALSO TONIGHT...BUT SHOULD NOT BE LONG.

NEW PASTOR FOR FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH ANNOUNCED TODAY. HE REPLACES THE FIRST AND ONLY OTHER PASTOR OF THE CHURCH, DAVE DRESCHER, WHO MOVED FROM THE COMMUNITY EARLIER THIS YEAR. NEW PASTOR IS BARRY WHITLOW, ORIGINALLY FROM CHARLOTTE, N.C. HE WAS A PASTOR FOR A CHURCH IN PELLA IOWA FOR 3 YEAR AND FOR THE PAST 6 YEARS, HAS BEEN A PASTOR IN COLORADO. HE IS A FORMER MOVIE STUNTMAN AND AUTO RACING DRIVER WHO QUIT THOSE PROFESSIONS TO ENTER THE MINISTRY. HE AND HIS WIFE DANA HAVE 6 CHILDREN, AGES FROM 3 TO 13.
FAITH COMMUNITY IS IN A FAIRLY NEW CHURCH BUILDING AND EDUCATIONAL UNIT JUST NORTHEAST OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, FACING SUMMIT STREET.

JAMES AND JOLENE ELKINS OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN LAST TUESDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPTIAL.

RONNIE POTTER,AGE 58, DIED OF A HEART ATTACK WHILE TURKEY HUNTING SATURDAY MORNING. HE HAD JUST RETIRED IN FEBRUARY AFTER 36 YEARS AS A TELEPHONE TECHNICIAN IN MAQUOKETA. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, JUDY, AND 1 SON, BRAD, OF KANSAS...AND 3 DAUGHTERS, LAURI IN MISSOURI,
JUNE TUBBS OF MAQUOKETA AND FRAN OF CEDAR RAPIDS, AND ALSO SURVIVED BY 5 GRANDCHILDREN..HIS MOTHER VELDA, AND A BROTHER WAYNE, IN WYOMING, IOWA.

LLEONA PRESSON, AGE 68, OF CLINTON AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED SATURDAY AT HER HOME.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, JAMES, TWO DAUGHTERS, PATTY LAMAR AND LINDA LIPPENS, BOTH OF MAQUOKETA AND 3 SONS, ALL IN CLINTON...ALSO 2 BROTHERS, ERVIN AND LEO LANGE, BOTH OF MAQUOKETA AND A SISTER, BETTY DAVIS OF MAQUOKETA.

ELWIN HERKELMANN, AGE 101, OF MAQUOKETA DIED THIS MORNING AT CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME. HE WAS A WELL-KNOWN CLINTON COUNTY FARMER, RETIRING IN 1972. HE WAS STILL A MEMBER OF THE OPTIMIST CLUB AND I KNEW HIM A FEW YEARS AGO WHEN HE HAS THEN IN HIS MID-90'S AND A MEMBER OF THE LIONS CLUB. GOOD MEMBER. HIS IS SURVIVED BY HIS 3 DAUGHTERS, HELEN KINRADE OF MAQUOKETA, ZELDA DOSTAL OF ELWOOD, AND MARY WEETS OF MECHANICSVILLE, AND A BROTHER, BUSTER HERKELMAN OF MAQUOKETA.

SHIRLEY I. OTTEMAN, AGE 81, OF SAC CITY, DIED LAST MONDAY AT AMES. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE LAST SATURDAY AT SAC CITY. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, ARLIN AND 5 CHILDREN, INCLUDING SON DR. WILLIAM OTTEMAN OF MAQUOKETA.

AFTER TEACHING IN MAQUOKETA FOR 33 YEARS, LUJEAN BRAMER GOHLMAN GOCEK RETIRES THIS MONTH. SHE WILL MOVE TO PENNSYLVANIA WHERE SHE AND HER HUSBAND ARE BUILDING A NEW HOME.

CLAIRE HOYE, A MAQUOKETA TEACHER FOR 36 YEARS, RETIRES THIS MONTH. HE TAUGHT MANY DIFFERENT CLASSES INCLUDING DRIVER'S ED.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY




 

BEAUTIFUL DAY TODAY, WITH HIGH OF 63.

MAILBOX PIPE BOMBS HAVE BEEN FOUND IN 8 MAIL BOXES IN EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS..... AND THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL INJURIES. NON REPORTED IN JACKSON OR CLINTON COUNTIES, BUT IN EVERY COUNTY AROUND US. BECAUSE OF THESE INCIDENTS, MAIL DELIVERY WAS STOPPED AT MID AFTERNOON AND THERE WILL BE NO MAIL DELIVERY
IN OUR AREA TOMORROW. OVER 300 POSTAL PATRONS OUT OF THE MAQUOEKTA POST OFFICE ALONE, DID NOT GET THEIR MAIL TODAY AND NOW WON'T GET IT UNTIL MONDAY AT THE EARLIEST. ACTING POSTMASTER DOUG SWANSON SAID THE POSTOFFICE HERE IN MAQUOKETA WILL BE OPEN TOMORROW, BUT NO DELIVERIES.

A MOTORCYCLE HIT A DEER SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA AROUND 8 THIS MORNING, BUT WE STILL DON'T HAVE DETAILS.
ONE REPORT SAID THE DEER WAS CUT IN HALF.
ALSO...WILLIAM REISTROFFER SAID HIS VEHICLE WAS HIT BY ANOTHER VEHICLE WHILE PARKED ON MAIN STREET IN SPRINGBROOK. THE VEHICLE LEFT THE SCENE AND HIS 2002 DODGE TRUCK RECEIVED $2,500 IN DAMAGES.
THURSDAY NIGHT, KAREN PHILLIPS HIT A DEER ON HIGHWAY 61 NEAR THE HURSTVILLE ROAD.

THE JACKSON COUNTY SUPERVISORS HAVE CALLED A JOINT MEETING SOON TO TALK WITH OFFICIALS OF THE COUNTY HUMAINE SOCIETY, ABOUT THE FEES THEY CHARGE FOR FOUND ANIMALS BROUGHT TO THE SHELTER.
APPARENTLY, ITS BECOMING A COSTLY MATTER AND THE SUPERVIORS WANT MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE HUMAINE SOCIITY.

LOCAL REFUSE HAULER CECIL ROCKWELL, AGE 43, HAS BEEN CHARGED AFTER HE BACKED INTO A VEHICLE AT QUARRY AND WALNUT LAST NIGHT. POLICE SAY TOM CALLAHAN, AGE 46, WAS STOPPED BEHIND ROCKWELL AND ROCKWELL AT THE INTERSECTION BEGAN TO BACK UP AND HIT THE CALAHAN VEHICLE. NO DAMAGE TO ROCKWELL'S PICKUP BUT $3,000 DAMAGE TO CALAHAN'S DODGE VAN.

MURZA HANLON, AGE 83, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED THIS MORNING AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. SHE WORKED FOR MANY YEARS AT THE FORMER KIRCHOFF LOCKER PLANT. HER LATE HUSBAND WAS RALPH AND SHE IS SURVIVED BY 2 SONS, INCLUDING JACK HANLON OF MAQUOKETA.

63 TOMORROW. 17 MORE AND WILL PROBABLY RETIRE.

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY

 

SUNNY, WINDY AND IN LOW 50'S TODAY.

THE CLINTON COUNTY DETENTION CENTER IS OVER-
FLOWING WITH PRISONERS, MANY ON DRUG CHARGES,
AND JACKSON COUNTY'S DETENTION CENTER IS HOUSING SOME OF THOSE INMATES AND RECEIVING BETWEEN $50 AND $65 A DAY.

IN MAGISTRATE COURT LOCALLY, TODD CLARY, AGE 34, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH PUBLIC INTOXICATION. MAQUOKETA POLICE OFFICER PAT FIER SAID CLARY WALKED INTO THE LAW ENFORCEMENT CENTER AT 1:45 YESTERDAY MORNING AND SAID HE WAS INTOXICATED, WAS ON PROBATION AND WANTED TO GO TO JAIL. OFFICERS ACCOMMODATED HIM.

NO BIRTHS. NO DEATHS. NO ACCIDENTS. NO FIRES.

SLOW NEWS DAY AGAIN...SORRY.

DENNIS VOY

 

SUNNY AND WARM TODAY...HIGH NEAR 70

BIG NEWS AT COFFEE THIS MORNING...BUT NOTHING
OFFICIAL. BRAD DEERY MOTORS HAVE PURCHASED JOHN'S GAS STATION JUST TO THE SOUTH OF THEIR
SHOWROOM. I ASSUME JOHN BICKFORD WILL RETIRE..AND I ASSUME THE STATION WILL BE TORN DOWN. MORE LATER.

CANTON WILL HAVE A DEMOLITION DERBY ON MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND, SPONSORED BY THE LONGBRANCH IN CANTON. THEY RECEIVED APPROVAL YESTERDAY TO CLOSE THE GRAVEL ROAD IN FRONT OF THE BUSINESS THAT DAY, WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THE GRAVEL ROAD MUST BE RESTORED TO ITS CURRENT STATE.

KEVIN SCOTT IS A NEW PERMANENT PART-TIME JAILER...WORKING 20 HOURS A WEEK FOR $7.10 AN HOUR. HE ALSO WORKS PART-TIME AS A PRESTON
POLICE OFFICER.

JASON MORRIS, AGE 24, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS IN PRISON ON TWO COUNTS OF SEXUAL ABUSE IN THE SECOND DEGREE. DEPUTY STEVE SCHROEDER SAID MORRIS ASSAULTED A THEN 9 YEAR-OLD GIRL, 3 TIMES, IN THE YEAR 2000.

RICHARD G. ROBINSON, AGE 71, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. HE WAS AN ACCOUNTANT WITH AN INSURANCE FIRM IN DENVER, COLORADO AND RETIRED IN 1991. SURIVIVORS INCLUDE A SISTER, DONNA, MRS. TOM BOLLINGER, OF MAQUOKETA AND A BROTHER, BILL ROBINSON, IN IOWA CITY.

ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOR KIDS IS MAKING PLANS FOR A SADDLE UP FOR ST. JUDE'S HORSE SHOW ON MAY 25TH, AT THE FAIRGROUNDS IN WYOMING, IOWA.

MAY 1, 1946, 56 YEARS AGO TODAY, BOB AND FRANCIS MELVOLD TOOK OVER THE ONE MAQUOKETA NEWSPAPER AND BOUGHT OUT THE OTHER IN TOWN SEVERAL YEARS LATER.
SAW BOB AT ROTARY TODAY. BOTH ARE STILL ACTIVE IN THE BUSINESS PART-TIME.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY
 

64 TODAY WITH PARTLY SUNNY SKIES.

BULL RIDING IS COMING TO THE JACKSON COUNTY FAIR THIS YEAR..ON THURSDAY NIGHT OF THE FAIR.
THAT SAME NIGHT, AT 6 AND AGAIN AT 9, COUNTRY SINGER DAN SEALS WILL ENTERTAIN.

A CITY BUILDING INSPECTOR CAME UP FOR DISCUSSION DURING A COMMITTEE MEETING OF THE COUNCIL LAST NIGHT....AND AGAIN, PROTESTERS DAVE BRADY AND
LARRY DERGANZ WERE AT THE MEETING TO PROTEST THE NEW CITY POSITION. ANOTHER MEETING WILL BE HELD, BUT NO DATE WAS SET.

A 9-YEAR OLD BOY, DAMON COCHRAN, RAN HIS BICYCLE
IN FRONT OF A VAN IN HIS TRAILER PARK LAST NIGHT.
THE BOY WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AND TREATED AND RELEASED. NO CHARGES FILED. THE DRIVER OF THE VAN WAS FROM WISCONSIN.

A KENWANEE,ILLINOIS, MAN FAILED TO STOP HIS CAR AT A STOP SIGN AND HIT A VEHICLE DRIVEN BY RANDALL CLARK OF MAQUOKETA. A PASSENGER IN CLARK'S VEHICLE, ANGIE MILDER, RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES. THAT ACCIDENT HAPPENED LAST YESTERDAY MORNING NEAR THE HIGHWAYS 61 AND 62 INTERSECTION EAST OF MAQUOKETA OUT BY THE FAIRGROUNDS.

SYLVESTER LINK, AGE 83, OF BALLTOWN DIED YESTERDAY. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE, ALICE AND A DAUGHTER, LUANN SMALL IN MAQUOKETA.

DROP IN AGAIN TOMORROW IF YOU HAVE TIME.

DENNIS VOY  

SUNNY AND WARM TODAY...HIGH AROUND 60.

JUST A COUPLE MINOR ACCIDENTS OVER THE WEEKEND.

RAINY SATURDAY, NEARLY AN INCH...NO STOCK CAR RACES BUT PROM HELD ON A RAINY DAY. RAINFALL THIS MONTH, JUST UNDER 5-INCHES.

DONALD RANKIN, AGE 74, OF MARSHALLTOWN, DIED SATURDAY AT A HOSPITAL THERE. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, EDITH, 2 SONS, AND TWO BROTHERS, BILL OF TENNESSEE AND JIM RANKIN OF MAQUOKETA. HIS LATE FATHER, WILL, WAS LONGTIME MAQUOKETA PLUMBER AND FIREMEN.

EVERETT CLARK, AGE 81, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY AT HIS HOME. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, MARY AND 1 SON, DAVE CLARK OF MAQUOKETA. ALSO SURVIVED BY 5 STEP-DAUGHTERS AND 3 STEP-SONS.
HE WAS A HOUSE PAINTER AND DECORATOR AND MANAGED THE HI-HO LANES IN MAQUOKETA IN THE LATE 50'S.

VERA WINCHIP OF MAQUOKETA WILL BE 99 THIS SUNDAY.
SHE LIVES AT RIVER VILLAGE 2 APARTMENTS ON NORTH ARCADE STREET.

A WEEK FROM TODAY, BILL AND SANDY RICH OF MAQUOKETA WILL OBSERVE THEIR 25TH. HE OWNS
B & E MACHINE COMPANY IN CLINTON. HE CAME TO MAQUOKETA ORIGINALLY WHEN WORKING FOR THE TELEPHONE COMPANY.

PRETTY QUIET AROUND HERE.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY



 

NO REPORT TODAY  

3/10 INCH OF RAIN YESTERDAY...GOING OVER 4 INCHES FOR MONTH, ALREADY 1 INCH OVER LAST APRIL.
SUNNY, WINDY AND COOL TODAY, HIGH OF 56.

FORTY TREES WERE RECENTLY PLANTED IN MAQUOKETA BY THE MAQUOKETA FFA AND 7TH GRADE STUDENTS. THEY WERE ASSISTED BY TREES FOREVER MEMBERS, BUD JORDAN, AND JOHN AND NANCY BERANEK.

THREE PEOPLE WERE INJURED IN THAT 3 CAR ACCIDENT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON WEST OF MAQUOKETA ON HIGHWAY 64. CHARGED WITH FAILURE TO YIELD HALF THE HIGHWAY WAS A 43-YEAR-OLD MAN FROM NORWALK.
HE WAS TAKEN TO THE LOCAL HOSPITAL AND TREATED FOR A BROKEN LEG AND LATER TRANSFERRED TO UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS IN IOWA CITY. ANOTHER VEHICLE WAS DRIVEN BY SALLY FUGLSANG, AGE 38, OF MAQUOKETA. SHE RECEIVED AN ANKLE INJURY AND WAS TREATED AND RELEASED. WILLIAM KIRK OF MAQUOKETA WAS A PASSENGER AND HE IS STILL IN THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. THE 3RD DRIVER WAS ADAM TABOR, AGE 18, AND HE WAS NOT INJURED. HIS CAR HIT THE DITCH WHEN A WHEEL CAME OFF THE FUGLSANG VAN AND HE SWERVED TO MISS IT. THE NORWALK CAR RECEIVED $4,500 WORTH OF DAMAGE....THE FUGLSAND VAN, ABOUT $3,500 AND THE TABOR CAR, ABOUT $2,000.

OVER $5,000 WAS RAISED FOR THE ROGER STEWART FOR STATE SENATE FUNDRAISER PIZZA EVENT AT GOOSE LAKE LAST NIGHT. A GOOD TURNOUT OF MOSTLY MAQUOKETA PEOPLE, INCLUDING THE ENTERTAINER, RED HENTON.
MOST OF MONEY WAS RAISED IN A PIE AUCTION. BUT THE TOP AUCTION ITEM, A CLOCK, BROUGHT OVER $1,000. ROGER'S NEPHEW, KEN MOORE, BOUGHT THE CREAM PIE THAT WAS TO BE THROWN IN THE FACE OF ROGER. BUT, INSTEAD OF KEN DOING THE HONORS..HE GAVE THE PIE TO ROGER'S MOTHER, AGE 92 AND SHE DID A NICE JOB OF PIE THROWING THAT RESULTED IN LOTS OF LAUGHS. ROGER IS RETIRED FORM MAQUOKETA STATE BANK AND IN THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY IN EARLY JUNE, IS OPPOSED BY ANOTHER DEMOCRAT FROM THE CITY CLINTON. MOST OF THE HOME MADE PIES BROUGHT $200 OR MORE..TO AS MUCH AS $650 A PIE.

SINCE MY WIFE'S PIES ARE THE BEST IN THE WORLD, THEY SHOULD BE WORTH OVER A THOUSAND DOLLARS.

SEE YOU TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY  

WE HAD SUNSHINE THIS MORNING AND WENT UP INTO THE 60'S...THEN HEAVY RAIN OVER THE NOON HOUR AND CLOUDY SKIES THIS AFTERNOON AND DROPPING TEMPERATURES....HAVE 53 AT 4 P.M.

THE JACKSON COUNTY DEPARTMEMT OF HUMAN SERVICES WILL HAVE A NEW HOME. YESTERDAY, THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS APPROVED A LEASE WITH JACK ROSENBERG FOR THE FORMER ROSENBERG AUTO BUILDING ON SOUTH OLIVE. THERE WERE 5 BIDS AND THE LOWEST WAS BY RICK DECKER, AT HIS BUILDING ON EAST PLATT, INCLUDING A LARGE UPSTAIRS AREA. IT WOULD NEED AN ELEVATOR AND SUPERVIORS WERE AFRAID THE ELEVATOR COULD NOT BE INSTALLED, AND INSPECTED AND APPROVED BEFORE THE SEPTEMBER DEADLINE, WHEN THE HUMAN SERVICES PEOPLE MUST LEAVE THEIR CURRENT OFFICES IN THE OLD PORTION OF THE HOSPITAL, SO IT CAN BE TORN DOWN FOR A NEW HOSPITAL EXPANSION PROJECT. SUPERVIORS ALSO DIDN'T LIKE THE PARKING THAT WOULD BE AVAILABLE AT THE DECKER SITE. ROSENBERG'S BID WAS SECOND.
HE IS HAVING CRESSEY CONSTRUCTION DO THE REMODELING OF THE BUILDING. THE RENT WILL BE AROUND $8 A SQUARE FOOT. THE GANNON CENTER ALSO IS IN THE OLD HOSPITAL, BUT THEY COULD LOCATE SOMEPLACE ELSE, SO WE WILL FIND OUT THEIR PLANS LATER.

JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF DEPUTIES AND THE IOWA STATE PATROL ARE INVESTIGATING A THREE CAR ACCIDENT ON HIGHWAY 64, FOUR MILES WEST OF MAQUOKETA. IT HAPPENED AT 3:40 THIS AFTERNOON NEAR THE LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE ROAD. EARLY REPORTS SAY AT LEAST 3 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. ONE PERSON WAS REMOVED FROM A VEHICLE WITH THE JAWS OF LIFE. ALL AMBULANCES ARE AT THE SCENE AND THE HIGHWAY WAS BLOCKED CAUSING A TRAFFIC BUILD-UP FOR MORE THAN AN HOUR.
MORE ON THIS ACCIDENT ON TOMORROW'S REPORT.

MICHAEL AND KIMBERLY DYAS WALSH OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17TH AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.

I WAS OUT TO THE NEW GOLF COURSE TODAY AND EVERYTHING IS LOOKING GOOD AND GREEN. LAST YEAR THE "GREENS" WERE NOT GOOD, BUT THEY LOOK MUCH IMPROVED THIS YEAR. YESTERDAY, THE BASEMENTS WERE DUG FOR TWO NEW HOMES ON THE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE COURSE. BOTH WILL BE FOR SALE. THERE IS ROOM FOR 17 HOMES. THE NEW NAME OF THE COURSE, BY THE NEW OWNER, IS PRAIRIE CREEK GOLF COURSE.

PAT WEIRUP IS RETIRING HERE AT KMAQ AFTER 26 YEARS...JUNE 30TH IS THE DATE. SHE IS OUR TRAFFIC DIRECTOR, BOOKKEEPER AND RECEPTIONIST.
WE ARE NOW TAKING APPLICATIONS FOR HER JOB.
NO ONE IS LOOKING FORWARD TO HER LEAVING...BUT...SHE SAYS SHE'S READY TO START TAKING IT EASIER. WE WILL MISS HIS. HUSBAND VERNON RETIRED A FEW YEARS AGO. A SON ALSO RETIRED FROM THE ARMY, RANDY, LAST YEAR AND HE AND HIS FAMILY MOVED BACK TO THIS AREA. PAT AND VERNON HAVE TWO DAUGHTERS AND SEVERAL GRANDCHILDREN. DAUGHTER BRENDA AND HUSBAND LIVES OUT IN THE GREAT NORTHWEST AND BARB LIVES IN DEWITT. BOTH PAT AND VERNON'S MOTHER LIVE HERE IN MAQUOKETA.

THE OCTOBEFEST OF BANDS IN MAQUOKETA IS HISTORY. THERE WILL BE NO 26TH ANNUAL AS NO ONE VOLUNTEERED TO CHAIRMAN THE EVENT. ALSO, MANY HIGH SCHOOLS HAVE SWITCHED TO OTHER BANDFESTS OVER THE YEARS, AND THE LIST OF BANDS COMING HAS BEEN GOING DOWN. MANY OF THOSE ARE MIDDLE SCHOOL. END OF A VERY POPULAR MAQUOKETA EVENT OVER THE YEARS.

COME BACK TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY
 

SUNNY TODAY AND HIGH AROUND 60.

JACKSON COUNTY'S MARCH UNEMPLOYMENT RATE WAS AT 6.9%, DOWN FROM 7.8 IN FEBRUARY. IOWA'S WAS AT 3.4...SAME AS FEBRUARY. THE US RATE WAS 5.7 PERCENT, UP FROM FEBRUARY'S 5.5%.

AT SCHOOL BOARD MEETING LAST NIGHT, RON BAKER RESIGNED HIS MIDDLE SCHOOL FOOTBALL COACHING POSITION. HE SAID HE PLANS TO PURSUE A MASTER'S DEGREE, AND EXPAND HIS LAWN CARE BUSINESS. MARY KAHN ASKED THAT HER CONTRACT BE AMENDED FROM 8/10 TO HALF-TIME AS THE MEDIA SPECIALIST AT BRIGG'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. JULIE LARSON RESIGNED AS MIDDLE SCHOOL MEDIA SPECIALIST TO TAKE A JOB WITH THE IOWA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT AND IN DOING SO, WILL BE CLOSER TO HER FAMILY. PAULETTE HORNER RESIGNED AS ADVISOR FOR THE EXODUS, THE HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOK. JUDY GJERDE ASKED TO DECREASE HER SPANISH CLLUB ADVISOR POSITION BY 50 PERCENT.

DUANE STEWART OF JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, WAS NOT INJURED AFTER HIS PICKUP HIT A TURKEY ON HIGHWAY 61. DAMAGES WERE ESTIMATED AT $2,000 TO HIS 1999 MAZDA.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS.

RAN INTO TOMMY AND JUDY MOORE YESTERDAY AT PIZZA HUT....LONG TIME SINCE I'D SEEN HIM. HE HAS BEEN A GUARD AT THE AMAMOSA MEN'S REFORMATORY A LONG TIME. JUDY WORKS FOR NISSEN-CAVEN INSURANCE
AND AGAIN THIS YEAR IS CO-CHAIRMAN OF THE CANCER SOCIETY RELAY FOR LIFE ALL NIGHT WALK. THEY HAVE TWO GIRLS. TOMMY GOT HIMSELF A NEW LITTLE HARLEY AND WANTS TO GIVE ME A RIDE ... I PASSED ON THAT.

BOB OSTERHAUS AND ROGER STEWART, BOTH DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES...SPOKE AT THE CHAMBER LUNCH TODAY AT THE COUNTRY CLUB. ROGER SAYS HIS CAMPAIGN FOR STATE SENATE IS GOING GOOD. HAS PUT ON OVER 12,000 MILES THE LAST COUPLE MONTHS, TAKING IN BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND EVEN DINNERS THROUGHOUT BOTH JACKSON AND CLINTON COUNTIES. HE WILL BE OPPOSED IN THE DEMOCRAT PRIMARY IN JUNE BY A MAN FROM THE CITH OF CLINTON. BOB IS RUNNING UNOPPOSED FOR RE-ELECTION TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE. HE WAS IN DES MOINES YESTERDAY RESPONDING TO THE GOVENOR'S SPECIAL ONE-DAY SESSION TO GET MORE FUNDING FOR EDUCATION, BUT THE SESSION ENDED IN THE AFTERNOON WITH NO ACCOMPLISHMENT. REPUBLICANS WOULD NOT GO WITH THE GOVERNOR'S PLAN AND MANY COMPLAINED THAT THE SESSION...COSTING $38,000 SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN CALLED. ROGER HAS A BIG FUND-RAISER TOMORROW NIGHT IN GOOSE LAKE. BOTH OF THESE GUYS ARE IN THEIR 70'S, BUT ARE CAMPAIGNING LIKE THEY WERE IN THEIR 50'S.
MOST GUYS THEIR AGE WOULD RATHER GOLF OR FISH.

AND, SO MUCH FOR ANOTHER DAY.

DENNIS VOY

 

NEARLY AND INCH OF RAIN YESTERDAY.

CLOUDY AND COOL TODAY.

BOTH THE NORTH AND SOUTH PARKS ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI AT BELLEVUE HAVE BEEN CLOSED BECAUSE THE RIVER IS RISING AND FLOODING A LITTLE.
NOTHING SERIOUS.

I ATTENDED THE ANNUAL FFA BANQUET IN MAQUOKETA LAST NIGHT. I AM A LIFTIME ALUMNI MEMBER.
GREAT DINNER OF IOWA CHOP AND ALL THE EXTRAS. THE CHOP GRILLED BY THE P0RK PRODUCERS. THEN, LOTS OF AWARDS TO MEMBERS FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR JUST ABOUT OVER. NEXT, SOME ADULTS WERE HONORED.
I AND KMAQ RECEIVED THE BLUE AND GOLD AWARD, GIVEN ANNUALLY TO A BUSINESS THAT HELPS PROMOTE FFA. HELEN STEWART, WAS INDUCTED INTO THE ALUMNI HALL OF FAME. HER LATE HUSBAND WAS BILL, AND HE WAS THE FFA ADVISOR BACK IN THE 70'S. SHE IS A LIFETIME ACTIVE MEMBER. THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD WENT TO SCOTT GENT AND THE HONORARY FFA DEGREE WENT TO BILL AND CAROL IHRIG AND IT WAS GIVEN TO THEM BY THEIR SON, JOE, WHO WAS THE OUTGOING FFA PREISDENT AND A SENIOR AT MCHS.
SOME SCHOLARSHIPS WERE THEN PRESENTED AND THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEXT YEAR'S PRESIDENT ... JENNIE RUBEL. NICE EVENT LAST NIGHT. MAQUOKETA HAS A VERY GOOD FFA CHAPTER, WITH LOTS OF ACTIVE GUYS AND GALS...AND AN ACTIVE ALUMNI TOO. MANY SCHOOLS DON'T HAVE AN ALUMNI ORGANIZATION.

SCHOOL BOARD MEETING TONIGHT. MAIN TOPIC...RAISING A BUNCH OF STUDENT FEES.

JACKSON COUNTY SUPERVISORS MEETING AS ALWAYS ON TUESDAY MORNING, TOMORROW. THEY MAY SELECT THE LOCATION FOR THE GANNON CENTER AND WELFARE OFFICE....BOTH HAVE TO MOVE FROM THE OLD HOSPITAL.

CURLY MILLER, AGE 87, DIED SATURDAY. WELL-KNOWN BUSINESSMAN. HE FIRST OPERATED CURLY'S LUNCHROOM FROM 1940 TO 1944. THEN INTO THE NAVY. THEN, FROM 1949 UNTIL 1975, OVER 25 YEARS..HE OWNED AND OPERATED, ALONG WITH HIS WIFE, CURLY'S SOUTH INN ON SOUTH MAIN IN MAQUOKETA....A POPULAR SMALL SUPPER CLUB. AFTER HE SOLD IT, HE SOLD AND SERVICED ELECTROLUX CLEANERS. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE VIVIAN, 1 DAUGHTER, LYN IN MICHIGAN...1 SON, RICHARD, IN BALDWIN, 1 BROTHER, IN MICHIGAN AND 1 SISTER IN CALIFORNIA..PLUS GRAND AND GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.
LIKED VINTAGE CARS TOO.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY  

STORMS AND RAIN OVERNIGHT...BUT TODAY, SUNNY AND COOL..HIGH OF 68. SNOW IS IN THE FORECAST NOW..FOR SUNDAY.

SOME FARMLAND NORTH OF MAQUOKETA, ACROSS THE RIVER, IS LIKELY TO BE DEVELOPED IN A SUBDIVISION.
THE 36 ACRE TRACT IS ON 55TH STREET AND DEVELOPERS WANT TO BUILD 34 HOMES ON IT.
THEY CALL THEMSELVES THE MAQUOKETA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMPANY AND ARE WAITING TO SEE IF THEY CAN ANNEX THE LAND TO MAQUOKETA AND HOOK UP TO THE CITY SEWER. THE TWO MEN BOUGHT THE LAND FROM JOHN MANSON. IF THE TWO, JOE SWACK AND CLIFFORD PFAB, CAN'T ANNEX TO THE CITY, THEY WILL STILL GO AHEAD WITH THE PROJECT. THEY COULD DEVELOP THE LAND INTO MORE LOTS IF IT WAS ANNEXED AND THEY COULD USE THE CITY SEWER.

LAVERNE MOHR, AGE 76, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED THIS MORNING AT CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME. HE OWNED A GAS STATION AND BULK-TANK ROUTE FOR OVER 30 YEARS.
HE IS SURVIVED BY 3 DAUGHTERS....CONNIE WALL OF DEWITT....CINDY, MRS. AL FIER OF MAQUOKETA AND CHRISTIE, MRS. PAT FIER, OF MAQUOKETA.

KMAQ TOOK A BUS YESTERDAY IN THE RAIN, BOTH WAYS, TO MILLER PARK IN MILWAUKEE, AND SAW THE CARDINALS LOOSE TO THE BREWERS UNDER THE ROOF OF THE NEW 4-MILLION-DOLLAR STADIUM. GOT BACK TO MAQUOKETA AT 2 AM THIS MORNING. HAD A GOOD TIME, BUT I AND THESE MAQUOKETA ST. LOUIS CARDINAL FANS ON THE BUS WERE DISAPPOINTED IN THE RESULTS OF THE GAME: GRACE RECTFERTIG, RUTH ANN ZIMMERMAN,
ARNOLD KORANDA, ED AND IRMA NEIBER, BOB FOWLER, JAMES O'ROURKE, CHUCK KINGSLEY, LEIGHTON HEPKER, NATE CLASEN, STEVE TUBBS, ED TUBBS, CATHY BLACKBURN, RED HENTON..AND OTHERS OUTSIDE OF MAQUOKETA. PICKED UP 5 IN DUBUQUE TOO. DID NOT SELL ALL THE SEATS AND ENDED UP SELLING 10 LEFT-OVER TICKETS TO A SCALPER. I HAVE A KMAQ-TRAVEL BUS GOING UP AGAIN TO A CUBS-BREWERS GAME ON MAY 19TH AND IT IS SOLD OUT. ANOTHER CUBS-BREWERS GAME IN EARLY JUNE HAS QUITE A FEW SEATS LEFT. INTERESTING...THE NEW STADIUM HAS A SQUEEKY JOINT WHEN THEY CLOSE OR OPEN THE ROOF...AND LAST NIGHT IN THE HEAVY RAIN, THERE WERE 2 BAD ROOF LEAKS. THE 2002 ALL-STAR GAME WILL BE PLAYED THIS YEAR IN THE NEW MILLER PARK. MILLER BEER IS $5 A BOTTLE IN THE PARK.

RED HENTON REPORTED THAT HE HAD A FINE TIME LAST SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE DAIRY BANQUET, WHERE HIS GRANDDAUGHER WAS THE MAIN ENTERTAINMENT...COUNTRY SINGER BROOKE BYAM. RED BROUGHT HIS WIFE BERNICE TO THE EVENT, FROM HER EXTENDED CARE ROOM IN CLINTON. AND THEY SANG A DUET AND RECEIVED A STANDING OVATION FORM THE MORE THAN 500 IN ATTENDANCE. A COLOR PICTURE OF THEM IS ON THE FRONT PAGE OF TOMORROW'S MAQUOKETA SENTINEL-PRESS. BERNICE AND RED WERE A HUSBAND-WIFE TEAM...ENTERTAINING IN THE AREA FOR OVER 50 YEARS BEFORE ILLNESS STOPPED HER ORGAN PLAYING, BACKING UP THE SINGING BY RED. RED IS 80 OR 81, BUT LOOKS, FEELS AND ACTS LIKE 61. AND YES..HE'S STILL IN THE GUINESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS FOR A HORSESHOE PITCHING EVENT. LOOK IT UP SOMETIME.

WILL BE COOL NIGHT AT THE DRIVE-IN....WHERE I'M HEADING IN AN HOUR OR SO. HAD A BREAK-IN THERE MONDAY NIGHT, WITH LITTLE OR NOTHING TAKEN.

