52 FOR A HIGH TODAY....WITH MOSTLY CLOUDY AND WINDY CONDITIONS. THERE IS A FORECAST FOR 70 DEGREE WEATHER LATER IN THE WEEK.

A 20 YEAR OLD MAQUOKETA MAN, BROCK BOWMAN, WAS AIRLIFTED TO UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS IN IOWA CITY AROUND 3 YESTERDAY AFTERNOON FOLLOWING A DIRT BIKE ACCIDENT IN A RURAL FARM FIELD. HE IS LISTED IN FAIR CONDITION.
HE IS THE SON OF ANN AND LARRY BOWMAN AND THE ATV ACCIDENT HAPPENED ON THEIR FARM ON 134TH AVENUE.

AROUND 9:30 LAST NIGHT, RACHEL WAGNER, 21, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH FAILING TO MAINTAIN CONTROL AND FAILING TO HAVE PROOF OF INSURANCE AS THE RESULT OF AN ACCIDENT ON NORTH OLIVE STREET. SHE WAS SOUTHBOUND AND BECAME DISTRACTED AND STRUCK A LEGALLY PARKED TRUCK.
HER CAR RECEIVED ABOUT $6,000 DAMAGE AND THE DUBUQUE TRUCK, ABOUT $4,500 DAMAGE. SHE WAS NOT HURT.

A MINOR ACCIDENT SATURDAY MORNING ON EAST MAPLE STREET. GLORIA PETERSON, 50, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS BACKING FROM A PRIVATE DRIVE AND BACKED IN FRONT OF A CAR DRIVEN BY ETHELYN POOL, 78, OF MAQUOKETA.
NO INJURIES, AND NO CHARGES FILED.

THE 2ND ANNUAL HAND CORN PICKING CONTEST WAS HELD YESTERDAY AT THE ANDREW JACKSON DEMONSTRATION FARM JUST NORTH OF ANDREW. CONTESTANTS WERE GIVEN 20 MINUTES TO PICK CORN AND THROW THE CORN INTO AN OLD GRAIN WAGON PULLED BY A TEAM OF HORSES. THE MEN'S DIVISON WINNER WAS JOHN STENDER OF RURAL MAQUOKETA, PICKING 316 POUNDS.
THE WOMEN'S WINNTER WASFROM DUNKERTON, PICKING 148 POUNDS AND THE YOUTH DIVISION WINNER, FOR 2ND YEAR IN A ROW, WAS BRANDON REED PICKING 196 POUNDS. ALL THREE WINNING TOTALS WERE HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR.
THERE WERE 24 PARTICIPANTS AND QUITE A FEW SPECTATORS. I STOPPED OUT FOR AWHILE AND WATCHED. LOWELL CARLSON TOLD ME DIDN'T DO TOO WELL, BUT HAD FUN TRYING.

THREE YOUNG BOYS, AGES 12, 14 AND 16, WERE ARRESTED LAST WEDNESDAY, AT 12:45 A.M. ON CHARGES OF CURFEW VIOLATION. THEY WILL APPEAR IN MAGISTRATES COURT WEDNESDAY.

ON POLICE BLOTTER: ROBIN CLARK OF MAQUOKET REPORTED SATURDAY AFTERNOON THAT SOMEONE KEYED HER CAR WHILE PARKED AT THEISEN' STORE....BRAD DEERY MOTORS REPORTED TWO VEHICLES KEYED, RESULTING IN $600 DAMAGE AND BRANDY HOLST OF PRESTON REPORTED HER 4 CAR TIRES HAD BEEN SLASHED SOMETIME SATURDAY NIGHT..

ROCHELLE RAY IS THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY CITIZEN OF THE WEEK. SEE PHOTO AND STORY AT www.maquoketa-rotary.org

WAYNE WELLS, AGE 92, DIED YESTERDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.
HE OWNED AND OPERATED WELLS PLUMBING AND HEATING IN MAQUOKETA SINCE 1952. HE WAS AN AVID FISHERMAN AND KNOWN FOR HIS MORNING GLORY CATFISH BAIT. HE STARTED THE MORNING GLORY BAKERY IN MAQUOKETA IN THE 1930'S AND RAN IT UNTIL SOLD TO THE DOLCH'S IN THE 1940'S. HE IS SURVIVED BY DAUGHTER BONNIE MITCHELL OF MAQUOKETA AND SON BRENT OF RURAL MAQUOKETA.

TODAY, I USED SLIGHTLY LARGER LETTERING....WILL TRY TO REMEMBER TO DO THAT MORE OFTEN...LITTLE EASIER TO READ.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY