Monday, April 24, 2006

BEAUTIFUL DAY YESTERDAY..AND DITTO TODAY...HIGH 76.

DELWOOD SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT MARY HAINSTOCK WILL BE RESIGNING THAT POSITION TO BECOME SUPERINTENDENT AT THE NORTH CEDAR SCHOOL DISTRICT. SHE HAS BEEN THE DELWOOD SUPERINTENDENT FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS AND THIS YEAR SHE WAS ALSO THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
HER PAST EXPERIENCE INCLUDED BEING CURRICULUM DIRECTOR FOR THE MAQUOKETA AND DELWOOD DISTRICTS FOR 7 YEARS AND WAS AT ONE TIME A MAQUOKETA MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER AND MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL GIFTED AND TALENTED INSTURCTOR. HER HUSBAND IS RICH, AND HE BUILDT AND SOLD THE PRAIRIE CREEK GOLF COURSE AT THE SOUTH EGE OF MAQUOKETA AND HAS BUILDT SEVERAL HOMES IN THE GOLF COURSE SUBDIVISION. RICH AND MARY WILL BE MOVING CLOSE TO HER JOB. HER OFFICE WILL BE AT THE HIGH SCHOOL IN STANWOOD AND ATTENDANCE CENTERS ARE ALSO IN CLARENCE, LOWDEN AND MECHANICSVILLE. THEIR SON MATT IS GRADUATING FROM MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL THIS JUNE AND WILL ATTEND MT. VERNON COLLEGE, NOT FAR FROM STANDWOOD. THEIR GAIN IS MAQUOKETA'S LOSS. I'LL MISS RICH AT ROTARY. RICH HAS BEEN A FELLOW MAQUOKETA ROTARIAN (PAST PRESIDENT) FOR MANY YEARS.

THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD MEETING IS TONIGHT.
NO CITY COUNCIL MEETING.

MISTY EHLERS AND DUSTIN BREWSTER OF DELMAR ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN LAST THURSDAY AT THE MAQUOKETA HOSPITAL. PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS DIANNE AND KEVIN CLARK OF MAQUOKETA.

REJEANNE AND TROY BEHNKE OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN LAST TUESDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. SHERYL MOUNTS OF MAQUOKETA IS THE MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER.

TALKED TO DR. KIRK GIESWEIN AND WIFE CLAUDIA AT THE DECKER HOTEL RESTAURANT SATURDAY NIGHT AND THEY CONFIRMED THE RUMOR THAT THEY WILL BE LEAVING MAQUOKEA THIS SUMMER. HE WILL BE LEAVING MAQUOKETA FAMILY CLINIC ON NORTH ARCADE STREET AND WILL MANAGE A NEW CLINIC FOR MERCY HOSPITAL, IN CORALVILLE, RIGHT NEXT TO IOWA CITY. AGAIN, THEIR GAIN, OUR LOSS. THEIR SON GRADUATES FROM BELLEVUE MARQUETTE HIGH SCHOOL THIS MAY AND THEY ALSO HAVE A DAUGHTER IN HIGH SCHOOL. THEY HAVE A BEAUTIFUL HOME OVERLOOKING THE MAQUOKETA GOLF COURSE AND IT IS FOR SALE.

SENIOR DENISTRY STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY HAVE NAMED DR. BUDDY ATIENZA, D.D.S. OF MAQUOKETA, THE 2005-2006 TEACHER OF THE YEAR FOR THE ADJUNCT FACULTY.
BUDDY GRADUATED FROM THE IOWA UNIVESITY IN 1994 AND MAQUKETA TO MAQUOKETA WHERE HE HAS HIS OWN PRACTICE CALLED "SMILES ON MAIN" IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA, WHERE THE OLD PASTIME THEATRE WAS MANY YEARS AGO. HE HAS BEEN TEACH PART TIME AS AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AT THE COLLEGE FOR THE LAST SEVEN YEARS. HE GENERALLY TEACHES ONE DAY A WEEK IN IOWA CITY, ALTERNATING WITH SOME 35 OR MORE OTHER DENTISTS THAT ALSO DO ONE DAY A WEEK TEACHING.
CONGRATULATIONS TO BUDDY.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY