GREAT SUMMER DAY...HIGH 84

CHARGES ARE PENDING IN AN ACCIDENT IN WHICH AT LEAST ONE STOLEN VEHICLE WAS INVOLVED JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT TODAY. DEPUTY KEVIN SCOTT SAID WILLIAM ROBERTS, 29, OF RURAL MAQUOKETA WAS DRIVING NORTH ON 125TH AVENUE AT 12:10 A.M. THIS MORNING AND LOST CONTROL, WENT INTO A DITCH, DROVE THROUGH A GATE AND THEN FLIPPED AND ROLLED TWICE. ROBERTS ADMITTED TO DEPUTIES HE TOOK THE VEHICLE FROM VICKY HELTON OF RURAL MAQUOKETA. DAMAGES, $9000 TO THE FORD EXPLORER. IN A RELATED INCIDENT DEPUTY RUSS LONG SAID AT 12:02 A.M. A VEHICLE WAS EASTBOUND ON 16TH STREET....A GRAVEL ROAD.....AND SLID THROUGH A STOP SIGN AT A T-INTERSECTION WITH 125TH AVENUE....AND IT BECAME STUCK IN AN EMBANKMENT.
LONG SAID THE IMPLIED OWNER SAID HE WAS A PASSENGER AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT, BUT WOULD NOT GIVE HIS NAME. THE IMPLIED OWNER DID STEAL ANOTHER VEHICLE, OWNED BY HELTON, AND QUICKLY ROLLED AND FLIPPED THAT VEHICLE. THE MAQUOKETA RESCUE SQUAD WAS CALLED TO ASSIST IN A SEARCH FOR A DRIVER, BUT NO ONE WAS FOUND. THE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES.

A MOTORCYCLE RALLY WILL GO ON AS SCHEDULED THIS WEEKEND ON A BLUFF OVERLOOKING SABULA. THE JACKSON COUNTY SUPERVISORS YESTERDAY AFTERNOON TOOK NO ACTION TO REVOKE THE PERMIT TO CONDUCT THE RALLY.
THE FIRST RALLY WAS HELD MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND AND NUMEROUS NOISE COMPLAINTS WERE REGISTERED FROM SABULA AND SAVANNA. THE PROMOTER TOLD THE SUPERVISORS SAID HE HAS MADE SOME CHANGES TO HELP REDUCE THE NOISE.

THE CELEBRATION IOWA SINGERS AND JAZZ BAND WILL MAKE A RETURN TRIP TO MAQUOKETA NEXT MONTH AT THE OHNWARD FINE ARTS CENTER AND SPONSORED BY KMAQ. THE 2-HOUR SHOW WILL BE ON THURSDAY NIGHT, AUGUST 3RD, STARTING AT 7:15 P.M. TICKETS ARE $10 IN ADVANCE AND $14 AT THE DOOR.
LAST YEAR, THE GROUP PERFORMED TO A NEARLY A SOLD-OUT CROWD AND IT WAS A GREAT SHOW. I EXPECT WE WILL HAVE A SELL-OUT THIS YEAR. THE 37 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICIANS (CHOSEN FROM 150 WHO AUDITIONED) WILL BE STAYING IN LOCAL HOMES. TWENTY HOMES ARE NEED. IF YOU CAN HOST TWO STUDENTS, OR ADULT STAFF MEMBERS, CALL KMAQ. THE HOST HOME RECEIVES 2 COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS. THIS YEAR'S SHOW OPENS WITH A MUSICAL THEATRE SET FEATURING THREE MUSICALS WITH A COMMON STORY LINE: WIZARD OF OZ...WIZ...AND WICKED. THEN,SET TWO FEATURES A WIDE VARIETY OF SACRED MUSIC AND THE SHOW ENDS WITH MUSIC FROM VARIOUS DISNEY MOVIES.
THE JAZZ BAND WILL PERFORM MANY SELECTIONS THROUGHOUT THE EVENING.
CELEBRATION IOWA IS A PROJECT OF LUTHER COLLEGE AND THAT IS WHERE
THE REHERSALS WERE HELD IN EARLY JUNE.

A MAQUOKETA NATIVE, GREGORY W. BERG, 35, OF ONAWA, IOWA, DIED TUESDAY DUE TO INJURIES IN A PICKUP-TRAIN ACCIDENT NEAR ONAWA. HIS FATHER AND STEP-MOTHER, LORIN AND PHYLLIS BERG, LIVE IN CHARLOTTE. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND A DAUGHTER.

EARL CAMPBELL, AGE 77, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED THIS MORNING AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. THE FULL OBITUARY IS AT www.carsonandson.com

ON THIS DATE IN 1982, THE PARKING METERS WERE RETIRED IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA. AND THERE WAS A CELEBRATION! THE FUN INCLUDED A PIE-THROWING AUCTION AND I PAID $14.00 TO THROW A PIE IN THE FACE OF THE LATE BOB MELVOLD, PUBLISHER OF THE MAQUOKETA NEWSPAPER. I ALSO BOUGHT ONE OF THE METERS WITH PLANS TO MOUNT IT ON A POLE AND PUT IT IN THE KMAQ LOBBY. IT IS STILL DOWNSTAIRS AND ON MY LIST OF THINGS TO DO.

HOW TIME FLIES.

AND TIME TO END THIS REPORT.

DENNIS VOY