MONDAY DAILY REPORT

THE BARN TOUR WAS HELD THIS WEEKEND.   I TRY TO VISIT A DIFFERENT
ONE EACH YEAR.    THIS ONE ON 450TH AVENUE, RURAL PRESTON, IS OWNED
BY STEVE AND DORIS TRENKAMP.    GO EAST OUT OF PRESTON, AND
45TH AVENUE IS THE FIRST PAVED ROAD ON THE RIGHT AND THE
TRENKAMP FARM IS A HALF-MILE ON THE ROAD, PAST THE CEMETERY
WITH NO NAME ON IT.  THE BARN WAS BUILDT IN 1926 AND LOOKS GOOD FOR
BEING 90 YEARS OLD.  METAL ROOF REPLACED THE OLD A FEW YEARS AGO
AND THE UPPER PART OF BARN IS BIG AND EMPTY.    DORIS HAS FLOWERS
ALL OVER THE  YARD....A PRETTY FARM.    AND JUST OVER THE HILL
TO THE SOUTH...THIS SIGN ALONG THE ROAD.....

 DRIVE A SHORT GRAVEL ROAD, AND THERE IS DALTON POND....

GOOD LITTLE FISHING POND.

WE THEN LEFT 450TH AVENUE AND HEADED FOR THE ANDREW PARK AND THE ANDREW LIONS ANNUAL CHILI COOKOFF.     IT GETS BIGGER EVERY YEAR.    THE WINNERS OF THE CHILI COOK-OFF WERE AGAIN JERRY 

McMURRAY AND ROGER MICHELS.    THE PIE CONTEST:   1ST PLACE TO LINDA DRAKE, 2ND PLACE TO ALVELDA BAHR AND 3RD PLACE TO LINDA DUHME.

I DIDN'T KNOW THERE WAS A PIE CONTEST.     BUT I DID PARTICIPATE IN

THE CHILE JUDGING.    I SAMPLED 6 KINDS, VOTED FOR CHILI MARKED #5.....HAD A HOTDOG AND A PIECE OF HOMEMADE BERRY PIE AFTER.

FROM ANDREW, TO ST. DONATUS..... AND THE ANNUAL JACKSON COUNTY DEMOCRATS "HALL OF FAME" DINNER AT KALMES RESTAURANT.

AFTER ONE OF WINDY'S RIBEYE STEAKS OFF HIS BIG OUTSIDE GRILL,

THE PROGRAM BEGAN.     ABOVE, AT LEFT, FORMER SENATOR ROGER STEWART WITH ASHER SCHROEDER OF MAQUOKETA, HOLDING

THE  PLAQUE ROGER PRESENTED TO HIM FOR BEING ONE OF THE

TWO NEW HALL OF FAME MEMBERS.     ASHER WAS IN WWII, WOUNDED IN ACTION AND A PRISONER OF WAR FOR 6 MONTHS.   HE GOT A HERO  STANDING OVATION YESTERDAY.   ASHER, 90-PLUS YEARS, IS RETIRED  AND LIVES  IN HIS HOME ON NILES STREET IN MAQUOKETA.   HE GOT HIS LAW DEGREE AT IOWA, WAS THE JACKSON COUNTY ATTORNEY FOR 3 TERMS IN THE 50'S, WORKED AS LEGAL COUNCIL FOR THE IOWA D.O.T. FOR 10 YEARS AND THEN WAS APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT JOHNSON TO BE THE  U.S. ATTORNEY FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF IOWA.    HE HAD  A LEGAL

CAREER SPANNING 37 YEARS. 

DAVID KUNZWEILER OF BELLEVUE, COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN FOR AROUND 15 YEARS AND STILL CHAIRMAN, WAS THE OTHER DEMOCRAT INDUCTED INTO THE HALL OF FAME.   FULL HOUSE FOR THE EVENT, WITH

MANY CANDIDATES PRESENT.

THAT'S ASHER AFTER HIS APPOINTMENT BY PRESIDENT JOHNSON.   

THE "LADY AND THE TRACTOR".   BOTH BORN IN THE SAME YEAR.  THE TRACTOR SURE DOESN'T LOOK 80.

 ANOTHER PPP PRODUCTION HIT...."CABARET" 2016

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