TODAY, SUNNY, HIGH OF 57 AND HEADING TO 60'S TOMORROW.

THE BIDS FOR THE ARC (GYM AND INDOOR POOL) FOR MAQUOKETA WERE OPENED THIS AFTERNOON AT CITY HALL. SIX CONTRACTORS BID, NO LOCAL. THE BIDS ARE FOR CONSTRUCTION COSTS ONLY. ANOTHER $700,000 IN FEES AND SERVICES HAS TO BE ADDED TO CONSTRUCTION COST.
THE APPARENT LOW BID WAS $3.98 MILLION FROM EPIC CONSTRUCTION IN DUBUQUE. THE HIGH BID WAS $4.4 MILLION. THE ARCHITECTS WHO OPENED THE BIDS SAID THEY WERE PLEASED WITH WHERE THE BIDS CAME IN. THE BIDS WERE WITHIN THE RANGE THEY HAD PROVIDED THE COUNCIL LAST FALL. NOW, THE ARCHITECTS WILL GO OVER THE BIDS AND THE COUNCIL COULD THEN AWARD A CONTRACT AT EITHER THE APRIL 17TH OR MAY 1ST REGULAR COUNCIL MEETINGS.

SYMPHONIC COMPOSER JOHN A FRANTZEN OF MAQUOKETA, PRESENTLY AT THE MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC IN NEW YORK CITY, WILL HAVE HIS MUSIC COMPOSITION CALLED "PROCLAMATION" PLAYED AT THE MEMORIAL CHAPEL, LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY IN APPLETON, WISCONSIN ON APRIL 8TH. JOHN HAS WRITTEN SEVERAL OTHER COMPOSITIONS.
HE IS A GRADUATE OF MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL AND ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY AND IS THE SON OF WAYNE AND ELLEN FRANTZEN OF MAQUOKETA.

DIXIE HANKEMEIER, 55, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED TODAY AT FINLEY HOSPITAL IN DUBUQUE. SERVICES ARE PENDING AT LAHEY FUNERAL HOME IN MAQUOKETA.

I GOOFED. BOB AND JOAN HEAD ARE CELEBRATING THEIR 45TH ANNIVERSARY TODAY...NOT THEIR 50TH. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY BOB AND JOAN.

THE KMAQ GUEST BOOK HAS SPAM ENTRIES....AND NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT. BEST THING....KEEP ENTERING OR CHECKING THE GUEST BOOK LIKE ALWAYS....WE'LL ALL FIND THE GOOD ENTRIES BETWEEN THE BAD ONES. AND THE BAD ONES WILL JUST DISAPPEAR FURTHER ON DOWN THE SCREEN WITH EACH NEW ENTRY.

HAVE A GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD WEDNESDAY.

DENNIS VOY