HOT AND HUMID TODAY....HIGH 90.
WE GOT OVER AN INCH OF RAIN EARLY THIS MORNING.

MAQUOKETA FIREMEN WERE CALLED INTO ACTION AT 4:50 THIS MORNING TO THE MARK NIENKIRK RESIDENCE BETWEEN IRON HILL AND EMILINE.
THE FIRE WAS IN A SHEET METAL POLE BUILDING, ABOUT 30 BY 60 FEET. IT WAS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING AND ALL ITS CONTENTS WERE DESTROYED, INCLUDING AN A.T.V., SOME LAWN MOWERS, SHOP TOOLS AND A CHEVY S-10 PARKED OUTSIDE THE BUILDING. TOTAL LOSS ESTIMATED AT
$20,000.

A MAQUOKETA MAN, TERRY BRONSON, IS THE LUCKY WINNER OF A NEW 2006 PONTIAC 2-DOOR SPORTS CAR, GIVEN AWAY LAST NIGHT IN BELLEVUE, IN A RAFFLE CONNECTED WITH THE CITY'S ANNUAL HERITAGE DAYS CELEBRATION.

THE MAQUOKETA FIREWORKS SATURDAY NIGHT, BECAUSE OF A POWER FAILURE DURING THE STOCK CAR RACES, DID NOT START UNTIL AROUND 11 O'CLOCK. THE RACES WERE FINISHED FIRST, AND THEN THE 20-MINUTE FIREWORKS CAME NEXT, SPONSORED BY FIREWORKS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MAQUOKETA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. BELLEVUE'S 45-MINUTE FIREWORKS SHOW STARTED AT 10:15 LAST NIGHT AND CLINTON COUNTY'S $22,000 DISPLAY WILL BE PUT ON TOMORROW NIGHT AT GRAND MOUND. THERE WILL BE NO 4TH OF JULY EVENTS IN MAQUOKETA
TOMORROW.

CODY AND SHANNON WIEMANN OF MEDIAPOLIC, IOWA, ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN THURSDAY, JUNE 29TH AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.
MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE LEE AND MARLENE JOHNSON OF MAQUOKETA.

MARIANNE NELLES, AGE 84, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY MORNING.
HER COMPLETED OBITUARY CAN BE READ AT www.carsonandson.com

HAVE A FUN AND SAVE 4TH OF JULY.

DENNIS VOY