HOT TODAY..89, 1 DEGGREE UNDER THE RECORD. WILL BE HOT AGAIN TOMORROW, THEN COOLING OFF THE REST OF THE WEEK.

MAQUOKETA LOST THEIR HOMECOMING GAME TO WEST DELAWARE, 49 TO 14.
THE WINNER OF THE CAR DRAWING...A 2004 PT CRUISER, WAS LOIS FRANDSEN. LOIS AND HER HUSBAND JERRY OF MAQUOKETA WERE THERE WHEN THE WINNING NAME WAS DRAWN BY THE HOMECOMING QUEEN HEATHER WHITE. THE RAFFLE WAS SPONSORED BY THE MAQUOKETA ATHLETIC BOOSTERS...2ND YEAR IN A ROW FOR THE RAFFLE.

CINDY KNOCK IS THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE MAQUOKETA OPTIMIST CLUB. BOB KORANDA IS PRESIDENT-ELECT. VERA RANDALL VICE-PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY-TREASURER. LOIS FISCHER, KMAQ SALES REP, IS ASSISTANT SECRETARY-TREASURER. BOARD MEMBERS ARE MAYOR TOM MESSERLI, GALEN BARTELS, RUTH SHEETS, CINDY KNOCK, DOUG MELVOLD AND MATT WAACK.

MAQUOKETA CITY COUNICIL MEETING TONIGHT.

DAN AND STACY SIMMONS OF DELMAR, ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN THIS MORNING AT DAVENPORT HOSPITAL. GRANDPARENTS ARE LEE AND CONNIE WINCH OF MAQUOKETA. GREAT GRANDMOTHER IS DARLEEEN SIMMONS OF MAQUOKETA.

MAC READ, AGE 80, DIED YESTERDAY AT WILLILAMSBURG. HE OWNED A RADIO-TV BUSINESS IN MAQUOKETA AND LATER OWNED WADY INDUSTRIES IN MAQUOKETA. HIS FIRST WIFE JOANN DIED IN 2000 AND HE MARRIED DARLENE IN 2003 AND LIVED IN WILLIAMSBURG AFTER. HE DIED OF PANCREATIC CANCER.

PATRICIA ADLER, 70, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED SATURDAY. HER OBITURARY CAN BE READ AT www.laheys.com

JACK DAVISON, AGE 67, DIED SUDDENLY, THIS MORNING, AT HIS HOME IN MAQUOKETA.
HIS OBITUARY CAN BE READ at www.carsonandson.com

HAVE A GOOD WEEK EVERYBODY.

DENNIS VOY