CLOUDY AND LOW 40'S TODAY.

TESTING FOR THE CITY OF MAQUOKETA'S NEW MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR
WATER PROJECT WILL BEGIN THIS WEEK.
ROGER KIRBY OF ALLIANCE WATER RESOURCES SAID THE PROJECT IS EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETE AT THE END OF APRIL. THE WATER TREATMENT PLANT WAS REQUIRED BY THE DNR TO ELIMINATE RADIUM IN THE CITY'S WATER. OVER DECADES, THE LEVELS OF RADIUM IN THE WATER HAS NOT CHANGED, BUT NEW STIFFER STATE REQUIREMENTS MADE THE NEW PLANT NECESSARY. THE NEW PLANT IS LIKE A GIANT WATER SOFTENER. BUT PEOPLE WILL STILL NEED THEIR HOME
SOFETNERS. ONCE THE SYSTEM IF IN OPERATION AND WORKING FINE, THERE WILL BE AN OPEN HOUSE AT THE FACILITY AT THE NORTH EDGE OF TOWN.

A SEMI HIT SOME TRAFFIC LIGHTS IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA MONDAY AFTERNOON....CORNER MAIN AND PLATT. HOW MANY TIMES THAT HAS HAPPENED OVER THE YEARS WOULD BE INTERESTING TO KNOW. SEMI OWNED BY BULLOCKS, INC. AND DRIVEN BY BRIAN JORDAN. MINOR DAMAGE TO THE LIGHTS AND SEMI.

WE WILL HAVE ANOTHER EMPTY STOREFRONT IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA SOON. TRI-STATE UPHOLSTERY, A LONGTIME BUSINESS OWNED BY KEN AND DONNA RUPP, HAS BEEN SOLD AND WILL BE JOINED WITH A DUBUQUE UPHOLSTERY BUSINESS. THE WILL SERVICE THE MAQUOKETA AREA FROM THE DUBUQUE LOCATION. KEN AND DONNA WILL SEMI-RETIRE, KEEPING THEIR PART TIME MAINTENANCE JOB AT FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH IN MAQUOKETA. THERE ARE ABOUT 10 EMPTY STORES DOWNTOWN.

AN OUT-OF-TOWN BIRTH: DRS. TRENT AND NICOLE TILTON OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN ARE THE PARENTS OF A SON, TRYSTAN MICHAEL, BORN MARCH 2ND AT GRAND RAPIDS. THE PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE FORMER MAQUOKETA RESIDENTS, DEAN AND KAREN TILTON OF THE VILLAGES, FLORIDA.

ROGER (BUDDY) SHIELDS, AGE 65, OF MOUNTAIN HOME, ARKANSAS DIED MARCH 9TH. HE WAS A FORMER MAQUOKETA RESIDENT AND WORKED 24 YEARS AS THE SECURITY AND MAINTENANCE MAN FOR A BANK IN MOUNTAIN HOME. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, A SON GLEN AND HIS MOTHER ROSEY SHIELDS, ALL OF MOUNTAIN HOME, AND BY HIS UNCLE, GLEN "RED" HENTON OF MAQUOKETA. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS FATHER, RAY SHIELDS, FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA WHO WAS THE FIRST CHEIF ENGINEER AND MORNING ANNOUNCER AT KMAQ, BACK IN 1958.
THE FAMILY MOVED TO ARKANSAS IN 1964.

NOW 4:45 AND IT HAS STARTED RAINING IN MAQUOKETA.

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY.

DENNIS VOY