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY



 

YESTERDAY, A RECORD HIGH OF 89. TODAY, NO RECORD, BUT 80. MAY HIT A NEW RECORD AGAIN TOMORROW. BUT THEN IT WILL COOL DOWN FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK.

FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH IN MAQUOKETA HELD A SPECIAL MEMBER MEETING LAST NIGHT AND AGREED TO GO AHEAD WITH PLANS FOR A MAJOR RENOVATION. THE NEARLY 1-MILLION-DOLLAR PROJECT WILL INCLUDE ADDING AN ELEVATOR, SIX CLASSROOMS, AND ESTABLISHING A GATHERING PLACE BEFORE AND AFTER A SERVICE, IN AN AREA THAT IS NOW A GRASSY OPEN SPACE BETWEEN THE CHURCH AND THE EDUCATION UNIT. THERE WILL BE A NEW ENTRYWAY ON THE NORTH SIDE. THE CHURCH AS RAISED $400,000 SO FAR IN CASH AND PLEDGES. THE REST WILL BE FINANCED LOCALLY. ANOTHER APPEAL FOR ADDITIONAL PLEDGES WILL BE MADE LATER. CRESSEY CONSTRUCTION GOT THE LOW BID TO DO THE JOB AND THEY EXPECT TO BEGIN WORK NEXT WEEK AND WORK IS EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED IN DECEMBER. THE CHURCH IS LOCATED ON EAST PLATT STREET AND HAS TWO FULLTIME PASTOR.

VERA HEINRICH, AGE 73, DIED YESTERDAY MORNING AT CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME IN MAQUOKETA. SHE NEVER MARRIED. SHE IS SURVIVED BY THREE SISTER-IN-LAWS, MARIE HEINRICH, MAXINE HEINRICH, AND VELMA HEINRICH.

LEONARD CAMPBELL, AGE 93, DIED YESTERDAY AT THE
LOCAL HOSPITAL. HE FARMED IN THE ESGATE AREA FOR 40 YEARS, RETIRING IN 1975. HE WAS STILL LIVING ALONE IN HIS HOME IN MAQUOKETA. HE IS
SURVIVED BY 2 DAUGHTERS, MARY OF GREAT FALLS, MONTANA AND JOANNE O'HARA OF PEOSTA. ALSO, 5 GRAND AND 11 GREAT GRAND KIDS AND 3 SISTERS....LEONA MAYBERRY, MERETA RIPPLE AND BERTHA SCHWENKER, ALL OF MAQUOKETA.

KEITH CROCE WAS IN TODAY, SELLING AN AD FOR THE MAQUOKETA INDIANS SCHEDULE CARDS. HE'S MANAGER OF MAQUOKETA'S SEMI-PRO SUMMER BASEBALL TEAM.
BEEN DOING IT FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND THIS YEAR, SAID THE TEAM WILL PLAY 40 GAMES.

THAT'S IT FOR ANOTHER DAY.

DENNIS VOY


 

RECORD HIGH TODAY OF 88, BEATING THE OLD BY 2 DEGREES.

A CONVICTED MAQUOKETA DRUG DEALER, THOMAS CLASEN, AGE 32, IS BACK IN PRISON AFTER VIOLATING PAROLE.
JUDGE CHARLES PELTEN SENTENCED HIM TO 10 YEARS IN PRISON, SAME AS THE ORIGINAL SENTENCE...FOR MANUFACTURING OR DELIVERING METHAMPHETAMINE. JUDGE PELTEN NOW SAYS HE MUST SERVE A MINIMUM OF 3 YEARS ON THE CHARGES.

TINA TILL, DAUGHTER OF ALLAN AND KAREN TILL OF RURAL MAQUOKETA, WAS NAMED THE NEW JACKSON-CLINTON DIARY PRINCESS AT THE DAIRY BANQUET SATURDAY NIGHT HERE IN MAQUOKETA. MORE THAN 500 ATTENDED THE EVENT.

CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT, WITH A LONG AGENDA.

CARLA AND JOHN HEIM, JR. OF BLUE GRASS, ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN APRIL 6TH. PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER IS AUDREY HEIM OF MAQUOKETA.

CORRECTION: THE #1 BASKETBALL PLAYER IN THE NATION STORY YESTERDAY .. ON THIS REPORT .. THE GIRL IS THE GREAT GRAND NIECE OF REGINA SAGERS...NOT GRANDCHILD. HER GRANDFATHER, JOHN SAGERS OF CEDAR RAPIDS, WAS A BROTHER TO BLAIR SAGERS, LATE HUSBAND OF REGINA.

DON SMALL, AGE 77, DIED SATURDAY NIGHT AT HIS HOME. HE OWNED AND OPERATED SMALL'S 66 FOR 20 YEARS AND THEN WORKED FOR CB COMPANY IN MAINTENACE UNTIL RETIRING IN 1989. HE WAS A CITY COUNCILMAN FOR 3 YEARS IN THE 60'S AND WAS ON THE MAQUOKETA UTILITY BOARD FROM 1990 TO 2001. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, DARLENE...A DAUGHTER, SANDRA (Mrs. Norman) KENNEDY OF MAQUOKETA AND A SON, GREG OF MAQUOIKETA.

THE DYNAMITE CONE SHOP ON EAST PLATT HAS OPENED FOR THE SEASON.....GREAT COOL ICECREAM AND YOGURT AND OTHER TREATS. EAT IN....EAT IN PICNIC AREA OUTSIDE.... OR TAKE WITH YOU.

THE JACK AND JILL BRAT STAND OPENED FOR THE SEASON LAST WEEKEND. JACK AND JILL LETS CLUBS IN THE AREA WORK THE STAND AND KEEP SOME OF THE PROFITS. BRATS AND FOOTLONGS ARE GRILLED OUTSIDE THE LITTLE CORNER BUILDING. $1.50 TOTAL FOR EITHER BRAT AND POP OR FOOTLONG AND POP....AND MANY MANY TIMES YOU'LL SEE A LONG LINEUP. PICNIC TABLES ARE NEARBY ON THE GRASSY KNOLL.

THAT'S IT FOR A MONDAY.

DENNIS VOY  

BEAUTIFUL DAY IN MAQUOKETA..HIGH NEAR 80.

IF YOUR SUNDAY PAPER HAS THE PARADE MAGAZINE IN IT....AND YOU HAVE NOT THROWN OUT THE PAPER YET...CHECK THE PARADE MAGAZINE, PAGE 18, FOR A MAQUOKETA CONNECTION. IN IT IS PARADE'S ALL-AMERICA GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAMS AND THEIR NUMBER 1 PLAYER IN THE NATION IS ANN STROTHER. A PICTURE OF HER IS ALSO ON PAGE 20. HER GREAT-GRAND MOTHER IS REGINA SAGERS OF MAQUOKETA. I CALLED HER A FEW MINUTES AGO AND SHE IS EXTREMELY PROUD OF ANN AND THE ARTICLE. REGINA IS AROUND 90 AND STILL ACTIVE IN THE COMMUNITY. SHE WAS ENJOYING A BOWL OF ICECREAM WHEN I CALLED. ANN'S GRANDFATHER IS JACK SAGERS OF CEDAR RAPIDS, A RETIRED CEDAR RAPIDS BANKER. HIS WIFE, BERGIT, AND GRANDMOTHER OF ANN, DIED OF CANCER AND JACK HAS REMARRIED.
HE LIVES 6 MONTHS IN NAPLES AND OTHER TIME IN
CEDAR RAPIDS. WHEN I CAME TO MAQUOKETA IN 1958, I RENTED A ROOM FROM ANN'S GREAT-GREAT GRANDMOTHER, CECELIA SAGERS, FOR $7.00 A WEEK.
I HEARD ABOUT THE ROOM FROM HER SON BLAIR, REGINA'S HUSBAND, AND A LOCAL REALTOR, WHO TOLD ME HIS MOM HAD ONE OF HER TWO RENTAL ROOMS AVAILABLE AND THAT I SHOULD CONTACT HER. I LIVED THERE UNTIL 1963. BLIAR STARTED A HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ON THE SOUTH EDGE OF MAQUOKETA AND NAMED ONE OF THE STREETS AFTER HIS MOTHER, AND CECILIA DRIVE IS NOW FILLED WITH NICE HOMES. BLAIR DIED AT AN EARLY AGE AND REGINA NEVER REMARRIED. MAC MACCAUSLAND, BLAIR'S PARTNER, DIED ABOUT A YEAR AGO. HIS SON IS A WELL KNOWN BASKETBALL TV COMMENTATOR, ACTING AS THE COLORMAN FOR MANY IOWA HAWKEYE TV GAMES.

A WELL KNOWN MAQUOKETA MAN AND FORMER BUSINESSMAN, DON SMALL, DIED LAST NIGHT. HE HAD BEEN ILL FOR ABOUT A YEAR. HE HAD A GAS STATION, WAS A CITY COUNCILMAN FOR SEVERAL YEARS, AND JUST RECENTLY RETIRED AFTER OVER 10 YEARS ON THE MAQUOEKTA MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC UTILITY BOARD.
MORE ON HIM TOMORROW. HE WAS 77.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY
 

RAIN EARLY THIS MORNING....THEN CLOUDY THIS MORNING AND PARTLY SUNNY THIS AFTERNOON WITH A HIGH OF 60.

FIRST, A CORRECTION. I MENTIONED BOY BORN YESTERDAY TO THE TED TILTONS OF COLORADO! THE GRANDPARENTS ARE DEAN AND KAREN TILTON OF MAQUOKETA. DEAN WORKS FOR NATIONWIDE COOKBOOK COMPANY AND KAREN STILL TEACHING ENGLISH AT MCHS.

ANOTHER OUT-OF-TOWN BIRTH. PAUL AND SUSAN FIX OF CHANHASSEN, MINNESOTA, ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN THIS MORNING IN MINNESOTA. GRANDPARENTS ARE FAYE AND RICH FIX OF MAQUOKETA.

THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD ENDORSED THIS WEEK A PLAN FOR A NEW FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION. JANE SCHMIDT, A MAQUOKETA TEACHER, PROPOSED A NEW EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION DESIGNED TO PROVIDE FUNDS FOR TEACHERS TO PURCHASE ITEMS NOT AVAILABLE WITHIN THE SCHOOL'S BUDGET. IT WOULD BE ADMINISTERED BY THE MAQUOKETA AREA FOUNDATION.

MAQUOKETA POLICE OFFICER BRAD KORANDA AND SHERIFF'S DEPUTY RANDY MANNING, CAPTURED A BALDWIN MAN EARLY THIS MORNING, WHO HAD BEEN ELUDING OFFICERS FOR WEEKS AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY TOOK A MAQUOKETA VEHICLE BACK ON MAARCH 30TH.
MAQUOKETA POLICE RECEIVED A TIP THAT BRANDON BODENHOFER, AGE 20, OF BALDWIN, WS ON SOUTH OLIVE AT 1 AM THIS MORNING. HE ATTEMPTED TO FLEE WHEN OFFICERS ARRIVED, BUT WAS SUBDUED BY MANNING AND KORANDA. HE IS IN THE JACKSON COUNTY JAIL ON A $35,602 CASH BOND.

A LONGTIME MAQUOKETA MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER DIED LAST NIGHT AT THE LOCAL HOSPTIAL. JEAN HERMANS, AGE 70, STARTED TEACHING IN MAQUOKETA IN 1970. SHE RETIRED IN 1995 AND SINCE WAS AN ASSISTANT AT THE MAQUOKETA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
SHE NEVER MARRIED. SHE IS SURVIVED BY A BROTHER IN OMAHA AND NIECES AND NEPHEWS.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY
 

SUNNY AND 76 FOR A HIGH TODAY.

THE KMAQ HEALTH AWARENESS FAIR HAS BEEN BIG SO FAR...A NICE TURN OUT BETWEEN 11 AND 2.

MAQUOKETA POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A VANDALISM INCIDENT. ALLEN FELLER OF MAQUOKETA REPORTED HIS GRAND VOYAGER WAS KEYED WHILE PARKED AT TIMBER LANES MONDAY EVENING....DAMAGE ESTIMATE..OVER $1,500.

JOHN PHILLIPS OF COLORADO WAS HOME THIS WEEK FOR HIS SISTER'S FUNERAL....HIS SISTER, DOROTHY SCHOENTHALER, AGE 100. SORRY I MISSED HIM AT THE DECKER MORNING COFFEE HOUR...HE WAS WITH LONGTIME FRIEND BOB STOCKHAM OF MAQUOKETA. BOB TELLS ME JOHN CHECKS THIS DAILY REPORT OFTEN.
COME BACK AGAIN SOON, JOHN. HE'S THE LAST OF THE THREE DR. BEN PHILLIPS KIDS....BROTHER BOB DIED A COUPLE YEARS AGO AND NOW DOROTHY.

TED AND SHERYL TILTON OF MONUMENT, COLORADO, ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN YESTERDAY. THEIR FIRST CHILD. SECOND GRANDCHILD FOR TED AND KAREN TILTON OF MAQUOKETA. SON TRENT AND WIFE OF DAVENPORT HAVE A FOUR-YEAR-OLD GIRL.

LIKE WINE, RED HENTON GETS BETTER WITH AGE.
YOU SHOULD HEAR HIM TURN OUT THOSE GREAT SONGS OF THE GOOD OLE DAYS AT THE KMAQ EVENT TODAY.

TALKED TO REGINA SAGERS AT THE HEALTH FAIR THIS MORNING AND ONE OF HER GRANDDAUGHTERS IS ONE OF THE TOP HIGH SCHOOL GIRL'S BASKETBALL PLAYERS IN THE COUNTRY. SHE'S A SENIOR...6-1 AND I THINK SHE SAID SHE HAS A FULL RIDE SCHOLARSHIP TO UCON.

DON'T....DON'T SAY YOU READ IT HERE...BUT I HEARD TODAY THAT HAZIL REEL....GOT PICKED UP FOR SPEEDING IN HER YELLOW CADILAC THE OTHER DAY.
SHE'S AROUND 90....BUT SHE WASN'T GOING 'THAT' FAST.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY



 

SUNNY AND 68 TODAY.

AT THE ROTARY MEETING TODAY, ROTARIAN DON ROEDER
SPOKE ABOUT HIS 40 YEARS OF BEING A DENTIST IN MAQUOKETA. STILL PRACTICING. HE WAS BORN AND RAISED EAST OF MAQUOKETA AND HIS PARENTS AT ONE TIME RAN A GENERAL STORE IN SPRAGUEVILLE. HE
SERVED AS AN OFFICER IN THE US AIRFORCE TOO.

KJ'S CONVENIECE REPORTED SOMEONE DROVE OFF WITHOUT PAYING FOR GAS YESTERDAY AFTERNOON....A $14.50 THEFT.

JON PAUL MILLER, AGE 31 OF MAQUOKETA RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES IN A TWO-VEHICLE ACCIDENT MONDAY AFTERNOON AT NORTH DECKER AND OLIVE. HE WAS CHARGED WITH FAILURE TO YIELD. THE OTHER CAR WAS DRIVEN BY MICAH WAHL, AGE 16, OF ZWINGLE.
TOTAL DAMAGE TO BOTH VEHICLES, AROUND $2,500.

THE BULLDOZERS HAVE ARRIVED AND ARE WORKING ON SITE PREPARATION FOR THE NEW BANK, IOWA BANK, NEAR THE HIGHWAYS 61 AND 64 INTERSECTION.

SLOW NEWS DAY AGAIN.

COME BACK FOR MORE TOMOROW.

DENNIS VOY

 

SUNNY AND HIGH TODAY OF 56.

A HOME ON WEST PLATT, JUST EAST OF FAMILY PHARMACY BUILDING, GOT THE APPROVAL FROM ZONING BOARD LAST NIGHT TO CHANGE FROM RESIDENTIAL TO BUSINESS. THE OWNER, STEVE PAULSEN, PLANS TO SELL THE HOME TO CHRIS MEINECKE AND CHRIS PLANS TO MOVE HIS INSURANCE OFFICE THERE, FROM DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA. FINAL APPROVAL NEEDS TO BE GIVEN BY THE CITY COUNCIL. THE ZONING BOARD ALSO APPROVED RE-ZONING OF THE FORMER NAIRN FARM JUST SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA FROM AGRICULTURE TO BUSINESS,SO THAT PROPERTY CAN BE COMMERCIALLY DEVELOPED AND INCLUDE THE NEW MAQUOKETA MOTEL.

AT LAST NIGHT'S MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD MEETING, MEMBERS APPROVED A BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR WITH A TAX INCREASE OF 92 CENTS PER $1,000 ASSESED VALUATION.

FIREMEN EARLY THIS MORNING WERE CALLED OUT TWICE..AND BOTH TURNED OUT TO BE FALSE ALARMS.
FIRST AT 1:25 THIS MORNING TO CARDINAL SCHOOL AND NO REASON FOUND FOR THE ALARM TO SOUND AND THEN AT 5:45 THIS MORNING, TO THE DYNAGEAR PLANT WHERE AN EMPLOYEE HAS APPARENTLY PULLED THE ALARM.

IN COURT NEWS....STEPHEN PHILLIPS, AGE 16, OF MAQUKETA, WAS CHARGED IWTH SEXUAL ABUSE IN THE 2ND DEGREE. POLICEMAN MARK MANDERS SAID PHILLIPS HAD SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH A CHILD UNDER AGE 12 TWO OR THREE TIMES LAST FALL, IN MAQUOKETA. HIS CASE HAS BEEN BOUND OVER TO ADULT COURT.

A BOY WAS BORN YESTERDAY TO RICH AND KELLY MOLONY OF BERNARD. SHE'S THE MAQUOKETA MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL.

DAN AND LISA EGGERS OF BILLINGS, MONTANA, ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN APRIL 9TH. GRANDPARENTS ARE LYLE AND LORRAINE PERSHING OF MAQUOKETA AND DALE AND MARY EGGERS OF MAQUOKETA.

FRED KNAPP,AGE 59, OF MAQUOKETA AND FORMERLY OF SABULA, DIED YESTERDAY AT HIS HOME. HE WAS A COUNTRY SINGER WITH THE WELL KNOWN ISLAND CITY SURPRISE BAND.

JOHN SKOFF, AGE 84, OF BALDIWN DIED YESTERDAY. HE AND HIS WIFE FARMED ALL OF HIS LIFE IN THE BALDWIN AREA.

TWO INCHES OF RAIN YESTERDAY...THE GRASS IS GETTING GREEN.

DO THEY HAVE GRASS IN ARIZONA?

SLEEP WELL.

DENNIS VOY




 

RAIN YESTERDAY, LAST NIGHT AND ALL DAY LONG TODAY...THE TOTAL IS AT LEAST 2 INCHES.
BUT..SPRING WEATHER IS EXPECTED WEDNESDAY.

PAUL HOECKER, AGE 33, OF PEOSTA, THE FORMER MANAGER OF THE MAQUOKETA COUNTRY CLUB WAS ARRESTED IN DUBUQUE COUNTY ON A JACKSON COUNTY WARRANT FOR STEALING FUNDS FROM THE CLUB. HE POSTED BOND IN DUBUQUE COUNTY YESTERDAY.
HIS JOB WAS TERMINATED LAST MONTH. DOCUMENTS SAY KEN MOORE GAVE A CHECK TO THE CLUB FOR PAYMENT OF AN ACCOUNT AND HIS DUES. THE CHECK OF $2,525.94 WAS CASHED BY HOECKER AND HE KEPT THE FUNDS FOR HIS OWN USE.

JOSH AND ANDREA DOSTAL OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN SATURDAY AT A DUBUQUE HOSPITAL.

NO WEEKEND DEATHS.

LOTS OF MINOR ACCIDENTS IN THE NEWS TODAY AND
THE COURT NEWS WAS HEAVY TOO.

AND THERE WERE A COUPLE MORE DEER ACCIDENTS OVER THE WEEKEND.

AND...SO....ANOTHER SHORT REPORT.

DENNIS VOY

 

THE 61 DRIVE-IN THEATRE 5 MILES SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA OPENS TONIGHT..ONE OF THREE LEFT IN IOWA AND THE ONLY ONE IN THIS AREA. CLINTON ONCE HAD ONE DRIVE-IN....QUAD-CITIES HAD FIVE...CEDAR RAPIDS HAD 3...DUBUQUE HAD 3 SCREENS AND IOWA CITY AND CORALVILLE EACH HAD ONE. WATERLOO AND CEDAR FALLS EACH HAD ONE. THE ONE IN NEWTON BY DES MOINES IS STILL RUNNING AND THE ONE IN COUNCIL BLUFFS ON WESTERN BORDER, STILL IS RUNNING. I HAVE OWNED THE 61 SINCE 1972...TODAY WILL BE THE START OF MY 31ST SEASON. ITS ALWAYS EXCITING TO RE-OPEN FOR THE SEASON.

SUN IS SHINING...WE ARE IN THE 40'S...SO IT WON'T BE A PERFECT NIGHT TO START THE DRIVE-IN SEASON.
BUT I HAVE HAD A LOT OPENING WEEKENDS THAT WERE WORSE.

THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT IS LOOKING FOR THE PERSON WHO STOLE TWO VEHICLES LAST NIGHT. THE FIRST TAKEN FROM WEST PLATT IS OWNED BY DEBBIE CURRENT. MINUTES AFTER TAKEN, THERE WAS A CALL TO AN ACCIDENT AT HIGHWAY 64 AND 233RD AVENUE....THE VEHICLE WAS THE ONE STOLEN AND THE DRIVER RAN FROM THE SCENE. THE CAR WAS SMOKING BUT NO FIRE. DAMAGE TO CURRENT'S 97 FORD, AROUND $7,000. THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED AROUND 6:30 P.M. AND THEN LATER, ABOUT 8:45...SANDY HANSEN REPORTED HERE VEHICLE STOLEN ON RURAL HIGHWAY 64. THE 90 DODGE TRUCK WAS FOUND AN HOUR LATER EAST OF DELMAR WITH NO DAMAGE AND AGAIN..THE CAR THEIF NO WHERE IN SIGHT.

THE MAQUOKETA COMMUNITY SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS WILL BE ASKED MONDAY NIGHT TO APPROVE A $200 RAISE ON THE BASE SALARY FOR DISTRICT TEACHER...TO $22,330. THIS OVERALL WILL AMOUNT TO A 3.03 TO 3.5 PERCENT INCREASE IN SALARY FOR TEACHERS.
AGAIN..THIS INCREASE HAS NOT BEEN VOTED ON YET.

BRIAN GANZER OF MAQUOKETA, WAS FOUND IN THE DITCH NEAR HIS VEHICLE EARLY THIS MORNING BY SOMEONE PASSING BY. THIS WAS ABOUT 3 MILES EAST OF TOWN. THE VEHICLE HAD ROLLED ONCE AND WAS A TOTAL LOSS.
HE WAS TAKEN TO THE LOCAL HOSPITAL BY AMBULANCE AND THEN TRANSFERRED TO IOWA CITY.

DOROTHY SCHOENTHALER, AGE 100, DIED THIS MORNING AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL FOLLOWING A BRIEF ILLNESS.
HER LATE HUSBAND WAS A LONGTIME ATTORNEY IN MAQUOKETA. SHE IS SURVIVED BY 2 DAUGHTERS, SUE SPALDING OF MAQUOKETA AND CAROL CARPENTER OF IOWA CITY AND A SON, DAVID, OF BETTENDORF, WHO ALSO WAS A MAQUOKETA LAWYER UNTIL BEING APPOINTED A DISTRICT JUDGE. SHE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY SEVERAL GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. MEMORIALS MAY BE GIVEN TO THE SALVATION ARMY. UNTIL THE LOCAL SALVATION ARMY CITIDEL WAS CLOSED, SHE AND HER HUSBAND EVERETT WERE VOLUNTEER BACKERS OF THE ARMY IN TOWN. SHE HAS BEEN LIVING IN HER HOUSE WITH AROUND THE CLOCK CAREGIVERS. QUITE A LADY....I ALWAYS ENJOYED TALKING TO HER. REV. CLAIR O'DELL OF THE METHODIST CHURCH WILL CONDUCT THE FUNERAL SERVICE MONDAY MORNING AT THE HAYLOCK, O'HARA AND LAHEY FUNERAL HOME IN MAQUOKETA.

NOW OPEN, VICTORIA'S FAVORITES...A GIFT STORE AT 902 SOUTH MAIN STREET, MAQUOKETA, OWNED BY
VICKI KUHLMAN OF MAQUOKETA. THE BUILDING WAS FOR MANY YEARS, THE LOCATION OF CURLY AND VIVIAN'S SOUTH INN SUPPER CLUB. THIS NEW CRAFT AND FINE GIFT SHOP WILL FEATURE ISABEL BLOOM ITEMS...DOOR COUNTY CANDLES...NANCY FLAGEL CRAFTS AND OTHER FINE GIFTS. 563-652-9731.

THE IKE'S FISH FRY .. 72ND ANNUAL... IS TOMORROW.
AND THE PYTHIAN PANCAKE SUPPER...LONG HISTORY TOO..IS TUESDAY NIGHT.

ED AND ELAINE TUBBS HAVE ARRIVED FOR THE SRING AND SUMMER HERE UP NORTH. THE SOUTHERNERS
ARE STARTING TO ARRIVE.

EVERYONE KNOWS THAT WHEN THEY GET OUT OF THAT PLANE OR OUT OF THE CAR...AND START BREATHING IN THAT IOWA AIR...THEY AGAIN START TO FEEL 10 YEARS YOUNGER. THAT'S BECAUSE..THEY ARE BACK IN GOD'S COUNTRY.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY







 

CLOUDY THIS MORNING, PARTLY SUNNY THIS AFTERNOON WITH A HIGH OF 44.

JUDY NEISS IS THE NEW MANAGER OF THE MAQUOKETA COUNTRY CLUB. SHE STARTS PARTTIME NOW AND GOES FULLTIME IN MAY. SHE HAS BEEN THE HEAD BOOKKEEPER FOR BANOWETZ ANTIQUES FOR 15 YEARS.
ALSO HAS BEEN THE OCTOBEFEST OF BANDS COORDINATOR FOR MAQUOKETA FOR QUITE A FEW YEARS, BUT ANNOUNCED LAST FALL SHE WOULD NOT CONTINUE ON WITH THAT IN 2002.

NATHAN SAGERS, AGE 21, ATTEMPTED TO HANG HIMSELF IN THE JACKSON COUNTY JAIL THIS MORNING, USING SOME SOCKS. HE WAS FOUND BY THE JAILER, TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AND TREATED FOR MINOR INJURIES AND THEN TAKEN TO MERCY IN DUBUQUE FOR EVALUATION.
HE WAS ARRESTED LAST NIGHT WHILE ATTEMPTING TO TAKE A MINI VAN THAT WAS NOT HIS AND THE ARRESTING POLICEMAN SAID HE APPEARED INTOXICATED TOO.

BRENT RATHJE OF MAQUOKETA HIT A DEER LAST NIGHT ON HIGHWAY 64 NEAR BALDWIN. JULIE MCCALLISTER ALSO HIT ONE NEAR HURSTVILLE AND JOANNE KIRBY HIT ONE ON THE BELLEVUE-CASCADE ROAD.

MINOR TW0 CAR ACCIDENT YESTERDAY ..ONE VEHICLE DRIVEN BY PAUL HAMMERAND,JR. OF MAQUOKETA AND THE OTHER DRIVER WAS WILLIAM HAYWARD OF MAQUOKETA. NO INJURIES.

CARL STOLL, AGE 44, OF MAQUOKETA WAS CHARGED WITH BURGLARY IN THE 3RD DEGREE. HE ENTERED AN APARTMENT IN TOWN BY PRYING OPEN THE DOOR WITH A PRY BAR AND TOOK SEVERAL ITEMS.

AMY MANNING OF MAQUOKETA HAD A GIRL BORN TUESDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.

STOP BY TOMORROW AGAIN.

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CLOUDY AND COLD....HIGH UPPER 30'S

WILLIAM "GENE" CLARK, AGE 63, OF RURAL MONMOUTH DIED MONDAY AT HIS HOME AFTER A LONG ILLNESS.
HE WORKED IN THE FOUNDRY AT CLINTON ENGINES FOR 18 YEARS. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, BARBARA,
2 SONS, 6 DAUGHTERS AND 1 BROTHER, JOHN OF MAQUOKETA.

NOTHING MORE TODAY.

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3 INCHES OF SNOW YESTERDAY....LIGHT RAIN VERY EARLY THIS MORNING...THEN CLOUDY ALL DAY WITH A HIGH OF 40.

A MAQUOKETA MAN, DEON DEWITT, AGE 28, OF HEARTLAND TRAILER PARK, WAS SENTENCED BY JUDGE MICHAEL MELLOY TO 6 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON ON DRUG CHARGES.

AT CITY COUNCILL MEETING LAST NIGHT, MEMBERS POSTPONED ACTION REQUIRING PROPERTY OWNERS TO PAY FOR DELINQUENT WATER ACCOUNTS FOR THEIR RENTERS.
DAVE BRADY OF MAQUOKETA, A LANDLORD, TOLD THE COUNCIL THEY CAN'T DO THAT. THEY ARE NOW GOING TO CHECK WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY.

MARK HUGHES REPORTED TO THE MAQUOKETA POLICE YESTERDAY THAT A $15 LIGHT BLUE DROP CORD WAS TAKEN FROM HIS RESIDENCE AT 605 EMMA COURT.
AND TYLER CLASEN OF BELLEVUE SAID AROUND $800 WORTH OF CD'S WERE TAKEN FROM HIS CAR SUNDAY WHILE PARKED AT TIMBER LANES.

A SHORT REPORT...SORRY. BUT NO MORE NEWS TO GIVE.

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SUNSHINE FOR A COUPLE MINUTES THIS MORNING..THEN CLOUDS..THEN SNOW...2-3 INCHES. STOPPED NOW AND MELTING.

POLICE BLOTTER..

A CHILD RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES AFTER HE RODE HIS BICYCLE INTO THE STREET AND INTO THE SIDE OF A CAR FRIDAY AFTERNOON. DARIAN BREWSTER WAS THE BOY AND THE DRIVER WAS LISA MILLER, AGE 28,OF ANDREW. HAPPENED ON PERSHING ROAD.

SEVEN GRASS FIRES IN THE AREA FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.

SOMEONE TOOK A BOTTLE OF LIQUOR FROM JRS WINE AND SPIRITS SATURDAY NIGHT.

DEE GREEN ON ERIE STREET SAID HER CELL PHONE WAS TAKEN FROM HER HOME FRIDAY...VALUE, $100.

KRISTIN MCLAUGHLIN OF S. ELIZA SAID HER HOME WAS BROKEN INTO FRIDAY...TAKEN, SOME CDS..A NECKLACE, AND BRACELET..AND $200 DAMAGE DONE TO DOOR.

BRAD DEERY MOTORS REPORTED SEVERAL VEHICLES IN THEIR DOWNTOWN LOT WERE SCRATCHED...DAMAGES ESTIMATED AT $1,200.

JOSH WOOD HIT A DEER.

STEVEN SCHROEDER REPORTED HIS MAILBOX STOLEN SATURDAY AND

A LAMOTTE BUSINESS...NEW HORIZONS..REPORTED THEIR ANHYDROUS AMMONIA TANK WAS DAMAGED.

JOSESPH ARTERBERRY OF MAQUOKETA, AGE 27, WAS CHARGED SUNDAY NIGHT WITH OWI.

RYAN RENFROW, AGE 22, OF MAQUOKETA WAS CHARGED WITH WITH POSSESSION OF METHAMPHETAMINE, MARIJUANA AND DRUG PARAPHENALIA.

TWO VEHCLIES STOLEN OVER THE WEEKEND...ONE OWNED BY STEVEN TAYLOR AND OTHER BY RON STARK.

CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT.

SEN. CHUCK GRASSLEY VISITS MAQUOKETA TOMMOROW MORNING.

FIRST ST. LOUIS CARDINALS GAME OF THE NEW SEASON IS ON KMAQ-FM NOW AND CARDINALS ARE WINNING BIG OVER COLORADO. OUR 18TH YEAR OF BROADCASTING CARDINAL GAMES.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS.

THANKS FOR CHECKING IN.

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RAIN THIS MORNING, SUNSHINE THIS AFTERNOON AND HIGH AROUND 60.

BOB AND BEV ENGEL ARE BACK AFTER A 3-WEEK VISIT TO FLORIDA.

KEN MOORE HAS PURCHASED THE BIG EMPTY LOT ON EAST PLATT STREET, JUST EAST OF THE DEPOT. EVERYONE IS WONDERING WHAT HE WILL BUILD THERE.

THE DAIRY QUEEN WILL BE CLOSED SUNDAY..EASTER A SLOW DAY AT DQ'S....ACCORDING TO OWNER LOIS BIEHL.
SHE SHOULD KNOW. SHE AND DOC HAVE RUN THAT PLACE FOR A LONG TIME.

US SENATOR CHUCK GRASSLEY WILL VISIT MAQUOKETA NEXT TUESDAY FROM 7:30 T0 8:30 A.M...AT CITY HALL.
HE IS VISITING 33 COMMUNITIES DURING THE TWO-WEEK CONGRRESSINAL RECESS.

THE DIALYSIS PROGRAM AT THE JACKSON COUNTY PUBIC HOSPITAL COULD BE OPEN BY THE END OF THE YEAR.
ESTIMATED COST, $300,000.

MAQUOKETA OPTIMIST CLUB WILL HOST ITS ANNUAL CAR SHOW ON SUNDAY APRIL 28TH AT THE PEARSON CENTER AT THE FAIRGROUNDS...FROM NOON UNTIL 4 P.M.
TWENTY CATEGORIES AND TROPHIES WILL BE AWARDED AT 3:30 P.M.

SOMEONE TRIED TO BREAK INTO THE GARY SCHLAPIA HOME ON SOUTH OLIVE LAST NIGHT. SOMEONE TRIED TO PRY OPEN A LOCK ON A DOOR,BUT NO ENTRY GAINED.

