YESTERDAY WE GOT UP TO 91, SHORT OF THE 92 RECORD.
TODAY WE GOT UP TO 84 (LATE THIS MORNING) AND THEN WE HAD OUR FIRST
SHOWER AROUND NOON AND CLOUDY AND THUNDER AND LIGHTNING AND
LIGHT RAIN THIS AFTERNOON.    MORE RAIN TONIGHT AND TOMORROW.
THURSDAY SHOULD BE NICE AND THEN GOOD WEATHER FOR THE REST OF THE
WEEK AND THE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND.     NO MORE 80-DEGREE WEATHER FOR AWHILE.

THE HURST HOTEL APARTMENTS WERE EVACUATED THIS AFTERNOON AFTER  A FIRE ALARM ALERTED THE MAQUOKETA FIRE DEPARTMENT.   THERE WAS NO FIRE.
AFTER A SEARCH OF THE BUILDING, FIREFIGHTERS FOUND NO PROBLEM.
THEY DID REPORT SMELLING SOMETHING HOT ON THE THIRD FLOOR, BUT FOUND
NOTHING.

THE CITY OF MAQUOKETA RECEIVED THE GO-AHEAD FROM THE STATE HISTORIC
PRESERVATION ORGANIZATION TO DEMOLISH THE CORNER BUILDING IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA AHEAD OF SCHEDULE.       IN FACT,  IT COULD COME DOWN WITHIN TWO WEEKS.     G & B CONSTRUCTION,  THE CURRENT CLEAN-UP CONTRACTOR, SAID THEY WILL CLEAR THE BUILDING  OF ASBESTOS IN A COUPLE PLACES  AND THEN
TEAR DOWN THE BUILDING FOR $42,000.     IT WILL BE PAID BY MIDAS....THE CITY'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ARM THAT OWNS THE BUILDING.   THIS WAS GOOD NEWS AT LAST NIGHT'S CITY COUNCIL MEETING!   WE WERE PREPARED TO HAVE THE FIRE DEBRIS CLEANED UP AND SEEDED AND THEN LATER IN THE SUMMER,
HAVE A MESS ALL OVER AGAIN WHEN THEY WOULD TEAR DOWN THE CORNER
BUILDING.     BECAUSE HE WON'T HAVE TO COME BACK AGAIN WITH EQUIPMENT,
THE CONTRACTOR IS DOING IT FOR $10,000 LESS.

DARYL ELSNER, AGE 57, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS IN IOWA CITY.    THE FUNERAL WILL BE THURSDAY MORNING AT 10:30 AT THE  MILLER-LAW-JONES FUNERAL HOME IN PRESTON.       SURIVORS INCLUDE
HIS WIFE LORI, ONE DAUGHTER, AND HIS MOTHER, KATHERINE ELSNER OF
MAQUOKETA.      BURIAL WILL BE IN SACRED HEART CEMETERY IN
MAQUOKETA.

JUST A REMINDER AND A NOTE FOR NEW READERS TO THIS SITE,  I DO NOT INCLUDE MAQUOKETA DEATH NOTICES ON THIS DAILY REPORT .......FROM CARSON OR LAHEY FUNERAL HOMES IN MAQUOKETA.    THEY BOTH HAVE GOOD WEB SITES.   SO, FOR THEIR OBITUARIES,  YOU CAN PUT THEIR WEB SITES UNDER FAVORITES AND CHECK THOSE SITES DAILY FOR DEATHS.    BUT, IF SOMEONE DIES WITH SURVIVORS
IN MAQUOKETA, BUT ARE NOT AT EITHER OF THE LOCAL FUNERAL HOMES, I
WILL PUT A BRIEF NOTE ABOUT THE  DEATH HERE, AS I DID FOR THE ELSNER
DEATH ABOVE.       BUT, I DON'T GET THEM ALL.      AND IF I FORGET ONE, JUST
EMAIL ME AND I'LL INCLUDE IT ON MY DAILY REPORT THE NEXT DAY.

THANKS FOR CHECKING IN.

DENNIS VOY