LAST NIGHT'S LOW WAS 29 AND TODAY'S HIGH JUST 33, DESPITE LOTS OF SUNSHINE.

MAQUOKETA POLICE BLOTTER: RANDY KUHLMAN OF 801 GRANT STREET SAID SOMEONE TOOK A WOOD CARVED WIZARD FROM HIS YARD, WITH A VALUE OF $250. DAVE EDWARDS OF S. CLARK STREET SAID SOMEONE BROKE THE HOLIDAY LIGHTS IN THE YARD. KATIE HOVEY SAID SOMEONE TOOK HER PURSE FROM THE KITCHEN AT THE EAGLES CLUB YESTERDAY AND BRANDON MEIER SAID SOMEONE BROKE THE WINDSHIELD OF HIS TRUCK WHILE PARKED AT THE JACKSON COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS.

MINOR ACCIDENT YESTERDAY MORNING AT CORNER OF PLATT AND OLIVE STREETS. ONE CAR DRIVEN BY NATHAN MUHS, AGE 26, AND OTHER BY DOUGLAS LEON, AGE 53. CHARGES PENDING. DAMAGE TO EACH CAR, ABOUT $2,000.

SHIRLEY FELDERMAN, AGE 65, OF SPRAGUEVILLE, HIT A COW HEAD-ON WITH HER 92 BUICK LAST NIGHT NORTHEAST OF PRESTON. THE REPORT SAYS NEITHER FELDERMAN OR THE COW WERE INJURED.
$3,000 DAMAGE TO THE CAR.

THE IOWA HAWKEYES PLAY IN THE OUTBACK BOWL AT 10 TOMORROW MORNING. GO HAWKS.

NEW TACO JOHNS RESTAURANT FOR MAQUOKETA! THAT'S THE RUMOR.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

DENNIS VOY

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HIGH TODAY, WITH SOME SUNSHINE...44....TOMORROW, MID 30'S. FRIDAY 50'S, BUT FOR FRIDAY ONLY.

RYAN AND NICOLE JOHNSON OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A BOY, BORN CHRISTMAS EVE, AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. GRANDPARENTS ARE NEIL AND DEB JOHNSON OF MAQUOKETA.

BRAD AND SUE CLARK OF CLIVE, IOWA ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL, BORN YESTERDAY. GRANDPARENTS ARE GARY AND NANCY CLARK OF MAQUOKETA. GREAT-GRANDFATHER IS BILL SAGERS OF MAQUOKETA.

IT WAS LEARNED TODAY THAT THE KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN RESTAURANT IN MAQUOKETA WILL CLOSE FOR GOOD TOMORROW AT REGULAR CLOSING TIME. FOR THE PAST 3 YEARS, IT HAS BEEN OWNED BY THE WEAVER FAMILY OF PEORIA. THEY HAVE AROUND 30 KFC RESTAURANTS IN THE TRI-STATE AREA.
MANY OF YOU KNOW THAT DEAN TILTON AND I OWNED AND RAN IT FOR 20 YEARS, UNTIL SELLING IT TO THE WEAVERS. WE PURCHASED IT FROM TWO GENTLEMEN IN SAVANNA, ILLINOIS. WE HAD A MANAGER FOR THE RESTAURANT AND WORKED CLOSELY WITH HER IN RUNNING ONE OF THE TOP KFC RESTAURANTS IN THE MIDWEST. IF I MAY BRAG A LITTLE....WE WERE OFTEN AT THE TOP OR NEAR THE TOP OF THE LIST PUT OUT BY THE KFC ORGANIZATION. THIS WAS DETERMINED BY MYSTERY SHOPPERS THAT SHOPPED KFC RESTAURANTS EVERY MONTH. WHEN THE WEAVER CHAIN APPROACHED US ABOUT BUYING US OUT, WE DECIDED TWENTY YEARS WAS ENOUGH AND DECIDED TO SELL. THE PLAN , BY THE WEAVERS, WAS TO EVENTUALLY BUILD A NEW, LARGER KFC RESTAURANT AT A BETTER LOCATION IN MAQUOKETA. NOW, THEY HAVE DECIDED NOT TO DO THAT. THE BUILDING IS STILL OWNED BY DEAN AND I AND WE WILL LIST IT FOR SALE AFTER ALL THE EQUIPMENT IS TAKEN OUT IN JANUARY. IT PROBABLY WILL BE USED FOR A BUSINESS OTHER THAN A RESTAURANT. THE RESTAURANT HAS BEEN IN MAQUOKETA ABOUT 28 YEARS AND THAT'S WHY I'M SURE THERE WILL BE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WILL MISS IT. MY SON, DAVE , AND I WENT THERE FOR LUNCH TODAY AND DAVE TOOK A FEW DIGITAL PICTURES OF OUR LAST MEAL AT KFC. THE 4 PICTURES ARE UP NOW ON DENNIS' DAILY PHOTOS. GO TO THE KMAQ MAIN PAGE IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE THEM. www.kmaq.com AFTER TOMORROW, NO MORE "FINGER LICKIN' GOOD CHICKEN" FOR THE MANY LOCAL KFC FANS.

THE LATE KFC COLONEL WOULD BE DISAPPOINTED. WE ARE TOO.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY

Yesterday, Maquoketa reached 50. Today, mostly cloudy and only in the 30's.

A MONMOUTH MAN LEAD JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF DEPUTIES ON A FIVE-MILE HIGH SPEED ESCAPADED AND THEN A SHORT FOOT CHASE THROUGH A CORNFIELD EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. JOSHUA DAVID HOWELL, AGE 20, HAS BEEN CHARGED WTIH OWI, OPEN CONTAINER VIOLATION, AND SEVERAL TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS.

POLICE BLOTTER: LISA VOHRINGER OF MAQUOKETA REPORTED SOMEONE TOOK ITEMS VALUED AT ABOUT $50 FROM HER VEHICLE WHILE PARKED AT WALMART YESTERDAY.
LAURA JAMES OF NORTH WALNUT SAID SOMEONE TOOK A WOODEN MOOSE AND BEAR BENCH FROM THE FRONT YARDD SOMETIME SINCE DECEMBER 15TH...A VALUE OF $130.

COURT NEWS: RONALD GARIEN, AGE 47, OF MAQUOEKTA WAS CHARGED WITH OWI, 2ND OFFENSSE YESTERDAY. HIS BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL REGISTERED .241 WITH .08 AS THE LEGAL LIMIT.

DAN AND MICHELLE STEINES OF NORTH LIBERTY ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN YESTERDAY IN CEDAR RAPIDS. GRANDPARENTS ARE JUNIOR AND LAURA STEINES OF RURAL SPRINGBROOK.

DALE YAROLIM, AGE 83, OF MAQUOKETA DIED THIS MORNING AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. HE WAS A WORLD WAR 2 VETERAN OF THE U.S. ARMY. HE WORKED IN THE CLINTON ENGINES PAINT DEPARTMENT FOR 30 YEARS AND THEN WORKED AS A HANDYMAN AT BRIARWOOD CARE CENTER IN MAQUOKETA UNTIL RETIRING IN 1993. SURVIVORS INCLUDE4 CHILDREN....DIXIE BRINKMAN OF MAQUOKETA....DAN YAROLEM OF MAQUOKETA....DOUG YAROLEM OF MAQUOKETA....AND DENISE SCHMITZ OF MAQUOKETA.

STEVE FLYNN, OUTGOING CITY COUNCILMAN, IS THE ROTARY'S "CITIZEN OF THE WEEK"...SEE A PICTURE OF HIM AND READ ABOUT HIM ON THE ROTARY WEB SITE....www.maquoketa-rotary.org

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY

PARTLY SUNNY TODAY..HIGH IN 40'S.

MINOR ACCIDENT JUST BEFORE 6 THIS MORNING....ONE DRIVER, LEROY ANDERSON, AGE 61, OF MAQUOKETA, AND OTHER DRIVER, EVERETT SEATS,AGE 37, OF CLINTON. JUST NORTH OF MAQUOKETA, SEATS REAR-ENDED ANDERSON'S CAR...NO INJURIES.

ANOTHER MINOR ACCIDENT THIS MORNING RESULTED IN LARRY EDWARDS, AGE 58, OF MAQUOKETA, BEING CHARGED FOR FAILURE TO YIELD. BECAUSE OF FROSTED WINDSHIELD, EDWARDS DIDN'T SEE CAR DRIVEN BY ROBERT EVERDING, AGE 58, OF MAQUOKETA. LITTLE DAMAGE FROM THE COLLISION.

BREAKIN AT KFC RESTAURANT TUESDAY NIGHT. THIEFS PRYED OPEN THE NORTH DOOR, AND THEN GOT INTO THE OFFICE AND TOOK MONEY AND THE CASH REGISTER DRAWER. AMOUNT NOT ON THE POLICE BLOTTER. KFC OWNED BY WEAVER CHAIN OF KFC'S.

CHESTER "BUTCH" PETIT DIED WEDNESDAY FOLLOWING A BATTLE WITH CANCER. HE WAS 58. HAD BEEN A BRICKLAYER FOR OVER 30 YEARS. SURVIVORS INCLUDE A DAUGHTER, ANGELA OF DUBUQUE, AND HIS FORMER WIFE, BRENDA PETIT OF MAQUOKETA. ALSO TWO SISTERS.

CHECKING THE OTHER DAY, AND THE FIRST DAY I DID THIS DAILY REPORT WAS JUNE 9TH OF 1997. LONG TIME.
EVERY ONE CAN BE BROUGHT UP IN A MINUTE OR SO...THEY ARE ALL HERE, BY YEARS, ON THE KMAQ WEB SITE.

HEARD TODAY THAT DR. BROMAN IS BACK IN THE HOSPITAL AT IOWA CITY AND ALSO THAT JOHN FAGERLAND FELL CHRISTMAS EVE AND BROKE A LEG.

JERRY MAPLES AND HIS WIFE ARE VISITING MAQUOKETA. SAW THEM AT CHURCH CHRISTMAS EVE. THEY LIVE IN PHOENIX AND HE IS ACTIVELY WORKING AS AN ARTIST. HAS ENJOYING PAINTING FOR MANY YEARS, EVEN BACK WHEN HE WAS THE PRESIDENT OF THE JACKSON STATE SAVINGS BANK.

DELIVERING MEALS ON WHEELS AND TOOK A MEAL TO CLAUDE BECK, FORMER KMAQ SALESMAN AND LIFELONG RESIDENT OF MAQUOKETA. HE LIVES ALONE, AND SELDOM LEAVES THE HOUSE. SON MARK CHECKS ON HIM 3 TIMES A DAY.
ALSO DELIVERED A MEAL TO SHERRY SOKOL. SHE SEEMS TO BE DOING WELL. PRETTY PROUD OF HER HOUSE DOG...ALSO KIND OF A WATCH DOG AS HE WAS LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW AND BARKED AS I WALKED UP THE FRONT STEPS.

GOING UP TO HORICON, WISCONSIN TOMORROW TO VISIT MY BROTHER...AND A FEW OTHER RELATIVES. BEEN WELL OVER A YEAR SINCE I VISITED THE LITTLE TOWN, THAT HAS A JOHN DEERE PLANT THAT MAKES THE JOHN DEERE GARDEN TRACTORS.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY

SUNNY TODAY, BUT COOL.

A NEWLY REMODELED BELLEVUE BUSINESS WAS EXTENSIVELY DAMAGED BY FIRE LAST NIGHT.
THE "RIVER BOTTOM CAFE" ON SOUTH RIVERVIEW. WHEN FIRMEN ARRIVED AT 10 P.M., FLAMES WERE SHOOTING FROM THE KITCHEN AREA. A PASSER-BY SAW THE FLAMES AND CALLED 911. THE BUSINESS IS OWNED BY RONALD HEISTER, WHO LIVE NEXT DOOR TO THE RESTAURANT. FIRE CHIEF CHRIS ROLING ESTIMATED THE DAMAGE AT $80,000 TO THE RESTAURANT WHICH WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE "POINT PLEASANT RESORT".
THE RESTAURANT WAS OPEN UNTIL 6 LAST NIGHT. IT HAS BEEN REMODELED THE LAST COUPLE YEARS AND IS POPULAR WITH MISSISSIPPI RIVER FISHERMEN AS WELL AS LOCAL RESIDENTS. I ASSUME HEISTER WILL MAKE REPAIRS AND RE-OPEN.

A VANDALISM INCIDENT REPORTED TO MAQUOKETA POLICE. BRANDY SHEPARD OF 207 E. MAPLE SAID SOMEONE THREW SOMETHING THROUGH THE FRONT WINDOW OF HER HOME. SHE SAW TWO MALES RUNNING FROM THE HOME TUESDAY NIGHT.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS.

KMAQ WILL BROADCAST THE LUTHERAN CHURCH SERVICE "live" at 6 TONIGHT AND THE METHODIST SERVICE AT 9 TONIGHT....WITH SIGN-OFF AS ALWAYS AT 10.

AND...WE'LL BE ON-THE-AIR CHRISTMAS DAY AS ALWAYS. ITS AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR, RADIO ISN'T THE BEST KIND OF BUSINESS TO BE IN.

UNLESS SOMETHING MAJOR HAPPENS, THERE WILL BE NO DAILY REPORT TOMORROW THOUGH.

THANKS TO DAILY REPORT READER ANN DAHLEN FOR YOUR EMAIL CHRISTMAS GREETING...WHEREVER YOU LIVE.

NANCY AND I WILL BE AT THE HOME OF CHARLIE AND THE KIDS TONIGHT...THEN CHURCH AT 11...AND THE ENTIRE FAMILY WILL BE AT OUR HOUSE FOR CHRISTMAS DINNER TOMORROW.

HOPE ALL OF YOU HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!

DENNIS VOY

CLOUDY..HIGH TODAY OF 36

DR. ROB DEEGAN OF RURAL MAQUOKETA HAS BEEN NAMED THE NEW JACKSON COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR AND HOMELAND SECURITY COORDINATOR. HE REPLACES BUDDY OLSON, WHO HAS HELD THE POSITION FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS. OLSON WILL RETIRE FROM THE PART-TIME POSITION MARCH 1ST. THE DEPARTMENT IS UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE JACKSON COUNTY MUNICIPAL LEAGUE, MADE UP OF MAYORS OF EACH COMMUNITY IN JACKSON COUNTY. MONEY FOR THE DIRECTOR'S SALARY COMES FROM THE ASSESSMENT TO EACH COMMUNITY.
KATHY TILL, MAYOR OF ANDREW, IS THE CURRENT CHAIRMAN OF THE LEAGUE AND SAID THERE WERE 8 APPLICANTS FOR THE JOB. BILL MERRICK, LONGTIME MAQUOKETA BARBER, WAS THE ORIGINAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR FOR JACKSON COUNTY. DEEGAN, A VETERINARIAN, ALSO OWNS A DEER FARM NORTHWEST OF MAQUOKETA. BUDDY CHECKS THIS REPORT REGULARLY. BUDDY, THANKS FOR A GOOD JOB OVER THE YEARS. NOW THAT YOU'LL HAVE A LITTLE EXTRA TIME, MAYBE YOU CAN HELPL MYRNA AROUND THE HOUSE A LITTLE.

THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOLS HAVE RECEIVED AN $18,000 HARKIN GRANT TO DO SOME FIRE SAFETY UPGRADES AT CARDINAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND THE HIGH SCHOOL. THE GRANTS ARE SPONSORED BY SEN. TOM HARKIN WITH THE FUNDS COMING FROM THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

SOMEONE BROKE INTO THE COKE MACHINE AT CAN CITY ON EAST PLATT STREET, OWNED BY JOHN WAGENER. TAKEN, BETWEEN $50 AND $75 IN CHANGES AND BILLS....AND...DAMAGE OF ABOUT $150 TO THE MACHINE.
THE INCIDENT HAPPENED BETWEEN SATURDAY AND MONDAY.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS.

NO LOCAL SPORTS. IOWA LOST TO TEXAS TECH LAST NIGHT IN BASKETBALL. WE BROADCAST THE GAME. THE HAWKEYE FOOTBALL TEAM WILL BE IN THE OUTBACK BOWL IN TAMPA NEW YEAR'S DAY, WITH A 10 A.M. KICK-OFF. KMAQ'S BROADCAST THAT DAY FROM TAMPA WILL START AT 8 A.M.

VERY LITTLE SNOW ON THE GROUND AROUND HERE ANYMORE....SO UNLESS WE GET SOME IN THE NEXT DAY OR SO, WE WILL NOT HAVE A WHITE CHRISTMAS.

ONE DAY LEFT TO SHOP.....AND MOST STORES WILL CLOSE EARLY TOMORROW.

IF YOU ARE TAKING OFF FOR SOMEWHERE, DRIVE CAREFULLY.

CHECK BACK TOMORROW IF YOU CAN.

DENNIS VOY

CLOUDY TODAY..HIGH OF 44. YESTERDAY HIGH WAS 40. TOMORROW'S HIGH WILL BE AROUND 30.

STILL HAVE SNOW ON THE GROUND.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS BASKETBALL TEAM, FRIDAY NIGHT AT MARION, WON THEIR 4TH GAME IN A ROW, BEATING THE INDIANS 58 TO 48. ADAM HEPKER WAS HIGH WITH 18 POINTS. NOW, AT THE HOLIDAY BREAK, THE BOYS ARE 3 AND 0 IN THE CONFERENCE AND 4 AND 2 OVERALL.

HERE FRIDAY NIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS ALSO BEAT MARION, 77 TO 54. TIFFANY HELMBRECHT LEAD MQUOKETA WITH 25 POINTS. THE GIRLS ARE 5 AND 2 OVERALL AND 4 AND 0 IN THE CONFERENCE.

THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS WERE IN THE SABER'S TOURNAMENT AT DEWITT SATURDAY. DEWITT WON THEIR TOURNAMENT WITH 200 POINTS. MAQUOKETA AND NORTH SCOTT TIED FOR 2ND WITH 179. CHAMPIONS FOR MAQUOKETA: BOBBY KIRK AT 140....DANE PAPE AT 215 AND CHARLIE HAYS AT HEAVYWEIGHT.

KATHY A. MILLER OF MAQUOKETA IS THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY CITIZEN OF THE WEEK. SEE A PICTURE OF HER AND STORY ABOUT HER ON THE ROTARY WEB SITE...www.maquoketa-rotary.org

POLICE BLOTTER: STEVE FOWLER OF 305 S. MAIN REPORTED SOMEONE BROKE INTO HIS TRUCK SATURDAY NIGHT AND TOO A 22 REMINGTON GUN IN A SOFT CASE...A VALUE OF $120. AND..RICK GARIEN OF L50TH AVE, RURAL MAQUOKETA, REPORTED TWO SADDLES AND TWO BREAST COLLARS WERE TAKEN FROM HIS BARN SOMETIME IN THE LAST 2 WEEKS...A VALUE OF $1,700.

RANDY AND JEAN MANNING OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN YESTERDAY AT GENESIS BIRTH CENTER.
PATERNALGRANDPARENTS ARE JERRY AND CLEO MANNING OF MAQUOKETA.

DANNY KLOSSNER, AGE 65, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED SATURDAY AT CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME IN MAQUOKETA. HE HAD WORKED FOR THE CITY OF MAQUOKETA AS A WATER OPERATOR FOR 14 YEARS AND THEN WORKED FOR PEOPLE'S SERVICE FOR3 YEARS. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, JEAN, OF MAQUOKETA AND 6 CHILDREN, INCLUDING MERLE OF MAQUOKETA, AND PENNY SABIN OF MAQUOKETA.

HAVE A MERRY WEEK.

DENNIS VOY

CLOUDY TODAY, HIGH IN MID 20'S. WE GOT 1 AND 1/2 INCH OF SNOW LAST NIGHT.
SO FAR, THE DECEMBER SNOWFALL IS AT 5 INCHES.

DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT THE 23 NEW PICTURES TAKEN AROUND MAQUOKETA EARLIER THIS WEEK. GO TO KMAQ HOME PAGE AND CLICK ON DENNIS' DAILY PHOTOS.

THE AVERAGE VALUE OF AN ACRE OF FARMLAND IN IOWA REACHED $2,275 AN ACRE IN 2003, THE HIGHEST FIGURE REPORTED SINCE IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY BEGAN CONDUCTING AN ANNUAL SURVEY OF LAND VALUES IN 1941. THE 2003 AVERAGE VALUE TOPPED A PREVIOUS RECORD OF $2,147 REPORTED IN 1981. SCOTT COUNTY AGAIN HAS THE HIGHEST VALUE LAND, AT AN AVERAGE OF $3,697 AN ACRE,
JACKSON COUNTY WENT UP $90 AN ACRE, FROM $2,033 LAST YEAR TO $2,122 THIS YEAR, A 4.4% INCREASE.

JACKSON COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF RANDY MANNING HIT A DEER WHILE ON PATROL LAST NIGHT. ABOUT $500 DAMAGE TO HIS SQUAD CAR, A 1999 JEEP. ALSO REPORTING A DEER ACCIDENT, "Kicker" KILBURG OF SPRINGBROOK AND MATT SCHMIDT OF MAQUOKETA.

MAQUOKETA POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR A MAN WITH FACIAL HAIR WEARING A DIRTY WHITE COAT WHO TOOK SOME ITEMS YESTERDAY FROM THEISEN'S FARM STORE.
THE ITEMS WERE WORTH $158.

A NEW EVENT IS COMING TO MAQUOKETA SATURDAY, JANUARY 24TH...AT THE COMFORT INN NEW MOTEL. IT WILL BE A WOMEN'S LIFESTYLE FAIR, ORGANIZED BY LIN SCHULTZ AND SARALYN OSTWINKLE BOTH OF MAQUOKETA.

DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE HOWARD DEAN WILL BE IN MAQUOEKTA AT NOON SATURDAY AT THE COMFORT INN.

MAQUOKETA HAS A WAMAC CONFERENCE WRESTLING MEET AT MARION TONIGHT.
DR. PAUL KOOB AND LEIGHTON HEPKER WILL BROADCAST THE MATCHES ON KMAQ-FM.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS.

TAKE CARE.

DENNIS VOY

SUNNY TODAY. HIGH OF 28

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS VARSITY BASKETBALL TEAM DEFEATED WEST DELAWARE OF MANCHESTER LAST NIGHT AT MCHS GYM.....74 TO 59. THE SOPHOMORES LOST BY 2 POINTS. MAQUOKETA GIRLS WON OVER WESTERN DUBUQUE, 53 TO 39 AT EPWORTH LAST NIGHT AND ARE NOW 3 AND 0 IN THE WAMAC.

GO TO KMAQ HOME PAGE, AND CLICK TO DENNIS' DAILY PHOTOS IF YOU WANT TO SEE 23 PICTURES I TOOK
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AROUND MAQUOKETA. ONLY THING...THERE ARE STILL NO CAPTIONS....THEY WILL BE PUT ON LATER TONIGHT....SO YOU MIGHT WANT TO WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW...OR LATER TONIGHT.

SUNSHINE PRE-SCHOOL AND DAY CARE HAS A NEW DIRECTOR. JENNIFER CONNOLLY, A LONGTIME SUNSHINE EMPLOYEE, HAS BEEN NAMED INTERIM DIRECTOR. THERESA HAUMANN RESIGNED LAST WEEK AFTER SERVING IN THAT POSITION FOR ONE YEAR.

"A SEASON OF LIGHTS" HELD LAST WEEK AT THE CLOVER RIDGE ASSISTED LIVING PLACE ACROSS FROM WALMART, IN MAQUOKETA, RAISED $1,600 FROM THE SALE OF TREES, WREATHS AND LUMINARIES. ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE 2ND ANNUAL EVENT WILL GO TO THE MAQUOKETA AREA FOUNDATION. THE OPEN HOUSE WAS HELD LAST THURSDAY THRU SUNDAY. A NICE HOLIDAY EVENT IN MAQUOEKTA. KATHY MILLER, MARKETING PERSON FOR CLOVER RIDGE, DID ANOTHER BANG-UP JOB ORGANIZING THE EVENT.

BERTHA HOUSE, AGE 93, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY AT CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME. SURVIVORS INCLUDE
2 DAUGHTERS, JOYCE GOARCKE OF MAQUOKETA AND MARILYN WILSLEF OF PRESTON. ALSO TWO SONS, ZELLUS OF MAQUOEKETA AND KEITH OF MOLINE, AND A SISTER, LULA, IN HOUSTON TEXAS. AND, 15 GRAND AND 37 GREAT, AND 15 GREAT-GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. SHE WAS A HOMEMAKER AND DID HOUSEKEEPER WORK AND FOR MANY YEARS, WAS OUR CLEANING PERSON HERE AT KMAQ. SHE LIKED TO BAKE AND ESPECIALLY AT CHRISTMAS, WE ENJOYED HER
BAKED GOODS.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY

NO REPORT TODAY

SOME THAWING TODAY...HIGH OF 38.

MAQUOKETA TOOK 4 OUT OF 4 IN BASKETBALL OVER THE WEEKEND AGAINST DEWITT. FRIDAY NIGHT, BOTH THE MAQUOEKTA GIRLS VARSITY AND SOPHOMORE GAMES WERE WON BY THE CARDINALS HERE IN MAQUOKETA AND SATURDAY NIGHT, MAQUOKETA TOOK BOTH GAMES THERE. ADAM HEPKER WAS HIGH SCORER AT 30 POUNTS.

IN THE DWIGHT ZIMMERMAN INVITATIONAL WESTLING TOURNAMENT HERE IN MAQUOKETA, SATURDAY, CEDAR RAPIDS TOOK FIRST, AND MAQUOKETA SECOND. MAQUOKETA HAD 2 CHAMPIONS....DANE PAPE AND CHRIS HAHN.

HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL LORENE DYKSRA IS THE ROTARY CITIZEN OF THE WEEK. SEE A STORY AND PICTURE OF HER ON THE ROTARY WEB SITE....www.maquoketa-rotary.org.

A MAQUOKETA MAN WAS IN AN ACCIDENT SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND HAD TO BE RESCUED FROM HIS TRUCK AFTER IT WENT INTO THE DITCH NEAR NASHVILLE, EAST OF MAQUOKETA. RICKY CLARK, 52, WAS HANGING FROM HIS SEAT BELT WHEN THE MAQUOKETA RESCUE SQUAD ASRRIVED. HE WAS FREED AND REFUSED MEDICAL TREATMENT.

MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT.

COURT NEWS: JANET HOWELL, AGE 51, OF MAQUOEKTA WAS CHARGED WITH OPERATING A VEHICLE WHILE INTOXICATED. SHE WAS ARRESTED FRIDAY NIGHT.

BUTCH EHLERS, AGE 62, OF OXFORD JUNCTION, DIED THIS MORNING AT HIS HOME. HE WORKED THE LAST 8 YEARS FOR PACIFIC COAST FEATHER COMPANY IN MAQUOKETA, RETIRING THIS YEAR.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY

19 today...SUNNY AND NICE.

THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS LAST NIGHT AT MANCHESTER EASILY DEFEATED DYERSVILLE BECKMAN AND THEN LOST TO WEST DELAWARE. THEY HOST THE DWIGHT ZIMMERMAN INVITATIONAL MEET TOMORROW.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS BASKETBALL TEAM WON OVER CAMANCHE LAST NIGHT 64 TO 23.

TONIGHT, MAQUOKETA WILL HOST THE DEWITT CENTRAL GIRLS AND TOMORROW NIGHT, THE BOYS PLAY AT DEWITT.

LOTS OF FLU ILLNESS IN THE AREA.....MIDLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT IN WYOMING, IOWA HAD TO DISMISS CLASSES EARLY TODAY BECAUSE OF SO MANY STUDENTS AND TEACHERS OUT WITH THE FLU AND THEY ALSO POSTPONED TONIGHTS BASKETBALL GAMES AT WHEATLAND.

FLU VACCINE SHORTAGE IN IOWA. TODAY, THE MAQUOKETA HOSPITAL GAVE FLU SHOTS, STARTING AT 5 P.M. THERE WERE NEARLY 150 IN LINE AT 5 P.M. FOR THE SHOTS. THEY HAD ENOUGH FOR OVER 250 AND WILL CONTINUE GIVING SHOTS UNTIL 6:30. AND THESE WILL BE THE LAST AVAILABLE THROUGH THE MAQUOKETA HOSPITAL.

DR. JOHN BROMAN OF MAQUOKETA , RETIRED, IS NOW LIVING AT THE MILL VALLEY CARE CENTER IN BELLEVUE AND IS DOING WELL AND HOPES TO COME BACK TO MAQUOKETA PERMANENTLY BY CHRISTMAS. HE HAD A HEART BYPASS OPERATION A COUPLE MONTHS AGO AND A SLIGHT STROKE.

TWO CLINTON COUNTY SHERIFF'S SQUAD CARS WERE IN A NEAR HEAD-ON ACCIDENT ABOUT 6 LAST NIGHT, WHILE
GOING TO INVESTIGATE AN ACCIDENT NEAR WELTON ON HIGHWAY 61. ONE OF THE OFFICERS WAS CAPT. ROGER HEILIG, FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA. BOTH TAKEN TO DEWITT HOSPITAL AND TREATED AND RELEASED.

A SWISS FAMILY FARM EMPLOYEE, DARCY HANKEMEIER, RECEIVED BURNS AFTER HE WAS SPLASHED BY ANHYDROUS AMMONIA THIS MORNING AT ANDREW. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE MAQUOKETA HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT AND WE HAVE NOT HAD A CONDITION REPORT.

MAQUOKETA FIREMEN WERE AT A HOUSE FIRE FOR ABOUT 90 MINUTES STARTING ABOUT 1 A.M. THIS MORNING...AT 1002 KATHEY DRIVE. A HOUSE OWNED BY MIKE SAGERS AND RENTED BY TARA ANDERSON CAUGHT ON FIRE DUE TO AN ELECTRICAL OVERLOAD. ANDERSON LEFT THE BURNING HOME BEFORE FIREMEN ARRIVED. THERE WAS A FIRE IN THE CEILING AND IT WAS QUICKLY PUT OUT. THERE WAS A SMOKE DETECTOR IN THE HOME, BUT IT HAD DEAD BATTERIES.
ABOUT $20,000 WORTH OF DAMAGE DONE TO THE HOME.

SPEAKING OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. AT THE COUNCIL GOAL-SETTING SESSION YESTERDAY, FIRE CHEIF MARK BECK SAID THAT MORE ROOM IS NEED AT THE FIRE STATION AND THAT THIS MATTER WILL BE STUDIED BY THE COUNCIL EARLY NEXT YEAR.

CHRISTINE DAEHLER, AGE 85, OF MAQUOKETA DIED THIS AFTERNOON. SHE WORKED FOR CLINTON ENGINES FOR MANY YEARS. SHE IS SURVIVED BY THREE CHILDREN, LONNA SCHURBON OF MAQUOKETA, BETTY MILLER OF MAQUOKETA, AND LARRY DAEHLER OF MAQUOKETA, 9 GRANDCHILDREN, 12 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN AND A SISTER, ALSO A SISTER-IN-LAW, LAVONNE YAPPEN OF MAQUOKETA.

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY

AN INCH OF SNOW IS ALL WE GOT. COLD TODAY, HIGH OF 17. LOW TONIGHT, AROUND 0.

BEFORE I FORGET...BOB HEAD, RETIRED MAQUOKETA AUTO DEALER, IS 65 TOMORROW. GIVE HIM A CALL. HIS NUMBER IS 1-563-652-3935.

FORMER MAQUOKETA RESIDENT, JUDGE DAVID SCHOENTHALER, NOW OF DAVENPORT, WAS APPOINTED THIS WEEK BY THE SUPREME COURT TO A TWO-YEAR TERM AS CHEIF JUDGE OF THE 7TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, STARTING JAN 1ST. HE WAS A MAQUOKETA ATTORNEY FOR MANY YEARS UNTIL BEING APPOINTED A JUDGE OF THE DISTRICT IN 1992.
ITS A BIG JOB. TWO OTHER JUDGES APPLIED FOR IT.

RANDAL SCOTT, AGE 44, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS TAKEN TO THE DEWITT HOSPITAL FOR MINOR INJURIES FOLLOWING AN ACCIDENT MONDAY AFTERNOON NEAR WELTON. HIS SEMI GOT OFF ONTO THE SHOULDER, HE OVER-CORRECTED AND THE TRUCK ROLLED ON ITS SIDE. $25,000 DAMAGE TO THE SEMI WOWNED BY PRESTON MEAT LOCKER.

A MAQUOKETA MAN, DAVID DANIEL, AGE 38, WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY MORNING AFTER A TASK FORCE RAIDED AN UPSTAIRS APARTMENT AT 322 AND 1/2 SOUTH 2ND STREET AFTER REPORTS OF STRANGE ODORS AND REPORTS OF FREQUENT VISITORS WHO STAYED JUST A SHORT TIME.
HE WAS CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, METHAMPHETAMINE AND IS BEING HELD IN THE JACKSON COUNTY DETENTION CENTER ON A $13,000 CASH BOND. THREE OTHER PEOPLE REPORTEDLY HAVE BEEN STAHING AT THE APARTMENT, BUT NO CHARGES AGINST THEM AS OF THIS MORNING. ALSO FOUND IN THE APARTMENT, 15 FIREARMS AND DRUG PARAPHENALIA.

WILMA CURTIN, AGE 80, DIED TODAY AT HER HOME IN MAQUOKET. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, JAMES, PLUS 2 DAUGHTERS AND 1 SON AND GRANDCHILDREN.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS BASKETBALL TEAMS PLAY AT CAMANCHE TONIGHT.

THE WRESTLERS ARE AT MANCHESTER TONIGHT.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS HOST DEWITT FRIDAY NIGHT.

TAKE CARE.

DENNIS VOY

NO SNOW OVER NIGHT. STARTED SNOWING ABOUT
8 THIS MORNING AND ENDED ABOUT MID-AFTERNOON.
I WOULD GUESS ABOUT 2 INCHES OF SNOW TOTAL.
IT WILL BE COLD TONIGHT..DOWN TO ABOUT 15.

SOME SCHOOLS LET OUT EARLY TODAY AND QUITE A FEW CANCELLATIONS OF EVENTS TONIGHT HAVE BEEN MADE.

THE US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY'S FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY HAS ISSUED A 2004 GRANT TO JACKSON COUNTY FOR $13,804. THE FUNDS MAY BE USED TO SUPPLEMENT FOOD, SHELTER, RENT, MORTGAGE AND UTILITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS FOR PEOPLE WITH NON-DISASTER RELATED EMERGENCIES.

THE JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY HELD ITS ANNUAL SOUP SUPPER AND BASKET AUCTION LAST NIGHT.
NANCY AND I WENT AND WE ENJOYED A BREAD BOWL OF POTATO SOUP AND FOR DESSERT, SOME BREAD PUDDING WITH RUM SAUCE. BREAD PUDDING WITH RUM SAUCE...HARD TO BEAT. STEVE MOREHEAD WAS AGAIN THE AUCTIONEER.


JR'S WINE AND SPIRITS IN MAQUOKETA REPORTED TO POLICE THAT A MALE TOOK A BOTTLE OF LIQUOR VALUED AT $42.69 FROM THE STORE TUESDAY AFTERNOON. HE LEFT WITHOUT PAYING.

NO ONE INJURED IN A TWO-VEHICLE ACCIDENT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON ON WEST SUMMIT. AMY STREFF, AGE 45, WAS CHARGED WITH STOP SIGN VIOLATION. STREFF WAS DRIVING NORTH AT SUMMIT AND AT INTERSECTION WITH VERMONT AREA, RHONDA RYAN, AGE 41, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS TURNING LEFT ONTO VERMONT. STREFF DID NOT STOP AND COLLIDED WITH THE RYAN VEHICLE. DAMAGE OF ABOUT $500 TO STREFF'S 2002 PONTIAC AND AROUND $500 ALSO TO RYAN'S 86 FORD.

NO DEATHS.

HOLD STILL. AH...PERFECT. I JUST HIT YOU WITH A SNOWBALL.

YOU GUYS DOWN SOUTH....DON'T EAT IT. IT HAS OUR
HUMID AIR IN IT.

C-U TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY

IT HAS BEEN RAINING ON AND OFF MOST OF THE DAY AND NOW, AT 5:40 P.M. IT IS RAINING QUITE HARD. THE RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CHANGE TO SNOW TOWARD MORNING AND ABOUT AN INCH IS EXPECTED BY TOMORROW MORNING AND THEN A COUPLE OR 3 MORE INCHES IN THE MORNING.
IT WAS 43 TODAY, NOW IT IS 40 AND RAINING.

BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER, THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS GAMES AT MANCHESTER AND BOYS GAMES HERE, AGAINST WEST DELAWARE OF MANCHESTER, HAVE BEEN CALLED OFF AND WILL BE RE-SCHEDULED LATER.

AT THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING LAST NIGHT, FIVE VETERAN TEACHERS SUBMITTED THEIR RESIGNATIONS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MAQUOKETA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS EARLY RETIREMENT PROGRAM. THEY ARE: COUNSELOR OWEN THORSON, TEACHER ALICE BURMAHL, TEACHER MARY MANSON, TEACHER KAREN TILTON AND TEACHER JUDY BICKFORD. THE EARLY RETIREMENT PROGRAM ALLOWS TEACHERS AND STAFF TO RETIRE AND RECEIVE A PORTION OF THEIR SALARIES FOR TWO YEARS. ALL 5 HAVE BEEN TEACHERS FOR OVER 30 YEFARS. JUDY BICKFORD HAS BEEN WITH THE DISTRICT 37 YEARS.

WAL-MART IS GIVING $1,000 FOR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING BY NEEDY KIDS THRU A PROGRAM THEY CALL..."SHOP WITH A COP". THE 20 KIDS WILL GO SHOPPING WITH MAQUOKETA POLICE OFFICERS AND BE ABLE TO SPEND $50 EACH.
SPOUSES WILL GIFT-WRAP THE PURCHASES.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS.

I'LL T ELL YOU ALL ABOUT THE SNOW TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY

PARTY SUNNY AND HIGH OF 47 TODAY.

SNOW..2 TO 4 INCHES, IS IN THE TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING FORECAST.

THE MAQUOKETA FIREMEN WERE CALLED TO THREE PLACES YESTERDAY. FIRST..TO PUT OUT A FIRE IN A SEMI-TRUCK ON HIGHWAY 61....THEN AT 6 P.M. TO PUT OUT AN AIRPLANE ENGINE FIRE AT THE AIRPORT....AND SHORTLY AFTER ..A CALL THAT SOMEONE STRUCK A GAS PIPE OUTSIDE OWL FURNITURE AND FIREMEN WAITED UNTIL THE GAS WAS TURNED OFF. A 1976 TWIN ENGINE PLANE WAS BEING FILLED WITH FUEL WHEN THE PLANE ENGINE CAUGHT FIRE. ASSISTANT FIRE CHIEF AL MUHLHAUSEN WAS DRIVING PAST THE AIRPORT TOWARD MAQUOKETA WHEN THE CALL CAME....SO HE DROVE IN AND PUT THE FIRE OUT WITH AN EXTINGUISHER BEFORE FIRE TRUCKS ARRIVED. FIREMEN DID COOL OFF THE HOT SPOTS ON THE ENGINE WHEN THEY ARRIVED.

SCHOOL BOARD MEETING TONIGHT.

THREE BIRTHS:
A BOY TO BRIAN AND KATHRYN PISCH OF CEDAR RAPIDS, BORN SATURDAY. MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE DAVE AND MARY RIDER OF BALDWIN AND GREAT-GRANDPARENTS, MIKE AND EDNA RIDER OF MAQUOKETA.
A BOY, TO PETERAND KAYLA CARLSON OF MAQUOKETA, BORN LAST THURSDAY AT DUBUQUE HOSPITAL. MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE TONY AND KOREEN SCHORK OF MAQUOKETA AND PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE LOWELL AND BRENDA CARLSON OF RURAL MAQUOKETA.
A BOY BORN LAST SATURDAY TO BRIAN AND JENNIFER NABB OF PRESTON....BORN AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS. PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE CHARLIE AND CATHY EASTERLY OF MAQUOKETA AND GREAT GRANDPARENTS ARE DON AND RUTH CASTEEL OF MAQUOKETA...MARY HELEN EASTERLY OF MAQUOKETA AND DOROTHY NABB OF MONMOUTH.

BILLY SCOTT, 72 OF WYOMING DIED LAST FRIDAY.
HE WORKED FOR CLINTON ENGINES FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, SUE, AND SEVERAL CHILDREN AND STEP-CHILDREN.

IN COLLEGE WRESTLING, IOWA AND IOWA STATE MET AT AMES YESTERDAY. IOWA STATE WAS LEADING THE MEET 15 TO 13 GOING IN TO THE FINAL MATCH. THE FINAL MATCH WOULD DETERMINE THE WINNER. AND..IT WAS UP TO HAWKEYE COLE PAPE OF MAQUOKETA, AT 168 POUNDS. PAPE LOST, WAS PINNED, AND GAVE IOWA STATE A 21 TO 13 VICTORY, THEIR FIRST VICTORY OVER IOWA IN 16 YEARS.

FRIDAY NIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS OPENED WAMAC CONFERENCE PLAY WITH A ROAD WIN OVER GILBERTSVILLE DON BOSCO, 84 TO 29. BROOKE DAVIS SCORED 19 POINTS FOR THE CARDINALS. THEY PLAY AT MANCHESTER TOMORROW NIGHT.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS HOST WEST DELAWARE OF MANCHESTER TOMORROW NIGHT AT THE MAQUOKETA GYM.

LAST SATURDAY, THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS WON A TOURNAMENT AT INDEPENDENCE. THE CARDINALS CROWNED 5 CHAMPIONS: CASEY STUART, JUST A FRESHMAN, AT 105 POUNDS...JON POLL AT 125....BOBBY KIRK AT 140....CHRIS HAHN AT 145....AND DANE PAPE AT 215. MAQUOKETA HAD 225 POINTS TO WIN THE EVENT AND INDEPENDENCE WAS SECOND WITH 175.

ABOUT 100 PEOPLE ATTENDED THE DANCE LAST NIGHT AT THE FAIRGROUNDS.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY

MOSTLY CLOUDY AND COOL TODAY.
MAQUOKETA RECORDED ITS FIRST SNOW FALL THIS PAST WEEK...ABOUT 2 INCHES.

I MISSED IT BECAUSE I WAS WITH KMAQ BUS AT BRANSON. NANCY AND I HOSTED THE 4-DAY TRIP THAT ENDED AT ABOUT 6 FRIDAY NIGHT. IT WAS A NICE TRIP AND WE HAD NO PROBLEMS.
SAW SOME GOOD SHOWS AND HAD A LOT OF GOOD FOOD. BRANSON WAS BUSY, BUT DOWN FROM THE PREVIOUS 2 WEEKS.
DON AND CARMILLA WITT OF DEWITT CELEBRATED THEIR 61ST WEDDING ANNIVERSARY ON THE TRIP. WARREN AND ROSEANN ROBERTS WENT WITH US.
BOTH NOW RETIRED, HE FROM TEACHING AND SHE FROM BEAUTY SHOPPE. DALE AND ETTA KOON WERE ALONG AGAIN AND HAD A GOOD TIME. ARLA EDWARDS AND HER FRIEND FROM BELLEVUE WERE ON THE 3RD TRIP THIS YEAR WITH US.
ARLENE MCCUTCHEON ENJOYED HER FIRST TRIP TO BRANSON AND THERE WERE A FEW OTHERS FROM MAQUOKETA.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS ARE 0 AND 2 IN BASKETBALL, LOOSING TO CEDAR RAPIDS JEFFERSON TUESDAY NIGHT AND TO DUBUQUE SENIOR AT HOME FRIDAY NIGHT. THE GIRLS DID NOT PLAY THIS WEEK AND THE WRESTLERS LOST
TWICE THURSDAY NIGHT....TO CLINTON AND NORTH SCOTT AND BOTH TEAM SCORES WERE VERY CLOSE.

NOT A LOT OF NEWS WHILE WE WERE GONE. MIRIAM "MIM"(MELVOLD) BROWN, WHO HAS BEEN THE HEAD OF THE MAQUOKETA HOUSING AUTHORITY FOR OVER 20 YEARS WAS FIRED BY HER BOARD BECAUSE SHE TOLD THE BOARD SHE HAD TAKEN ABOUT $50,000 OF THE AUTHORITY'S FUNDS THE PAST FISCAL YEAR DATING BACK TO 2002.

NO LOCAL DEATHS DURING THE WEEK.

THE MAQUOKETA OPTIMIST CLUB IS SELLING CHRISTMAS TREES AGAIN IN THE MCDONALD'S PARKING LOT. YOUR CHOICE, $25 A TREE.

THE NEW CONVENIENCE STORE IS GOING UP FAST BEHIND THE NEW FAMILY DOLLAR STORE...IT WILL ALSO HAVE A SINGLE BAY DRIVE-THRU CAR WASH.

LAST NIGHT WAS JUDY BOWLING'S LAST NIGHT AT THE LOFT WITH FREE CAKE FOR EVERYONE.

KEN MOORE IS BUILDING A LARGE BUILDING ON EAST PLATT, NEXT TO THE DEPOT. THE FRONT WILL HAVE A SMALL ANTIQUE STORE. BEHIND IT WILL BE A COUPLE OFFICES AND TO THE REAR, STORAGE BUILDINGS. HE ALSO NOW OWNS THE 4-UNIT APARTMENT HOUSE JUST TO THE EAST. I HEARD THAT HE HAS NEARLY 250 RENTAL APARTMENTS IN THE AREA.

A NEW STREET IS GRADED AT THE NORTH EDGE OF MAQUOKETA, ALONG THE RIVER AND QUITE A FEW HOMES ARE TO BE PUT UP ON THE STREET NEXT YEAR. ALSO, THE CITY ACCEPTED A $100,000 REAP GRANT TO BUILD A WALKING TRAIL ALONG THE RIVER. THE CITY HAS TO MATCH THE GRANT AND THE TRAIL WILL BE COMPLETED NO LATER THAN 2005.
IT WILL CONNECT UP WITH THE NEW TRAIL THAT NEARLY SURRONDS THE CITY. SOMETDAY THE FINISHED WALKING TRAIL WILL COMPLETELY SURROND THE CITY. IT IS ABOUT 5 FEET WIDE IN MOST PLACES AND THERE ARE RESTING BENCHES ALONG THE WAY.
SO FAR THOUGH, I HAVE SEEN A LOT OF USE OF THE TRAIL. I THINK IT WILL BE NICE WHEN ONE CAN FINIALLY VIEW THE MAQUOKETA RIVER OTHER THAN FROM THE BRIDGES OVER IT OR BY BOAT.
SO, I THINK THE TRAIL ALONG THE RIVER WILL GET A LOT OF USE WHEN FINISHED.

THE HOSPITAL IS GOING TO HAVE A FANCY NEW FRONT ENTRANCE. THEY ARE WORKING ON IT NOW. THE ROOF OF IT WILL BE ALL GLASS.

RUMOR HAS IT...A NEW POPULAR PIZZA PLACE IS COMING TO TOWN.

THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY CITIZEN OF THE WEEK THIS PAST WEEK WAS DOLORES KLEIN AND THIS COMING WEEK, DOROTHY JONES WILL BE HONORED FOR HER COMMUNITY WORK TOO...AS CITIZEN OF THE WEEK. CHECK THAT WEB SITE EVERY WEEK.

BIG DANCE AT THE FAIRGROUNDS TONIGHT WITH MUSIC BY THE DALE THOMAS BAND....SPONSORED BY THE FAIRBOARD.

THE OWNER OF LINK HYDRAULICS IN DUBUQUE WAS KILLED IN A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT IN FLORIDA THIS WEEK.
ALSO KILLED, HIS GIRLFRIEND. BOTH LIVED IN BERNARD.

IOWA BASKETBALL TEAM IS 6 AND 0.

DUBUQUE WILL GET A NEW MIDWEST LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM TO MOVE TO TOWN FROM MICHIGAN IF VOTERS THIS WEEK APPROVE A BOND ISSUE FOR A NEW STADIUM....A 16-MILLION DOLLAR STADIUM....TO BE FUNDED SEVERAL DIFFERENTS WAYS. LOTS SUPPORTING THE VOTE AND MANY ALSO AGAINST.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY

SUNDAY WAS A BEAUTIFUL DAY, HIGH OF 56.

TODAY, SUNNY, BREEZY AND HIGH IN 40'S.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS WON THEIR GAME OVER
MT. PLEASANT SATURDAY NIGHT AND ARE NOW 1 AND 2.

THE MAQUOKETA POLICE INVESTIGATED 4 ACCIDENTS OVER THE WEEKEND, AND ONLY MINOR INJURIES REPORTED.

THE MAQUOEKTA ROTARY CITIZEN OF THE WEEK THIS WEEK IS A LONGTIME, WELL-KNOWN MAQUOKETA WOMAN. A
PICTURE AND STORY ON HER AT www.maquoketa-rotary.org

THE ONWARD FINE ARTS CENTER ON EAST PLATT IN MAQUOKETA HAS RECEIVED ANOTHER GRANT, $5,000, FROM THE PEARSON MEMORIAL GROUP. GARY DREW, THE MAIN ORGANIZER OF THE FACILITY, SAID THE MONEY WILL BE USED INSIDE THE BUILDING. THE EXTERIOR OF THE 800 SEAT AUDITORIUM IS COMPLETE, EXCEPT FOR PARKING AND SIDEWALKS. DREW SAID VOLUNTEERS WILL WORK INSIDE ALL WINTER AND HOPEFULLY IT WILL BE OPEN A YEAR FROM NOW OR SOONER.

I WILL BE ESCORTING THE KMAQ TRAVEL BUS TO BRANSON, ALONG WITH MY WIFE NANCY, TOMORROW THRU FRIDAY, SO MY NEXT REPORT, WILL BE THIS SATURDAY OR SUNDAY.
I'LL TRY TO RE-CAP THE WEEK OF LOCAL NEWS THEN.

NO BIRTHS. NO DEATHS.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY

NICER DAY TODAY....SUNNY, A LITTLE BREEZY AND A HIGH OF 41.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS LOST THEIR 2ND GAME OF THE SEASON LAST NIGHT, AT GOOSE LAKE, LOOSING TO NORTHEAST BY A SCORE OF 60 TO 50. BROOKE DAVIS WAS TOP SCORER FOR MAQUOKETA WITH 14 AND RIGHT BEHIND HER WITH 13,
TIFFANY HELMBRECHT. THE GIRL'S RECORD NOW IS O AND 2 AND THEY PLAY THEIR 3RD NON-CONFERENDE GAME TONIGHT,
HOSTING MOUNT PLEASANT.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON WILL BE NEXT TUESDAY AT CEDAR RAPIDS JEFFERSON.

THE WRESTLERS OPEN THE SEASON AT CLINTON NEXT THURSDAY NIGHT, AGAINST CLINTON AND NORTH SCOTT.

POLICE BLOTTER: MERLE KLOSSNER OF MAQUOKETA, REPORTED TWO PASSENGER TIRES ON HIS VEHICLE WERE SLASHED LAST NIGHT AT HIS RESIDENCE, 1117 EAST PLATT STREET.

DR. MICHAEL AND NINA LAUGHLIN OF ELDRIDGE ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN WEDNESDAY AT GENESIS HOSPITAL IN DAVENPORT. PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE GERALD AND CAROLYN LAUGHLIN OF MAQUOKETA. PATERNAL GREAT-GRANDPARENTS ARE JIM AND NANCY BELLMORE AND ROSETTE LAUGHLIN, ALL OF MAQUOKETA.

JAY AND CHRISTY WERTZBERGER OF DUBUQUE ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN YESTERDAY AT MERCY IN DUBUQUE. GREAT-GRANDMOTHER IS LOIS DONATCH OF MAQUOKETA.

GLATHA ENGEL, AGE 94, OF MAQUOKETA DIED THIS MORNING AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. SERVICES TUESDAY AT CARSON AND SON FUNERAL HOME. AFTER HER MARRIAGE, SHE FARMED WITH HER HUSBAND IN RURAL MAQUOKETA FOR MANY YEARS.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY ONE SON, BOB ENGEL OF MAQUOEKTA AND HIS WIFE BEVERLY, ALSO 3 GRANDCHILDREN AND 8 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

HAVE A NICE SUNDAY.