TODAY, EVELYN REYNOLDS CELEBRATED HER BIRTHDAY WITH A BUNCH OF LADY FRIENDS AT THE COTTAGE.
BIRTHDAY REALLY WAS YESTERDAY. HUSBAND, MERL, RETIRED BUT HAS BEEN DOING DELIVERY WORK FOR OSTERHAUS PHARMACY FOR MANY YEARS. LONG TIME AGO, HE WORKED FOR DUDLEY YOCUM AT YOUCUM'S WESTERN AUTO STORE DOWNTOWN.

HAD AN E-MAIL YESTERDAY FORM NATE GOETZ IN NAPLES, FLORIDA. HE, HIS LATE BROTHER AND A LATE CPA FRIEND, WERE THE FIRST OWNERS OF KMAQ. I PURCHASED THE STATION FROM THEM IN 1965. NATE SOLD HIS WISCONSIN STATIONS A COUPLE YEARS AGO AND IS RETIRED NOW. BUT, ALSO IS THE NON-PAID PRESIDENT OF ONE OF THE CITIES LARGEST GOLF COURSES. HE AND WIFE RUTH STILL PLAY GOLF WEEKLY. THEY HAVE A SON THAT IS A DOCTOR.
AND GRANDCHILDREN TOO. BY THE WAY, HE SAID THERE ARE 100 GOLF COURSES IN THE TWO COUNTIES AROUND NAPLES.

HEARD TODAY THAT CURLY MILLER OF MAQUOKETA HAS SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK AND IS IN A DUBUQUE HOSPITAL. HE..AND WIFE VIVIAN RAN THE SOUTH INN SUPPER CLUB IN MAQUOKETA FOR MANY YEARS IN THE 50'S, 60'S AND MAYBE INTO THE 70'S...I'M NOT SURE.
I'LL KEEP YOU POSTED ON HIS PROGRESS. THEIR PLACE WAS A GREAT PLACE TO EAT. NOW, THAT LOCATION IS GOING TO BE HOME, EFFECTIVE MONDAY, TO A NEW GIFT SHOP. MORE ON THAT, LATER.

KAREN THOMAS AND PAM ROSENBERG ARE IN LONDON WITH AN EASTERN IOWA GROUP. BOB GOT A CALL FROM KAREN SAYING SHE HAD HER PURSE STOLEN.

SCHLECHT HATCHERY OF MILES IS ADVERTISING BABY CHICKS ON KMAQ..THAT TIME OF YEAR.

THE COUNTY PARKS OPEN FOR THE SEASON, APRIL 5TH.

THE EASTER PARADE BY GUY LOMBARDO IS PLAYING ALL DAY, ALL THIS WEEKEND, ON THE DOWNTOWN PA SYSTEM.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS.

HAPPY EASTER.

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RAIN THIS MORNING....SUNSHINE THIS AFTERNOON...AND THEN A HIGH TODAY...READY?... 61 DEGREES. YOU CAN COME HOME NOW JONZEES.

THE STOCKHAMS ARE LEAVING TEXAS FOR HOME TOMORROW.

A TRUCKER LOST CONTROL OF HIS MILK TANKER NEAR EMILINE AROUND NOON YESTERDAY...THE FULL TRUCK TIPPED OVER AND DAMAGE/LOSSES NEAR $200,000. THE DRIVER, FROM TIPTON, WAS TAKEN TO THE LOCAL HOSPITAL, TREATED AND RELEASED.

ALSO DURING NOON HOUR YESTERDAY, A MINOR ACCIDENT BY VEHICLES DRIVEN BY SUSAN GUENTHER, AGE 31 OF MAQUOKETA AND CHAD COACKLEY, AGE 29, OF MAQUOKETA. ACCIDENT HAPPENED ON W. PLATT AND NO INJURIES.

THE CITY RECENTLY BOUGHT SOME LAND FROM J.E.GOODENOW TO POSSIBLY BE USED FOR THE RECRETION CENTER...BUT THAT CENTER IDEA IS MORE OR LESS ON HOLD THESE DAYS. ANYWAY, DAN THIES WANTS TO RENT THE LAND AND USE IT FOR RAISING 250 CHICKENS, 30 COWS AND 25 SWINE. GUESS WHAT?
THE NEIGHBORS AREN'T HAPPY. THE COUNCIL WILL VOTE ON RENTAL NEXT MONDAY NIGHT.

THE DEADLINE IS PAST..AND THERE WILL BE NO COUNTY CONTESTS IN THE NOVEMBER ELECTION. I GUESS SOMEONE COULD JUMP INTO THE RACE AFTER THE JUNE PRIMARY,THIS SUMMER, BUT HIGHLY UNLIKELY.

MARANDA BONNEY, OF MAQUOKETA, IS THE MOTHER OF A GIRL BORN MONDAY NIGHT AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.

BILL COTTON, AGE 81, CITY MANAGER OF SABULA FOR 24 YEARS, DIED TUESDAY AFTER AN EXTENDED ILLNESS.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE SON MIKE COTTON, JACKSON COUNTY AUDITOR.

HAROLD AND LOIS STANER OF MAQUOKETA WILL CELEBRATE THEIR 35TH ON APRIL 1ST. HAROLD WORKED AT ALCOA IN DAVENPORT FOR 33 YEARS BEFORE RETIRING. LOIS OWNS AND OPERATES ARTISTIC EXPRESSIONS IN MAQUOKETA. THEY HAVE 4 CHILDREN.

HAVE A 'GOOD FRIDAY" TOMORROW.

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SUNNY AND NICE..IN LOW 50'S.

NEW MAQUOKETA MAYOR TOM MESSERLI SPOKE AT ROTARY THIS NOON. DID A GOOD JOB. HE'S NEARING HIS 100TH DAY OF BEING MAYOR. HAD A NEW BILL MOLER'S SPRING OUTFIT ON TOO....SHARP.

BIG SIGNS ALL OVER TOWN TODAY...4 BY 8'S....
STEWART FOR IOWA SENATE.

MCHS GRADUATION DAY 2003...NEXT YEAR...JUNE 1.
DECIDED THIS WEEK BY SCHOOL BOARD.

POLICE BLOTTER: DR. YANDA, LONGTIME MAQUOKETA VET, REPORTED SIGN DAMAGE FOR HIS BUSINESS, WITH DAMAGES ESTIMATEDAT $400.

DON REYNER, RETIRED POSTAL MAN, REPORTED FRONT WINDOW OF HIS HOME BROKEN OUT...EGGS FOUND AT THE BASE....DAMAGES ESTIMATED AT $200.

BOBI JO HARE ON NORTH WALNUT, REPORTED HIT AND RUN TO HER VEHICLE...$500 IN DAMAGES.

TONY CLENNAN OF MAQUOKETA REPORTED HIS CAR 98 DODGE NEON WAS KEYED WHILE PARKED IN FAREWAY LOT...DAMAGE, $350.

IN COURT NEWS..

DAVE KOOB, AGE 50, FINED $90 FOR DUMPING ILLEGALLY AT THE CITY BRUSH AREA.

AND..COSTLY TO ISSUE A BAD CHECK....PROOF AGAIN...ELIZABETH TATRO, 41, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS FINED $259 ON CHARGES OF THEFT IN THE 5TH DEGREE....FOR WRITING A CHECK OF $17.21 TO FAREWAY STORE WHICH WAS NOT PAID BY HER BANK.

ROB ROTMANM OF CHICAGO AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, IS APPEARING IN A PLAY IN CHICAGO THESE DAYS. HE ALSO DOES WRITING OF PLAYS.

MAQUOKETA OPENS THE FOOTBALL SEASON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6TH AT WATERLOO COLUMBUS. THIS YEAR, 4 HOME GAMES, AND 5 AWAY. THREE NEW OPPONENTS THIS YEAR...MOUNT VERNON...GRINNELL...AND SOUTH TAMA.

CHECK BACK AGAIN TOMORROW.

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SUNNY WITH HIGH OF 42 TODAY.

IN A SURPRISE MOVE,MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT RYAN RENNER OF MAQUOKETA WAS SENTENCED TODAY TO 6 MONTHS PROBATION IN JUVENILE COURT WITH SOME STIPULATIONS. RENNER, A SENIOR TOP SCORING BASKETBALL PLAYER, WAS CHARGED EARLIER THIS YEAR FOR POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE AND ALSO CHARGED WITH THEFT IN THE 5TH DEGREE FOR ALLEGEDLY TAKING DRUGS FROM OSTERHAUS PHARMACY, WHERE HE WAS A STUDENT EMPLOYEE. THE SURPRISE WAS THAT HIS CASE WILL STAY IN JUVINILE COURT. HE IS 18 NOW, BUT WAS 17 WHEN ARRESTED.

AT THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD MEETING LAST NIGHT...
THE BOARD ACCEPTED THE RESIGNATION OF FORREST FROSTY WARD AS MIDDLE SCHOOL ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL.
HE HAS BEEN WITH THE DISTRICT 19 YEARS.
LAST MONTH, HIS POSITION WAS CUT AS PART OF THE BUDGET CUT.
ALSO CUT...AT MIDDLE SCHOOL, A SIXTH GRADE TEACHING POSITION. BETH KROGMAN, 6TH GRADE SCIENCE TEACHER, HAS GOTTEN A JOB AT PLEASANT VALLEY. SHE WAS IN HER 6TH YEAR HERE.
NEITHER HER POSITION OR WARDS...WILL BE FILLED.
ALSO LAST NIGHT, THE BOARD APPROVED TRANSFER OF HELEN SNELL TO THE POSITION OF COMMUNITY CONNECTION GRANT DIRECTOR TO REPLACE MELISSA REIMER. SNELL CURRENTLY IS THE EARLY ELEMENTARY COORDINATOR OF THE AT RISK GRANT, BUT THAT GRANT WAS NEW RENEWED. SNELL WAS HIRED AT $40,280...MORE THAN REIMER IS BEING PAID, BUT SNELL HAS A MASTER'S DEGREE.
ALSO LAST NIGHT, AMY PECKOSH RESIGNED AS COMMUNITY CONNECTION SITE COORDINATOR AT CARDINAL ELEMENTARY AS SHE IS MOVING TO WISCONSIN.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

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CLOUDY THIS MORNING...SUNNY THIS AFTERNOON...
VERY WINDY AND HIGH UPPER 30'S.

SATURDAY NIGHT, BRIAN WHITE ROLLED A 300 GAME AT TIMBER LANES....IT WAS HIS 3RD GAME OF THE NIGHT AND HE ENDED UP WITH A 769 SERIES.

JACKSON COUNTY ATTORNEY JOHN KIES HAS FILED PAPERS FOR RE-ELECTION.

MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD MEETING TONIGHT.

TERRY DEKKER, AGE 75, OF CLINTON DIED SATURDAY.
SURVIORS INCLUDE A DAUGHTER IN MAQUOKETA, CINDY, MRS. ROB HECK.

SHIRLEY CAIN, AGE 72, DIED THIS MORNING. SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SON.... FATHER DENNIS CAIN OF FARLEY, WHO WAS A FORMER PASTOR AT SACRED HEART CHURCH IN MAQUOKETA FOR SEVERAL YEARS IN THE 90'S.

BRAD DEERY MOTORS IN MAQUOKETA SOLD OVER 50 VEHICLES FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY DURING THERE SLASHER SALE.

NANCY AND I ENJOYED A VERY GOOD BREAKFAST YESTERDAY MORNING AT THE SPRINGBROOK FIRE STATION...PUT ON BY THE FIREMEN. CHOICE OF FRESH MADE REGULAR OR SMOKED SAUSAGE. RAN INTO ROGER AND JENNIE STEWART THERE. THERE WAS A BREAKFAST YESTERDAY ALSO AT DELMAR AND AT SABULA AND THEY....HE'S RUNNING FOR STATE SENATE YOU KNOW....ATTENDED ALL THREE...AND LATER IN DAY, WERE PLANNING TO TAKE IN THE SUPPER AT LOMBARDI'S NORTH OF ST. DONATUS. ROGER SAYS HIS CAMPAIGN IS GOING WELL.

BEATRICE GAVIN OF MAQUOKETA WAS OUR FRIDAY RADIO BINGO WINNER.

MAQUOKETA KIDS WILL HAVE OFF THIS THURSDAY AFTERNOON...FRIDAY..AND NEXT MONDAY AND TUESDAY...A LITTLE LONGER THAN NORMAL EASTER VACATION.

SO..HEARD TODAY FROM PARENTS THAT THE FORMER JOAN SAUNDERS CHECKS THIS REPORT DAILY OUT AT WINTERSET, IOWA...BOYHOOD HOME OF JOHN WAYNE..AND HOME OF THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY. HER HUSBAND RUNS THE FAREWAY STORE THERE. HER DAD, EARL, WORKED FOR ME FOR MANY YEARS AS A SALESMAN UNTIL HE RETIRED ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO AND HER MOTHER, EVA, WAS A LONGTIME MAQUOKETA SCHOOL TEACHER. JOAN WORKED AT MY DRIVE-IN THEATRE THE FIRST YEAR I OWNED IT IN 1972.

DOTTIE BAYLES, LONGTIME SALESPERSON AT KMAQ, HAD A BIG 60TH BIRTHDAY THURSDAY AND A SURPRISE PARTY ALSO SATURDAY NIGHT, WITH SISTERS COMING IN FROM NEW MEXICO.

ICE AGE IS DOING VERY WELL THESE DAYS AT THE THEATRE. THE RETURN OF 'ET' WAS SO-SO.

HAVE A GOOD "HOLY WEEK" AHEAD.

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BEAUTIFUL SATURDAY IN MAQUOKETA...SOME AREAS MAY SEE 50 TODAY, BUT SNOW IS STILL IN THE FORECAST FOR TOMORROW...2 TO 4 INCHES.

A VEHICLE WAS VANDALIZED IN MAQUOKETA THURSDAY NIGHT. CONNIE KARPINSKE SAID HER VEHICLE WAS EGGED WHILE PARKED AT 408 BUTTERNUT...DAMAGES ESTIMATED AT $200.

PROPERTY TAXES MUST BE PAID BY NEXT FRIDAY. PAY AFTER THAT, AND GET A 1 AND 1/2 PERCENT INTEREST PENALITY PER MONTH.

THE CITY OF DEWITT HAS RECEIVED 20 APPLICATIONS FOR THE JOB OF CITY ADMINISTRATOR.

THE NEW FAMILY DOLLAR DISTRIBUTION CENTER SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA WILL START SHIPPING THINGS OUT THIS COMING MONDAY, AHEAD OF SCHEDULE.

LIN SCHULTZ, OWNER OF MASSAGE THERAPY IN MAQUOKETA, IN SAME BUILDING AS SUBWAY RESTAURANT, ATTENDED THE STATE CONVENTION LAST WEEK AND WAS ELECTED TO BE THE STATE MEMBERSHIP CHAIRMAN.

IN SPORTS, AFTER SERVING AS ASSISTANT ONE YEAR, ERIC OLSEN HAS TAKEN OVER AS HEAD BOYS TRACK COACH AT MCHS. MINDY WING, WHO WAS HEAD COACH LAST YEAR, DECIDED TO SWITCH POSITIONS AND WILL BE THE ASSISTANT THIS YEAR. VICKIE MEINECKE, WHO WITH HER HUSBAND OWN AND OPERATE A DOWNTOWN INSURANCE OFFICE, BEGINS HERE 5TH SEASON AS HEAD GIRLS TRACK COACH FOR MCHS.

SHIRLEY AND KEN BURNS WILL CELEBRATE THEIR 50TH ON APRIL 7TH. THEY HAVE 5 CHILDREN...PAM, KEVIN, KEITH, AND KENNETH, ALL OF MAQUOKETA AND MICHAEL IN CEDAR RAPIDS.

NEW BUSINESS IN MAQUOKETA. BRIAN AUNAN, CPA, HAS OPENED A CPA OFFICE IN THE SAME BUILDING AS ENGEL INSURANCE ON WEST PLATT. HE WORKED NEARLY 6 YEARS AS A CPA IN DUBUQUE.

VIVIAN DURKOP AT CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME CELEBRATED HER 94TH BIRTHDAY YESTERDAY.

30 YEARS AGO, LARRY JORGENSEN, AGE 25, CAME TO MAQUOKETA TO BE THE MANAGER OF THE SANDY'S RESTAURANT IN MAQUOKETA. IT OPENED IN FEBRUARY OF 1972 AND WAS MAQUOKETA'S FIRST FAST FOOD HAMBURGER PLACE. IT LATER WAS CHANGED TO A HARDEES AND WAS LOCATED ACROSS FROM HAYLOCK-O'HARA FUNERAL HOME IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA. SHORTLY AFTER MCDONALDS OPENED, HARDEES CLOSED AFTER A FIRE. THE BUILDING IS NOW OWNED BY RANDY LAHEY AND THE BUILDING IS RENTED AS AN OFFICE AND RANDY USES PART OF THE PARKING LOT
FOR PARKING FOR HIS FUNERAL HOME.

MARIE ELSNER 80 YEARS AGO THIS MONTH, GRADUATED FROM PALMER SCHOOL OF CHIROPRACTIC AND OPENED AN OFFICE OF CHIROPRACTIC AT 308 S. ELIZA STREET IN MAQUOKETA. SHE DIED A COUPLE YEARS AGO, AND WAS A WELL-KNOW DOWNTOWN VISITOR UNTIL HER DEATH.
SHE HAD QUIT BEING A CHIROPRACTOR MANY YEARS AGO..NEVER MARRIED...AND WAS AN INTERESTING PERSON...OR CHARACTER. EVERY YEAR, SHE MADE SURE I MENTIONED HER BIRTHDAY ON THE AIR..AND ONCE OR TWICE I DID AN INTERVIEW WITH HER....AND SHE TREASURED THE TAPE OF THOSE.

THE SLASHER SALE AT BRAD DEERY MOTORS, TODAY ONLY, STARTED EARLY THIS MORNING...CARS AS LOW AS
$99. BALLOONS...FLASHING LIGHTS...HORN BEEPING...ITS A FESTIVE PLACE OVER THERE...ACROSS THE STREET FROM KMAQ.

WENDY SCOTT, NEW OWNER OF RONANN'S FLORAL SHOP, HAD HER GRAND OPENING THIS WEEK. SHE HAS WORKED FOR HER MOTHER THERE FOR 25 YEARS. HER MOM, ANITA, WILL CONTINUE OPERATING THE GREEN HOUSE, AND IS IN HER 47TH YEAR OUT THERE ON HIGHWAY 64 WEST. HER HUSBAND RON DIED YEARS AGO. I GUESS MAYBE I MENTIONED ALL THIS EARLIER IN WEEK.
MEMORY SLIPPING A LITTLE.

MAYOR TOM MESSERLI HAS JOINED THE MAQUOKETA OPTIMIST CLUB. THEY MEET FOR BREAKFAST EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING AT 7 AT FLAPJACK'S. LONG TIME MEMBER PAUL HARTEL SIGNED HIM UP.

THE ELWOOD-DELMAR METHODIST CHURCH FED OVER 500 AT THEIR FISH FRY LAST NIGHT IN DELMAR. GOOD FISH.

FRANCIS WILLEY OF MAQUOKETA HAD A SERIOUS STROKE EARLIER THIS WEEK AND IS NOT DOING WELL. REMEMBER HER IN YOUR PRAYERS. YEARS AGO, SHE BAKED THE BEST DARN PIES YOU COULD FIND IN MAQUOKETA. HER SON IS COUNTY SUPERVISOR JACK WILLEY, AND LONGTIME MAQUOKETA BEAUTICIAN.

HAVE A GOOD PALM SUNDAY.

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COLD, SUNNY AND WINDY..HIGH OF 37. TOMORROW, SHOULD BE IN THE 40'S. WHOOPEE. THEN SNOW ON SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT.

THE GOVERNOR'S RACE IS ON IN IOWA. DEMOCRAT GOV. VILSACK WILL RUN AGAIN...AND THREE REPUBLICANS ARE GOING IN THE PRIMARY FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO BEAT VILSACK IN NOVEMBER. ONE OF THE CANDIDATES STOPPED IN AT KMAQ....BOB VANDERPLAATS. FORMER TEACHER, COACH, HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL NOW A SIOUX CITY BUSINESSMAN. NICE GUY. ANOTHER CANDIDATE IS DOUG GROSS, WHO WAS A TOP MAN ON THE GOV. BRANDSTAD STAFF. THE 3RD CANDIDATE'S NAME I DON'T HAVE HANDY NOW.

THE CITY OF DELMAR NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT A NEW WATER WELL. THEY HAVE TWO NOW, BUT ONE IS NOT WORKING AND I'M NOT SURE WHAT IS THE PROBLEM, IF ANY, WITH THE SECOND, OTHER THAN NO ALTERNATIVE IN CASE SOMETHNG GOES WRONG WITH THE ONE WORKING WELL. ANYWAY... A FEASIBILITY STUDY IS GOING TO BE DONE AND A NEW WELL COULD COST MILLIONS.
SO, ONE OF THE CONSIDERATIONS IS TO HOOK DELMAR UP TO MAQUOKETA'S SYSTEM. THE MAQUOKETA COUNCIL HAS AGREED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE STUDY.
ONE HAS TO ASSUME IT MIGHT BE A WAY FOR DELMAR TO GET BY MUCH CHEAPER AND MAQUOKETA TO BE ABLE TO MAKE SOME MONEY.

ON THE POLICE BLOTTER, STEVE EYE OF MAQUOKETA REPORTED THAT HE WENT TO BED WEDNESDAY NIGHT WITH HIS WALLET IN HIS LIVING ROOM AND THE NEXT MORNING, THE WALLET WAS FOUND OUTSIDE HIS RESIDENCE WITH MONEY IN IT MISSING....$150 IN CASH.

THE KIWANIS EASTER EGG HUNT WILL BE HELD TOMORROW MORNING NEAR THE FAIRGROUNDS BEHIND THE SENIOR CITIZEN'S CENTER, STARTING AT 9:30 A.M.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS.

AND NO LOCAL SPORTS THESE DAYS. CORRECTION..THE 4-H BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT IS BEING RUN THIS WEEKEND IN BELLEVUE AND THE 4 CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES WILL BE PLAYED SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND LIKE IN PAST YEARS..WILL BE BROADCAST ON KMAQ, WITH BOB WARNER AT THE PLAY-BY-PLAY MIKE. TWO GIRLS GAMES...JUNIOR AND SENIOR AND TWO BOYS GAMES ALSO.

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.

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SUNNY, BUT OH SO WINDY AND COLD..IN THE TEENS.

ABOUT 15 PEOPLE ATTENDED THE MEETING LAST NIGHT CONCERNING ADDING SIDEWALK TO SOUTH JONES.
MANY,SEVERAL, OPPOSED. NO DECISION MADE.

THE MAQUOKETA COUNTRY CLUB WILL BE SEARCHING FOR A NEW MANAGER. THE BOARD MET YESTERDAY AND
AGREED TO DISMISS THE CURRENT MANAGER PAUL
HOECKER, WHO HAS BEEN MANAGER FOR JUST OVER A YEAR. BOARD PRESIDENT JERRY NELSON SAID THE SEARCH FOR A NEW MANAGER WILL BEGIN IMMEDIATELY.

JACKSON COUNTY SUPERVISOR J.C. ENGEL SAID HE WILL SEEK A FOURTH TERM AS SUPERVISOR. JACK WILLEY, ALSO REPUBLICAN, FILED RE-ELECTION PAPERS EARLIER.

SORRY THE REPORT IS ON SHORT SIDE AGAIN....
NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS.

DENNIS VOY

 

CLOUDY THIS MORNING AND SUNNY THIS AFTERNOON AND A HIGH OF 50. TOMORROW, THE FIRST FULL DAY OF SPRING AND TEMPS BACK DOWN IN THE UPPER 30'S.

A SMALL AIRPLANE CRASH EARLY THIS AFTERNOON NEAR CASCADE. THE BI-PLANE STRUCK A POWER LINE WHILE SEWING GRASS ALONG THE HIGHWAY. THE PILOT OF DES MOINES WAS TAKEN TO MERCY HOSPITAL IN DUBUQUE AND WE HAVE NO CONDITION REPORT AS YET.

WE'LL PROBABLY HAVE A BUILD OR NOT BUILD SIDEWALK WAR IN MAQUOKETA AGAIN. THE SIDEWALK COMMITTEE IS PROPOSING BUILDING A SIDEWALK ON SOUTH JONES STREET. THE PROPOSAL CALLS FOR A SIDEWALK TO START ON WEST SIDE OF THOMAS AVENUE AT SUMMIT STREET AND WOULD END ON THAT SIDE AND END AT THE CORNER HOME. THEN IT WOULD BEGIN AGAIN ON THE EAST SIDE OF JONES AND CONTINUE DOWN TO PLATT STREET. PROPERTY OWNERS ARE BEING ASKED TO ATTEND A MEETING AT 7 TONIGHT. YOU MAY RECALL ALL THE DELIBERATIONS REGARDING A SIDEWALK ON SOUTH 5TH STREET...AND IT IS STILL NOT IN PLACE FOR WALKERS.

SERVICES FOR RICHARD TEBBE, 71, OF RURAL BELLEVUE WILL BE FRIDAY AT 10:30. HE WAS KILLED IN THE FARM ACCIDENT YESTERDAY MORNING. HE IS SURVIVED BY 2 DAUGHTERS AND 3 SONS,INCLUDING JOHN TEBBE OF MAQUOKETA.

HELEN HAYSE, WHO DIED TUESDAY, WAS BORN IN MAQUOKETA TO RALPH AND ESTHER MOREHEAD AND HAS NO LOCAL SURVIVORS, AND WILL BE BURRIED IN MT. HOPE CEMETERY HERE IN MAQUOKETA.

LARRY 'DEVIL' HOLMES, AGE 64, OF DELMAR, AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY AT UNIVERSITY HOSPTIALS AT IOWA CITY. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE EAGLES CLUB IN MAQUOKETA AND IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, MONA....3 DAUGHTERS AND 2 SONS.

BIG BIRTHDAY TOMORROW HERE AT KMAQ....DOTTIE BAYLES, A MEMBER OF THE SALES STAFF FOR JUST UNDER 25 YEARS, CELEBRATES HER BIG 6-0 TOMORROW.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DOTTIE.

HERE'S HOPING YOU ALL HAVE A GREAT SPRING!

DENNIS VOY





 

SUNNY THIS MORNING, CLOUDY THIS AFTERNOON....
COOL, IN LOW 40'S.

RICHARD TEBBE, AGE 71, OF 42203 - 112TH ST.,RURAL BELLEVUE, DIED THIS MORNING AS RESULT OF A FARM ACCIDENT. HE WAS DRIVING HIS TRACTOR WITH A LARGE BALE OF HAY ON THE BACK AND WHEN HE APPARENTLY GOT OFF TO TAKE THE NET OFF THE HAY BALE, THE TRACTOR WAS NOT SET IN GEAR AND THE REAR TRACTOR WHEEL ROLLED OVER TEBBE. HE SON FOUND HIM SHORTLY AFTER THE ACCIDENT. JACKSON COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER DR. PAUL KOOB SAID TEBBE DIED OF MASSIVE CHEST INJURIES.

THE LOCAL FIREMEN WERE CALLED TO OWL FURNITURE ON NORTH MAIN THIS MORNING WHEN A GAS LINE RUPTURED. A SEMI BACKED INTO A METER AND THERE WAS NO FIRE.

SOMEONE TRIED TO BREAK INTO A 5TH WHEEL CAMPER PARKED NEXT TO OWL FURNITURE LAST NIGHT. ENTRY WAS NOT GAINED AND DAMAGE TO THE DOOR WAS ESTIMATED AT $200.

JOHN DAEHLER HIT A DEER LAST NIGHT ON HIGHWAY 64 NEAR MONMOUTH AND KATHY CLARK HIT A DEER THIS MORNING ON THE CAVES ROAD.

FUNERALL SERVICES ARE PENDING AT CARSON'S FUNERAL HOME IN MAQUOKETA FOR HELEN HAYSE, AGE 78, OF MAQUOKETA WHO DIED THIS MORNING AT CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME.

THE KMAQ 5TH ANNUAL HEALTH AWARENESS FAIR WILL BE HELD AT THE FAIRGROUNDS IN MAQUOKEKTA ON THURSDAY, APRIL 11TH, FROMN 11 AM UNTIL 8 P.M.

THANKS FOR ANOTHER VISIT.

DENNIS VOY



 

SUNNY AND NICE TODAY, HIGH NEAR 50

AN ANDREW MAN, JIM SCHROEDER,WAS INJURED AFTER A TRACTOR ROLLED ON HIM AS HE WAS BLADING A CITY STREET LAST NIGHT. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE LOCAL HOSPITAL AND THEN TRANSFERRED TO GENESIS WEST IN DAVENPORT WHERE HIS CONDITION TODAY WAS LISTED AS GOOD. INJURY WAS TO A LEG.

MAQUOKETA POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A BURGLARY AND ASSAULT. SUE FELDERMAN REPORTED SOMEONE ENTERED THE HOME AT 313 S. NIAGARA SUNDAY. ENTRY GAINED THROUGH A SIDE DOOR. NUMEROUS THINGS TAKEN.

AND POLICE SAY KEIL ELKINS AND JON GRIFFIN GOT IN A VERBAL ALTERCATION WITH A MAN STANDING ON HIS PORCH ON ERIE STREET LAST NIGHT. THEN LATER, AT NIAGARA AND SUMMITT, A LIGHT COLOR CAR WITH FOUR TO FIVE MALES STOPPED THE PAIR. ONE MAN GOT OUT AND HIT ELKINS. GRIFFIN RAN TO CALL FOR HELP. ELKINS RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES.

MAQUOKETA FIREMEN WERE CALLED TO TWO MINOR FIRES
SATURDAY...A GRASS FIRE ON 167TH STREET AND TRACTOR FIRE ON 281ST AVENUE AT THE MARVIN FRANZEN RESIDENCE. TWO FIRES ALSO SUNDAY NIGHT AT LEISURE LAKE, NEAR BERNARD.

MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT.

LYNN MEDINGER HIT A DEER SUNDAY NIGHT ON HIGHWAY 61 AND ROBERT REDDIN HIT ONE LAST THURSDAY NIGHT ON HIWAY 61.

BILLIE RUTH MANGLER, AGE 61, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, IVIA MANGLER...3 DAUGHTERS, INCLUDING TRACY MARTIN OF MAQUOKETA AND 1 SON.

MILDRED HOWELL, AGE 91, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY AT CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME IN MAQUOKETA AFTER A LONG ILLNESS. SHE AND HER LATE HUSBAND CLARENCE FARMED IN THE EMLINE AREA..AND OPERATED THE CANTON GENERAL STORE FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
SUVIVORS INCLUDE 1 DAUGHTER, BONNIE IN FLORIDA.

BETTY LYNCH, AGE 71, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED SATURDAY NIGHT AT DAVENPORT HOSPITAL. SHE WORKED AT CLINTON ENGINES .. AND THEN AS A NURSES AIDE AT SEVERAL NURSING HOMES, RETIRING IN 1991. SHE IS SURVIVED BY 2 DAUGHTERS, INCLUDING KATHY SHADY OF MAQUOKETA AND 1 SON.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY  

BEAUTIFUL SUNNY AFTERNOON...AROUND 50

ON THE POLICE BLOTTER: TWO MINOR ACCIDENTS YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. CARS DRIVEN BY JANIE HAYWARD, 18, OF MAQUOKETA AND MARLENE JOHNSON, AGE 49, COLLIDED. NO INJURIES. IN THE OTHER, MERLIN GOHLMAN OF MAQUOKETA SAID HIS VEHICLE WAS HIT SOMETIME YESTERDAY WHILE PARKED AT THE KEY MOTEL. THE KEY MOTEL IS NOT A REGULAR MOTEL ANYMORE...IT IS USED AS AN APARTMENT TYPE COMPLEX WHEREBY ROOMS ARE RENTED BY THE MONTH.

PETER CLASEN, AGE 88,OF BELLEVUE AND FORMELRY OF PRESTON, DIED THURSDAY. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE RITA, 3 SONS, INCLUDING CHARLIE OF MAQUOKETA AND 2 DAUGHTERS.

DOROTHY JENKINS, AGE 89, OF DAYTON, OHIO, AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED MARCH 14TH AT HER HOME. SHE IS SURVIVED BY A DAUGHTER, HELEN WILLIAMS OF DAYTON. HER LATE HUSBAND WAS A WELL-KNOWN BACK-HOE OPERATOR IN MAQUOKETA FOR MANY YEARS.

ELOISE RUBEL AND THELMA NISSEN, BOTH RETIRE THIS COMING WEEK AT THE MAQUOKETA STATE BANK. ELOISE HAS BEEN WITH THE BANK FOR 17 YEARS AND THELMA FOR 28 YEARS.

JOANN AND CARL MUHLHAUSEN, JR. OF MAQUOKETA WILL CELEBRATE THEIR GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY MARCH 22ND. THE COUPLE RAN CARL'S DX STATION FROM 1955 TO 1986. THEY HAVE 8 CHILDREN. CARLA IN DEWITT...CHRIS IN MAQUOKETA...CATHY IN MAQUOKETA...CHERYL IN MAQUOKETA...CARL IN MAQUOKETA..CINDY IN MAQUOKETA...CLARISSA IN DUBUUQE AND CRAIG IN MAQUOKETA.

HELMA AND MILO BAKER, SR. OF MAQUOKETA CELEBRATED THEIR 68TH ANNIVERSARY MARCH 8TH. THEY HAVE 7 CHILDREN.....JOAN IN CAMANCHE...PHYLLIS IN DELMAR...NORMAN, DECEASED....MARVIN IN ARIZONA...BILL IN MAQUOKETA....MILO,JR IN MAQUOKETA...AND JANICE IN CLINTON.

