NICE, NICE DAY TODAY...AROUND 50 DEGREES AND SUNNY.
HAS BEEN A BUSY WEEK. UP TO HOMETOWN HORICON, WISCONSIN AND BACK FOR A FUNERAL OF AN UNCLE.
MAQUOKETA POLICE FILED DRUG CHARGES AGAINST 3 PEOPLE AFTER SEARCHING A HOME ON NORTH OLIVE STREET WEDNESDAY MORNING....
AND FOUND 3.7 GRAMS OF MARIJUANA AND 19.1 GRAMS OF MARIJUANA STEMS. CHARGES FILED AGAINST BRENDA WAGNER, HER DAUGHTER
RACHEL WAGNER AND ANOTHER PERSON, DAVID DANIEL, WHO ALSO LIVES IN THE HOME.
SHAPE-UP JACKSON COUNTY STARTS IN A COUPLE WEEKS AND THE GOAL IS FOR 300 PEOPLE TO LOOSE 3,000 POUNDS. BARB BURMEISTER FROM THE HOSPITAL WILL AGAIN COORDINATE THE PROGRAM. THE FIRST YEAR OF THIS ANNUAL PROGRAM HERE IN JACKSON COUNTY WAS 2000.
THE JACKSON COUNTY ASSESSOR WILL BE LEAVING HIS POST NEXT MONTH, BUT NO REPLACEMENT YET. IN FACT, THE GROUP WHO RECOMMEDS HIRING FOR THE POSITION HAS NOT MET.
SHIRLEY BARKER, AGE 72, DIED YESTERDAY MORNING. THE FULL OBITUARY IS AT www.carsonandson.com
KATY ARTERERRY, 46, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY. FULL OBITUARY ALSO AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS.
BOBBIE RICH, 88, OF MAQUOKETA DIED YESTERDAY. HER FULL OBITUARY CAN BE READ AT www.laheys.com
CAMILLA SKOTT, AGE 91, DIED THIS MORNING AT CLOVER RIDGE PLACE.
ARRANGEMENTS AT www.carsonandson.com
THE NEW ARC (WHICH WHICH WILL HAVE AN INDOOR SWIMMING POOL)
IS GOING UP EAST OF THE FOOTBALL FIELD. QUITE A FEW WALLS ARE UP AND ITS TAKING SHAPE.
GO TO THE KMAQ GUEST BOOK RIGHT NOW AND WISH SOMEONE
YOU KNOW HERE IN MAQUOKETA A HAPPY NEW YEAR.
AND HAVE A NICE HOLIDAY WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
Sunday, December 24, 2006
IT IS 2:30 AND WE HAVE SOME SUNSHINE, BUT ONLY 35 DEGREES. FLURRIES AFTER MIDNIGHT AND LIGHT SNOW IN FORECAST FOR TOMORROW, CHRISTMAS DAY.
THE RECORD LOW FOR CHRISTMAS EVE IN MAQUOKETA WAS 25 BELOW IN 1983.
I JUST FINISHED DOING A LONG ENTRY ON THE KMAQ GUEST BOOK.. A KIND OF CHRISTMAS LETTER ON THE VOY FAMILY. THERE ARE OTHER NICE HOLIDAY ENTRIES ON THE GUEST BOOK. SO, IF YOU HAVE TIME,
YOU MIGHT WANT TO CHECK OUT THE LAST DOZEN ENTRIES OR SO ON THE KMAQ GUESTBOOK, THAT WILL
CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF TAKING ENTRIES IN 2007. YOU MIGHT MAKE A CHISTMAS ENTRY YOURSELF.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOURS.
DENNIS VOY
THE RECORD LOW FOR CHRISTMAS EVE IN MAQUOKETA WAS 25 BELOW IN 1983.
I JUST FINISHED DOING A LONG ENTRY ON THE KMAQ GUEST BOOK.. A KIND OF CHRISTMAS LETTER ON THE VOY FAMILY. THERE ARE OTHER NICE HOLIDAY ENTRIES ON THE GUEST BOOK. SO, IF YOU HAVE TIME,
YOU MIGHT WANT TO CHECK OUT THE LAST DOZEN ENTRIES OR SO ON THE KMAQ GUESTBOOK, THAT WILL
CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF TAKING ENTRIES IN 2007. YOU MIGHT MAKE A CHISTMAS ENTRY YOURSELF.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOURS.
DENNIS VOY
Friday, December 22, 2006
ONE AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN THE PAST 36 HOURS IN MAQUOKETA.
GOOD NIGHT FOR MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL TEAMS LAST NIGHT.
THE BOYS BEAT DEWITT,HERE, BY 2 POINTS.
THE GIRLS BEAT DEWITT THERE LAST NIGHT.
AND THE WRESTLERS BEAT DAVENPORT WEST THERE LAST NIGHT.
MAQUOKETA CITY MANAGER BRIAN WAGNER IS A FINALIST FOR THE MASON CITY ADMINISTRATOR JOB. ONE OF 4 FINALISTS. INTERVIEWS WILL BE DONE IN EARLY JANUARY.
DEWITT HIGH SCHOOL ALSO HAS HAD A GRAFFITI INCIDENT....WEDNESDAY. A JANUARY 5TH DATE WAS INCLUDED IN IT.
HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.
AND MERRY CHRISTMAS.
DENNIS VOY
GOOD NIGHT FOR MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL TEAMS LAST NIGHT.
THE BOYS BEAT DEWITT,HERE, BY 2 POINTS.
THE GIRLS BEAT DEWITT THERE LAST NIGHT.
AND THE WRESTLERS BEAT DAVENPORT WEST THERE LAST NIGHT.
MAQUOKETA CITY MANAGER BRIAN WAGNER IS A FINALIST FOR THE MASON CITY ADMINISTRATOR JOB. ONE OF 4 FINALISTS. INTERVIEWS WILL BE DONE IN EARLY JANUARY.
DEWITT HIGH SCHOOL ALSO HAS HAD A GRAFFITI INCIDENT....WEDNESDAY. A JANUARY 5TH DATE WAS INCLUDED IN IT.
HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.
AND MERRY CHRISTMAS.
DENNIS VOY
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
IT IS RAINING IN MAQUOKETA.
THE OLD, OLD MAQUOKETA SWIMMING POOL WHICH HAS REMAINED EMPTY FOR SEVERAL YEARS, RIGHT BEHIND THE BATHHOUSE, WILL BE FILLED IN WITH DIRT. THE MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL AGREED MONDAY NIGHT TO HAVE THE CITY'S PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT DO THE WORK.
ELIZABETH REXROAT AND BRADLEY DAGUE OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN SUNDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. GREAT GRANDMOTHER IS MARY TALLMAN OF MAQUOKETA.
THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS DEFEATED BENTON LAST NIGHT, HERE, BY 2 POINTS. TOMORROW NIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA BOYS HOST DEWITT
AND THE GAME WILL BE BROADCAST ON KMAQ, WITH BOB WARNER
AT THE PLAY BY PLAY MIKE.
ADAM HEPKER, A POINT GUARD FOR MID AMERICAN NAZERINE COLLEGE IN KANSAS, AND HIS TEAM, IS ON A TOUR OF ITALY, PLAYING THREE COLLEGE GAMES THERE AGAINST ITALIAN TEAMS. THEIR COACH IS FORMER MAQUOKETAN ROCKY LAMAAR AND ASSISTANT COACH IS FORMER MAQUOKETA COACH BILL FLEMMING. MOST PARENTS, AT THEIR EXPENSE, ARE ALSO ON THE TRIP, INCLUDING ADAM'S PARENTS, LEIGHTON AND CINDY HEPKER. LEIGHTON IS MY LONGTIME STATION MANAGER AND SALES MANAGER HERE AT KMAQ. THE TEAM WON THEIR OPENING GAME. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE OTHER TWO YET. THEY WILL RETURN HOME SUNDAY.
TAKE CARE.
DENNIS VOY
THE OLD, OLD MAQUOKETA SWIMMING POOL WHICH HAS REMAINED EMPTY FOR SEVERAL YEARS, RIGHT BEHIND THE BATHHOUSE, WILL BE FILLED IN WITH DIRT. THE MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL AGREED MONDAY NIGHT TO HAVE THE CITY'S PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT DO THE WORK.
ELIZABETH REXROAT AND BRADLEY DAGUE OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN SUNDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. GREAT GRANDMOTHER IS MARY TALLMAN OF MAQUOKETA.
THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS DEFEATED BENTON LAST NIGHT, HERE, BY 2 POINTS. TOMORROW NIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA BOYS HOST DEWITT
AND THE GAME WILL BE BROADCAST ON KMAQ, WITH BOB WARNER
AT THE PLAY BY PLAY MIKE.
ADAM HEPKER, A POINT GUARD FOR MID AMERICAN NAZERINE COLLEGE IN KANSAS, AND HIS TEAM, IS ON A TOUR OF ITALY, PLAYING THREE COLLEGE GAMES THERE AGAINST ITALIAN TEAMS. THEIR COACH IS FORMER MAQUOKETAN ROCKY LAMAAR AND ASSISTANT COACH IS FORMER MAQUOKETA COACH BILL FLEMMING. MOST PARENTS, AT THEIR EXPENSE, ARE ALSO ON THE TRIP, INCLUDING ADAM'S PARENTS, LEIGHTON AND CINDY HEPKER. LEIGHTON IS MY LONGTIME STATION MANAGER AND SALES MANAGER HERE AT KMAQ. THE TEAM WON THEIR OPENING GAME. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE OTHER TWO YET. THEY WILL RETURN HOME SUNDAY.
TAKE CARE.
DENNIS VOY
I DID HAVE A TUESDAY REPORT....
BUT THERE WAS A "BLOGGER" PROBLEM, AND APPARENTLY IT DID NOT GO UP.
SO, WHEN YOU DON'T SEE A NEW REPORT HERE, YOU CAN'T ALWAYS BLAME ME.
WHAT DID YESTERDAY'S SAY....
I CAN'T REMEMBER...SORRY.
WILL TRY AGAIN TONIGHT. HAVE A GOOD WEDNESDAY.
OH, THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS BEAT BENTON HERE LAST NIGHT BY 2 POINTS.
WE ARE EXPECTING SOME RAIN TODAY.
DENNIS VOY
BUT THERE WAS A "BLOGGER" PROBLEM, AND APPARENTLY IT DID NOT GO UP.
SO, WHEN YOU DON'T SEE A NEW REPORT HERE, YOU CAN'T ALWAYS BLAME ME.
WHAT DID YESTERDAY'S SAY....
I CAN'T REMEMBER...SORRY.
WILL TRY AGAIN TONIGHT. HAVE A GOOD WEDNESDAY.
OH, THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS BEAT BENTON HERE LAST NIGHT BY 2 POINTS.
WE ARE EXPECTING SOME RAIN TODAY.
DENNIS VOY
Monday, December 18, 2006
SUNNY AND HIGH OF 38 TODAY.
THE MAQUOKETA BOYS DEFEATED WESTERN DUBUQUE FRIDAY NIGHT,
60 TO 51. THE GIRLS LOST TO WESTERN DUBUQUE, 55 TO 43.
THE CARDINAL WRESTLERS TOOK 4TH PLACE IN THE DEWITT TOURNAMENT SATURDAY. NO ONE TOOK A CHAMPIONSHIP, BUT 3 CARDS TOOK 2ND PLACE IN THEIR WEIGHT...TIM O'CONNELL, DARON FUGLSANG,
AND JOSH BREEDEN.
FORMER MAQUOKETA RESIDENTS, DR. PAUL AND DORIS BROWN WILL
CELEBRATE THEIR 60TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY DECEMBER 21ST.
THEY HAVE 26 GRANDCHILDREN. YOU CAN SEND THEM A CARD TO
2702 NORTH 25TH STREET, FORT DODGE, IOWA 50501.
FORMER MAQUOKETAN, RON VEIT, AGE 74, DIED DECEMBER 11TH
AT DENVER, COLORADO. A MEMORIAL VISITATION WILL BE HELD THIS THURSDAY, FROM 5 UNTIL 7 P.M. AT CARSON'S IN MAQUOKETA. FOR THE FULL OBITUARY, GO TO www.carsonandson.com
SHORT CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT. THEY PLAN TO TALK ABOUT FILLING IN THE HOLE WHERE THE OLDEST SWIMMING POOL STILL STANDS, JUST EAST OF THE WORKING POOL AND RIGHT BEHIND THE BATHHOUSE.
AND, THEY MAY TALK ABOUT WHO WILL RUN THE ARC? THE YMCA OR THE CITY? COULD GO EITHER WAY.
TWO THEFT REPORTS TO THE MAQUOKETA POLICE.
BRIARWOOD REPORTED THEIR DUMPSTER IS MISSING.
AND ROICE EARLES REPORTED AT 4:37 THIS MORNING THAT $50,000 IN JEWELRY IS MISSING FROM HERE HOME AT 600 MILTON DRIVE AT THE SOUTH EDGE OF MAQUOKETA.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY
THE MAQUOKETA BOYS DEFEATED WESTERN DUBUQUE FRIDAY NIGHT,
60 TO 51. THE GIRLS LOST TO WESTERN DUBUQUE, 55 TO 43.
THE CARDINAL WRESTLERS TOOK 4TH PLACE IN THE DEWITT TOURNAMENT SATURDAY. NO ONE TOOK A CHAMPIONSHIP, BUT 3 CARDS TOOK 2ND PLACE IN THEIR WEIGHT...TIM O'CONNELL, DARON FUGLSANG,
AND JOSH BREEDEN.
FORMER MAQUOKETA RESIDENTS, DR. PAUL AND DORIS BROWN WILL
CELEBRATE THEIR 60TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY DECEMBER 21ST.
THEY HAVE 26 GRANDCHILDREN. YOU CAN SEND THEM A CARD TO
2702 NORTH 25TH STREET, FORT DODGE, IOWA 50501.
FORMER MAQUOKETAN, RON VEIT, AGE 74, DIED DECEMBER 11TH
AT DENVER, COLORADO. A MEMORIAL VISITATION WILL BE HELD THIS THURSDAY, FROM 5 UNTIL 7 P.M. AT CARSON'S IN MAQUOKETA. FOR THE FULL OBITUARY, GO TO www.carsonandson.com
SHORT CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT. THEY PLAN TO TALK ABOUT FILLING IN THE HOLE WHERE THE OLDEST SWIMMING POOL STILL STANDS, JUST EAST OF THE WORKING POOL AND RIGHT BEHIND THE BATHHOUSE.
AND, THEY MAY TALK ABOUT WHO WILL RUN THE ARC? THE YMCA OR THE CITY? COULD GO EITHER WAY.
TWO THEFT REPORTS TO THE MAQUOKETA POLICE.
BRIARWOOD REPORTED THEIR DUMPSTER IS MISSING.
AND ROICE EARLES REPORTED AT 4:37 THIS MORNING THAT $50,000 IN JEWELRY IS MISSING FROM HERE HOME AT 600 MILTON DRIVE AT THE SOUTH EDGE OF MAQUOKETA.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY
Friday, December 15, 2006
PARTLY SUNNY TODAY WITH A HIGH OF ONLY 39, LOWER THAN EXPECTED.
ABOUT 25% OF THE MAQUOKETA STUDENTS STAYED HOME FROM SCHOOL TODAY (ABOUT 10-15% YESTERDAY) AS SCHOOL OFFICIALS AND POLICE CONTINUED TO INVESTIGATE THE THREATENING MESSAGE FROM GRAFFITI DISCOVERED MONDAY AT A MEN'S REST ROOM AT THE HIGH SCHOOL. MAQUOKETA POLICE CHEIF BRAD KORANDA SAID THERE WERE NO PROBLEMS EITHER DAY.
A 14-YEAR OLD FOSTER CHILD, WHO WAS BABYSITTING A 13-MONTH OLD RURAL DELMAR GIRL, HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH CHILD ENDANGERMENT IN CONNECTION WITH THE INFANT'S DEATH. THE BOY, AGE 14, WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY WEDNESDAY. ARRYANA JOLEE CLARK DIED NOVEMBER 22ND AT THE HOSPITAL IN DEWITT OF HEAD INJURIES EARLIER THAT EVENING AT A RURAL DELMAR HOME. THE FOSTER BOYS PARENTS LIVE IN CLINTON.
KRISTA AND CHUCK FRANZEN OF MONMOUTH ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN TUESDAY AT THE HOSPITAL IN MAQUOKETA. GRANDPARENTS ARE MIKE AND KANDY FRANZEN OF RURAL MONMOUTH. GREAT GRANDMOTHER IS DARLENE FRANZEN OF MAQUOKETA.
THE MAQUOKETA CARDINAL WRESTLERS LOST TO MARION, THERE, IN A DUAL MEET LAST NIGHT. BUT, THE CARDINALS DID NOT HAVE WRESTLERS LAST NIGHT AT THE THREE HEAVY WEIGHTS, AND THOSE 3 FORFEITS RESULTED IN THE MEET LOSS.... 39 TO 32. GETTING FALLS FOR MAQUOKETA...TIM O'CONNEL, RYAN FLAGEL AND BILLY KIRK. ALSO PICKING UP CARDINAL WINS....TONY SHILTZ, DARON FUGLSANG, THOMAS MAYBERRY, AND LARRY EGGERS.
IN BASKETBALL....THE CARDINALA BOYS HOST WESTERN DUBUQUE TONIGHT AND THE CARDINAL GIRLS PLAY AT EPWORTH.
HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
ABOUT 25% OF THE MAQUOKETA STUDENTS STAYED HOME FROM SCHOOL TODAY (ABOUT 10-15% YESTERDAY) AS SCHOOL OFFICIALS AND POLICE CONTINUED TO INVESTIGATE THE THREATENING MESSAGE FROM GRAFFITI DISCOVERED MONDAY AT A MEN'S REST ROOM AT THE HIGH SCHOOL. MAQUOKETA POLICE CHEIF BRAD KORANDA SAID THERE WERE NO PROBLEMS EITHER DAY.
A 14-YEAR OLD FOSTER CHILD, WHO WAS BABYSITTING A 13-MONTH OLD RURAL DELMAR GIRL, HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH CHILD ENDANGERMENT IN CONNECTION WITH THE INFANT'S DEATH. THE BOY, AGE 14, WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY WEDNESDAY. ARRYANA JOLEE CLARK DIED NOVEMBER 22ND AT THE HOSPITAL IN DEWITT OF HEAD INJURIES EARLIER THAT EVENING AT A RURAL DELMAR HOME. THE FOSTER BOYS PARENTS LIVE IN CLINTON.
KRISTA AND CHUCK FRANZEN OF MONMOUTH ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN TUESDAY AT THE HOSPITAL IN MAQUOKETA. GRANDPARENTS ARE MIKE AND KANDY FRANZEN OF RURAL MONMOUTH. GREAT GRANDMOTHER IS DARLENE FRANZEN OF MAQUOKETA.
THE MAQUOKETA CARDINAL WRESTLERS LOST TO MARION, THERE, IN A DUAL MEET LAST NIGHT. BUT, THE CARDINALS DID NOT HAVE WRESTLERS LAST NIGHT AT THE THREE HEAVY WEIGHTS, AND THOSE 3 FORFEITS RESULTED IN THE MEET LOSS.... 39 TO 32. GETTING FALLS FOR MAQUOKETA...TIM O'CONNEL, RYAN FLAGEL AND BILLY KIRK. ALSO PICKING UP CARDINAL WINS....TONY SHILTZ, DARON FUGLSANG, THOMAS MAYBERRY, AND LARRY EGGERS.
IN BASKETBALL....THE CARDINALA BOYS HOST WESTERN DUBUQUE TONIGHT AND THE CARDINAL GIRLS PLAY AT EPWORTH.
HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
Thursday, December 14, 2006
SUNNY AND IN 50'S AGAIN TODAY.
THE PEACE PIPE PLAYERS NEXT PRODUCTION WILL BE "INTO THE WOODS", A MUSICAL AND IT WILL BE DIRECTED BY CINDY CARAWAY AND SHELLY HOYE. SHOW DATES, JANUARY 26,27, 28 AND FEBRUARY 2 AND 3.
CAST: ED SZABO, ERICA BARKER, TYLER SOHL, JUNE WAHL, BILL DAVISON, ROBYN LANE, COLLEEN MILLER, CHRISTINA MILLER, KRISTEN GOESSLING, CATHERINE VAZQUEZ, DANIELLE CLARK, SHAWN VASQUEZ, ADDIE FELTEN, ALI SIMPSON, MARTY DAVISON, DUNCAN MARSHALL, PAUL HORST AND TANYA GOESSLING.
INITIAL DESIGN PLANS FOR THE MAQUOKETA H IGH SCHOOL NEW GYM AND CAFETERIA ARE AT 6.5 MILLION DOLLARS, HIGHER THAN THE MAXIMUM BUDGET OF 6-MILLION SET BY BOARD MEMBERS. HOWER, THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGER SAID HE IS CONFIDENT THE FINAL PLANS WILL BE AT 6-MILLION. HE SAID HE'S ESTIMATING COSTS HIGH AT THIS POINT IN TIME. PLANS CALL FOR THE BIDDIGN TO TAKE PLACE AT THE END OF FEBRUARY WITH THE FACILITY DONE WITHIN 16 MONTHS AND READY TO USE BY AUGUST OF 2008.
THE JACSON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS WILL BE LOOKING AT WAYS TO GET THE PARKING LOT PAVED AT THE JACKSON COUNTY SENIOR CENTER ON EAST QUARRY IN MAQUOKETA.
CHY GRUVER HIT A DEER AT 6 LAST NIGHT ON HIGHWAY 64.
WRESTLING TONIGHT AT MARION.
TAKE CARE.
DENNIS VOY
THE PEACE PIPE PLAYERS NEXT PRODUCTION WILL BE "INTO THE WOODS", A MUSICAL AND IT WILL BE DIRECTED BY CINDY CARAWAY AND SHELLY HOYE. SHOW DATES, JANUARY 26,27, 28 AND FEBRUARY 2 AND 3.
CAST: ED SZABO, ERICA BARKER, TYLER SOHL, JUNE WAHL, BILL DAVISON, ROBYN LANE, COLLEEN MILLER, CHRISTINA MILLER, KRISTEN GOESSLING, CATHERINE VAZQUEZ, DANIELLE CLARK, SHAWN VASQUEZ, ADDIE FELTEN, ALI SIMPSON, MARTY DAVISON, DUNCAN MARSHALL, PAUL HORST AND TANYA GOESSLING.
INITIAL DESIGN PLANS FOR THE MAQUOKETA H IGH SCHOOL NEW GYM AND CAFETERIA ARE AT 6.5 MILLION DOLLARS, HIGHER THAN THE MAXIMUM BUDGET OF 6-MILLION SET BY BOARD MEMBERS. HOWER, THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGER SAID HE IS CONFIDENT THE FINAL PLANS WILL BE AT 6-MILLION. HE SAID HE'S ESTIMATING COSTS HIGH AT THIS POINT IN TIME. PLANS CALL FOR THE BIDDIGN TO TAKE PLACE AT THE END OF FEBRUARY WITH THE FACILITY DONE WITHIN 16 MONTHS AND READY TO USE BY AUGUST OF 2008.
THE JACSON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS WILL BE LOOKING AT WAYS TO GET THE PARKING LOT PAVED AT THE JACKSON COUNTY SENIOR CENTER ON EAST QUARRY IN MAQUOKETA.
CHY GRUVER HIT A DEER AT 6 LAST NIGHT ON HIGHWAY 64.
WRESTLING TONIGHT AT MARION.
TAKE CARE.
DENNIS VOY
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
CLOUDY TODAY, BUT GOT UP TO A HIGH OF 52.
GRAFFITI FOUND WRITTEN AT A MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL BOY'S RESTROOM WALL HAS PROMPTED A MAQUOKETA POLICE INVESTIGATION. ONE OF THE CUSTODIANS DISCOVERED THE THREATENING GRAFFITI LAST NIGHT. DUE TO A PREVIOUSLY PLANNED
IN-SERVICE DAY, CLASSES ARE NOT SCHEDULED FOR WEDNESDAY.
CLASSES WILL BE HELD AS USUAL THURSDAY AND FRIDAY WITH POLICE OFFICERS ON DUTY IN THE BUILDING DURING THE DAY.
MAQUOKETA COMMUNITY SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS WERE ASKED LAST NIGHT AT THEIR BOARD MEETING TO OFFER 7TH GRADE FOOTBALL NEXT YEAR. THE BOARD SAID THEY WILL LOOK AT THE REQUEST DURING
FEBRUARY'S BUDGET WORKSHOP. THE REQUEST WAS MADE BY VARSITY FOOTBALL COACH KEVIN BOWMAN. MAQUOKETA IS ONE OF JUST A COUPLE 3A SCHOOLS WITH NO 7TH GRADE PROGRAM.
WORD HAS BEEN RECEIVED OF THE DEATH OF RON VEIT, AGE 74, OF DENVER, COLORADO AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA. SERVICES WILL BE IN MAQUOKETA AT A LATER DATE. HE DIED TUESDAY IN DENVER.
RON IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND FOUR CHILDREN, TOM, STEVE, RONELLE AND LISA.
THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS LOST BY 2 POINTS TO WEST DELAWARE OF MANCHESTER LAST NIGHT, HERE IN MAQUOKETA.
THANKS FOR CHECKING IN AGAIN.
DENNIS VOY
GRAFFITI FOUND WRITTEN AT A MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL BOY'S RESTROOM WALL HAS PROMPTED A MAQUOKETA POLICE INVESTIGATION. ONE OF THE CUSTODIANS DISCOVERED THE THREATENING GRAFFITI LAST NIGHT. DUE TO A PREVIOUSLY PLANNED
IN-SERVICE DAY, CLASSES ARE NOT SCHEDULED FOR WEDNESDAY.
CLASSES WILL BE HELD AS USUAL THURSDAY AND FRIDAY WITH POLICE OFFICERS ON DUTY IN THE BUILDING DURING THE DAY.
MAQUOKETA COMMUNITY SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS WERE ASKED LAST NIGHT AT THEIR BOARD MEETING TO OFFER 7TH GRADE FOOTBALL NEXT YEAR. THE BOARD SAID THEY WILL LOOK AT THE REQUEST DURING
FEBRUARY'S BUDGET WORKSHOP. THE REQUEST WAS MADE BY VARSITY FOOTBALL COACH KEVIN BOWMAN. MAQUOKETA IS ONE OF JUST A COUPLE 3A SCHOOLS WITH NO 7TH GRADE PROGRAM.
WORD HAS BEEN RECEIVED OF THE DEATH OF RON VEIT, AGE 74, OF DENVER, COLORADO AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA. SERVICES WILL BE IN MAQUOKETA AT A LATER DATE. HE DIED TUESDAY IN DENVER.
RON IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND FOUR CHILDREN, TOM, STEVE, RONELLE AND LISA.
THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS LOST BY 2 POINTS TO WEST DELAWARE OF MANCHESTER LAST NIGHT, HERE IN MAQUOKETA.
THANKS FOR CHECKING IN AGAIN.
DENNIS VOY
Monday, December 11, 2006
CLOUDY TODAY AND IN THE 40'S. WILL BE IN 40'S ALL WEEK LONG.
A SABULA DEERHUNTER FELL EARLY SATURDAY MORNING FROM HIS
DEER STAND AND LANDED ON HIS HEAD. WAS AIRLIFTED TO A HOSPITAL.
I'M PRETTY SURE HE'S OKAY.
LOTS OF CAR-DEER ACCIDENTS AGAIN THIS PAST WEEKEND IN BOTH CLINTON AND JACKSON COUNTY.
THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD MEETS TONIGHT.
THE MAQUOKETA BOYS LOST TO VINTON-SHELLSBURG FRIDAY NIGHT,
HERE, 59 TO 55. THEY NOW ARE 0 AND 4. THE GIRLS ALSO LOST TO VINTON THERE FRIDAY NIGHT, 36 TO 24. THEY ARE NOW 1 AND 4 OVERALL
THE WRESTLERS HOSTED THE ANNUAL DWIGHT ZIMMERMAN TOURNAMETN SATURDAY AND FINISHED 2ND IN THE TEAM RACE.
CEDAR RAPIDS WON IT WITH 216 POINTS. MAQUOKETA 2ND AT 185.
MAQUOKETA HAD TWO CHAMPS, LOGAN SPRINGER AND BILLY KIRK.
TAKING SECONDS, MARCUS BREEDEN, TONY SCHLITZ AND JOSH BREEDEN.
AND TAKING THIRDS, TIM O'CONNELL, DARON FUGLSANG AND THOMAS MAYBERRY.
THANKS FOR CHECKING IN.
DENNIS VOY
A SABULA DEERHUNTER FELL EARLY SATURDAY MORNING FROM HIS
DEER STAND AND LANDED ON HIS HEAD. WAS AIRLIFTED TO A HOSPITAL.
I'M PRETTY SURE HE'S OKAY.
LOTS OF CAR-DEER ACCIDENTS AGAIN THIS PAST WEEKEND IN BOTH CLINTON AND JACKSON COUNTY.
THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD MEETS TONIGHT.
THE MAQUOKETA BOYS LOST TO VINTON-SHELLSBURG FRIDAY NIGHT,
HERE, 59 TO 55. THEY NOW ARE 0 AND 4. THE GIRLS ALSO LOST TO VINTON THERE FRIDAY NIGHT, 36 TO 24. THEY ARE NOW 1 AND 4 OVERALL
THE WRESTLERS HOSTED THE ANNUAL DWIGHT ZIMMERMAN TOURNAMETN SATURDAY AND FINISHED 2ND IN THE TEAM RACE.
CEDAR RAPIDS WON IT WITH 216 POINTS. MAQUOKETA 2ND AT 185.
MAQUOKETA HAD TWO CHAMPS, LOGAN SPRINGER AND BILLY KIRK.
TAKING SECONDS, MARCUS BREEDEN, TONY SCHLITZ AND JOSH BREEDEN.
AND TAKING THIRDS, TIM O'CONNELL, DARON FUGLSANG AND THOMAS MAYBERRY.
THANKS FOR CHECKING IN.
DENNIS VOY
Saturday, December 09, 2006
SUNNY AND IN 40'S TODAY.
THE MAQUOKETA BOYS LOST THEIR GAME TO VINTON HERE IN TOWN LAST NIGHT BY 3 POINTS.
THE GIRL'S SCORE I DON'T HAVE. THEY PLAYED AT VINTON.
KRISTIE HOSCH, 35, OWNER THE LAST 15 YEARS OF KRISTINO'S PIZZA, DOWNTOWN,
DIED AFTER A BATTLE WITH LUNG CANCER. SHE DIED YESTERDAY AND HER OBITUARY CAN BE READ AT www.laheys.com
HAVE A NICE SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY.
DENNIS VOY
THE MAQUOKETA BOYS LOST THEIR GAME TO VINTON HERE IN TOWN LAST NIGHT BY 3 POINTS.
THE GIRL'S SCORE I DON'T HAVE. THEY PLAYED AT VINTON.
KRISTIE HOSCH, 35, OWNER THE LAST 15 YEARS OF KRISTINO'S PIZZA, DOWNTOWN,
DIED AFTER A BATTLE WITH LUNG CANCER. SHE DIED YESTERDAY AND HER OBITUARY CAN BE READ AT www.laheys.com
HAVE A NICE SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY.
DENNIS VOY
Friday, December 08, 2006
4 ABOVE EARLY THIS MORNING.
SUNNY TODAY, HIGH ABOUT 30.
UP IN THE 40'S TOMORROW.
IN WAMAC CONFERENCE WRESTLING LAST NIGHT:
IN A DOUBLE-DUAL AT MANCHESTER, MAQUOKETA LOST TO INDEPENDENCE, 56 TO 12. MAQUOKETA'S WINS CAME FROM DARON
FUGLSANG AT 125 POUNDS....RYAN FLAGEL AT 171 AND BILLY K IRK
AT 145 POUNDS.
AND MAQUOKETA ALSO LOST TO MANCHESTER, 51 TO 18. CARDINAL WINS BY JOHN BREEDEN, AT 17.... TONY SCHILTZ AT 119 AND MARCUS BREEDEN AT 103 POUNDS.
LAST NIGHT, DEWITT CENTRAL WRESTLERS DEFEATED DYERSVILLE BECKMAN, 83 TO 0.
THE MAQUOKETA FIRE DEPARTMENT RECENTLY RECEIVED A DONATION FROM WAL MART. THE $2,500 IS PART OF THE "KEEP THE NEIGHBORHOOD SAFE" PROGRAM SPONSORED BY THE COMPANY.
SANTA COMES TO MAQUOKETA SATURDAY AND WILL BE AT JACKSON COUNTY HOME FURNISHINGS FROM NOON UNTIL 2 P.M.
COUNTRY SINGER BILLY DEAN SINGS AT THE OHNWARD FINE ARTS CENTER TONIGHT. LAST REPORT I HEARD WAS THAT THEY HAD OVER 500 SEATS SOLD BY LATE THIS MORNING. I'LL BE THERE AND GIVE YOU A REPORT ON MY NEXT DAILY.
DON'T FORGET TO CHECK THE KMAQ GUEST BOOK REGULARLY. I HOPE TO SEE SOME HOLIDAY ENTRIES ON IT DURING DECEMBER. JUST GO BACK TO THE KMAQ HOME PAGE AND IN THE LEFT COLUMN, CLICK ON GUEST BOOK.
A WELL KNOWN YOUNG MAQUOKETA BUSINESSWOMAN DIED OF CANCER TODAY. WILL HAVE THE STORY TOMORROW.
AND WILL HAVE MAQUOEKTA BASKETBALL SCORES TOMORROW TOO.
HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
SUNNY TODAY, HIGH ABOUT 30.
UP IN THE 40'S TOMORROW.
IN WAMAC CONFERENCE WRESTLING LAST NIGHT:
IN A DOUBLE-DUAL AT MANCHESTER, MAQUOKETA LOST TO INDEPENDENCE, 56 TO 12. MAQUOKETA'S WINS CAME FROM DARON
FUGLSANG AT 125 POUNDS....RYAN FLAGEL AT 171 AND BILLY K IRK
AT 145 POUNDS.
AND MAQUOKETA ALSO LOST TO MANCHESTER, 51 TO 18. CARDINAL WINS BY JOHN BREEDEN, AT 17.... TONY SCHILTZ AT 119 AND MARCUS BREEDEN AT 103 POUNDS.
LAST NIGHT, DEWITT CENTRAL WRESTLERS DEFEATED DYERSVILLE BECKMAN, 83 TO 0.
THE MAQUOKETA FIRE DEPARTMENT RECENTLY RECEIVED A DONATION FROM WAL MART. THE $2,500 IS PART OF THE "KEEP THE NEIGHBORHOOD SAFE" PROGRAM SPONSORED BY THE COMPANY.
SANTA COMES TO MAQUOKETA SATURDAY AND WILL BE AT JACKSON COUNTY HOME FURNISHINGS FROM NOON UNTIL 2 P.M.
COUNTRY SINGER BILLY DEAN SINGS AT THE OHNWARD FINE ARTS CENTER TONIGHT. LAST REPORT I HEARD WAS THAT THEY HAD OVER 500 SEATS SOLD BY LATE THIS MORNING. I'LL BE THERE AND GIVE YOU A REPORT ON MY NEXT DAILY.
DON'T FORGET TO CHECK THE KMAQ GUEST BOOK REGULARLY. I HOPE TO SEE SOME HOLIDAY ENTRIES ON IT DURING DECEMBER. JUST GO BACK TO THE KMAQ HOME PAGE AND IN THE LEFT COLUMN, CLICK ON GUEST BOOK.
A WELL KNOWN YOUNG MAQUOKETA BUSINESSWOMAN DIED OF CANCER TODAY. WILL HAVE THE STORY TOMORROW.
AND WILL HAVE MAQUOEKTA BASKETBALL SCORES TOMORROW TOO.
HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
Thursday, December 07, 2006
COLD, BUT SUNNY.
THE MAQUOKETA AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (CELEBRATING ITS 25TH YEAR NEXT YEAR) HELD ITS ANNUAL CELEBRATION LUNCHEON AT NOON TODAY AT THE OHNWARD FINE ARTS CENTER LOBBY, WITH ABOUT 75
PRESENT FOR A CATERED MEAL AND PROGRAM. THE PENROSE FAMILY WAS RECOGNIZED FOR THE FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP, THE FIRST ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FUND TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE FOUNDATION. HAROLD AND ESTHER PENROSE WERE RECOGNIZED. MAQUOKETA BUSINESSMAN JAKE BICKFORD WAS RECOGNIZED FOR HIS 7 YEARS OF SERVICE ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. LENKA CARSON (MRS. DON) WILL BE JAKE'S REPLACEMENT ON THE BOARD. PRESIDENT CHUCK WOLF AND FOUNDATION DIRECTOR KATE CARINDER PRESENTED A CHECK FOR $56,667, THE FIRST OF FIVE INSTALLMENTS TO BE PRESENTED FOR THE ARC BUILDING.
CARINDER (WHO IS LEAVING THE POSITION SOON TO TAKE A NEW JOB AT IOWA CITY) ANNOUNCED THAT THE MAQUOKETA NEWSPAPERS HAS PLEDGED $50,000 TO THE ARC, WHICH IS CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION. THE MAQUOKETA AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION HAS DONE MUCH FOR THE AREA AND WILL CONTINUE TO GROW AND DO MORE FOR MANY YEARS TO COME. GOOD DINNER, PREPARED BY KALMES RESTAURANT IN ST. DONATUS.
OLD TIME RADIO CHRISTMAS SHOWS, FIRST AIRED IN THE 1940'S, START AGAIN THIS CHRISTMAS SEASON ON KMAQ, ON MONDAY. THEY WILL BE AIRED EACH AFTERNOON AT 3:05. REMEBER FIBBER AND MOLLY?
JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF RUSS KETTMAN IS SUGGESTING THE COUNTY SUPERVISORS LOOK AT USING THE FORMER ANDREW JACKSON CARE FACILITY FOR A SHERIFF'S OFFICE AND JAIL. THIS WEEK, DURING A WORK SESSION, HE TOLD THE SUPERVISORS HE HAD RECEIVED AN ESTIMATE FOR EXPANDING THE PRESENT JAIL TO ALLOW FOR SIX MORE BEDS AND A VISITING AREA. THE ESTIMATE, WHICH HE CONSIDERED HIGH, WAS FOR $550,000 AND THE END RESULT WOULD ALSO ELIMINATE MOST OF THE CURRENT EXCERCISE YARD.
THE JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY WILL HAVE THEIR ANNUAL HOLIDAY FUND RAISER NEXT TUESDAY EVENING AT THE MUSEUM....THE HOLIDAY BASKET AUCTION AND SOUP SUPPER, STARTING AT 5 P.M.
KEEP WARM. DOWN TO 5 TONIGHT.
DENNIS VOY
THE MAQUOKETA AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (CELEBRATING ITS 25TH YEAR NEXT YEAR) HELD ITS ANNUAL CELEBRATION LUNCHEON AT NOON TODAY AT THE OHNWARD FINE ARTS CENTER LOBBY, WITH ABOUT 75
PRESENT FOR A CATERED MEAL AND PROGRAM. THE PENROSE FAMILY WAS RECOGNIZED FOR THE FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP, THE FIRST ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FUND TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE FOUNDATION. HAROLD AND ESTHER PENROSE WERE RECOGNIZED. MAQUOKETA BUSINESSMAN JAKE BICKFORD WAS RECOGNIZED FOR HIS 7 YEARS OF SERVICE ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. LENKA CARSON (MRS. DON) WILL BE JAKE'S REPLACEMENT ON THE BOARD. PRESIDENT CHUCK WOLF AND FOUNDATION DIRECTOR KATE CARINDER PRESENTED A CHECK FOR $56,667, THE FIRST OF FIVE INSTALLMENTS TO BE PRESENTED FOR THE ARC BUILDING.
CARINDER (WHO IS LEAVING THE POSITION SOON TO TAKE A NEW JOB AT IOWA CITY) ANNOUNCED THAT THE MAQUOKETA NEWSPAPERS HAS PLEDGED $50,000 TO THE ARC, WHICH IS CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION. THE MAQUOKETA AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION HAS DONE MUCH FOR THE AREA AND WILL CONTINUE TO GROW AND DO MORE FOR MANY YEARS TO COME. GOOD DINNER, PREPARED BY KALMES RESTAURANT IN ST. DONATUS.
OLD TIME RADIO CHRISTMAS SHOWS, FIRST AIRED IN THE 1940'S, START AGAIN THIS CHRISTMAS SEASON ON KMAQ, ON MONDAY. THEY WILL BE AIRED EACH AFTERNOON AT 3:05. REMEBER FIBBER AND MOLLY?
JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF RUSS KETTMAN IS SUGGESTING THE COUNTY SUPERVISORS LOOK AT USING THE FORMER ANDREW JACKSON CARE FACILITY FOR A SHERIFF'S OFFICE AND JAIL. THIS WEEK, DURING A WORK SESSION, HE TOLD THE SUPERVISORS HE HAD RECEIVED AN ESTIMATE FOR EXPANDING THE PRESENT JAIL TO ALLOW FOR SIX MORE BEDS AND A VISITING AREA. THE ESTIMATE, WHICH HE CONSIDERED HIGH, WAS FOR $550,000 AND THE END RESULT WOULD ALSO ELIMINATE MOST OF THE CURRENT EXCERCISE YARD.
THE JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY WILL HAVE THEIR ANNUAL HOLIDAY FUND RAISER NEXT TUESDAY EVENING AT THE MUSEUM....THE HOLIDAY BASKET AUCTION AND SOUP SUPPER, STARTING AT 5 P.M.
KEEP WARM. DOWN TO 5 TONIGHT.
DENNIS VOY
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
SUNNY AND IN 30'S TODAY.
DOWN TO 5 ABOVE TONIGHT.
THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS AND BOYS TEAMS BOTH LOST TO MARION LAST NIGHT.
J.E. GOODENOW, LONGTIME MAQUOKETA ATTORNEY
(HIS GREAT GRANDFATHER WAS THE FOUNDER OF MAQUOKETA)....AGE 91, DIED YESTERDAY. HIS COMPLETE OBITURARY IS AT www.carsonandson.com
HAVE A GOOD NIGHT AND GREAT THURSDAY.
DENNIS VOY
DOWN TO 5 ABOVE TONIGHT.
THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS AND BOYS TEAMS BOTH LOST TO MARION LAST NIGHT.
J.E. GOODENOW, LONGTIME MAQUOKETA ATTORNEY
(HIS GREAT GRANDFATHER WAS THE FOUNDER OF MAQUOKETA)....AGE 91, DIED YESTERDAY. HIS COMPLETE OBITURARY IS AT www.carsonandson.com
HAVE A GOOD NIGHT AND GREAT THURSDAY.
DENNIS VOY
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
9 ABOVE THIS MORNING...30 THE HIGH TODAY.
LONGTIME MAQUOKETA DENTIST, DR. DON ROEDER, 77, DIED SATURDAY.
HIS FULL OBITURARY CAN BE READ AT www.laheys.com
MARETA RIPPLE, AGE 93, OF MAQUOKETA, ALSO DIED SATURDAY.
HER FULL OBITUARY ALSO CAN BE READ AT THE ABOVE LAHEY'S WEB SITE ADDRESS.
BEN AND ANGIE KRUEGER OF WAVERLY ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN NOV. 27TH AT WAVERLY. GRANDPARENTS ARE KEN AND MARY LOU ALTHOFF OF MAQUOKETA.
THANKS FOR CHECKING IN.
DENNIS VOY
LONGTIME MAQUOKETA DENTIST, DR. DON ROEDER, 77, DIED SATURDAY.
HIS FULL OBITURARY CAN BE READ AT www.laheys.com
MARETA RIPPLE, AGE 93, OF MAQUOKETA, ALSO DIED SATURDAY.
HER FULL OBITUARY ALSO CAN BE READ AT THE ABOVE LAHEY'S WEB SITE ADDRESS.
BEN AND ANGIE KRUEGER OF WAVERLY ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN NOV. 27TH AT WAVERLY. GRANDPARENTS ARE KEN AND MARY LOU ALTHOFF OF MAQUOKETA.
THANKS FOR CHECKING IN.
DENNIS VOY
Monday, December 04, 2006
COLD, BUT SUNNY....
THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS OPENED THE SEASON SATURDAY IN THE INDEPENDECE TOURNAMENT AND FINISHED 7TH OUT OF 10 TEAMS.
MQUOKTA'S BEST FINISH CAME FROM FRESHMAN MARCUS BREEDEN WHO WAS SECOND AT 103 POUNDS.
THEY WRESTLE IN A WAMAC DOUBLE-DUAL WITH WEST DELAWARE AND INDEPENDENCE THURSDAY NIGHT AT MANCHESTER.
SATURDAY NIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA BOYS BASKETBALL TEAM FELL TO 0 AND 2 ON THE YOUNG SEASON AS THEY WERE DEFEATED BY DUBUQUE SENIOR 61 TO 51 IN OVERTIME. THEY OPEN WAMAC PLAY TOMORROW NIGHT AT MARION.
FRIDAY NIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS LOST THIER WAMAC OPENER ON THE ROAD AT DYERSVILLE AND BECKMAN TOPPED MAQUOKETA 53 TO 39.
THEY WILL HOST MARION TOMORROW NIGHT.
THERE ARE NO PLANNED INCREASES FOR THE ELECTRIC RATES FOR MAQUOKETA RESIDENTS FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS. MAQUOKETA MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC UTILITY MANAGER DOUG OWEN SAID THE BUGET FOR 2007 HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED AND NO RATE INCREASES ARE EXPECTED FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
THE BUDGET DOES CALL FOR $150,000 TO BUY NEW GENERATOR FUEL TANKS TO GIVE HIGHER CAPACITY FOR THE GENERATORS.
