LIGHT SNOW STARTED ABOUT 10 THIS MORNING IN MAQUOKETA. VERY LITTLE SNOW SINCE, BUT TERRIBLE SLEET. HIGHWAYS ARE VERY SLIPPERY. TALKED TO LONGTIME DEPUTY ED CLARK JUST BEFORE NOON AND HE SAID THE ROADS ARE AS BAD AS HE HAS EVER SEEN. LOTS OF CANCELLATIONS. THE YMCA GRAND OPENING WENT ON AS SCHEDULED THIS AFTERNOON. WYOMING CANCELLED ITS BIG ANNUAL CHRISTMAS ONE-DAY EVENT TODAY AND WILL RE-SCHEDULE.
PRESTON'S SECOND DAY OF THEIR HOLIDAY EVENT CANCELLED
TODAY'S SCHEDULE. THEY STILL HAVE SOME THINGS SCHEDULED FOR TOMORROW.
DELMAR WILL HAVE THEIR HOLIDAY EVENT TOMORROW AS SCHEDULED.
THE PEACE PIPE PLAYERS PRODUCTION OF "A CHRITMAS STORY' WAS WELL-ATTENDED LAST NIGHT AND I'VE HEARD SOME GOOD COMMENTS. TONIGHT'S PERFORMANCE HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND THE FINAL PERFORMANCE WILL BE AT 2 TOMORROW AFTERNOON.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS BASKETBALL TEAM PLAYED HOST LAST NIGHT TO DUBUQUE SENIOR AND LOST 64 TO 55. DILLON O'CONNELL LEAD MAQUOKETA WITH 13 POINTS. MATT BOPES HAD 12 AND DYLAN BARTELS, 11. MAQUOKETA IS NOW 0 AND 2.
THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS PLAYED LAST NIGHT, AWAY, BUT THE COACH DID NOT REPORT THE SCORE TO US...OR TO THE PAPERS, SO I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY DID. WIN OR LOOSE, THE COACH SHOULD REPORT HIS SCORE TO THE MEDIA, BUT MANY DON'T, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY LOOSE. AND THEN THERE ARE COACHES THAT GO THE EXTRA MILE BY GETTING THE SCORE TO US QUICKLY ... SOMETIMES THEY GIVE US MORE INFORMATION THAT WE CAN USE.
MONDAY, I SHOULD HAVE THE GIRL'S SCORE AND ALSO HOW THE WRESTLERS DID TODAY AT CASCADE.

A MILES MAN WAS KILLED IN AN AUTO ACCIDENT JUST NORTH OF MAQUKETA, NEAR HURSTVILLE, AT 8:30 LAST NIGHT.
HE PULLED ONTO HIGHWAY 61 AND WAS STRUCK BY A BETTENDORF CAR GOING NORTH. THAT WAS THE 2ND FATALITY IN NOVEMBER IN THAT AREA. AND THERE HAVE BEEN LOTS OF OTHER ACCIDENTS AT TWO DIFFERENT INTERSECTIONS THERE.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY