SUNDAY AFTERNOON, LIGHT RAIN. TODAY, SUNNY, BREEZY AND HIGH OF 73.

MAQUOKETA LOST THEIR VARSITY GAME FRIDAY NIGH AT DEWITT, 41 TO 0. THE MAQUOKETA FRESH-SOPH TEAM WON OVER DEWITT AND THEY ARE 3 AND 0. THE VARSITY IS 0 AND 3 AND THIS FRIDAY NIGHT IS HOMECOMING, HOSTING MT. VERNON. JENNIFER LANSING WILL BE QUEEN...DAUGHTER OF STEVE AND IRENE LANSING AND JOYCE LANSING AND THE KING WILL BE JAKE BOWMAN, SON OF BOB AND JOANNIE BOWMAN.

JOEL YANDA IS THE NEW MAQUOKETA MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER SUPERINTENDENT. NO RELATION TO THE MAQUOKETA YANDAS...HE IS FROM TRAER, IOWA AND WILL START OCTOBER 27TH AT A SALARY OF $65,000. HE REPLACES TOM ALLEN IN THAT POSITION.

VANDALISM....BRAD BICKFORD AT 501 ROSEMERE REPORTED PUDDING, SHAVING CREAM AND EGGS THROWN ON HIS LAWN, DRIVEWAY AND MAILBOX THIS PAST WEEKEND. TIFFANY SCHURBON SAID EGGS WERE THROWN AT HER VEHICLE WHILE SHE WAS DRIVING ON WESTERN AVENUE. AND AWESOME CAR WASH OUT BY WAL MART, REPORTED THEIR CAR VACUUM CLEANERS WERE VANDALIZED.

BOB JONES, AGE 82, DIED SUNDAY AT CRESTRIDGE. HE WAS A LONGTIME MAQUOKETA BUSINESSMAN. HE SOLD AUTOMOBILES AND MOBILE HOMES. BUILDT A COUPLE MOBILE HOME PARKS. BUILDT THE 64 DRIVE-IN RESTAURANT AND LATER CONVERTED IT TO A NIGHTCLUB AND WAS INVOLVED IN NUMEROUS OTHER BUSINESS PROJECTS IN MAQUOKETA. WAS INTERESTED IN LOCAL POLITICS TOO AND ONCE RAN FOR MAYOR. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE DOROTHY AND SON STEVE.

MAQUOKETA VOLLEYBALL TEAM TOOK PLACE IN MARION TOURNAMENT SATURDAY.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY