MONDAY DAILY REPORT

OVERCAST THIS MORNING, SUNNY THIS AFTERNOON.
HIGH OF 81.
NO RAIN FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK....SUNNY EVERY DAY.
TOMORROW, HIGH OF 78.

TWO LONG-TIME BUSINESSMEN HAVE JOINED FORCES TO OFFER ROOFING
MATERIALS AND WORKMANSHIP FOR COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND HOMEOWNER CUSTOMERS IN THE KMAQ AREA.    MAQUOKETA BUSINESSMAN AND ROOFER, CLAY ROMER, RECENTLY JOINED WITH LONG-TIME CLINTON-BASED ROOFING COMPANY, BECKWITH COMMERCIAL ROOFING, OWNED BY COMPANY PRESIDENT JEFF BECKWITH AT RIGHT WITH CLAY, IN BELOW PHOTO.

CLAY ROMER HAS OVER 40 YEARS OF ROOFING EXPERIENCE.    CLAY'S GRANDFATHER FOUNDED CONNELL SUPPLY COMPANY IN 1938 AND CLAY'S FATHER, THE LATE DUB ROMER, WAS ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THE BUSINESS UNTIL 2010.   CLAY TOLD KMAQ ..."I AM EXTREMELY PLEASED AND EXCITED ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME PART OF BECKWITH COMMERCIAL ROOFING OF CLINTON".

WHEN VISITING MAQUOKETA THIS SUMMER, TAKE A TOUR OF THE  CLINTON ENGINES MUSEUM.

JACKSON COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF TERRY ROLING INVESTIGATED AN ACCIDENT FRIDAY AROUND 12:50 P.M. INVOLVING WILLIAM CAMPBELL, AGE 60, OF OXFORD JUNCTION AND TERRY OSTERT, AGE 58, OF MAQUOKETA.
THE CAMPBELL PICK-UP WAS PARKED FACING EAST ON 159TH STREET 8 MILES NORTH OF MAQUOKETA WHEN THE OSTERT VEHICLE WAS GOING
WEST AND DID NOT REALIZE THE TRAILER STUCK OUT PAST THE TRUCK SO FAR....AND OSTERT STRUCK THE SIDE OF THE CAMPBELL TRAILER.
OSTERT CAME TO A STOP IN FRONT OF THE TRAILER AND THE TRAILER
SLID TO THE SOUTH.     $1,500 DAMAGE TO OSTERT'S CAR AND $800 DAMAGE TO THE  TRAILER.    NO INJURIES AND NO CHARGES.

ONE VIEW OF THE NEARLY COMPLETED VETERANS MEMORIAL AT DEWITT...
SURE TO BE ONE OF THE LARGEST AND BEST IN IOWA.    LOCATED AT THE ENTRANCE TO ELMHURST CEMETERY ON OLD HIGWAY 61 AS YOU DRIVE INTO DEWITT FROM THE NORTH.

THIS IS THE WEEK OF THE 163RD GREAT JONES COUNTY FAIR AT MONTICELLO.    IT STARTS TOMORROW WITH A FREE GATE FOR A "SNEAK"
PREVIEW.    LEIGHTON HEPKER WILL BE BROADCASTING ON KMAQ FROM
THE FAIRGROUNDS WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND I WILL BE DOING REMOTE BROADCASTS THURSDAY AND SATURDAY.    IT IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST  COUNTY FAIRS IN IOWA.

AT 10:45 TOMORROW (TUESDAY) MORNING, KMAQ PLAY BY PLAY ANNOUNCER MATT CLARK WILL BE IN  FORT DOGE TO BROADCAST THE
FIRST OF 3 SOFTBALL GAMES BELLEVUE MARQUETTE CATHOLIC WILL
BE PLAYING IN THE STATE SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT.    NO MID-DAY LOCAL
NEWS ON KMAQ TOMORROW.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY