Thursday, April 10, 2014

THURSDAY DAILY REPORT

SUNNY AND  WARM TODAY.    MID 60'S.
TOMORROW, UPPER 60'S.
SATURDAY, ONE DAY ONLY, 70 OR MORE DEGREES.  RAIN IS IN THE FORECAST SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING.

THE ANNUAL JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY VOLUNTEER LUNCHEON WAS HELD THIS NOON AT THE CLINTON ENGINES MUSEUM IN
MAQUOKETA.     THOSE WHO GAVE 100 OR MORE VOLUNTEER HOURS DURING THE PAST YEAR WERE IN ATTENDANCE. 
THE LATE GRACE TUBBS (WIFE OF THE LATE BANKER EDWARD TUBBS) WAS A VOLUNTEER AND ADVOCATE OF VOLUNTERISM IN JACKSON COUNTY AND AFTER  HER DEATH, THE FAMILY ESTABLISHED AND FUNDED  A GRACE TUBBS VOLUNTEER AWARD TO BE PRESENTED ANNUALLY, WITH FUNDING ADMINISTERED THROUGH THE MAQUOKETA FOUNDATION.     THIS YEAR STEVE TUBBS (ONE OF GRACE'S 3 SONS) PRESENTED THE  AWARD TO GLORIA JORGENSEN OF MAQUOKETA.   GLORIA HAS BEEN A LONGTIME MEMBER OF THE HOSPITAL BOARD AND AN ACTIVE VOLUNTEER WITH THE (S.H.I.P.) SENIOR HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM.   FAMILY MEMBERS WERE PRESENT, ALONG WITH ELAINE EDWARDS  (ALSO WITH S.H.I.P.) AND CAROL BREUCH AND GLENN BARTELT WHO SERVE ON THE GRACE TUBBS VOLUNTEER  SELECTION COMMITTEE.   GLORIA RECEIVED A MANTLE CLOCK
AND $500 TO BE DONATED TO THE CHARITY OF HER CHOICE.
LEFT TO RIGHT:    STEVE TUBBS, CAROL BREUCH, ELAINE EDWARDS,
LIN JORGENSEN, JIM JORGENSEN, GLORIA JORGENSEN, MARV JORGENSEN, GLORIA'S HUSBAND, SHARI JORGENSEN AND GLENN BARTELT

THE JACKSON COUNTY SUPERVISORS TALKED ABOUT ATV'S AT THEIR
MEETING THIS WEEK.    COUNTY ATTORNEY SARA DAVENPORT CHECKED WITH THE IOWA ATTORNEY GENERAL AND ATV'S CAN NOT RIDE ON GRAVEL ROADS IN IOWA.   FARMERS ARE ALLOWED TO RIDE ATV'S FROM FARM TO
FARM.      ATV GROUPS CAN RIDE ON COUNTY ROADS FOR A SPECIFIC
EVENT, NOT JUST ANY TIME.     IT WAS MENTIONED AT THE MEETING THAT SOME DOCTORS AT UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS ISSUED A 48 PAGE REPORT ON THE DANGERS OF RIDING ATV'S.


REMEMBER READING HERE A COUPLE DAYS AGO, ABOUT THE MENNONITE CHURCH EAST OF  SPRINGBROOK?   ON THAT GRAVEL ROAD, DRIVE PAST THE CHURCH A MILE OR MORE AND ON THE RIGHT, YOU COME TO ONE OF JACKSON COUNTY'S WINERY'S.     DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO STOP, BUT TOOK
THE TWO PHOTOS ABOVE.     JACKSON COUNTY IS INDEED A WINE COUNTY!
IT TASTES GOOD AND IS GOOD FOR YOU, MODERATELY.

YOU AND YOUR SPOUSE OR FRIEND, CLICK A GLASS TONIGHT TO GOOD HEALTH!

DENNIS VOY






JACKSON COUNTY MAN WINS $30,000 LOTTERY PRIZE! ........
HAROLD ROBERTS OF PRESTON.       PURCHASED HIS WINNING TICKET AT THE PRESTON COUNTRY STORE.

ALAN HENRICKS OF DUBUQUE IN MARCH WON
$100,000 AND I BELIEVE HE BOUGHT HIS WINNING
TICKET AT ONE OF THE KWIK STAR STORES
IN MAQUOKETA.