A GIRL, BORN SUNDAY NIGHT AT A DUBUQUE HOSPITAL TO MARK AND
AND MELISSA MILLER OF PRESTON. GRANDPARENTS ARE JIM AND MARARET MARY MILLER OF MAQUOKETA.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY
THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS OPENED THE SEASON SATURDAY IN THE INDEPENDECE TOURNAMENT AND FINISHED 7TH OUT OF 10 TEAMS.
MQUOKTA'S BEST FINISH CAME FROM FRESHMAN MARCUS BREEDEN WHO WAS SECOND AT 103 POUNDS.
THEY WRESTLE IN A WAMAC DOUBLE-DUAL WITH WEST DELAWARE AND INDEPENDENCE THURSDAY NIGHT AT MANCHESTER.
SATURDAY NIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA BOYS BASKETBALL TEAM FELL TO 0 AND 2 ON THE YOUNG SEASON AS THEY WERE DEFEATED BY DUBUQUE SENIOR 61 TO 51 IN OVERTIME. THEY OPEN WAMAC PLAY TOMORROW NIGHT AT MARION.
FRIDAY NIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS LOST THIER WAMAC OPENER ON THE ROAD AT DYERSVILLE AND BECKMAN TOPPED MAQUOKETA 53 TO 39.
THEY WILL HOST MARION TOMORROW NIGHT.
THERE ARE NO PLANNED INCREASES FOR THE ELECTRIC RATES FOR MAQUOKETA RESIDENTS FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS. MAQUOKETA MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC UTILITY MANAGER DOUG OWEN SAID THE BUGET FOR 2007 HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED AND NO RATE INCREASES ARE EXPECTED FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
THE BUDGET DOES CALL FOR $150,000 TO BUY NEW GENERATOR FUEL TANKS TO GIVE HIGHER CAPACITY FOR THE GENERATORS.
A GIRL, BORN SUNDAY NIGHT AT A DUBUQUE HOSPITAL TO MARK AND
AND MELISSA MILLER OF PRESTON. GRANDPARENTS ARE JIM AND MARARET MARY MILLER OF MAQUOKETA.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY
Thursday, November 30, 2006
NO SNOW YET..BUT COLD TODAY..HIGH OF 22.
TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF SNOW POSSIBLE BY NOON TOMORROW.
SAGE ROSEFELS, FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, AND BACK-UP QUARTERBACK FOR THE HOUSTON TEXANS NFL TEAM, BROKE HIS RIGHT THUMB
IN SUNDAY'S GAME AND WILL BE OUT FOR THE REST OF THE SEASON.
FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS SEASON, SAGE WAS HOLDING FOR KICKER KRIS BROWN ATTEMPTING A FIELD GOAL AND WHEN IT WAS SHORT, ON THE RETURN, SAGE CHARGED DOWN THE FIELD AND MADE A TACKLE, RESULTING IN THE INJURY. HE HAS PLAYED IN FOUR GAMES THIS SEASON AND IS 27 FO 39 IN PASSING, FOR 265 YARDS, 3 TOUCHDOWNS AND ONE INTERCEPTION.
THE MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL HELD A 3-HOUR GOAL SESSION LAST NIGHT AND ONE OF THE NEW GOALS ON THE LIST IS TO ESTABLISH AN ORDINANCE WHICH WOULD BAN ALL BURNING IN THE CITY LIMITS.
FORMER CITY MANAGER PAT CALAHAN CONDUCTED THE SESSION. TWO COUNCILMEN WERE ABSENT, NEIL MOREHEAD AND TIM CLARK.
RUMOR HAS IT THAT MOREHEAD IS PLANNING TO RESIGN FROM THE COUNCIL. OTHER TOP GOALS CHOSEN BY THE COUNCIL LAST NIGHT:
DETERMINE THE FUTURE OF THE OLD SWIMMING POOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER...SETTING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICIES...ASSESSMENT OF OLD HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS THAT HAVE ORANGEBURG SEWER PIPES...WORKING ON TRAFFIC FLOW IN THE CITY...AND REVIEWING THE CITY POLICY ON PAVING COMMERCIAL PARKING LOTS.
ERIC AND ERIN PETERSEN OF ALTOONA ARE THE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN TUESDAY AT A DES MOINES HOSPITAL. GRANDPARENTS ARE JERRY AND MARY ANN HEINZEL OF MAQUOKETA AND PAT AND RON KEITEL OF MAQUOKETA.
THIS REPORT IS GOING TO CLOSE FOR TODAY AND A WINTER WONDERLAND
IS COMING.....GET READY.
DENNIS VOY
TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF SNOW POSSIBLE BY NOON TOMORROW.
SAGE ROSEFELS, FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, AND BACK-UP QUARTERBACK FOR THE HOUSTON TEXANS NFL TEAM, BROKE HIS RIGHT THUMB
IN SUNDAY'S GAME AND WILL BE OUT FOR THE REST OF THE SEASON.
FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS SEASON, SAGE WAS HOLDING FOR KICKER KRIS BROWN ATTEMPTING A FIELD GOAL AND WHEN IT WAS SHORT, ON THE RETURN, SAGE CHARGED DOWN THE FIELD AND MADE A TACKLE, RESULTING IN THE INJURY. HE HAS PLAYED IN FOUR GAMES THIS SEASON AND IS 27 FO 39 IN PASSING, FOR 265 YARDS, 3 TOUCHDOWNS AND ONE INTERCEPTION.
THE MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL HELD A 3-HOUR GOAL SESSION LAST NIGHT AND ONE OF THE NEW GOALS ON THE LIST IS TO ESTABLISH AN ORDINANCE WHICH WOULD BAN ALL BURNING IN THE CITY LIMITS.
FORMER CITY MANAGER PAT CALAHAN CONDUCTED THE SESSION. TWO COUNCILMEN WERE ABSENT, NEIL MOREHEAD AND TIM CLARK.
RUMOR HAS IT THAT MOREHEAD IS PLANNING TO RESIGN FROM THE COUNCIL. OTHER TOP GOALS CHOSEN BY THE COUNCIL LAST NIGHT:
DETERMINE THE FUTURE OF THE OLD SWIMMING POOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER...SETTING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICIES...ASSESSMENT OF OLD HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS THAT HAVE ORANGEBURG SEWER PIPES...WORKING ON TRAFFIC FLOW IN THE CITY...AND REVIEWING THE CITY POLICY ON PAVING COMMERCIAL PARKING LOTS.
ERIC AND ERIN PETERSEN OF ALTOONA ARE THE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN TUESDAY AT A DES MOINES HOSPITAL. GRANDPARENTS ARE JERRY AND MARY ANN HEINZEL OF MAQUOKETA AND PAT AND RON KEITEL OF MAQUOKETA.
THIS REPORT IS GOING TO CLOSE FOR TODAY AND A WINTER WONDERLAND
IS COMING.....GET READY.
DENNIS VOY
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
NEW RECORD HIGH FOR TODAY...OF 64. BROKE THE OLD 1909 RECORD OF 63.
THE FAIRBOARD IS THINKING ABOUT BUYING 4 TO 8 ACRES OF LAND NORTH OF THE RACE TRACK IN MAQUOKETA, FROM ROSS RIVER FARMS, TO USE FOR ADDITIONAL PARKING WHEN EVENTS ARE HELD AT THE FAIRGROUND.
THE NEW FAIRBOARD MANAGER IS LANNY SIMPSON OF MAQUOKETA.
SHE TOOK OVER THE JOB NOVEMBER 6TH, REPLACING DOUG PRATT WHO HAS MOVED TO THE DES MOINES AREA. SHE TOLD KMAQ NEWS THAT THE FAIRBOARD HAS MADE A BIG CHANGE FOR THE 2007 COUNTY FAIR IN JULY. THE STOCK CAR RACES WILL BE MOVED FROM SATURDAY NIGHT TO THURSDAY NIGHT, ALLOWING THE BIG MUSIC SHOW TO BE HELD ON A WEEKEND NIGHT.
THE DEATH OF A 13-MONTH OLD DELMAR BABY LAST WEEK HAS BEEN RULED A HOMICIDE. ARRYANA JOLEE CLARK DIED AS THE RESULT OF HEAD INJURIES LAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT. PRIVATE FAMILY SERVICES WERE HELD TODAY AT THE BUCKHORN CEMETERY IN RURAL MAQUOKETA.
THE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES AND NO CHARGES HAVE BEEN FILED.
DR. JENNIFER AND ERIC THOME OF BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN LAST FRIDAY AT BLOOMINGTON. GRANDPARENTS ARE STEVE AND CAROL LUCKE OF MAQUOKETA.
JOHN AND CARRIE COSTELLO OF DIKE, IOWA ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN SUNDAY IN WATERLOO. GRANDPARENTS ARE LEONARD AND PAT DITCH OF MAQUOKETA AND PAT AND JOAN COSTELLO OF MAQUOKETA.
BECKY BODKIN, AGE 30, OF MAQUOKETA DIED UNEXPECTEDLY YESTERDAY MORNING AT HER HOME. THE FULL OBITUARY IS AT www.carsonandson.com
THANKS FOR STOPPING BY.
SNOW IS COMING THURSDAY. TOO BAD MANY OF YOU WILL MISS IT.
DENNIS VOY
THE FAIRBOARD IS THINKING ABOUT BUYING 4 TO 8 ACRES OF LAND NORTH OF THE RACE TRACK IN MAQUOKETA, FROM ROSS RIVER FARMS, TO USE FOR ADDITIONAL PARKING WHEN EVENTS ARE HELD AT THE FAIRGROUND.
THE NEW FAIRBOARD MANAGER IS LANNY SIMPSON OF MAQUOKETA.
SHE TOOK OVER THE JOB NOVEMBER 6TH, REPLACING DOUG PRATT WHO HAS MOVED TO THE DES MOINES AREA. SHE TOLD KMAQ NEWS THAT THE FAIRBOARD HAS MADE A BIG CHANGE FOR THE 2007 COUNTY FAIR IN JULY. THE STOCK CAR RACES WILL BE MOVED FROM SATURDAY NIGHT TO THURSDAY NIGHT, ALLOWING THE BIG MUSIC SHOW TO BE HELD ON A WEEKEND NIGHT.
THE DEATH OF A 13-MONTH OLD DELMAR BABY LAST WEEK HAS BEEN RULED A HOMICIDE. ARRYANA JOLEE CLARK DIED AS THE RESULT OF HEAD INJURIES LAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT. PRIVATE FAMILY SERVICES WERE HELD TODAY AT THE BUCKHORN CEMETERY IN RURAL MAQUOKETA.
THE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES AND NO CHARGES HAVE BEEN FILED.
DR. JENNIFER AND ERIC THOME OF BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN LAST FRIDAY AT BLOOMINGTON. GRANDPARENTS ARE STEVE AND CAROL LUCKE OF MAQUOKETA.
JOHN AND CARRIE COSTELLO OF DIKE, IOWA ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN SUNDAY IN WATERLOO. GRANDPARENTS ARE LEONARD AND PAT DITCH OF MAQUOKETA AND PAT AND JOAN COSTELLO OF MAQUOKETA.
BECKY BODKIN, AGE 30, OF MAQUOKETA DIED UNEXPECTEDLY YESTERDAY MORNING AT HER HOME. THE FULL OBITUARY IS AT www.carsonandson.com
THANKS FOR STOPPING BY.
SNOW IS COMING THURSDAY. TOO BAD MANY OF YOU WILL MISS IT.
DENNIS VOY
Monday, November 27, 2006
WARM AGAIN TODAY, IN THE 60'S. LIGHT RAIN EARLY THIS MORNING AND LOTS OF RAIN IN THE FORECAST FOR THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS AND THEN COLD, COLD WEATHER THIS THURSDAY THRU SUNDAY.
RED HENTON HAS A NEW CD OUT CALLED "CHRISTMAS WITH RED HENTON".
IT HAS 8 SONGS ON IT, INCLUDING: WELCOME SANTA...JINGLE BELLS...
DADDY LOOKED LIKE SANTA...RUDOLPH...SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN...
HIS STAR...WHITE CHRISTMAS...AND SILENT NIGHT. WE HAVE IT ON SALE HERE AT $5. MAKE CHECK PAYABLE TO RED HENTON AND INCLUDE $1 FOR SHIPPING.
OUR ADDRESS IS BOX 940, MAQUOKETA, IA. 52060.
BOBBIE EARLES, FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA (DAUGHTER OF BOB AND JOAN HEAD)
HAS RECEIVED A PROMOTION AT LORAS COLLEGE IN DUBUQUE, WHERE SHE AND HER FAMILY LIVES. SHE IS NOW THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS. SHE HAS BEEN WITH THE COLLEGE SINCE 2003 AND PRIOR TO THAT, WAS A NEWS ANCHOR FOR KWWL-TV IN WATERLOO.
A BREAK-IN AT SUNSHINE SCHOOL OVER THE WEEKEND, BUT APPARENTLY NOTHING WAS TAKEN. THE BREAK-IN WAS REPORTED AT 8:30 YESTERDAY MORNING.
ERIN CRAFTON AND STEVEN DERRICKSON OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN LAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT HERE AT THE MAQUOKETA HOSPITAL. GRANDPARENTS ARE PAULETTE CRAFTON AND MARK CRAFTON OF MAQUOKETA AND SHARON DERRICKSON OF MAQUOKETA.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY
RED HENTON HAS A NEW CD OUT CALLED "CHRISTMAS WITH RED HENTON".
IT HAS 8 SONGS ON IT, INCLUDING: WELCOME SANTA...JINGLE BELLS...
DADDY LOOKED LIKE SANTA...RUDOLPH...SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN...
HIS STAR...WHITE CHRISTMAS...AND SILENT NIGHT. WE HAVE IT ON SALE HERE AT $5. MAKE CHECK PAYABLE TO RED HENTON AND INCLUDE $1 FOR SHIPPING.
OUR ADDRESS IS BOX 940, MAQUOKETA, IA. 52060.
BOBBIE EARLES, FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA (DAUGHTER OF BOB AND JOAN HEAD)
HAS RECEIVED A PROMOTION AT LORAS COLLEGE IN DUBUQUE, WHERE SHE AND HER FAMILY LIVES. SHE IS NOW THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS. SHE HAS BEEN WITH THE COLLEGE SINCE 2003 AND PRIOR TO THAT, WAS A NEWS ANCHOR FOR KWWL-TV IN WATERLOO.
A BREAK-IN AT SUNSHINE SCHOOL OVER THE WEEKEND, BUT APPARENTLY NOTHING WAS TAKEN. THE BREAK-IN WAS REPORTED AT 8:30 YESTERDAY MORNING.
ERIN CRAFTON AND STEVEN DERRICKSON OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN LAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT HERE AT THE MAQUOKETA HOSPITAL. GRANDPARENTS ARE PAULETTE CRAFTON AND MARK CRAFTON OF MAQUOKETA AND SHARON DERRICKSON OF MAQUOKETA.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
SUNNY AND HIGH IN 50'S TODAY.
JACKSON COUNTY'S UNEMPLOYEMENT RATE WENT UP A BIT IN OCTOBER, TO 3.6 PERCENT. IN SEPTEMBER, IT WAS 3.3 PERCENT.
ON THE POLICE BLOTTER, DON MCDONALD OF MAQUOKETA, REPORTED ONE OF FOUR MAILBOXES ON HIS (VINE) STREET WERE VANDALIZED THIS
WEEK.
SEVERAL CAR-DEER ACCIDENTS REPORTED IN JACKSON COUNTY AGAIN TUESDAY NIGHT.
WILLIAM "BILL" FELDERMAN OF MAQUOKETA, AGE 71, DIED MONDAY.
AND ALLEN W. JOSLIN, AGE 67, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED SATURDAY.
BOTH COMPLETED OBITUARIES CAN BE READ AT www.carsonandson.com
THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS LOST IN OVERTIME LAST NIGHT, TO NORTH SCOTT, AT ELDRIDGE. IT WAS THEIR FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON.
KMAQ-FM WILL BROADCAST THE THANKSGIVING EVE SERVICE AT 7 TONIGHT FROM THE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH IN MAQUOKETA.
HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING.
DENNIS VOY
JACKSON COUNTY'S UNEMPLOYEMENT RATE WENT UP A BIT IN OCTOBER, TO 3.6 PERCENT. IN SEPTEMBER, IT WAS 3.3 PERCENT.
ON THE POLICE BLOTTER, DON MCDONALD OF MAQUOKETA, REPORTED ONE OF FOUR MAILBOXES ON HIS (VINE) STREET WERE VANDALIZED THIS
WEEK.
SEVERAL CAR-DEER ACCIDENTS REPORTED IN JACKSON COUNTY AGAIN TUESDAY NIGHT.
WILLIAM "BILL" FELDERMAN OF MAQUOKETA, AGE 71, DIED MONDAY.
AND ALLEN W. JOSLIN, AGE 67, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED SATURDAY.
BOTH COMPLETED OBITUARIES CAN BE READ AT www.carsonandson.com
THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS LOST IN OVERTIME LAST NIGHT, TO NORTH SCOTT, AT ELDRIDGE. IT WAS THEIR FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON.
KMAQ-FM WILL BROADCAST THE THANKSGIVING EVE SERVICE AT 7 TONIGHT FROM THE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH IN MAQUOKETA.
HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING.
DENNIS VOY
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
NICE DAY TODAY....IN UPPER 40'S AND LOOKING FOR 50 PLUS TOMORROW AND THURSDAY, THANKSGIVING.
THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS ARE AT NORTH SCOTT TONIGHT TO KICK-OFF THE 2006-2007 BASKETBALL SEASON. THE BOYS HAVE THEIR FIRST GAME A WEEK FROM TONIGHT AT DUBUQUE WAHLERT. THE WRESTLER'S FIRST ACTION WILL BE AT THE INDEPENDENCE TOURNAMENT DECEMBER 2ND.
LAST SATURDAY, AN INFORMAL HOMECOMING CEREMONY WAS HELD IN CEDAR RAPIDS FOR ABOUT 20 SOLDIERS FROM COMPANIES A, B AND C OF THE IOWA NATIONAL GUARD'S 234TH SIGNAL BATTALION, INCLUDING SPECIALIST LUCAS GORNEY OF MAQUOKETA. THE GROUP OF IOWANS WERE DEPLOYED IN JANUARY TO TIKRIT, IRAQ, SUPPORTING A TEXAS ARMY NATIONAL GUARD UNIT CHARGED WITH INSTALLING A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM. THE GROUP, MADE UP OF MANY MEMBERS YOUNGER THAN 21, LAID 72 MILES OF FIBER-OPTIC CABLE AND INSTALLED AND MAINTAINED WIDE-AREA COMMUNICATIONS.
LONGTIME MAQUOKETA BUSINESSMAN AND PUBLIC SERVANT BEN JACOBSEN,
WAS RECENTLY INDUCED INTO THE JACKSON COUNTY MUSEUM HALL OF FAME.
HE SERVED TWO TERMS AS A COUNCILMAN AND SEVEN TERMS AS MAYOR, BEGINNING IN 1955. HE RAN HIS LAST PUBLIC CAMPAIGN IN 1977, SHORTLY BEFORE HIS DEATH AT AGE 95. HE WAS A FIREMEN FOR 70 YEARS. HE OWNED RINGLEP HARDWARE, ON THE CORNER IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA UNTIL HIS DEATH. HE ADVERTISED HIS BUSINESS REGULARLY ON KMAQ AND I VISITED HIM ALMOST WEEKLY TO GET HIS NEW RADIO SPOT. WE WERE GOOD FRIENDS.
EVEN AFTER I DEFEATED HIM IN A MAYOR RACE IN 1969. IN FACT, HE HAD ME ON HIS LIST TO BE A PALLBEARER AT HIS FUNERAL. BUT, UNFORTUNATELY I WAS NOT HOME FOR HIS FUNERAL AS I WAS ON A LONDON TRIP AT THE TIME.
DECEMBER 14, 1969, WAS A SPECIAL DAY FOR HIM WHEN THAT DAY WAS DECLARED BEN JACOBSEN DAY IN MAQUOKETA.
THE MAQUOKETA SENTINEL-PRESS HAS A MITTEN TREE AGAIN THIS YEAR.
THE PUBLIC IS WELCOME TO DONATE NEW CHILDREN'S MITTENS, GLOVES, HATS, SCARVES, SOCKS AND EAR MUFFS TO PLACE UNDER THE TREE FOR DISTRIBUTION
AFTER DECEMBER 12TH. THEY WILL BE DISTRIBUTING THE ITEMS THROUGH
THE MAQUOKETA COMMUNITY SERVICES CHRISTMAS STAR PROGRAM.
THE MAQUOKETA KIWANIS CLUB RECENTLY DONATED $250 TO THE MAQUOKETA COMMUNITY CUPBOARD, LOCATED IN THE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH.
DON SCHWENKER, KIWANIS PRESIDENT, PRESENTED THE CHECK TO GARY EGGERS WHO IS IN CHARGE OF THE LOCAL PANTRY. MONETARY DONATIONS ARE USED TO PURCHASE ITEMS THE CUPBOARD DOES NOT RECEIVE THROUGH DONATION OF FOOD. THE MAQUOKETA COMMUNITY CUPBOARD SERVED AROUND 72 TO 75 FAMILIES EACH WEEK THIS YEAR, REACHING A NEW HIGH OF 90 FAMILIES ONE WEEK IN OCTOBER. FOOD AND MONEY IS NEEDED ALL YEAR LONG, NOT JUST DURING THE HOLIDAYS. LIKE TO HELP OUT? SEND YOUR CHECK TO ME AND I WILL TAKE IT OUT TO THE CUPBOARD. MY MAILING ADDRESS IS BOX 940.
IN CASE I DON'T HAVE A REPORT TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY)...HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
DENNIS VOY
THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS ARE AT NORTH SCOTT TONIGHT TO KICK-OFF THE 2006-2007 BASKETBALL SEASON. THE BOYS HAVE THEIR FIRST GAME A WEEK FROM TONIGHT AT DUBUQUE WAHLERT. THE WRESTLER'S FIRST ACTION WILL BE AT THE INDEPENDENCE TOURNAMENT DECEMBER 2ND.
LAST SATURDAY, AN INFORMAL HOMECOMING CEREMONY WAS HELD IN CEDAR RAPIDS FOR ABOUT 20 SOLDIERS FROM COMPANIES A, B AND C OF THE IOWA NATIONAL GUARD'S 234TH SIGNAL BATTALION, INCLUDING SPECIALIST LUCAS GORNEY OF MAQUOKETA. THE GROUP OF IOWANS WERE DEPLOYED IN JANUARY TO TIKRIT, IRAQ, SUPPORTING A TEXAS ARMY NATIONAL GUARD UNIT CHARGED WITH INSTALLING A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM. THE GROUP, MADE UP OF MANY MEMBERS YOUNGER THAN 21, LAID 72 MILES OF FIBER-OPTIC CABLE AND INSTALLED AND MAINTAINED WIDE-AREA COMMUNICATIONS.
LONGTIME MAQUOKETA BUSINESSMAN AND PUBLIC SERVANT BEN JACOBSEN,
WAS RECENTLY INDUCED INTO THE JACKSON COUNTY MUSEUM HALL OF FAME.
HE SERVED TWO TERMS AS A COUNCILMAN AND SEVEN TERMS AS MAYOR, BEGINNING IN 1955. HE RAN HIS LAST PUBLIC CAMPAIGN IN 1977, SHORTLY BEFORE HIS DEATH AT AGE 95. HE WAS A FIREMEN FOR 70 YEARS. HE OWNED RINGLEP HARDWARE, ON THE CORNER IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA UNTIL HIS DEATH. HE ADVERTISED HIS BUSINESS REGULARLY ON KMAQ AND I VISITED HIM ALMOST WEEKLY TO GET HIS NEW RADIO SPOT. WE WERE GOOD FRIENDS.
EVEN AFTER I DEFEATED HIM IN A MAYOR RACE IN 1969. IN FACT, HE HAD ME ON HIS LIST TO BE A PALLBEARER AT HIS FUNERAL. BUT, UNFORTUNATELY I WAS NOT HOME FOR HIS FUNERAL AS I WAS ON A LONDON TRIP AT THE TIME.
DECEMBER 14, 1969, WAS A SPECIAL DAY FOR HIM WHEN THAT DAY WAS DECLARED BEN JACOBSEN DAY IN MAQUOKETA.
THE MAQUOKETA SENTINEL-PRESS HAS A MITTEN TREE AGAIN THIS YEAR.
THE PUBLIC IS WELCOME TO DONATE NEW CHILDREN'S MITTENS, GLOVES, HATS, SCARVES, SOCKS AND EAR MUFFS TO PLACE UNDER THE TREE FOR DISTRIBUTION
AFTER DECEMBER 12TH. THEY WILL BE DISTRIBUTING THE ITEMS THROUGH
THE MAQUOKETA COMMUNITY SERVICES CHRISTMAS STAR PROGRAM.
THE MAQUOKETA KIWANIS CLUB RECENTLY DONATED $250 TO THE MAQUOKETA COMMUNITY CUPBOARD, LOCATED IN THE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH.
DON SCHWENKER, KIWANIS PRESIDENT, PRESENTED THE CHECK TO GARY EGGERS WHO IS IN CHARGE OF THE LOCAL PANTRY. MONETARY DONATIONS ARE USED TO PURCHASE ITEMS THE CUPBOARD DOES NOT RECEIVE THROUGH DONATION OF FOOD. THE MAQUOKETA COMMUNITY CUPBOARD SERVED AROUND 72 TO 75 FAMILIES EACH WEEK THIS YEAR, REACHING A NEW HIGH OF 90 FAMILIES ONE WEEK IN OCTOBER. FOOD AND MONEY IS NEEDED ALL YEAR LONG, NOT JUST DURING THE HOLIDAYS. LIKE TO HELP OUT? SEND YOUR CHECK TO ME AND I WILL TAKE IT OUT TO THE CUPBOARD. MY MAILING ADDRESS IS BOX 940.
IN CASE I DON'T HAVE A REPORT TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY)...HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
DENNIS VOY
Monday, November 20, 2006
SUNNY AND NICE DAY...HIGH OF 47. AND... INTO THE 50'S AND 60'S FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK.
WELL-KN OW FORMER BUSINESS OWNER BILL MOLER DIED YESTERDAY AFTER A SHORT 6-WEEK BATTLE WITH CANCER. HIS FULL OBITURAY
IS AT www.carsonandson
THE MAQUOKETA POST OFFICE HAS BEEN TAKING APPLICATIONS FOR A NEW POSTMASTER AND POSSIBLY WILL HAVE ONE AFTER THE FIRST OF THE YEAR. DOUG SWANSON HAS TRANSFERRED TO THE POSTMASTER POSITION IN CLINTON. SWANSON HAS POSTMASTER IN MAQUOKETA FOR ALMOST 5 YEARS. HE DAD IS RETIRED MAQUOKETA TEACHER AND SALESMAN, HAROLD SWANSON.
MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY
WELL-KN OW FORMER BUSINESS OWNER BILL MOLER DIED YESTERDAY AFTER A SHORT 6-WEEK BATTLE WITH CANCER. HIS FULL OBITURAY
IS AT www.carsonandson
THE MAQUOKETA POST OFFICE HAS BEEN TAKING APPLICATIONS FOR A NEW POSTMASTER AND POSSIBLY WILL HAVE ONE AFTER THE FIRST OF THE YEAR. DOUG SWANSON HAS TRANSFERRED TO THE POSTMASTER POSITION IN CLINTON. SWANSON HAS POSTMASTER IN MAQUOKETA FOR ALMOST 5 YEARS. HE DAD IS RETIRED MAQUOKETA TEACHER AND SALESMAN, HAROLD SWANSON.
MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY
Thursday, November 16, 2006
A LITTLE SUNSHINE THIS MORNING...THEN WINDY AND COOL THIS AFTERNOON.
MAQUOKETA FIREMEN WERE CALLED TO A FIRE AT THE DAVE BRADY HOME AT 20337 22ND STREET JUST AFTER 8 LAST NIGHT. AN ELECTRICAL PROBLEM CAUSED THE OUTSIDE SIDING TO CATCH ON FIRE. FIREMEN SAID SOME SMALL FLAMES WERE SHOWING WHEN THEY ARRIVED AND THEY QUICKLY PUT THE FIRE OUT.
THE MAQUOKETA COMMUNITY SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS OFFICIALLY APPROVED THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FUND.
THE FUND, ESTABLISHED IN 2002, IS MANAGED BY THE MAQUOKETA AREA FOUNDATION. IN EACH OF THE LAST TWO YEARS, THE BOARD HAS DISTRIBUTED $14,000. THERE ARE 10 PEOPLE ON THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE....CAROL GISEL, BRIAN HINGTGEN, AL TUBBS, CHUCK WOLFE, TRACY WALLER, JEAN ANDERSON, JOANNE EVANS, JANE SCHMIDT, TERI TAYLOR AND KIM HUCKSTADT.
SLOW LOCAL NEWS DAY...SORRY.
DENNIS VOY
MAQUOKETA FIREMEN WERE CALLED TO A FIRE AT THE DAVE BRADY HOME AT 20337 22ND STREET JUST AFTER 8 LAST NIGHT. AN ELECTRICAL PROBLEM CAUSED THE OUTSIDE SIDING TO CATCH ON FIRE. FIREMEN SAID SOME SMALL FLAMES WERE SHOWING WHEN THEY ARRIVED AND THEY QUICKLY PUT THE FIRE OUT.
THE MAQUOKETA COMMUNITY SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS OFFICIALLY APPROVED THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FUND.
THE FUND, ESTABLISHED IN 2002, IS MANAGED BY THE MAQUOKETA AREA FOUNDATION. IN EACH OF THE LAST TWO YEARS, THE BOARD HAS DISTRIBUTED $14,000. THERE ARE 10 PEOPLE ON THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE....CAROL GISEL, BRIAN HINGTGEN, AL TUBBS, CHUCK WOLFE, TRACY WALLER, JEAN ANDERSON, JOANNE EVANS, JANE SCHMIDT, TERI TAYLOR AND KIM HUCKSTADT.
SLOW LOCAL NEWS DAY...SORRY.
DENNIS VOY
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
THE WEATHER THE PAST FEW DAYS ... NOT BAD ... BUT COULD BE BETTER.
LITTLE SUNSHINE AND HIGHS GENERALLY IN THE 40'S. GOT A TENTH OF AN INCH OF RAIN YESTERDAY MORNING. NO SNOW YET IN NOVEMBER, BUT WE DID HAVE SOME SLEET OVER THE WEEKEND. AND YOU MAY RECALL, WE GOT A QUARTER OF AN INCH OF SNOW ABOUT A MONTH AGO IN MAQUOKETA, ONE OF THE EARLIEST SNOWFALLS EVER.
AT THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING IN MAQUOKETA MONDAY NIGHT, BRIAN MORETZ, HIGH SCHOOL ASSISTANT PRICIPAL AND ATHLETIC DIRECTOR, REMINDED BOARD MEMBERS AND PARENTS THAT A NEW STATE LEGISLATURE BILL PASSED LAST SESSION CALLS FOR ALL ATHLETES TO HAVE PASSING GRADES IN ALL CLASSES, OR THEY WILL HAVE TO SIT OUT 20 DAYS IF THEY FAIL A CLASS. MORETZ SAID LETTERS HAVE BEEN SENT TO PARENTS OF ATHLETES EPLAINING THE NEW PROCEDURES AND HE SAID SPECIAL STUDY PERIODS WILL BE SCHEDULED FOR ATHLETES WHO ARE HAVING DIFFICULTIES IN CLASSES.
MAQUOKETA WILL AGAIN HAVE A COMMUNITY THANKSGIVING DINNER ON THANKSGIVING DAY, AT THE JACKSON COUNTY SENIOR CENTER.
MAQUOKETA MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC EMPLOYEES YESTERDAY STARTED PUTTING UP THE WHITE LIGHTS ON DOWNTOWN TREES FOR THE HOLIDAY AHEAD.
NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS TO REPORT TODAY.
THE PEACE PIPE PLAYERS WILL HAVE AUDITIONS NOVEMBER 19TH AND 20TH
AT 7 P.M. FOR THE PRODUCTION "INTO THE WOODS" WHICH WILL BE PRESENTED AT THE OHNWARD FINE ARTS CENTER ON WEEKENDS, JANUARY 26TH THRU FEBRUARY 3RD. CINDY CARAWAY WILL DIRECT.
THANKS FOR CHECKING IN.
DENNIS VOY
LITTLE SUNSHINE AND HIGHS GENERALLY IN THE 40'S. GOT A TENTH OF AN INCH OF RAIN YESTERDAY MORNING. NO SNOW YET IN NOVEMBER, BUT WE DID HAVE SOME SLEET OVER THE WEEKEND. AND YOU MAY RECALL, WE GOT A QUARTER OF AN INCH OF SNOW ABOUT A MONTH AGO IN MAQUOKETA, ONE OF THE EARLIEST SNOWFALLS EVER.
AT THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING IN MAQUOKETA MONDAY NIGHT, BRIAN MORETZ, HIGH SCHOOL ASSISTANT PRICIPAL AND ATHLETIC DIRECTOR, REMINDED BOARD MEMBERS AND PARENTS THAT A NEW STATE LEGISLATURE BILL PASSED LAST SESSION CALLS FOR ALL ATHLETES TO HAVE PASSING GRADES IN ALL CLASSES, OR THEY WILL HAVE TO SIT OUT 20 DAYS IF THEY FAIL A CLASS. MORETZ SAID LETTERS HAVE BEEN SENT TO PARENTS OF ATHLETES EPLAINING THE NEW PROCEDURES AND HE SAID SPECIAL STUDY PERIODS WILL BE SCHEDULED FOR ATHLETES WHO ARE HAVING DIFFICULTIES IN CLASSES.
MAQUOKETA WILL AGAIN HAVE A COMMUNITY THANKSGIVING DINNER ON THANKSGIVING DAY, AT THE JACKSON COUNTY SENIOR CENTER.
MAQUOKETA MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC EMPLOYEES YESTERDAY STARTED PUTTING UP THE WHITE LIGHTS ON DOWNTOWN TREES FOR THE HOLIDAY AHEAD.
NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS TO REPORT TODAY.
THE PEACE PIPE PLAYERS WILL HAVE AUDITIONS NOVEMBER 19TH AND 20TH
AT 7 P.M. FOR THE PRODUCTION "INTO THE WOODS" WHICH WILL BE PRESENTED AT THE OHNWARD FINE ARTS CENTER ON WEEKENDS, JANUARY 26TH THRU FEBRUARY 3RD. CINDY CARAWAY WILL DIRECT.
THANKS FOR CHECKING IN.
DENNIS VOY
Friday, November 10, 2006
Thursday, November 09, 2006
ANOTHER NICE WARM DAY TODAY. BUT, COLDER WEATHER BEGINS TOMORROW.
THE CITY COUNCIL THIS WEEK HAS GIVEN A COMPANY UNTIL TOMORROW TO COMPLETE PAVING ON THOMAS AVENUE OR PAY $500 A DAY PENALTY.
THE PROJECT IS EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED THANKS TO GOOD WEATHER THIS WEEK. MANY STREET CUTS WERE MADE THIS SUMMER FOR SEWER HOOKUPS AND THE STREET THEREFORD NEEDED TO BE PAVED.
THE MAQUOKETA RIVER TRAIL IS NOT COMPLETED AND THE DATE FOR COMPLETION HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL NOV 27TH.
THE VETERAN'S DAY PROGRAM FOR MAQUOKETA WILL BE AT 8:45 TOMORROW MORNING AT THE MAQUOKETA MIDDLE SCHOOL. LEGION
MEMBER CLIFF MERRICK WILL GIVE THE ADDRESS. THE MAQUOKETA VFW POST AND ANDREW AMVETS WILL JOIN THE LEGION TO PRESENT THE PROGRAM.
NEXT TIME YOU VISIT BRANSON, TRY TO STOP AT BILLY BOB'S DAIRY LAND FOR THE BEST HAMBURGERS IN BRANSON. LOCATED ON WEST STATE STREET, JUST OFF HWY 76 AND OWNED AND OPERATED BY DON AND NANCY GIBSON. NICE COUPLE. GOOD HAMBUGERS! I HAD ONE LAST WEEK. JUST A LITTLE PLACE.
THE FFA AND FFA ALUMNI CHILI SUPPER IS TONIGHT AT THE HIGH SCHOOL...LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.
ALSO, PLANNING TO ATTEND THE ANNUAL CATTLMEN'S BEEF BANQUET THIS SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE FAIRGROUNDS.
THE VOY 3 THEATRE LOBBY IS DECORATED FOR CHRISTMAS AND THE NEW SANTA CLAUS MOVIE IS ENTERTAINING ALL AGES.
THIRTY SEVEN YEARS AGO TODAY, I WAS CELEBRATING....MY ONE AND ONLY ELECTION VICTORY. I DEFEATED MAQUOKETA LONGTIME BUSINESSMAN BEN JACOBSEN FOR THE OFFICE OF MAQUOKETA MAYOR.
MY SLOGAN WAS "MAKE MAQUOKETA MOVE" AND BEN'S WAS "DON'T SEND A VOY TO DO A MAN'S JOB". I SERVED OUT MY TWO YEAR TERM AND THEN WAS TOO BUSY TO SEEK RE-ELECTION.
AND SO IT GOES....TIME FLIES.
DENNIS VOY
THE CITY COUNCIL THIS WEEK HAS GIVEN A COMPANY UNTIL TOMORROW TO COMPLETE PAVING ON THOMAS AVENUE OR PAY $500 A DAY PENALTY.
THE PROJECT IS EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED THANKS TO GOOD WEATHER THIS WEEK. MANY STREET CUTS WERE MADE THIS SUMMER FOR SEWER HOOKUPS AND THE STREET THEREFORD NEEDED TO BE PAVED.
THE MAQUOKETA RIVER TRAIL IS NOT COMPLETED AND THE DATE FOR COMPLETION HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL NOV 27TH.
THE VETERAN'S DAY PROGRAM FOR MAQUOKETA WILL BE AT 8:45 TOMORROW MORNING AT THE MAQUOKETA MIDDLE SCHOOL. LEGION
MEMBER CLIFF MERRICK WILL GIVE THE ADDRESS. THE MAQUOKETA VFW POST AND ANDREW AMVETS WILL JOIN THE LEGION TO PRESENT THE PROGRAM.
NEXT TIME YOU VISIT BRANSON, TRY TO STOP AT BILLY BOB'S DAIRY LAND FOR THE BEST HAMBURGERS IN BRANSON. LOCATED ON WEST STATE STREET, JUST OFF HWY 76 AND OWNED AND OPERATED BY DON AND NANCY GIBSON. NICE COUPLE. GOOD HAMBUGERS! I HAD ONE LAST WEEK. JUST A LITTLE PLACE.
THE FFA AND FFA ALUMNI CHILI SUPPER IS TONIGHT AT THE HIGH SCHOOL...LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.
ALSO, PLANNING TO ATTEND THE ANNUAL CATTLMEN'S BEEF BANQUET THIS SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE FAIRGROUNDS.
THE VOY 3 THEATRE LOBBY IS DECORATED FOR CHRISTMAS AND THE NEW SANTA CLAUS MOVIE IS ENTERTAINING ALL AGES.
THIRTY SEVEN YEARS AGO TODAY, I WAS CELEBRATING....MY ONE AND ONLY ELECTION VICTORY. I DEFEATED MAQUOKETA LONGTIME BUSINESSMAN BEN JACOBSEN FOR THE OFFICE OF MAQUOKETA MAYOR.
MY SLOGAN WAS "MAKE MAQUOKETA MOVE" AND BEN'S WAS "DON'T SEND A VOY TO DO A MAN'S JOB". I SERVED OUT MY TWO YEAR TERM AND THEN WAS TOO BUSY TO SEEK RE-ELECTION.
AND SO IT GOES....TIME FLIES.
DENNIS VOY
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
BEAUTIFUL DAY...HIGH OF 70.
ELECTION RESULTS:
SUPERVISOR JACK WILLEY RE-ELECTED IN A CLOSE RACE. HE GOT
3,800 VOTES AND PAUL HAHLE, 3,212.
THE NEW SUPERVISOR IS STEVE FLYNN, WHO DEFEATED DARWIN FRANZEN BY 552 VOTES....3,843 TO 3,291.
TREASURER AL TEBBE, JR...RECORDER ARLENE SCHAUF AND COUNTY ATTORNEY PHIL TABOR WERE ALL UNAPPOSED AND ELECTED.
7,465 (51%) WENT TO THE POLES. JACKSON COUNTY VOTERS HELPED ELECT BRUCE BRALEY TO CONGRESS (DEMOCRAT REPLACING REPUBLICAN JIM NUSTLE) AND CHET CULVER, DEMOCRAT, TO THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE. CULVER'S DAD WAS OUR CONGRESSMAN YEARS AGO, THEN U.S.
SENATOR.
ST. SENATOR ROGER STEWART WAS RE-ELECTED, WINNING 12,061 TO 6,218.
..GETTING 62% OF THE VOTE, TO GAIN HIS SECOND 4-YEAR TERM AS A DEMOCRAT. ST. REP. TOM SCHUELLER, ALSO A DEMOCRAT, WAS RE-ELECTED TO HIS 2ND TWO-YEAR TERM, 6,015 TO 3,703
THE MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL LAST NIGHT HIRED AN ARCHITECT TO DRAW UP PLANS FOR THE ADDITION TO THE FIRE STARTION.
WORK ON THE ESTIMATED 1
1/2 MILLION ADDITION WILL PROBABLY BE STARTED NEXT YEAR.
THANKS FOR CHECKING IN.
DENNIS VOY
ELECTION RESULTS:
SUPERVISOR JACK WILLEY RE-ELECTED IN A CLOSE RACE. HE GOT
3,800 VOTES AND PAUL HAHLE, 3,212.
THE NEW SUPERVISOR IS STEVE FLYNN, WHO DEFEATED DARWIN FRANZEN BY 552 VOTES....3,843 TO 3,291.
TREASURER AL TEBBE, JR...RECORDER ARLENE SCHAUF AND COUNTY ATTORNEY PHIL TABOR WERE ALL UNAPPOSED AND ELECTED.
7,465 (51%) WENT TO THE POLES. JACKSON COUNTY VOTERS HELPED ELECT BRUCE BRALEY TO CONGRESS (DEMOCRAT REPLACING REPUBLICAN JIM NUSTLE) AND CHET CULVER, DEMOCRAT, TO THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE. CULVER'S DAD WAS OUR CONGRESSMAN YEARS AGO, THEN U.S.
SENATOR.
ST. SENATOR ROGER STEWART WAS RE-ELECTED, WINNING 12,061 TO 6,218.
..GETTING 62% OF THE VOTE, TO GAIN HIS SECOND 4-YEAR TERM AS A DEMOCRAT. ST. REP. TOM SCHUELLER, ALSO A DEMOCRAT, WAS RE-ELECTED TO HIS 2ND TWO-YEAR TERM, 6,015 TO 3,703
THE MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL LAST NIGHT HIRED AN ARCHITECT TO DRAW UP PLANS FOR THE ADDITION TO THE FIRE STARTION.
WORK ON THE ESTIMATED 1
1/2 MILLION ADDITION WILL PROBABLY BE STARTED NEXT YEAR.
THANKS FOR CHECKING IN.
DENNIS VOY
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
BEAUTIFUL WEATHER FOR ELECTION DAY AND SO FAR, VOTER TURN OUT
IS GOOD IN MAQUOKETA.
THE BEAR CREEK NARCOTICS TASK FORCE RAIDED A RURAL MAQUOKETA HOME AND FOUND ONE OF THE BIGGEST INDOOR MARIJUANA GROWING OPERATIONS THEY'VE EVER SEEN. THE TASK FORCE CONDUCTED THE SEARCH WARRANT AT BRIAN AND KATHLEEN KOCH'S HOME AT 9951 74TH STREET, IN SOUTH FORK TOWNSHIP, ON 40 ACRES ALONG THE MAQUOKETA RIVER. BRIAN KOCH, AGE 56, WAS CHARGED WITH MANUFACTURING A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, MARIJUANA....POSSESSION OF A CONTROLED SUBSTANCE, MARIJUA WITH INTENT TO DELIVER AND FAILAURE TO AFFIX A DRUG TAX STAMP. ADDITONAL CHARGES ARE PENDING. KOCH WAS ARRRESTED WITHOUT INCIDENT AND IS IN THE JACKSON COUNTY DETENTION CENTER ON $9,750 SECURED BOND. OFFICERS LOADED THE BACK OF TWO PICKUPS, THE BACK SEAT OF A SQUAD CAR, AND THE BACK SEAT OF AN EXTENDED CAB PICKUP WITH BAGS OF MARIJUANA.
A LONGTIME JACKSON COUNTY ESTABLISHEMENT, MOONEY HOLLOW BARN, HAS NEW OWNERS. IT IS LOCATED ON HIGHWAY 52 AT GREEN ISLAND. IT IS KNOWN FORHAVING THE SILO ALONGSIDE THE BARN THAT HAS A HUGE VIOLIN PAINTED ON IT. NEW OWNERS ARE KEVIN PETESH AND TONY VANLEER. THEY BOTH PLAYED ON THE BELLEVUE COMET FOOTBALL TEAM IN 1974 AND GRADUATED FROM BELLEVUE HIGH SCHOOL.
