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SUPER DAY AGAIN...HIGH OF 73.
WE WILL SEE TEMPS BACK IN THE LOW 80'S BY WEEKEND.

TWO KANSAS MEN WERE ARRESTED LAST NIGHT FOR ALLEGEDLY TAKING
229 CALCULATORS FROM THE WAL MART STORE IN MAQUOKETA,
VALUED AT NEARLY $23,000.    THEY WERE ALSO CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF A PRESCRIPTION DRUG, AND POSSESSION OF MARUIJUANA.
THEY ARE BOTH IN THE MAQUOKETA LAW ENFORCEMENT CENTER
ON $20,000 CASH BOND, EACH.   AFTER LEAVING THE STORE, POLICE WERE CALLED, THE TWO LEFT THE PARKING LOT AND SHORTLY AFTER WERE
STOPPED BY THE IOWA STATE PATROL.

SOME VANDALISM LAST NIGHT IN MAQUOKETA.    SOMEONE BROKE INTO THE CONCESSION STAND AT BURLINGAME FIELD, BUT NOTHING WAS LISTED AS MISSING.
VANDALS ALSO GOT INTO A SHED AT THE NEARBY HEADSTART BULDING AND THREW ITEMS AROUND.

THE 11TH MILLION ENGINE MADE AT CLINTON ENGINES WILL BE UNVEILED
TOMORROW NIGHT DURING THE 5TH ANNIVERSARY OF  THE CLINTON
ENGINES MUSEUM.    IT RETURNS TO MAQUOKETA FROM THE IOWA STATE
HISTORICAL MUSEUM AND WILL BE ON LOAN HERE FOR 3 YEARS.
IT WAS BUILDT IN 1963 AND PRESENTED TO GOV. HAROLD HUGHES.
ALSO, TOMORROW, STARTING AT 4:30, THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO
THE MUSEUM FOR DAD'S  FAMOUS BELGIAN WAFFLE.      $7 FOR ADULTS AND $5 FOR KIDS.     TOURS OF THE MUSEUM WILL ALSO BE GIVEN.
THE PROGRAM WILL BE AT 6 AND THE EVENT WILL CONCLUDE AT 7.

SACRED HEART CATHOLIC SCHOOL HAS A NEW PRINCIPAL.    MARY MELCHERT REPLACES ANGELA RULEY WHO LEFT TO TAKE A TEACHING JOB AT BELLEVUE.    MELCHERT HAS BEEN TEACHING AT MONTICELLO  FOR 28 YEARS.      SHE AND HER HUSBAND HAVE TWO CHILDREN....A SON WHO IS A SENIOR AND AN 8TH GRADE DAUGHTER.    THE FAMILY WILL CONTINUE
TO LIVE IN MONTICELLO.

JACKSON COUNTY SUPERVISOR STEVE FLYNN AND ENGINEER CLARK
SCHLOZ SPOKE AT ROTARY TODAY AND TALKED ABOUT THE  URGENT NEED FOR ADDITIONAL GAS TAX MONEY TO REPAIR OR BUILD NEW ROADS AND
BRIDGES IN JACKSON COUNTY.    "A DIME WILL BE FINE" IS ONE SLOGAN.
FOR MORE, INCLUDING PHOTOS, GO ON THE KMAQ HOME PAGE, AND CLICK-ON THE ROTARY WHEEL.

HAVE A NICE WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY.

DENNIS VOY.