VERONICA BARTEN TOOK ALL THE TOP HONORS IN THE RECENTLY COMPLETED WOMEN'S ANNUAL BOWLING TOURNAMENT IN MAQUOKETA.

HAVE A GOOD SUNDAY.

DENNIS VOY

 

SUNNY, BREEZY AND HIGH OF 42.

THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD WILL HOST A PUBLIC HEARING ON APRIL 8TH ON NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET.
LAST NIGHT, BOARD MEMBERS AGREED TO PUBLISH A BUDGET WHICH INCLUDES A 99-CENT PER $1,000 OF ASSESSED VALUATION TAX INCREASE.

CLIFFORD CASTEEL WILL CELEBRATE THIS 95TH TOMORROW AT CLOVER-RIDGE PLACE IN MAQUOKETA.

RICK VOY OF BETTENDORF CELEBRATES HIS BIRTHDAY TOMORROW. LIKE HIS OLD MAN, HE'S GETTING OLDER.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TOMORROW TO LARRY AND KAREN SPECHT, THEIR 44TH. KAREN WORKS FOR MY WIFE AT THE COTTAGE....AND LARRY IS A CUSTODIAN AT BRIGGS SCHOOL.

BOB GAVEN RESIGNED LAST NIGHT AFTER 3 YEARS OF BEING CHAIMAN OF THE ARC COMMITTEE...THE COMMITTEE WORKING ON A 6-MILLION DOLLAR RECREATION CENTER FOR MAQUOKETA. THE COMMITTEE MET YESTERDAY WITH A CITY COUNCIL COMMITEE AND IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE WILL BE SOME MAJOR CHANGES OR THE IDEA WILL BE SHELVED. IT WILL BE DISCUSSED AT NEXT MONDAY'S CITY COUNCIL MEETING. AROUND $600,000 HAS BEEN PLEDGED AND THE COMITTEE HAS $49,000 IN THE BANK.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS. NO LOCAL SPORTS TONIGHT.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND AND HAPPY ST. PAT'S DAY TO ALL.

DENNIS VOY  

WINDY, MOSTLY CLOUDY AND UPPER 40'S TODAY.

JACKSON COUNTY ELECTED OFFICIALS WILL RECEIVE RASIES RANGING FROM 2.25 PERCENT TO 3.75 PERCENT
FOR NEXT YEAR. SUPERVIORS GOT A RAISE OF $496 A YEAR....THE SHERIFF, $1,698 RAISE....COUNTY ATTORNEY, $1,258....AUDITOR AND TREASURER, A RAISE OF $884....AND RECORDER, $1,329.
THE COUNTY ATTORNEY MAKES THE MOST MONEY AND GOES UP TO $57,164 NEXT YEAR.

ART CAPESIUS, AGE 70, OF LAMOTTE,DIED YEDERDAY AT A DUBUQUE HOSPITAL. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE, CAROL, .. A STEP-DAUGHTER IN MAQUOKETA, LINDA SHANAHAN, AND A SISTER AND BROTHER-IN-LAW IN MAQUOKETA, PAUL AND ARLENE SHANAHAN.

SHORT REPORT...LITTLE MAQUOKETA NEWS. I'VE MENTIONED THIS BEFORE...BUT WILL AGAIN TODAY...
THE LOCAL KMAQ NEWSCASTS TODAY INCLUDED MANY MORE STORIES....FROM THROUGHOUT THE AREA SERVED BY KMAQ. BUT...THIS DAILY HERE ON THE INTERNET, MOST OF THE TIME, FEATURES MAQUOKETA NEWS ONLY...AND MINUS MOST OF THE MINOR STORIES.

COME BACK TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY  

59 TODAY AND SUNNY...NOT BAD. GOING DOWN HILL FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK HOWEVER.

CONVICTED DRUG DEALER THOMAS CLASEN OF MAQUOKETA IS BACK IN JAIL FOLLOWING A VIOLATION OF HIS PROBATION. CLASEN WAS SENTENCED JUNE 8, 2001 TO 10 YEARS IN PRISON FOR MANUFACTURING AND DELIVERING METHAMOPHETAMINE, NEAR THE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND IN PRESENCE OF A MINOR. MANY WERE UNHAPPY WHEN HE WAS LET OUT OF JAIL AFTER A SHORT TIME AND PUT ON PROBATION. NOW, HE'S BACK BECAUSE HE DOES NOT HAVE A FULLTIME JOB, AND FOR NOT PROVIDING URINE SAMPLES AT THE SPECIFIED TIMES.

MAQUOKETA FIREMEN WERE CALLED TO THE NEW HUGE FAMILY DOLLAR DISTRIBUTION CENTER SOUTH OF TOWN LAST NIGHT BECAUSE OF A GAS LEAK. THE BUILDING WAS EVACUATED AFTER AN EMPLOYEE DROVE A FORK TRUCK INTO A GASLINE. NO FIRE OR EXPLOSION AND PEOPLES GAS WAS CALLED TO REPAIR THE LINE.
THE PLANT IS NOT YET IN FULL OPERATION, BUT HUNDREDS ARE WORKING OUT THERE ALREADY AND THERE IS LOTS OF ACTIVITY WITH TRUCKS AND PREPARING THE CENTER FOR FULLTIME SERVICE.

I0WA PLAYS LSU IN THE NIT TOURNAMENT TONIGHT.

WATER MAIN BREAK NEAR THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL THIS AFTERNOON AND THEY'LL BE MAKING REPAIRS ON IT FOR THE NEXT 6 HOURS.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT AGAIN.

DENNIS VOY

 

NICE DAY...54 THE HIGH.

THE HURSTVILLE INTERPRETIVE CENTER PROJECT, GOT GOOD NEWS TODAY. A GRANT WAS RECEIVED IN THE AMOUNT OF $490,898, TO HELP FUND THE NEW CENTER JUST NORTH OF MAQUOKETA. THE JACKSON COUNTY CONVERSATION BOARD IS HEADING UP THE CENTER PROJECT AND WHEN COMPLETED, THE BOARD'S OFFICE WILL MOVE FROM THE COURTHOUSE AND BE IN THE CENTER, ALONG WITH NATURE CENTER, MUSEUM, DISPLAYS, CLASSROOM, AND WELCOME CENTER.
CONSERVATION OFFICIALS WERE OPTIMISTIC THEY WOULD GET THE GRANT, BUT WERE NOT SURE HOW MUCH OF THEIR REQUEST THEY WOULD GET. THE GOOD NEWS WAS THAT THEY RECEIVED THE ENTIRE AMOUNT REQUESTED IN THE GRANT. OVER $315,000 HAS ALSO BEEN RAISED LOCALLY AND SO THERE IS NOW ENOUGH TO BUILD THE FACILITY. MORE MONEY WILL BE RAISED TO FURNISH THE BUILDING. IT IS HOPED THE CENTER WILL BE OPEN AND READY FOR USE LATE IN 2003. IT WILL HAVE A LARGE PARKING AREA AND TRAILS INTO THE
WETLANDS.

A CONTROLLED BURN GOT OUT OF HAND YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AND THE MAQUOKETA FIRE DEPARTMENT HAD TO BE CALLED TO THE DAIN RAUSCHER RESIDENCE ON 150TH STREET, RURAL MAQUOKETA. A SHED WITH 100 BALES OF HAY CAUGHT FIRE BECAUSE OF THE BREEZY DAY AND WHEN FIREMEN ARRIVED, FLAMES WERE SHOOTING OUT OF THE SHED. RAUSCHER SAID HE WAS BURNING GRASS WHEN THE FIRE GOT AWAY FROM HIM.

A PICKUP TRUCK WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE THIS MORNING. IT WAS A TRADE-IN TRUCK AT BRAD DEERY MOTORS PROPERTY OFF OF MYATT DRIVE. A MECHANIC SAID HE HAD JUST DONE SOME SERVICE WORK ON IT TO GET IT READY FOR THE BIG UPCOMING SLASHER SALE.
THE ENGINE BACKFIRED AND THE TRUCK CAUGHT ON FIRE.
THE TRUCK WAS FULLY ENGULFED IN FLAMES WHEN FIREMEN ARRIVED. BRAD DEERY OWNS PROPERTY AND A BUILDING SOUTH OF HAPPY JOES PIZZA. CARS ARE WORKED ON THERE AND WHEN DOWNTOWN CAN'T HANDLE ALL THEIR INVENTORY, VEHICLES ARE STORED OUT IN THAT AREA. BRAD DEERY AND HIS UNCLE JOHN DEERY, ALSO OWN OUT IN THAT AREA, ABOUT A 20-UNIT APARTMENT COMPLEX THAT OPENED LAST YEAR. A 36 CAR GARAGE FOR IT HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND AND NOW KEN MOORE CONSTRUCTION IS BUILDING ANOTHER 20-UNIT APARTMENT BUILDING ADJACENT TO THE FIRST ONE. I'M NOT SURE ABOUT THE EXACT SIZE OF EACH APARTMENT BUILDING...THEY MIGHT EACH ONLY BE 18 UNITS.

CARSON AND SON FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATION SERVICES IN MAQUOKETA HAD 3 PENDING OBITS FOR US TODAY. FOR VERA BRUNDAGE, AGE 89, OF MAQUOKETA...HARVEY KRUTZFELD, AGE 81, OF MAQUOKETA AND CHARLES "BUCKY" BUCK, AGE 84, OF CASPER WYOMING AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA.

A WELL-KNOWN MAQUOKETA FORMER BUSINESSMAN DIED TODAY AT MILL VALLEY CARE CENTER IN BELLEVUE.
WILBUR L. CORNELIUS, AGE 91, AFTER THE WAR, OWNED A RADIO STORE AND THEN AFTER THAT, OWNED AND OPERATED CORNELIUS FARM IMPLEMENT STORE ON EAST PLATT STREET FOR MANY YEARS. HE RETIRED IN 1979.
HE MOVED TO MILL VALLEY AFTER A SERIOUS STROKE SEVERAL YEARS AGO. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, FRANCES, 3 DAUGHTERS...CATHRYN OF NEW YORK STATE, PEGGY IN MISSOURI AND PATRICIA IN WISCOSNIN. ALSO A SON, DR. CLIFFORD IN TUSCON. ALSO 7 GRANDCHILDREN AND 2 STEP-GRANDCHILDREN AND A SISTER-IN-LAW IN MAQUOKETA, MARJORIE CORNELIUS.
HER HUSBAND, FLOYD, BROTHER OF WILBUR, DIED LAST YEAR. WILBUR WAS ONE OF THE FIRST ADVERTISERS ON KMAQ WHEN THE STATION WENT ON THE AIR IN THE LATE 50'S AND HE CONTINUED TO BE A REGULAR ADVERTISER
UNTIL RETIRING. HE CAME TO THE STATION ALMOST EVERY WEEK TO UPDATE HIS USED EQUIPMENT RADIO AD.
ALSO SOLD NEW ALLIS CHALMERS EQUIPMENT. A FINE MAN HE WAS.

AND SO MUCH FOR A TUESDAY...AND BETTER LATE THAN NEVER. TODAY'S ENTRY TELLS YOU THAT YOU CAN EXPECT THIS REPORT ANYWHERE BETWEEN EARLY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING.

DENNIS VOY



 

NICE DAY...54 THE HIGH.

THE HURSTVILLE INTERPRETIVE CENTER PROJECT, GOT GOOD NEWS TODAY. A GRANT WAS RECEIVED IN THE AMOUNT OF $490,898, TO HELP FUND THE NEW CENTER JUST NORTH OF MAQUOKETA. THE JACKSON COUNTY CONVERSATION BOARD IS HEADING UP THE CENTER PROJECT AND WHEN COMPLETED, THE BOARD'S OFFICE WILL MOVE FROM THE COURTHOUSE AND BE IN THE CENTER, ALONG WITH NATURE CENTER, MUSEUM, DISPLAYS, CLASSROOM, AND WELCOME CENTER.
CONSERVATION OFFICIALS WERE OPTIMISTIC THEY WOULD GET THE GRANT, BUT WERE NOT SURE HOW MUCH OF THEIR REQUEST THEY WOULD GET. THE GOOD NEWS WAS THAT THEY RECEIVED THE ENTIRE AMOUNT REQUESTED IN THE GRANT. OVER $315,000 HAS ALSO BEEN RAISED LOCALLY AND SO THERE IS NOW ENOUGH TO BUILD THE FACILITY. MORE MONEY WILL BE RAISED TO FURNISH THE BUILDING. IT IS HOPED THE CENTER WILL BE OPEN AND READY FOR USE LATE IN 2003. IT WILL HAVE A LARGE PARKING AREA AND TRAILS INTO THE
WETLANDS.

A CONTROLLED BURN GOT OUT OF HAND YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AND THE MAQUOKETA FIRE DEPARTMENT HAD TO BE CALLED TO THE DAIN RAUSCHER RESIDENCE ON 150TH STREET, RURAL MAQUOKETA. A SHED WITH 100 BALES OF HAY CAUGHT FIRE BECAUSE OF THE BREEZY DAY AND WHEN FIREMEN ARRIVED, FLAMES WERE SHOOTING OUT OF THE SHED. RAUSCHER SAID HE WAS BURNING GRASS WHEN THE FIRE GOT AWAY FROM HIM.

A PICKUP TRUCK WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE THIS MORNING. IT WAS A TRADE-IN TRUCK AT BRAD DEERY MOTORS PROPERTY OFF OF MYATT DRIVE. A MECHANIC SAID HE HAD JUST DONE SOME SERVICE WORK ON IT TO GET IT READY FOR TH  

PARTLY SUNNY, BREEZY AND IN MID 40'S.
WEDNESDAY IS SUPPOSED TO BE BEST DAY OF WEEK, WITH A HIGH NEAR 60.

THE BELLEVUE MARQUETTE BOYS LOST THEIR OPENING BALL GAME AT THE STATE TOURNAMENT TODAY, BY ABOUT 10 POINTS.

THE JACKSON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ARE PROPOSING A 13 PERCENT TAX HIKE FOR NEXT YEAR.
THE TAX ASKING WOULD INCREASE FROM 2.96 MILLION DOLLARS TO 3.28 MILLION.

SHORLINE DEVELOPMENT, THE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE MAQUOKETA RIVER THE NORTHEDGE OF THE CITY, IS CHANGING HANDS. LARRY MCDEVITT AND JOHN THOLA HAVE TURNED OVER THEIR STOCK TO CHRIST ALES OF SIGNATURE HOLDING, THE GROUP THAT BUILT THE APARTMENT COMPLEX LAST YEAR ADJACENT TO CITY HALL.

COURT NEWS: CHARLES CARRILLO, AGE 22, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH ASSAULT. MAQUOKETA POLICE OFFICER BRAD KORANDA SAID CARRILLO HAD A FIGHT WITH HIS ROOM MATE AT 111 1/2 EAST PLATT STREET SUNDAY. WHEN OFFICERS ARRIVED, CARRILLO HAD JUST ASSAULTED HIS CARETAKER BY PULLING HER HAIR AND SPITTING ON HER. WHILE OFFICERS WERE THERE, THEY HAD TO RESTRAIN CARRILLO AS HE ATTEMPTED TO ASAULT HER AGAIN.

JAMES HAYLOCK, AGE 42, OF MAQUOKETA WAS SENTENCED IN DISTRICT COURT ON CHARGES OF OWI, WHICH OCCURRED BACK IN DECEMBER ON WESTERN AVENUE IN MAQUOKETA.

SAMANTHA AND DANIEL BREWSTER OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN MARCH 7TH AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.

No deaths to report today.

A BIG BENEFIT WAS HELD YESTERDAY AT MONMOUTH FOR DIXIE, MRS. FORREST, MILLER OF MONMOUTH. SHE HAS HAD LOTS OF HEALTH PROBLEMS AND CONSEQUENTLY MOUNTING BILLS. I UNDERSTAND THERE WAS A GOOD TURNOUT FOR THE DINNER AND AUCTION. THEY ARE A WELL KNOWN FARM COUPLE WHO HAVE BEEN ACTIVE IN THE AREA WITH THEIR HORSES AND WAGONS, GIVING
WAGON RIDES AT AREA EVENTS FOR MANY YEARS.
BOTH WERE AT THE EVENT YESTERDAY.

A WEEK AGO SATURDAY, THERE WAS A BENEIFIT IN
BELLEVUE FOR A WELL-KNOWN AND LIKED MAN AND THE
PROCEEDS WERE OVER $60,000...WHICH I WOULD THINK MIGHT BE SOMETHING OF A RECORD.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY



 

WARM OVERNIGHT...THUNDERSTORM AT 2 A.M. AND ABOUT A HALF-INCH OF RAIN FELL. IT WAS 38 DEGREES AT 6 A.M. AND NOW WE ARE AT 21...THE TEMPERATURE HAS BEEN DROPPING, THE WIND IS BLOWING AND LIGHT SNOW IS FALLING...IT IS A WINTERY DAY IN MAQUOKETA. BUT THE GOOD NEWS...SUNNY AND 40 TOMORROW.

HIGH WINDS LAST NIGHT BLEW PART OF A ROOF OFF IN OXFORD JUNCTION...PART OF THE ROOF OF A FORMER RESTAURANT.

A TWO CAR ACCIDENT ABOUT 6 LAST NIGHT ON HIGHWAY 64 WEST, ON THE HIGHWAY BY OBIE'S RESTAURANT.
CHARGES ARE PENDING AGAINST ZACHARY BOWLING, AGE 16, OF MAQUOKETA, ONE OF THE DRIVERS. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE LOCAL HOSPITAL AND THEN TRANSFERRED TO FINLEY IN DUBUQUE WHERE HE WAS TREATED AND RELEASED. THE OTHER CAR WAS DRIVEN BY ERIN BUCK, AGE 19, OF MAQUOKETA. SHE WAS DRIVING WEST ON 64 AND BOWLING PULLED OUT OF THE INTERSECTION. BUCK HIT THE BOWLING VEHICLE IN THE DRIVER'S SIDE DOOR, CAUSING IT TO GO IN THE DITCH. BUCK WAS ALONE IN THE CAR AND SHE AND A PASSENGER IN THE BOWLING VEHICLE, KENNETH BOWLING...WERE TAKEN TO THE LOCAL HOSPITAL AND TREATED AND RELEASED.

ROBERT POLLACK, AGE 88, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED THURSDAY AT THE VA HOSPITAL IN IOWA CITY. HE RETIRED IN 1975 AND IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, MARJORIE SHELTON OF MAQUOKETA AND TWO STEP-DAUGHTERS, INCLUDING BRENDA GIBSON OF MAQUOKETA.

THE LITTLE BEAR PARK IN MAQUOKETA IS ALREADY 10 YEARS OLD. IT WAS CONSTRUCTED IN ONE WEEK BY VOLUNTEERS MAY 6-10 OF 1992. IT SURE HAS BEEN POPULAR. THE CLIMBING PARK IS NEXT TO BRIGG'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. ALSO A LOOK BACK IN MAQUOKETA HISTORY..FORTY YEARS AGO, JODY SCHENK LEFT MAQUOKETA TO SERVE ONE YEAR ON THE SS HOPE SHIP. SHE HAD BEEN A REGISTERED NURSE AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL THE PAST YEAR OF 1961.

CINDY THIES IS A NEW MEMBER OF THE STAFF AT JACK AND ASSOCIATES BEAUTY SHOP IN MAQUOKETA. SHE HAS 17 YEARS EXPERIENCE AND CAME TO MAQUOKETA FROM LAS VEGAS.

MAQUOKETA HAS A NEWLY-FORMED ORGANIZATION CALLED TREES FOREVER. IT HAS A MEETING THIS COMING TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE LIBRARY.

BOB ESCHLIMAN, SPORTS EDITOR OF THE MAQUOKETA SENTINAL-PRESS HAS RESIGNED AND IS MOVING TO ANOTHER JOB OUT OF TOWN. THE NEWSPAPER HAS AN AD TODAY SEEKING A NEW SPORTS EDITOR. BOB HAS BEEN WITH THE PAPER FOR A COUPLE YEARS OR MORE, TAKING OVER THE THE JOB WHEN JACK MARLOWE RETIRED.
BUT, JACK IS NOW WORKING PART-TIME AGAIN AND EVEN HAS A WEEEKLY COLLUMN AGAIN.

HAVE A GOOD SUNDAY.

DENNIS VOY



 

RAIN AND THUNDER EARLY THIS MORNING...CLOUDY AND WARM TODAY, WITH HIGH OF 55. A 100% CHANCE OF RAIN TONIGHT.

THE IOWA HAWKEYES WON AGAIN TODAY IN THE MEN'S BIG TEN TOURNAMENT....YESTERDAY THEY BEAT PURDUE AND TODAY, WISCONSIN AND NOW PLAY INDIANA TOMORROW. LAST YEAR, YOU MAY RECALL, THEY WON THE TOURNAMENT WITH 4 STRAIGHT WINS. MAYBE THEY CAN DO IT AGAIN. IF THEY DO, THEY WOULD GET AN NCAA BID.

THE KRISTI HOSCH VEHICLE STOLEN FROM HER HOME WEDNESDAY NIGHT, WAS FOUND YESTERDAY IN THE UNITED AUCTION PARKING LOT.

ALSO ON POLICE BLOTTER, HAROLD MORETH OF 1014 GERMAN STREET,REPORTED THE THEFT OF A HOOD ORNAMENT FROM HIS 85 CADILAC, VALUED AT $150.

MINOR TWO-CAR ACCIDENT WEDNESDAY MORNING. REBECCA LICHTER, AGE 43 OF MAQUOKETA WAS DRIVING NORTH ON SOUTH JONES AND A CAR DRIVEN BY MILA KEIL, AGE 74, PULLED OUT IN FRONT OF HER AND THE TWO COLLIDED. NO INJURIES.

MAQUOKETA FIREMEN WERE CALLED TO A CAR FIRE THIS MORNING NEAR MAQUOKETA. FIREMEN PUT OUT A FIRE IN THE MICHELLE DAGUE VEHICLE...THE 93 PLYMOUTH WAS DESTROYED.

HELEN WILLIAMS, AGE 91,, OF MAQUOKETA DIED YESTERDAY AT CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME. YEARS AGO, SHE AND HER HUSBAND RAN THE WELL KNOWN AT THE TIME, NICKEL NOOK CAFE IN MAQUOKETA. SHE IS SURVIVED BY A DAUGHTER, JANE NIMS OF ELWOOD.

WAYNE MICHELS, AGE 69, OF MILES, DIED YESTERDAY AT THE MILL VALLEY CARE CENTER IN BELLEVUE.
HE AND HIS WIFE OWNED AND OPERATED WAYNE AND VERA'S PLACE IN PRESTON FOR 26 YEARS.

BUCO PA-LICK, AGE 88,OF MAQUOKETA, DIED LAST NIGHT AT THE VETS CENTER IN IOWA CITY. SURVIVERS INCLUDE TWO STEP-DAUGHTERS, BONNIE WALLER OF ZWINGLE AND BRENDA GIBSON OF MAQUOKETA.

IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP 3-A GAME TOMORROW NIGHT IN THE GIRL'S TOURNAMENT IN DES MOINES, PERRY PLAYS CEDAR RAPIDS XAVIER. ONE OF THE STARTERS FOR PERRY IS MEGAN BRIKNER. HER DAD IS DAN, POLICE CHIEF OF PERRY AND HER GRANDMOTHER IS AUDREY BRICKNER OF MAQUOKETA.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND EVERYONE.

DENNIS VOY

 

CLOUDY, BREEZY AND MID 30'S TEMPERATURE.

THE PRESTON GIRLS LOST THEIR STATE TOURNAMENT GAME LAST NIGHT BY ABOUT 20 POINTS. THEY ARE NOT FINISHED AT THE TOURNAMENT.

POLICE BLOTTER: KRISTI HOSCH, 402 NORTH WALNUT, MAQUOKETA, OWNER OF KRISINO'S PIZZARENO IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA, REPORTED HER WHITE 88 SUZUKI WAS TAKEN FROM THEIR RESIDENCE OVERNIGHT LAST NIGHT. STILL MISSING.

JIM AND KRISTI THINES OF DEWITT ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN YESTERDAY IN DAVENPORT. MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE JANICE AND LYNN FEYE OF MAQUOKETA.

TONY AND JULIE HERING OF KANSAS CITY, MO. ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN MARCH 4TH. PATERNAL
GREAT-GRANDPARENTS ARE DALE AND VELMA HOVEY OF MAQUOKETA.

HELEN A. WILLIAMS, AGE 91, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED THIS MORNING AT THE CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME IN MAQUOKETA. SERVICES PENDING AT HAYLOCK-O'HARA AND LAHEY FUNERAL HOME.

NEIL PADGETT, LONGTIME BASKETBALL COACH FOR THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL IN DEWITT, DIED YESTERDAY AFTER A BATTLE WITH CANCER. HE WAS AROUND AGE 60.

ANOTHER PERK FOR THOSE OVER 50....

YOU CAN LIVE WITHOUT SEX BUT NOT WITHOUT GLASSES.

SORRY THERE ISN'T MORE NEWS.

DENNIS VOY





 

SUNNY FOR AWHILE THIS MORNING, THEN CLOUDY REST OF TODAY..HIGH OF 37.

THE MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL VOTED TO APPROVE NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET WITH A 30-CENT TAX INCREASE..BRINGING THE TAX RATE TO $11.30 PER $1,000 OF ASSESSED VALUATION. COUNICLMAN JIM BOLLMAN VOTED AGAINST THE TAX INCREASE...SAYING THERE WERE STILL AREAS OF BUDGET THAT COULD HAVE BEEN CUT. AFTER THE EXTENSIVE DISCUSSION ON THIS ONCE-A-YEAR MATTER, VOTING NO ON THIS PARTICULAR ISSUE I THINK IS A WAY TO GET SOME BROWNIE POINTS WITH CITIZENS AND FORSAKE FELLOW COUNCILMEN.

A FORMER CENTERVILLE POLICE CHIEF...NOW A POLICEMAN IN HOUSTON, TEXAS AREA, WAS PICKED AS THE NEW POLICE CHIEF FOR DEWITT. HIS NAME IS GENE ELLIS. HE WAS HIRED ON A 3 TO 2 VOTE. THE 2 VOTING NO WANTED TO HIRE THE LOCAL CANDIDATE, THE CURRENT ACTING CHIEF.

NORTH CEDAR SCHOOL DISTRICT WEST OF US, TURNED DOWN A 9.3-MILLION-DOLLAR BOND ISSUE YESTERDAY, 69 TO 31 PERCENT.

JENNIFER MCDERMOTT AND KURT CAES ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN LAST FRIDAY HERE AT LOCAL HOSPITAL.

A FORMER CLINTON ENGINES FOREMAN, MERRILL MCCOY, AGE 75, OF STRAWBERRY POINT, DIED TODAY.
HIS FUNERAL WILL BE SATURDAY AT THE 1ST LUTHERAN CHURCH IN MAQUOKETA AND BURIAL AT MT. HOPE. HE HAS NO SURVIVORS IN MAQUOKETA.

DID YOU KNOW...THAT AN OSTRICH'S EYE IS BIGGER THAN ITS BRAIN?

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY





 

SUNNY...SNOW IS THAWIN' AND MID 30'S.

BELLEVUE MARQUETTE WON LAST NIGHT AND GOES ON TO THE BOY'S STATE TOURNAMENT NEXT WEEK, PLAYING BOYDEN-HULL AT 12:15 NEXT MONDAY.

NORTHEAST OF GOOSELAKE L0ST LAST NIGHT AND WILL NOT GO TO STATE.

THE PRESTON GIRLS WON AND PLAY AT 6:30 TOMORROW NIGHT AT VETERAN'S AUDITORIUM.

BY THE WAY, A NEW AUDITORIUM TO REPLACE VETERAN'S IN DES MOINES..BIGGER...AND BETTER...WILL BE IN USE IN A COUPLE YEARS.

ELSIE SPRINGER WON ON KMAQ BINGO YESTERDAY. SHE WAS DELIGHTED.

HAD A BROWN BAG LUNCH TODAY AT THE MUSEUM ON THE FAIRGROUNDS....TUESDAY IS B.B.LUNCH DAY...ABOUT A DOZEN ON HAND...DISCUSSED VARIOUS THINGS, INCLUDING THE SWING MUSIC DANCE THIS FRIDAY NIGHT OUT AT THE FAIRGROUNDS...SPONSORED BY THE MUSEUM..AND FEATURING MUSIC BY RED HENTON.
RED WAS IN TODAY TO GIVE ME A TAPE BY HIM TO PROMOTE THE EVENT ON KMAQ. HE'S DOING WELL...
AND SO IS BERNICE. SHE CONTINUES TO LIVE IN THE HOSPITAL EXTENDED-CARE FACILITY AT CLINTON AND RED GOES OVER DAILY. SHE HAS LOST BOTH LEGS AND SO IS IN WHEEL-CHAIR AT ALL TIMES.

HAD COFFEE THIS MORNING AT THE NEWLY OPENED DECKER HOTEL RESTAURANT,CLOSED FOR 8 DAYS FOR REMODELING AND REDECORATING. SURE LOOKS NICE. NEW CEILING, WALLPAPER, PAINT, CARPET, LIGHTING, SOUND , WINDOWS, FANS, AND MORE. BEAUTIFUL!

BOB CONNELL, FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY DOWN IN THE BRANSON AREA WHERE HE HAS LIVED FOR MANY YEARS.

ROGER STEWART, CANDIDATE FOR STATE SENATE,HAS A NEW WEB SITE...www.rogerstewart.org

TWO ESKIMOS SITTING IN A KAYAK NOT TOO FAR FROM JACQUE'S PLACE, WERE CHILLY, BUT WHEN THEY LIT A FIRE IN THE CRAFT, IT SANK, PROVING ONCE AGAIN THAT YOU CAN'T HAVE YOUR KAYAK AND HEAT IT, TOO.

AND FINIALLY..ANOTHER "WEIRD THING" YOU DIDN'T KNOW. WOMEN BLINK NEARLY TWICE AS MUCH AS MEN.

YES..I SAID BLINK..NOT TALK.

BLINK IN HERE AGAIN TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY








 

FIVE BELOW OVERNIGHT AND SUNNY THIS MORNING..THEN MORE SNOW THIS AFTERNOON.

THE PRESTON GIRLS WON THEIR OPENING STATE TOURNAMENT GAME AT DES MOINES THIS MORNING BY 6 POINTS AND PLAY AGAIN WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS WRESTLING TEAM LOST BY A BIG MARGIN IN THE STATE TEAM TOURNAMENT AT CEDAR RAPIDS THIS AFTERNOON. MAQUOKETA HAD ONLY 3 WINS AGAINST AN EXCELLENT SOUTH TAMA TEAM.

THE CITY COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT.

JANUARY UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FOR JACKSON COUNTY WAS 7.7 PERCENT, UP FROM 6.8 IN DECEMBER.

TODAY WAS THE FIRST DAY THAT NOMINATION PAPERS COULD BE FILED FOR THE JUNE 4TH PRIMARY ELECTION.
JACKSON COUNTY RECORDER PHYLLIS GERLACH WAS THE FIRST TO FILE PAPERS FOR RE-ELECTION. COUNTY OFFICES UP FOR ELECTION THIS YEAR ARE: RECORDER...COUNTY ATTORNEY...TREASURER...AND TWO SUPERVISOR POSITIONS. SUPERVISORS JACK WILLEY AND J.C. ENGEL'S TERMS ARE UP THIS YEAR.

NO DEATHS OR BIRTHS.

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY AGAIN.

DENNIS VOY

 

FIVE INCHES OF SNOW LAST NIGHT AND PROBABLY ANOTHER 3 OR SO TODAY...LIGHT SNOW ALL DAY LONG..WITH BLOWING SNOW BECAUSE OF A STRONG NORTHERLY WIND.

LOTS OF CANCELLATIONS.

THE STATE WRESTLING TOURNAMENT FOR TEAMS THAT WAS SCHEDULED FOR TODAY IN CEDAR RAPIDS...POSTPONED UNTIL MONDAY, SAME TIMES. MAQUOKETA WILL WRESTLE AT NOON MONDAY. KMAQ-FM WILL BROADCAST.

THE TWO DIFFERENT TOURNAMENT GAMES INVOLVING BELLEVUE MARQUETTE AND NORTHEAST OF GOOSE LAKE...SCHEDULED FOR TONIGHT...POSTPONED UNTIL MONDAY NIGHT. IF BOTH WIN MONDAY NIGHT, THEY GO ON TO THE BOY'S STATE TOURNAMENT WEEK AFTER NEXT.
KMAQ-FM WILL BROADCAST THE NORTHEAST GAME.

MONDAY AT 10 A.M....THE PRESTON GIRLS PLAY IN THE STATE TOURNAMENT. KMAQ-FM WILL BROADCAST.

NORMA L. BLOORE, AGE 77, OF MAQUOKETA DIED YESTERDAY AT HER HOME FOLLOWING A LENGTH ILLNESS.
SHE AND HUSBAND FARMED SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, ART, AND TWO SONS, DON IN INDIANA AND GARY "SMILEY" IN IOWA CITY....
ALSO 1 DAUGHTER, JEAN KENT IN DEWITT.

THE SNOW IS SUPPOSED TO END TONIGHT...BUT LOOKS LIKE WE'LL HAVE COLD WEATHER ALL NEXT WEEK.

HAVE A NICE SUNDAY.

DENNIS VOY





 

JUST FLURRIES THIS AFTERNOON...BUT THEY ARE STILL SAYING THERE IS A BIG SNOW STORM COMING TONIGHT.

JAROD KONRARDY, AGE 7, SON OF BRIAN AND SUE, RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES IN A HIT AND RUN ACCIDENT AT 3:30 YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. HE WAS HIT WHILE WALKING AT CORNER OF VERMONT AND SUMMIT STREETS.
THE VEHICLE WAS GOING EAST AND CONTINUED EASTBOUND AFTER STRIKING THE BOY. POLICE ARE STILL LOOKING FOR THE DARK RED OR MAROON CAR THAT HAD 2 MALE OCCUPANTS IN IT.

MORE ON LARRY EYE OBITURARY. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, JUDY, ... 2 DAUGHTERS, GERALDINE OF DAVENPORT AND BETH ANN AT NORTH CAROLINA...AND 5 SONS, RANDY SCHULTZ OF CLARENCE...AND JEFF SCHULTZ IN MAQUOKETA....ALSO STEVE, LEROY,JR. AND ERIC EYE, ALL OF MAQUOKETA....HIS MOTHER, FAYE HAMMER OF MAQUOKETA AND 2 SISTERS, INCLUDING PEGGY MILLER OF MAQUOKETA.

THE STATE TEAM WRESTLING TOURNAMENT SCHEDULED FOR TOMORROW AT CEDAR RAPIDS, AND FEATURING THE MAQUOEKTA CARDINALS WRESTLING TEAM, HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL MONDAY, BECAUSE OF THE UPCOMING STORM.

I'LL HAVE A REPORT TOMORROW WITH INFORMATION ON THE WEATHER.

DENNIS VOY
 

PARTY SUNNY AND COLD....HIGH LOW 30'S...AND EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT THE SNOW STORM COMING TOMORROW NIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING.

TWO MINUTES OF EXCITEMENT JUST BEFORE NOON TODAY.
THE ELECTRIC POWER WENT OFF IN THE ENTIRE CITY FOR ABOUT 2 MINUTES, CAUSED WHEN A BIG RELAY STUCK.

FOUND OUT TODAY THAT LORAS HERRIG, CITY ADMINISTRATOR FOR BELLEVUE...HAS STARTED CHECKING THIS REPORT DAILY. PROOF THAT NOT EVERYONE IS FROM MAQUOKETA. HE KNOWS A LOT OF MAQUOKETANS THOUGHT, AS HE WAS A LOAN OFFICER FOR A FEW YEARS FOR ONE OF THE BANKS.

BELLELVUE MARQUETTE BOYS WON LAST NIGHT...AND NEED ONE MORE WIN AND THEY ARE ON TO THE STATE TOURNAMENT. ALSO, NORTHEAST OF GOOSE LAKE, NEEDS TO WIN ONE MORE GAME TO GO TO STATE. BOTH PLAY AGAIN SATURDAY NIGHT....NOT EACH OTHER. SO...WE..AND KMAQ..HAVE ONE GIRL'S GAME TO CHEER FOR AT STATE...PRESTON AND HOPEFULLY TWO BOYS TEAMS.

DOLORES BLISS, 88, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY AT CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME IN MAQUOKETA. SHE AND HER LATE HUSBAND FARMED IN THE MAQUOKETA AREA, RETIRING IN 1971. SURIVIORS INCLUDE A DAUGHTER IN MAQUOKETA, MARY JEANNE WILLEY.

SERVICES ARE PENDING AT CARSON'S IN MAQUOKETA FOR LARRY W. EYE, AGE 49, OF MAQUOKETA, WHO DIED SUDDENLY LAST NIGHT AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY  

SUNNY BUT COLD TODAY, IN LOW 20'S.

WANDA DAVIS, 95, OF BELLEVUE, FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY AT THE HOSPTIAL HERE IN TOWN. SHE IS SURVIVED BY 2 SONS, RICHARD DAVIS OF MAQUOKETA AND DEAN DAVIS OF FT.MEYERS, FLORIDA.

SORRY, BUT THAT'S IT FOR TODAY.

DENNIS VOY  

SNOWING THIS MORNING...BLOWING THIS AFTERNOON...
AND AROUND 20-DEGREES.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS BASKETBALL TEAM LOST TO DAVENPORT ASSUMPTION LAST NIGHT, BY 15 POINTS.
SOPHOMORE ADAM HEPKER HAD 4 THREE-POINT BASKETS AND WAS LEADING SCORER WITH 20 POINTS. DEWITT ALSO ENDED THEIR SEASON LAST NIGHT, GETTING BEAT BY 2 POINTS BY WESTERN DUBUQUE.

STATE REP. BOB OSTERHAUS OF MAQUOKETA ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT HE WILL SEEK RE-ELECTION TO ANOTHER 2-YEAR TERM IN THE IOWA HOUSE. HE WILL SEE HIS 4TH FULL TERM. HE IS CO-OWNER OF OSTERHAUS PHARMACY. HE AND HIS WIFE ANN HAVE 10 CHILDREN AND 24 GRANDCHILDREN.

SIXTEEN POSITIONS INCLUDING ONE ADMINISTRATOR AND MORE THAN A HALF-MILLION DOLLARS WERE CUT FROM NEXT YEAR'S SCHOOL BUDGET IN A MEETING LAST NIGHT.
THE 17 POSITIONS ARE FROM ALL SCHOOLS. THE ADMINISTRATOR'S POSITON CUT WAS THE ACTIVITY DIRECTOR AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL, NOW HELD BY FROSTY WARD. SCHOOL SUPT. KIM HUCKSTADT VOLUNTEERED TO HAVE HIS SALARY CUT BY 3% FOR THAT YEAR AND BOARD ACCEPTED THAT GESTURE.

ON THE POLICE BLOTTER: THREE BICYCLES WERE REPORTED STOLEN IN MAQUOKETA. KATINA RALSTON REPORTED 2 TAKEN FROM HER GARAGE AT 113 SOUTH OTTO AND CLARA PRICE SAID ONE WAS TAKEN FROM THEIR RESIDENCE ON JAMES STREET.

BONNIE TURNER, AGE 74,DIED SUNDAY. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HER HUSBAND, CLAYTON....A DAUGHTER, JOAN OF DENVER, COLORADO AND TWO SONS, TOM OF ROCK FALLS, ILLINOIS AND HAROLD OF JOHNSTON, IOWA.
ALSO 3 SISTERS, DOROTHY KELCHNER OF MAQUOKETA, BETTY SWIETER (TWIN SISTER) OF MAQUOKETA AND ELAINE WIER OF DAVENPORT.

LORRETTA BUSCH, AGE 76, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED UNEXPECTEDLY TODAY AT FINLEY HOSPITAL IN DUBUQUE.SHE FARMED WITH HER HUSBAND AND HAD WORKED AT THE BUCKHORN CREAMERY FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND THEN SWISS VALLEY FARMS FOR SEVERAL YEARS. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSAND, ARNOLD, TWO DAUGHTERS, JANICE EHLERS AND NANCY GILMORE, BOTH OF MAQUOKETA, ONE BROTHER...ROLAND OF DEWITT..AND 3 SISTERS, INCLUDING JOAN KAUFMAN OF DEWITT.

AND EXPLOSION AND FIRE IN AN UNOCCUPIED PORTION OF CLINTON'S ADM CORN SWEETNERS PLANT YESTERDAY.
THE CAUSE IS STILL BEING INVESTIGATED AND THERE WERE NO INJURIES.

AND THAT'LL DO IT FOR TODAY.

DENNIS VOY  

CLOUDY AND COLD TODAY..TEMPS STEADY AROUND 30.

THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD MEETING IS TONIGHT...AND DECISIONS ON BUDGET CUTS WILL BE MADE TONIGHT...ONE AT A TIME. WILL BE A LONG MEETING.

THE BOARD WILL BE ASKED TO APPROVE REQUESTS FROM FIVE TEACHERS AND ONE TEACHER ASSOCIATE FOR EARLY RETIREMENT EFFECTIVE AT THE END OF THE CURRENT SCHOOL YEAR: LUJEAN GOHLMAN GOCEK, 2ND GRADE....CLAIRE HOYE, SOCIAL SCIENCE....WARREN ROBERTS, BUSINESS TEACHER....KEN BRADY, HIGH SCHOOL ALTERNATIVE CLASSROOM TEACHER...AND ALICE HAGER, CARDINAL LONGTIME KINDERGARDEN TEACHER.
ALSO, JEAN RENNER, MIDDLE SCHOOL ASSOCIATE FOR 29 YEARS.

THE CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE MEETS TONIGHT TO TALK ABOUT NOISY STOCK CAR RACING SATURDAY NIGHTS.

ERNEST THOMA, HIGH BRIDGE ROAD, REPORTED TO SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT THAT TWO CALVES WERE TAKEN FROM HIS BARN.

COURT NEWS: MARK FITCH, AGE 35, OF MAQUOKETA WAS CHARGED WITH THEFT IN THE 5TH DEGREE, PUBLIC INTOXICATION AND TRESPASSING....SATURDAY MORNING EARLY AT THE JACK AND JILL STORE.

LARRY DORN, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS SENTENCED TO 60 DAYS IN JAIL, 51 SUSPENDED, ON CHARGES OF OWI. THE INCIDENT DATES BACK TO DECEMBER 9TH.

MARK KURTZ, HIGH SCHOOL GIRL'S BASKETBALL COACH, THE PAST 8 YEARS, WILL TURN IN HIS RESIGNATION TONIGHT. HE WILL CONTINUE TEACHING PE AT CARDINAL SCHOOL. HE HAS BROUGHT THE PROGRAM ALONG NICELY AND WILL BE MISSED, I'M SURE.

OVER 100 FANS WELCOMED HOME THE WRESTLERS AND COACHES YESTERDAY AFTERNOON FROM THEIR TRIP TO THE STATE TOURNAMENT. THE EVENT WAS HELD AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL.

SERVICES ARE PENDING AT THE HAYLOCK O'HARA AND LAHEY FUNERAL HOME IN MAQUOKETA FOR BONNIE TURNER, AGE 74, OF MAQUOKETA WHO DIED LAST NIGHT AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HER HUSBAND, CLAYTON, WHO FOR MANY YEARS WAS THE OWNER OF THE CULLIGAN SOFT WATER COMPANY IN MAQUOKETA. I'LL HAVE MORE SURIVIORS TO LIST TOMORROW WHEN THE COMPLETE OBITUARY COMES IN.

SNOW IS IN THE FORECAST FOR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW.
..A COUPLE INCHES POSSIBLE.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY
 

FANTASTIC DAY IN MAQUOKETA..SUNNY AND LOOKING FOR 60 DEGREES.

BUT WINTER WEATHER COMES BACK TOMORROW.

WRESTLING YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT DES MOINES..

DANE PAPE WON 1 TO 0 AND TOOK 3RD PLACE AT STATE.

ROB HAYES LOST AND TOOK 4TH PLACE AT STATE.

AND LAST NIGHT....

ADAM GRELL OF DEWITT LOST AND TOOK 2ND PLACE.

IOWA FINIALLY WON A GAME LAST NIGHT, BEATING MICHIGAN BY 20 POINTS.

CASCADE JOINS PRESTON IN THE GIRLS STATE TOURNAMENT AT DES MOINES...BUT THEY ARE IN DIFFERENT CLASSES.

RYAN RENNER WILL BE BACK FOR MAQUOKETA WHEN THEY PLAY TOMORROW NIGHT AGAINST DAVENPORT ASSUMPTION IN THE TOURNAMENT GAME DOWN THERE. IT WOULD BE AN UPSET, BUT MAQUOKETA COULD BEAT THEM IF ALL WENT WELL. DEWITT PLAYS WESTERN DUBUQUE TOMORROW NIGHT AT DEWITT AND THE TWO WINNERS WOULD FACE OFF THURSDAY NIGHT. WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE MAQUOKETA PLAY DEWITT IN THAT THURSDAY NIGHT GAME.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY






 

A NICE DAY IN MAQUOKETA....SUNNY...HIGH IN 50'S.
TOMORROW SHOULD BE THE SAME..BUT COLD WEATHER COMING MONDAY AND TUESDAY.

THE PRESTON GIRLS DID IT....THEY WON LAST NIGHT..BY 3 POINTS AND FOR THE 4TH YEAR IN A ROW...THEY WILL BE GOING TO THE STATE TOURNAMENT IN EARLY MARCH.

IN STATE WRESTLING LAST NIGHT...BOTH JACE KUHLMAN AND DEREK FUGLSANG LOST CLOSE MATCHES AND ARE OUT OF THE TOURNAMENT. DANE PAPE LOST FOR THE FIRST TIME AND WRESTLES FOR 3RD PLACE THIS AFTERNOON. AND ROB HAYES WON BIG LAST NIGHT AND ALSO WRESTLES FOR 3RD PLACE THIS AFTERNOON.
ADAM GRELL OF DEWITT IS IN THE 135-POUND CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH TONIGHT.

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.

I'LL PROBABLY HAVE A SHORT REPORT TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY
 

SUNNY TODAY WITH HIGH OF 42.

THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY NEW WEB SITE HAS SOME NEW PHOTOS ON IT, TAKEN AT THE KMAQ FARM AND HOME SHOW EARLIER THIS MONTH. THAT SITE ADDRESS IS
www.maquoketa-rotary.org

THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS ARE DOING WELL THE STATE TOURNAMENT IN DES MOINES. DR. PAUL KOOB HAS BEEN BUSY BROADCASTING THE MATCHES ON KMAQ. ALL 4 WON THEIR OPENING MATCHES LAST NIGHT. JACE KUHLMAN
WON LAST NIGHT, LOST HIS 2ND MATCH THIS AFTERNOON BUT THEN WON LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND WITH HIS RECORD OF 35 AND 4, WRESTLES TONIGHT IN THE SEMI-FINAL CONSOLATION MATCH.
DEREK FUGLSANG WON 10 TO 6 LAST NIGHT, LOST THIS AFTERNOON 9 TO 3 AND THEN WON LATER THIS AFTERNOON 8 TO 4 AND WITH HIS 36 AND 3 RECORD, WRESTLES IN THE SEMI-FINAL CONSOLATION BRACKET TONIGHT.
DANE PAPE HAS WON BY TWO FALLS TODAY AND AT 37 AND 0 WRESTLES IN THE SEMI-FINALS TONIGHT. HE'S THE #1 WRESTLER IN 2-A AT 215-POUNDS GOING FOR ANOTHER STATE CHAMPIONSHIP.
AND ROB HAYES, PINNED HIS MAN LAST NIGHT, LOST EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AND CAME BACK LATER IN AFTERNOON WITH A 7 TO 3 WINS AND WRESTLES IN THE SEMI-FINAL CONSOLATION MATCH TONIGHT, WITH HIS 24 AND 5 RECORD.

THE PRESTON GIRLS PLAY POSTVILLE AT DUBUQUE TONIGHT AND IF THEY WIN, THEY ARE ON TO THE GIRL'S STATE TOURNAMENT AGAIN. KMAQ WILL BROADCAST THE GAME FROM THE WAHLERT GYM.

NO MAJOR NEWS TODAY...AND NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

WILL TRY TO HAVE A COUPLE SHORT SPORTS REPORTS OVER THE WEEKEND HERE...SO CHECK BACK IF YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW PRESTON DID TONIGHT AND HOW THE WRESTLERS ARE DOING.

DENNIS VOY
 

NEARLY AN INCH OF RAIN YESTERDAY AND A LITTLE SNOW TODAY...AND COLD AND WINDY.

YESTERDAY, DID THIS REPORT AND LOST IT..SOME PROBLEM WITH THE SERVER...SO I GAVE UP. LITTLE TO REPORT ANYWAY, OTHER THAN A COUPLE MINOR POWER FAILURES IN TOWN AND A COUPLE MINOR FIRES.

CITY HALL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE TRASH SITE AND SMOKE FROM IT...AND STOCK CAR RACING IS IN NEWS REGARDING HOW LONG IN THE EVENING THEY CAN RACE THIS YEAR.

TWO NEW GENERATORS ARE COMING THIS WEEK TO BE HOOKED UP WITH THE NEW ONES IN SERVICE OUT IN INDUSTRIAL PARK SOUTH OF TOWN.....KNOWN AS POWER PLANT #2. THE FOUR NEW GENERATORS THERE WILL HAVE ENOUGHT POWER TO TAKE CARE OF ENTIRE CITY IF NEED BE....IF DOWNTOWN PLANT IS OUT FOR SOME REASON.

SUPERVISORS ARE PLANNING TO RAISE TAXES IN JACKSON 13 CENTS A THOUSAND NEXT YEAR....AND ALONG WITH ASSESSED VALUATION INCREASES...THE COUNTY TAX ASKING WILL GO FROM $2.6 MILLION TO $3.28 MILLION.

BOB DEVINE, FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA AND NOW IN WATERLOO, E-MAILED ME TO TELL ME THAT COTTONVILLE IS, WAS, 4-MILES EAST OF OTTER CREEK, AND INTERSECTS WITH THE ANDREW TO LAMOTTE ROAD ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF ANDREW, JUST PAST THE JACKSON COUNTY HOME. SAID HE DROVE THAT ROAD MANY TIMES BETWEEN 1952 AND 1966 WHEN IT WAS A GRAVEL ROAD AND HE WAS SELLING INSURANCE. GUESS I'LL DRIVE OUT THERE SOME SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND HAVE A BEER AT THE COTTONVILLE TAP. THANKS BOB FOR THE INFO.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS FOR A COUPLE DAYS.

SORRY THE NEWS HAS BEEN LIGHT LATELY.

WE'RE JUST GETTING WINTER WEATHER THESE DAYS AND DON'T LIKE IT.

KEEP WARM.

DENNIS VOY  

3/10 OF AN INCH OF RAIN EARLY THIS MORNING.
THEN JUST CLOUDY FOR A FEW HOURS. THEN, HEAVIER RAIN THIS AFTERNOON. IN 40'S. BETTER THAN SHOVELING SNOW.

NO ONE WAS INJURED MONDAY AFTERNOON FOLLOWING A COLLISION NEAR COTTONVILLE (WHERE'S COTTONVILLE?)
WHICH INVOLVED A RTA VAN. THE IOWA STATE PATROL CHARGED LORENE MATHEWS,AGE 16, OF BELLEVUE WITH FAILURE TO YIELD FROM A STOP SIGN AND NO PROOF OF INSURANCE. MATHEWS WAS APPARENTLY DRIVING EAST ON COUNTY ROAD Y61, STOPPED, THEN PULLED OUT IN FRONT OF THE RTA VAN DRIVEN BY JAMES HARDIN, AGE 57, OF DELMAR. NO INJURIES AND TOTAL DAMAGE TO BOTH VEHICLES, ABOUT $3,500.

SOMEONE ATTEMPTED TO BREAK INTO A PEPSI MACHINE AT CAN CITY, THE GAS STATION AND CAN REDEMPTION CENTER,OWNED BY LONGTIME BUSINESSMAN JOHN WAGENER.
HE OR SHE DIDN'T GET IN,BUT DID $200 DAMAGE.

THE CITY COUNCIL MET LAST NIGHT AND HEARD THAT THE COPS PROGRAM POLICEMAN AT THE HIGH SCHOOL MAY BE DROPPED NEXT YEAR, TO SAVE THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OVER $20,000...THE SHARE OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. I'LL KEEP YOU POSTED.

FRONT PAGE HEADLINE ON THE DUBUQUE TELEGRAPH HERALD YESTERDAY (AND COLOR PICTURE OF POLICE CHIEF BOB ANDERSEN) "POLICE CHEIF STILL HOPES TO SOLVE MURDER". IT WAS A CHECKBACK STORY BY THE PAPER ABOUT THE MURDER IN 1975 IF HULDA FISHER, AGE 84, WHO WAS FOUND STRANGLED AND STABBED REPEATEDLY AND LYING AT THE BOTTOM OF HER BASEMENT STEPS. MAQUOKETA'S ONLY UNSOLVED MURDER! CHIEF BOB HOPES FOR A DEATHBED CONFESSION. MENTION THIS TODAY ONLY BECAUSE SOME OF YOU MIGHT REMEMBER THAT BIG MURDER IN MAQUOKETA. LAST YEAR, FISHER'S GRANDDAUGHTERS AND THEIR CHILDREN STOPPED ON A VISIT FROM CALIFORNIA TO TALK TO ANDERSEN ABOUT HER DEATH.

MILDRED "SIS" FELTEN, AGE 69, OF DELMAR, DIED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AFTER A SHORT BATTLE WITH CANCER. SHE WORKED AT THE GREEN MILL CAFE DURING HIGH SCHOOL, ALSO CLINTON ENGINES FOR SEVERAL YEARS, FOR THE MAQUOKETA NEWSPAPER FOR A FEW YEARS AND FOR THE CB COMPANY FOR 17 YEARS, IN ADDITION TO FARMING WITH HER HUSBAND IN RURAL MAQUOKETA. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, REX...TWO DAUGHTERS, KATHY IN PARDEEEVILLE, ILLINOIS AND KAREN IN SAVANNA,ILLINOIS, AND ONE SON, KENNETH OF MAQUOKETA...ALSP 9 GRANDCHILDREN AND 3 GREAT-GRAND-CHILDREN.

QUITE A FEW GOLFERS PLAYED AT THE MAQUOKETA COUNTRY CLUB YESTERDAY....A SUNNY 55 DAY. NO CUPS OR FLAGS ON THE COURSE AS IT REALLY ISN'T OPEN FOR BUSINESS, BUT AS LONG AS IT IS NOT REAL SOFT, PLAYERS ARE WELCOME TO PLAY IT. GOT THIS FROM MORRIE MORRIS WHO PLAYED 5 HOLES.

WORD IS..THEY ARE WORKING DAILY PREPARING THE DAIRY QUEEN'S OPENING FOR SEASON. BUT NO DATE ANNOUNCED YET.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SPRING TRAINING HAS STARTED.

I CAN REMEMBER A LOT OF SNOW FALLING DURING MARCH IN THIS AREA.....BUT EVERYONE SAYS..NOT THIS YEAR.

DID YOU KNOW...THE AVERAGE SPAN OF A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL IS....7 PITCHES?

YUP.

COME BACK TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY







 

SUNNY AND HIGH OF 55.

MARC JUERGENS, OF MAQUOKETA, A SENIOR AT IOWA AND ON THE WRESTLING TEAM, HELPED THE IOWA HAWKEYES TO A WIN SATURDAY OVER INDIANA...ENDING HIS CAREER AS A HAWKEYE WRESTLER AT 141 POUNDS.
HIS OLDER BROTHER ERIC WAS AN ALL AMERICAN WRESTLER WITH THE IOWA HAWKS.

MAQUOKETA FIREMEN WERE CALLED TO 3 SMALL FIRES OVER THE WEEKEND.

A MAQUOKETA MAN, CORREY KILBURG, AGE 23, FACES FOUR CHARGES, INCLUDING OWI, AFTER A TRAFFIC STOP NEAR MILES LAST FRIDAY NIGHT. HE WAS JAILED OVERNIGHT AND WAS RELEASED ON $1,950 UNSECURED BOND PENDING FURTHER COURT ACTION.

THE GATEWAY YWCA OF CLINTON WILL BE CONDUCTING A FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN IN OUR AREA. IT PROVIDES SERVICES AND A SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN IN BOTH CLINTON AND JACKSON COUNTIES. LAST FISCAL YEAR, OVER 200 WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN JACKSON COUNTY RECEIVED SERVICES.

THE DECKER HOTEL RESTAURANT WILL BE CLOSED FOR JUST OVER A WEEK, STARTING NEXT MONDAY, TO UNDERGO RENOVATIONS, INCLUDING NEW WALL COVERING, NEW CARPET, AND RESTORATION OF THE FORMER TIN CEILING. IT ALSO WILL OPEN ITS NEW HANDICAPPED ENTRYWAY TO THE SOUTH OF THE BUILDING. IT HAS BEEN 11 YEARS SINCE OWNER TROY THEDE PURCHASED THE HOTEL AND RESTAURANT AND HE SAID IT IS TIME FOR SOME RENOVATIONS TO THE RESTAURANT. OTHER AREAS OF THE HOTEL, INCLUDING 17 ROOMS, HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY RENOVATED OVER THE PAST 5 YEARS. THE THREE-STORY DOWNTOWN LANDMARK WAS BUILT IN 1876.

THE CITY COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT.

KATHRYN WITT, AGE 99, DIED SUNDAY AT DEWITT.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE ONE SON, BUD WITT OF MAQUOKETA.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY

 

SUNNY AND NICE TODAY.

THE MAQU0KETA GIRLS LOST TO CEDAR RAPIDS Xavier
LAST NIGHT....51 TO 40. ALI RORAH CLOSED OUT A GREAT HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL CAREER WITH 10 POINTS. SOPHOMORE TIFFANY HELMBRECHT HAD 12.
THE CARDINALS FINISHED THE SEASON AT 13 AND 10.

FOUR MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLERS WILL GO TO THE STATE TOURNAMENT AT DES MOINES THIS THURSDAY, FOLLOWING WINS IN YESTERDAY'S DISTRICT TOURNAMENT IN DAVENPORT. GOING TO STATE: JACE KUHLMAN...
DEREK FUGLSANG...DANE PAPE AND ROB HAYES. DR. PAUL KOOB WILL AGAIN BROADCAST THE STATE MATCHES FROM DES MONINES...ON BOTH KMAQ AM AND FM.

JOANNA LUND OF DEWITT, CURRENTLY FIGHTING A CANCER BATTLE, WILL BE ON KMAQ'S JUST TALK SHOW TOMORROW TO TALK ABOUT HER CANCER TREATMENT AND ALSO ABOUT A BOOK SIGNING EVENT THIS WEEK.
SHE IS THE AUTHOR OF BOOKS ON WEIGHT LOSS WITH HEALTHY EATING.

HAVE A GOOD PRESIDENT'S DAY TOMORROW AND GOOD WEEK.

DID YOU KNOW THAT A SNAIL CAN SLEEP 3 YEARS?

DENNIS VOY

 

SUNNY AND IN 40'S.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS BASKETBALL TEAMS BOTH WON LAST NIGHT OVER CAMANCHE. THE SOPHOMORES WON THEIR 21 GAME AGAINST 0 LOSSES...FINISHING THE SEASON.
THE VARSITY GAME SAW MAQUOKETA TRAILING BY 10 POINTS AT THE HALF AND THEN GOING ON TO WIN BY 10 POINTS. MAQUOKETA FINISHED UP THE CONFERENCE SEASON WITH 7 WINS AND 7 LOSSES. CARL SMALL, FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA AND A GRADUATE OF MCHS, IS THE CAMANCHE COACH AND GOT TWO TECHNICALS LAST NIGHT AND ACCORDING TO THE RULES, WITH THE 2ND TECHNICAL, HE ALSO GOT EJECTED FROM THE GYM.
HIS INDIANS WON ONLY 1 GAME THIS SEASON AND THAT WAS A NON-CONFERENCE GAME....SO HIS FIRST YEAR AS CAMANCHE HEAD COACH WAS A LONG ONE. MAQUOKETA AGAIN PLAYS DAVENPORT ASUMPTION IN THEIR FIRST TOURNAMENT GAME AND THAT WILL BE A CHALLENGE.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS PLAY TONIGHT....AND ALSO HAVE A BIG CHALLENGE. AND 8 MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS WILL KNOW LATER THIS AFTERNOON IF THEY GO TO THE STATE TOURNAMENT NEXT WEEK.

I'LL LET YOU KNOW ABOUT THE GIRLS GAME..AND ALSO THE WRESTLING RESULTS ON A SHORT REPORT TOMORROW.

IT WAS ANNOUNCED THIS WEEK THAT LONGTIME MAQUOKETA BANKER DAVE JOHNSON WILL GO ON SEMI-RETIREMENT IN MARCH AND WORK PART-TIME ONLY.
HE HAS BEEN WITH THE MAQUOKETA STATE BANK OVER 30 YEARS.

WE KNOW WE ARE GETTING OLD WHEN PEOPLE CALL AT 9 P.M. AND ASK ..DID I WAKE YOU?

BEEN TO CHURCH LATELY??

TOMORROW IS THE DAY!

DENNIS VOY  

PT. SUNNY, WINDY AND IN LOW 40'S TODAY.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS WON THEIR TOURNAMENT GAME LAST NIGHT HERE IN TOWN, DEFEATING WESTERN DUBUQUE IN OVERTIME, BY 2 POINTS. THEY PLAY
TOMORROW NIGHT IN CEDAR RAPIDS AGINST CEDAR RAPIDS XAVIER.

YEARS AGO..IT WAS CALLED THE SPEAKER COMPANY..IN SABULA...NOW CALLED TYCO ELECTRONICS. TODAY, IT WAS ANNOUNCED THAT IT WILL CLOSE ITS SABULA PLANT IN JUNE, RESULTING IN A LAYOFF OF 108 EMPLOYEES.
THE COMPANY SAID ITS CLOSING IS NO REFLECTION ON THE WORKERS. IT APPARENTLY DOESN'T HAVE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT AND THEREFORE THE DECISION WAS MADE TO CONSOLIDATE WITH ANOTHER OF ITS HIGHER TECH PLANTS. AN ECONOMIC BLOW FOR THE ISLAND CITY OF SABULA.

MAQUOKETA POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A THEFT AT THE FATHER MCLAUGHLIN HOME. TWO CONSUMERS THAT LIVE THERE HAD MONEY TAKEN SOMETIME EARLIER THIS MONTH, IN THE AMOUNT OF $100.

SCHOOL GOT OUT AT 12:30 TODAY....AND I'M NOT SURE THE REASON...AND NO SCHOOL ALSO MONDAY BECAUSE OF PRESIDENT'S DAY...SO...THE KIDS ARE HAVING A NICE LONG WEEEKEND IN MAQUOKETA.

YOU PROBABLY DIDN'T KNOW THAT BUTTERFLIES TASTE WITH THEIR FEET.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS.

EIGHT MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS WRESTLE TOMORROW FOR A CHANCE TO GO THE STATE TOURNAMENT NEXT THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AT VETERANS AUDITORIUM IN DES MOINES.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

DENNIS
 

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

A 50-DEGREE DAY...SUNNY, BUT WINDY.

LITTLE LOCAL NEWS...

DANIEL SHADY, 311 N. MAIN...SAID SOMEONE BROKE INTO HIS HOUSE YESTERDAY AND TOOK FOUR 24-OZ. BOTTLES OF MOUNTAIN DEW AND A CROSSMAN AIR-GUN AND BEE-BEES.

ORVILLE ROLING SAID REPORTED HIS MAIBOX WAS KNOCKED DOWN YESTERDAY.

AARON AMBROSY WAS DRIVING ON HIGHWAY 61 AT 6:45 LAST NIGHT WHEN A DEER RAN INTO THE SIDE OF HIS 91 FORD.

IT COST MONEY WHEN YOU GET CHARGED FOR A BAD CHECK LOCALLY. FOR INSTANCE...SHAWN BEHRENDS OF MONTICELLO WAS FINED $293 AFTER HE WROTE A CHECK FOR $31.76 TO BARRON MOTORS IN MAQUOEKTA..AND THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH MOENY IN THE BANK ACCOUNT TO COVER THE CHECK. THE FINE FOR THE THEFT IN THE 5TH DEGREE WAS $293.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS, IN 3-A BASKETBALL, PLAY WESTERN DUBUQUE TONIGHT ..HERE...TOURNAMENT GAME...THE CARDINALS HAVE BEATEN THEM TWICE ALREADY THIS YEAR. THE BOYS HAVE A FINAL REGULAR GAME TOMORROW NIGHT...VERSUS CAMANCHE,HERE...THEN HAVE A FEW DAYS OFF UNTIL TOURNAMNENT ACTION BEGINS FOR THEM NEXT WEEK.

ANOTHER PERK WHEN YOU GET OLD....ON ONE EXPECTS US TO RUN INTO A BURNING BUILDING.

THE OTHER DAY, JUST UNDER 250 CHECKED THIS SITE WITHIN A 24-HOUR PERIOD...A NEW HIGH. KEEP TELLING OTHERS ABOUT THE DAILY REPORT.

WHEN DID YOU LIVE IN MAQUOKETA? AND WHAT DID YOU DO HERE? WHERE DO YOU LIVE NOW AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING THERE? OR MAYBE YOU HAVE FRIENDS OR RELATIVES HERE? LET US KNOW ABOUT YOU AND FAMILY...ON THE KMAQ GUEST BOOK. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO INCLUDE YOUR E-MAIL....E-MAIL YOUR ADDRESS TO ME...AND ANYONE WANTING IT...CAN CHECK WITH ME. HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT MAQUOKETA OR MAQUOKETA RESIDENTS...TRY THE GUEST BOOK.
WANT TO SAY SOMETHING GOOD ABOUT SOMONE OR MAQUOKETA...SAY IT ON THE GUEST BOOK.

SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY



 

SUNNY AND IN THE UPPER 30'S....PREDICTING NEAR 50 FOR WEEKEND.

THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS DEFEATED WEST LIBERTY LAST NIGHT, 35 TO 34 AND SO... THE TEAM ADVANCES TO THE TEAM STATE WRESTLING TOURNAMENT IN CEDAR RAPIDS IN MARCH. DON'T CONFUSE THIS WITH THE INDIVIDUAL STATE TOURNAMENT IN DES MOINES. MAQUOKETA HAS 8 WRESTLERS IN THE DISTRICT THIS SATURDAY, STILL IN LINE TO MAKE IT TO VETERAN'S AUDITORIUM IN DES MOINES LATER THIS MONTH.
MAQUOKETA HAS NOT WON THE RIGHT TO THE STATE TEAM TOURNAMENT FOR NEARLY 10 YEARS, SO THIS IS ANOTHER FINE ACHIEVEMENT FOR COACH TOD BOWMAN AND THE MCHS GRAPPLERS.

MAQUOKETA BOYS LOST TO NORTH CEDAR IN A NON-CONFERENCE MEETING LAST NIGHT AT STANWOOD. THE SOPHOMORE WON AGAIN AND REMAIN UNDEFEATED.
ADMA HEPKER PLAYED 3 QUARTERS FOR THE SOPHOMORES AND THEN SUITED UP ALSO FOR THE VARSITY, PLAYED 2 QUARTERS IN VARSITY AND ENDED UP WITH 17 POINTS,
HIGH FOR THE EVENING.

FOR THE 6TH TIME, CENTRAL OF DEWITT VOTERS DEFEATED A PROPOSED BOND ISSUE YESTERDAY...75 PERCENT TO JUST 25 PERCENT IN FAVOR. IT WAS NOT ENDORSED BY THE CENTRAL BOARD, BUT WAS PROPOSED BY A PARENT GROUP. IT WAS FOR NEARLY 6-MILLION-DOLLARS.

BALDWIN NATIVE WYTHE WILLEY WAS NAMED PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL CATTLEMEN'S ASSOCIATION. IT IS THE FIRST TIME IN THE 104-YEAR HISTORY OF THE ORGANIZATION THAT AN IOWAN HAS BECOME PRESIDENT.
WILLEY WAS BORN AND RAISED ON A BEEF FARM NEAR BALDIWN. HE IS CURRENTLY A CEDAR RAPIDS ATTORNEY. ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO, HE WAS GOV.BOB RAY'S CHEIF ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT AND JUST RECENTLY COMPLETED 2 YEARS AS PRESIDENT OF THE IOWA CATTLEMEN'S ASSOCIATION. MAQUOKETA BUSINESSMAN ROSS RIVER JOINED A BUSLOAD OF BEEF PRODUCERS FROM IOWA WHO ATTENDED THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION AND SAW THE GAVEL TURNED OVER TO WILLEY. PRESIDENT BUSH WAS ALSO THERE WITH HIS WIFE AND RIVER SAID HE WAS WITHIN 10 FEET OF SHAKING HANDS WITH BUSH,BUT COULDN'T PUSH HIS WAY THROUGH THE CROWD.

JOHN MILLER, AGE 68, DIED YESTERDAY AT THE DEWITT COMMUNITY HOSPITAL. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, BETTY, OF MAQUOKETA...A SON, STEVE OF MAQUOKETA...2 DAUGHTERS, PAM STARR AND GAYLA HUEBBE BOTH OF MAQUOKETA, TWIN-BROTHERS, RICHARD MILLER OF DELMAR AND RON MILLER OF MAQUOKETA.

RETIRED SOFTBALL COACH DICK DAVIS HAD A HEART ATTACK A FEW DAYS AGO. HE WAS DOING SOME SUBSTITUTE TEACHING AT THE HIGH SCHOOL WHEN IT HAPPENED. HE HAS HAD HEART PROBLEMS BEFORE AND HIS WIFE SAID THEY HAVE HIM UP AND WALKING IN THE HALLWAYS.

TODAY IS ASH WEDNESDAY.

ONLY IN AMERICA, DO DRUGSTORES MAKE THE SICK WALK ALL THE WAY TO THE BACK OF THE STORE TO GET THEIR PRESCRIPTIONS WHILE HEALTHY PEOPLE CAN BUY CIGARETTES AT THE FRONT.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY





 

SUNNY, WINDY, VERY WINDY, AND A HIGH OF 42.

A NORMAL, ILLINOIS MAN WAS DRIVING NEAR SABULA, SAW A BALD EAGLE...STOPPED TO TAKE A PICTURE OF IT AND WAS HIT FROM BEHIND BY JAMES DECKERT, AGE 61, OF BELLEVUE. THE ILLINOIS MAN WAS CHARGED WITH STOPPING ON THE TRAVELLED PORTION OF THE ROAD. TOTAL DAMAGE TO BOTH VEHICLES, $14,000.

ANOTHER 2-HOUR MEETING OF MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD LAST NIGHT DISCUSSING THE BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR AND THE CUTS TO BE MADE. A TAX INCREASE WAS TALKED ABOUT LAST NIGHT. FORMER BOARD MEMBER BRUCE PAULS WAS AGAIN AT THE MEETING AND BOARD MEMBER DAVE TABOR WAS VISIBLY UPSET AT PAUL'S COMMENTS ...SAYING CONTINUALLY HEARING ABOUT DELWOOD'S CONCERNS MAKES HIM PHYSICALLY ILL. HE SAID IF PAST BOARDS HAD INCREASED THE DELWOOD CONTRACT, DELWOOD WOULD BE PAYING THEIR FAIR SHARE NOW.

RICH PETERS..THE HEAD VOLLEYBALL COACH FOR THE MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL VARISITY TEAM RESIGNED LAST NIGHT, SAYING HE WANTS TO DO OTHER THINGS.
HE IS ALSO A TEACHER AT DELWOOD. HE HAS HELD THE POSITION FOR 4 YEARS AND HAS BROUGHT THE PROGRAM UP NICELY SINCE TAKING THE POSITION.

JEFF AND DENISE SWANSON ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN LAST WEDNESDAY.
BRETT AND ALECEA BOOKER OF GILBERT, ARIZONA, ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN FRIDAY. MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE LORIN AND JULIE FROST OF GILBERT, AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA.

CHUCK KRUSE OF RURAL MAQUOKETA REPORTED TO THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE THAT SEVERAL LARGE BALES OF HAY WERE TAKEN FROM HIS FARM ON 133RD AVENUE.

MAQUOKETA HAS BEEN ASSIGNED TO THE WAMAC CONFERENCE, STARTING WITH THE 2003-2004 YEAR.
MHS WAS IN IT FOR A LONG TIME IN THE 50'S THRU 70S. MORE ON THIS TOMORROW.

ALICE CAVEN, AGE 90, OF CLINTON, DIED YESTERDAY.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE A BROTHER, GEORGE MARVIN, OF MAQUOKETA.

ONLY IN AMERICA...CAN A PIZZA GET TO YOUR HOUSE FASTER THAN AN AMBULANCE.

CHECK BACK TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY

 

SUNNY AND 38 TODAY.

TOM CALLAHAN, MANAGER OF THE FAIR, FOR 22 YEARS, RESIGNED TO THE JACKSON COUNTY FAIRBOARD LAST FRIDAY, EFFECTIVE APRIL 30TH. HE PLANS TO CONTINUE SPONSORING FLEA MARKETS THROUGHOUT THE AREA AND SPEND MORE TIME WITH HIS FAMILY.

SCHOOL BOARD MEETING TONIGHT...BUT THE BOARD WILL NOT BE VOTING ON THE PROPOSED BUGETS CUTS FOR THE NEXT YEAR.

THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS WON THE SECTIONAL SATURDAY AND WILL SEND 8 WRESTLERS TO THE DISTRICT NEXT SATURDAY AT DAVENPORT ASSUMTION HIGH SCHOOL. GOING TO DISTRICT: JACE KUHLMAN, DEREK FUGLSANG, DANE PAPE, ROB HAYES, KEENAN MEINECKE, LUKE GORNEY, CASEY GILMORE AND CHARLIE HAYS.

GIRL'S TOURNAMENT BASKETBALL BEGINS THIS WEEK.
THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS FINISHED THE REGULAR SEASON WITH A RECORD OF 12 AND 9 OVERALL AND 9 AND 5 IN THE CONFERENCE. THEY PLAY HOST TO WESTERN DUBUQUE IN THE OPENING TOURNAMENT GAME THURSDAY NIGHT.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS STILL HAVE TWO REGULAR SEASON GAMES LEFT...PLAYING NON-CONFERENCE NORTH CEDAR AT STANWOOD TOMORROW NIGHT AND FRIDAY NIGHT,THEY FINISH UP THE REGULAR SEASON HOSTING CAMANCHE.
THEY HAVE A RECORD OVERALL OF 8 AND 11.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY





 

A SUNNY SATURDAY MORNING AND WE ARE HEADING FOR THE MID 40'S TODAY, BUT SNOW POSSIBLE TOMORROW MORNING.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS LOST TO DEWITT THERE LAST NIGHT BUT THE SOPHOMORES WON THEIR GAME AGAIN AND NOW ARE 19 AND 0. ADAM HEPKER SCORED 26 POINTS INCLUDING 11 FOR 11 AT THE FREE THROW LINE.

THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS ARE HOSTING THE SECTIONALS TODAY AT THE MAQUOKETA GYM. THE 1ST AND 2ND PLACE FINISHERS GO ON TO DISTRICT NEXT WEEK.

THE PRESTON GIRLS HAD THEIR WINNING STREAK STOPPED AT 76 LAST NIGHT...LOOSING TO NORTHEAST.

THE KMAQ GUEST BOOK HAS MORE OR LESS TURNED IN TO A CHAT SITE...AND THAT IS NOT WHAT IT WAS INTENDED TO BE. SO, THIS MORNING, I PUT A GUEST BOOK ENTRY THAT TELLS MY THOUGHTS. YOU MIGHT WANT TO CHECK MY ENTRY. ANY COMMENTS, PLEASE LET ME KNOW WITH E-MAIL....MY E-MAIL ADDRESS
IS kmaq@kmaq.com.

HOPE ALL IS WELL WHEREVER YOU ARE!

DENNIS VOY  

THE WEATHER HAS BEEN NICE THE PAST 3 DAYS...BUT A LITTLE SNOW IS IN OUR FORECAST FOR SUNDAY MORNING.

THANKS TO GOOD WEATHER AND A RECORD NUMBER OF EXHIBITORS..THE KMAQ 2-DAY FARM AND HOME SHOW HAD RECORD ATTENDANCE...WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY.
A FEW HIGHLIGHTS: IN THE FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE AWARDS PRESENTATION..NAMED FARMERS OF THE YEAR FOR 2002...MARK AND JULIE MILLER. MARK HAS BEEN VERY ACTIVE IN THE FARM BUREAU...PRESIDENT FOR 3 YEARS. THE AG BUSINESS PERSON AWARD WENT TO RETIRED AND FORMER BUSINESSMAN NOLAN ZUGSWERDT. IN THE 40'S AND 50'S HE WAS THE AG AND FFA INSTRUCTOR AT THE HIGH SCHOOL AND THEN CO-OWNED B & Z MILL AND FEED STORE IN MAQUOKETA. AND AG VOLUNTEER PROMOTORS AWARD WENT TO DENNIS AND WENDY SCOTT. THE TWO TOP WINNERS IN THE COOKIE BAKING CONTEST WERE:
VERA SCHIEBE OF MAQUOKETA AND LINDA DRAKE OF MAQUOKETA. OVER 3,500 ATTENDED THE TWO DAY EVENT AT THE FAIRGROUNDS...A RECORD. NEEDLESS TO SAY..WE WERE ALL BUSY HERE AT KMAQ FROM 8 IN THE MORNING UNTIL 9 AT NIGHT.

MORE DEFINITE NEWS ON THE NEW COMFORT INN MOTEL FOR MAQUOKETA. IT WILL HAVE OVER 60 ROOMS..AN INDOOR POOL AND A BANQUET ROOM TO SEAT 300. AND IT IS EXPECTED TO BE OPEN BY SEPTEMBER 1ST.
THE INVESTORS GAVE THIS INFORMATION TO CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS THIS WEEK. IT WILL JUST SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA NEAR THE INTERSECTIN OF OLD AND NEW HIGH 61. THE LAND AROUND IT WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE FOR OTHER BUSINESS. A STRIP MALL IS PLANNED ALSO..AND THERE IS TALK ABOUT A GROCERY STORE, FAST FOOD RESTAURANT AND POSSIBLE HARDWARE STORE. BUT, AS OF NOW..THE ONLY BUSINESS DEFINITE IS THE MOTEL.

THE NEW IOWA BANK OFFICE IS MAQUOKETA IS ALSO EXPECTED TO OPEN SEPTEMBER 1ST. THE MAIN OFFICE BEING IN BELLEVUE. TO START..IT WILL HAVE 3 EMPLOYEES IN THE NEW BUILDING ON WEST PLATT STREET, NEAR THE 61 AND 64 INTERSECTION.

JACKSON COUNTY ATTORNEY JOHN KIES AGREED TO A PLEA AGREEMENT TO REDUCE A DRINK DRIVING CHARGE TO RECKLESS DRIVING FOR A CARDINAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER IN MAQUOKETA. ROBYN HUGHES, AGE 31, WAS STOPPED FOR SPEEDING AT 11 P.M. JANUARY 11TH ON SOUTH MAIN IN MAQUOKETA AND POLICE OFFICER BRANDAN ZEIMET CHARGED HUGHES WITH SPEEDING, HAVE AN OPEN CONTAINER OF ALCHOHOL IN THE CAR AND FOR OPERATING A VEHICLE WHILE INTOXICATED. IN HIS REPORT, ZEIMET SAID HUGHGES BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL REGISTERED .180 WITH .10 AS THE LEGAL LIMIT. THIS WEEK, MAGISTRATE RON BESCH FINED HUGHES $54 ON THE SPEEDING CHARGE, $155 ON THE OPEN CONTAINER VIOLATION AND $255 ON THE AMENDED CHARGE OF RECKLESS DRIVING. KIES SAID TODAY IT WAS PART OF A PLEA AGREEMENT WITH HUGHES ATTORNEY, CORLIS BATY. HUGHES BOSS AT CARDINAL SCHOOL IS PRINCIPAL SUZANNE BATY, WIFE OF CORLIS BATY. COUNTY ATTORNEY CITED HUGHES LACK OF CRIMINAL HISTORY AS ONE OF THE REASONS HE AGREED TO THE REDUCED CHARGES. SHE WILL STILL HAVE HER LICENSE SUSPENDED BY THE STATE UNDER THE AMENDED CHARGE, BUT SHE WON'T SERVE THE TWO DAYS IN JAIL THAT IS MANDATED BY A DRUNK DRIVING CHARGE.

JEFFREY O KELLY-TAFT, AGE 35, DIED SUDDENLY THURSDAY MORNING AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, STACY TAFT OF MAQUOKETA..HIS FATHER, DON KELLY OF MAQUOKETA, HIS MOTHER JO ANN MENSING OF LOWDEN AND 1 BROTHER, TERRY KELLY OF MAQUOEKTA.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS UPSET RATED DEWITT ON THE LOCAL FLOOR LAST NIGHT..WINNING BY 4 POINTS. THE SOPHOMORES ALSO BEAT DEWITT. TONIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA BOYS PLAY AT DEWITT.

WE ARE BROADCASTING TONIGHT THE BOYS AND GIRLS DOUBLEHEADER BETWEEN BELLEVUE AND BELLEVUE MARQUETTE.

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY  

SUNNY AND HIGH OF 31 TODAY...WARMER TOMORROW.

A DEWITT MAN, BLAKE DAMON, AGE 30, WAS KILLED IN A SINGLE CAR ACCIDENT NEAR THE WAPSI BRIDGE AROUND 2 THIS MORNING. HE WAS ALONE IN HIS TRUCK.

IT WAS A FULL HOUSE FOR THE PUBLIC MEETING LAST NIGHT AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL CAFETERIA, IN REGARDS TO THE CUTS BEING PROPOSED FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT NEXT YEAR. MOST SPOKE ABOUT NOT CUTTING STAFF, BUT MAKING OTHER CUTS. THE MATTER WILL BE VOTED-ON NEXT MONDAY NIGHT AT THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE SCHOOL BOARD.

LOVINA B. BEHN, AGE 90, OF PRESTON, DIED YESTERDAY AT THE MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER. SURVIVORS INCLUDE A DAUGHTER, DORIS EVANS, OF MAQUOKETA.

SORRY FOR SHORT REPORT, BUT NEED TO RUN.

DENNIS VOY

 

SUNNY BUT COLD. LAST NIGHT..LOW OF 9...TODAY'S HIGH WAS 22 AND TONIGHT, DOWN TO AROUND 5.

BIG SCHOOL BOARD MEETING IN TOWN TONIGHT...AT 7...AND BECAUSE OF EXPECTED CROWD, IT WILL BE AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL CAFETERIA. THE BOARD WILL HEAR COMMENTS ON THEIR PROPOSAL TO CUT THE BUDGET BY AROUND $500,000 FOR NEXT YEAR. NO ACTION WILL BE TAKEN TONIGHT, BUT PROBABLY WILL BE TAKEN NEXT MONDAY NIGHT, DURING THE BOARD'S REGULAR MEETING. TV 6 FROM DAVENPORT IS SET UP OUTSIDE THE CAFETERIA AND SO WE'LL BE GETTING COVERAGE TONIGHT ON THE NUMBER 1 NEWS CHANNEL FOR THIS AREA.

THE SUPERVISORS MEET TOMORROW AT 9, LIKE EVERY TUESDAY. THE NEW OWNER OF THE NEW MAQUOKETA GOLF COURSE WILL BE THERE TO ASK THAT COUNTY ROADS 211TH AVENUE AND 13TH STREET...LEADING TO THE GOLF COURSE AND THE HOUSING SUBDIVSION ADJACENT TO THE COURSE.

THE MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL HAS A SPECIAL MEETING TONIGHT AND ALSO TOMORROW NIGHT. MORE TOMORROW.

JEFF CAMPBELL OF MAQUOKETA REPORTED TO THE MAQUOKETA POLICE THAT HIS 95 WHITE FORD MUSTANG WAS TAKEN LAST NIGHT WHILE PARKED IN FRONT OF HIS RESIDENCE AT 112 NORTH DECKER STREET. THE VEHICLE WAS STILL MISSING AS OF NOON TODAY.

WILLIAM ROWAN, AGE 28, OF MAQUOKETA WAS CHARGED WITH DISORDERLY CONDUCT AND PUBLIC INTOXICATION...AND DONALD ROWAN,JR. OF NEWTON, WAS CHARGED WITH DISORDERLY CONDUCT....BOTH MEN CHARGED BECAUSE OF A FIGHT AT HOV'S PUB IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA AT 1:41 SATURDAY MORNING. MAQUOKETA POLICE OFFICER KEN SPARKS SAID WILLIAM ROWEN MADE THREATENING GESTURES TO A PATRON AT THE PUB AND WAS INTOXICATED. AND DONALD ROWAN BROKE SOMEONE'S GLASSES DURING THE FIGHT.

JANE MILLER, AGE 68,MONMOUTH, DIED SATURDAY. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND RAYMOND, PLUS 2 SONS AND 2 DAUGHTERS. THE TWO SONS ARE KENY HOUSTON AND MIKE MILLER BOTH OF MAQUOKETA AND TWO DAUGHTERS, SANDY CHRISTOFFFERSEN OF MAQUOKETA AND CHRISTY SCHMIDT OF ANDREW.

ELEANORE GISEL, AGE 87, OF ROCHELLE, ILLINOIS, DIED LAST FRIDAY. SHE WAS BORN IN MAQUOKETA AND MARRIED EDWARD GISEL OF MAQUOKETA. HE DIED IN 1954. SHE HAS NO LOCAL SURVIVORS AND WILL BE BURIED AT MT. HOPE CEMETERY HERE IN MAQUOKETA.

BUSY WEEK COMING UP....AS WE HAVE OUR ANNUAL FARM AND HOME SHOW THIS WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AT THE FAIRGROUNDS. WE HAVE A RECORD NUMBER OF 62 EXHIBITORS.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

HOPE YOU ALL ENJOYED THE EXCITING SUPERBOWL GAME YESTERDAY.

DENNIS VOY  

MOSTLY CLOUDY BUT SOME SUNSHINE TODAY.

FRIDAY NIGHT, BOTH MAQUOKETA BOYS TEAMS BEAT ANAMOSA HERE IN TOWN. THE SOPHOMORES ARE UNDEFEATED STILL. AND THE VARSITY WON ALSO, WITH RYAN RENNER NOT PLAYING..WINNING 47 TO 43.
THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS BEAT ANAMOSA THERE BY MORE THAN 30 POINTS.

LAST NIGHT, MAQUOKETA GIRLS PLAYED NON-CONFERENCE PRESTON...THERE...IN PACKED HOUSE. PRESTON, RANKED #3 IN STATE...WINNER OF STATE TOURNAMENT LAST TWO YEARS...WERE UP TO 74 WINS IN A ROW...AND LAST NIGHT..MAQUOKETA ALMOST BEAT THEM. WITH ONE SECOND LEFT IN GAME...MAQUOKETA WAS AT THE FREE THROW LINE AND MISSED BOTH. THEN IN OVERTIME, PRESTON WON THEIR 75TH, BY BEATING THE CARDINALS.

THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS WON THEIR FINAL DUAL FRIDAY NIGHT...AND NOW WAIT FOR TOURNAMENT ACTION THIS COMING SATURDAY, HERE IN TOWN.

RAGBRAI..THE 30TH ANNUAL BIKE ACROSS IOWA EVENT SPONSORED BY THE DES MOINES REGISTER...ANNOUNCED FRIDAY THAT THE EVENT WILL AGAIN END UP IN BELLEVUE, ON JULY 27TH. FULL DETAILS WILL BE ANNOUNCED LATER, INCLUDING IF THE BIKERS WILL TRAVEL THROUGH MAQUOKETA.

ALSO IN BELLEVUE, THE OWNERS OF POTTERS MILL..A DOCTOR AND WIFE FROM MARSHALTOWN, ANNOUNCED THAT THEY WILL RE-OPEN THE MILL AS A NIGHTCLUB AND BED AND BREAKFAST, WITH GIFT SHOP. HOPING TO GET IT OPEN IN JUNE OR JULY. IT HAS BEEN CLOSED FOR YEARS...EXCEPT FOR A BRIEF TIME A FEW YEARS AGO WHEN A MAN FROM TEXAS OPENED IT AND DID NOT HAVE SUCCESS. I THINK THIS TIME, THE GOOD DOCTOR WILL RUN A FINE PLACE AND IT WILL BE GOOD FOR BELLEVUE AND THE AREA. IT WAS VERY POPULAR IN THE 80'S AND UNTIL 1993 WHEN THE BIG FLOOD HIT BELLEVUE.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY



 

A HALF INCH OF SNOW THIS MORNING. NOW..SUNNY AND AFTERNOON TEMPS IN THE MID 20'S.

BUDDY ATIENZA, MAQUOKETA DENTIST, AND HIS WIFE MICHELLE, HAVE PURCHASED THE APAC BUILDING IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA. APAC WILL NEED TO FIND A NEW HOME EVENTUALLY. THE 12,000 SQUARE FOOT BUILDING WILL BE REMODELED .. INCLUDING A NEW FRONT. ATIENZA SAID HE WILL USE ABOUT 1/3 OF THE BUILDING AND RENT THE REST. HOPEFULLY, WORK CAN BEGIN THIS YEAR. YEARS AGO, WHERE THE BUILDING WAS PUT UP IN 1973, WAS WHERE LANE FURNITURE AND THE PASTIME THEATRE WERE BOTH LOCATED. BUDDY SAYS HE NEEDS MORE ROOM. HIS CURRENT LOCATION ON NORTH MAIN WAS THE LOCATION OF THE BIEHL AND LECHTENBERG DENTAL OFFICE FOR MANY YEARS. LATER, LECHTENBERG WENT INTO A BUILDING WITH SON, ACROSS FROM THE LIBRARY AND THEN LATER, LECHTENBERG RETIRED. BIEHL ALSO RETIRED, BUT STILL WORKS ABOUT TWO HALF DAYS A WEEK IN BUDDY'S OFFICE. BUDDY ALSO TEACHES ONE DAYH A WEEK AT THE DENTAL SCHOOL IN IOWA CITY.
HE ALSO IS ONE HECK OF A GOOD GOLFER.

MAQUOKETA GIRLS PLAY AT ANAMOSA TONIGHT AND THE MAQUOKETA BOYS HOST ANAMOSA AND WILL PLAY WITHOUT SENIOR GUARD AND LEADING SCORER, RYAN RENNER.
RENNER IS THE ALL-TIME SCORING LEADER AT MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL. THIS WEEK, HE WAS ACCUSED OF STEALING DRUGS FROM A LOCAL PHARMACY. THE CHARGES WERE FILED WEDNESDAY MORNING IN JACKSON COUNTY JUVINILE COURT. THE CHARGE SAYS 77 TWO-MILLIGRAM TABLETS OF THE DRUG, VALUED AT $130.59 WERE STOLEN FROM OSTERHAUS PHARMACY, WHERE HE WORKED IN A SCHOOL WORK PROGRAM. THE THEFT OCCURRED ON JANAURY 3RD.

ARNIE DOSLAND, AGE 82, OF CLINTON, DIED TUESDAY
AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS IN IOWA CITY. SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SISTER, ARLENE WULF OF MAQUOKETA.

FACT: IF BARBIE WERE LIFE-SIZE, HER MEASUREMENTS WOULD BE 39-23-33 AND SHE WOULD STAND SEVEN FEET, TWO INCHES TALL.

A PERK OF BEING OVER 50: THINGS WE BUY NOW WON'T WEAR OUT.

MORE PERKS COMING IN FUTURE DAILY REPORTS.

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY  

SIX AND A HALF INCHES OF SNOW IN MAQUOKETA LAST NIGHT. ALL SCHOOLS IN AREA CLOSED TODAY.

CLOUDY LATE AFTERNOON...MAYBE A LITTLE MORE SNOW COMING AND IN THE HIGH 20'S.

MAQUOKETA HAS A NICE WALKING AND BIKING TRAIL
FROM HIGHWAY 64 EAST(ACROSS FROM THE FAIRGROUNDS)..THEN SOUTHERLY...THROUGH THE INDUSTRIAL PARK MAKING TURN AND THEN WESTERLY IN INDUSTRIAL PARK..AND ACROSS SOUTH MAIN...AND THEN ON SUMMIT STREET ALL THE WAY TO AND OVER THE NEW SUMMIT STREET HIGHWAY 61 OVERPASS. EVERY FEW HUNDRED YARDS IS A REST BENCH WITH SHADE TREE. AND LIGHTED IN PLACES. ITS NICE! THE GOAL IS...TO HAVE IT CIRCLE THE TOWN.

A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSED EAST AND WEST PLATT STREET EXTENSION OF THE PEDESTRIAN TRAIL IS SCHEDULED FOR TONIGHT AT 7 AT CITY HALL. THE EAST PLATT STREET TRAIL WOULD GO FROM DEARBORN TO JACOBSEN DRIVE, CONNECTING WITH THE CURRENT TRAIL ACROSS FROM FAIRGROUNDS AND THE WEST PLATT STREET TRAIL WOULD GO FROM WESTERN AVENUE OUT TO WAL-MART. BETWEEN THOSE TWO SEGMENTS, ARE EXISTING CITY SIDEWALKS.
NOT CHEAP! COST FOR THE EAST PLATT STREET EXTENSION AROUND $184,000 AND COST OF THE WEST PLATT STREET EXTENSION TO WAL-MART WOULD IS ESTIMATED TO COST $207,00O. MOST OF THE MONEY FROM THE DOT. THE CITY'S MATCH WOULD BE NEARLY $70,000.

NO DEATHS OR BIRTHS.

WRESTLING TONIGHT FOR MAQUOKETA WILL BE RE-SCHEDULED. WHENEVER SCHOOL IS CALLED OFF BECAUSE OF WEATHER, THERE ALSO CAN BE NO SCHOOL ACTIVITIES IN THE EVENING.

BOB OSTERHAUS (ST. REPRESENTATIVE) CELEBRATED HIS BIRTHDAY YESTERDAY WHILE IN DES MOINES WITH THE IOWA LEGISLATURE IN SESSION. NOT SURE WHAT HIS AGE IS....BUT I DO KNOW THAT JUST LIKE IN THE GOOD OLE SCHOOL DAYS..OUT IN THE LEGISLATURE...ON YOUR BIRTHDAY, YOU BRING TREATS. BOB BROUGHT 36 DOZEN COOKIES. I ASKED HIM IF ANN BAKED THEM AND HE SAID NO..THEY WERE PURCHASED COOKIES.

I HAVE A NEW SHEET OF INTERESTING FACTS TO CLOSE REPORT WITH DAILY..IF I REMEMBER.

FACT: AMERICANS ON AVERAGE, EAT 18 ACRES OF PIZZA EVERY DAY.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY



 

CLOUDY AND COOL...UPPER 20'S. LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW...5 TO 10 INCHES COMING WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY. WE HAVE HAD 3 INCHES THUS FAR THIS WINTER...AND NO TRACE OF IT ON THE GROUND.

JUST GOT BACK FROM BROWN BAG TUESDAY AT THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM. NEXT TIME YOU COME HOME TO MAQUOKETA...VISIT THE 2-STORY MUSEUM...ONE OF THE BEST IN IOWA. TONY KRACKEE
IS CURATOR ASSISTED ABLY BY BONNIE WELLS MITCHELL.

MAQUOKETA CITY TAXES WILL GO UP 30 CENTS NEXT YEAR. THAT'LL BRING THE TAX UP TO $11.30 PER $1,000 OF ASSESSED VALUATION. MOST OF INCREASE WILL BE NECESSARY BECAUSE OF INSURANCE HIKES FOR THE CITY.

THE SCHOOL BOARD MET FOR 3 HOURS LAST NIGHT AND SPENT A LOT OF TIME TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO CUT EXPENSES. THE PLAN PRESENTED LAST NIGHT WILL CUT THE BUDGET BY A HALF-MILLION DOLLARS. NOT AS MUCH STATE AID AND REDUCED ENROLLMENT HAS BROUGHT ON THE PROBLEM. AS MANY AS 20 MAY BE FIRED, TEACHERS AND OTHERS. NO NAMES MENTIONED SO FAR. THE SUPERINTENDENT EVEN SUGGESTED HE MAY TURN BACK SOME OF HIS SALARY.

SACRED HEART PAROCHIAL SCHOOL IN MAQUOKETA IS CELEBRATING ITS 40TH BIRTDAY. TODAY, SEVERAL ALUMNI MEMBERS WERE ON THE KMAQ JUST TALK SHOW TO TALK ABOUT THE EARLY DAYS AT SACRED HEART...WHICH STARTED OUT 6 GRADES ONLY.

ROXANNE PORTZ, AGE 44, WAS CHARGED FOR FAILURE TO YIELD AFTER HER CAR WAS IN AN ACCIDENT AT 7:50 YESTERDAY MORNING. SHE COLLIDED WITH A CAR DRIVEN BY KATHY MCCAULLEY, AGE 45, OF MAQUOKETA. BOTH CARS RECEIVED ABOUT $4,000 IN DAMAGE.

MAQUOKETA BOYS AND GIRLS BOTH PLAY CASCADE TONIGHT...BOYS HERE. BOTH CASCADE TEAMS ARE IN FIRST PLACE IN THE BIG BEND.

THERE WILL BE BINGO TONIGHT AT THE FAIRGROUNDS. EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT...AROUND 150 TAKE IN BINGO NIGHT. TOM CALLAHAN, THE MANAGER OF THE FAIRBOARD FOR OVER 20 YEARS, CALLS OUT THE NUMBERS.

ABOUT 40 MEMBERS OF THE JACKSON COUNTY PUBLIC HOSPITAL AUXILIARY MET FOR DINNER LAST NIGHT AT THET JACKSON COUNTY SENIOR CENTER AND HEARD HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR CURT COLEMAN TELL ABOUT THE PLANS BEING MADE TO OVERHAUL AND ADD TO THE HOSPITAL. MARY BURLINGAME IS HOSPITAL AUXILIARY PRESIDENT.

WE HAD A $50 WINNER ON KMAQ BINGO YESTERDAY.
...GENAVA BAHR OF SPRAGUEVILLE. TO WIN CASH, YOU HAVE TO HAVE BINGO BY A CERTAIN NUMBER...WHICH YESTERDAY WAS THE 53RD. IF YOU GET BINGO LATER...AFTER THAT NUMBER, YOU GET PRIZES INSTEAD OF CASH.

DID YOU KNOW THAT IN 1954, IT COST 75-CENTS TO SEE A MOVIE AT THE PASTIME THEATRE IN MAQUOKETA? 20-CENTS FOR KIDS. THAT WAS THE YEAR "FROM HERE TO ETERNITY" WAS THE BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR.
HOWARD BRINKER WAS THE PROJECTIONIST. JIM GRAY WAS THE MANAGER. CLAUDE BECK WAS ASSISTANT MANAGER AND FILL-IN PROJECTIONIST. BONNIE WELLS SOLD POPCORN AT THE THEATRE.

HARLAN TONDERUM IS RETIRING. FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS, HE HAS BEEN IN CHARGE OF THE AG MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT AT MAQUOKETA STATE BANK. LONGTIME FARMER TOO. NOW HAS A SMALL FARM SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA ACROSS THE ROAD FROM THE NEW FAMILY DOLLAR DISTRIBUTION CENTER. THE FARM HOME HAS BEEN RESTORED AND IS A BEAUTY. HIS WIFE JUDY, RETIRED FROM THE POST OFFICE LAST YEAR. SHE TAKES CARE OF THEIR LARGE LAWN AND FLOWER GARDEN AND IS A JACKSON COUNTY MASTER GARDNER.

A CHICAGO COUPLE THIS MONTH, BOUGHT A BIG HOME JUST NORTHEAST OF MAQUOKETA FOR WELL OVER 200-THOUSAND DOLLARS...ONE OF THE HIGHEST PRICED HOMES TO EVER BE SOLD IN MAQUOKETA. I GUESS THEY HAVE A DUAGHTER LIKING IN MAQUOKETA.

TUNE IN TOMORROW FOR MORE ABOUT THE SNOW WATCH FOR JACKSON COUNTY.

LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW.

DENNIS VOY






 

PARTY SUNNY AND AROUND 47 TODAY.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS AND BOYS VARSITY BASKETBALL TEAMS LOST NON-CONFERENCE GAMES SATURDAY NIGHT....THE BOYS AT NORTH SCOTT AND THE GIRLS AT CEDAR RAPIDS JEFFERESON. THE MAQUOKETA BOYS SOPHOMORE TEAM WON EASILY AND REMAINS UNDEFEATED. THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS TOOK 2ND PLACE SATURDAY IN THE SOLON DUALS TOURNAMENT.

