SUNNY, WINDY AND COLD TODAY....HIGH OF 41.

NEXT 60 DAY WON'T BE UNTIL MONDAY.

THE JACKSON COUNTY SUPERVISORS THIS WEEK DECIDED NOT TO REPAIR
THE GREEN ISLAND LEVEE. THE JULY FLOOD FLOOD TWO YEARS AGO CAUSED
TWO BREAKS IN THE LEVEE AND TO REPAIR IT, WOULD COST AROUND $70,000.
THE GOVERNMENT HAS OFFERED A PROGRAM TO PUT THE LAND IN A PERMANENT EASEMENT FOR WETLANDS WITH NO CROPS PLANTED. NEARLY ALL OF THE PROPERTY OWNERS HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF THE OFFER. THERE ARE NO HOMES WHICH WOULD BE EFFECTED WHEN THE AREA FLOODS AGAIN.

THE CITY COUNCIL PASSED THE NEW BUDGET THIS WEEK AND IT CALLS
FOR A TAX INCREASE OF 40 CENTS PER $1,000 ASSESSED VALUATION TO
TO PAY FOR A MANDATED CONTRIBUTION TO THE STATE POLICE PENSION
FUND.

THE COUNCIL ALSO DECIDED THIS WEEK TO SET UP A PAINT AND SIDING
PROGRAM THAT WOULD PAY A HOMEOWNER, THAT LIVED IN HIS OR HER HOME,
UP TO $250 FOR PAINT OR SIDING. THE COUNCIL HAS ALLOCATED $2,000
TO BE USED FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR. SO, 8 PEOPLE WILL GET HELP AT THEIR HOME THIS YEAR, WHICH MUST SHOW A NEED FOR PAINT OR SIDING.

DAISY CLASEN, 94, OF LAMOTTE, DIED YESTERDAY AND THE FUNERAL WILL
BE AT 10:30 SATURDAY AT HACHMANN FUNERAL HOME IN BELLEVUE.
HE IS SURVIVED BY 3 SONS AND 2 DAUGHTERS, INCLUDING ANITA WATTERS OF MAQUOKETA.

IN SPORTS, AT THE IOWA HIGH SCHOOL BOY'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
THIS SATURDAY NIGHT, THERE WILL BE MORE "HALL OF FAME" INDUCTEES,
INCLUDING MARK MOHL, WHO PLAYED FOR LOST NATION HIGH SCHOOL,
CLASS OF 1983. HIS PARENTS, GARY AND ALICE MOHL LIVE IN MAQUOKETA.

IOWA WON THEIR BIG 10 TOURNAMENT GAME TODAY AND HOPEFULLY IOWA STATE WILL WIN TONIGHT IN THE BIG 12 TOURNAMENT.

DENNIS VOY