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