PARTLY SUNNY AND COOL TODAY.

NEWS HEADLINES THIS PAST WEEK UNTIL TODAY:

DOLL, TOY AND BEAR SHOW TOMORROW (SUNDAY) AT FAIRGROUNDS, WITH
75 DEALERS FROM 7 STATES.

FORMER JACKSON COUNTY SUPERVISOR RICK DICKENSON ANNOUNCES HE WILL RUN FOR CONGRESS. HE LIVES IN SABULA.

WATER BILLS GO UP NEXT MONTH TO PAY FOR NEW $4-MILLION WATER PLANT.

BUTCH WATTERS, 61, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED UNEXPECTEDLY MARCH 5TH.
NEVER MARRIED. RETIRED THIS JANUARY AFTER MANY YEARS OF WORK AS JANITOR AT COURT HOUSE.

RITH LYMAN, AGE 83, OF MARION AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED MARCH 4TH. HER HUSBAND WAS CARL, A WELL-KNOWN RAILROAD ENGINEER AND MUSICIAN WHO DIED MANY YEARS AGO. SURVIVED BY TWO SONS, GARY OF ROBINS, IOWA AND MICHAEL OF MUNICH, GERMANY, AND 3 GRANDCHILDREN.

MARY MANNING, 86, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED MARCH 6TH AT HER HOME.
HER HUSBAND WAS BUSINESSMAN JOE MANNING (LOCKER PLANT, LATER MUSIC JUKEBOX). SURIVIVED BY TWO DAUGHTERS, MARY JO OF GENESEO, ILLINOIS AND NANCY OF MELROSE, IOWA, AND ONE SON, JON, OF DUBUQUE, AND 13 GRANDCHILDREN.

ANNUAL SCHOOL MUSICAL IS TONIGHT AT THE NEW OHNWARD AUDITORIUM.
NEARLY FULL HOUSE LAST NIGHT. REPORTS ARE THE 3-HOUR SHOW IS VERY GOOD. MY GRANDDAUGHTER SARA AND I WILL SEEE IT TONIGHT. DIRECTOR IS PAM CRAWFORD.

BOBBY JAN, 72, OF VIRGINIA, DIED IN JANUARY. WAS IN THE MILITARY FOR OVER 20-YEARS, THEN WORKED FOR US POSTAL SERVICE. SURIVIVORS INCLUDE THIS MOTHER, LAVONE, IN MAQUOKETA. PRECEDED BY FATHER, ANTON.

PEOPLE ARE UNHAPPY ABOUT ASSESSOR WANTING TO MOVE OUT OF COURTHOUSE.
LOOKS LIKE THEY WILL FIGURE OUT A WAY TO KEEP IT THERE.
HE NEEDS MORE ROOM FOR HIM AND STAFF.

PEOPLE STILL UPSET, BUT SOME HAPPY, ABOUT WAL MART'S PLANS FOR A NEW SUPER STORE IN MAQUOKETA, THAT WOULD INCLUDE A FULL GROCERY STORE.

SCOTT AND BECKY KIRBY OF MAQUOKETA HAD A GIRL TUESDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.
GREAT GRANDPARENTS ARE WAYNE AND ARLENE MOELLER OF MAQUOKETA.

GAS IS JUST UNDER $2.00 A GALLON IN MAQUOKETA.

ADAM HEPKER, SOPHOMORE AT MID-AMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY AT OLATHA, KANSAS (NEAR KANSAS CITY) HAS JUST COMPLETED A VERY GOOD SEASON AS THE STARTING POINT-GUARD FOR THE MEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM.
THEY WERE IN THE AFTER-REGULAR-SEASON TOURNAMENT AT COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS AT BRANSON THIS WEEK AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT, WON THEIR OPENING GAME, AN UPSET, BUT THEN LOST FRIDAY'S GAME AND HAVE NOW FINISHED THE SEASON, I BELIEVE AT 23 AND 11. HE IS THE SON OF LEIGHTON AND CINDY HEPKER OF MAQUOKETA AND HIS COACH IS FORMER MAQUOKETA ATHLETE, ROCKY LAMAR.

THE BELLEVUE MARQUETTE GIRLS LOST THIER OPENING GAME AT THE STATE TOURNAMENT MONDAY, THE 4TH YEAR IN A ROW FOR THIS TO HAPPEN. IT IS NICE TO GET TO THE STATE TOURNAMENT, BUT ALWAYS NICER IF YOU CAN WIN THE FIRST GAME, AND THEN PLAY TWO MORE.

THE DEWITT BOYS WERE ONE GAME AWAY FROM THE BOYS STATE TOURNAMENT, NEXT WEEK, WHEN THEY LOST THIS PAST MONDAY NIGHT BY JUST A FEW POINTS TO A CEDAR RAPIDS TEAM.

SO, THE KMAQ-AREA ONLY HAD ONE GIRL'S TEAM AT STATE AND WILL HAVE NO BOY'S TEAM THIS YEAR.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY.