39 AND TODAY, JUST 22 AND CLOUDY AND WINDY. AND....COLDER WEATHER
IS COMING AND WILL BE HERE ALL WEEK.
TONIGHT, CLOUDY AND 12.
TOMORROW, CLOUDY AND 15 BY NOON THEN DROPPING TO 11 IN THE
AFTERNOON.
TOMORROW NIGHT, 2 ABOVE.
WEDNESDAY, SUNNY AND 13. ETC. ETC.
SPORTS FIRST:
IN SECTIONAL WRESTLING SATURDAY, MAQUOKETA HAD TWO WINNERS WHO WILL GO ON TO THE DISTRICT THIS SATURDAY. THEY ARE JACOB KLOFT
AND TREVOR BICKFORD. CENTRAL DEWITT ADVANCED 5 TO DISTRICT.
IN BASKETBALL, FRIDAY NIGHT, MAQUOKETA BOYS BEAT SOLON THERE
AND HERE, THE CARDINAL GIRLS LOST TO SOLON.
THEN SATURDAY, AT CASCADE, THE CARDINAL BOYS LOST 80 TO 53 AND
THE GIRLS DEFEATED CASCADE, 54 TO 44.
THE BOYS ARE 11 AND 7 OVERALL AND THE GIRLS, 4 AND 12.
AND IN BOWLING, THE CARDINAL BOYS WON THEIR 2ND STRAIGHT
TOURNAMENT SATURDAY AT CAMANCHE, WITH 3,063 PINS.
CONNOR SCHNOOR WAS THE TOP CARDINAL BOWLER WITH A 456 SERIES.
THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS FINISHED 5TH IN THE 6 TEAM TOURNAMENT.
THE DECKER HOTEL DOWNSTAIRS BARROOM WILL HAS GONE BACK
TO THE NAME, THE BUFFALO ROOM AND WILL HAVE A GRAND RE-OPENING.
FRED HARE IS THE BAR MANAGER. IT IS OPEN WEDNEDAY THROUGH
SATURDAY EVENINGS. HARE SAID THERE WAS AN ACTUAL BUFFALO HEAD IN THE BAR AND THEY ARE LOOKING TO REPLACE THE ORIGINAL REMOVED BACK IN 1971.
FORMER MAQUOKETA RESIDENT AND MUSIC COMPOSER JOHN FRANTZEN, SON OF WAYNE AND ELLEN, WILL HAVE HIS COMPOSITION "SKRONK"
PERFORMED AT A CONCERT AT CARNEGIE HALL IN NEW YORK CITY, THIS SATURDAY NIGHT.
ON WAY HOME FROM OMAHA YESTERDAY, WE STOPPED AT WINTERSET
TO SEE THE NEW JOHN WAYNE BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM THAT OPENED
LAST MAY ON JOHN WAYNE DRIVE. WINTERSET IS A NICE COMMUNITY
ABOUT THE SIZE OF MAQUOKETA, WEST OF DES MOINES AND NOT FAR
FROM I-80. JOHN WAYNE FANS SHOULD SEE THIS MULTI-MILLION
DOLLAR MUSEUM.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY
