ANOTHER NICE DAY. SUNNY AND BREEZY.
THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS VOLLEYBALL TEAM HAD THEIR FIRST COMPETITION OF THE SEASON LAST NIGHT IN A ROUND ROBIN TOURNAMENT AND CAME IN 2ND. BELLEVUE MARQUETTE WENT 3 AND 0 IN THE TOURNY AND MAQUOKETA, 2 AND 1. ALSO IN THE TOURNAMENT, PRESTON AND ANDREW. TIFFANY HELMBRECHT
WAS NAMED TO THE ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM.
TWO VEHICLE ACCIDENT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. CLARA KEIM, 29, OF MAQUOKETA WAS DRIVING ON OLIVE AND DIDN'T STOP AT A STOP SIGN AND WAS STRUCK BY SANDRA KENNEDY, AGE 56, OF MAQUOKETA. KEIM WAS CHARGED. NO INJURIES.
JOEL GIESWEIN, AGE 15, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS IN AN ACCIDENT AT 8 THIS MORNING. HE WAS DRIVING EAST ON 258TH STREET, 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAMOTTEE, CAME TO A CURVE AND LOST CONTROL AND WENT INTO THE DITCH. THE 98 MERCURY WAS TOTALLED. NO INJURIES.
HE ATTENDS MARQUETTE HIGH SCHOOL IN BELLEVUE AND WAS ON HIS WAY TO SCHOOL.
THERE WILL BE A CONTEST FOR MAYOR OF MAQUOKETA THIS NOVEMBER. MAYOR TOM MESSERLI WILL RUN FOR RE-ELECTION AND HE WILL BE CHALLENGED BY PAM ROSENBERG. HER HUSBAND, JACK, ALSO FILED FOR 5TH WARD COUNCIL. HE WAS MAYOR UNTIL DEFEATED BY MESSERLI IN THE ELECTION 2 YEARS AGO. HE SEEKS COUNCIL POSITION IN 5TH WARD, VACATED BY STEVE FLYNN WHO IS MOVING FROM THE CITY TO RURAL MAQUOKETA.
ALVIN BARTEN IN THE FIRST WARD, IS NOT RUNNING AGAIN, SO WE'LL HAVE ANOTHER NEW COUNCILMAN THERE. I HOPE HE CHANGES HIS MIND AS I THINK HE HAS DONE A GOOD JOB. COUNCILMAN TIM CHAPIN HAS NOT SAID IF HE WILL RUN AGAIN AND FORMER COUNCILMAN NEIL MOREHEAD IS CIRCULATING NOMINATING FORMS FOR THAT POSITION. NEWLY ELECTED COUNCILMAN TIM CLARK SAID HE WILL RUN AGAIN AND COUNCILMAN JIM BOLLMAN IS UNDECIDED YET. TWO SEATS ARE NOT UP THIS YEAR....THE ONES OCCUPIED BY TOM SCHUELLER AND JOHN CRESSEY.
COURT NEWS: THOMAS WEIPERT OF MAQUOEKTA, AGE 39, WAS CHARGED WITH DOMESTIC ASSAULT BECAUSE HE PUNCHED HIS FIST THROUGH A SCREEN WINDOW AND HHIT HIS GIRLFRIEND IN THE FACE ON APRIL 27TH.
JEAN WILLIAMSON HAMMILL OF CEDAR RAPIDS, AGE 83, DIED SUNDAY. SURVIVORS INCLUDE A DAUGHTER, CAROL HAMMILL OF MAQUOKETA.
RED HENTON IS 83 TODAY. CALL HIM TONIGHT AND WISH HIM HAPPY BIRTHDAY. 1-563-652-5698.
'TILL NEXT TIME, TAKE CARE.
DENNIS VOY