DENNIS VOY

CLOUDY, STRONG WINDS, AND HIGH OF 30 TODAY.
WARMER TOMORROW.

OVER 100 ENJOYED THANKSGIVING DINNER YESTERDAY AT THE SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER IN MAQUOKETA....MAQUOKETA'S ANNUAL COMMUNITY DINNER.

"THE LOFT" RESTAURANT AND BAR IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA HAS BEEN SOLD BY OWNER JUDY BOWLING, WHO HAS RUN IT FOR 25 YEARS. SHE WILL RETIRE. NEW OWNERS ARE SHERRY AND RANDY HICKS OF DELMAR. MRS. HICKS WILL BE INVOLVED THE MOST AS MR. HICKS HAS A FULLTIME JOB IN THE QUAD CITIES. THE POPULAR PLACE IS UPSTAIRS....AND HAD AS ITS SLOGAN..."A SHORT CLIMB TO A GREAT TIME".

LAURIE STERBENZ AT 302 N. 5TH STREET REPORTED TO POLICE THAT SOMEONE TOOK A 7-FOOT LIGHTED CHRISTMAS TREE FROM HER YARD.

NO BIRTHS AND NO DEATHS.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY

PARTY SUNNY AND HIGH OF 46 TODAY, 5 HIGHER THAN YESTERDAY. TOMORROW, PARTY SUNNY AND COLDER.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS LOST THEIR OPENING BASKETBALL GAME OF THE SEASON, AT CEDAR RAPIDS LAST NIGHT.
THEY HAVE 2 MORE GAMES THIS WEEK. THE BOYS HAVE THEIR FIRST GAME NEXT WEEK.

WENT TO THE SNEAK PREVIEW OF THE NEW GASSER'S TRUE VALUE HARDWARE LAST NIGHT. BIG TURNOUT. BIG STORE.
20,000 SQUARE FEET AND IT IS ALSO BRIGHTLY LIGHTED AND A BEAUTIFUL STORE. IT OPENS FOR BUSINESS FRIDAY.
THE OWNER AND HIS WIFE ARE FROM WISCONSIN AND THEY HAVE TWO SONS IN THE BUSINESS WITH THEM AND ONE SON IS IN CHARGE OF THIS STORE AND THE LANCASTER STORE.
THEY HAVE I BELIEVE 6 STORES. STORE IS LOCATED SOUTH OF THE FLAPJACK RESTAURANT, ACROSS WEST PLATT STREET IN AN AREA THAT WAS AS CATTLE GRAZING FIELD A COUPLE YEARS OR SO AGO.

THE HOSPITAL BOARD MET YESTERDAY AND BOUGHT 3 EQUIPMENT ITEMS TOTALING JUST OVER $10,000.
IT WAS ANNOUNCED THAT THE NEW SKILLED NURSING UNIT WILL BE FINISHED DECEMBER 9TH AND PATIENTS WILL BE MOVED FROM THE OLD UNIT INTO THE NEW THAT DAY.

NO BIRTHS.

NO MAQUOKETA DEATHS.

HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING.

DENNIS VOY

NO REPORT TODAY

TESTING

SUNNY BUT COLD TODAY, HIGH OF 30.
OVER INCH OF RAIN SATURDAY NIGHT.

TRIED TO DO THIS REPORT EARLIER FROM STATION, BUT COULDN'T BRING THIS FORM UP, SO NOW DOING IT AT HOME.

WENT TO BOB EGGERS BENEFIT YESTERDAY AT THE FAIRGROUNDS. HE HAD A RARE BLOODCLOT ON HIS SPINAL CORD AND IS SLOWLY RECUPERATING. NEARLY 11-HUNDRED HAD DINNER YESTERDAY AND THEY ALSO HAD A SUCCESSFUL AUCTION.

DURWARD GOHLMANN, 91, DIED SATURDAY AT LOCAL HOSPITAL. FUNERAL IS TOMORROW AT CARSON'S. HE WAS A FARMER, THEN SOLD INSURANCE. WAS ACTIVE IN HIS CHURCH AND COMMUNITY.
HE AND I WERE LONGTIME LIONS CLUB MEMBERS AND HE WAS FAMOUS FOR HIS GOOD JOKES AND ALWAYS DID VERY WELL SELLING RAFFLE CHANCES. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, IRENE, SON MERLYN OF MAQUOKETA, SON GAYLN OF GRINNELL, DAUGHTER MYRNA LARKEY OF MAQUOKETA, DAUGHTER MARLENE HICKS OF WHEATLAND, AND DAUGHTER KATHY BECKER OF MAQUOKETA...ALSO 23 GRAND CHILDREN AND 42 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. GOOD GUY!

MERLE REYNOLDS WON OUR LICENSE NUMBER DRAWING TODAY, FOR $13.20, KMAQ'S AN FREQUENCY IN CASH. WHEN HE STOPPED IN FOR MONEY HE TOLD ME THAT HE AND EVELYN WILL CELEBRATE THEIR 57TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY THIS THURSDAY, THANKSGIVING DAY.

THAT'S IT FOR A MONDAY.

DENNIS VOY

CLOUDY AND COOL TODAY, HIGH 47. SNOW EXPECTED MONDAY.

MAQUOKETA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT CALLED TODAY TO JEZABELL'S BITS AND PIECES IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA (SANDWICH, SOUP, DESSERT AND ANTIQUE
PLACE) BECAUSE OF A REPORT OF SMOKE IN BUILDING. THE OWNER WAS DOING COOKING IN THE REAR, AND APPARENTLY LEFT A PAN UNATTENDED. NO FIRE, JUST SMOKE.

JACKSON COUNTY'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN OCTOBER REMAINED AT 5.7 PERCENT, SAME AS SEPTEMBER. A YEAR AGO,IT WAS AT 4.6. ALL OTHER COUNTIES AROUND WERE LOWER THAN JACKSON COUNTY.

MICK LAUGHLIN HIT NOT ONE, BUT TWO DEER LAST NIGHT NEAR THE MAQUOKETA RIVER BRIDGE ON HIGHWAY 61. DAMAGE TO HIS VEHICLE, $4,500. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AND TREATED FOR MINOR INJURIES.

DENISE AND JEFF SWANSON HAD A BOY THIS PAST MONDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE PETTE AND LINDA SWANSON OF RURAL MAQUOEKTA. MATERNAL GRANDMOHTER IS LILLIAN SCHMITZ OF MAQUOKETA.

A BOY WAS BORN YESTERDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL TO KIM DOTTERWICH OF MAQUOKETA AND BRYAN EDWARDS OF MAQUOKETA. MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE
JERRY AND COLLEEN DOTTERWICH OF RURAL MAQUOKETA.

SERVICES ARE PENDING AT THE CARSON AND SON FUNERAL HOME IN MAQUOKETA FOR RALPH HEINZEL, AGE 86, OF MAQUOKETA. HE DIED YESTERDAY AT CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME IN MAQUOKETA.

BIG GAME TOMORROW BETWEEN IOWA AND WISCOSIN...AT MADISON.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY

BEAUTIFUL DAY TODAY, HIGH OF 69, BUT WINTER WEATHER IS NEXT.

THE MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL DEFEATED THE DEFENDING CHAMPION CLINTON HIGH SCHOOL IN THE 19TH ANNUAL ACADEMIC QUIZ BOWL PRESENTED BY AND HELD AT CLINTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE. THERE WERE 11 SCHOOLS IN THE COMPETITION. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CARDINALS.

YESTERDAY, I REPORTED THAT KATHY CAVEN JACOBY, AGE 54, OF SWISHER, IOWA AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED WEDNESDAY AT CEDAR RAPIDS. MORE NOW. SHE DIED OF COMPLICATIONS FROM ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE.
SHE GRADUATED FROM MAQUOKETA HIGH IN 1967 AND FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HER HUSBAND CHARLES, HER PARENTS, SAM AND MARY CAVEN OF BALDWIN, AND 4 BROTHERS, INCLUDING JOHN, KENNY AND NEIL CAVEN OF MAQUOKETA.

BILL BURMAHL, AGE 93, OF MAQUOKETA AND FORMERLY OF SPRAGUEVILLE, DIED YESTERDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.
HE FARMED ALL HIS LIFE IN THE SPRAGUEVILLE AREA. HE WAS LIVING AT CLOVER RIDGE PLACE AND IS SURVIVED BY A DAUGHTER, WANDA CORNELIUS OF RURAL BELLEVUE, PLUS 3 GRANDCHILDREN AND 7 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

THAT'S IT.

DENNIS VOY

SUNNY TODAY, AND IN THE 50'S. TOMORROW, MID 60'S.

THE BEAR CREEK NARCOTICS TASK FORCE FOUND DRUGS AND MATERIALS USED TO MAKE DRUGS DURING A RAID AT 1301 EAST PLATT STREET IN MAQUOKETA SUNDAY NIGHT, IN APARTMENT #109. NO CHARGES HAVE BEEN FILED AS OF TODAY.

DEBORAH MCCONCHIE, AGE 35, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS FINED $282 ON AMENDED CHARGES OF DISORDERLY CONDUCT. SHE WAS ORIGINALLY CHARGED WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE. MAQUOKETA POLICE SAY DURING AN ARGUMENT WITH HER LIVE-IN BOYFRIEND, BRIAN HOSCH, ON OCTBER 6TH, SHE THREW A CAST IRON SKILLET AT HIM. HE RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES.

ANGELA KOPPANG OF MAQUOKETA IS THE MOTHER OF A BOY, BORN WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH AT THE JACKSON
COUNTY PUBLIC HOSPITAL. MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE JOE AND BOBBIE REISTROFFER OF BELLEVUE.

KATHY CAVEN JACOBY, AGE 54, OF SWISHER, IOWA AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED THIS MORNING AT ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL IN CEDAR RAPIDS. SERVICES ARE PENDING AT CARSON'S IN MAQUOKETA.

THE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS ARE UP IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA...AND IN THE KMAQ RECEPTION AREA.

HERE IN THE TIMBER CITY, IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS.

DENNIS VOY

ABOUT 1/10 INCH OF RAIN LAST NIGHT...CLOUDY AND WARM AND BREEZY TODAY, HIGH IN 50'S.

THE CITY OF MAQUOKETA WILL APPLY FOR A $600,000 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT TO GET RID OF THE RADIUM IN THE CITY WATER. THE OVERALL COST FOR THE PROJECT IS LISTED AT $2.9 MILLION. THE REST OF THE MONEY, WOULD COME FROM THE CITY ISSUING REVENUE BONDS AND THE BONDS DO NOT REQUIRE A PUBLIC VOTE.

POLICE BLOTTER: TIM ARRICK, 416 N. 5TH STREET, SAID SOMEONE SLASHEDTHE TIRES ON HIS VEHICLE SUNDAY NIGHT.

TODD AND AMY PECKOSH OF BELLEVUE ARE PARENTS OF TWINS BORN THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH AT MERCY HOSPITAL IN DUBUQUE. MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE JERRY AND MARY ANN HEINZEL OF MAQUOKETA AND PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE TOM AND PAM PECKOSH OF BELLEVUE AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA.

JAMES BRYSON, AGE 56, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED NOVEMBER 12TH AT THE HOSPITAL IN MAQUOKETA.
HE HAD BEEN A RESIDENT OF THE CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME IN MAQUOKETA SINCE MAY OF 2002. THERE ARE
NO IMMEDIATE SURVIVORS. HE WORKED AT SHELTERED WORKSHOPS IN VARIOUS CITIES, INCLUDING GLENWOOD, WOODWARD AND GUTTENBERG.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY

LIGHT RAIN THIS AFTERNOON..HIGH OF 51....MORE HEAVY RAIN TONIGHT...MORE TOMORROW, WITH SUNNY WEATHER COMING WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY.

A BODY FOUND IN A WOODED AREA AT RURAL LOST NATION LAST THURSDAY HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS ADRIAN EWALD, AGE 52, OF KINGSTON, ILLINOIS. HE HAD BEEN MISSING SINCE JULY 1ST. DENTAL RECORDS WERE USED TO IDENTIFY THE BODY. HIS REMAINS WERE FOUND NEAR HIS MOTORCYCLE BY A FARMER AND THE STATE MEDICAL EXAMINERS REPORT SAYS EWALD DIED OF A SELF-INFLICTED GUN SHOT.

A MAQUOKETA MAN, LYNN KASEMODEL, AGE 44, IS AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS IN IOWA CITY AFTER FALLING OFF A 20-FOOT CLIFF LAST NIGHT ABOUT 6 O'CLOCK, WHILE DEER HUNTING. HE WAS HUNTING WITH KELLY OBERBRECKLING ON PROPERTY NEAR IRON HILL. HE WAS GOING TO RETRIEVE A FLASHLIGHT AND WALKED OFF THE 20 FOOT CLIFF.
RESCUE SQUAD MEMBERS HAD TO FIND HIM AND THEN HAUL H IM ABOUT 200 YARDS TO A WAITING AMBULANCE.
HE IS BEING TREATED FOR SERIOUS INJURIES BUT NO CONDITION REPORT WAS AVAILABLE TODAY FROM THE HOSPITAL.

THE DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AND A STATE FIRE MARSHALL ARE INVESTIGATING AN EARLY SUNDAY MORNING FIRE AT A MAQUOKETA HOME. THE HOME AT 305 S. OLIVE WAS GUTTED BY FIRE AT ABOUT 3:30 A.M. SUNDAY. NO ONE WAS AT HOME AT THE TIME. NEIGHBORS SAY THE HOME IS OWNED BY SHELLY RUSSELL AND APPARENTLY RENTED BY KELLY NIMS OR HER BROTHER, BLAINE NIMS. FIRECHIEF MARK BECK SAID FLAMES WERE SHOOTING FROM EVERY WINDOW WHEN FIREMEN ARRIVED. IT TOOK ABOUT 3 HOURS TO COMPLETELY PUT OUT THE FIRE. NEIGHBORS SAY THEY SAW A MAN RUN FROM THE HOUSE ABOUT 1 A.M. SUNDAY. A PICTURE OF THE HOUSE
IS ON DENNIS' DAILY PHOTOS...GO TO THE KMAQ HOME PAGE.

NOAH MOSES, AGE 23, OF MAQUOKETA IS IN THE JACKSON COUNTY DETENTION CENTER ON A $6,500 CASH BOND ON CHARGES OF BURGLARY IN THE 3RD OFFENSE. MAQUOKETA POLICE SAY HE GOT INTO THE CITY OF MAQUOKETA COMPOUND YARD FRIDAY NIGHT AND ALLEGEDLY TOOK REGISTRATION AND INSURANCE PAPERWORK FROM A VEHICLE AS WELL AS KEYS FROM A VEHICLE.

PATRICK SPAIN OF MAQUOKETA APPEARED IN MAGISTRATE COURT ON AN AUGUST 30TH CHARGE OF POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, MARIJUANA.

MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT.

RAYMOND DERGANZ, AGE 82, OF MAQUOKETA DIED SUNDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. HE FARMED FOR MANY YEARS NORTH OF MAQUOKETA AND ALSO WORKED AT THE MAQUOKETA LIGHT PLANT AS AN OPERATOR FOR OVER 17 YEARS, RETIRING IN 1982. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, GERTRUDE AND 1 SON AND 3 DAUGHTERS.

MAQUOKETA SENIOR TIFFANY HELMBRECHT HAS SIGNED A LETTER OF INTENT TO PLAY VOLLEYBALL AT MARQUETTE UNIVERITY IN MILWAUKEE. THIS PAST SEASON, SHE GARNERED ALL CONFERENCE HONORS. SHE WAS ALSO NAMED TO THE WAMAC CONFERENCE ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM.

DON'T FORGET TO GO TO THE KMAQ HOME PAGE FOR THE HOUSE FIRE PICTURER ON DENNIS' DAILY PHOTOS.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY

CLOUDY TODAY, HIGH IN LOW 40'S.

YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, A MOTORCYCLE WAS FOUND IN A WOODED AREA NEAR LOST NATION, WRECKED, AND THE DEAD BODY OF THE OWNER NEARBY. NO OTHER DETAILS. THE MAN WAS LISTED AS "MISSING" BY THTE DEKALB, ILLINOIS SHERIFF'S OFFICE. APPARENTLY, HE HAD AN ACCIDENT AND NO ONE SAW THE ACCIDENT OR THE CYCLE WHERE IT LANDED.

SNOWMOBILE ROUTES FOR JACKSON COUNTY WERE DISCUSSED THIS WEEK AT SUPERVISORS OFFICEMEETING AND NO
DECISION WAS MADE ON THE ASKED-FOR ROUTES.

NEXT WEEK IS AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK AND OPEN HOUSES ARE SCHEDULED AT THE MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL AND MIDDLE SCHOOL, WITH CITIZENS INVITED TO EAT LUNCH, AT ABOUT $2, AT THE SCHOOLS. THE TWO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS WILL HAVE THIER OBSERVANCE IN DECEMBER AND INVITE CITIZENS TO BREAKFAST AT THEIR SCHOOLS.

A MAQUOKETA BUSINESS REPORTED SOME VANDALISM. MIKE HEINRICH OF HEINRICH CHIROPRACTIC, 620 S. MAIN STREET, SAID SOMEONE PUT A HOLE IN THE WINDOW OF THE BUSINESS. MAQUOKETA POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING.
THAT IS THE SAME LOCATION THAT FOR MANY YEARS WAS HEPKER CHIROPRACTIC.

