IT RAINED YESTERDAY AND LAST NIGHT.....1.7 INCHES. AND IT RAINED A LOT TODAY ALSO AND MORE IN FORECAST FOR TONIGHT... ALONG WITH A FLOOD WATCH.
SOUNDS LIKE THE RAIN WILL END TOMORROW (FRI) AFTERNOON AND SATURDAY AND SUNDAY WILL BE NICE.

THE JACKSON COUNTY UNEMPLOYMENT RATE DROPPED TO 7.5 PERCENT
IN JULY, DOWN FROM 7.8 PERCENT IN JUNE.

MAQUOKETA OPENS THE FOOTBALL SEASON AT HOME TOMORROW NIGHT
AGAINST WEST LIBERTY AT GOODENOW FIELD. KMAQ WILL BROADCAST THE GAME.

MAQUOKETA'S SECOND NON-DISTRICT FOOTBALL OPPONENT, WAUKON, HAS DROPPED THEIR SOPHOMORE SCHEDULE DO TO LOW NUMBERS. THAT MEANS
WHEN MAQUOKETA TRAVELS TO WAUKON FOR THEIR SEPTEMBER 4TH GAME, IT WILL BE VARSITY ACTION ONLY, STARTING AT 7 P.M. INSTEAD OF 7:30.

CHECK THE NEW PHOTO BELOW.

HAVE A GOOD FRIDAY.

DENNIS VOY

THE MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1949 CELEBRATED THEIR 60TH REUNION
THIS PAST WEEKEND. NANCY AND I ATTENDED THEIR BREAKFAST SUNDAY
MORNING AT FLAPJACK FAMILY RESTAURANT. SINCE HER BROTHER ROGER STEWART WAS IN THAT CLASS, NANCY KNEW MANY OF THE GRADS AND WANTED TO TO TALK TO A FEW. NOT EVERYONE ATTENDED THE BREAKFAST.....MAYBE HANGOVERS FROM THE PARTY SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE EAGLES?
SATURDAY NIGHT, THEY TOOK UP A COLLECTION TO "BUY-A-SEAT" ($250) AT THE OHNWARD FINE ARTS CENTER, ONE OF THE PLACES THEY VISITED SATURDAY.
THEIR CLASS WILL BE ON A SMALL PLAQUE ON ONE OF THE ARM RESTS.
IN THE PHOTO ABOVE: (CLICK-ON IT TO ENLARGE IT) FRONT ROW,LEFT TO
RIGHT: ROBERT SCHOLL...MARJORIE DUTTON KEHN....ELLEN GOETTLER HANSON...
SHIRLEY DIMMER WESTPHAL ....AND REX FELTON. MIDDLE ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT:
DARLENE REDMOND ORR....ANNA LOU NEWSOM ENTSMINGER....MARION DUTTON SHORT....JANE WILLIAMS NIMS....PHYLLIS HUTE MYATT....JACKIE FROST HANSON....AND PAUL STRAUB. BACK ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: KEN BURNS....
WAYNE ENTSMINGER....BILL RICHARDSON....RON REIF....BILL LUCKY....LOIS WENTWORTH HAYES....ROGER STEWART....REX SANGER ....AND BILL MILLER.
SORRY I DIDN'T GET A PICTURE SATURDAY NIGHT OF ALL THAT ATTENDED.
THEY HAD A GOOD TURNOUT. ABOUT 15 MEMBERS OF THE CLASS ARE
DECEASED.
DENNIS VOY