PETESH RECENTLY RETIRED AS A LT. COLONEL AFTER 24 YEARS IN THE U.S. AIRFORCE AND VANLEER HAS LIVED AND WORKED IN TEXAS FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS. BOTH ARE GLAD TO BE BACK IN THEIR HOMETOWN AND ANXIOUS TO GET THE BARN OPEN AGAIN. IT WILL FEATURE COUNTRY MUSIC DANCES AND THE FIRST ONE IS THIS SATURDAY NIGHT.
TEN DEER ACCIDENTS THE PAST 5 DAYS IN CLINTON COUNTY.
VOTE TODAY. POLLS OPEN UNTIL 9. KMAQ ELECTION COVERAGE WILL START AT 9.
I'LL HAVE THE RESULTS TOMORROW... SO BE SURE TO CHECK IN FOR THE LOCAL RETURNS.
DENNIS VOY
IS GOOD IN MAQUOKETA.
THE BEAR CREEK NARCOTICS TASK FORCE RAIDED A RURAL MAQUOKETA HOME AND FOUND ONE OF THE BIGGEST INDOOR MARIJUANA GROWING OPERATIONS THEY'VE EVER SEEN. THE TASK FORCE CONDUCTED THE SEARCH WARRANT AT BRIAN AND KATHLEEN KOCH'S HOME AT 9951 74TH STREET, IN SOUTH FORK TOWNSHIP, ON 40 ACRES ALONG THE MAQUOKETA RIVER. BRIAN KOCH, AGE 56, WAS CHARGED WITH MANUFACTURING A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, MARIJUANA....POSSESSION OF A CONTROLED SUBSTANCE, MARIJUA WITH INTENT TO DELIVER AND FAILAURE TO AFFIX A DRUG TAX STAMP. ADDITONAL CHARGES ARE PENDING. KOCH WAS ARRRESTED WITHOUT INCIDENT AND IS IN THE JACKSON COUNTY DETENTION CENTER ON $9,750 SECURED BOND. OFFICERS LOADED THE BACK OF TWO PICKUPS, THE BACK SEAT OF A SQUAD CAR, AND THE BACK SEAT OF AN EXTENDED CAB PICKUP WITH BAGS OF MARIJUANA.
A LONGTIME JACKSON COUNTY ESTABLISHEMENT, MOONEY HOLLOW BARN, HAS NEW OWNERS. IT IS LOCATED ON HIGHWAY 52 AT GREEN ISLAND. IT IS KNOWN FORHAVING THE SILO ALONGSIDE THE BARN THAT HAS A HUGE VIOLIN PAINTED ON IT. NEW OWNERS ARE KEVIN PETESH AND TONY VANLEER. THEY BOTH PLAYED ON THE BELLEVUE COMET FOOTBALL TEAM IN 1974 AND GRADUATED FROM BELLEVUE HIGH SCHOOL.
PETESH RECENTLY RETIRED AS A LT. COLONEL AFTER 24 YEARS IN THE U.S. AIRFORCE AND VANLEER HAS LIVED AND WORKED IN TEXAS FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS. BOTH ARE GLAD TO BE BACK IN THEIR HOMETOWN AND ANXIOUS TO GET THE BARN OPEN AGAIN. IT WILL FEATURE COUNTRY MUSIC DANCES AND THE FIRST ONE IS THIS SATURDAY NIGHT.
TEN DEER ACCIDENTS THE PAST 5 DAYS IN CLINTON COUNTY.
VOTE TODAY. POLLS OPEN UNTIL 9. KMAQ ELECTION COVERAGE WILL START AT 9.
I'LL HAVE THE RESULTS TOMORROW... SO BE SURE TO CHECK IN FOR THE LOCAL RETURNS.
DENNIS VOY
Monday, November 06, 2006
BEAUTIFUL DAY IN MAQUOKETA, AFTER SOME DRIZZLE THIS MORNING.
SUNNY THIS AFTERNOON AND A HIGH IN THE UPPER 50'S.
WARMER WEATHER TOMORROW AND WEDNESDAY.
ALL WENT WELL WITH THE TWO KMAQ TRAVEL BUSES TO BRANSON. SAW SEVEN SOME GOOD SHOWS AND ALL HAD A GOOD TIME. BRANSON CONTINUES TO GROW!
I WILL NOT TRY AND RECAP ALL THAT HAPPENED HERE IN TOWN WHILE I WAS GONE...BUT NOTHING MAJOR TO MY KNOWLEDGE. THE CAMPAIGNING CONTINUED AND ELECTION DAY IS TOMORROW. BE SURE TO VOTE.
MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT.
LIZ GAVIN, AGE 9, DAUGHTER OF JENNIFER AND BOB GAVIN OF MAQUOKETA WON HER AGE DIVISION IN THE NFL- PEPSI PUNT, PASS AND KICK EVENT FOR THE CHICAGO BEARS TEAM COMPETITION HELD SATURDAY IN CHICAGO. AND AT HALF- TIME AT YESTERDAY'S BEARS-MIAMI GAME, HER COMBINED TOTAL OF DISTANCE IN 3 EVENTS WAS 50 FEET FURTHER THAN HER NEAREST COMPETITOR. SHE HAD EARLIER WON THE LOCAL AND SECTIONAL COMPETITION. SHE'S A 4TH GRADER AND COMPETED AGAINST YOUNG GIRLS FROM IOWA, ILLINOIS, INDIANA AND WISCONSIN. NOW, IT IS WAITING TIME FOR JENNIFER. EACH OF THE 32 NFL TEAMS WILL HAVE SIMILAR COMPETITION DURING THE NEXT MONTH AND THE TOP 4 SCORERS AT EACH LEVEL WILL ADVANCE TO ONE FINAL EVENT AT THE A.F.C. CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. SHE WILL NOT KNOW FOR SURE UNTIL PROBABLY MID-DECEMBER. A FUN DAY FOR HER AND HER PARENTS AND CONGRATULATIONS TO JENNIFER. WE WILL KEEP YOU POSTED.
MOONEY HOLLOW BARN NEAR GREEN ISLAND (WITH THE HUGE FIDDLE PAINTED ON THE SILO) HAS NEW OWNERS AND MORE ABOUT THAT LATER THIS WEEK.
THE SIGNS WENT UP LAST WEEK AT WAL MART'S NEW SUPER STORE AT THE SOUTH EDGE OF TOWN....AND THEY ARE NOW ADVERTISING FOR ADDITIONAL HELP ON KMAQ'S POPULAR "JOB BANK" PROGRAM.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY
SUNNY THIS AFTERNOON AND A HIGH IN THE UPPER 50'S.
WARMER WEATHER TOMORROW AND WEDNESDAY.
ALL WENT WELL WITH THE TWO KMAQ TRAVEL BUSES TO BRANSON. SAW SEVEN SOME GOOD SHOWS AND ALL HAD A GOOD TIME. BRANSON CONTINUES TO GROW!
I WILL NOT TRY AND RECAP ALL THAT HAPPENED HERE IN TOWN WHILE I WAS GONE...BUT NOTHING MAJOR TO MY KNOWLEDGE. THE CAMPAIGNING CONTINUED AND ELECTION DAY IS TOMORROW. BE SURE TO VOTE.
MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT.
LIZ GAVIN, AGE 9, DAUGHTER OF JENNIFER AND BOB GAVIN OF MAQUOKETA WON HER AGE DIVISION IN THE NFL- PEPSI PUNT, PASS AND KICK EVENT FOR THE CHICAGO BEARS TEAM COMPETITION HELD SATURDAY IN CHICAGO. AND AT HALF- TIME AT YESTERDAY'S BEARS-MIAMI GAME, HER COMBINED TOTAL OF DISTANCE IN 3 EVENTS WAS 50 FEET FURTHER THAN HER NEAREST COMPETITOR. SHE HAD EARLIER WON THE LOCAL AND SECTIONAL COMPETITION. SHE'S A 4TH GRADER AND COMPETED AGAINST YOUNG GIRLS FROM IOWA, ILLINOIS, INDIANA AND WISCONSIN. NOW, IT IS WAITING TIME FOR JENNIFER. EACH OF THE 32 NFL TEAMS WILL HAVE SIMILAR COMPETITION DURING THE NEXT MONTH AND THE TOP 4 SCORERS AT EACH LEVEL WILL ADVANCE TO ONE FINAL EVENT AT THE A.F.C. CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. SHE WILL NOT KNOW FOR SURE UNTIL PROBABLY MID-DECEMBER. A FUN DAY FOR HER AND HER PARENTS AND CONGRATULATIONS TO JENNIFER. WE WILL KEEP YOU POSTED.
MOONEY HOLLOW BARN NEAR GREEN ISLAND (WITH THE HUGE FIDDLE PAINTED ON THE SILO) HAS NEW OWNERS AND MORE ABOUT THAT LATER THIS WEEK.
THE SIGNS WENT UP LAST WEEK AT WAL MART'S NEW SUPER STORE AT THE SOUTH EDGE OF TOWN....AND THEY ARE NOW ADVERTISING FOR ADDITIONAL HELP ON KMAQ'S POPULAR "JOB BANK" PROGRAM.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY
Monday, October 30, 2006
Sunday, October 29, 2006
THIS IS THE HOME OF BRIAN AND KIM RIXEN AT 210 SOUTH 5TH STREET IN MAQUOKETA, AND THEIR 2-YEAR OLD DAUGHTER, DAILYN.BRIAN HAS ALWAYS BEEN A HALLOWEEN FAN AND LAST YEAR, STARTED HIS HOME DISPLAY.
THIS YEAR BRIAN AND KIM HAVE ADDED TO IT.
THEY HAVE BEEN WORKING ON IT MOST OF OCTOBER.
DRIVE BY AND TAKE A LOOK, DAYTIME, OR BETTER AT NIGHT OF COURSE
NO ADMISSION.
SOME OF THE SPOOKY CHARACTERS MOVE.
THE ORANGE CONVICT IN THE ELECTRIC CHAIR ON THE PORCH,
MOVES WHEN THE GETS HIS SHOCK.
HE AND THE CHAIR BUILDT BY BRIAN.
THE MUMMY ON THE FRONT PORCH ALSOBUILDT BY BRIAN AND KIM.
THERE IS A BLACK SCARY SKELETON THAT POPS UP AND DOWN UNDER AIR-PRESSURE.
AND LOTS MORE TO SEE. AND BRIAN SAYS MORE WILL BE ADDED NEXT HALLOWEEN.
AND OF COURSE, ALSO SOME CREAKY MUSIC AND SMOGG TOO.
HIS HOME DISPLAY WILL BE UP UNTIL SHORTLY AFTER HALLOWEEN IS OVER.
Saturday, October 28, 2006
NICE TODAY IN MAQUOKETA....SUNNY SKIES.
YES...WE AT KMAQ ARE HAPPY ABOUT THE CARDINALS
WORLD SERIES VICTORY! WE HAVE BEEN BROADCASTING CARDINAL GAMES SINCE 1985.
THE MAQUOKETA CARDINALS WON 24 TO 20 LAST NIGHT
AT EPWORTH, BEATING WESTERN DUBUQUE....AND ENDING THE SEASON WITH 4 DISTRICT WINS AND 3 LOSSES.
MAQUOKETA'S NEWEST DOCTOR IS KIMBERLY THOMPSON, D.O......WHO JOINED MEDICAL ASSOCIATES ON WEST QUARRY STREET AUGUST 1ST. SHE ATTENDED DES MOINES UNIVERSITY-OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL CENTER WHERE SHE RECEIVED HER MEDICAL DEGREE. SHE COMPLETED HER RESIDENCY PROGRAM IN DAVENPORT AT GENESIS FAMILY PRACTICE AND IS BOARD CERTIFIED BY THE AMERICAN BOARD OF FAMILY MEDICINE. HER INTERESTS INCLUDE WOMEN'S HEALTH, PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, PEDIATRICS AND INTERNAL MEDICINE, INCLUDING DIABETES AND HEART DISEASE. SHE AND HER HUSBAND, CHAD, RESIDE IN DEWITT.
THERE WAS AN AUDIO REPORT YESTERDAY. LISTEN IF YOU GET A CHANCE.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY
YES...WE AT KMAQ ARE HAPPY ABOUT THE CARDINALS
WORLD SERIES VICTORY! WE HAVE BEEN BROADCASTING CARDINAL GAMES SINCE 1985.
THE MAQUOKETA CARDINALS WON 24 TO 20 LAST NIGHT
AT EPWORTH, BEATING WESTERN DUBUQUE....AND ENDING THE SEASON WITH 4 DISTRICT WINS AND 3 LOSSES.
MAQUOKETA'S NEWEST DOCTOR IS KIMBERLY THOMPSON, D.O......WHO JOINED MEDICAL ASSOCIATES ON WEST QUARRY STREET AUGUST 1ST. SHE ATTENDED DES MOINES UNIVERSITY-OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL CENTER WHERE SHE RECEIVED HER MEDICAL DEGREE. SHE COMPLETED HER RESIDENCY PROGRAM IN DAVENPORT AT GENESIS FAMILY PRACTICE AND IS BOARD CERTIFIED BY THE AMERICAN BOARD OF FAMILY MEDICINE. HER INTERESTS INCLUDE WOMEN'S HEALTH, PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, PEDIATRICS AND INTERNAL MEDICINE, INCLUDING DIABETES AND HEART DISEASE. SHE AND HER HUSBAND, CHAD, RESIDE IN DEWITT.
THERE WAS AN AUDIO REPORT YESTERDAY. LISTEN IF YOU GET A CHANCE.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY
Friday, October 27, 2006
Thursday, October 26, 2006
RAINING IN MAQUOKETA....AND COLD.
ENJOYED WATCHING THE CARDINALS BEAT DETROIT TUESDAY NIGHT AT BUSCH STADIUM. CHRIS CARPENTER PITCHED GREAT. IT WAS DRY AND COOL... AND FUN!
GUARDIAN INDUSTRIES (MAKE GLASS 24 HOURS A DAY) AT DEWITT
IS ADDING ON A 70,000 FOOT ADDITION TO THEIR DEWITT PLANT AND WILL BE HIRING ANOTHER 40 PEOPLE.
THE PEACE PIPE PLAYERS LITTLE THEATRE GROUP IN MAQUOKETA (CELEBRATING 40TH YEAR) WILL PUT ON THE MUSICAL "SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK, LIVE! JR." IT WILL HAVE A CAST OF CHILDREN FROM GRADES 3-8 AND FEATURES 11 SONGS. MEMBERS OF THE CAST: ASHLEY BECKER,
BEAU BOWMAN, BEN DAVISON, WILL DAVISON, TAYLOR FISHWILD, ZACH
FISHWILD, KRISTEN GOESSLING, TAYLOR GOODENOW, LACIE HEISERMAN, ANDREW LONG, ERIC MEISLAND, CASSIDY MORRI, JAYCEE SMITH, MARISSA TILL, CATHERINE VAZQUEZ, AND QUENTIN YAROLEM. IT WILL BE PRESENTED AT THE OHNWARD FINE ARTS CENTER ON NOV. 16TH AND 17TH AT 7:30 P.M. EACH NIGHT. TICKETS ARE $10 IN ADVANCE AND $12 AT THE DOOR. TICKETS GO ON SALE OCTOBER 30TH AT OSTERHAUS PHARMACY
IN MAQUOKETA OR CALL 652-9815. CINDY CARAWAY WILL DIRECT AND FOR MORE INFORMATION, GO TO www.peacepipeplayers.org
LORI WAUGH HIT A DEER ON HIGHWAY 61 MONDAY MORNING....$4,000 DAMAGE TO HER 2002 GMC.
STAYLYN VAUGHN AND JOSHUA SOHN OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN OCT 12 AT OUR LOCAL HOSPITAL. GRANDMOHER IS CHERYL SOHN OF MAQUOKETA.
CHRIS AND KRISTIN MOHR ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN OCTOBER 19TH.
GRANDPARENTS ARE ALAN MOHR AND LAURIE MOHR OF MAQUOKETA...AND TOM AND PEG MANDERSHEID OF MAQUOKETA.
THE JACKSON COUNTY ZONING COMMISSION MEMBERS TURNED DOWN A REZONING REQUEST FOR PROPERTY NORTH OF MAQUOKTA, ACROSS THE RIVER. THE OWNERS, CLIFFORD PFAB AND JOE ZWACK ARE EXPECTED TO APPEAL TO THE JACKSON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS NEXT WEEK.
THEIR COMPANY IS MAQUOKETA LAND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY.
DURING THE ZONING BOARD PUBLIC HEARING MONDAY NIGHT, SOME
NEIGHBORS VOICED OPPOSITION TO CHANGING THE ZONING FROM AG TO RESIDENTIAL. THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT INCREASED TRAFFIC ON 55TH STREET. THE MEN WANT TO BUILD 11 HOUSES ON THE ACREAGE.'
A NEW MEDICAL BUILDING WILL BE GOING UP ON PROPERTY OF THE HOSPITAL IN MAQUOKETA, LOCATED NEXT TO THE HOSPITAL.
IT SOUNDS LIKE MEDICAL ASSOCIATES PHYSICIANS WILL MOVE INTO THE NEW BUILDING. HOSPITAL CEO CURT COLEMAN SAYS LEASE NEGOTIATIONS HAVE NOT BEEN COMPLETED, BUT SHOULD BE SOMETIME IN THE NEXT MONTH. HE SAID PLANS NOW CALL FOR CONSTRUCTION TO BEGIN SOMETIME NEXT YEAR, WITH OCCUPATION IN 2008. MEDICAL ASSOCIATES ARE CURRENTLY ON WEST QUARRY STREET, ACROSS FROM THE HOSPITAL TO THE SOUTH. I HEARD MAQUOKETA FAMILY CLINIC
ALSO CONSIDERED MOVING TO THE NEW BUILDING, FROM THEIR NORTH ARCADE STREET LOCATION, BUT APPARENTLY HAVE DECIDED NOT TO.
THEIR OFFICES ARE NEWER AND A MAJOR ADDITION TO THEIR BUILDING WAS COMPLETED JUST A FEW YEARS AGO. IT IS HOPED A NEW CLINIC BUILDING WILL HELP ATTRACT MORE DOCTORS TO MAQUOKETA.
A NEW DOCTOR HAS LOCATED IN MAQUOKTA, BUT I HAVE SEEN NO
NEWS RELEASE ABOUT HER, SO CAN'T GIVE YOU ANY INFORMATION AT THIS TIME.
AND THIS IS INTERESTING, AT THIS WEEK HOSPITAL BOARD MEETING, CEO COLEMAN TOLD THE BOARD THAT THE HEALTH INSURACE FROM WELLMARK FOR HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES HAS NOT INCREASED ITS PREMIUMS FOR THE PAST 3 YEARS AND THE BOARD MEMBERS APPROVED THE PROPOSED HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN FOR NEXT YEAR. NO INCREASE FOR 3 YEARS?
CARDINAL BASEBALL TONIGHT AT ST. LOUIS, HOPEFULLY. GO CARDS!
MAQUOKETA CARDINAL FOOTBALL TOMORROW NIGHT AT EPWORTH.
GO CARDS!
THANKS FOR THE VISIT.
DENNIS VOY
ENJOYED WATCHING THE CARDINALS BEAT DETROIT TUESDAY NIGHT AT BUSCH STADIUM. CHRIS CARPENTER PITCHED GREAT. IT WAS DRY AND COOL... AND FUN!
GUARDIAN INDUSTRIES (MAKE GLASS 24 HOURS A DAY) AT DEWITT
IS ADDING ON A 70,000 FOOT ADDITION TO THEIR DEWITT PLANT AND WILL BE HIRING ANOTHER 40 PEOPLE.
THE PEACE PIPE PLAYERS LITTLE THEATRE GROUP IN MAQUOKETA (CELEBRATING 40TH YEAR) WILL PUT ON THE MUSICAL "SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK, LIVE! JR." IT WILL HAVE A CAST OF CHILDREN FROM GRADES 3-8 AND FEATURES 11 SONGS. MEMBERS OF THE CAST: ASHLEY BECKER,
BEAU BOWMAN, BEN DAVISON, WILL DAVISON, TAYLOR FISHWILD, ZACH
FISHWILD, KRISTEN GOESSLING, TAYLOR GOODENOW, LACIE HEISERMAN, ANDREW LONG, ERIC MEISLAND, CASSIDY MORRI, JAYCEE SMITH, MARISSA TILL, CATHERINE VAZQUEZ, AND QUENTIN YAROLEM. IT WILL BE PRESENTED AT THE OHNWARD FINE ARTS CENTER ON NOV. 16TH AND 17TH AT 7:30 P.M. EACH NIGHT. TICKETS ARE $10 IN ADVANCE AND $12 AT THE DOOR. TICKETS GO ON SALE OCTOBER 30TH AT OSTERHAUS PHARMACY
IN MAQUOKETA OR CALL 652-9815. CINDY CARAWAY WILL DIRECT AND FOR MORE INFORMATION, GO TO www.peacepipeplayers.org
LORI WAUGH HIT A DEER ON HIGHWAY 61 MONDAY MORNING....$4,000 DAMAGE TO HER 2002 GMC.
STAYLYN VAUGHN AND JOSHUA SOHN OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN OCT 12 AT OUR LOCAL HOSPITAL. GRANDMOHER IS CHERYL SOHN OF MAQUOKETA.
CHRIS AND KRISTIN MOHR ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN OCTOBER 19TH.
GRANDPARENTS ARE ALAN MOHR AND LAURIE MOHR OF MAQUOKETA...AND TOM AND PEG MANDERSHEID OF MAQUOKETA.
THE JACKSON COUNTY ZONING COMMISSION MEMBERS TURNED DOWN A REZONING REQUEST FOR PROPERTY NORTH OF MAQUOKTA, ACROSS THE RIVER. THE OWNERS, CLIFFORD PFAB AND JOE ZWACK ARE EXPECTED TO APPEAL TO THE JACKSON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS NEXT WEEK.
THEIR COMPANY IS MAQUOKETA LAND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY.
DURING THE ZONING BOARD PUBLIC HEARING MONDAY NIGHT, SOME
NEIGHBORS VOICED OPPOSITION TO CHANGING THE ZONING FROM AG TO RESIDENTIAL. THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT INCREASED TRAFFIC ON 55TH STREET. THE MEN WANT TO BUILD 11 HOUSES ON THE ACREAGE.'
A NEW MEDICAL BUILDING WILL BE GOING UP ON PROPERTY OF THE HOSPITAL IN MAQUOKETA, LOCATED NEXT TO THE HOSPITAL.
IT SOUNDS LIKE MEDICAL ASSOCIATES PHYSICIANS WILL MOVE INTO THE NEW BUILDING. HOSPITAL CEO CURT COLEMAN SAYS LEASE NEGOTIATIONS HAVE NOT BEEN COMPLETED, BUT SHOULD BE SOMETIME IN THE NEXT MONTH. HE SAID PLANS NOW CALL FOR CONSTRUCTION TO BEGIN SOMETIME NEXT YEAR, WITH OCCUPATION IN 2008. MEDICAL ASSOCIATES ARE CURRENTLY ON WEST QUARRY STREET, ACROSS FROM THE HOSPITAL TO THE SOUTH. I HEARD MAQUOKETA FAMILY CLINIC
ALSO CONSIDERED MOVING TO THE NEW BUILDING, FROM THEIR NORTH ARCADE STREET LOCATION, BUT APPARENTLY HAVE DECIDED NOT TO.
THEIR OFFICES ARE NEWER AND A MAJOR ADDITION TO THEIR BUILDING WAS COMPLETED JUST A FEW YEARS AGO. IT IS HOPED A NEW CLINIC BUILDING WILL HELP ATTRACT MORE DOCTORS TO MAQUOKETA.
A NEW DOCTOR HAS LOCATED IN MAQUOKTA, BUT I HAVE SEEN NO
NEWS RELEASE ABOUT HER, SO CAN'T GIVE YOU ANY INFORMATION AT THIS TIME.
AND THIS IS INTERESTING, AT THIS WEEK HOSPITAL BOARD MEETING, CEO COLEMAN TOLD THE BOARD THAT THE HEALTH INSURACE FROM WELLMARK FOR HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES HAS NOT INCREASED ITS PREMIUMS FOR THE PAST 3 YEARS AND THE BOARD MEMBERS APPROVED THE PROPOSED HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN FOR NEXT YEAR. NO INCREASE FOR 3 YEARS?
CARDINAL BASEBALL TONIGHT AT ST. LOUIS, HOPEFULLY. GO CARDS!
MAQUOKETA CARDINAL FOOTBALL TOMORROW NIGHT AT EPWORTH.
GO CARDS!
THANKS FOR THE VISIT.
DENNIS VOY
Monday, October 23, 2006
NO NEWS REPORT TODAY....
I'M OFF TO THE WORLD SERIES!
WILL HAVE NEWS LATER IN WEEK.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK!
FROM COOL MAQUOKETA...HIGH OF 41 TODAY.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TODAY TO DOUGH WINEGAR OF MAQUOKETA (78) AND MORRIE MORRIS (85) OF MAQUOKETA.
HEARD FROM DOUG'S SON ROBERT, OF MAQUOKETA, VIA EMAIL, WHO IS A NATIONAL GUARD MASTER SERGEANT IN IRAQ. FIRST EMAIL I'VE EVER
RECEIVED FROM IRAQ. ROBERT (WIFE AUDREY) HAS
BEEN THERE SINCE AUGUST. THIS IS HIS 20TH YEAR IN THE GUARD AND FIRST ASSIGHNMENT IN IRAQ.
TAKE CARE.
DENNIS VOY
OH YES, GLENN CARAWAY, 92, DIED YESTERDAY, LONGTIME MAQUOKETA BUSINESSMAN. HIS FULL OBITUARY IS AT www.carsonandson.com
I'M OFF TO THE WORLD SERIES!
WILL HAVE NEWS LATER IN WEEK.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK!
FROM COOL MAQUOKETA...HIGH OF 41 TODAY.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TODAY TO DOUGH WINEGAR OF MAQUOKETA (78) AND MORRIE MORRIS (85) OF MAQUOKETA.
HEARD FROM DOUG'S SON ROBERT, OF MAQUOKETA, VIA EMAIL, WHO IS A NATIONAL GUARD MASTER SERGEANT IN IRAQ. FIRST EMAIL I'VE EVER
RECEIVED FROM IRAQ. ROBERT (WIFE AUDREY) HAS
BEEN THERE SINCE AUGUST. THIS IS HIS 20TH YEAR IN THE GUARD AND FIRST ASSIGHNMENT IN IRAQ.
TAKE CARE.
DENNIS VOY
OH YES, GLENN CARAWAY, 92, DIED YESTERDAY, LONGTIME MAQUOKETA BUSINESSMAN. HIS FULL OBITUARY IS AT www.carsonandson.com
Saturday, October 21, 2006
CLOUDY AND COOL TODAY.
SNOW SHOWERS TONIGHT.
HIGH SUNDAY, AROUND 40. FALL CONTINUES TO BE DISAPPOINTING.
MAQUOKETA LOST TO MOUNT VERNON LAST NIGHT, 28 TO 0. NOW 3 AND 3 IN THE DISTRICT AND THE FINAL GAME OF THE SEASON WILL BE AT EPWORTH FRIDAY NIGHT AGAINST WESTERN DUBUQUE, AND THAT WILL NOT BE AN EASY GAME EITHER.
LEIGHTON HEPKER ON HIS "JUST TALK" SHOW YESTERDAY, DID A 15-MINUTE POLITICAL POLL. HE GOT 82 CALLS IN THE 15-MINUTE TIME PERIOD. FOR GOVERNOR, CONGRESSMAN NUSTLE (R) LOST TO CULVER, 42 TO 20. FOR 1ST DISTRICT CONGRESS (TO REPLACE NUSTLE), BRUCK BRALEY (D) OUTPOLLED WHALEN, 42 TO 20 ALSO.
FOR STATE REP, TOM SCHUELLER (D) OUTPOLLED DAVID KENDALL, 39 TO 23.
AND
FOR STATE SENATAE, SEN. STEWART (D) OUTPOLLED WYNN 44 TO 18.
NO SURPRISE. JACKSON COUNTY SHOULD GO HEAVY DEMOCRATIC, ESPECIALLY THIS YEAR WITH UNHAPPINESS OF PRESIDENT BUSH.
IOWA'S FIRST LADY, MRS. VILSACK, VISITED MAQUOKETA FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AND TOURED THE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND VISITED WITH KIDS THERE. SHE WAS HERE TO SUPPORT RE-ELECTION OF SCHEULLER AND STEWART.
THE NEW 4-WAY STOP SIGNS ARE UP AT CORNER OF NORTH MAIN AND QUARRY STREET, REPLACING THE STOP AND GO LIGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN HAULED AWAY.
HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
SNOW SHOWERS TONIGHT.
HIGH SUNDAY, AROUND 40. FALL CONTINUES TO BE DISAPPOINTING.
MAQUOKETA LOST TO MOUNT VERNON LAST NIGHT, 28 TO 0. NOW 3 AND 3 IN THE DISTRICT AND THE FINAL GAME OF THE SEASON WILL BE AT EPWORTH FRIDAY NIGHT AGAINST WESTERN DUBUQUE, AND THAT WILL NOT BE AN EASY GAME EITHER.
LEIGHTON HEPKER ON HIS "JUST TALK" SHOW YESTERDAY, DID A 15-MINUTE POLITICAL POLL. HE GOT 82 CALLS IN THE 15-MINUTE TIME PERIOD. FOR GOVERNOR, CONGRESSMAN NUSTLE (R) LOST TO CULVER, 42 TO 20. FOR 1ST DISTRICT CONGRESS (TO REPLACE NUSTLE), BRUCK BRALEY (D) OUTPOLLED WHALEN, 42 TO 20 ALSO.
FOR STATE REP, TOM SCHUELLER (D) OUTPOLLED DAVID KENDALL, 39 TO 23.
AND
FOR STATE SENATAE, SEN. STEWART (D) OUTPOLLED WYNN 44 TO 18.
NO SURPRISE. JACKSON COUNTY SHOULD GO HEAVY DEMOCRATIC, ESPECIALLY THIS YEAR WITH UNHAPPINESS OF PRESIDENT BUSH.
IOWA'S FIRST LADY, MRS. VILSACK, VISITED MAQUOKETA FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AND TOURED THE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND VISITED WITH KIDS THERE. SHE WAS HERE TO SUPPORT RE-ELECTION OF SCHEULLER AND STEWART.
THE NEW 4-WAY STOP SIGNS ARE UP AT CORNER OF NORTH MAIN AND QUARRY STREET, REPLACING THE STOP AND GO LIGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN HAULED AWAY.
HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
Friday, October 20, 2006
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
IT HAS BEEN A RAINY COOL WEDNESDAY. TERRIBLE.
MAQUOKETA POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR A STOLEN VEHICLE AND MISSING MONEY.
ARDELL FELLER SAID SOMEONE TOOK HIS VEHICLE FROM 412 S. ELIZA STREET ON TUESDAY.
AND....BONNIE DAEMERICH, 513 N. WALNUT, SAID SOMEONE TOOK MONEY FROM HER SON'S ROOM ON TUESDAY.
AND IN JACKSON COUNTY, THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE RECEIVED A REPORT THAT SOMEONE (GET THIS NOW) TOOK THE TIRES AND RIMS OFF HER SON'S VEHICLE EARLY THIS MORNING. VALUE LISTED, $1,700.
THE FAMOUS POTTER'S MILL IN BELLEVUE IS IN THE NEWS TODAY. CAROLYN AND DARYL EGGERS HAVE TURNED OVER OPERATIONS OF THE RESTAURANT, BED AND BREAKFAST AND GIFT SHOP TO BILLY JO PULLEY OF BELLEVUE. THE EGGERS BOUGHT THE POTTERS MILL IN OCTOBER OF 1980. IT TOOK FIVE YEARS TO RESTORE THE FACILITY AND IT OPENED AS A RESTAURANT IN 1985. EGGERS THEN WAS A MARSHALLTOWN DOCTOR AND BELLEVUE WAS HIS HOMETOWN. HIS BROTHER AND OTHERS MANAGED IT UNTIL HE RETIRED FROM MEDICINE AND MOVED BACK TO BELLEVUE TO RUN IT WITH HIS WIFE CAROLYN SEVERAL YEARS AGO. THEY ADDED THE BED AND BREAKFAST ROOMS. EGGERS WILL CONTINUE TO OWN THE FACILITY AND SAID BILLIE JO WILL USE MUCH OF THE CURRENT STAFF. SHE WAS MANAGER OF THE PAMIDA STORE IN BELLEVUE UNTIL IT CLOSED EARLIER THIS YEAR. SHE IS ALSO A BELLEVUE NATIVE AND HAS A DEGREE IN BUSINESS AND EXPERIENCE IN RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT. SHE PLANS TO BE OPEN EVERY DAY, EVEN DURING THE WINTER, AND PLANS TO EXPAND THE GIFT AREA.
ED HUDRLIK, AGE 74, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY. MANY WILL REMEMBER ED AS BEING THE LEADER OF A POPULAR LOCAL COUNRY BAND YEARS AGO.
SOON, HIS FULL OBITUARY WILL BE AT www.carsonandson.com
THE MAQUOKETA CARDINALS PLAY AT MOUNT VERNON FRIDAY NIGHT. IT WILL BE A TOUGH GAME. MAQUOKETA IS 3 AND 2 IN THE DISTRICT AND THEY ARE 4 AND 1.
THEY ARE POURING CONCRETE LIKE CRAZY AT THE NEW SUPER WAL MART JUST SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA, POURING BOTH AN EAST AND WEST EXTRA TURNING LANE.
HAVE A GOOD WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY.'
DENNIS VOY
MAQUOKETA POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR A STOLEN VEHICLE AND MISSING MONEY.
ARDELL FELLER SAID SOMEONE TOOK HIS VEHICLE FROM 412 S. ELIZA STREET ON TUESDAY.
AND....BONNIE DAEMERICH, 513 N. WALNUT, SAID SOMEONE TOOK MONEY FROM HER SON'S ROOM ON TUESDAY.
AND IN JACKSON COUNTY, THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE RECEIVED A REPORT THAT SOMEONE (GET THIS NOW) TOOK THE TIRES AND RIMS OFF HER SON'S VEHICLE EARLY THIS MORNING. VALUE LISTED, $1,700.
THE FAMOUS POTTER'S MILL IN BELLEVUE IS IN THE NEWS TODAY. CAROLYN AND DARYL EGGERS HAVE TURNED OVER OPERATIONS OF THE RESTAURANT, BED AND BREAKFAST AND GIFT SHOP TO BILLY JO PULLEY OF BELLEVUE. THE EGGERS BOUGHT THE POTTERS MILL IN OCTOBER OF 1980. IT TOOK FIVE YEARS TO RESTORE THE FACILITY AND IT OPENED AS A RESTAURANT IN 1985. EGGERS THEN WAS A MARSHALLTOWN DOCTOR AND BELLEVUE WAS HIS HOMETOWN. HIS BROTHER AND OTHERS MANAGED IT UNTIL HE RETIRED FROM MEDICINE AND MOVED BACK TO BELLEVUE TO RUN IT WITH HIS WIFE CAROLYN SEVERAL YEARS AGO. THEY ADDED THE BED AND BREAKFAST ROOMS. EGGERS WILL CONTINUE TO OWN THE FACILITY AND SAID BILLIE JO WILL USE MUCH OF THE CURRENT STAFF. SHE WAS MANAGER OF THE PAMIDA STORE IN BELLEVUE UNTIL IT CLOSED EARLIER THIS YEAR. SHE IS ALSO A BELLEVUE NATIVE AND HAS A DEGREE IN BUSINESS AND EXPERIENCE IN RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT. SHE PLANS TO BE OPEN EVERY DAY, EVEN DURING THE WINTER, AND PLANS TO EXPAND THE GIFT AREA.
ED HUDRLIK, AGE 74, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY. MANY WILL REMEMBER ED AS BEING THE LEADER OF A POPULAR LOCAL COUNRY BAND YEARS AGO.
SOON, HIS FULL OBITUARY WILL BE AT www.carsonandson.com
THE MAQUOKETA CARDINALS PLAY AT MOUNT VERNON FRIDAY NIGHT. IT WILL BE A TOUGH GAME. MAQUOKETA IS 3 AND 2 IN THE DISTRICT AND THEY ARE 4 AND 1.
THEY ARE POURING CONCRETE LIKE CRAZY AT THE NEW SUPER WAL MART JUST SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA, POURING BOTH AN EAST AND WEST EXTRA TURNING LANE.
HAVE A GOOD WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY.'
DENNIS VOY
Monday, October 16, 2006
A RAINY AFTERNOON IN MAQUOKTA...AND IN THE LOW 50'S.
SCHOOL BOARD MEETING TONIGHT.
CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT.
MICHELE AND JAMES GRUNTORAD OF DEWITT HAS A GIRL OCT 10TH AT THE MAQUOKETA HOSPITAL. GRAND PARENTS ARE GARY AND WANDA TRAFFORD OF DEWITT AND GREAT-GRANDPARENTS ARE WAYNE AND ARLENE MOELLER OF MAQUOKETA.
JOHN AND CHRIS SNYDER OF GOOSE LAKE ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN SATURDAY AT THE CLINTON HOSPITAL. LOLITA MCNEIL OF MAQUOKETA IS A GREAT GRANDMOTHER.
MATT APPLEHANS AND KATY PARKER OF LISBON ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN OCT. 9TH AT A CEDAR RAPIDS HOSPITAL. GREAT GTAND MOTHER IS SHIRLEY CUMMINS OF MAQUOKETA.
MI TIERRA DESIGNS HAS OPENED A NEW JEWELRY SHOWROOM ON THE LOWER LEVEL OF THE ENGEL AGENCY BUILDING AT 201 W. PLATT STREET, SUITE #1. IT IS OWNED BY SILVIA ENGEL, WIFE OF BRUCE ENGEL.
I MADE A MISTAKE ON NEW OFFICERS FOR THE MAQUOKETA OPTIMIST CLUB. BOB KORANDA IS THE NEW PRESIDENT. MATT WACK, BOARD MEMBER....DOUG MELVOLD, BOARD MEMBER....GALEN BARTELS, BOARD MEMBER....RUTH SHEETS, BOARD MEMBER....LOIS FISCHER, SECRTARY.
NEW OFFICERS HAVE RECENTLY BEEN INSTALLED FOR THE MAQUOKETA KIWANIS CLUB. DR. DON SCHWENKER, PRESIDENT....BOB GAVEN, VICE-PRESIDENT....SALLY DAVIES, SECRETARY AND KEVIN BURNS, TREASURER.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY
SCHOOL BOARD MEETING TONIGHT.
CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT.
MICHELE AND JAMES GRUNTORAD OF DEWITT HAS A GIRL OCT 10TH AT THE MAQUOKETA HOSPITAL. GRAND PARENTS ARE GARY AND WANDA TRAFFORD OF DEWITT AND GREAT-GRANDPARENTS ARE WAYNE AND ARLENE MOELLER OF MAQUOKETA.
JOHN AND CHRIS SNYDER OF GOOSE LAKE ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN SATURDAY AT THE CLINTON HOSPITAL. LOLITA MCNEIL OF MAQUOKETA IS A GREAT GRANDMOTHER.
MATT APPLEHANS AND KATY PARKER OF LISBON ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN OCT. 9TH AT A CEDAR RAPIDS HOSPITAL. GREAT GTAND MOTHER IS SHIRLEY CUMMINS OF MAQUOKETA.
MI TIERRA DESIGNS HAS OPENED A NEW JEWELRY SHOWROOM ON THE LOWER LEVEL OF THE ENGEL AGENCY BUILDING AT 201 W. PLATT STREET, SUITE #1. IT IS OWNED BY SILVIA ENGEL, WIFE OF BRUCE ENGEL.
I MADE A MISTAKE ON NEW OFFICERS FOR THE MAQUOKETA OPTIMIST CLUB. BOB KORANDA IS THE NEW PRESIDENT. MATT WACK, BOARD MEMBER....DOUG MELVOLD, BOARD MEMBER....GALEN BARTELS, BOARD MEMBER....RUTH SHEETS, BOARD MEMBER....LOIS FISCHER, SECRTARY.
NEW OFFICERS HAVE RECENTLY BEEN INSTALLED FOR THE MAQUOKETA KIWANIS CLUB. DR. DON SCHWENKER, PRESIDENT....BOB GAVEN, VICE-PRESIDENT....SALLY DAVIES, SECRETARY AND KEVIN BURNS, TREASURER.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY
Saturday, October 14, 2006
SUNNY SATURDAY MORNING....HEADING FOR 60 WITH WIND.
MAQUOKETA HAD AN EASY VICTORY FOR HOMECOMING LAST NIGHT,
DEFEATING CLEAR CREEK AMANA, 49 TO 0.
AND THE WINNER OF THE 2006 GMC PICKUP IS TERRI TAYLOR OF DELMAR.
SHE IS A MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER AND THE HIGH SCHOOL GIRL'S
GOLF COACH.
HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
MAQUOKETA HAD AN EASY VICTORY FOR HOMECOMING LAST NIGHT,
DEFEATING CLEAR CREEK AMANA, 49 TO 0.
AND THE WINNER OF THE 2006 GMC PICKUP IS TERRI TAYLOR OF DELMAR.
SHE IS A MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER AND THE HIGH SCHOOL GIRL'S
GOLF COACH.
HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
Friday, October 13, 2006
SUNNY, WINDY AND COOL TODAY...HIGH OF 51.
NICE HOMECOMING PARADE. I TOOK QUITE A FEW PICTURES AND WILL LET YOU KNOW WHEN
THEY ARE UP ON THE WEB.
THE WAMAC CROSS COUNTRY MEET WAS YESTERDAY. IN BOY'S COMPETITION, MAQUOKETA'S MITCH MCDERMOTT TOOK 3RD PLACE. SAM SHANAHAN WAS 18TH AND ALSO GOT A MEDAL.
IN GIRL'S COMPETITION, TRICIA MILLER OF MAQUOKETA TOOK FIRST IN THE CONFERENCE.
HER WINNING TIME WAS 15:38. MOLLY SHANAHAN WAS 18TH AND ALSO GOT A MEDAL.
THE WAMAC VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT WAS ALSO HELD LAST NIGHT AT MARION.
MAQUOKETA WAS 0 AND 4 IN POOL PLAY. IT HAS BEEN A TRYING YEAR FOR
MAQUOKETA VOLLEYBALL.
KMAQ NEWS HAS LEARNED OF THE DEATH OF COLIN BODENSTEINER,AGE 16, OF PLANO, TEXAS.
HE WAS KILLED IN AN AUTO ACCIDENT LAST FRIDAY. HE IS THE SON OF TOM BODENSTEINER, A 1979 GRADUATE OF MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL. TOM'S PARENTS ARE CLEM AND LEONA BODENSTEINER, LONGTIME PRINCIPAL AT BRIGGS SCHOOL. HE IS NOW RETIRED AND LIVES IN GRINNELL. HE WAS KILLED IN A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT AFTER DRIVING HOME FROM A FOOTBALL GAME. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS PARENTS AND TWO YOUNGER BROTHERS.
WES AND JANET GILBERT OF SHENANDOAH ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN SUNDAY, OCT 1ST
AT CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER IN OMAHA. MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE RON AND CHERYL HEINRICH OF MAQUOKETA.
I WILL TRY TO REMEMBER TO PUT UP THE HOMECOMING GAME SCORE TOMORROW MORNING AND WHO WON THE PICKUP TRUCK...SO CHECK BACK HERE AFTER 10 TOMORROW (SATURDAY) MORNING.
HAVE A GOOD SATURDAY.
DENNIS VOY
NICE HOMECOMING PARADE. I TOOK QUITE A FEW PICTURES AND WILL LET YOU KNOW WHEN
THEY ARE UP ON THE WEB.
THE WAMAC CROSS COUNTRY MEET WAS YESTERDAY. IN BOY'S COMPETITION, MAQUOKETA'S MITCH MCDERMOTT TOOK 3RD PLACE. SAM SHANAHAN WAS 18TH AND ALSO GOT A MEDAL.
IN GIRL'S COMPETITION, TRICIA MILLER OF MAQUOKETA TOOK FIRST IN THE CONFERENCE.
HER WINNING TIME WAS 15:38. MOLLY SHANAHAN WAS 18TH AND ALSO GOT A MEDAL.
THE WAMAC VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT WAS ALSO HELD LAST NIGHT AT MARION.
MAQUOKETA WAS 0 AND 4 IN POOL PLAY. IT HAS BEEN A TRYING YEAR FOR
MAQUOKETA VOLLEYBALL.
KMAQ NEWS HAS LEARNED OF THE DEATH OF COLIN BODENSTEINER,AGE 16, OF PLANO, TEXAS.
HE WAS KILLED IN AN AUTO ACCIDENT LAST FRIDAY. HE IS THE SON OF TOM BODENSTEINER, A 1979 GRADUATE OF MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL. TOM'S PARENTS ARE CLEM AND LEONA BODENSTEINER, LONGTIME PRINCIPAL AT BRIGGS SCHOOL. HE IS NOW RETIRED AND LIVES IN GRINNELL. HE WAS KILLED IN A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT AFTER DRIVING HOME FROM A FOOTBALL GAME. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS PARENTS AND TWO YOUNGER BROTHERS.
WES AND JANET GILBERT OF SHENANDOAH ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN SUNDAY, OCT 1ST
AT CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER IN OMAHA. MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE RON AND CHERYL HEINRICH OF MAQUOKETA.