FAY MOELLER OF MAQUOEKTA IS 94 TOMORROW. SEE A PICTURE OF HIM ON DENNIS DAILY PHOTOS ON KMAQ HOME PAGE. REAL SHARP AND ACTIVE TOO...PLAYS PIANO AND SINGS ONCE A MONTH AT CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME.
HIS SISTER, MARION MOELLER, WILL BE 90 NEXT SEPTEMBER AND STOPPED IN TODAY TO MAKE SURE WE WISH HIM A HAPPY BIRTHDAY ON THE RADIO TOMORROW. I AM GOING TO VISIT WITH HIM ON THE RADIO AROUND 7:30 TOMORROW MORNING....HE'S EASY TO TALK TO....EASY TO INTERVIEW. IF YOU KNOW HIM, WHY DON'T YOU CALL HIM SOMETIME TOMORROW AT 563-652-2159. HE WAS A LONG TIME SCHOOLBUS DRIVER AND WORKED AT THE POST OFFICE A LONG TIME AND WAS WITH A COUNTRY BAND OR TWO MOST OF HIS LIFE....IN HIS YOUNGER YEARS, A MEMBER
OF THE POPULAR LOCAL BAND, THE OKLAHOMA COWBOYS.

MORRIE MORRIS WENT TO SEE DR. BROMAN AT DUBUQUE HOSPITAL YESTERDAY. SAID HE IS DOING VERY WELL AND
MAY BE COMING HOME IN A COUPLE WEEKS. UNDERGOING DAILY THERAPY.

THE IOWA HAWKEYE FOOTBALL TEAM PLAYS HOST TO MINNESOTA TOMORROW.

THE IOWA BASKETBALL TEAM HAD A "WON'T COUNT IN STANDINGS" EXHIBITION GAME WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND WON AND PLAY ONE MORE OF THOSE SUNDAY AFTERNOON BEFORE STARTING THE REGULAR SEASON.

THE IOWA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL SEASON BEGAN WITH A WIN LAST NIGHT, NON-CONFERENCE, BROADCAST ON KMAQ-FM.

THE SIGNS WERE PUT UP ON THE NEW GASSER TRUE VALUE BUILDING THIS WEEK....A PICTURE OF THE BUILDING ON THE DENNIS DAILY PHOTO BUTTON......THE STORE OPENS THE DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING. DICK'S SUPER MARKET, ADJACENT TO GASSER'S, WON'T OPEN UNTIL JANUARY. THE TWO BUILDINGS ARE SIDE-BY-SIDE...TOUCH EACH OTHER. THE NEW CONVENIENCE STORE JUST NORTH OF DICK'S AND SOUTH OF THE NEW FAMILY DOLLAR STORE, IS GOING UP. IT WILL HAVE A DRIVE-THRU CAR WASH WITH IT.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY

NO REPORT TODAY

SUNNY AND NICE THIS MORNING...53 AT NOON...THEN THE STRONG WINDS CAME...AND THE TEMPERATURE DROPPED 20 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON WITH WINDS UP TO 40MPH.

AN EARLY MORNING ACCIDENT YESTERDAY MORNING A MILE SOUTH OF WELTON RESULTED IN INJURIES TO TWO MAQUOKETA WOMEN, DENISE BREN, AGE 48 AND A PASSENGER IN HER CAR, GLADYS BOWEN, AGE 81, BOTH TAKEN TO THE DEWITT HOSPITAL. BREN WAS SOUTH BOUND, PASSING A DUMP TRUCK DRIVEN BY A DUBUQUE MAN, AND WHILE PASSING SHE HIT THE TRUCK AND LOST CONTROL, ROLLING AND COMING TO REST ON HER TOP. ACCORDING TO CLINTON COUNTY DEPUTY ROGER HEILIG, BREEN SUSTAINED NON-INCAPACITATING INJURIES WHILE BOWEN SUFFERED MAJOR INJURIES. THE CONDITION UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME BECAUSE HOSPITALS NO LONGER GIVE OUT CONDITION OF PATIENTS.
THE TRUCK DRIVER WAS NOT INJURED. THE BREN VEHICLE RECEIVED ABOUT $6,500 WORTH OF DAMAGE.

DEWITT LOST THEIR HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYOFF GAME TO MOUNT VERNON, 20 TO 14 LAST NIGHT. GREAT GAME AND DEWITT ALMOST WON IT IN THE FINAL COUPLE MINUTES.

ROBERT CLARK, AGE 24, OF MAQUOKETA HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH CRIMINAL MISCHIEF IN THE 3RD DEGREE FOR STARTING SEVERAL ROUND BALES OF HAY ON FIRE AT 2 RURAL MILES LOCATIONS BACK IN JULY. DAMAGES OF $780.
HE HAS BEEN RELEASED ON $6,500 BOND.

ROGER BUNYON, AGE 30, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AND CHARGED WITH OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE WHILE INTOXICATAED, FIRST OFFENSE.

PEARL BLOOM, AGE 97, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED SATURDAY AT CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME IN MAQUOKETA.
SHE OWNED THE TOWER CAFE IN DEWITT FOR MANY YEARS.

CHECK BACK TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY

IN THE 50'S TODAY, WITH SOME SUNSHINE. MORRIE MORRIS AND JERRY RASMUSSEN ARE PLAYING GOLF THIS AFTERNOON.

AT THE COUNTY SUPERVISOR'S MEETING YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, THE SUPERVISORS AGREED TO RENT SOME OF THE OLD TRUCK STOP LAND TO BRAD DEERY MOTORS, FOR STORAGE OF NEW VEHICLES. $200 A MONTH FOR 12 MONTHS. SOIL TESTS FOR CONTAMINATION ARE STILL BEING CONDUCTED AND THEREFORE THE SUPERVIORS WILL NOT SELL THE PROPERTY. DEERY'S WOULD ALSO BE INTERESTED IN BUYING THE LAND AND BUILDING. BUT, THEY WILL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE LAND IS GIVIN A CLEAN BILL FROM THE DNR.

ADDITIONS TO THE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL IN MAQUOKETA WILL NOT BE FOR THE $1.5 MILLION COST HOPED FOR...BUT A LOT MORE. MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS LEARNED MONDAY NIGHT FROM THE DISTRICT'S CONSTRUCTION MANAGER, THAT THE COST FOR BOTH SCHOOLS IS NOW ESTIMATED AT $2.13 MILLION. DISTRICT SUPERINTENDANT KIM HUCKSTADT SAID HE WOULD WORK ON WAYS TO BE ABLE TO COME CLOSER TO THE ORIGINAL ESTIMATE. THE DISTRICT IS HOPING TO GET 60% GRANT MONEY FOR THE PROJECTS.

ANOTHER JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEE WILL BE RETIRING AT THE END OF THE YEAR.
SUPERVIORS APPROVED THE EARLY RETIREMENT OF ROBERT WINGER, AGE 62, AS JAILER. EARLIER, THEY APPROVED THE EARLY RETIREMENT OF DEPUTY ALLEN BARKER. WINGER HAS WORKED IN THE JAIL FOR 12 YEARS.

SHEEK FASHIONS, MAQUOKETA'S ONLY LADIES APPAREL STORE, IS GOING OUT OF BUSINESS. THE SALE STARTED
THIS PAST MONDAY. KELLY HESSONG STARTED THE STORE ABOUT 2 AND A HALF YEARS AGO. SHE IS A NICE PERSON AND IT WAS A NICE STORE. SORRY IT WILL BE CLOSING. I REMEMBER WHEN THERE WERE ABOUT 6 STORES IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA WHERE LADIES COULD BY CLOTHES.

END OF ANOTHER REPORT...TAKE IT EASY UNTIL THE NEXT ONE.

DENNIS VOY

MOSTLY CLOUDY, MISTY TODAY AND HIGH OF 49.

YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, AT THE FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH COMMUNITY ROOM, AARON CLAUSING, AGE 18, OF MAQUOKETA, RECEIVED HIS EAGLE SCOUT AWARD, THE HIGHEST HONOR IN SCOUTING. HIS MAIN PROJECT FOR THIS AWARD WAS BUILDING AN OBSERVATION BOOTH AT THE MARSHY AREA JUST NORTH OF MAQUOEKTA WHERE THE
HURSTVILLE INTREPETIVE CENTER IS BEING BUILDT. HIS DAD IS MIKE, ASST. THE THE COUNTY ENGINEER,
AND HIS MOTHER IS ROXANNE, OF THE KMAQ SALES DEPARTMENT. HE HAS AN OLDER SISTER WHO WILL GRADUATE THIS SPRING AT WARTBURG COLLEGE. IT WAS MY FIRST EAGLE SCOUT CEREMONY AND I ENJOYED IT. MAYOR TOM MESSERLI WAS THERE AND FOUND OUT THAT HE, TOO, WAS AN EAGLE SCOUT....GETTTING HIS AWARD IN CLINTON IN 1976. GOOD GOING AARON AND TOM.

THE MIAMI DOLPHINS LOST YESTERDAY AND THEIR ONLY TOUCHDOWN WAS ON A PASS FROM MAQUOKETA'S SAGE ROSENFELTS, WHO PLAYED ABOUT THE LAST 5 MINUTES OF THE GAME AND COMPLETED 4 OUT OF 5 PASSES.
GOOD GOING SAGE.

CHRIS AND JENNIFER HUNTER OF DAVENPORT ARE PARENTS OF TWIN BOYS, BORN OCTOBER 30TH AT A DAVENPORT HOSPITAL. MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE STEVE AND LUANN BECK OF MAQUOKETA.

MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD MEETING TONIGHT. THEY WILL TALK ABOUT AN ADDITION TO THE HIGH SCHOOL AND OTHER AGENDA ITEMS.

THE VETERAN'S DAY PROGRAM IN MAQUOKETA WILL START AT 8:45 A.M. AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL. LEGION MEMBER CLIFF MERRICK WILL GIVE THE ADDRESS.

A MAQUOKETA WOMAN TOTALED HER VEHICLE WHILE SHE WAS DELIVERING PAPERS YESTERDAY MORNING. MICHELLE ELLITHORPE, AGE 26, WAS DRIVING WEST ON SWAGOSA DRIVE AND BECAME DISTRACTED, AND HER CAR HIT A LIGHT POLE. SHE WAS TREATED AT THE HOSPITAL FOR MINOR INJURIES. HER 87 PLYMOUTH WAS A TOTAL LOSS AND THE POLE RECEIVED $500 WORTH OF DAMAGE.

NO MAQUOKETA DEATHS.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY

SUNNY AND COOL AGAIN..HIGH 40.

A DEER ACCIDENT LAST NIGHT RESULTED IN TWO VEHICLES COLLIDING. DEPUTY RUSS LONG SAID CINDY SPRINGER, AGE 37, OF MAQUOKETA WAS DRIVING SOUTH ON HIGHWAY 61 ABOUT 3 MILES NORTH OF MAQUOKETA AND HIT THE DEER. SHE BRAKED QUICKLY AND THE CAR BEHIND HER, DRIVEN BY DIXIE DIETZMAN, AGE 62, OF MAQUOKETA COULDN'T STOP AND HIT THE REAR OF SPRIGER'S VEHICLE. NO INJURIES. $5,000 DAMAGE TO SPRINGER'S 97 PONTIAC AND $3,500 DAMAGE TO DIETZMAN'S 94 PLYMOUTH.

JACKSON COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS MANAGER DOUG PRATT REPORTED VANDALISM TO FAIRGROUNDS RESTROOM WINDOWS, WITH DAMAGES ESTIMATED AT ABOUT $40.

WANT TO GET INTO A HOLIDAY MOOD....SEE "ELF". SAW IT TODAY AT MY THEATRE WITH GRANDDAUGTHER CASSIE AND WE BOTH LIKED IT. IT IS FOR BOTH KIDS AND ADULTS.

SHAWN CHAPLIN, AGE 12, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY MORNING AT THE HOSPITAL. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS FATHER, MIKE CHAPLIN OF MAQUOKETA AND HIS MOTHER AND STEP-FATHER, ANGELA AND RICK ERVIN OF NEWTON. ALSO A SISTER, MARLEY FLANERY OF MAQUOKETA AND 3 BROTHERS, DAVID OF MAQUOKETA AND JACOB AND LUCAS OF NEWTON. HE WAS A 6TH GRADER AT MAQUOKETA MIDDLE SCHOOL.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY

SUNNY TODAY, HIGH OF 40.

DEWITT WON THEIR PLAYOFF GAME LAST NIGHT BY 1 POINT AND PLAY AGAIN TUESDAY NIGHT AT MT. VERNON, AGAINST MT. VERNON. BOTH PRESTON AND NORTHEAST LOST THEIR PLAYOFF GAME LAST NIGHT.

THE MAQUOKETA FIRE DEPARTMENT RECEIVED THIS WEEK A GRANT OF $11,723 FROM THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL USE THE MONEY FOR NEW WIRE-MESH LOCKERS.

LEAF PICKUP BEGINS IN MAQUOKETA NEXT WEEK....IN THE EAST HALF OF THE CITY. THE FOLLOWING WEEK, IN THE WEST HALF.

THE CITY COUNCIL IS HAVING A SPECIAL MEETING RIGHT NOW. I'LL HAVE A REPORT ON IT TOMORROW.

AL, "WISH" KRAMER, AGE 88, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED THIS MORNING AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. HE WORKED AT CLINTON ENGINES FOR 24 YEARS AND THEN WAS A JANITOR AND CARETAKER AT SACRED HEART SCHOOL AND CHURCH IN MAQUOKETA FROM 1980 UNTIL RETIRING IN 1986. HE IS SURVIVED BY NIECES AND NEPHEWS AND A SPECIAL FRIEND GLORIA GIBSON, OF MAQUOKETA AND HER 4 CHILDREN.

TAKE CARE AND IF YOU LIVE HERE UP NORTH, KEEP WARM.

DENNIS VOY

COLD TODAY...HIGH OF 37. 3 AND 1/3 INCHES OF RAIN THIS WEEKEND THROUGH YESTERDAY.

FIVE TEEN AGERS FROM BELLELVUE AND SPRINGBROOK AREA WERE CHARGED WITH CRIMINAL MISCHIEF FOR ALLEGEDLY DAMAGING 50 MAILBOXES DURING THE WEEKEND OF SEPTEMBER 5. THE CHARGES WERE FILED THIS MORNING. TOTAL DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT $1,600.

A MAQUOKETA MAN, JAMES MEISLAND, AGE 38, WAS CHARGED FOLLOWING A TWO-VEHICLE ACCIDENT THAT HAPPENED
AT 3:09 YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT CORNER OF 2ND AND LOCUST STREETS. HE WAS CHARGED WITH FAILURE TO YIELD. LIONEL KEENEY, AGE 65, OF MAQUOKETA WAS ATTEMPTING TO TURN WEST ON LOCUST AND MEISLAND TURNED INTO HIS VEHICLE. EACH VEHHICLE SUSTAINED ABOUT $1,000 DAMAGE. NO INJURIES.

JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES ARE INVESTIGATING A THEFT OF A RING. JESSI BICKFORD, 18831 138TH STREET, MAQUOKETA, SAID HER WEDDING RING VALUED AT $4,000 WAS IS MISSING FROM HER UNLOCKED RESIDENCE TUESDAY.

BASKETBALL AND WRESTLING PRACTICE BEGINS NOVEMBER 17TH.

BERNICE HENTON, WIFE OF RED, HAS MOVED BACK TO MAQUOKETA AND IS NOW AT THE EXTENDED CARE FACILITY AT THE JACKSON COUNTY PUBLIC HOSPITAL. WHEN THE NEW WING OPENS LATER THIS MONTH, ALL PATIENTS WILL BE MOVED INTO IT. SHE WAS ABLE TO MOVE BACK BECAUSE OF THE NEW DIALYZIS UNIT. SHE HAS BEEN AT CLINTON HOSPITAL 4 YEARS. GOOD NEWS FOR FRIENDS AND ESPECIALLY RED, SINCE HE NO LONGER WILL HAVE TO MAKE THE TRIP ALMOST DAILY TO CLINTON.

FAT CATTLE TOPPED FROM $1.01 TO $1.05 A POUND. MARKET $1 TO $5 BETTER THAN LAST WEEK.

"BROTHER BEAR" IS THE #1 MOVIE AT THE VOY 3 THEATRE. "ELF" STARTS FRIDAY. THE DRIVE-IN IS CLOSED.

ROMER'S BAKERY IS NO LONGER CLOSED MONDAYS.

AND SO IT GOES.

TAKE CARE.

DENNIS VOY

TODAY'S HIGH WAS 58...NOW AT 9:30 p.m. it is 40.

Mayor Tom Messerli was easily re-elected today, winning over Pam Rosenberg, l,004 to 266 votes.
This will be his second term. He runs a TV repair business in Maquoketa and Dubuque and also is KMAQ's Engineer and Saturday morning drive-time announcer on FM. He is also a fireman. Today is his 43rd birthday.
He is divorced, has a daughter in college and his longtime friend of 10 years is KMAQ's News Director Sheri Melvold. Mention marriage and its "why ruin a good thing?" Both have lovely homes in Maquoketa..one in the 2nd Ward and the other in the 4th Ward.

In the 1st Ward, Alvin Barten was un-opposed and re-elected with 145 votes. He has a Used Car business on East Platt Street.

In the 2nd Ward, Tim Clark was elected to a full 4-year term with 153 votes. He was un-opposed. He was finishing out the term of a councilman that moved to Alaska.

In the 3rd Ward, there was no candidate. Current councilman Jim Bollman did not seek re-election. Winning that seat by write-in, Marsha Myers, with 18 votes. She has been a Maquoketa resident for only a few years and I have no other information about her.

In the 5th Ward, to replace Steve Flynn who is moving out of the city limits and could not run for that reason, there was a race between businessman Paul Hahle and businessman and ex-Mayor Jack Rosenberg. Hahle won, 324 to 106.

For At-Large Council, current councilman Tim Chapin was defeated soundly by a former councilman, Neil Morehead, 874 to 365.

Carry-over Council members, are Tom Schueller and John Cressey.

And that's the way they counted up today.

Good night...or Good day, whenever you read this. THANKS TO THE 1,284 PEOPLE THAT VOTED TODAY.
I'M NOT SURE WHAT PERCENTAGE OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS THAT IS??

Dennis Voy

CLOUDY AND MISTY TODAY...HIGH OF 58...DIDN'T MAKE 60 TODAY. RAINFALL IS NOW NEARLY 3 AND A HALF INCHES
SINCE THE WEEKEND PLUS YESTERDAY, LAST NIGHT AND THIS MORNING.

IT IS ELECTION DAY.

I WILL PUT THE RESULTS ON THE ELECTION AROUND 9 TONIGHT, IF YOU WANT TO COME BACK THEN.

IT IS 3:55 P.M. STILL TIME TO VOTE. POLLS ARE OPEN UNTIL 8. KMAQ AM AND FM WILL HAVE ELECTION RESULTS "LIVE" FROM THE COURTHOUSE AND FROM OUR NEWSROOM TONIGHT.

TOMORROW NIGHT, KMAQ AM AND FM WILL BROADCAST THE PRESTON-ELGIN PLAYOFF FOOTBALL GAME FROM ELGIN, STARTING AT 6:50 P.M.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY

RAIN, RAIN, GO AWAY. IT RAINED ALL WEEKEND...OVER 2-INCHES AND RAINED ALL DAY TODAY AND WILL KEEP RAINING UNTIL ABOUT MIDNIGHT TUESDAY. THEN, NO RAIN IS IN THE FORECAST FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK, BUT IT WILL BE PRETTY COOL THE REST OF THE WEEK WITH DAILY TEMPERATURES STARTING WEDNESDAY ... IN THE MID 40'S. TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW ONLY, ALONG WITH THE RAIN, WE ARE LOOKING FOR A HIGH IN THE 60'S.

MAQUOKETA POLICE CHIEF BOB ANDERSEN WAS INJURED FRIDAY WHILE MAKING AN ARREST. TODAY, D.J. MCDONALD, AGE 38, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH INTERFERENCE WITH OFFICIAL ACTS. FOLLOWING THE SCUFFLE AT 700 VINE STREET, CHIEF ANDERSEN WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AND RECEIVED 20 STITCHES ABOVE HIS RIGHT EYE.
THE CHEIF DID WORK TODAY.

THE LATE LIGE "BLONDIE" RASMUSSEN WAS INDUCTED INTO THE JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 2003 HALL OF FAME AT A CEREMONY YESTERDAY AFTERNOON JUST BEFORE THE SOCIETY'S ANNUAL HERITAGE FUND RAISER DINNER.
EACH YEAR, SOMONE IS HONORED WHO HAD CONTRIBUTED TO THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN THEIR COMMUNITY OR TO A PERSON WHO HAD RECEIVED SIGNIFICANT RECOGNITION AWAY FROM THE AREA DURING THEIR LIFE.
BLONDIE WAS A DANISH IMMIGRANT WHO LOST HIS PARENTS AT AGE 9, ENDED SCHOOL AFTER 8TH GRADE, AND BEGAN AS A FARMER NEAR DELMAR, THEN OWNED AND OPERATED A RESTAURANT IN DELMAR AND IN 1916 GOT INTO THE AUTOMOBILE BUSINESS IN DELMAR. LATER, HE STARTED A DEALERSHIP, RASMUSSEN MOTORS, IN MAQUOKETA
IN 1924 AND IT REMAINED UNTIL 1985 WHEN IT WAS PURCHASED BY BRAD DEERY. FOR MANY YEARS, THE DEALERSHIP SOLD ALL 5 GM CARS, ONE OF A FEW IN THE COUNTRY TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THE ENTIRE GM LINEUP. SON JERRY RASMUSSEN HAS RETIRED AND LIVES IN MAQUOKETA AND HE AND OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS WERE ON HAND YESTERDAY FOR THE INDUCTION CEREMONY. I WENT TO THE DINNER ,BY THE WAY, AND THE FOOD WAS VERY GOOD AND THEY HAD A GOOD TURNOUT....SOMEWHERE OVER 600 PEOPLE. AND THAT IS A BIG DINNER FOR MAQUOKETA.

CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT.

THE "SOUTHWEST ART" MAGAZINE IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF THE U.S.A.....LATEST EDITION, HAS A NICE ART LAYOUT OF WORK DONE BY MAQUOKETA PROFESSIONAL ARTIST ROSE FRANTZEN. IF YOU LIVE IN THAT PART OF THE COUNTRY, YOU MIGHT STOP AT A BARNES AND NOBLE BOOK STORE AND TAKE A LOOK. ALSO, CONGRATULATIONS TO ROSE ON HER RECENT MARRIAGE.... TO ANOTHER ARTIST. THEY BOTH WORK OUT OF THEIR MAQUOKETA STUDIO (THE BUILDING THAT AS FOR MANY YEARS, CITY HALL) AND ALSO OUT OF THEIR NEW YORK CITY STUDIO. ROSE IS THE DAUGHTER OF ELLEN AND WAYNE FRANTZEN OF MAQUOKETA.

NO LOCAL BIRTHS OR DEATHS TO REPORT TODAY.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY

NO REPORT TODAY

NICE DAY..72 THE HIGH.

TRAGIC CAR-DEER ACCIDENT AROUND 7 LAST NIGHT JUST EAST OF PRESTON ON HIGHWAY 64 TOOK THE LIFE OF A WELL KNOWN JACKSON COUNTY MAN. DEAD INSTANTLY AT THE SCENE, GENE GRAVERT, AGE 61, OF RURAL SABULA.
HE HIT THE DEER WITH HIS 96 FORD CONTOUR AND THE DEER CAME UP THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD, TEARING OFF PART OF THE ROOF AND THEN WENT AIRBORN AND HIT A WESTBOUND VEHICLE DRIVEN BY MADONNA BORMANN OF PRESTON.
SHE AND HUSBAND BUTCH WERE NOT INJURED. GRAVERT, TRAVELING ALONE,WAS DEAD AT THE SCENE. HE OWNED AN APPLE ORCHARD NEAR SABULA AND HIS WIFE IS THE HEAD OF THE JACKSON COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION AND HAS HER OFFICE IN THE WELCOME CENTER AT SABULA. SERVICES ARE PENDING.

SHORT REPORT, SORRY.

DENNIS VOY

CLOUDY, COLD, WINDY TODAY..HIGH MID 40'S..BUT MAYBE 60 TOMORROW.

THE NEW ADDITION TO CARDINAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COULD BE OPEN IN ABOUT 10 DAYS.

THE FUNERAL SERVICE FOR THELMA GISEL, AGE 86, FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA WILL BE THIS MONDAY.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, HOWARD, OF SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, AND A DAUGHTER, CONNIE O'DELL OF SAVANNAH.
HOWARD HAS A BROTHER IN ANDREW.

DEWITT DEFEATED MAQUOKTA 3 OUT OF 4 VOLLEYBALL MATCHES IN TOURNAMENT PLAY AND MAQUOKETA HAS NOW ENDED THE SEASON.

THIS YEAR'S BEEF BANQUET WILL BE SATURDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 8TH AT THE PEARSON CENTER ON THE FAIRGROUNDS.
ALWAYS A BIG EVENT.

THE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY HAS THEIR BIG FUND RAISER DINNER THIS SUNDAY AT THE FAIRGROUNDS.

THE FIRST CHRISTMAS EVENT IN MAQUOKETA IS THIS COMING MONDAY NIGHT AT THE JACKSON COUNTY HOME
FURNISHINGS STORE DOWNTOWN. NEARLY 20 MERCHANTS WILL HAVE A LITTLE CHRISTMAS DISPLAY IN THE STORE AND THERE WILL BE A STYLE SHOW TOO.

DEWITT, PRESTON AND NORTHEAST OF GOOSELAKE.....ALL THREE FOOTBALL TEAMS ...WILL BE IN THE FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS STARTING A WEEK FROM TONIGHT.

THANKS FOR CHECKING IN AGAIN TODAY.

DENNIS VOY

MOSTLY CLOUDY, WINDY AND HIGH ONLY OF 51 TODAY.

JERRY RASMUSSEN, OF MAQUOKETA, REPRESENTING BRAD DEERY MOTORS OF MAQUOKETA, TODAY APPEARED BEFORE THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND ASKED IF BRAD DEERY'S COULD RENT THE FORMER TRUCKSTOP LAND, OWNED BY THE COUNTY. HE PROPOSED PAYING $200 A MONTH, WITH 30-DAY NOTICE BY EITHER SIDE. BRAD DEERY OWNS THE LAND TO THE NORTH OF THE TRUCK STOP PROPERTY AND USES IT FOR VEHICLE STORAGE. THE SUPERVISORS SAID THEY WOULD CONSIDER THE OFFER BUT TOOK NO ACTION TODAY. THE TRUCKSTOP BUILDING IS STILL ON THE LAND, BUT WOULD NOT BE INCLUDED IN THE LEASE. THE SUPERIVORS WOULD LIKE TO SELL THE ENTIRE PROPERTY AND BUILDING, BUT THERE IS STILL A PROBLEM, APPARENTLY, WITH SOIL CONTAMINATION CLEARANCE BY THE STATE.

THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD WILL SEEK A GRANT TO ADD ON TO THE MIDDLE SCHOOL. THEY WOULD APPLY FOR THE SAME GRANT THAT HAS PROVIDED MONEY FOR THE CARRDINAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ADDITION THAT IS NEARING COMPLETION. THEY WILL APPLY FOR $400,000, AND 40% OF THE PROJECT WILL BE PAID OUT OF LOCAL FUNDING.
THE ADDITION WOULD BE TO THE SOUTH PARKING LOT SIDE AND WOULD ESTABLISH A NEW ENTRYWAY AND A MAIN FLOOR OFFICE COMPLEX. NOW, THE MIDDLE SCHOOL OFFICE IS LOCATED ON THE 3RD FLOOR.

THE DELWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT IS ADDING ON TO THE SCHOOL IN DELMAR. GROUNDBREAKING WILL BE SOON.
G.L. STOCKHAM AND SON GOT THE LOW BID OF OVER A HALF-MILLION DOLLARS. MAIN IMPROVEMENTS TO THE CAMPUS WILL BE A NEW KITCHEN, CAFETERIA, AND MEDIA CENTER. THEY HAVE A K-6 SCHOOL THERE, WITH 7TH GRADE THRU 12TH GOING TO MAQUOKETA.

HEATHER AND JESSIE DAVIS OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN TODAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.
GRANDPARENTS ARE VINCE AND PATRICIA GERARDY OF MAQUOKETA AND TOM AND KATHY DAVIS OF DELMAR.

THEODOR R. ZIEMBA, AGE 67, ST. CHARLELS, A ST. LOUIS SUBURB, DIED SATURDAY AT HIS HOME. HE WAS A FORMER MAQUOKETA RESIDENT AND AN ANESTHETIST AT THE JACKSON COUNTY PUBLIC HOSPITAL. THE FUNERAL WAS TODAY.
HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, SHEILA, AND TWO DAUGHTERS, RACHELLE SCOPEL OF ST. CHARLES AND PAT HUNTER OF WEST DES MOINES. ALSO, HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW, KATHERINE BARTELS OF MAQUOKETA.

SERVICES ARE STILL PENDING FOR THELMA GISEL.

SNOW FLURRIES POSSIBLE TONIGHT.

TAKE CARE.

DENNIS VOY

MOSTLY SUNNY TODAY, BUT HIGH ONLY OF 49.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS WON THEIR FIRST GAME OF SEASON FRIDAY NIGHT, BEATING VINTON-SHELLSBURG 28 TO 0.
THE FRESH-SOPH TEAM TIED, 6 TO 6. THE CARDINALS CLOSE OUT THE SEASON AT MARION THIS FRIDAY.

SCHOOL BOARD MEETING TONIGHT.

VICTOR "MONK" COON, AGE 86, OF OXFORD JUNCTION, DIED SATURDAY AT THE HOSPITAL HERE IN MAQUOKETA.
HE OWNED AND OPERATED COON'S CORNER STORE IN THAT CITY FOR OVER 50 YEARS. THE FAMILY STILL RUNS IT.
MONK IN EARLIER YEARS, BOWLED HERE IN MAQUOKET. SURVIVED BY 4 SONS AND 2 DAUGHTERS.

THELMA GISEL, AGE 86, FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA AND NOW OF SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, DIED SATURDAY AT A SAVANNAH HOSPITAL. SERVICES ARE PENDING HERE AT CARSON AND SON FUNERAL HOME. I'LL HAVE MORE WHEN WE GET THE COMPLETE OBIT. SHE AND HUSBAND HOWARD MOVED THERE A COUPLE YEARS AGO TO BE CLOSE TO THEIR DAUGHTER.

SORRY, BUT IT WAS A QUIET WEEKEND..AND SO...A SHORT REPORT.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY

THE DAY STARTED OFF OKAY WITH SOME SUNSHINE...BUT THE WEATHER CHANGED THIS AFTERNOON AND
BY LATE AFTERNOON...LIGHT RAIN STARTED...THEN ABOUT 4:30 AND SINCE THEN..THUNDER AND LIGHTNING AND
RAIN. HIGH WAS 57 TODAY...NOW IT IS 49. THE FRESH-SOPH GAME WAS SCHEDULED TO START AT 5:15 BUT IS NOW ON HOLD FOR AWHILE.....HOPEFULLY, THERE WILL NO LONGER BE LIGHTNING BY VARSISTY GAME TIME AT 7:45. FOOTBALL GAMES CAN BE PLAYED IN THE RAIN BUT NOT WHEN THERE IS LIGHTNING. OPPONENT TONIGHT, VINTON-SHELLSBURG. THEY, LIKE THE CARDINALS, HAVE NOT WON A GAME THIS YEAR. SO, HOPEFULLY MAQUOKETA CAN FINIALLY GET A WIN TONIGHT.

THE JACKSON COUNTY CONSERVATION BOARD HAS RECEIVED A REAP GRANT FOR $82,000. THE MONEY WILL BE USED FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE HURSTVILLE INTERPRETIVE CENTER JUST NORTH OF MAQUOKETA. CONSTRUCTION WILL START SOON ON IT.

ROBERTA CLAUSSEN, AGE 89, OF GRAND MOUND, DIED YESTERDAY. A LOCAL SURVIVOR IS A SISTER IN MAQUOKETA, DONNA MAE MANIKOWSKI.

EDNA GOERS, 83, OF CLINTON, DIED WEDNESDAY. A LOCAL SURVIVOR IS A BROTHER, HARRY GOERS OF MAQUOKETA.

RAYMOND LEE, AGE 95, OF DEWITT DIED TODAY AT THE WESTWING PLACE IN DEWITT. HE IS SURVIVED BY ONE DAUGHTER AND TWO SONS, INCLUDING ROBERT LEE OF DEWITT AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA.

IN CASE YOU HAVE NOT HEARD, THE SOYBEAN CROP THIS YEAR IS BAD BUT THE CORN YIELD WILL BE BETTER THAN EXPECTED. AND CATTLE PRICES CONTINUE TO BE UP AT RECORD HIGHS.

GO TO THE KMAQ HOME PAGE (AT THE BOTTOM OF PAGE) AND CLICK ON TO THE NEW COLOR FALL PHOTOS OF MAQUOKETA, TAKEN LAST WEEK.

WE HAVE JUST BEEN INFORMED THAT THE FRESH-SOPH GAME WILL START LATE TONIGHT, AT 6:15 AND THE VARSITY GAME WILL FOLLOW, NO DOUBT ALSO LATER THAN NORMAL.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY

NO REPORT TODAY

SUNNY TODAY, BUT HIGH ONLY OF 60.

BUDDY OLSON, HAS RETIRED AS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR FOR JACKSON COUNTY....A PARTTIME POSITOIN THAT HE HAS HELD FOR MANY YEARS. WHEN HE FIRST TOOK THE JOB, THE MAIN SOURCE OF EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION WAS EITHER SMOKE SIGNALS, OR THE TELEGRAPH. HE HAS SERVED THE COUNTY WELL.
THE JACKSON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS IS HAVING A JOB DESCRIPTION MADE UP AND WILL ADVERTISE FOR THE POSITION NEXT MONTH. MEANWHILE, BUDDY AND AND HIS SON CONTINUE TO OPERATE OLSON SECURITIES.

GARY PURTILLO HAS RETIRED AS A CONSERVATION OFFICER IN JACKSON COUNTY, A POSITION HE HELD FOR MANY YEARS ALSO. A GOOD, TOUGH GAME WARDEN HE WAS.

GERALD MILLER, OWNER OF TIMBER CITY TROPHY AND SHIRT WORKS REPORTED TO THE POLICE THAT SOMETIME AFTER 8 MONDAY NIGHT, SOMEONE TOOK A MAGIC MARKER AND MARKED ALL OVER HIS BUILDING AS WELL AS OTHERS ALONG MAIN STREET.

NOLA ERNST, AGE 87, OF MAQUOKETA AND FORMERLY OF PRESTON DIED YESTERDAY AT HER HOME.
YEARS AGO, SHE WORKED AS A COOK AT THE GREEN MILL RESTAURANT. AND FOR 20 YEARS, SHE WAS THE TRANSIT COORDINATOR AT THE JACKSON COUNTY SENIOR CENTER. SHE IS SURVIVED BY 4 SONS AND MANY GRANDCHILDREN.
ALSO SPECIAL FRIEND, TOBY SAUNDERS OF MAQUOKETA.

MR. AND MRS. JOHN JONES OF MAQUOEKTA LEFT TOWN THIS WEEK.....BACK TO ARIZONA FOR THE NEXT FEW MONTHS.
I CAN JUST PICTURE JOHN THIS AFTERNOON, OUTSIDE WITH SHORTS ON AND WIPING HIS FOREHEAD FROM THE SWEATING IN THE HEAT. HAVE A GOOD FALL AND WINTER JOHN AND MERT AND KEEP CHECKING THIS REPORT.
JACK AND I ARE PREPARING FOR THE FINAL WEEKEND OF THE SEASON AT THE DRIVE-IN. JOHN'S SON, JACK, HAS BEEN MY THEATRE MANAGER SINCE 1975. HIS DAUGHTER BARB, AND FAMILY , HAS LIVED IN PELLA FOR QUITE A FEW YEARS.

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY.

DENNIS VOY

CLOUDY TODAY AND IN THE LOW 60'S.

FIRST: SOME BIRTHDAYS: DOROTHY MORRIS, 80 TOMORROW. IMOGENE McAREAVY, 80 FRIDAY. ERNESTINE OWENS, 90 NEXT MONDAY, THE 27TH. THELMA SMITH, 100, TOMORROW. ALL FROM MAQUOKETA.

TOMORROW NIGHT THERE WILL BE A CANDIDATES FORUM AT CITY HALL AND IT WILL BE BROADCAST 'LIVE' ON CHANNEL 18, THE LOCAL ACCESS CHANNEL. LEIGHTON HEPKER OF KMAQ WILL NARRATE.

KIM AND DARRIN BRINKMAN ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN SATURDAY AT ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL. PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE DAVE AND DIXIE BRINKMAN OF MAQUOKETA.

RUTH SANGER, AGE 90, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED SATURDAY. SHE WORKED FOR MANY YEARS AS A COOK FOR ELWOOD SCHOOL. SURVIVORS INCLUDE TWO CHILDREN, ROGER OF ARIZONA AND MARY SANGER OF MAQUOKETA AND A SISTER, HELEN ALDEN OF MAQUOKET.

SHORT REPORT..SORRY.

DENNIS VOY

NICE DAY AGAIN..HIGH OF 78. CORRECTION ON YESTERDAY'S HIGH, IT WAS 76.

A MAQUOKETA BUSINESSMAN PICKED THE MOST CORN DURING THE CORNHUSKING CONTEST HELD YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT THE ANDREW JACKSON DEMONSTRATION FARM NORTHWEST OF ANDREW. ROSS RIVER PICKED 255 POUNDS TO BE NAMED THE TOP HUSKER. IN THE WOMEN'S DIVISION, A DEWITT WOMAN TOOK FIRST, PICKING 100 POUNDS.
IN THE 18 AND UNDER, BRANDON REED OF MAQUOKETA, PICKED 162 POUNDS, GOOD FOR 1ST PLACE. THERE WERE 24 CONTESTANTS, WHO PICKED A TOTAL OF 74 BUSHELS OF CORN. THE LAST CORN HUSKING CONTEST IN JACKSON COUNTY WAS HELD IN 1941. THE JACKSON COUNTY HORSE AND HARNESS ASSOCIATION AND THE JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY HOSTED THE EVEN YESTERDAY.

A MAQUOKETA MAN WHO HAD MATERIALS IN HIS HOME TO MAKE A BOMB HAS HAD HIS PROBATION REVOKED.
RANDY EDWARDS, AGE 41, WAS SENTENCED FRIDAY IN JACKSON COUNTY DISTRICT COURT TO 5 YEARS IN PRISON ON PROBATION VIOLATION.

THE OLD SALVATION ARMY CITADEL BUILDING WAS RE-DEDICATED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON IN CEREMONIES AT HORSESHOE POND PARK, WHERE IT WAS MOVED ABOUT 3 YEARS AGO, AFTER BEING IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA FOR AROUND 115 YEARS. THE BUILDING WAS THE FIRST SALVATION ARMY BUILDING TO BE BUILDT WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER IN 1888. MORE THAN $60,000 IN DONATIONS HAS RESTORED THE BUILDING AND IT WILL BE USED NOW BY BOY SCOUTS AND THE COMMUNITY. BOTH THE MAIN FLOOR AND BASEMENT WERE REDONE.
THE UPSTAIRS HAS BEEN RENOVATED TO LOOK LIKE THE SALVATION ARMY CHURCH OF EARLY YEARS. THE DOWNSTAIRS IS PRIMARILY USED BY THE SCOUTS. IT HAS A KITCHEN. THE BUILDING HAS A NEW HEATING AND AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM.

MERLE KLOSSNER, AGE 41, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED OCTOBER 14TH WITH POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHENALIA.

TWO MAQUOKETA RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN SENTENCED TO 5 YEARS IN PRISON ON CHARGES OF OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE WHILE INTOXICATED, 3RD OFFENSE. THEY ARE JERMOME FAIRCHILD, AGE 54. AND TERRY LEE RICKLEFS, AGE 34. BOTH ARRESTED IN SEPARATE INCIDENTS.

MARSHA MYERS OF 514 E. MAPLE STREET, WILL BE A WRITE-IN CANDIDATE FOR THE 3RD WARD COUNCIL POSITION IN MAQUOKETA. NO ON ELSE IS RUNNING FOR THE SEAT, BEING VACATED BY JIM BOLLMAN. SHE SAID HE STARTED TO GET INVOLVED IN THE COMMUNITY AFTER MOVING HERE IN DECEMBER 1998. SHE WORKS AT THE JACKSON COUNTY SENIOR CENTERR IN THE CHORE WORKER PROGRAM AND SHE'S A HOSTESS AT THE MAQUOKETA COUNTRY CLUB ON WEEKENDS. SHE IS DIVORCED AND HAS TWO CHILDREN AND A GRANDSON IN ILLINOIS.

THE MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL WILL MEET TONIGHT.

TAKE CARE.

DENNIS VOY

TERRIFIC FALL DAY IN MAQUOKETA...HIGH 83.... AND TOMORROW (MONDAY), THE FORECAST CALLS FOR HIGHS IN THE MID 80'S AGAIN.

NO SCHOOL TOMORROW AND TUESDAY....TEACHER CONFERENCE DAYS.

MAQUOKETA LOST TO SOUTH TAMA FRIDAY NIGHT, 20 TO 7. LONE SCORE WAS ON A 20 YARD 4TH QUARTER RUN BY JUSTIN HOPSON. MAQUOKETA IS NOW 0 AND 7. THE MAQUOKETA FRESH-SOPH TEAM WON AGAIN AND ARE NOW 7 AND 0.

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN JACKSON COUNTY IMPROVED IN SEPTEMBER TO 5.7 PERCENT, DOWN FROM 6.4 IN AUGUST.
IN JACKSON COUNTY, 9,930 EMPLOYED AND 600 JOBLESS. AND ALL COUNTIES AROUND US, MUCH LOWER RATE.

A MARION MAN, AGE 19, WAS KILLED IN AN EARLY MORNING CAR-PICKUP ACCIDENT LAST WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUST EAST OF MAQUOKETA. A PASSENGER IN HIS CAR WAS LAST LISTED IN CRITICAL CONDITION. THE PICKUP WAS DRIVEN BY A DELMAR MAN. THE DELMAR MAN AND TWO PASSENGERS RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES.

THE PAST WEEK BROUGHT EXTREME SORROW TO ME AND MY FAMILY. BUT GETTING THROUGH THE WEEK WAS EASIER THANKS TO OVERWHELMING SUPPORT BY HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE..... FAMILY MEMBERS, FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, CO-WORKERS AND FROM STRANGERS AS WELL . WORDS OF COMFORT..... IN PERSON, OR THROUGH EMAIL, THE CARSON'S WEB SITE, KMAQ'S WEB SITE...WHEREVER....WERE VERY, VERY MUCH APPRECIATED. THANK YOU!!

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY

PLEASANT FALL WEATHER IN MAQUOKETA.

I'M SORRY TO INFORM YOU THAT MY DAUGHTER CHRISTY, AGE 38, DIED LAST NIGHT. SHE NEVER REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS AT IOWA CITY. THANK GOD, HUSBAND CHARLIE RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES TO ONE LEG AND WAS NOT HOSPITALIZED. THEIR MOTORCYLE ACCIDENT OCCURRED SUNDAY AFTERNOON ON A VERY BUSY DUBUQUE HIGHWAY, WITH UNUSUAL HEAVY TRAFFIC BECAUSE OF THE BEAUTIFUL WEATHER. THEY WERE HEADING SOUTH TO MAQUOKETA ON HIGHWAY 61, IN KEYWEST, AT THE SOUTH EDGE OF DUBUQUE. THEY HAD BEEN TO DUBUQUE TO BUY MOTORCYLE HELMETS BUT COULD NOT FIND THE ONES THEY WANTED.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY HUSBAND, CHARLIE; DAUGHTER SARA, AGE 18 AND SON NATHAN, AGE 15, BOTH AT HOME. THE FUNERAL SERVICE WILL BE SATURDAY MORNING AT FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH IN MAQUOKETA. SHE WAS A GREAT DAUGHTER, LOVING WIFE AND MOTHER AND WAS IN HER 9TH YEAR WORKING WITH BHD KIDS AT BRIGG'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. SHE ALSO WORKED PARTTIME FOR ME AT THE DRIVE-IN AND HERE AT KMAQ. A PICTURE OF HER IS ON THE HOME PAGE OF KMAQ'S WEB SITE. SHE WAS AN ORGAN DONOR. SHE WAS BORN IN FORT HOOD, TEXAS WHILE WE WERE LIVING IN TEXAS WHEN I WAS IN THE U.S. ARMY. NANCY AND I AND HER FAMILY LOVED HER DEARLY AND WILL MISS SEEING AND TALKING TO HER DAILY.

I HAVE ALWAYS HEARD HOW HARD IT IS TO LOOSE A CHILD....NOW I KNOW.

I WILL GET BACK TO DOING THIS REPORT EARLY NEXT WEEK.

DENNIS

GOOD FALL WEATHER

TONY HENRY, AGE 43, WAS KILLED SATURDAY NIGHT IN A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT JUST SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA ON HIGHWAY 61. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, MARY, AND PARENTS, MR. AND MRS. LOWELL HENRY OF MAQUOKETA.
HE OPERATED TONY'S CYCLE REPAIR FOR THE PAST 12 YEARS. HIS WIFE WAS LONGTIME MANAGER OF FLAPJACK RESTAURANT AND CURRENTLY MANAGER OF MAQUOKETA COUNTRY CLUB. PARENTS HAVE OWNED HENRY PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS.

HAROLD KEMP DIED LATE LAST WEEK. HE WAS IN HIS 80'S AND WORKED FOR BROCK LUMBER UNTIL IT CLOSED.
SURVIVED BY A SISTER IN MAQUOEKTA, BETTY HOFFMAN.

WILLIAM "BILL" O'DONNELL, AGE 75, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED LATE LAST WEEK. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE.

MAQUOKETA LOST THEIR FOOTBALL GAME FRIDAY NIGHT AND NOW ARE 0 AND 6....THE FRESH-SOPH TEAM WON AGAIN AND ARE 6 AND 0.

CHARLIE AND CHRISTY CLASEN HAD A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT AT DUBUQUE, COMING HOME TO MAQUOKETA, AT ABOUT 2 YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. CHARLIE, AGE 48, IS OKAY, AND CHRISTY, AGE 38, IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS IN IOWA CITY. CHRISTY IS MY DAUGHTER, OLDEST OF 4 CHILDREN.
I'LL KEEP YOU POSTED. YOUR PRAYERS WILL BE APPRECIATED.

DENNIS VOY

FOGGY THIS MORNING....MOST SCHOOL DISTRICTS DELAYED SCHOOL FOR 2 HOURS. CLOUDY ALL MORNING, BUT NOW MOSTLY SUNNY AND WE ARE GOING TO BE AROUND 80 TODAY.

POLICE BLOTTER: OFFICERS FOUND DAMAGE AT 5TH WARD PARK. VANDALS TOOK SEAT BOARDS OFF SOME PICNIC TABLES...AND THEY ALSO BROKE SOME VOLLEYBALL NET POLES. ALSO, A HOSE WAS TAKEN FROM THE AWESOME CAR WASH OUT BY WAL MART....AND ROY WARD SAID A DEMONSTRATION ROUND BALE WAS TAKEN FROM HIS EMPTY LOT.

MAQUOKETA FIREMEN WRE CALLED OUT TO A SHED FIRE AT ABOUT 10:30 LAST NIGHT. FIRE FULLY ENGULFED A SHED NEAR THE FORMER BOWMAN SALE BARN ON EAST QUARRY. FIREMEN SPENT ABOUT 30 MINUTES PUTTING OUT THE FIRE.
NO OTHER INFORMATION WAS AVAILABLE THIS MORNING.

ED VALLEY REFUGE.....A NICE PARK A COUPLE MILES NORTH OF BALDWIN, WILL BE THE SCENE TOMORROW FOR THE 21ST ANNUAL BLUE GRASS JAM.

SOME NEW PICTURES UP TODAY ON DENNIS' DAILY PHOTOS.

FIRE DEPARTMENT JUST CALLED TO DAWN'S DINER ON EAST PLATT....POSSIBLE FIRE ABOVE THE CEILING.
THIS IS THE RESTAURANT BUILDT IN THE MID 70'S BY THE LATE DUANE HAYES. HE MOVED THERE AFTER HIS DOWNTOWN RESTAURANT, ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE GREEN MILL RESTAURANT, HAD A MAJOR FIRE.

JUST FOUND OUT, THE FIRE WAS FALSE ALARM.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY

SUNNY, BUT WE ARE NOT GOING TO MAKE IT TO 80 TODAY.

A VETERAN JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF DEPUTY WILL BE RETIRING AT THE END OF THE YEAR.
THE JACKSON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ACCEPTED THE EARLY RETIREMENT OF ALLEN BARKER
DURING YESTERDAY'S MEETING. BARKER JOINED THE DEPARTMENT IN MAY 1974. HAVE A GOOD RETIREMENT ALLEN....YOU DESERVE IT. SHERIFF KETTMANN PLANS TO NAME KEVIN SCOTT OF MAQUOKETA AS THE NEW DEPUTY. HE HAS BEEN A PART TIME DEPUTY AND PART TIME JAILER.

THE WHEATLAND WOMAN WHO WAS IN AN ACCIDENT EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING HAS BEEN RELEASED FROM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS IN IOWA CITY. SHE IS JANET BECTHOLD, AGE 57. SHE IS A BEUTICIAN AT JACK'S BEAUTY SALON IN MAQUOKETA.

MAQUOKETA POLICE SAY CHARGES ARE PENDING AGAINST SOME MAQUOKETA JUVINILES FOR DAMAGING CITY PARK PROPERTY. THEY BROKE A PICNIC TABLE AT FIRST WARD PARK. DAMAGE ESTIMATE, $200.

THE MAQUOKETA CARDINAL FOOTBALL TEAM TRAVELS TO VAN HORNE TOMORROW NIGHT TO PLAY BENTON COMMUNITY....AND IT WILL BE ANOTHER BIG CHALLENGE FOR THE WINLESS CARDS.

KATHY SCHILLING OF MAQUOKETA ROLLED A 225 AND 231 LAST NIGHT AND A 638 SERIES. NOT BAD. SHE IS THE LOCAL MANAGER OF THE NEW IOWA BANK IN MAQUOKETA, AT WEST EDGE OF MAQUOKETA NEAR WAL MART.

WORK HAS STARTED ON THE NEW CONVENIENCE STORE LOCATED BEHIND THE NEWLY OPENED 'FAMILY DOLLAR' STORE IN THE NEW BUSINESS PARK AT THE WEST EDGE OF MAQUOKETA.

VOLUNTEER WORKERS WORKED TODAY ON CLEANING OUT BAD TREES AND BUSHES AROUND THE OLD CLINTON ENGINES OFFICE BUILDING. I'LL PUT UP A PICTURE ONE OF THESE DAYS.

STAY OUT OF TROUBLE.

DENNIS VOY

80 AND NICE AGAIN TODAY.

THE CATTLE MARKET WAS UP AGAIN TODAY IN MAQUOKETA.....THE TOP STEER AT UNITED LIVESTOCK, FROM THE ZWINGLE AREA, BROUGHT $104.25 HOLSTEINS TOPPED AT $97.50. THE TREND HERE IN TOWN, NEARLY $7.00 ABOVE A WEEK AGO.

IT IS FIRE PREVENTION WEEK AND TONIGHT, THE CITYWIDE FIRE EXIT DRILL IN CITY HOMES. AT 6 TONIGHT, THE SIRENS WILL SOUND AND CITIZENS WILL, WITH REST OF FAMILY, PRACTICE THE BEST WAY OUT OF HOME IF THERE WERE A FIRE...AND GO TO THE CURB OF THE STREET. FIREMEN IN FIRE DEPARTMENT VEHICLES WILL GO AROUND TOWN COUNTING THOSE WHO PARTICIPATE.

MORE ABOUT ANITA MEADE, 71, WHO DIED YESTERDAY. THE FUNERAL SERVICE WILL BE SATURDAY AT CARSON'S.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE 3 CHILDREN, WENDY SCOTT OF BALDWIN (Wendy and her husband purchased the business from her mother a couple or more years ago) LEANN McCALLISTER OF MAQUOKETA AND DAYLYN MEADE OF SEBASTOPOL, CALIFORNIA. ALSO, A BROTHER, LEROY POWELKA OF MAQUOKETA AND A SISTER, DOROTHY CHESNEY OF ZWINGLE.

PHARMACIST ERIC STRATHMAN, WHO LIVES IN ANDREW, IS LEAVING OSTERHAUS PHARMACY, WHERE HE HAS BEEN A PHARMACIST FOR 8 YEARS, AND WILL WORK IN A PHARMACY UP IN DUBUQUE.

DO YOU KNOW THE BEST WAY OUT OF YOUR HOUSE IN CASE OF A FIRE....AND WHERE THE FAMILY WILL MEET QUICKLY OUTSIDE THE HOME IF THERE IS A FIRE?

CHECK BACK TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY

NICE AGAIN TODAY...80 DEGREES.

JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF DEPUTIES AND THE DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION ARE STILL INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING WHICH HAPPENED IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF SEPTEMBER 25TH, NEAR MAQUOKETA. DEPUTY STEVE SCHROEDER SAID A 21 YEAR OLD MALE WAS SHOT IN THE SHOULDER WHILE ON 233RD AVENUE, OR THE SEVEN HILLS ROAD, AT 2:56 A.M SEPTEMBER 25TH. THE INJURIES WERE NOT LIFE TREATENING. THE MAN WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL HERE IN MAQUOKETA AND LATER TRANSFERRED TO UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS IN IOWA CITY. DEPUTY SCHROEDER DECLINED TO RELEASE THE VICTIM'S NAME. HE ESTIMATED THE INVESTIGATION WOULD BE COMPLETED BY HIS OFFICE AND THE DCI SOMETIME IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS AND FURTHER DETAILS ARE EXPECTED TO BE RELEASED AT THAT TIME.

AT THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING LAST NIGHT, A DAVENPORT DEVELOPER ASKED THE CITY FOR FINANCIAL HELP TO RENOVATE THE HISTORIC HURST HOTEL IN MAQUOKETA. CHRIS ALES OF SIGNATURE HOLDING OF DAVENPORT IS NOT NEW TO THE CITY. HIS GROUP OWNS THE NEW SENIOR APARTMENT COMPLEX NEXT TO CITY HALL, OPENED A COUPLE YEARS AGO. NOW HE PLANS TO SPEND $3 MILLION DOLLARS TO RE-DO THE HURST AND INCLUDE A NEW ELEVATOR AND THAT WOULD INCLUDE 22 APARMENTS FOR LOW TO MODERATE INCOME RENTERS. HE CURRENTLY HAS A $200,000 LOAN WITH THE CITY USED FOR THE APARTMENTS ADJACENT TO CITY HALL. THE LOAN IS DUE TO BE PAID OFF IN DECEMBER 2004. HE WOULD LIKE THE CITY TO RE-LOAN ..OR ROLL OVER THAT LOAN...FOR A 15-YEAR PERIOD.
HE SAID THE NEW APARTMENT UNITS ARE FILLED ALONG SIDE CITY HALL AND THAT THERE IS A WAITING LIST AND HE BELIEVES THERE WILL ALSO BE RENTERS FOR THE HURST HOTEL APARTMENTS.

CORRECTION: YESTERDAY I MENTIONED MRS. TIMMERMAN DIED IN DUBUQUE....BUT PLEASE NOTE THAT HER CORRECT FIRST NAME IS HELEN.

A WELL KNOWN, LONGTIME FLOWER SHOP OWNER, DIED THIS MORNING IN MAQUOEKTA AT HER HOME. SERVICES ARE PENDING AT THE CARSON AND SON FUNERAL HOME FOR ANITA MEADE, AGE 71. SHE AND HER LATE HUSBAND RONALD, ESTABLISHED RONANN'S FLORAL SHOW IN MAQUOEKTA IN THE EARLY 50'S ON WEST PLATT STREET.

35 YEAR OLD DEBORAH MCCONCHIE OF MAQUOKETA WAS CHARGED WITH DOMESTIC ASSAULT. MAQUOKETA POLICE OFFICER PAT FIER SAID MCCONCHIE FOUND HER BOYFRIEND WHO HAS LIVED WITH HER FOR L4 YEARS IN HER BED AT 11:45 MONDAY NIGHT AT 309 EAST PLEASANT STREET. SHE BEGAN YELLING AT HIM AND PUSHING HIM OUT OF BED. SHE THREW A 9-INCH CAST IRON SKILLET AT HIM, CAUSING SCRATCHES ON HIS FOOT. POLICE SAY HE TESTED POSITIVE FOR FOR ALCHOHOL CONSUMPTION.

GOOD NIGHT FROM THE QUIET LITTLE TOWN OF MAQUOKETA.

DENNIS VOY

BEAUTIFUL MONDAY....69 DEGREES

FOUR PEOPLE RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES IN A TWO-VEHICLE ACCIDENT SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT HIGHWAY 61 AND THE CAVES ROAD. IT IS THE ACCIDENT I REFERRED TO IN YESTERDAY'S REPORT. NO ONE FROM MAQUOKETA IN THE ACCIDENT.

A MAQUOKETA MAN, JACK BRADFORD KOONTZ, AGE 45, WAS SENTENCED TO 5 YEARS IN PRISON ON EACH OF TWO CHARGES OF LASCIVIOUS ACTS WITH A 6 YEAR OLD IN 1999 AND ANOTHER 6 YEAR OLD BETWEEN 1994-1998.

ON THE POLICE BLOTTER...A BURGLARY AND A VANDALISM REPORT OVER THE WEEKEND. CARQUEST, ON EAST PLATT, REPORTED SOMONE ENTERED THROUGH A WINDOW AND A SMALL AMOUNT OF CASH WAS TAKEN AND GREG KROGMAN, 513 W. PLATT, SAID SOMEONE PULLED OUT SOME LIGHTS AND DESTROYED SOME HALOWEEN DECORATIONS.

THE TUG-OF-WAS CONTEST YESTERDAY AT "PIONEER DAY" AT THE FAIRGROUNDS WAS WON BY SCHUELLEER AND SONS CONSTRUCTION IN MAQUOKETA. TOP PRIZE WAS $100. THERE WERE 3 OTHER TEAMS.

BIG COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT WITH A LONG AGENDA.

JOHN ROTH, AGE 60, OF ST. JOSEPHY, MISSOURI, AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY AFTER A BRIEF ILLNESS. HE WAS A LICENSED MASAGE THERAPIST AT THE YMCA FOR 39 YEARS. HE IS SURVIVED BY A BROTHER, RICHARD ROTH OF MAQUOKETA.

ESTHER TIMMERMAN, AGE 92, OF DUBUQUE, DIED LAST WEEK. SHE AND HER HUSBAND RAN "THE CIRCLE" IN EAST DUBUQUE IN THE LATE 50'S AND THEN BUILDT THE POPULAR "TIMMERMAN'S SUPPER CLUB" IN EAST DUBUQUE IN 1962 AND RAN IT FOR MANY YEARS. AFTER HER HUSBAND DIED, SHE ADDED A MOTEL NEXT TO THE RESTAURANT.
THE RESTAURANT IS STILL A NICE PLACE TO DINE, OVERLOOKING DUBUQUE AND THE MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI.

TAKE CARE.

DENNIS VOY

BEAUTIFUL FALL DAY IN IOWA.

AM DOING THIS SHORT REPORT FROM MY HOME....KIND OF A TEST.....USING WHAT USED TO BE CALLED...THE WEB-TV. NO COMPUTER.

IOWA WON A GREAT HOMECOMING GAME YESTERDAY AGAINST MICHIGAN.

MAQUOKETA LOST TO GRINELL FRIDAY NIGHT, BY ANOTHER HEFTY SCORE.
THEY ARE NOW 0 AND 5. BUT..THE SOPHOMORE TEAM WON AGAIN, BY 1 POINT AND THEY ARE NOW 5 AND 0.

AN ACCIDENT OF SOME SORT OUT AT THE MAQUOKETA CAVES STATE PARK EARLY THIS AFTERNOON....LOTS OF SIRENS.
WILL PROBABLY HAVE MORE TOMORROW ON IT.

LEAVES ARE FALLING LIKE CRAZY IN MAQUOKETA.

THEY ARE GETTING READY TO PAVE THE BIG PARKING LOT AT THE NEW TRUE VALUE AND DICK'S SUPERMARKET STORES.

COMING LATER THIS MONTH AT THE ANDREW-JACKSON DEMONSTRATION FARM, AN OLD FASHIONED CORN PICKING CONTEST. PICKING BY HAND. LAST ONE WAS IN 1941.

MAQUOKETA CHICAGO CUBS FANS ARE ON EDGE.

THANKS FOR CHECKING IN ON SUNDAY.

DENNIS VOY

BREEZY, PARTLY CLOUDY AND WARMER TODAY...IN 60'S. RAIN IN FORECAST..BUT NONE BY MIDDLE OF AFTERNOON.

A BERNARD MAN, DALE JOHN COOK, AGE 60, DIED OF INJURIES FROM A TRACTOR ROLLOVER YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.

THE CITY OF MAQUOKETA MAY NOT BE ABLE TO GIVE THE CLINTON ENGINES OFFICE BUILDING AND SURRONDING LAND TO THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AS PLANNED. CITY ATTORNEY MARK LAWSON TOLD COUNCIL MEMBERS AT A COMMITTEE MEETING THIS MORNING THAT THEY PROBABLY WILL HAVE TO SEEL THE PROPERTY AT A FAIR MARKET VALUE, BECAUSE THE SOCIETY IS NOT A GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY. IT'S A PRIVATE NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION. MAYOR MESSERLI ASKED IF THE CITY COULD GIVE A LONGTERM LEASE TO THE SOCIETY AT A LOW PRICE. THE CITY ATTORNEY WILL CHECK ON THAT.

THE ANNUAL PIONEER DAY IS SUNDAY AT THE FAIRGROUNDS, SPONSORED BY THE JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
IT STARTS OFF WITH A BREAKFAST AT 9 A.M. ENDS UP LATE IN THE AFTERNOON. NEW THIS YEAR, A TUG-OF-WAR.
THERE IS A $100 PRIZE TO THE OVERALL WINNER. EACH TEAM MUST WEIGH LESS THAN 1,500 POUNDS. WEIGH-IN WILL BE AT BULLOCH'S. THE WAR STARTS AT 2. OVER THE NOON HOUR, THERE WILL BE A LUXEMBOURG BUFFET. JACKSON COUNTY SMALLTOWN SAINT DONATUS IS A LUXEMBOURG COMMUNITY.

IN DISTRICT COURT, TIMOTHY ARRICK, AGE 52, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS SENTENCED TO 30 DAYS IN JAIL, 28 DAYS SUSPENDED ON CHARGES OF POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, METHAMPHETAMINE.

NO DEATHS...OR BIRTHS.

MAQUOKETA PLAYS FOOTBALL AT GRINNELL TONIGHT.... OVER 2 HOURS FROM HERE. PLAYERS ARE GOING BY COMMERCIAL BUS. MAQUOKETA IS 0 AND 4 AND THEY ARE 2 AND 2. MAQUOKETA'S SOPHOMORE TEAM IS
4 AND 0. KMAQ-AM WILL BROADCAST THE GAME, WITH LEIGHTON HEPKER AT MIKE, ASSISTED BY HIS FRIEND, BILL CARINDER, WHO IS ALSO THE FATHER OF THE CARDINAL QUARTERBACK. MAQUOKETA HAD 4 PLAYERS INJURED LAST FRIDAY NIGHT AND THEY WILL NOT BE PLAYING TONIGHT.

NOW 69 DEGREES, AT 3:30.

BUMPER STICKER WINNERS AT KMAQ TODAY HAVE BEEN DELORES BENDICKSON, BETTY MILLER AND VIOLA WEIMERSKIRCH.
BETTY MILLER IS GETTING ANXIOUS TO GO BACK DOWN TO ARIZONA FOR THE WINTER, BUT FIRST MUST FINISH UP JURY DUTY. LET'S SEE....ARIZONA IS ONE OF THOSE STATES THAT DOESN'T HAVE THE FOUR BEAUTIFUL SEASONS OF IOWA.

THE LEAVES AROUND HER ARE STARTING TO TURN TO FALL COLORS.

IOWA NEEDS A WIN OVER MICHIGAN TOMORROW...BUT IT WON'T BE EASY.

IOWA STATE PLAYS #1 OKLAHOMA....A WIN FOR THE CYCLONES DEFINFITELY WON'T BE EASY.

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY

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26 DEGREES EARLY THIS MORNING.....THAT......IS COLD FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. SUNNY THIS MORNING AND HIGH AROUND 50 EXPECTED TODAY. A GOOD CHANCE FOR RAIN TOMORROW.

DR. CLIFFORD RASK, SEMI-RETIRED, AND HIS WIFE CAROL, ARE LEAVING THIS WEEK FOR A "SEVERAL WEEK" MISSION TRIP TO GUYANA, SOUTH AMERICA. THEY WILL JOIN 20 PEOPLE FROM SEVERAL AREA STATES TO PROVIDE MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ALONG WITH BIBLE STUDY AT THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN GUYANA. GUYANA IS THE ONLY ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRY IN SOUTH AMERICA AND IS THE SECOND POOREST COUNTRY IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.

A MAQUOKETA POLICE OFFICER DID NOT COMMITT SUICIDE, AS WAS MENTIONED IN THE KMAQ GUEST BOOK.
THERE WAS AN INCIDENT AT A HOME A POLICE OFFICER LIVED-IN ABOUT A YEAR AGO AND THAT APPARENTLY LEAD TO THE MISUNDERSTANDING.

ON THE POLICE BLOTTER, SHAWNA AKER REPORTED TO THE POLICE THAT TIRES ON HER 1994 PONTIAC WERE SLASHED WHILE SHE WAS AT TIMER LANES TUESDAY NIGHT. BLAKE ROCKWELL REPORTED HIS TIRES WERE SLASHED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON WHILE PARKED AT THE MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL.

IN COURT NEWS, DAVID STREETS, SR., AGE 43, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH CRIMINAL MISCHIEF IN THE 5TH DEGREE FOR BREAKING THE WINDSHIELD OF JANET STREETS SUNDAY NIGHT ON SOUTH MATTESON STREET IN MAQUOKETA. ALSO, JEREMY DEMOSS OF MAQUOKETA WAS CHARGED WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE AND DRIVING WHILE LICENSE SUSPENDED. HE HIT ANGELA HOOVER IN THE EYE AND PUSHED HER TO THE GROUND MONDAY NIGHT ON WEST GROVE STREET.

A MAQUOKETA MAN, GRANT WHITE, AGE 55, WAS HELD OVERNIGHT IN JAIL ON THREE SEPARATE THEFT CHARGES, IN CONNECTION WITH ALLEGEDLY TAKING MONEY FOR CONSTRUCTION WORK THAT WAS NOT COMPLETED. ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION FILED BY THE COUNTY ATTORNEY, WHITE ACCEPTED MONEY FROM THREE PEOPLE TO BUY SIDING AND BUILDING MATERIALS, BUT DIDN'T PURCHASE THE ITEMS OR RETURN THE MONEY. THE AMOUNT CAME TO NEARLY $10,000. HE WAS RELEASED ON BOND BY MAGISTRATE RON BESCH.

CHARGES OF THEFT IN THE 2ND DEGREE WERE DISMISSED AGAINST BRUCE KEMP, AGE 39, OF MAQUOKETA, BECAUSE THE COUNTY ATTORNEY SAID RESTITUTION HAS BEEN PAID. HE WORKED AT B & C LIQUOR IN MAQUOKETA AS A CLERK FROM SEPTEMBER OF LAST YEAR UNTIL JUNE OF THIS YEAR AND DURING THAT TIME, HE TOOK $7,425 FROM THE BUSINESS.

TWO CHARGES OF ASSISTING WITH A JAIL ESCAPE WERE DISMISSED AGAINST BRENDA WARD, AGE 20, OF MAQUOKETA BECAUSE OF LACK OF EVIDENCE. JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF DEPUTIES SAID SHE ASSISTED PAUL WEIDNER AND MICHAEL MELLOY ESCAPTE THE COUNTY JAIL EXERCISE AREA ON AUGUST34D.

SEN. JOHN KERRY HAD TO CANCEL HIS PLANS TO BE AT A FUNDRAISER IN MAQUOKETA FOR SEN. ROGER STEWART OF MAQUOKETA TONIGHT. HE HAS TO BE IN WASHINGTON D.C. FOR AN IMPORTANT SENATE VOTE.

BETTY HOVEY, AGE 77, OF MAQUOKETA DIED LAST SATURDAY AT HER HOME. SHE WORKED AT THE OLD FISHING TACKLE COMAPANY IN MAQUOKETA OVER 50 YEARS AGO AND ALSO WORKED AT MANNING NUJRSING HOME. NO LOCAL SURVIVORS.

DR. BROMAN IS BACK IN THE DUBUQUE HOSPITAL AFTER SPENDING A FEW DAYS OUT IN IOWA CITY.

STOCK CAR RACING IS OVER FOR THE SEASON IN MAQUOKETA.

THAT'S IT FOR NOW...TAKE IT EASY.

DENNIS VOY