SATURDAY DAILY REPORT

-2 LAST NIGHT.
FORECAST IS FOR MOSTLY CLOUDY AND HIGH OF 20 TODAY.
TOMORROW, SUNNY AND 25.
SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY, SLEET AND SNOW.
IN THE  UPPER 30'S TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AND 40'S THURSDAY
AND FRIDAY.

BASKETBALL LAST NIGHT, WAMAC ACTION, MAQUOKETA BOYS 57,
MOUNT VERNON 55.   GAME PLAYED HERE.
AND YESTERDAY, THE MAQUOKETA CARDINAL GIRLS AND BOYS  BOWLING TEAMS BOTH BEAT INDEPENDENCE.    HIGH GAME FOR THE BOYS WAS A 255 BY DALTON WAUGH.  HIGH GAME FOR THE GIRLS, A 203 BY KAISEE
SCHNOOR.

I  HAD THIS PHOTO IN MY DAILY REPORT A FEW DAYS AGO AND IT BROUGHT
LOTS OF COMMENTS.    TODAY, I FINIALLY FOUND OUT WHO THE PERSON
IS IN THIS PHOTO.
CONNIE BEHRENS EMAILED ME AND SAID THE MAN IN THE PHOTO ABOVE IS HER GRANDFATHER, MAX ANDRESEN.    SHE SAID HIS STORE WAS IN
BALDWIN AND THAT SHE NEVER HEARD THE NAME OF IT OTHER THAN
THE BALDWIN STORE.    THANKS FOR THE EMAIL CONNIE!   WONDER
ABOUT WHAT YEAR THAT PHOTO WAS TAKEN?

A MAQUOKETA MAN WHO HAS SPENT NEARLY 30 YEARS IN PRISON FOR A MURDER COMMITTED IN 1984 IN MAQUOKETA WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE.
DURING A RE-SENTENCING HEARING YESTERDAY MORNING, JUDGE MARK
SMITH RULLED MITCHELL RONEK, NOW 47, HAS BEEN RE-SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON WITH A MINIMUM OF 25 YEARS AND ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE WITH CREDIT FOR TIME SERVED.

HE WAS SENTENCED IN APRIL OF 1985 FOR MURDERING THOMAS GOODWIN OF MAQUOKETA ON OCTOBER 8, 1984 IN THE BAR (HOTEL HAD ONE THEN) AT THE HURST HOTEL IN MAQUOKETA.
THE RE-SENTENCE CAME ABOUT AFTER THE FEDERAL AND STATE COURTS RULED IT WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL THAT JUVENILES WERE SENT TO PRISON WITHOUT PAROLE.

BACK TO SPORTS, THURSDAY NIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA CARDINAL GIRLS
BASKETBALL TEAM LOST TO CASCADE 63 TO 35.   CASCADE NOW HAS A RECORD OF 22 AND 0 AND THE CARDINALS FINISHED THE REGULAR SEASON
WITH A 5 AND 16 RECORD AND OPEN TOURNAMENT PLAY THIS COMING WEDNESDAY NIGHT WHEN THEY PLAY SOLON.

HAVE A GOOD  SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AND PRESIDENT'S DAY MONDAY.

DENNIS VOY