CLOUDY AND COOLER TODAY. HIGH 55.

JUST A MINUTE AGO, MET MRS. CHET CULVER. STOPPED AT KMAQ AND MY OFFICE CAMPAIGNING FOR HER HUSBAND. SHE WOULD LIKE TO BE THE NEXT FIRST LADY OF IOWA. HER MOTHER WAS WITH HER ON HER VISIT THROUGH MAQUOKETA. CHET'S DAD, JOHN, VISITED KMAQ OFTEN WHEN HE WAS OUR CONGRESSMAN AND LATER U.S. SENATOR. THE REPUBLICAN CHALLENGER IS REPUBLICAN JIM NUSTLE, OUR PRESENT CONGRESSMAN. WILL BE A CLOSE RACE.

SOME NEW PHOTOS ON THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY WEB SITE. PHOTOS OF DR. BROMAN AND DAUGHTER BETH OF IOWA CITY, KATE CARINDER WITH THE MAQUOKETA FOUNDATION , AND JENNIFER CONNOLLY, HEAD OF SUNSHINE SCHOOL. WEB SITE ADDRESS IS: www.maquoketa-rotary.org

THANKS TO REGULAR READER OF THIS REPORT, BEN BANOWETZ OF ANKENY AND HIS WIFE NIKKIE FOR SENDING ME A NICE CHECK MADE OUT TO THE MAQUOKETA ATHLETIC BOOSTERS CLUB FOR SEVERAL RAFFLE TICKETS FOR THE TRUCK RAFFLE THIS FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE HOMECOMING GAME. BEN, A '96 MCHS GRAD, SON OF VERL AND KATHY OF MAQUOKETA, WORKS IN DES MOINES FOR THE STATE OF IOWA.

SATURDAY MORNING, I'LL HAVE A SPECIAL REPORT HERE TO TELL YOU WHAT MAQUOKETA'S WINNING SCORE WAS AND WHO WON THE NEW PICK-UP.

THE JACKSON COUNTY SUPERVISORS ARE CONTRACTING WITH A FIRM TO DO A FINAL CLEAN-UP OF CONTAMINATED SOIL AT THE FORMER TRUCK STOP ALONG HIGHWAY 61. IT WILL COST OVER $197,000 AND THE COUNTY WILL BE REIMBURSED BY THE STATE. ACTUALLY, ITS NOT A DONE DEAL YET. THE PLAN HAS BEEN SUBMITTED TO THE STATE FOR APPROVAL BY THE STATE.

FLU AND PNEUMONIA VACCINATIONS WILL BE HELD IN JACKSON COUNTY AT THE END OF THE MONTH. ANY QUESTIONS, CALL THE HOPSITAL AT
652-4048.

JAMI AND RANDY WEIMERSKIRCH OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN LAST WEDNESDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.

ELEANOR PARMER, AGE 94, DIED YESTERDAY AT CLOVER RIDGE PLACE IN MAQUOKETA. HER FULL OBITURARY CAN BE READ AT www.carsonandson.com

THANKS FOR CHECKING IN.

GO CARDINALS. MAQUOKETA AND ST. LOUIS.

DENNIS VOY