Wednesday, November 11, 2015

WEDNESDAY DAILY REPORT

WE STARTED THE DAY WITH SOME SUNSHINE.
CLOUDY THIS AFTERNOON BUT GOT UP TO 60...WITH WIND.  NOW WE HAVE A WIND ADVISORY TONIGHT AND WE ARE UNDER A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 9 TONIGHT.
TOMORROW SUNSHINE COMES BACK AND HIGH OF ONLY 49.
FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY LOOKING GOOD.

CLOVER RIDGE ASSISTED LIVING HAD A VETERAN'S DAY PROGRAM THIS AFTERNOON WITH A FULLHOUSE IN THEIR GREAT ROOM.
SALLY DAVIES, ACTIVITIES DIRECTOR, STAGED THE HALF-HOUR EVENT, WITH HELP FROM THE VFW AND AUXILIARY.    IT WAS TO THANK EIGHT
VETERAN RESIDENTS.    I TOOK SOME PICTURES.....
THE CHAMBER SINGERS FROM MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL SANG TWO SONGS.
VIVIAN MILLER, A RESIDENT OF CLOVER RIDGE,
WAS RECOGNIZED FOR BEING A VFW AUXILIARY
MEMBER FOR 70 YEARS.    
VIVIAN AND HER HUSBAND CURLY FOR MANY  YEARS RAN THE  POPULAR "CURLY'S SOUTH INN" ON SOUTH MAIN IN MAQUOKETA.   SHE'S SHARP AND 94 AND REMEMBERED THAT I CAME IN OFTEN
IN THE LATE 50'S AND EARLY 60'S FOR EVENING DINNER WITH THE FIRST OWNER OF KMAQ, NATE GOETZ, FROM MONROE, WISCONSIN.   AT RIGHT, FOR SOME REASON OUT-OF-FOCUS,  IS PAT SCHNOOR, VFW AUXILIARY PRESIDENT.   HER
HUSBAND ROGER IS THE VFW COMMANDER AND
BOTH HAVE BEEN ACTIVE IN THE VFW FOR MANY
YEARS. 
COFFEE AND COOKIES WERE SERVED AFTER THE PROGRAM.

AT THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY MEETING THIS NOON, RED HENTON GAVE THE PROGRAM ON THIS
YEARS IN WW2.   HE'S 95 NOW.


HAVE A GOOD NIGHT AND THURSDAY.
DENNIS VOY