BEAUTIFUL DAY AGAIN IN MAQUOKETA!

NOMINATION PAPERS FOR CITY COUNCIL AND MAYOR ARE AVAILABLE NOW AT THE MAQUOKETA CITY HALL. MAYOR TOM MESSERLI AND 3 COUNCIL MEMBER'S TERMS ARE UP. JASON HUTE, GALEN SAUNDERS AND TIM CLARK, PLUS SEAT HELD BY MARSHA MYERS, WHO IS RESIGNING. HUTE HAS ANNOUNCED THAT HE IS RUNNING FOR MAYOR. COUNCIL MEMBERS SERVE FOUR-YEAR TERMS AND THE MAYOR, A TWO-YEAR TERM.

A NEW PARK RANGER HAS BEEN NAMED FOR THE MAQUOKETA CAVES STATE PARK, TO REPLACE LARRY ZIRKELBACH WHO IS RETIRING. HE IS SCOTT DYKSTRA, WHO WILL COME ACROSS THE STATE FROM LEWIS AND CLARK STATE PARK AT ONAWA.
DYKSTRA, HIS WIFE AND THREE GIRLS WILL BE MOVING INTO THE PARK RANGERS HOUSE THIS MONTH.

AT THEIR WEEKLY MEETING YESTERDAY, THE JACKSON COUNTY SUPERVISORS SAY THEY WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSION WITH THE JACKSON COUNTY HEALTH CENTER BOARD MEMBERS TO TALK ABOUT THE CUTS TO BE MADE LATER THIS YEAR AT THE HOSPITAL.

BIG TURN OUT LAST NIGHT AT LITTLE BEAR PARK FOR "NATIONAL NIGHT OUT" SPONSORED BY THE THE MAQUOKETA PD. MAQUOKETA SAYS "THANKS"!

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT PURCHASED JAKE'S OLD PICK-UP FOR $3,500.
AND HE LIKES THE NEW ONE HE BOUGHT. GOT A RIDE IN IT TO McDONALD'S FOR COFFEE THIS AFTERNOON. JAKE SAYS "THANKS" TO ALL YOU TAXPAYERS OUT THERE. JUDY WAS GLAD TO SEE THAT OLD "CLUNKER" GO.
OH...NEW LOOK COMING TO McDONALD'S...OUTSIDE NORTH. WORKERS THERE TODAY TAKING OUT THE PLAYGROUND, FENCE AND BRICK COLUMNS.

WE ARE GETTING READY FOR A HEAT WAVE THIS WEEKEND. BUT NOTHING LIKE WHERE SHIRLEY AND RON LIVE.

HAVE A NICE WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY.

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WHO IS THIS FORMER MAQUOKETA RESIDENT? THIS IS A 1942 PHOTO WHEN HE WAS HOME ON LEAVE IN MAQUOKETA, AFTER THE U.S. INVASION OF NORTH AFRICA AT FADALA, NEAR CASABLANCA. HE WAS A RADIO OPERATOR-TECHNICIAN DURING WWII. FOLLOWING THE NORTH AFRICA INVASION, HE MADE OTHERS AT SICILY, ITALY, AND FRANCE. HIS LAST INVASION WAS OF OKINAWA ON EASTER SUNDAY, 1945 WHERE A JAPANESE SUICIDE BOMBER BARELY MISSED HIS OUTFIT.
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ONE OF SEVERAL SMALL BUT BEAUTIFUL OFFICES AT THE NEW CLINTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE BUILDING IN MAQUOKETA. THE BUILDING HAS A LOT OF FLOOR TO CEILING WINDOWS.
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THE FRONT DOOR AT THE NEW CLINTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE BUILDING JUST EAST OF THE MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL. THIS IS THE NORTH DOOR. ACROSS ON THE OTHER SIDE, ANOTHER PARKING LOT AND SOUTH DOOR. USE EITHER TO GET TO THE RECEPTION DESK. THE RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY WAS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND TOURS WERE GIVEN AFTER UNTIL 6 P.M. EVERYONE WAS PLEASED WITH THE NEW $1.5 MILLION DOLLAR FACILITY. STOP IN AND TAKE A TOUR SOMETIME SOON. BETTER YET, SIGN-UP FOR A CLASS OR TWO.
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