NICE DAY AGAIN...HIGH OF 63. SHOULD BE WARMER TOMORROW FOR ELECTION DAY.

JUST ONE CONTEST IN MAQUOKETA....FOUR RUNNING FOR A COUNCIL SEAT.
POLLS OPEN FROM 7 A.M. UNTIL 8 P.M.

A FIRE NORTHEAST OF MAQUOKETA TODAY. MAQUOKETA FIREMEN GOT THE CALL AT 1:30 THIS AFTERNOON TO THE TIFFANY COSTELLO PROPERTY ON 288TH AVENUE, NEAR CODFISH HOLLOW ROAD. TWO SMALL SHEDS CAUGHT ON FIRE. WHEN FIREMEN ARRIVED, THEY WERE FULLY ENGULFED. BOTH BUILDINGS AND CONTENTS COMPLETELY DESTROYED. FIRE CHEIF MARK BECK SAYS HE DOESN'T THINK IT IS A SUSPICIOUS FIRE AND FIREMEN WERE AT THE SCENE ABOUT 90 MINUTES.

CITY COUNCILL MEETING TONIGHT. QUITE A FEW ITEMS ON THE AGENDA.

ORVILLE REYNOLDS, 94, DIED FRIDAY AT THE DEWITT HOSPTAL. HE WAS A CAR MECHANIC AND SALESMAN IN DEWITT UNTIL RETIRING. SURVIVORS INCLUDE A BROTHER, MERLE REYNOLDS IN MAQUOKETA.

LARRY COOK, SR., AGE 82, DIED NOVEMBER 3RD IN SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI. A MEMORIAL MASS WILL BE HELD SATURDAY AT 11 A.M. AT SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH IN MAQUOKETA. HE WAS A WORLD WAR II VETERAN AND WAS AN AUTO MECHANIC AND WAS THE MANAGER OF THE HI-HO LANES IN MAQUOKETA MANY YEARS AGO. HE IS SURVIVED BY 3 DAUGHTERS, .... JUDI BRITT OF DAVENPORT, KITTY OESTERN OF MAQUOKETA AND THERESA AURAND OF DIXON, ILLINOIS AND 3 SONS.....LARRY COOK, JR. OF MAQUOKETA, DICK HICKS OF BELTON, MISSOURI AND TONY COOK OF PORT BYRON.

WHEN YOU BROUGHT UP THE PICTURES OF THE HURST HOTEL RESTORATION PROJECT, DID YOU ONLY GET ONE TO COME UP? IF SO, YOU DID NOT CLICK ON THE PICTURE OF THE HOTEL. WHEN YOU DO THAT, YOU GET TO SEE AROUND30. AROUND 400 PEOPLE HAVE LOOKED AT THEM. GO TO WWW.KMAQ.COM AND CLICK ON THE CAMERA. I WILL HAVE SOME NEW PICTURES FROM MAQUOKETA SOON.

GOOD READER OF THIS REPORT, DEL WULF, EMAILED ME TO TELL ME THAT ABE HURST OF MAQUOKETA BUILDT THE LAKEHURST DAM AND EASTERN IOWA POWER WITH IT, IN 1923. JOHN HAMMERAND OPERATED IT FROM 1929 UNTIL 1959. DEL WULF FROM L159 UNTIL 1984 AND LARRY HENEKE FROM 1984 UNTIL 1998. HE ALSO SAID SOME OF THE BIG GENERATION YEARS WERE IN THE 70'S, WHEN HE SAID THEY GENERATED OVER 8-MILLION KILOWATTS A YEAR, AND OPERATED IT 98-PERCENT OF THE TIME.
HE SAID HE IS GLAD IT WILL CONTINUE TO BE OPERATING. THANKS FOR THE INFO DEL.

THE HAWKEYES LOST THEIR FOOTBALL GAME IN THE LAST MINUTE SATURDAY AT EVANSTON.
NORTHWESTERN SCORED TWO TD'S IN THE FINAL MINUTES. THE BIG HEADLING IN THE SPORTS
SECTION OF THE QUAD CITIES TIMES SUNDAY MORNING SAID "OUCH"!

SAW A GREAT COMEDY SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE OHNWARD CENTER IN MAQUOKETA, PUT ON BY
THE HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA DEPARTMENT. IT WAS REPEATED SUNDAY AFTERNOON. ALL DID A GREAT JOB (BIG CAST) BUT MY HERO WAS MATT GERLACH, WHO PLAYED "KNUCKLES". MATT IS ONE OF MY MANY GOOD EMPLOYEES AT THE 61 DRIVE-IN THEATRE. NICE JOB DEE KRUMM, DIRECTOR. GOOD TURNOUT IN A GREAT PLACE FOR A PLAY....THE NEW OHWARD AUDITORIUM. OH YES...FOR THOSE WHO WERE INTERESTED, SATURDAY NIGHT'S PERFORMANCE WAS PRECEDED BY A DINNER AT THE HIGH SCHOOL AND IT ALSO WAS A HIT WITH ME AND ABOUT 75 OTHERS THAT ATTENDED.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

VOTE TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY