SUNNY, WINDY AND WARM TODAY...IN THE LOW 80'S.

MORE THAN 40 MAILBOXES HAVE BEEN DAMAGED IN RURAL JACKSON COUNTY IN SEPTEMBER. DEPUTY SHERIFF STEVE SCHROEDER SAYS CHARGES ARE PENDING AGAINST SEVERAL BELLEVUE YOUTH FOR ALLEGEDLY DAMAGING THESE MAIL BOXES.

NEW WEB SITE....www.clintonengines.com CHECK IT OUT.

MAQUOKETA IS BUYING A NEW SQUAD CAR TO REPLACE THE ONE IN THE CRASH LAST WEEK. IT WILL BE FROM BURNETT THEIL FORD EVEN THOUGH THE BID BY BRAD DEERY MOTORS WAS LOWER. REASON. TALLER AND LARGER OFFICERS CAN GET INTO THE FORD FASTER, EASIER THAN INTO THE CHEVY IMPALA. IT IS ROOMIER. THE FORD BID, $21,296.
THE CHEVY BID, $19,195. THE CAR COMES WITH POLICE PACKAGE. THE 2003 IMPALA WAS TOTALED OUT BY RODNEY TTRACY DURING A POLICE CHASE. CHEIF BOB ANDERSEN TOLD THE COUNCIL THAT TRACY HAD NO INSURANCE SO THE CITY OF MAQUOKETA INSURANCE WILL PAY FOR THE REPLACEMENT CAR, AS WELL AS THE $5,000 WORTH OF DAMAGED POLICE CAR INTERIOR EQUIPMENT INSIDE THE PATROL CAR. THE CAR SHOULD BE HERE IN A COUPLE WEEKS.

GOT AN E-MAIL FROM MICHELLE BARTELS. IN MY STORY YESTERDAY, I SAID THE DYNAMIC PLANT HERE IN TOWN HAS A NEW OWNER AND NAME. THE NEW NAME IS NOT DYNAMIC TIRE....BUT IS.....DYNAMIC TUBE INC. MICHELLE WORKS THERE.

BETTY L. TUBBS, AGE 79, OF MAQUOKETA DIED THIS MORNING AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. SHE WORKED AT CLINTON ENGINES AND THEN LATER AS A CERTIFIED NURSES AID AND THEN FAT THE HOSPITAL AS A PRIVATE DUTY NURSES AIDE.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE 5 CHILDREN, INCLUDING GLORIA WILHELM, GEORGIA DRUMM, LARRY TUBBS, AND MICHAEL TUBBS, ALLLOF MAQUOKETA AND JESSE TUBBS OF OXFORD JUNCTION.

DR. J. A. BROMAN HAD HEART BYPASS SURGERY IN DUBUQUE AND THEN TRANSFERRED TO UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS IN IOWA CITY.

JACK GAVIN WAS A KMAQ BUMPER STICKER WINNER TODAY.

BOB GRAVES WAS JUST IN. HIRED HIM TO HAUL SOME TRASH FOR ME. RETIRED FROM THE CITY, HE GETS A LOT OF JOBS AROUND TOWN, CLEANING OUT BASEMENTS, ETC. AND HAULING THE TRASH. MANY OF YOU KNOW BOB.

REMEMBER THE TANGO? FOR YEARS, IT HAS BEEN OBIE'S....FAMOUS FOR TACOS. THIS WEEK....THE ENTIRE GRAVEL LOT WAS PAVED WITH ASPHALT. CUSTOMERS WILL BE HAPPY. OBIE DIED QUITE A FEW YEARS AGO AND THE BUSINESS HAS BEEN RUN BY HIS WIFE SINCE THEN.

HALLOWEEN TRICK OR TREAT DAY IN MAQUOKETA IS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26TH, SIX DAYS BEFORE HALLOWEEN.
AND ALSO.... NOT DURING SCARY DARK HOURS, BUT 4 'TIL 6 IN THE AFTERNOON......AS PER DIRECTIONS FROM THE CITY COUNCIL. ALL PART OF A CHANGING AMERICA.

TAKE CARE.

DENNIS VOY