SUNNY, BUT COOL TODAY...HIGH LOW 40'S.

BELLEVUE MARQUETTE GIRLS LOST 3 OUT OF 4 TO TREYNOR AT THE STATE
VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT THIS AFTERNOON AT CEDAR RAPIDS. ALL 4 WERE VERY CLOSE.

ACCIDENTS: LARRY HAYWARD, 60, OF MAQUOKETA WAS STOPPED AT INTERSECTION OF SUMMIT AND MAIN, PULLED INTO THE INTERSECTION AND DID NOT SEE A SEMI DRIVEN BY ROGER WILMS, 61, OF MAQUOKETA AND WILMS HIT THE HAWARD VEHICLE. HAYWARD WAS CHARGED. $5,000 DAMAGE TO HAYWARD'S 2000 GMC PICKUP AND $3,000 TO WILM'S 95 SEMI..
AND.....MAXINE FRICK, MAQUOKETA, 79, SAW LYNN SCHNOOR, 51, DRIVE HIS TRUCK DOWN AN ALLEY BUT DID NOT SEE THE LOW TRAILER HE WAS PULLING AND WHILE BACKING OUT OF HER DRIVEWAY, BACKED UP ANDN OVER THE TRAILER AND HIT A BUILDING HOUSING SPRAGUE SMALL ENGINES. NO INJURIES. $1,500 TO THE SPRAGUE BUILDING...NO DAMAGE TO SCHNOOR'S PICKUP AND FRICK'S CAR RECEIVED $750 WORTH OF DAMAGE.

JERRY MAPLES, FORMER MAQUOEKTA BANKER, WILL BE AT THE LIBRARY FOR A BOOK SIGNING SESSION THIS SATURDAY, FOR HIS NEW MYSTERY THAT IS SET IN DUBUQUE AND IS CENTERED AROUND TERMINAL ILLNESS. TITLE IS "DIVINE
MISGUIDANCE". ALSO SIGNING SATURDAY, TIM RASK, WHO HAS WRITTEN AN ILLUSTRATED BOOK ON THE JOHN O'DONNELL BASEBALL STADIUM IN DAVENPORT.
HE'S A GRAD OF MCHS, AND IS THE SON OF DR. CLIFFORD AND CAROL RASK.

MORE ON THE LARRY BARTELS ACCIDENT. I GOT AN EMAIL FROM HIS WIFE, MARY.
SHE SAID HE WAS TO HAVE SURGERY EARLY THIS MORNING. SHE SAYS HE HAS MULTIPLE FACIAL FRACTURES, BUT THEY BELIEVE NO RECONSTRUCTIVE
SURGERY WILL BE NEEDED. THEY ARE AWAITING ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY ON THE BROKEN LEG. SHE SAYS HE IS AS COMFORTABLE AS CAN BE EXPECTED CONSIDERING THE CIRCUMSTANCES. SHE ALSO SAID BOTH SHE AND LARRY WERE SO IMPRESSED WITH THE DECISION MAKING AND THE CHAIN OF EVENTS THAT OCCURRED AFTER THE ACCIDENT. AND, THE CARE THAT LARRY RECEIVED AFTER FROM STATE TROOPER MILAN JAMES AND DEPUTY STEVE SCHROEDER. SHE ALSO MENTIONED THE WONDERFUL PARAMEDICS, AND THE EXPERTISE OF THE HOSPITAL STAFF AND THEIR CARE AND COMFORT. MARY WENT ON TO SAY IN THE EMAIL TO ME: "I JUST CAN'T SAY ENOUGH OF HOW TRULY BLESSED WE ARE TO HAVE SUCH WONDERFUL PROFESSIONALS RIGHT HERE IN JACKSON COUNTY. WE ARE ALL SO VERY GRATEFUL TO HAVE A COMMUNITY SUCH AS THIS".
MARY.....WE ALL HOPE THAT LARRY WILL BE UP AND ABOUT SOON.

AND NOW...ITS 4 P.M. AND TIME FOR ME TO GET BACK ON-THE-AIR AND DO THE NEXT HOUR MUSIC SHOW ON KMAQ-FM...THEN THE 5:05 NEWS FINAL THAT IS CARRIED ON BOTH KMAQ AM & FM....THEN HOME FOR SOME PIZZA...AND BACK HERE FOR THE 6-7 SPEICAL WEEK LONG KMAQ AUCTION SHOW ON BOTH STATIONS.

TAKE IT EASY WHEREVER YOU ARE.

DENNIS VOY