NO SNOW TODAY. NO SNOW TODAY. SUNSHINE TODAY. HIGH IN TEENS.
IT WAS ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT MAQUOKETA HAS RECEIVED 57 INCHES OF SNOW IN NOVEMBER, DECEMBER AND JANUARY AFTER YESTERDAAY'S 4 1/2 INCHES.
NOT THE SNOWIEST EVER, BUT STILL WEEKS OF WINTER LEFT. THE RECORD IS IN THE 70-INCHES CATEGORY, BUT THIS WINTER WILL BE IN THE TOP FIVE "MOST-SNOW- EVER" WINTERS IN THE HISTORY OF MAQUOKETA. JACKSON COUNTY ENGINEER CLARK SCHLOZ AT THE SUPERVISOR'S MEETING THIS WEEK SAID THIS PAST WINTER WAS THE WORST HE'S SEEN. HE SAID DRIFTS WERE SO BAD IN JACKSON COUNTY, THAT COUNTY CREWS HAD TO USE END LOADERS TO REMOVE THE SNOW BECAUSE THE MOTOR GRADERS WOULDN'T PUSH THE SNOW.
BECAUSE OF THE WINTER SNOW, MAQUOKETA'S PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
IS CURRENTLY $35,000 OVER BUDGE AND MAY HIT $50,000 BY THE END OF WINTER.
PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR DAVE POPP TOLD THE CITY'S STREET COMMITTEE LAST NIGHT THAT THE INCREASE IF FROM OVERTIME, FUEL, EQUIPMENT REPAIRS, AND MATERIALS. HE SAID THE CITY SHOULD BE IN GOOD SHAPE FOR SALE AND SAND
FOR THE REST OF THE WINTER.'

AN ACCIDENT AT 7:40 YESTERDAY MORNING RESULTED IN CHARGES AGAINST JAMES HAYWARD, AGE 76, OF MAQUOKETA, WITH UNSAFE ENTRY. THE POLICE REPORT SAID TROY THEIDE, AGE 42, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS DRIVING SOUTH ON MAIN STREET AND HAYWARD PULLED OUT OF A PARKNG SPOT WHICH CAUSED THEDE TO HIT THE HAYWARD VEHICLE.

DR. PAUL KOOB WILL ANNOUNCE WRESTLING TONIGHT ON KMAQ "LIVE" FROM THE STATE TOURNAMENT IN DES MOINES. HE WILL BROADCAST THE MATCHES BY THE TWO CARDINALS OUT THERE AND THE THREE DEWITT SABERS, ALSO IN OUR CLASS.
HE GOES ON-THE-AIR AT 6:30. AND LEIGHTON HEPKER WILL BE AT THE GYM IN DEWITT GIVING UPDATES ON THE GIRL'S TOURNAMENT GAME BETWEEN MAQUOKETA AND DEWITT. BUSY SPORTS NIGHT TONIGHT ON KMAQ.
THE CARDINAL BOYS BEAT WESTERN DUBUQUE BY 8 POINTS LAST NIGHT AND THEIR FINAL GAME BEFORE TOURNAMENTS IS TOMORROW NIGHT AGAINST VINTON SHELLSBURG.

KAREN TILTON, OF THE VILLAGES, FLORIDA (HOME OF CLOSE TO 30 GOLF COURSES)
...FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA...HAD A HOLE-IN-ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE SADDLEBROOK GOLF COURSE. HAD IT ON THE FIRST HOLE WITH A 3 WOOD.
THREE WITNESSES, BUT NOT DEAN. HE WAS AT A NASHVILLE MEETING. HER FIRST HOLE-IN-ONE. WHAT AN ATHLETE!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TODAY TO ARTIST PAT COSTELLO OF MAQUOKETA.

WATCH FOR THE CHARLOTTE, IOWA SINGER ON AMERICAN IDOL TONIGHT.

BEEN A BUSY DAY....STILL HAVE THE VALENTINES TO GET IN THE MAIL THIS AFTERNOON TO KIDS AND GRANDKIDS....AND WILL ATTEND MY FIRST LENTEN
SERVICE TONIGHT, AFTER CHURCH SUPPER IN THE BASEMENT SOCIAL HALL
AT FIRST LUTHERAN. FIRST LUTHERAN HAD NO ASH WENESDAY SERVICE LAST WEEK AND PATOR GJERDE SAID THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME HE CALLED OFF AN ASH WEDNESDAY SERVICE IN HIS 31 YEARS AS A PASTOR. MOST CHURCHES IN AREA DID NOT HAVE CHURCH LAST WEDNEDAY, FIRST DAY LENT.

GOOD NIGHT...OR GOOD MORNING, WHENEVER YOU READ THIS.

DENNIS VOY