Thursday, June 14, 2007

91 TODAY IN MAQUOKETA.

THE MYSTERY PICTURE, TAKEN IN THE 60'S AT THE OLD MAQUOKETA COUNTRY CLUB CLUBHOUSE, AND SENT TO MY BY MIKE LYMAN IN GERMANY, IS OF OTTO REEL, CHUCK SCHOLL AT PIANO AND CARL LYMAN ON SAX. THANKS TO MIKE FOR EMAILING THE PHOTO TO ME.

TRY AS HE MIGHT TO RETIRE FROM THE BENCH, LONG TIME MAQUOKETA SOPHOMORE BOYS BASKETBALL COACH IN MAQUOKETA, DENNIS STREETS, WILL
BE BACK ON THE SIDELINES THIS WINTER. THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD APPROVED HIRING OF STREETS AS THE ASSISTANT VARSITY COACH AT THEIR MEETING THIS WEEK. COACH STREETS HAD SUBMITTED HIS RESIGNATION AS THE SCHOOL'S SOPHOMORE COACH AFTER LAST SEASON, WHICH SAW HIM SURPASS THE 500 WIN MARK FOR HIS 41-YEAR CAREER. WHEN TRY OSTERHAUS WAS NAMED HEAD VARSITY COACH EARLIER THIS SPRING, HE IMMEDIATELY ASKED STREETS TO SERVE AS HIS ASSISTANT AND STREETS AGREED.

TWO MAQUOKETA MEN WERE CHARGED WITH DISORDERLY CONDUCT FOR A FIGHT AT CASEY'S ON EAST PLATT STREET IN MAQUOKETA. CHARGED WERE 40-YEAR-OLD
JOHN OLSON AND 27-YEAR-OLD DAVID STREETS, JR. OF MAQUOKETA. THE INCIDENT HAPPENED AT 5:20 YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.

MARGRET SEEBERGER, 85, OF MAQUOKETA DIED TODAY AT THE MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER. SERVICES PENDING AT LAHEY FUNERAL HOME IN MAQUOKETA.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE HER HUSAND, ED.

THE 3-DAY JACKSON COUNTY PRO RODEO STARTS TONIGHT AT THE HORSEMAN'S CLUB GROUNDS NEAR BELLEVUE. BIG RODEO.

KEEP COOL.

DENNIS VOY