JESSICA GERLACH, ANDREW HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR, WON THE STATE OF IOWA VFW VOICE OF DEMOCRACY CONTEST SATURDAY IN DES MOINES AND RECEIVES A FREE 5-DAY TRIP TO WASHINGTON, D.C. TO COMPETE IN THE NATIONAL CONTEST. SHE IS THE DAUGHTER OF STEVE AND CAROL GERLACH LUKE OF ANDREW. THE LOCAL CONTEST IS SPONSORED BY THE TIMBER CITY VFW POST AND AUXILIARY OF MAQUOKETA. MURIEL ALLEN HAS BEEN THE CHAIRPERSON LOCALLY FOR MANY YEARS. IN PAST YEARS..TWO OTHER LOCAL WINNERS HAVE GONE TO NATIONAL
....TED TILTON AND STACY PAISLEY.

NORMAL ILG, AGE 83, OF MAQUOKETA DIED FRIDAY AT FINLEY HOSPITAL IN DUBUQUE. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, ARMELLA. HE WORKED FOR MANY YEARS FOR C & J SERVICE COMPANY IN MAQUOKETA.

DAVID BURKEY, AGE 49, OF MAQUOKETA DIED FRIDAY,
AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS IN IOWA CITY, AFTER A SUDDEN ILLNESS. HE SUFFERED A BAD STROKE. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, VIRGINIA, 3 DAUGHTERS, INCLUDING SUE ANDERSON OF MAQUOKETA, AND PAULINE ADKINS OF MAQUOKETA...ALSO 6 SONS, INCLUDING JAMES AND GENE MALONE OF MAQUOKETA AND 11 GRANDCHILDREN. HE WORKED FOR THE FORMER HYDE COMPANY IN MAQUOKETAFOR 12 YEARS AND THE LAST COUPLE YEARS, HAS OWNED BURKEY'S TRADING POST IN MAQUOKETA.

NADINE BECK,AGE 69, DIED SUNDAY AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL IN IOWA CITY, FOLLOWING A SHORT ILLNESS RELATED TO CANCER. NADINE BECK WORKED FOR MANY YEARS AT THE FORMER HINCKLEY DRUG STORE IN MAQUOKETA AND LATER, CARSON PHARMACY IN MAQUOKETA AND RETIRED WHILE WORKING AT FAMILY PHARMACY IN MAQUOKETA. SHE WAS A PHARMACY ASSISTANT. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, CLAUDE, AND 1 SON, MARK OF MAQUOEKTA, AND ALSO 2 GRANDSONS AND 2 SISTERS.

SCHOOL BOARD MEETING TONIGHT.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY



 

IT IS 56 DEGREES AND SUNNY OUTSIDE...BUT NOT THE 60 WE HOPED FOR TODAY. MAYBE TOMORROW WE'LL MAKE 60.

BASKETBALL LAST NIGHT. THE MAQUOKETA CARDINAL BOYS PLAYED AT MONTICELLO AND WON BOTH GAMES. THE SOPHOMORES REMAIN UNDEFEATED AT 15 AND 0 WITH THEIR 46 TO 36 WIN. AND THE VARSITY WON 60 TO 47 WITH RYAN RENNER GETTING 30 POINTS. THE CARDS ARE 7 AND 8 OVERALL AND 5 AND 5 IN THE BIG BEND CONFERENCE. THEY PAY NON-CONFERENCE FOE NORTH SCOTT, DOWN THERE, TONIGHT.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS DEFEATED MONTICELLO LAST NIGH..BOTH GAMES. I DON'T HAVE THE SCORES HANDY. THEY PLAY AT CEDAR RAPIDS JEFFERSON TONIGHT IN NON-CONFERENCE PLAY.

THE WRESTLERS ARE IN A TOURNAMENT AT LISBON TODAY.

THE IOWA HAWKEYES LOST AT PURDUE THIS AFTERNOON,
73 TO 68....IN MEN'S PLAY. THEY ARE NOW 2 AND 4 IN THE BIG TEN.

JAMES DOUGLAS, AGE 92, OF MAQUOKETA, AND FORMERLY OF LACROSS, DIED YESTERDAY AT CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME. HE IS SURVIVED BY A SON IN OMAHA AND A DAUGHTER, IN MAQUOKETA, MRS. DAVID, SHARON, JOHNSON.

THE GALENA TERRATORY, NEAR GALENA, IS KNOWN FOR ITS GOLF COURSES....IT HAS SEVERAL..THE BIGGEST AND BEST IS THE "GENERAL". COST ABOUT $100 TO PLAY IT. THE FIRST COURSE WAS OPENED THERE IN 1974. THIS WEEKEND...FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN JANUARY, THEY OPENED ONE OF THE COURSES.

JOHN JONES TELLS ME THEY ARE GOLF CRAZY IN PHONEIX THIS WEEKEND...

HAVE A GOOD NIGHT.

DENNIS VOY

 

SUNNY, WINDY AND IN MID 50'S AGAIN TODAY.

MOST OF YOU ARE AWARE....JACKSON COUNTY HAS QUITE A FEW AMISH LIVING NORTHEAST OF MAQUOKETA. BEEN HERE FOR OVER 5 YEARS. LAST NIGHT, THE FIRST BUGGY WAS HIT. A VEHICLE DRIVEN BY STEVEN FRETT, AGE 24, OF MAQUOKETA, STRUCK THE AMISH BUGGY NEAR BRIDGEPORT,JUST NORTHEAST OF MAQUOKETA,AT AROUND 10:45 LAST NIGHT. THE TWO OCCUPANTS OF THE BUGGY, IVAN HERSCHBERGER, AGE 29 AND HIS 5-YEAR-OLD SON, JACOB, WERE TAKEN BY AMBULANCE TO THE JACKSON COUNTY PUBLIC HOSPITAL AND TREATED FOR INJURIES AND RELEASED. FRETT WAS NORTHBOUND ON HIGHWAY 62 WHEN HE STRUCK THE REAR OF THE BUGGY, WHICH WAS BEING PULLED BY TWO HORSES. ONE OF THE HORSES WAS KILLED IN THE ACCIDENT. THE COMBINED VALUE OF THE HORSE AND BUGGY, LISTED AT $3,000. THE PICKUP WAS A TOTAL LOSS. FRETT WAS CHARGED WITH OMVI AND WAS HELD IN THE LOCAL JAIL OVERNIGHT.

A RURAL BALDWIN MAN'S CAR WAS STOLEN LAST NIGHT. BARRY WATTERS TOLD MAQUOKETA POLICE AROUND 8 LAST NIGHT THAT HIS 1990 CHEVY LUMINA HAD BEEN TAKEN FROM THE PARKING LOT AT THE EU-TECH PLANT ON PERSHING ROAD AND THE VEHICLE IS STILL MISSING.

TWO RESIDENTS, COREY BURKEY, AND PAM FELLER,BOTH REPORTED TO THE MAQUJOKETA POLICE THAT THEIR VEHICLES HAD BEEN THE TARGET OF PAINT BALLS.
NO PERMANENT DAMAGE DONE.

THE PRESTON TELEPHONE COMPANY IS NOW THE OWNER OF THE PLUM RIVER GOLF COURSE JUST NORTH OF PRESTON.

THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS WON THEIR 50TH STRAIGHT BIG BEND DUAL WRESTLING MEET LAST NIGHT, EASILY DEFEATING MONTICELLO AT MOINTICELLO.

ON EAST PLATT STREET....THE FORMER JOHN WAGENER FORD BUILDING IS GETTING A NEW LOOK THIS WEEK.
G.L. STOCKHAM AND SON CONTRACTORS ARE TAKING OUT THE BIG SHOW WINDOWS THAT WERE USED TO DISPLAY NEW FORDS MANY YEARS AGO AND REPLACING THEM WITH SMALLER WINDOWS AND THE ENTIRE BUILDING IS GETTING A GREEN SIDING COVER. THE BUILDING IS NOW OWNED BY T & J MANUFACTURING, OWNED BY TOM AND JOHN GILMORE. THEIR PLANT HAD BEEN IN THE EAST PART OF THE BUILDING AND WAGENER'S CYCLES WERE IN THE WEST SIDE. WAGNER SOLD OUT AND THE NEW OWNER RE-LOCATED TO THE SOUTH END OF MAQUOKETA AND T & J DECIDED TO USE THE ENTIRE BUILDING FOR THEIR PLANT, AS WELL AS THE BIG CAR LOT AREA OUTSIDE, WHICH NOW HAS A CHAIN-LINK FENCE AROUND IT.

YEARS AND YEARS AGO, A YOUNG CAR SALESMAN BY THE NAME OF RON MILLER SOLD CARS IN THAT BUILDING AND LOT. NOW, HE'S RICH AND RETIRED IN A TRENDY AREA OF PHOENIX, ARIZONA.

THE CARDINAL BOYS PLAY BASKETBALL TONIGHT AT MONTICELLO AND THE GIRLS HOST MONTI TONIGHT.

HAVE YOU CHECKED THE NEW ROTARY WEB SITE?
www.maquoketa-rotary.org

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND!

DENNIS VOY


 

SUNNY, BUT COOL...HIGH MID 30'S. WARM WEEKEND STILL EXPECTED, BUT COLD WEATHER COMING A WEEK FROM TODAY.

CONNIE BELLER ALLBAUGH, 48 TOMORROW IN RENO.
HAVE A GOOD ONE CONNIE.

IN PINNETTES LADIES LEAGUE LAST NIGHT....PATTY BECK ROLLED THE HIGH GAME, 258 AND THE HIGH SERIES, 703. NOW..THAT'S GOOD BOWLING. OTHER GOOD SCORES LAST NIGHT ROLLED BY: DEB SHEA...MEL MILLER...JILL MCNAMARA...KRISTI HOSCH...PEGGY DENLINGER...KRIS LECLAIRE...BEV BEAUCHAMP...ANNE MCNAMEE...DARLIS CROCE AND JAN HAHN. GILMORE REAL ESTATE IS IN FIRST PLACE.

HAD LUNCH TODAY AT HOV'S PUB....GREAT BEAN AND HAM SOUP WITH CORNBRED..MADE BY ONE OF MAQUOKETA'S BEST COOKS, BECKY RABINEAU. HER MOTHER, FRANICIS WILLEY, WAS A GREAT COOK IN HER DAY TOO. NEARLY A FULLHOUSE AT HOV'S.

A BERNARD HOME, OWNED BY JERRY MANDERSHEID, ON 127TH AVENUE..WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. NO ON INJURED. LAMOTTE FIREMEN WERE CALLED.

A COUPLE OF NEW BUSINESS PLACES HAVE OPENED OR WILL SOON. PROBITY NATIONAL MORTGAGE COMPANY OPENED ON NORTH MAIN, OPERATED BY CHRIS AND KAREN ANDERSEN OF LOST NATION.
RICH HOOVER, OWNER OF HOOVER HEATING AND AIR THE LAST 3 PLUS YEARS, IS LOCATING DOWNTOWN AT 117 E. PLATT STREET. GRAND OPENING NEXT MONDAY AND TUESDAY.
THE GOLF COURSE NAME HAS BEEN CHANGED BY NEW OWNER JIM HOLST....IT WAS TIMBER CITY GOLF AND WILL NOW BE CALLED PRAIRIE CREEK GOLF COURSE..NAMED AFTER THE CREEK THAT RUNS THROUGH IT. AND HOUSING DIVISION OUT THERE WILLBE NAMED BLUFFS AT PRAIRIE CREEK AND THIS YEAR, HE WILL BUILD TWO UPSCALE SPEC HOMES IN IT.
THE FORMER UBC LUMBER BUILDING ON EAST PLATT STREET HAS BEEN SOLD TO PAUL HAHLE OF LANSING, IOWA AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA. HE HAS NO IMMEDIATE PLANS FOR THE BUILDING. IT IS NOW FOR RENT.

PETER AND JOANNE TUBBS OF DALLAS CENTER ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN TUESDAY IN DES MOINES. GRANDPARENTS ARE STEVE AND CHRIS TUBBS OF RURAL DELMAR AND GREAT GRANDFATHER IS ED TUBBS OF MAQUOKETA.

AND SO MUCH FOR TODAY.

OFF TO PLAY RADIO BINGO.

DENNIS VOY


 

SUNNY AND HIGH OF 46

MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL MET LAST NIGHT. THE COUNCIL HIRED A CONSULTANT TO CONTINUE AN ASSESSMENT OF HOUSING NEEDS IN THE CITY.

SHELDON RITTMER, ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT HE WILL NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION TO THE IOWA STATE SENATE. HE IS IN HIS 12TH YEAR. HE LIVES IN DEWITT, BUT MAY HAVE LIVED IN MAQUOKETA AT ONE TIME, AS I KNOW HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH IN MAQUOKETA. LONG AGO, I SERVED ON THE CHURCH COUNCIL WITH SHELDON.

THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS DEFEATED CASCADE LAST NIGHT HERE IN MAQUOKETA. THEY WRESTLE AT MONTICELLO THURSDAY NIGHT.

THE IOWA HAWKEYE BASKETBALL MEN'S TEAM FINIALLY WON ANOTHER GAME LAST NIGHT, BEATING MICHIGAN STATE.

AT ROTARY TODAY, GUEST SPEAKER WAS JACKSON COUNTY ENGINEER CLARK SCHLOZ...TALKING ON ROAD CONSTRUCTION IN JACKSON COUNTY AND FUNDING FOR SAME. NOT ENOUGH MONEY TO SATISFY ALL NEEDS AND REQUESTS. SAT ACROSS THE TABLE FROM KATHY
MCDEVITT OF MASSENA, NEW YORK, A CITY OF ABOUT 12,000. SHE IS THE FORMER KATHY CORNELIUS, MCHS GRAD AND DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. WILBUR CORNELIUS. HOME VISITING PARENTS. HER DAD OWNED AN IMPLEMENT STORE FOR MANY YEARS IN MAQUOKETA.
SHE IS A PRINCIPAL FOR ONE OF THE MASSENA SCHOOLS.

BIRTH: GIRL TO LOREN AND LISA GREEN OF STATE CENTER,IOWA. BORN JANUARY 10TH IN AMES HOSPITAL. GRANDPARENTS ARE RICHARD AND SUE GREEN OF MAQUOKETA.

THE MAQUOKETA OPTIMIST CLUB WILL HAVE THEIR 2ND ANNUAL CAR SHOW ON SUNDAY, APRIL 28TH, INSIDE THE PEARSON BUILDING AT THE FAIRGROUNDS. HEADING IT UP: BOB ANDERSEN, BOB KORANDA AND MARTY MCNABB.

RICHARD CLASEN, AGE 72, DIED YESTERDAY AT A DUBUQUE HOSPITAL. HE IS FROM LAMOTTE, AND YEARS AGO WORKED AT CLINTON ENGINES AND ALSO FARMEDHAR NEAR BELLEVUE.

HAROLD 'CUTCH' MCCUTCHEON, AGE 74, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED MONDAY EVENING AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.
HE WORKED AS A FORK LIFT OPERATOR AT CLINTON ENGINES FOR 20 YEARS. HE IS SURVIVED BY 3 SONS, INCLUDING NICK OF MAQUOKETA. NICK IS GENERAL SALES MANAGER OF BRAD DEERY MOTORS.

UWE SCHULTZ, AGE 67, WELL KNOWN MILES FARMER,
DIED THIS MORNING AT HIS HOME AFTER A LENGTHY ILLNESS. CAME FROM GERMANY IN 1956. WAS CO-FOUNDER OF THE GREAT RIVER THRESHERS CLUB IN MILES THAT EVERY SUMMER HAS A THRESHING WEEKEND FOR THE PUBLIC.

STAN CUMMINS, AGE 73, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED THIS MORNING AT HIS HOME. HE MARRIED JOYCE DAVIS IN 1951 AND MARRIED SHIRLEY BROWN IN 1977. HE WORKED AS A FOREMAN AT CLINTON ENGINES FOR 14 YEARS AND THEN WORKED FOR CATERPILLAR UNTIL RETIRING IN 1987. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, SHIRLEY, 1 DAUGHTER, MARGO, OF BRADENTON AND A SON TONY, IN SARASOTA.

IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE NEAR 60 BOTH SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.

MARGARET ROSE WIRTZ, AGE 95, OF OTTER CREEK DIED TODAY AT DUBUQUE NURSING HOME. SHE RAISED A COUSIN, GERTRUDE SHEEHAN OF MAQUOKETA.

THANKS FOR ANOTHER VISIT.

DENNIS VOY






 

SUNNY, WINDY AND WARM TODAY. BEFORE NOON, BROKE THE RECORD HIGH FOR THIS DAY, 51. LOOKS LIKE 55 WILL BE TODAY'S HIGH.

MORE ECONOMIC NEWS FOR MAQUOKETA TODAY. SCHNEIDER NATIONAL,INC....THE LARGEST TRUCKLOAD CARRIER IN NORTH AMERICA, BASED IN GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN, ANNOUNCED THE ADDITION OF 100 NEW JOBS FOR THIS AREA TO SUPPORT THE NEW FAMILY DOLLAR DISTRIBUTION CENTER OPENING THIS SPRING AND SUMMER IN MAQUOKETA. MATTER OF FACT, THE FIRST 20 PEOPLE WERE HIRED LAST WEEK, ONE MONTH EARLIER THAN EXPECTED. SCHNEIDER WILL BE THE LEAD DEDICATED TRUCKLOAD PROVIDER FOR THE NEW CENTER AND PLANS T0 HIRE 100 REGIONAL DRIVERS IN THE NEXT 60 DAYS. INEXPERIENCED DRIVERS WILL RECEIVE A $500 SIGN-ON BONUS AND MAKE UP TO $32,500 IN THEIR FIRST YEAR AND EXPERIENCED DRIVERS WILL RECEIVE $1,000 SIGN-ON BONUS AND EARN UP TO $41,000 A YEAR. SCHNEIDER WILL MANAGE DRIVERS LOCALLY WITH AN ON-SITE OFFICE IN MAQUOKETA.
THOSE INTERESTED MAY APPLY AT THE SUPER 8 MOTEL IN MAQUOKETA ON JANUARY 26TH AND JANUARY 30TH.

THE MAQUOKETA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ANNUAL MEETING WAS HELD TODAY IN A PACKED DECKER HOTEL RESTAURANT FOR AN 8 A.M. BREAKFAST AND MEETING AFTER. LINDA STURTZ, CHAMBER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/MAQUOKETA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, CALLED THE MEETING TO ORDER AND DID THE WELCOME.
AWARDS WERE THEN PRESENTED. THE PRESIDENTIAL AWARD, WAS PRESENTED BY OUTGOING PRESIDENT LARRY BAKER, OWNER OF THE BOOK DEPOT, TO TONI KRACKE, JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY CURATOR. THE AWARD WAS GIVEN FOR HER EXCELLENT WORK AT THE MUSEUM AND FOR THE COMMUNITY. SHE ALSO JUST ASSUMED THE PRESIDENCY OF THE JACKSON COUNTY AREA TOURISM ASSOCIATON.
LINDA STURTZ THEN PRESENTED HER ANNUAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S AWARD TO DEAN TILTON FOR ALL THE WORK HE HAS DONE FOR THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND THE COMMUNITY, INCLUDING THE WORK HE DID LAST FALL ON THE OCTOBERFEST OF BANDS MARCH FOR FREEDOM.
NEXT...A SPECIAL APPRECIATION AWARD WAS COORDINATED BY CHERYL CLARK OF THE CHAMBER OFFICE.
IT WENT TO.....ME. MANY OF YOU ALREADY KNOW ABOUT THIS. CHERYL PRESENTED IT TO ME ON BEHALF OF YOU GUYS OUT THERE THAT READ THIS DAILY REPORT.
RON REIF EVEN CAME UP FROM HIS HOME DOWN SOUTH AT RICHLAND, IOWA, TO ATTEND THE BREAKFAST AND SEE ME GET THE AWARD. RON...AND JACQUELINE FRIES AND SHIRLEY MILLER...THEY WERE THE ONES THAT CAME UP WITH THIS AWARD...AND I THANK THEM. AND OTHERS CONTRIBUTED FINANCIALLY, BECAUSE ALONG WITH THE TWO PLAQUES, CAME SOME DINING-OUT CHAMBER BUCKS THAT NANCY AND I WILL ENJOY. THANKS ALSO FOR THOSE. WASN'T NECESSARY OF COURSE, BUT CERTAINLY APPRECIATED. THE ONE PLAQUE READ...DENNIS VOY, KMAQ, THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES FROM YOUR KMAQ WEBSITE GUESTS ALL OVER THE WORLD. JANUARY 22,2002. THE OTHER WAS NOT A PLAQUE, BUT A FRAMED "DEAR DENNIS" LETTER....WITH FOUR FLOWERY PARAGRAPHS AND SIGNED "YOUR KMAQ WEBSITE GUESTS". I'LL PROUDLY HANG THEM HERE IN THE OFFICE. A NICE SURPRISE AND I THANK YOU.

NOW...ON WITH THE DAILY REPORT...WHICH BY THE WAY...WILL BE MY LAST.

ONLY KIDDING.

ON THE POLICE BLOTTER....NOW GET THIS. RON REIF, VISITING FROM RICHLAND, IOWA, REPORTED SOME
CLOTHES, PORTABLE RADIO, HEADPHONES, MEDICATION,AND A SUITCASE...TAKEN FROM HIS VEHICLE. THE VEHICLE WAS PARKED IN A FRIENDS DRIVEWAY AT 312 SOUTH OTTO STREET. NO VALUE WAS LISTED.

RON COULD NOT ATTEND THE BREAKFAST IN HIS SUIT LIKE HE PLANNED,BUT LOOKED FINE WITHOUT IT.
AND OF COURSE, HE WASN'T CLEAN SHAVEN. BUT, LOOKED FINE. HE SAID HIS CAR WAS ALSO SLIGHTLY DAMAGED WHERE THEY BROKE INTO IT. ALL IS COVERED BY INSURANCE. RON LIVED A LONG TIME IN MAQUOKETA (WENT THROUGH SCHOOL HERE) AND HAS MANY MEMORIES OF THE DECKER HOTEL...AND THE TOWN AND IT WAS GOOD HEARING ABOUT SOME OF THOSE. WHEN THE HIGHWAY COMMISSION CLOSED THEIR MAQUOKETA OFFICE IN 1971, HE MOVED TO ANOTHER OF THEIR OFFICES DOWN NEAR FAIRFIELD WHERE HE RETIRED. HE'S A VINTAGE CAR FAN AND OWNS A COUPLE. RON, BE SURE TO BRING ONE UP AGAIN THIS SUMMER AND SHOW IT OFF AT MY 61 DRIVE-IN THEATRE.

ALSO DURING THE CHAMBER ANNUAL MEETING THIS MORNING, THREE OUTGOING BOARD MEMBERS WERE HONORED: LARRY BAKER, MARGARET MCCARTHY AND ROCHELLE RAY. AND THREE NEW BOARD MEMBERS WERE INTRODUCED: VICKY FELDERMAN OF FIRSTAR BANK, BRUCE ENGEL OF ENGEL INSURANCE, AND JENNIFER WESTPHAL, NEW OWNER,WITH HER HUSBAND, OF THE JACKSON COUNTY HOME FURNISHINGS FURNITURE STORE IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA. THE PRESIDENT'S GAVEL WAS HANDED OVER TO THE NEW PRESIDENT, JUDY STEINER, WHO RUNS SEDONA STAFFING SERVICE IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA.

THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS HOST CASCADE TONIGHT AND IT SHOULD BE AN EASY NIGHT FOR THE CARDINALS.
DOC KOOB AND I WILL BROADCAST THE VARSITY MATCHES.
AND, HOPEFULLY TONIGHT, THE IOWA HAWKS MEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM CAN GET A WIN FOR A CHANGE. THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS AND BOYS BASKETBALL TEAMS DON'T PLAY UNTIL FRIDAY, AGAINST MONTICELLO.

SORRY FOR THIS .. TOO LONG.. REPORT.

COME BACK TOMORROW. IT'LL BE SHORTER LIKE ALWAYS.

DENNIS VOY

 

SUNNY AND WARM TODAY...HIGH OF 41. IN THE 50'S TOMORROW.

IN SPORTS: THE CARDINAL GIRLS DEFEATED DYERSVILLE BECKMAN FRIDAY NIGHT, 64 TO 37 BUT LOST SATURDAY NIGHT TO DUBUQUE WAHLERT, 61 TO 41.
THEY ARE NOW 9 AND 6 OVERALL AND 6 AND4 IN THE CONFERENCE. THEY HOST MONTICELLO FRIDAY NIGHT.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS LOST AT DYERSVILLE FRIDAY NIGHT, 66 TO 58 BUT BEAT MAQUOKETA VALLEY OF DELHI SATURDAY NIGHT, IN DOUBLE OVER-TIME, 59 TO 55. THEY ARE NOW 6 AND 8 OVERALL AND 4 AND 5 IN THE CONFERENCE AND THEY PLAY AT MONTICELLO FRIDAY NIGHT.

THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS WON THE BIG-BEND CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT AT WESTERN DUBUQUE HIGH SCHOOL SATURDAY. THE CARDINALS HAD 8 WRESTLERS IN THE FINALS AND CROWNED FIVE CHAMPIONS...JACE KUHLMAN, JON POLL, DEREK FUGLSANG, LUKE GORNEY AND DANE PAPE. MAQUOKETA'S TEAM POINT CAME TO 208 AND COMING IN SECOND WITH 161 POINTS, WESTERN DUBUQUE.

THE MANAGER OF THE NEW GENERAC PLANT AT THE SOUTH EDGE OF MAQUOKETA WAS ON SHERI MELVOLD'S JUST TALK SHOW THIS MORNING AND ADMITTED THAT THE PLANT IS RUNNING SLOWER THAN ORGINALLY THOUGHT.
MIKE DONLEY, SAID HE WILL CONTINUE TO HIRE SKILLED EMPLOYEES WITHIN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS.
BUT, HE SAID, THEY MAY NOT HIT 100 EMPLOYEES FOR ALMOST A YEAR. HE SAID THE LAST QUARTER OF THE YEAR IS TRADITIONALLY SLOW FOR THE COMPANY AND THAT THE SEPTEMBER 11TH DISASTER SLOWED DOWN THE ECONOMY CAUSING THE GENERAC START-UP TO BE SLUGGISH. CURRENTLY, THERE ARE 10 EMPLOYEES AT THE PLANT AND HE PLANS TO HIRE SEVERAL MORE IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS. THE ULTIMATE GOAL IS 100 TO 200 WITH THE NEXT COUPLE YEARS. DONLEY HAS BEEN WITH THE COMPANY SEVERAL YEARS, IS SINGLE, A YOUNG GUY AND BOUGHT A HOME HERE IN MAQUOKETA.

THE MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT.

FIREMEN WERE CALLED OUT TWICE OVER THE WEEKEND TO MINOR FIRES.

THREE JACKSON COUNTY DEATHS OVER THE WEEKEND:
EVELYN SCHECKEL, 86, OF PRESTON, DIED SUNDAY.
BETTY DOBSON, AGE 78, OF SABULA, DIED SUNDAY.
AND NORBERT WEINSCHENK,AGE 83, OF BELLEVUE DIED THIS MORNING.

BAD WEEKEND FOR LOCAL SPORTS FANS. THE IOWA HAWKEYE MEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM LOST ANOTHER GAME, TO NORTHWESTERN....DUH BEARS LOST...AND THE PACKERS LOST.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY  

SNOW FLURIES THIS MORNING...CLOUDY THIS AFTERNOON AND A HIGH IN THE MID 20'S.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS LOST TO DYERSVILLE LAST NIGHT BUT THE SOPHOMORES WON AGAIN AND ARE NOW 12 AND 0.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS EASILY DEFEATED DYERSVILLE
HERE LAST NIGHT.

DENNIS VOY  

SUNNY AND COLD TODAY..HIGH OF 21. THE LONG RANGE FORECAST IS CALLING FOR MID-40 WEATHER
BY NEXT TUESDAY.

THE MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL BUSINESS CLUB SPONSORED A BLOOD DRIVE AT THE HIGH SCHOOL GYM TODAY AND 83 GAVE BLOOD. THEIR GOAL WAS 75.

GIRL BORN TO KAREN AND TRAVIS ROWN OF CEDAR FALLS WEDNESDAY...GRANDPARENTS ARE LORIN AND JOYCE TILL OF ANDREW.

JESSICA GERLACH....DAUGHTER OF CAROL GERLACH AND STEVE LUKE...ANDREW HIGH SENIOR...WAS THE FIRST PLACE WINNER IN THE VFW VOICE OF DEMOCRACY CONTEST HELD AT MT. VERNON. NEXT, ON TO STATE COMPETITION.

MAQUOKETA BOYS PLAY AT DYERSVILLE TONIGHT AND THE GIRLS ARE HERE AGAINST DYERSVILLE. THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS ARE IN THE BIG BEND TOURNAMENT TOMORROW.

WE ARE STARTING TO HEAR ABOUT PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN HIRED FOR THE NEW FAMILY DOLLAR DISTRIBUTION CENTER IN MAQUOKETA. ABOUT 20 WERE HIRED THIS WEEK. THE HIRING PROCESS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR WEEKS AND MANY PEOPLE WERE CALLED BACK FOR INTERVIEWS A 3RD AND 4TH TIME. WHEN ALL ARE HIRED, THE NUMBER WILL BE AROUND 500 AND MOST WILL BE WORKING BY EARLY THIS SPRING.
AND THE GENERAC NEW PLANT IS ALSO HIRING MORE PEOPLE.

RADIO BINGO STARTS MONDAY AT 3:30 P.M. ON KMAQ...THE FREE BINGO WILL AGAIN BE PLAYED EVERY AFTERNOON, MONDAY THRU FRIDAY, AND WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MAY.

NO DEATHS TO REPORT.

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY  

SNOW ARRIVED IN MAQUOKETA THIS MORNING. THE FIRST REAL SNOW OF THE SEASON. AND, IT STOPPED SNOWING AROUND 1:30....WITH AROUND 3 INCHES ON THE GROUND. BEAUTIFUL WHITE SNOW. SURE HOPE THERE'S MORE WHERE THAT CAME FROM. LOOKS LIKE OUR HIGH TODAY WILL BE AROUND 30.

A FEW SECONDS AGO... RED HENTON STOPPED IN. AND HE TOLD ME THIS. I REPEAT..HE TOLD ME THIS. HE SAID THE DOG DID NOT GET RUN OVER BY A CAR. WHAT HAPPENED IS.... THE DOG CRAWLED UP IN HILLARY'S LAP AND FROZE TO DEATH.

ON WITH THE NEWS.....IN SCHOOL BOARD NEWS....THE BOARD HIRED MARK HILLEBRAND AS 8TH GRADE BOYS BASKETBALL COACH FOR THIS SEASON. PRACTICE BEGAN RIGHT AFTER THE NEW YEAR AND NEARLY 30 BOYS ARE OUT FOR 8TH GRADE BASKETBALL. THAT'S GOOD!

AN ILLINOIS WOMAN BACKED INTO A MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BUS PARKED IN MCDONALD'S PARKING LOT YESTERDAY MORNING. SHE HIT THE BUS, WHICH WAS STOPPED, WITH ITS FLASHERS ON, TO LOAD STUDENTS. DAMAGE TO HER CAR, $1,500 AND TO THE BUS...0.

NEW..AT THE MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER. THE AVIARY CENTER. THE INDOOR AVIARY WAS ADDED IN SITTING AREA AND IS PART OF A TREND TO INCLUDE ANIMALS FOR NURSING HOME THERAPY. THEY STARTED WITH ABOUT A DOZEN BIRDS AND YESTERDAY, TWO FINCHES WERE BORN IN IT. SHARON EHLINGER, THE ADMINISTRATOR, SAID IT IS BECOMING A FOCAL POINT AT THE CARE CENTER, LOCATED UP ON THE HILL, JUST BEFORE YOU GET TO PIZZA HUT, OR JUST BEHIND
BANOWETZ ANTIQUE MALL.

IN SPORTS LAST NIGHT, BOTH THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS AND BOYS TEAMS BEAT WESTERN DUBUQUE. FOR THE BOYS, THEIR 3RD WIN IN THEIR LAST 4 GAMES.
I FORGOT TO TELL YOU YESTERDAY THAT THE BOYS BEAT CAMANCHE FRIDAY NIGHT. THEY ARE NOW 5 AND 7 OVERALL, ALREADY ONE MORE WIN THAN ALL OF LAST YEAR. AND IN THE CONFERENCE, THEY ARE 4 AND 4.
AND THE GIRLS ALSO BEAT CAMANCHE LAST FRIDAY NIGHT AND WITH THE WIN LAST NIGHT TOO, OVER WESTERN DUBUQUE, THEY NOW ARE 8 AND 5 FOR THE SEASON AND 5 AND 4 IN THE CONFERENCE.

MAQUOKETA SENIOR RYAN RENNER HAS BECOME THE ALL TIME LEADING SCORER IN MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL HISTORY. RENNER ECLIPSED THE PREVIOUS MARK IN A GAME OVER THE WEEKEND AT WALNUT RIDGE ACADEMY. BY SCORING 26 POINTS LAST SATURDAY NIGHT, RENNER TOPPED THE OLD RECORD OF 1,156 POINTS HELD BY MIKE GILMORE. RENNER ENDED SATURDAY NIGHT WITH A TOTALL OF 1,170 CAREER POINTS AND TOSSED IN 20 LAST NIGHT... AND HE WILL CONTINUE TO ADD TO HIS RECORD AS HE HAS AT LEAST 10 MORE GAMES REMAINING IN HIS HIGH SCHOOL CAREER.

THE ROTARY PROGRAM TODAY WAS GIVEN BY JIM AND CATHY FRY, OWNERS OF THE MIRACLES CAN HAPPEN BOYS RANCH NEAR WILTON, IOWA, IN SOUTH CEDAR COUNTY.
ITS A RANCH DESIGNED TO HELP YOUNG BOYS (AGE 13-18) WHO HAVE TROUBLED LIVES. JIM AND CATHY WERE THE GUESTS TODAY OF ROTARY MEMBER PASTOR CLAIR O'DELL OF THE MAQUOKETA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. JIM AND CATHY'S E-MAIL ADDRESS IS: mchboys@netins.net

THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT.

