COLD DAY...AND COLDER WEATHER COMING.
MOSTLY SUNNY TOMORROW. LOOKING AHEAD..
WEEKEND MAY BE QUITE COLD.

HAD DINNER LAST NIGHT AT "POOPIES" IN SAVANNA....(TO USE A CHRISTMAS GIFT CARD) ...THE TOWN'S MOST POPULAR EATERY.
THE MENU EXPLAINS HOW AND WHY IT WAS GIVEN ITS NAME. MORE OR LESS A SPORTS BAR IN BUILDING (NEW) AT EDGE OF CITY, WITH EMPHASIS ON BIKES.....HARLEY MECHANIC ON DUTY...AND THREE TATOO ARTISTS. FOOD WAS GOOD. THEY PACK-UM-IN ON WEEKENDS AND DURING SUMMER BIKING SEASON. FOR LEFTOVERS, NO DOGGIE BAG....INSTEAD, YOU ARE GIVEN A WHITE BAG, AND PRINTED ON IT...."A BAG OF S--- FROM POOPIES". THIS... IN A TOWN THAT FOR YEARS HAS BEEN KNOWN AS THE BEST PIZZA TOWN ON THE MISSISSIPPI.

FRIDAY NIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA BOYS WON THEIR 2ND STRAIGHT GAME, DEFEATING BENTON COMMUNITY, THERE, 66 TO 60. THEY ARE NOW 3 AND 6 OVERALL AND 3 AND 4 IN THE WAMAC. AND AT THE MAQUOKETA GYM, THE CARDINAL GIRLS LOST TO BENTON, 61 TO 50. THE GIRLS DROPPED TO 4 AND 9 OVERALL AND 3 AND 5 IN THE LEAGUE. BOTH THE BOYS AND GIRLS TAKE ON CENTRAL OF DEWITT TOMORROW NIGHT. WE WILL BROADCAST THE GIRL'S GAME FROM THE MCHS GYM.

MAQUOKETA SATURDAY HOSTED THEIR OWN DUAL WRESTLING TOURNAMENT. MT. VERNON WON IT. SAUK PRAIRIE, WISCONSIN TOOK SECOND. MAQUOKETA WAS THIRD AND LONE TREE FOURTH. THE CARDINAL GRAPPLERS WILL HOST DYERSVILLE BECKMAN IN A WAMAC DUAL THIS THURSDAY NIGHT.

A RURAL MAQUOKETA HOME WAS DAMAGED BY FIRE LAST NIGHT. FIREMEN WERE CALLED TO THE LOREN FELDERMAN HOME JUST EAST OF MAQUOKETA AT 5:30 P.M. FELDERMAN
SAID HE NOTICED SMOKE IN THE BASEMENT AND CALLED THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. EVERYONE GOT OUT OF THE HOME SAFELY. FIREMEN COULD SEE SMOKE COMING FROM THE HOME WHEN THEY ARRIVED. THE FIRE WAS CONTAINED TO THE BASEMENT AND NORTH WALL OF THE HOME IN THE KITCHEN. IT APPARENTLY STARTED FROM AN ELECTRICAL PROBLEM. TWENTY FIREMEN WERE AT THE SCENE FOR ABOUT 2 AND 1/2 HOURS.

THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD WILL MEET AT 5 THIS AFTERNOON TO TAKE A TOUR OF THE HIGH SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION SITE. SEE PHOTOS I TOOK OF SITE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, BELOW THIS REPORT. CLICK ON PHOTOS TO ENLARGE THEM. AFTER THE TOUR TONIGHT, THE REGULAR MEETING WILL BE HELD. THE BOARD WILL HEAR ABOUT
A GIFT OF OVER $140,000 THE DISTRIC HAS RECEIVED
FROM THE DORIS SHIMENEK ESTATE, TO BE USED FOR SCHOLARSHIIPS. SHE LIVED IN OXFORD JUNCTION.

RADIO BINGO ON KMAQ STARTED THIS AFTERNOON. THE FREE BINGO SHOW IS AGAIN ON AT 3:30 DAILY, MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

THE SUN IS SHINING AS I END THIS REPORT...BUT IT IS COLD.
NANCY AND I WILL BE GOING TO THE BOY SCOUT CHILI SUPPER TONIGHT.

PAUL HAYES IS CELEBRATING HIS 84TH BIRTHDAY TODAY. BORN AND RAISED IN MAQUOKETA. LONGTIME KMAQ LISTENER. HE AND GERI STOPPED IN FOR A SHORT VISIT THIS MORNING.
ALSO IN THIS MORNING TO BE A GUEST ON "JUST TALK"...
LORAS HERRIG OF BELLEVUE....CITY ADMINISTRATOR THERE.
YEARS AGO HE WAS A BANKER HERE IN TOWN. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK IN BELLEVUE LORAS.

HAVE A GOOD MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY.

DENNIS VOY