87 TODAY....
NO CHANGE IN FORECAST...MORE, EVEN WARMER WEATHER COMING,
WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN BEFORE THE WEEK IS OVER.

MAQUOKETA FIREMEN SPENT 6 HOURS BATTLING A GRASS FIRE
FROM 3 UNTIL  9 P.M. YESTERDAY.

 AN  OPEN BURNING BAN GOES INTO EFFECT IN JACKSON COUNTY TOMORROW MORNING, BECAUSE OF THE DRY CONDITIONS.'

CITY MANAGER BRIAN WAGNER WAS NOT AT THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING LAST NIGHT.    HE IS IN THE FINLEY HOSPITAL IN DUBUQUE WHERE HE
UNDERWENT EMERGENCY GALL BLADDER SURGERY.    HE IS BEING
TREATED FOR INFECTION AND HOPES TO BE HOME BY THE END OF THE
WEEK AND BACK ON THE JOB BY THE END OF THE MONTH.

SHORT REPORT....SORRY.

DENNIS VOY

ABOVE....BUSY DAYS AHEAD FOR THE FOUR IN PHOTOS.    TOP PHOTO....

LEFT, GUY PETERSON AND RIGHT, SON ANDY.    THEY ARE MEMBERS OF THE

WYOMING (IOWA) FAIR BOARD.    ANDY'S GRANDFATHER FRED AND

GREAT-GRANDFATHER WERE ALSO ON THE FAIR BOARD.....PETERSON'S HAVE BEEN ON THE BOARD SINCE THE FAIR BEGAN OVER 75 YEARS AGO.

THE WYOMING FAIR AND HORSE SHOW IS THIS WEEKEND.   IT STARTS

WITH THE PARADE FRIDAY NIGHT AT 6:30  (I'LL BE BROADCASTING IT ON KMAQ) AND ENDS SUNDAY.    GUY, BY THE WAY, IS A FARMER AND SEEDCORN

SALESMAN AND SON ANDY IS MORNING ANNOUNCER ON WMT.  

TAKE IN THE WYOMING FAIR THIS WEEKEND.

BOTTOM PHOTO:....THE TWO STARS OF "ALWAYS, PATSY CLINE" ON STAGE THIS WEEKEND AT  OHNWARD FINE ARTS CENTER ON EAST PLATT IN

MAQUOKETA, A PRODUCTION OF THE PEACE PIPE PLAYERS LITTLE THEATER

GROUP.   JUST TWO IN THE CAST:   AT LEFT, MAQUOKETA NATIVE GRETCHEN BANOWETZ-MATTOON (PATSY) AND AT RIGHT, SHANNON SOENKSEN OF DEWITT (PATSY'S FRIEND LOUISE) AND NOT SHOWN, THE BOBACIOUS BOBCAT BAND.   IT WILL BE A GOOD SHOW, FEATURING OVER 20 OF PATSY'S HIT SONGS.     AT THE DOOR, TICKETS WILL BE $18 AND IN ADVANCE, $15....

AVAILABLE AT THE OHNWARD BOXOFFICE MORNINGS OR AT THE MAIN BANK OF MAQUOKETA STATE BANK AND ALSO AT OSTERHAUS PHARMACY.

CLICK-ON PHOTOS TO ENLARGE THEM.

DENNIS VOY