DENNIS VOY


 

CLOUDY, WINDY AND COLD TODAY...HIGH AROUND 30.
STILL PREDICTING 2 TO 4 INCHES OF SNOW TOMORROW.

GOV. TOM VILSACK GAVE HIS STATE OF THE STATE ADDRESS IN DES MOINES THIS MORNING, CARRIED OVER KMAQ AM AND FM. AFTER THE PROGRAM, ST. REP.
BOB OSTERHAUS OF MAQUOKETA PRAISED VILSACK'S TALK. OSTERHAUS, LIKE VILSACK, IS A DEMOCRAT.
OSTERHAUS TOLD KMAQ NEWS HE WAS GLAD THE GOVERNOR SAID THE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS OF IOWA WERE MANAGEABLE AND GLAD TO HEAR THE GOVERNOR WAS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT SOLVING THE ISSUES RATHER THAN TALK JUST GLOOM AND DOOM. OSTERHAUS AGREED WITH THE GOVERNOR'S CALL FOR INCREASED FUNDING FOR EDUCATION AND FOR A LOOK AT MENTAL HEALTH PARITY.
OSTERHAUS ALSO SAID HE AGREED WITH VILACK'S CALL FOR ONE UNITED IOWA WITH THE RURAL AND URBAN AREAS NOT SPLINTERING OVER ISSUES SUCH AS CLERK OF COURTS OFFICES, AND ROAD USE TAXES. OSTERHAUS JOKED TO KMAQ NEWS THAT VILSACK'S SPEECH WOULD HAVE RECEIVED AN A+ FROM LONGTIME MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL SPEECH TEACHER, KAREN TILTON, ALSO A DEMOCRAT.

AT THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING LAST NIGHT, MAQUOKETA SCHOOL SUPT. KIM HUCKSTADT PAINTED A RATHER BLEAK FINANCIAL PICTURE FOR THE DISTRICT. HE SAID THERE ARE GOING TO BE FEWER DOLLARS TO WORK WITH AND THAT HE PLANS TO BRING TO THE BOARD AT THE NEXT MEETING, A LIST OF CONSIDERATIONS FOR REDUCING EXPENDITURES. AND THE BOARD SET FEBRUARY 28TH AT 6 P.M. AS THE DATE FOR THE BUDGET WORKSHOP. ALSO AT THE MEETING, FOUR DISTRICT EMPLOYEES HAVE MADE APPLICATION FOR EARLY RETIREMENT: LUJEAN GOHLMAN GOCEK, 2ND GRADE TEACHER....CLAIRE HOYE, SOCIAL STUDIES....WARREN ROBERTS, BUSINESS ED INSTRUCTOR AND JEAN RENNER,MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER ASSOCIATE.
PRIOR TO THE MEETING, HIGH SCHOOL COUNSELOR CHUCK LINDGREN WITHDREW HIS REQUEST FOR EARLY RETIREMENT.

POLICE BLOTTER: SCOTT COLLINS OF SOUTH OTTO SAID SOMEONE SLASHED FOUR TIRES ON HIS VEHICLE FRIDAY NIGHT AND SHERRY WHITE, GERMAN STREET, SAID FOUR TIRES WERE SLASHED ON HER VEHICLE OVER THE WEEKEND. AND RUSTY LEITZ, MANAGER OF THE HURST HOTEL, SAID A VEHICLE HAD BEEN LEFT ABANDONED FOR SEVERAL DAYS IN THE HOTEL PARKING LOT.

FOUR MORE DEER ACCIDENTS. HITTING A DEER:
DEANNA FLAGEL....CLIFF ROBINSON....DAVID FLAGEL....AND LYLE HEINRICH.

ARVADA RUTH BECK, AGE 91, DIED YESTERDAY IN MINNESOTA. SHE IS THE MOTHER OF BONNIE CHRISTENSEN OF MAQUOKETA.

GOT AN E-MAIL TODAY FROM MCHS GRAD, IN THE 60'S, MICHAEL LYMAN, NOW WITH MOTOROLO IN MUNICH, GERMANY. HE WORKED AS A STUDENT ANNOUNCER FOR KMAQ IN THE LATE 60'S WHILE IN HIGH SCHOOL.
HIS MOTHER RUTH STILL LIVES IN MAQUOKETA. HIS LATE FATHER, CARL, WAS AN AREA RAILROAD ENGINEER AND MUSICIAN. PLAYED A HOT CLARINET. MIKE ALSO HAS AN OLDER BROTHER, GARY. WAS GLAD TO HEAR FROM MIKE AND WILL GET BACK TO HIM.

I WILL SOON HAVE A PAGE ON KMAQ'S WEB SITE THAT WILL LIST EVERY EMPLOYEE OF KMAQ SINCE THE STATION WENT ON-THE-AIR IN 1958.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ROXANN CLAUSING OF THE KMAQ SALES DEPARTMENT. AS CUSTOMARY HERE...THE BIRTHDAY PERSON BRINGS A MORNING TREAT...AND SHE MADE A DELICIOUS COFFEE CAKE EARLY THIS MORNING...STILL HOT WHEN SHE ARRIVED WITH IT AT 8.

CHRISTMAS...NEW YEARS...WEDDING...BIRTHDAYS..AND THE FOOD GOES ON.

MAQUOKETA HOSTS W. DUBUQUE TONIGHT AND THE GIRLS PLAY THERE.

IOWA HAS A GOOD ILLINOIS TEAM TO PLAY THERE TONIGHT.

HA HA YOU GUYS DOWN SOUTH...YOU DON'T GET TO SHOVEL SNOW TOMORROW.

SIDE NOTE...TO JACK,VISITING ARIZONA...THE MOTOR REWINDING IS GOING ON AT THIS MINUTE.

PEACE 'TIL TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY



 

CLOUDY...WINDY...A LITTLE LIGHT SNOW TODAY...
BLUSTERY...THEY CALL IT.

IT WAS NICE SATURDAY FOR LONNA VOY'S WEDDING..WITH
SUNSHINE ....AND ALL WENT WELL...A BEAUTIFUL WEDDING. LONNA IS NOW MRS. LONNA CLAUSEN.
BOTH HAVE OFF MOST OF THE WEEK.

A 15 YEAR OLD CLINTON BOY WAS ACCIDENTALLY SHOT AT
ABOUT 12:20 YESTERDAY AFTERNOON A MILE OR SO SOUTHWEST OF ANDREW. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL HERE IN MAQUOKETA AND THEN AIR-LIFTED TO UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS IN IOWA CITY WHERE HE DIED LATE THIS MORNING. HE AND 3 OTHER CLINTON BOYS WHERE SHOOTING AT PLASTIC BOTTLES WHEN THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED.

A THEFT AT THE BLUFF LAKE CATFISH FARM RESTAURANT. OWNER LINDA WELLS TOLD DEPUTIES AROUND 2:15 YESTERDAY AFTERNOON THAT SOMEONE HAD BUT OR BROKE A PADLOCK ON AN OUTDOOR WALK-IN COOLER. TAKEN SOMETIME AFTER CLOSING SATURDAY NIGHT WERE 3 KEGS OF BERR...8 CASES OF BEER AND TWO BOXES OF CATFISH. TOTAL VALUE OF THE STOLEN ITEMS, JUST OVER $400.

JANAAN MAE NORPEL, AGE 78, OF BELLEVUE DIED SATURDAY AT HER HOME. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, RICHARD J. NORPEL, SR. ALONG WITH 3 SONS AND 3 DAUGHTERS. HER HUSBAND WAS A STATE REPRESENTATIVE, JACKSON COUNTY SUPERVISOR AND I BELIEVE ALSO, BELLEVUE MAYOR OR COUNCILMAN.

IN SPORTS: THE MAQUOKETA BOYS BASKETBALL TEAMS PLAYED A BAPTIST ACADEMY SATURDAY NIGHT AND THE SOPHOMORES WON AND REMAIN UNDEFEATED AND THE VARISTY LOST BY ABOUT 5 POINTS.

THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS WON THEIR TOURNAMENT SATURDAY. THEY BEAT 5 SCHOOLS. TOPPED W. DUBUQUE 47 TO 24.....CAMANCHE 52 TO 18.....MOUNT VERNON 41-22....CRESTWOOD 36 TO 25.....AND DAVENPORT NORTH 49-17. FIVE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS WENT 5 AND 0 FOR THE DAY....JACE KUHLMAN, JON POLL, DEREK FUGLSANG, CASEY GILMORE AND DANE PAPE. NEXT, THE BIG BEND TOURNAMENT THIS SATURDAY AT EPWORTH.

IOWA LOST TO INDIANA YESTERDAY....PLAYING BADLAY AND TAKE ON POWERFUL ILLINOIS THERE, TOMORROW NIGHT.

AND..THE PACKERS WON YESTERDAY AND PLAY THE RAMS SUNDAY. THE RAMS WILL NEVER KNOW WHAT HIT THEM.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY



 

SUNNY AND LOW 40'S TODAY. NICE.

NO NEWS...SORRY.

MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS WON BIG OVER DEWITT LAST NIGHT...WINNING ALL BUT 4 MATCHES.

THE BOYS BASKETBALL TEAMS PLAYS AT CAMANCHE
TONIGHT....FIRST TIME THEY PLAY THEM UNDER NEW HEAD COACH CARL SMALL, MCHS GRAD AND FORMER CARDINAL STAR UNDER BILL FLEMMING. HE WAS AT COLUMBUS JUNCTION BEFORE GETTING THE CAMANCHE JOB..AND SO FAR..ONLY 1 WIN THIS SEASON.
THE GIRLS HOST CAMANCHE HERE.

HAD TO TRY ON MY TUX THIS NOON TO SEE IF IT FITS....AND IT DOES. IT IS REHEARSAL TIME TONIGHT...AT 1ST LUTHERAN.

CEREMONY IS AT 2 TOMORROW, REV. JERRY GJERDE CONDUCTING IT. LONNA VOY, YOUNGEST OF THE VOY FOUR....MARRIES SHAWN CLAUSEN OF DUBUQUE, EX-MARINE AND MEMBER OF DUBUQUE POLICE DEPARTMENT. LONNA HAS BEEN WITH MAQUOKETA STATE BANK FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS, SINCE GRADUATING FROM AIB IN DES MOINES. SHE IS MANAGER OF MSB'S WEST SIDE OFFICE HERE IN TOWN... AND THE COUPLE HAVE A NICE HOME OF THEIR OWN IN DUBUQUE.
RECEPTION WILL BE FROM 4 'TIL 7 AT THE PEARSON CENTER ON THE FAIRGROUNDS. THERE..NOW YOU KNOW MORE THAN YOU PROBABLY WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE BIG WEDDING IN MAQUOKETA TOMORROW. SHOULD BE FUN. SIDE-NOTE. ONE OF MAIN REASONS LONNA AND SHAWN DECIDED ON JANUARY 12TH. IT IS NANCY AND MY 38TH ANNIVERSARY TOMORROW AND LONNA'S GRANDPARENTS, HELEN AND ARNOLD MEYER'S 60TH.
LOOKS LIKE WEATHER WILL BE OKAY AND IT SHOULD BE A LOT OF FUN.

NO REPORT TOMORROW, BUT WILL TRY TO HAVE ONE
SUNDAY.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY

 

HIGH OF 43 TODAY, WITH LITTLE SUNSHINE.

MAQUOKETA VOLUNTEER FIREMEN WILL BE GETTING A NEW THERMAL IMAGING CAMERA SOON, THANKS TO COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR THE $14,500 PIECE OF EQUIPMENT.
THE CAMERA WILL ALLOW FIREFIGHTERS TO SEE INSIDE A SMOKEY BUILDING TO RESCUE SOMEONE INSIDE.
AND..EACH YEAR, THE RESCUE SQUAD OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, SENDS OUT LETTERS FOR DONATIONS. AND THIS YEAR, THEY RECEIVED A RECORD AMOUNT OF MONEY, AROUND $15,000. THAT MONEY GOES TO THE RESCUE SQUAD ONLY, AS NO CITY FUNDS ARE USED BY THE SQUAD.

MILTON KETTMAN, 74, OF BELLEVUE DIED THIS MORNING.
HE IS THE FATHER OF JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF RUSS KETTMAN. HE FARMED HIS ENTIRE LIFE NORTH OF BELLEVUE. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE ROSEMARY AND 7 CHILDREN...6 SONS AND 1 DAUGHTER. AND..THIS IS QUITE UNUSUAL. ALL 7 LIVE IN
BELLEVUE.

ROLAND PENNINGROTH, AGE 93, OF LOST NATION, DIED WEDNESDAY AT THE WEST WING PLACE IN DEWITT.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SON, GARY, IN DEWITT AND A BROTHER, ERGON, OF MAQUOKETA.

IOWA BEAT NORTHWESTERN IN MEN'S PLAY LAST NIGHT AND NOW HAVE A BIG GAME THIS SUNDAY AT NOON ON CBS-TV, AGAINST INDIANA. WILL BE A GOOD ONE TO WATCH.

HAVE A GOOD EVENING.

DENNIS VOY



 

IT WAS SUNNY THIS MORNING..NOW CLOUDY....THE HIGH TODAY WAS 56 ...FALLING 2 SHORT OF EQUALING THE RECORD OF 58.

MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS LOST LAST NIGHT TO 3-A
PLEASANT VALLEY, 38 TO 24. WINS FOR MAQUOKETA BY....DANE PAPE AT 215 POUNDS....ROB HAYES AT 275...JACE KUHLMAN AT 103....DEREK FUGLSANG AT 119 AND KEENAN MEINEKE AT 125. TOMORROW NIGHT, THE CARDINALS HOST DEWITT.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAMS LOST AT DEWITT LAST NIGHT....THE SABERS WINNING BOTH THE SOPHOMORE AND VARSITY GAMES.

IN SPORTS TRIVIA....IN 1962, EDDIE WHITCHELO SCORED 33 POINTS AND RICH O'HARA 23 AS THE CARDINALS DEFEATED THE WAMAC CONFERENCE LEAGUE LEADER, MARION. EDDIE LEFT US AT A YOUNG AGE AFTER A HEART ATTACK AND RICH I'M PRETTY SURE IS STILL IN THE HAPPY JOES PIZZA BUSINESS IN DUBUQUE WITH HIS BROTHER.

I MENTIONED THAT LOUIE CLASEN ROLLED A 300 LAST WEEK HERE AT HIS BOWLING LANES. I SHOULD HAVE ADDED THAT IT WAS HIS 9TH PERFECT GAME AND HIS 5TH 800+ SERIES.

IT WAS 60 YEARS AGO THAT THE TUBBS BOWLING ALLEY OPENED IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA, UPSTAIRS..6 LANES..AND IT LASTED UNTIL AROUND 1960 SHORTLY AFTER THE 2 NEW BOWLING LANES OPENED ON WEST PLATT STREET.

MAQUOKETA'S OLDEST BUSINESS, MITCHELL-MASKREY FEEDS,IS CELEBRATING 160TH THIS MONTH.
AND..FOR G.L. STOCKHAM AND SON CONTRACTORS..IT IS YEAR 105 THIS JANUARY. ROTMAN MOTOR COMPANY, 52 THIS MONTH. THE LOFT..24TH.

OCEANS 11 STARTS FRIDAY AT THE VOY 3 THEATRE.
ADMISSION $6. KIDS $4. FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT
DON'T GO TO A LOT OF MOVIES...HERE'S A MOVIE YOU WOULD LIKE. TRY A MOVIE FOR A CHANGE....YOU'LL LIKE IT...AND..WHILE GOING.. FEEL LIKE A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT AGAIN. GO AHEAD..HOLD HER HAND.
AND DON'T FORGET THE POPCORN. WONDER WHAT THEY GET FOR ADMISSION DOWN ARIZONA WAY?

CABLE TV RATES ARE GOING UP AGAIN IN MAQUOKETA.
MINE WILL BE AROUND $40...AND I GET NO MOVIE SERVICE.

JOAN COSTELLO OF HIGHWAY 64 EAST, MAQUOKETA,
TOLD JACKSON COUNTY DEPUTIES THAT A COCKTAIL RING VALUED AT $3,000 WAS STOLEN FROM HER RESIDENCE.
IT APPARENTLY WAS DISCOVERED MISSING SOMETIME SINCE THE RESIDENCE SUFFERED A FIRE IN FEBRUARY OF LAST YEAR.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS.

GUESS THAT'S IT FOR ANOTHER DAY.

THANKS FOR CHECKING IN AGAIN.

DENNIS VOY

 

SUNNY AND WARM TODAY...IN THE MID 40'S...AND 50-DEGREE WEATHER POSSIBLE THIS WEEK. NO SNOW ON GROUND.

YESTERDAY WAS ANOTHER OF THOSE DAYS THAT I COULD NOT GET ON THE SERVER TO DO THIS REPORT.

SPORTS: LAST SATURDAY NIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS WON THEIR GAME AGAINST NORTH SCOTT....AFTER WINNING ALSO FRIDAY NIGHT. AND TONIGHT THEY PLAY AT DEWITT.

LAST NIGHT, HERE, THE CARDINAL BOYS HOSTED DEWITT.
MAQUOKETA WON THE SOPHOMORE GAME FOR THEIR 9TH WIN IN A ROW AGAINST 0 LOSSES. AND..THE CARDINALS PULLED AN UPSET AND WON THE VARSITY GAME TOO...FOR THEIR 3RD WIND OF THE SAEASON AND 2ND CONFERENCE WIN. THEY JUMPED OFF TO A 20 TO 10 FIRST QUARTER SCORE AND DOMINATED MOST OF THE GAME. DEWITT DID MANAGE TO TIE US IN THE FINAL QUARTER...BUT THEN THE CARDINALS WENT ON TO WIN BY 13 POINTS.

THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS WERE IN A 16 TEAM FIELD SATURDAY AT BENTON COMMUNITY AND TOOK FIRST PLACE.
ANOTHER BIG WIN FOR THE CARDINAL GRAPPLERS UNDER NEW FIRST YEAR HEAD COACH, TODD BOWMAN. THEY HOST PLEASANT VALLEY TONIGHT. DOC KOOB AND I WILL BROADCAST THE MATCHES TONIGHT.

LOUIE CLASEN, OWNER OF TIMBER LANES, ROLLED A 300 GAME LAST WEEK...AND ENDED UP ALSO WITH ABOUT AN 820 SERIES.

BREAK-IN SATURDAY MORNING.... BY 4 PEOPLE...AT WAL MART. LOTS OF ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT WAS TAKEN. TWO HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AND ARE IN JAIL. OTHER 2 BEING SOUGHT.


LARRY ROTH, AGE 60, OF RURAL BELLEVUE AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA,DIED SATURDAY AT A CLINTON HOSPITAL AFTER A SHORT BATTLE WITH CANCER. HE WAS A 1960 GRAD OF MHS. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE...THE FORMER MARY KAY McAFEE...ALSO SURVIVED BY A DAUGHTER, LAURIE STEINES OF MAQUOKETA AND A BROTHER, DICK, OF MAQUOKETA. WAS A RETIRED PIPEFITTER AND WAS ACTIVE IN SELLING REAL ESTATE.

MARK BECK WAS RE-ELECTED TO HIS 5TH ONE-YEAR TERM AS MAQUOKETA FIRE CHIEF. HE SAID THE BUILDING IS CRAMPED AND THEY ARE DOING A PRELIMINARY STUDY AS TO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE WITH IT. THE FIRE
DEPARTMENT HAS LAND FOR EXPANSION BUT NO MONEY AT HIS POINT.

THE MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL MET LAST NIGHT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE NEW YEAR AND THE MEETING WAS CONDUCTED BY NEW MAYOR TOM MESSERLI. IT WAS A SHORT 45-MINUTE MEETING AND FROM WHAT I'VE BEEN TOLD, IT WENT FAIRLY FELL.

PATRICIA EDWARDS AND GENE MALONE OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL, BORN NEW YEAR'S EVE AT THE JACKSON COUNTY PUBLIC HOSPITAL.

HEARD TODAY THAT 60 BALD EAGLES WERE SPOTTED IN A FARM FIELD OVER BY DELMAR THE OTHER DAY.
BALD EAGLES ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE THIS YEAR...
BECAUSE OF THE WARM WEATHER AND ALL THE OPEN WATER. ALSO, LOTS OF DELICIOUS PREY IS AVAILABLE TO THEM THIS YEAR.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY


 

MOSTLY CLOUDY AND HIGH TODAY OF 38.

MAQUOKETA BOYS LOST TO ANAMOSA LAST NIGHT BY LESS THAN 10 POINTS. THE SOPHOMORES WON AGAIN...AND ARE NOW 8 AND 0.

HERE IN TOWN LAST NIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS DEFEATED ANAMOSA. THE SOPHOMORE GIRLS LOST.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS TEAMS HOST NORTH SCOTT IN NON-CONFERENCE ACTION TONIGHT.

THE WRESTLERS ARE AT BENTON COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL TODAY IN A 16-TEAM TOURNAMENT.

THE IOWA HAWKEYE MEN .. #9 IN COUNTRY...AND 1 AND 0 IN BIG TEN PLAY, PLAY AT OHIO STATE TONIGHT.

MIM STOCKHAM TALKED TO MY WIFE ON PHONE TODAY AND SAID HER AND BOB WERE NEAR AUSTIN, TEXAS YESTERDAY AND EXPECTED TO ARRIVE DOWN IN BROWNSVILLE AREA TODAY. THEY WILL LIVE IN THEIR NICE RV FOR NEXT 3 MONTHS IN THE WARM AREA OF SOUTH TEXAS. HAVE FUN THIS WINTER MIM AND KEEP US POSTED. TALKED TO THEIR GRANDDAUGHTER ABBIE YESTERDAY AT THE DECKER RESTAURANT...AND SHE IS A JUNIOR IN COLLEGE AND LOOKING FORWORD TO GETTING INTO MED SCHOOL.

SHORT REPORT...SORRY.

HAVE A NICE SUNDAY.

DENNIS VOY

 

SUNNY AND WARM...IN THE 30'S.

LONGTIME MAQUOKETA BANKER AND FARMER, ROGER STEWART OF PRESTON, HAS ANNOUNCED HIS CANDIDACY
FOR THE NEW DISTRICT 13 IOWA SENATE SEAT.
THE NEW DISTRICT INCLUDES ALL OF JACKSON COUNTY, AND INCLUDES A COUPLE DUBUQUE COUNTY TOWNSHIPS, BUT NOT THE CITY OF DUBUQUE AND IT ALSO INCLUDES SEVERAL NORTHERN CLINTON COUNTY TOWNSHIPS, INCLUDING THE CITY OF CLINTON. ROGER IS A SEMI-RETIRED BANKER, WITH THE MAQUOKETA STATE BANK FOR 32 YEARS AND HE AND HIS WIFE JENNIE LIVE ON THE FAMILY FARM...OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE STEWART FAMILY SINCE 1905. THEY HAVE 3 CHILDREN AND 7 GRANDCHILDREN. HIS SISTER IS NANCY MOORE, OF THE FAMOUS SUNSHINE SCHOOL. ROGER HAS BEEN VERY ACTIVE IN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT FOR THE CITY THE LAST FEW YEARS AND WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN HELPING GET THE GENERAC INDUSTRY AND FAMILY DOLLAR CENTER,TO LOCATE AT MAQUOKETA. HE'S A HARD WORKER AND WELL-LIKED MAN AND I THINK WOULD MAKE A GOOD SENATOR IN DES MOINES. HE WILL BE RUNNING AS A DEMOCRAT IN THE JUNE PRIMARY. ONE OTHER MAN HAS ALSO ANNOUNCED AS A DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE AND HE IS THE CLINTON COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN AND RETIRED FROM THE CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS. NO ONE HAS ANNOUNCED SO FAR ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE.

ON THE POLICE BLOTTER: ALVIN NICHOLSEN OF MAQUOKETA REPORTED HIS VEHICLE WAS STOLEN LAST NIGHT WHILE PARKED AT BILL'S TAP AND WAS FOUND THIS MORNING IN THE 5TH WARD PARKING LOT.
MICHAEL BERG OF MAQUOKETA, REPORTED HIS RESIDENCE WAS BURGLARIZED SOMETIME SINCE NOVEMBER AND TAKEN...A COMCORDER AND COUPLE 33MM CAMERAS AND A CLASS RING.
AND JIM WENDEL REPORTED THE THEFT OF $75 FROM THE BOX AT THE FOOD SERVICE DEPARTMENT AT THE HOSPITAL.

A BOY BORN YESTERDAY AT A DAVENPORT HOSPITAL TO JOHN AND ANDREA DAVISON OF DEWITT. GRANDPARENTS ARE BILL AND JACKIE DAVISON OF MAQUOKETA.

HELEN BEATY, AGE 89, OF DECORAH AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY AT THE EASTERN STAR HOME IN DECORAH. HER LATE HUSBAND, VERN, DIED IN 1996. HE OWNED AND OPERATED THE BEATY'S BEN FRANKLIN STORE IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA FOR AROUND 25 YEARS, STARTING IN THE MID 50'S. SURVIVORS INCLUDE A DAUGHTER, PAT BEATY, OF BLUFFTON, SOUTH CAROLINA AND A SON, JOHN MICHAEL OF GREENSBURG, PA.

REMEMBER THE 5 AND 10 STORES? 5 CENT AND 10 CENT STORES. NOW THEY ARE 5 AND 10...BUT 5-DOLLARS AND 10-DOLLARS.

BUDDY, I MIGHT NEED ANOTHER DOLLAR! THE EXPENSES ARE BUILDING. THE WEDDING IS A WEEK FROM TOMORROW. I PAID THE PHOTOGRAPHER TODAY.
I'LL PUT ONE OF THE WEDDING PICTURES ON KMAQ'S WEB SITE AFTER THE BIG DAY.

THE NEW MOTEL WILL BE ON A 65 ACRE PLOT OF LAND...BUT WILL INCLUDE OTHER BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENTS. YES..I'M TOLD IT WILL HAVE A POOL.

CRYSTAL BARASEL IS A NEW BEAUTICIAN IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA. IN WITH LISA AND LORI AT HAIR CONNECTIONS, ON THE CORNER OF MAIN AND PLATT.
....FORMER HOME OF DOLLS AND DOODADS...FORMER HOME OF BUS AND JEANS....AND DOES ANYONE REMEMBER...WAS THAT SOUTHEAST CORNER BUILDING THE HOME OF A 4-CHAIR BARBER SHOP ABOUT 75 YEARS AGO??

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY





 

SUNNY AND 26 FOR A HIGH TODAY..HEADING FOR NEAR 40 TOMORROW.

NEW MOTEL COMING TO MAQUOKETA....AT SOUTH EDGE OF TOWN. MORE LATER.

BILL MOLER'S CAR GAVE UP....AND HE'S NOW DRIVING A BIG CHRYSLER...LATE MODEL...BUT RUMOR HAS IT..THE PAPER WORK...REGISTRATION...WHAT HAVE YOU...MAY NOT BE UP TO DATE....BUT....SINCE HE'S A FRIEND OF THE X-SHERIFF AND CURRENT SHERIFF...
ALL SHOULD BE OKAY IN DUE TIME. ANYWAY..HIS LATE FATHER-IN-LAW JOE MARTIN, WOULD BE MIGHTHY HAPPY BILL IS BACK WITH A CHRYSLER. BILL DRIVES CARS DOWN TO FLORIDA FOR THOSE WHO FLY AND WON'T DRIVE...BEEN DOWN THERE 3 TIMES ALREADY THIS WINTER. RETIRED...BUT ALWAYS BUSY...HE'S A BOOKER TOO...I MEAN...HE READS BOOKS TOO....AND
DOES A FEW RADIO COMMERCIALS HERE AT KMAQ WITH HIS DEEP RADIO VOICE. HE SOLD HIS CLOTHING STORE TO JAKE BICKFORD ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO...BUT JAKE NEVER RE-NAMED THE STORE.

RUMOR HAS IT, A RETIRED WELL-KNOWN BUSINESSMAN
WILL RUN FOR THE NEW STATE SENATE SEAT FOR THIS AREA. MORE LATER.

J.C. ENGEL THIS WEEK WAS ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF THE JACKSON COUNTY SUPERVISORS FOR 2002. THE CHAIRMANSHIP POSITION ROTATES BETWEEN THE 3 SUPERVISORS. DR. PAUL KOOB WAS RE-APPOINTED COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER FOR 2 YEARS.

SAW A GOOD GAME LAST NIGHT...IOWA DEFEATING WISCONSIN.

MAQUOKETA GIRLS HOST ANAMOSA TOMORROW NIGHT AND THE BOYS PLAY AT ANAMOSA.

SAW CLIF LAMBORN TODAY...HIS KNEE REPLACEMENT SURGERY WAS POSTPONED UNTIL FEBRUARY BECAUSE HE HAD A COLD AT THE TIME OF HIS SCHEDULED OPERATION. SINCE THEN, HE ALSO HAS FOUND OUT
HE NEEDS CATARACT SURGERY ON BOTH EYES....LOOKS GOOD AND ANXIOUS TO GET THESE MINOR THINGS OUT OF THE WAY.

RUSTY HAYES HAD A LITTLE HEART PROBLEM AROUND CHRISTMAS TIME....NOW HAS HIS 2ND STINT....FIRST CAME A COUPLE YEARS AGO. HOME AND DOING FINE, SAYS LOIS. I'M SURE HE'LL BE PLAYING TENNIS AGAIN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

THAT'LL DO IT FOR TODAY.

SLEEP WELL.

DENNIS VOY



 

SUNNY, NO WIND...IN 20'S...NICE DAY.

JACKSON COUNTY HAS A NEW SUPERVISING CLERK OF COURT. CLINTON COUNTY CLERK OF COURT MARILYN
HUFF WILL ADD JACKSON COUNTY TO HER DUTIES,
AS OF TODAY. SHE REPLACES LOIS SCHNOOR WHO RESIGNED AFTER 33 YEARS AT THE JOB.

JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES HAVE FILED ADDITIONAL CHARGES AGINST TWO MEN ACCUSED OF BURGLARIZING SEVERAL RURAL HOMES. DANIEL JAMES WEBER, AGE 21, IS BEING HELD IN THE LOCAL JAIL ON $13,000 CASH BOND, CHARGED WITH BURLARY IN THE 3RD DEGREE. JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPUTY, DICK WARD, SAID A POLICE SCANNER WAS FOUND AT WEBER'S HOME AT 44 YALE DURING A SEARCH CHRISTMAS EVE. THE SCANNER WAS ONE OF SEVERAL ITEMS TAKEN FROM THE MARY WIEGERT HOME ON 174TH AVENUE ON DECEMBER 18TH. ALSO, TERRY KREMER OF MAQUOKETA WAS CHARGED WITH TWO COUNTS OF BURGLARY IN THE 3RD DEGREE. SHERIFF'S DEPUTY ED CLARK SAID SOME CHRISTMAS PRESENTS STOLEN FORM THE MARK AND DEB EDWARDS HOME ON DECEMBER 20TH WRE FOUND IN KREMER'S POSSESSION. IN COURTY DOCUMENTS, DEPUTIES SAY AN INFORMANT TOLD THEM THEY SAW KREMER UNLOADING ITEMS AT 44 YALE WHERE KREMER FREQUENTLY STAYS.
IN CONNECTION WITH THE WIEGER BURGLARY ON DECEMBER 18TH, WIEGERT SAID SHE SAW SOMEONE IN THE HOME AND SMELLED DIESEL FUEL. SHE LEFT THE HOME, BUT DESCRIBED KREMER TO DEPUTIES. GLOVES WHICH SMELLED LIKE DIESEL FUEL WERE FOUND IN KREMER'S VEHICLE. ALSO, KREMER HAD A FAKE ROLEX WATCH ALSO STOLEN FROM HER HOME. KREMER WAS ARRESTED ON A WARRANT THIS PAST WEEKEND, AND LIKE DANIEL JAMES WEBER, HE IS BEING HELD IN THE JACKSON COUNTY DETENTION CENTER. ANOTHER JOB WELL DONE BY THE JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT.

NO DEATHS. NO BIRTHS.

MAQUOKETA KIDS STILL HAVE OFF TODAY...LAST DAY OF VACATION. SCHOOL RESUMES TOMORROW.

ATHLETIC EVENTS START LATER THIS WEEK AGAIN.

IOWA MEN HOST WISCONSIN TONIGHT AT IOWA CITY...
AND I'LL BE THERE TO CHEER-ON THE #9 RANKED
HAWKS. BUT, IF THE HAWKS HAVE A BAD GAME AND THE BADGERS WIN....BEING A FORMER BADGER...I'LL
STILL ENJOY THE GAME.

COME BACK TOMORROW.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY

 

THE SUN IS SHINING IN MAQUOKETA.

WE HAD 7 ABOVE FOR THE OVER-NIGHT LOW...

BUT...NOW..BEFORE NOON..WE ARE PUSHING 20.

LIGHT SNOW IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON.

NO NEWS...AS FAR AS I KNOW.

SEVERAL DEATHS, BUT NOT MAQUOKETA RESIDENTS.

SHERIFF'S DEPUTY ED CLARK CALLED ME LAST NIGHT..
TO SAY THAT THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT WAS
ALSO INVOLVED IN THE YALE AVENUE MOBILE HOME SEARCH ON CHRISTMAS EVE, THAT RESULTED IN SOLVING SOME BREAK-INS LOCALLY AND ENDED WITH THE ARREST OF TWO MAQUOKETA MEN. CHECK YESTERDAY'S REPORT FOR OTHER DETAILS.

GUESS THAT WILL DO.....I DID WANT TO START THE YEAR RIGHT, BY HAVING A JANUARY 1ST, 2002
DAILY REPORT....AND...SHORT YES..BUT IT IS A REPORT.

HAPPY NEW YEAR.

DENNIS VOY