ANOTHER BIG "MUSCLES ON MAIN" CAR SHOW SATURDAY AFTERNOON IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA SPONSORED BY THE FAMOUS
MAQUOKETA CORONADO CAR CLUB.
THE NEW PROGRAM DIRECTOR AT THE MAQUOKETA YMCA....ADAM BLASER....A NATIVE (GREW UP ON A
FARM) OF COAL VALLEY, ILLINOIS. STARTS SEPTEMBER
24TH.
THE JACKSON COUNTY DEMOCRATS "HALL OF FAME" DINNER WAS HELD SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE BELLEVUE
STATE PARK LODGE. GOOD TURNOUT OF DEMOCRATS AND CANDIDATES IN THE NOVEMBER ELECTION.
SHERIFF RUSS KETTMAN (23 YEARS AND COUNTING) WAS INDUCTED BY RICK DICKINSON. RICK, OF
DUBUQUE, NATIVE OF SABULA. STILL HAS HOME
THERE AND WAS A FORMER JACKSON COUNTY SUPERVISOR. FOR YEARS, HE HAS BEEN VERY INSTRUMENTAL IN GETTING LOTS OF NEW BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY IN DUBUQUE.
ALSO INDUCTED IN THE HALL OF FAME, LONGTIME
(OVER 40 YEARS) DEMOCRATIC BACKERS AND WORKERS FOR THE PARTY, LYNN AND JIM WACKER.
GIVING THEM THEIR PLAQUE, FORMER STATE
REPRESENTATIVE BOB OSTERHAUS.
MY GRANDDAUGHTER CASSIE (DAUGHTER OF RICK AND SHERI) WEDDING RECEPTION WAS SATURDAY
NIGHT IN BETTENDORF...AND MY 75-YEAR-OLD BROTHER GERALD (AND WIFE BETTY) CAME DOWN FOR
THE EVENT. JERRY IS RETIRED FROM JOHN DEERE
HORICON (WISCONSIN) WORKS WHERE HE WAS A FORMAN HELPING TO MAKE THOUSANDS OF THE
JOHN DEER LAWN AND GARDEN TRACTORS. MY
OTHER BROTHER, 71 YEAR OLD CHUCK, WAS UNABLE TO MAKE IT DOWN FROM MILWAUKEE. THAT'S MY
DAUGHTER LONNA CLAUSSEN LISTENING TO NANCY.
I HAVE NO SISTERS.
IT WAS A BUSY WEEKEND WITH TOO MUCH FOOD.
MY GREAT GRANDSON TRENTON, AGE 9, ....PROBABLY ANOTHER SHOJI TABUCHI SOME DAY.
DENNIS VOY