I WILL TRY TO REMEMBER TO PUT UP THE HOMECOMING GAME SCORE TOMORROW MORNING AND WHO WON THE PICKUP TRUCK...SO CHECK BACK HERE AFTER 10 TOMORROW (SATURDAY) MORNING.
HAVE A GOOD SATURDAY.
DENNIS VOY
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
3/10 OF AN INCH OF RAIN OVERNIGHT AND TODAY, CLOUDY WINDY AND COLD. WE ARE IN THE 40'S THIS AFTERNOON AND THERE IS A FREEZE WARNING FOR TONIGHT WITH A LOW AROUND 25-28.
LANNY (BURRIS) SIMPSON, OF MAQUOKETA, IS THE NEW JACKSON COUNTY FAIRBOARD MANAGER, REPLACING DOUG PRATT. SHE HAS BEEN WORKING IN THE SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH OFFICE AND WILL LEAVE THERE AND START HER NEW JOB NOVEMBER 1ST. SHE WILL
MANAGE THE THE FAIR, THE FAIRGROUNDS, AND BOTH THE PEARSON AND BOYER BUILDINGS ON THE GROUNDS.
THE MAQUOKETA POLICE DEPARTMENT WILL BE RECEIVING NEW BULLET-PROOF VESTS AS THE RESULT OF A FEDERAL GRANT FOR NEARLY $3,500.
THE GRANT REQUIRES A 50% LOCAL MATCH.
NEW OFFICERS HAVE BEEN INSTALLED FOR THE MAQUOKETA OPTIMIST
CLUB. DR. DON SCHWENKER, PRESIDENT.....BOB GAVEN, VICE-PRESIDENT.....SALLY DAVIES, SECRETARY.....AND KEVIN BURNS, TREASURER.
PARTING WORDS.....IF YOU LIVE IN THE MIDWEST, GET THAT SNOW BLOWER READY FOR ACTION. IT WON'T BE LONG.
DENNIS VOY
LANNY (BURRIS) SIMPSON, OF MAQUOKETA, IS THE NEW JACKSON COUNTY FAIRBOARD MANAGER, REPLACING DOUG PRATT. SHE HAS BEEN WORKING IN THE SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH OFFICE AND WILL LEAVE THERE AND START HER NEW JOB NOVEMBER 1ST. SHE WILL
MANAGE THE THE FAIR, THE FAIRGROUNDS, AND BOTH THE PEARSON AND BOYER BUILDINGS ON THE GROUNDS.
THE MAQUOKETA POLICE DEPARTMENT WILL BE RECEIVING NEW BULLET-PROOF VESTS AS THE RESULT OF A FEDERAL GRANT FOR NEARLY $3,500.
THE GRANT REQUIRES A 50% LOCAL MATCH.
NEW OFFICERS HAVE BEEN INSTALLED FOR THE MAQUOKETA OPTIMIST
CLUB. DR. DON SCHWENKER, PRESIDENT.....BOB GAVEN, VICE-PRESIDENT.....SALLY DAVIES, SECRETARY.....AND KEVIN BURNS, TREASURER.
PARTING WORDS.....IF YOU LIVE IN THE MIDWEST, GET THAT SNOW BLOWER READY FOR ACTION. IT WON'T BE LONG.
DENNIS VOY
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
CLOUDY AND COOLER TODAY. HIGH 55.
JUST A MINUTE AGO, MET MRS. CHET CULVER. STOPPED AT KMAQ AND MY OFFICE CAMPAIGNING FOR HER HUSBAND. SHE WOULD LIKE TO BE THE NEXT FIRST LADY OF IOWA. HER MOTHER WAS WITH HER ON HER VISIT THROUGH MAQUOKETA. CHET'S DAD, JOHN, VISITED KMAQ OFTEN WHEN HE WAS OUR CONGRESSMAN AND LATER U.S. SENATOR. THE REPUBLICAN CHALLENGER IS REPUBLICAN JIM NUSTLE, OUR PRESENT CONGRESSMAN. WILL BE A CLOSE RACE.
SOME NEW PHOTOS ON THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY WEB SITE. PHOTOS OF DR. BROMAN AND DAUGHTER BETH OF IOWA CITY, KATE CARINDER WITH THE MAQUOKETA FOUNDATION , AND JENNIFER CONNOLLY, HEAD OF SUNSHINE SCHOOL. WEB SITE ADDRESS IS: www.maquoketa-rotary.org
THANKS TO REGULAR READER OF THIS REPORT, BEN BANOWETZ OF ANKENY AND HIS WIFE NIKKIE FOR SENDING ME A NICE CHECK MADE OUT TO THE MAQUOKETA ATHLETIC BOOSTERS CLUB FOR SEVERAL RAFFLE TICKETS FOR THE TRUCK RAFFLE THIS FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE HOMECOMING GAME. BEN, A '96 MCHS GRAD, SON OF VERL AND KATHY OF MAQUOKETA, WORKS IN DES MOINES FOR THE STATE OF IOWA.
SATURDAY MORNING, I'LL HAVE A SPECIAL REPORT HERE TO TELL YOU WHAT MAQUOKETA'S WINNING SCORE WAS AND WHO WON THE NEW PICK-UP.
THE JACKSON COUNTY SUPERVISORS ARE CONTRACTING WITH A FIRM TO DO A FINAL CLEAN-UP OF CONTAMINATED SOIL AT THE FORMER TRUCK STOP ALONG HIGHWAY 61. IT WILL COST OVER $197,000 AND THE COUNTY WILL BE REIMBURSED BY THE STATE. ACTUALLY, ITS NOT A DONE DEAL YET. THE PLAN HAS BEEN SUBMITTED TO THE STATE FOR APPROVAL BY THE STATE.
FLU AND PNEUMONIA VACCINATIONS WILL BE HELD IN JACKSON COUNTY AT THE END OF THE MONTH. ANY QUESTIONS, CALL THE HOPSITAL AT
652-4048.
JAMI AND RANDY WEIMERSKIRCH OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN LAST WEDNESDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.
ELEANOR PARMER, AGE 94, DIED YESTERDAY AT CLOVER RIDGE PLACE IN MAQUOKETA. HER FULL OBITURARY CAN BE READ AT www.carsonandson.com
THANKS FOR CHECKING IN.
GO CARDINALS. MAQUOKETA AND ST. LOUIS.
DENNIS VOY
JUST A MINUTE AGO, MET MRS. CHET CULVER. STOPPED AT KMAQ AND MY OFFICE CAMPAIGNING FOR HER HUSBAND. SHE WOULD LIKE TO BE THE NEXT FIRST LADY OF IOWA. HER MOTHER WAS WITH HER ON HER VISIT THROUGH MAQUOKETA. CHET'S DAD, JOHN, VISITED KMAQ OFTEN WHEN HE WAS OUR CONGRESSMAN AND LATER U.S. SENATOR. THE REPUBLICAN CHALLENGER IS REPUBLICAN JIM NUSTLE, OUR PRESENT CONGRESSMAN. WILL BE A CLOSE RACE.
SOME NEW PHOTOS ON THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY WEB SITE. PHOTOS OF DR. BROMAN AND DAUGHTER BETH OF IOWA CITY, KATE CARINDER WITH THE MAQUOKETA FOUNDATION , AND JENNIFER CONNOLLY, HEAD OF SUNSHINE SCHOOL. WEB SITE ADDRESS IS: www.maquoketa-rotary.org
THANKS TO REGULAR READER OF THIS REPORT, BEN BANOWETZ OF ANKENY AND HIS WIFE NIKKIE FOR SENDING ME A NICE CHECK MADE OUT TO THE MAQUOKETA ATHLETIC BOOSTERS CLUB FOR SEVERAL RAFFLE TICKETS FOR THE TRUCK RAFFLE THIS FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE HOMECOMING GAME. BEN, A '96 MCHS GRAD, SON OF VERL AND KATHY OF MAQUOKETA, WORKS IN DES MOINES FOR THE STATE OF IOWA.
SATURDAY MORNING, I'LL HAVE A SPECIAL REPORT HERE TO TELL YOU WHAT MAQUOKETA'S WINNING SCORE WAS AND WHO WON THE NEW PICK-UP.
THE JACKSON COUNTY SUPERVISORS ARE CONTRACTING WITH A FIRM TO DO A FINAL CLEAN-UP OF CONTAMINATED SOIL AT THE FORMER TRUCK STOP ALONG HIGHWAY 61. IT WILL COST OVER $197,000 AND THE COUNTY WILL BE REIMBURSED BY THE STATE. ACTUALLY, ITS NOT A DONE DEAL YET. THE PLAN HAS BEEN SUBMITTED TO THE STATE FOR APPROVAL BY THE STATE.
FLU AND PNEUMONIA VACCINATIONS WILL BE HELD IN JACKSON COUNTY AT THE END OF THE MONTH. ANY QUESTIONS, CALL THE HOPSITAL AT
652-4048.
JAMI AND RANDY WEIMERSKIRCH OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN LAST WEDNESDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.
ELEANOR PARMER, AGE 94, DIED YESTERDAY AT CLOVER RIDGE PLACE IN MAQUOKETA. HER FULL OBITURARY CAN BE READ AT www.carsonandson.com
THANKS FOR CHECKING IN.
GO CARDINALS. MAQUOKETA AND ST. LOUIS.
DENNIS VOY
Monday, October 09, 2006
MAQUOKETA HAD A BEAUTIFUL WEATHER WEEKEND.....AND MONDAY, TODAY, NOT TOO BAD...SUNNY AND HIGH OF 65. BUT, COLDER WEATHER IS COMING......AND.....
SNOWSHOWERS ARE IN THE FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY.
GOOD SPORTS WEEKEND....THE HAWKS BEAT PURDUE AT IOWA CITY....HERE, THE MAQUOKETA CARDINALS BEAT WEST LIBERTY 28 TO 14....THE CARDNALS WON THE PLAYOFFS AGAINST SAN DIEGO......AND THE BEARS WON. BUT, THE IOWA STATE CYCLONES LOST AND SO DID THE PACKERS.
JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF RUSS KETTMANN HAS NAMED ONE OF HIS DEPUTIES, TERRY ROLING, TO THE CIVIL DEPUTY POSITON BEING VACATED BY BILL DEPPE WHO IS RETIRING THIS MONTH. ROLING, WITH THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT SINCE 1997, WILL FOCUS MAINLY ON CIVIL DUTIES, BUT WILL ALSO CONTINUE HIS REGUALR DEPUTY PATROL. BRANDON BECK WILL START FULL TIME AS A DEPUTY JANUARY 1ST. HE HAS BEEN A PART TIME DEPUTY AND JAILER FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
ON THE POLICE BLOTTER.....PAM ROSENBERG OF MAQUOKETA SAID SOMEONE TOOK HER WALLET FROM HER PURSE WHILE IT WAS IN A CART AT WALMART AT 11:13 SUNDAY MORNING. THE WALLET CONTAINED CREDIT CARDS, DRIVER'S LICENSE AND $150 IN CASH.
IT IS HOMECOMING WEEK FOR MAQUOKETA. YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, AT THE HIGH SCHOOL CEREMONY, CHELSI HEISER WAS NAMED QUEEN AND DANNY CAVEN WAS ANNOUNCED AS KING.
A MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE, JUDY HEINRICH, WILL BE CALLED TO SERVE FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH IN MAQUOKETA AS ASSOCIATE PASTOR.
THE CHURCH HAS BEEN WITHOUT A SECOND PASTOR FOR ABOUT A YEAR.
THE CONGREGATION WILL VOTE (FORMALITY) ON THE HIRING OCTOBER 22ND.
PASTOR HEINRICH IS A 1997 GRADUATE OF WARTBURG SEMINARY IN DUBUQUE.
IN 1984, SHE RECEIVED A DEGREE OF MASTERS OF MUSIC EDUCATION FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI. JUDY, DIVORCED, HAS AN ADULT SON WHO LIVES AND WORKS IN CHICAGO AND A DAUGTHER AT HOME, A JUNIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL.
HER MOTHER IS MARIE AND HER DAD, MARCEL, IS NO LONGER LIVING. A BROTHER JOEL, IS A RURAL MAQUOKETA DAIRY FARMER. FOR THE PAST NINE YEARS, SHE HAS SERVED AS PASTOR OF FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH IN ANDOVER.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK MY FRIENDS.
DENNIS VOY
SNOWSHOWERS ARE IN THE FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY.
GOOD SPORTS WEEKEND....THE HAWKS BEAT PURDUE AT IOWA CITY....HERE, THE MAQUOKETA CARDINALS BEAT WEST LIBERTY 28 TO 14....THE CARDNALS WON THE PLAYOFFS AGAINST SAN DIEGO......AND THE BEARS WON. BUT, THE IOWA STATE CYCLONES LOST AND SO DID THE PACKERS.
JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF RUSS KETTMANN HAS NAMED ONE OF HIS DEPUTIES, TERRY ROLING, TO THE CIVIL DEPUTY POSITON BEING VACATED BY BILL DEPPE WHO IS RETIRING THIS MONTH. ROLING, WITH THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT SINCE 1997, WILL FOCUS MAINLY ON CIVIL DUTIES, BUT WILL ALSO CONTINUE HIS REGUALR DEPUTY PATROL. BRANDON BECK WILL START FULL TIME AS A DEPUTY JANUARY 1ST. HE HAS BEEN A PART TIME DEPUTY AND JAILER FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
ON THE POLICE BLOTTER.....PAM ROSENBERG OF MAQUOKETA SAID SOMEONE TOOK HER WALLET FROM HER PURSE WHILE IT WAS IN A CART AT WALMART AT 11:13 SUNDAY MORNING. THE WALLET CONTAINED CREDIT CARDS, DRIVER'S LICENSE AND $150 IN CASH.
IT IS HOMECOMING WEEK FOR MAQUOKETA. YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, AT THE HIGH SCHOOL CEREMONY, CHELSI HEISER WAS NAMED QUEEN AND DANNY CAVEN WAS ANNOUNCED AS KING.
A MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE, JUDY HEINRICH, WILL BE CALLED TO SERVE FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH IN MAQUOKETA AS ASSOCIATE PASTOR.
THE CHURCH HAS BEEN WITHOUT A SECOND PASTOR FOR ABOUT A YEAR.
THE CONGREGATION WILL VOTE (FORMALITY) ON THE HIRING OCTOBER 22ND.
PASTOR HEINRICH IS A 1997 GRADUATE OF WARTBURG SEMINARY IN DUBUQUE.
IN 1984, SHE RECEIVED A DEGREE OF MASTERS OF MUSIC EDUCATION FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI. JUDY, DIVORCED, HAS AN ADULT SON WHO LIVES AND WORKS IN CHICAGO AND A DAUGTHER AT HOME, A JUNIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL.
HER MOTHER IS MARIE AND HER DAD, MARCEL, IS NO LONGER LIVING. A BROTHER JOEL, IS A RURAL MAQUOKETA DAIRY FARMER. FOR THE PAST NINE YEARS, SHE HAS SERVED AS PASTOR OF FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH IN ANDOVER.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK MY FRIENDS.
DENNIS VOY
Friday, October 06, 2006
NICE DAY... SUNNY AND MID 60'S.
A MAQUOKETA WOMAN IS IN THE JACKSON COUNTY JAIL ON CHARGES OF STEALING A CAR, TAKING ITEMS FROM ANOTHER CAR, AND PUMPING GAS WITHOUT PAYING FOR IT. AMY CHASE, AGE 19, IS IN JAIL ON $9,750 CASH BOND.
ON THE POLICE BLOTTER: JAMES MARSHALL SAID SOMEONE KEYED HIS CAR AT 23 HARVARD STREET. GRETA SCHMIDT AT 211 1/2 EAST PLATT SAID THE BACK END OF HER CAR WAS SMASHED AND TODD CLARY OF 110 1/2 SOUTH MAIN SAID DVD'S WERE TAKEN FROM HIS RESIDENCE.
HAROLD "TOM" GEE, AGE 82, OF HOT SPRINGS, SOUTH DAKOTA AND FORMERLY OF THE MONMOUTH AND MAQUOKETA AREA, DIED LAST FRIDAY IN S.D. AND THE FUNERAL WAS WEDNESDAY. HE WORKED IN THE CHICAGO AREA FOR MANY YEARS AND SURVIVORS INCLUDE TWO NIECES, A NEPHEW AND MANY COUSINS.
MAQUOKETA HOSTS WEST LIBERTY TONIGHT IN FOOTBALL AT GOODNOW FIELD.
THE CARDINALS HAVE A GOOD CHANCE AT WINNING THEIR 2ND GAME OF THE SEASON. THE HOMECOMING GAME IS A WEEK FROM TONIGHT.
A NEW BUSINESS OPENS NEXT WEEK IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA. MORE ABOUT IT NEXT WEEK.
THEY HAD A BLESSING OF ANIMALS YESTERDAY AT SACRED HEARD IN MAQUOKETA.
A FEMALE CAT RAN AWAY FROM THE BLESSED EVENT AND WE HAVE HER LISTED TODAY ON OUR LOST AND FOUND. PROBABLY STRESSED OUT ABOUT MAQUOKETA'S NEW CAT ORDINANCE.
HAVE A NICE WEEKEND. IF YOU LIVED AROUND HER, SUNDAY YOU COULD
GO "LEAF VIEWING". A POPULAR OCTOBER SPORT.
DENNIS VOY
A MAQUOKETA WOMAN IS IN THE JACKSON COUNTY JAIL ON CHARGES OF STEALING A CAR, TAKING ITEMS FROM ANOTHER CAR, AND PUMPING GAS WITHOUT PAYING FOR IT. AMY CHASE, AGE 19, IS IN JAIL ON $9,750 CASH BOND.
ON THE POLICE BLOTTER: JAMES MARSHALL SAID SOMEONE KEYED HIS CAR AT 23 HARVARD STREET. GRETA SCHMIDT AT 211 1/2 EAST PLATT SAID THE BACK END OF HER CAR WAS SMASHED AND TODD CLARY OF 110 1/2 SOUTH MAIN SAID DVD'S WERE TAKEN FROM HIS RESIDENCE.
HAROLD "TOM" GEE, AGE 82, OF HOT SPRINGS, SOUTH DAKOTA AND FORMERLY OF THE MONMOUTH AND MAQUOKETA AREA, DIED LAST FRIDAY IN S.D. AND THE FUNERAL WAS WEDNESDAY. HE WORKED IN THE CHICAGO AREA FOR MANY YEARS AND SURVIVORS INCLUDE TWO NIECES, A NEPHEW AND MANY COUSINS.
MAQUOKETA HOSTS WEST LIBERTY TONIGHT IN FOOTBALL AT GOODNOW FIELD.
THE CARDINALS HAVE A GOOD CHANCE AT WINNING THEIR 2ND GAME OF THE SEASON. THE HOMECOMING GAME IS A WEEK FROM TONIGHT.
A NEW BUSINESS OPENS NEXT WEEK IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA. MORE ABOUT IT NEXT WEEK.
THEY HAD A BLESSING OF ANIMALS YESTERDAY AT SACRED HEARD IN MAQUOKETA.
A FEMALE CAT RAN AWAY FROM THE BLESSED EVENT AND WE HAVE HER LISTED TODAY ON OUR LOST AND FOUND. PROBABLY STRESSED OUT ABOUT MAQUOKETA'S NEW CAT ORDINANCE.
HAVE A NICE WEEKEND. IF YOU LIVED AROUND HER, SUNDAY YOU COULD
GO "LEAF VIEWING". A POPULAR OCTOBER SPORT.
DENNIS VOY
Thursday, October 05, 2006
BEAUTIFUL BUT COOL DAY.....62.
THE JACKSON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS THIS WEEK RELUCTANTLY APPROVED PAYING $12,767 IN BILLS TO PAY FOR THE RESCUE AND CARE OF THE ANIMALS FROM THE GARIEN PLACE AT RURAL MAQUOKETA. THEY HOPE TO RECOUP THE MONEY LATER.
EVELYN LANGE, 81, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED THIS MONING. THE
FULL OBITUARY IS NOW AT www.carsonandson.com
BILL BOWEN, AGE 66, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED THIS MORNING AT THE GENESIS EAST HOSPITAL IN DAVENPORT. HE WAS THE LONGTIME
MEAT MANAGER AT THE FAREWAY STORE IN MAQUOKETA UNTIL RETIRING. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE, PEG. SERVICES ARE PENDING AT CARSON'S.
EARLIER TODAY, I PUT AN AUDIO POST HERE.....SCROLL DOWN....
WITH A FEW COMMERCIALS RUNNING ON KMAQ THESE DAYS.
SOMETHING DIFFERNT. LISTEN TO THEM IF YOU GET A CHANCE.
THE JACKSON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS THIS WEEK RELUCTANTLY APPROVED PAYING $12,767 IN BILLS TO PAY FOR THE RESCUE AND CARE OF THE ANIMALS FROM THE GARIEN PLACE AT RURAL MAQUOKETA. THEY HOPE TO RECOUP THE MONEY LATER.
EVELYN LANGE, 81, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED THIS MONING. THE
FULL OBITUARY IS NOW AT www.carsonandson.com
BILL BOWEN, AGE 66, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED THIS MORNING AT THE GENESIS EAST HOSPITAL IN DAVENPORT. HE WAS THE LONGTIME
MEAT MANAGER AT THE FAREWAY STORE IN MAQUOKETA UNTIL RETIRING. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE, PEG. SERVICES ARE PENDING AT CARSON'S.
EARLIER TODAY, I PUT AN AUDIO POST HERE.....SCROLL DOWN....
WITH A FEW COMMERCIALS RUNNING ON KMAQ THESE DAYS.
SOMETHING DIFFERNT. LISTEN TO THEM IF YOU GET A CHANCE.
THEY ARE "BRICKING" DR. SYBESMA'S NEW VISION CLINIC BUILDING
ON WEST PLATT STREET, NEXT TO TACO JOHNS. HE'LL BE MOVING
FROM DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA.
HOMECOMING WEEK BEGINS SUNDAY AFTERNOON WITH THE BIG
JERSEY AUCTION AT THE HIGH SCHOOL, CONDUCTED BY THE
MAQUOKETA ATHLETIC BOOSTERS. THEY ARE ALSO WINDING UP THE
SALE OF $20 RAFFLE TICKETS FOR THE NEW PICKUP TO BE DRAWN FOR
AT THE HOMECOMING GAME. SO FAR, NONE OF MY DISTANT READERS OF THIS REPORT HAVE SENT ME A CHECK FOR A RAFFLE TICKET.......THE ODDS ARE BETTER THAN ANY LOTTERY!!
THESE DAYS...TAKE IT COOL.
DENNIS VOY
THERE IS A WEDNESDAY REPORT.....YESTERDAY'S.....DON'T FORGET TO READ IT IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO.
NOW...NEW......
JUST BELOW THIS POST THAT YOU ARE READING....IS AN AUDIO REPORT. IT HAS SOME OF THE COMMERCIALS THAT WERE RUNNING ON KMAQ AM AND FM THIS MORNING. THOUGHT YOU MIGHT GET A KICK OUT OF HEARING THEM, ESPECIALLY THE TWO POLITICAL SPOTS.
TO HEAR THE 4 COMMERCIALS, JUST CLICK ON THE AUDIO BELOW.
AND CHECK BACK LATER THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE REGULAR
THURSDAY REPORT.
DENNIS VOY
NOW...NEW......
JUST BELOW THIS POST THAT YOU ARE READING....IS AN AUDIO REPORT. IT HAS SOME OF THE COMMERCIALS THAT WERE RUNNING ON KMAQ AM AND FM THIS MORNING. THOUGHT YOU MIGHT GET A KICK OUT OF HEARING THEM, ESPECIALLY THE TWO POLITICAL SPOTS.
TO HEAR THE 4 COMMERCIALS, JUST CLICK ON THE AUDIO BELOW.
AND CHECK BACK LATER THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE REGULAR
THURSDAY REPORT.
DENNIS VOY
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
IT'S COOL TODAY, WINDY AND MOSTLY CLOUDY...IN LOW 60'S.
AFTER 27 YEARS, COSTELLO'S OLD MILL ART GALLERY JUST EAST OF MAQUOKETA IS CLOSING ITS DOORS IN JANUARY, TO REOPEN IN THE SPRING AS COSTELLO'S OLD MILL RECEPTION HALL, FOR ALL SPECIAL OCCASSIONS. A GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE IS NOW UNDERWAY.
THE AD SAYS THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO OWN A PATRICK J. COSTELLO PRINT. PATRICK WILL CONTINUE TO PAINT, BUT WILL ONLY BE PAINTING/
SELLING ORIGINAL PAINTINGS.
THE MAQUOKETA VOLLEYBALL TEAM IS HAVING A BAD YEAR. LAST NIGHT, THEY HOSTED THEIR FINAL HOME MEET AND LOST TO WESTERN DUBUQUE, 3 TO 0.
GARY WILLISON VISTED MAQUOKETA FOR A FEW DAYS IN SEPTEMBER.
THE WILLISON FAMILY LEFT FOR OREGON BACK IN 1952 AFTER MANY YEARS IN MAQUOKETA. GARY MADE A VISIT HERE IN 1956 AND THAT WAS THE LAST TIME HE WAS IN MAQUOKETA UNTIL IN SEPTEMBER, 50 YEARS LATER. HE'S RETIRED NOW FROM CONSTRUCTION AND VOLUNTEERS AT THE SPRUCE GOOSE MUSEUM IN OREGON, WHICH IS NEAR WHERE HE LIVES. ENJOYED A SHORT VISIT WITH HIM HERE IN MY OFFICE.
READS THIS REPORT WEEKLY TO KEEP UP WITH MAQUOKETA. IF YOU REMEMBER GARY OR HIS FAMILY, AND WANT TO EMAIL HIM, LET ME KNOW AND I'LL FORWARD HIS EMAIL. HE'S MARRIED, HAS A FAMILY AND HAS GOOD MEMORIES OF MAQUOKETA. OH YES, WE HAVE JACK WILLISON LIVING IN MAQUOKETA (RETIRED TOO) AND THEY (GARY AND JACK) ARE NOT RELATED.
GARY'S STORY WOULD MAKE AN EXCELLENT KMAQ GUEST BOOK ENTRY, WITH MORE INTERESTING DETAILS ABOUT HIS CAREER, FAMILY,
MAQUOKETA CONNECTION, THE SPRUCE GOOSE, ETC. MAYBE HE WILL MAKE AN ENTRY SOMETIME. AND MANY OF YOU OTHER FORMER MAQUOKETANS COULD SO THE SAME? HOPE SO! THAT'S WHAT THE GUEST BOOK IS FOR. AND YES, MANY OF YOU HAVE DONE THIS BEFORE AND NEED TO DO IT AGAIN FOR OUR NEW READERS SINCE THEN.
LIZ LECHTENBERG IS THE NEW OHNWARD FINE ARTS MANAGER, REPLACING STEVE SHEPHARD. HER HUSBAND IS MAQUOKETA DENTIST, JOE, JR. HER JOB IS TO KEEP THE 840 SEAT AUDITORIUM BUSY AND MANAGE DAILY AFFAIRS.
THE MAQUOKETA AIRPORT RUNWAY HAS A NEW CONCRETE OVERLAY....A NEARLY $1 MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT, WITH MOST PAID FOR BY THE STATE. THEY POURED THE CONCRETE OVER THE OLD ASLPHALT SURFACE. THE AIR FREIGHT COMPANY OUT THERE EMPLOYS AROUND 5 PEOPLE AND WATCHES OVER THE AIRPORT FOR THE CITY. MORE IMPROVEMENTS ARE PLANNED.
THANKS FOR THE VISIT. GO CARDINALS....MAQUOKETA AND ST. LOUIS.
DENNIS VOY
AFTER 27 YEARS, COSTELLO'S OLD MILL ART GALLERY JUST EAST OF MAQUOKETA IS CLOSING ITS DOORS IN JANUARY, TO REOPEN IN THE SPRING AS COSTELLO'S OLD MILL RECEPTION HALL, FOR ALL SPECIAL OCCASSIONS. A GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE IS NOW UNDERWAY.
THE AD SAYS THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO OWN A PATRICK J. COSTELLO PRINT. PATRICK WILL CONTINUE TO PAINT, BUT WILL ONLY BE PAINTING/
SELLING ORIGINAL PAINTINGS.
THE MAQUOKETA VOLLEYBALL TEAM IS HAVING A BAD YEAR. LAST NIGHT, THEY HOSTED THEIR FINAL HOME MEET AND LOST TO WESTERN DUBUQUE, 3 TO 0.
GARY WILLISON VISTED MAQUOKETA FOR A FEW DAYS IN SEPTEMBER.
THE WILLISON FAMILY LEFT FOR OREGON BACK IN 1952 AFTER MANY YEARS IN MAQUOKETA. GARY MADE A VISIT HERE IN 1956 AND THAT WAS THE LAST TIME HE WAS IN MAQUOKETA UNTIL IN SEPTEMBER, 50 YEARS LATER. HE'S RETIRED NOW FROM CONSTRUCTION AND VOLUNTEERS AT THE SPRUCE GOOSE MUSEUM IN OREGON, WHICH IS NEAR WHERE HE LIVES. ENJOYED A SHORT VISIT WITH HIM HERE IN MY OFFICE.
READS THIS REPORT WEEKLY TO KEEP UP WITH MAQUOKETA. IF YOU REMEMBER GARY OR HIS FAMILY, AND WANT TO EMAIL HIM, LET ME KNOW AND I'LL FORWARD HIS EMAIL. HE'S MARRIED, HAS A FAMILY AND HAS GOOD MEMORIES OF MAQUOKETA. OH YES, WE HAVE JACK WILLISON LIVING IN MAQUOKETA (RETIRED TOO) AND THEY (GARY AND JACK) ARE NOT RELATED.
GARY'S STORY WOULD MAKE AN EXCELLENT KMAQ GUEST BOOK ENTRY, WITH MORE INTERESTING DETAILS ABOUT HIS CAREER, FAMILY,
MAQUOKETA CONNECTION, THE SPRUCE GOOSE, ETC. MAYBE HE WILL MAKE AN ENTRY SOMETIME. AND MANY OF YOU OTHER FORMER MAQUOKETANS COULD SO THE SAME? HOPE SO! THAT'S WHAT THE GUEST BOOK IS FOR. AND YES, MANY OF YOU HAVE DONE THIS BEFORE AND NEED TO DO IT AGAIN FOR OUR NEW READERS SINCE THEN.
LIZ LECHTENBERG IS THE NEW OHNWARD FINE ARTS MANAGER, REPLACING STEVE SHEPHARD. HER HUSBAND IS MAQUOKETA DENTIST, JOE, JR. HER JOB IS TO KEEP THE 840 SEAT AUDITORIUM BUSY AND MANAGE DAILY AFFAIRS.
THE MAQUOKETA AIRPORT RUNWAY HAS A NEW CONCRETE OVERLAY....A NEARLY $1 MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT, WITH MOST PAID FOR BY THE STATE. THEY POURED THE CONCRETE OVER THE OLD ASLPHALT SURFACE. THE AIR FREIGHT COMPANY OUT THERE EMPLOYS AROUND 5 PEOPLE AND WATCHES OVER THE AIRPORT FOR THE CITY. MORE IMPROVEMENTS ARE PLANNED.
THANKS FOR THE VISIT. GO CARDINALS....MAQUOKETA AND ST. LOUIS.
DENNIS VOY
IT'S COOL TODAY, WINDY AND MOSTLY CLOUDY...IN LOW 60'S.
AFTER 27 YEARS, COSTELLO'S OLD MILL ART GALLERY JUST EAST OF MAQUOKETA IS CLOSING ITS DOORS IN JANUARY, TO REOPEN IN THE SPRING AS COSTELLO'S OLD MILL RECEPTION HALL, FOR ALL SPECIAL OCCASSIONS. A GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE IS NOW UNDERWAY.
THE AD SAYS THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO OWN A PATRICK J. COSTELLO PRINT. PATRICK WILL CONTINUE TO PAINT, BUT WILL ONLY BE PAINTING/
SELLING ORIGINAL PAINTINGS.
THE MAQUOKETA VOLLEYBALL TEAM IS HAVING A BAD YEAR. LAST NIGHT, THEY HOSTED THEIR FINAL HOME MEET AND LOST TO WESTERN DUBUQUE, 3 TO 0.
GARY WILLISON VISTED MAQUOKETA FOR A FEW DAYS IN SEPTEMBER.
THE WILLISON FAMILY LEFT FOR OREGON BACK IN 1952 AFTER MANY YEARS IN MAQUOKETA. GARY MADE A VISIT HERE IN 1956 AND THAT WAS THE LAST TIME HE WAS IN MAQUOKETA UNTIL IN SEPTEMBER, 50 YEARS LATER. HE'S RETIRED NOW FROM CONSTRUCTION AND VOLUNTEERS AT THE SPRUCE GOOSE MUSEUM IN OREGON, WHICH IS NEAR WHERE HE LIVES. ENJOYED A SHORT VISIT WITH HIM HERE IN MY OFFICE.
READS THIS REPORT WEEKLY TO KEEP UP WITH MAQUOKETA. IF YOU REMEMBER GARY OR HIS FAMILY, AND WANT TO EMAIL HIM, LET ME KNOW AND I'LL FORWARD HIS EMAIL. HE'S MARRIED, HAS A FAMILY AND HAS GOOD MEMORIES OF MAQUOKETA. OH YES, WE HAVE JACK WILLISON LIVING IN MAQUOKETA (RETIRED TOO) AND THEY (GARY AND JACK) ARE NOT RELATED.
GARY'S STORY WOULD MAKE AN EXCELLENT KMAQ GUEST BOOK ENTRY, WITH MORE INTERESTING DETAILS ABOUT HIS CAREER, FAMILY,
MAQUOKETA CONNECTION, THE SPRUCE GOOSE, ETC. MAYBE HE WILL MAKE AN ENTRY SOMETIME. AND MANY OF YOU OTHER FORMER MAQUOKETANS COULD SO THE SAME? HOPE SO! THAT'S WHAT THE GUEST BOOK IS FOR. AND YES, MANY OF YOU HAVE DONE THIS BEFORE AND NEED TO DO IT AGAIN FOR OUR NEW READERS SINCE THEN.
LIZ LECHTENBERG IS THE NEW OHNWARD FINE ARTS MANAGER, REPLACING STEVE SHEPHARD. HER HUSBAND IS MAQUOKETA DENTIST, JOE, JR. HER JOB IS TO KEEP THE 840 SEAT AUDITORIUM BUSY AND MANAGE DAILY AFFAIRS.
THE MAQUOKETA AIRPORT RUNWAY HAS A NEW CONCRETE OVERLAY....A NEARLY $1 MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT, WITH MOST PAID FOR BY THE STATE. THEY POURED THE CONCRETE OVER THE OLD ASLPHALT SURFACE. THE AIR FREIGHT COMPANY OUT THERE EMPLOYS AROUND 5 PEOPLE AND WATCHES OVER THE AIRPORT FOR THE CITY. MORE IMPROVEMENTS ARE PLANNED.
THANKS FOR THE VISIT. GO CARDINALS....MAQUOKETA AND ST. LOUIS.
DENNIS VOY
AFTER 27 YEARS, COSTELLO'S OLD MILL ART GALLERY JUST EAST OF MAQUOKETA IS CLOSING ITS DOORS IN JANUARY, TO REOPEN IN THE SPRING AS COSTELLO'S OLD MILL RECEPTION HALL, FOR ALL SPECIAL OCCASSIONS. A GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE IS NOW UNDERWAY.
THE AD SAYS THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO OWN A PATRICK J. COSTELLO PRINT. PATRICK WILL CONTINUE TO PAINT, BUT WILL ONLY BE PAINTING/
SELLING ORIGINAL PAINTINGS.
THE MAQUOKETA VOLLEYBALL TEAM IS HAVING A BAD YEAR. LAST NIGHT, THEY HOSTED THEIR FINAL HOME MEET AND LOST TO WESTERN DUBUQUE, 3 TO 0.
GARY WILLISON VISTED MAQUOKETA FOR A FEW DAYS IN SEPTEMBER.
THE WILLISON FAMILY LEFT FOR OREGON BACK IN 1952 AFTER MANY YEARS IN MAQUOKETA. GARY MADE A VISIT HERE IN 1956 AND THAT WAS THE LAST TIME HE WAS IN MAQUOKETA UNTIL IN SEPTEMBER, 50 YEARS LATER. HE'S RETIRED NOW FROM CONSTRUCTION AND VOLUNTEERS AT THE SPRUCE GOOSE MUSEUM IN OREGON, WHICH IS NEAR WHERE HE LIVES. ENJOYED A SHORT VISIT WITH HIM HERE IN MY OFFICE.
READS THIS REPORT WEEKLY TO KEEP UP WITH MAQUOKETA. IF YOU REMEMBER GARY OR HIS FAMILY, AND WANT TO EMAIL HIM, LET ME KNOW AND I'LL FORWARD HIS EMAIL. HE'S MARRIED, HAS A FAMILY AND HAS GOOD MEMORIES OF MAQUOKETA. OH YES, WE HAVE JACK WILLISON LIVING IN MAQUOKETA (RETIRED TOO) AND THEY (GARY AND JACK) ARE NOT RELATED.
GARY'S STORY WOULD MAKE AN EXCELLENT KMAQ GUEST BOOK ENTRY, WITH MORE INTERESTING DETAILS ABOUT HIS CAREER, FAMILY,
MAQUOKETA CONNECTION, THE SPRUCE GOOSE, ETC. MAYBE HE WILL MAKE AN ENTRY SOMETIME. AND MANY OF YOU OTHER FORMER MAQUOKETANS COULD SO THE SAME? HOPE SO! THAT'S WHAT THE GUEST BOOK IS FOR. AND YES, MANY OF YOU HAVE DONE THIS BEFORE AND NEED TO DO IT AGAIN FOR OUR NEW READERS SINCE THEN.
LIZ LECHTENBERG IS THE NEW OHNWARD FINE ARTS MANAGER, REPLACING STEVE SHEPHARD. HER HUSBAND IS MAQUOKETA DENTIST, JOE, JR. HER JOB IS TO KEEP THE 840 SEAT AUDITORIUM BUSY AND MANAGE DAILY AFFAIRS.
THE MAQUOKETA AIRPORT RUNWAY HAS A NEW CONCRETE OVERLAY....A NEARLY $1 MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT, WITH MOST PAID FOR BY THE STATE. THEY POURED THE CONCRETE OVER THE OLD ASLPHALT SURFACE. THE AIR FREIGHT COMPANY OUT THERE EMPLOYS AROUND 5 PEOPLE AND WATCHES OVER THE AIRPORT FOR THE CITY. MORE IMPROVEMENTS ARE PLANNED.
THANKS FOR THE VISIT. GO CARDINALS....MAQUOKETA AND ST. LOUIS.
DENNIS VOY
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
90 FOR A HIGH TODAY.
TOMORROW, DOWN TO 60'S, BELOW NORMAL.
LONGTIME MAQUOKETA BUSINESSMAN ROSS DAVIS, DIED TODAY AT THE AGE OF 87.
SERVICES PENDING AT CARSON'S. www.carsonandson.com
SORRY, BUT THAT'S IT NEWSWISE FOR TODAY.
DENNIS VOY
TOMORROW, DOWN TO 60'S, BELOW NORMAL.
LONGTIME MAQUOKETA BUSINESSMAN ROSS DAVIS, DIED TODAY AT THE AGE OF 87.
SERVICES PENDING AT CARSON'S. www.carsonandson.com
SORRY, BUT THAT'S IT NEWSWISE FOR TODAY.
DENNIS VOY
Monday, October 02, 2006
89 TODAY, TO TIE THE RECORD FOR THIS DATE. HOT AGAIN TOMORROW
AND COOLING OFF ON WEDNESDAY. NORMAL TEMPS ARE AROUND 70 AT THIS TIME OF YEAR.
THE ST. LOUIS CARDINALS DID IT (WITH HELP FROM ATLANTA)...
WOW...THAT WAS EXCITING. WE BROADCAST THE FIRST PLAY GAME AGAINST SAN DIEGO TOMORROW AFTERNOON.
TWO JACKSON COUNTY COURTHOUSE EMPLOYS HAVE RESIGNED.
BILL GOTTLER WILL LEAVE IN JANUARY. HE IS THE COUNTY ASSESSOR ADN HAS WORKED IN THAT OFFICE SINCE 1977. HE DID NOT MENTION HIS FUTURE PLANS. THE COUNTY COMPENSATION BOARD WILL APPOINT HIS SUCCESSOR. THE PERSON HAS TO HAVE SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS AND THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE HAS A LIST OF ELIGIBLE CANDIDATES. GOETTLER SAID HIS DEPUTY, DEB LANE, HAS NOT TAKEN THE ASSESSOR'S EXAM SO SHE IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR THE POSITION AT THIS TIME.
ALSO, JACKSON COUNTY ATTORNEY JOHN KIES ANNOUNCED THAT HIS ASSISTANT, NICHOLAS SCOTT HAS RESIGNED. HE HAS HELD THAT POSITION SINCE NOMBER OF LAST YEAR, HAS BEEN COMMUTING FROM CEDAR RAPIDS AND IS JOINING A CEDAR RAPIDS LAW FIRM. KIES, WHO LEAVES OFFICE DECEMB ER 31ST, SAID HE WILL LEAVE THE NEW COUNTY ATTORNEY, PHIL TABOR, PICK SCOTT'S REPLACEMENT.
CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY
AND COOLING OFF ON WEDNESDAY. NORMAL TEMPS ARE AROUND 70 AT THIS TIME OF YEAR.
THE ST. LOUIS CARDINALS DID IT (WITH HELP FROM ATLANTA)...
WOW...THAT WAS EXCITING. WE BROADCAST THE FIRST PLAY GAME AGAINST SAN DIEGO TOMORROW AFTERNOON.
TWO JACKSON COUNTY COURTHOUSE EMPLOYS HAVE RESIGNED.
BILL GOTTLER WILL LEAVE IN JANUARY. HE IS THE COUNTY ASSESSOR ADN HAS WORKED IN THAT OFFICE SINCE 1977. HE DID NOT MENTION HIS FUTURE PLANS. THE COUNTY COMPENSATION BOARD WILL APPOINT HIS SUCCESSOR. THE PERSON HAS TO HAVE SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS AND THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE HAS A LIST OF ELIGIBLE CANDIDATES. GOETTLER SAID HIS DEPUTY, DEB LANE, HAS NOT TAKEN THE ASSESSOR'S EXAM SO SHE IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR THE POSITION AT THIS TIME.
ALSO, JACKSON COUNTY ATTORNEY JOHN KIES ANNOUNCED THAT HIS ASSISTANT, NICHOLAS SCOTT HAS RESIGNED. HE HAS HELD THAT POSITION SINCE NOMBER OF LAST YEAR, HAS BEEN COMMUTING FROM CEDAR RAPIDS AND IS JOINING A CEDAR RAPIDS LAW FIRM. KIES, WHO LEAVES OFFICE DECEMB ER 31ST, SAID HE WILL LEAVE THE NEW COUNTY ATTORNEY, PHIL TABOR, PICK SCOTT'S REPLACEMENT.
CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Friday, September 29, 2006
CLOUDY AND COOL TODAY....NO RAIN....YET.
SLOW NEWS DAYS.
DEATH: DONNA MYERS, 80, OF MAQUOKETA DIED YESTERDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, HAL, FORMER MAQUOKETA BUSINESSMAN AND FIVE CHILDREN. COMPLETE OBITUARY AT www.laheys.com
THE MAQUOKETA FIRE DEPARTMENT IS ASKING THE CITY TO OFFER A SECURITY PROGRAM FOR BUSINESSES.
IT'S CALLED THE KNOX BOX SYSTEM. IT'S A BOX WHICH HAS KEYS INSIDE WHICH CAN BE ACCESSED BY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT QUICKLY IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.
THE SYSTEM WOULD BE SET UP SO ONLY THE MAQUOKETA LAW CENTER COULD RELEASE THE BOX WITH KEYS INSIDE. THE BUSINESS WOULD PAY FOR THE BOX AND KEYS IF THEY WANT INTO THE SYSTEM.
THE IDEA MAY BE TALKED ABOUT AT THE NEXT REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING.
I WILL POST LEIGHTON HEPKER'S RECAP OF THE FOOTBALL GAME HERE SOMETIME SATURDAY MORNING. YOU WILL HAVE TO CLICK-ON THE
AUDIO BUTTON.
HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
SLOW NEWS DAYS.
DEATH: DONNA MYERS, 80, OF MAQUOKETA DIED YESTERDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, HAL, FORMER MAQUOKETA BUSINESSMAN AND FIVE CHILDREN. COMPLETE OBITUARY AT www.laheys.com
THE MAQUOKETA FIRE DEPARTMENT IS ASKING THE CITY TO OFFER A SECURITY PROGRAM FOR BUSINESSES.
IT'S CALLED THE KNOX BOX SYSTEM. IT'S A BOX WHICH HAS KEYS INSIDE WHICH CAN BE ACCESSED BY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT QUICKLY IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.
THE SYSTEM WOULD BE SET UP SO ONLY THE MAQUOKETA LAW CENTER COULD RELEASE THE BOX WITH KEYS INSIDE. THE BUSINESS WOULD PAY FOR THE BOX AND KEYS IF THEY WANT INTO THE SYSTEM.
THE IDEA MAY BE TALKED ABOUT AT THE NEXT REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING.
I WILL POST LEIGHTON HEPKER'S RECAP OF THE FOOTBALL GAME HERE SOMETIME SATURDAY MORNING. YOU WILL HAVE TO CLICK-ON THE
AUDIO BUTTON.
HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
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