MORE SNOW IN THE FORECAST FOR MAQUOKTA. STARTING TONIGHT AFTER MIDNIGHT. COULD GET ANOTHER 4 INCHES.
GOT A HALF-INCH LAST NIGHT.....AND TOTAL SO FAR IN MAQUOKETA, 14 AND 1/2 INCHES.
THE HOSPITAL HAS HIRED A RECRUITMENT FIRM TO SEARCH FOR A NEW SURGEON FOR MAQUOKETA. DR. PEDRO ATIENZA
HAS SAID HE PLANS TO RETIRE IN A COUPLE OF YEARS. HE
MOVED HIS OFFICE INTO THE HOSPITAL LAST YEAR. THE FEE IS $25,000 PER PHYSICIAN WITH $12,000 DUE UP FRONT.
A MAQUOKETA WOMAN, LINDA SCHULZ, AGE 56, WAS CHARGED FOLLOWING A TWO VEHICLE ACCIDENT JUST BEFORE 11 YESTERDAY MORNING AT CORNER OF HIGHWAY 64 AND MICKINSEY DRIVE. SHE WAS NOT INJURED. NEITHER WAS THE DRIVER OF OTHER CAR FROM HIAWATHA.
I HAVE THE COMPLETED OBITUARY NOW ON SUSANNE BATY
OF MAQUOKETA. SHE, AGE 59, DIED FRIDAY AT HER HOME AFTER A LENGTHY ILLNESS. MEMORIAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT A LATER DATE. SHE WAS A KINDERGARTEN TEACHER
AT CARDINAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOR 10 YEARS FROM 1976 TO 1986 AND LATER SERVED AS PRINCIPAL AT CARDINAL FOR 20 YEARS, RETIRING IN 2006. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HER HUSBAND CORLIS, TWO DAUGHTERS, EMILY BATY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO AND ERIN MILLER OF LOVELAND, COLORADO. ALSO SURVIVING, HER PARENTS, ANNE AND WESTON BIRDSALL, THREE BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. THE CREMATION SOCIETY OF EASTERN IOWA IS ASSISTING WITH ARRANGEMENTS.
MAQUOKETA HAS A NEW ATTORNEY. ADWIN L. HESSELTINE HAS JOINED THE FIRM OF SCHOENTHALER, ROBERG, BARTELT, AND KAHLER IN MAQUOKETA AS AN ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY.
HE IS A RECENT GRADUATE OF DRAKE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL IN DES MOINES.
MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCILMAN GALEN SAUNDERS AND HIS WIFE JANET WILL CELEBRATE THEIR 40TH ANNIVERSARY THIS SUNDAY. THEY HAVE 3 CHIDLREN...JIM OF MAQUOKETA...JENNIFER IN ILLINOIS AND JASON IN ARIZONA.
ALSO 6 GRANDCHILDREN.
NANCY HENTON SCHOLL WAS IN TO SAY HELLO THIS MORNING WITH HER DAD, GLEN. SHE AND ROBERT HAVE LIVED IN GEORGIA FOR A COUPLE YEARS. SHE READS THIS REPORT REGULARLY. REMEMBER IN THE 60'S....SHE WAS ONE OF THE TOP WOMEN HORSESHOE PITCHERS IN THE COUNTRY, LIKE HER DAD. ALSO A GOOD SINGER. AND I'M SURE MANY OF YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE HENTONS RAN THE LAKEHURST SUPPER CLUB AND NANCY WORKED THERE.
RED WILL ENTERTAIN AGAIN AT THE KMAQ FARM AND HOME SHOW ON FEBRUARY 7TH AND 8TH.
THE MUSEUM ON THE FAIRGROUNDS IS CLOSED THIS WEEK AND WILL REOPEN JANUARY 3RD.
WELL...GUESS I'LL POLISH UP THE SNOW SHOVEL AGAIN.
WILL LET YOU KNOW TOMORROW IF I HAD TO USE IT.
DENNIS VOY
