HEAVY RAIN SATURDAY...OVER 3-INCHES IN MAQUOKETA. THE RAIN ACTUALLY STARTED A LITTLE FRIDAY NIGHT.
SUNDAY AND TODAY, BEAUTIFULL SUNNY SKIES AND HIGHS IN THE LOW 70'S.
MAQUOKETA LOST TO MANCHESTER WEST DELAWARE FRIDAY NIGHT. THE CARDINALS JUMPED OFF TO A 7 TO 0 LEAD EARLY IN GAME GAME, BUT THAT WOULD BE THEIR ONLY SCORING AND LOOSING 20 TO 7. THE SOPHOMORE WON THEIR 2ND GAME OF SEASON.
IOWA BEAT IOWA STATE SATURDAY, BREAKING A 5-GAME WINNING STREAK BY THE CYCLONES. I SAW THE GAME WITH BOB OSTERHAUS AND IT WAS THE BIGGEST ATTENDANCE FOR A CYCLONE GAME EVER...OVER 52-THOUSAND.
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, 1 DEWITT BOY AND 1 GRAND MOUND BOY, 12 AND 13, WENT SWIMMING AT A SMALL LAKE ABOUT 3 MILES EAST OF DEWITT, ALONG HIGHWAY 30. THEY WALKED THE RAILROAD TRACKS TO THE LAKE MALONE. ON THE WAY BACK, THEY STOOD ON ONE SET OF TRACKS AND WATCHED A TRAIN GO BY....AND DID NOT NOTICE OR HEAR ANOTHER TRAIN COMING FROM THE OPPOSITE WAY ON THE TRACKS THEY WERE ON. THEY WERE KILLED INSTANTLY. BOTH MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS AT DEWITT.
MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL MEETS AT 7 TONIGHT.
THE MAQUOKETA POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS A NEW OFFICER, BRINGING THE DEPARTMENT TO FULL STRENGTH OF 12 OFFICERS. HE IS NICHOLAS SCHLOSSER, AGE 23, OF DUBUQUE. HE IS SINGLE.
CORY AND NICOLE RUSHFORD OF WYOMING, IOWA, ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN LAST TUESDAY AT OUR HOSPITAL.
MATERNAL GREAT GRANDPARENTS ARE HELEN KEENEY OF MAQUOKETA AND CAROL RIPPLE LOF MAQUOKETA, AND MICK AND VIRGINIA HUGHES OF DELMAR AND JAY AND DONNA KEENEY OF MAQUOKETA.
KARI ANDERSON AND JAMES PAWEKI OF DEWITT ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN LAST FRIDAY AT OUR HOSPITAL.
MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE RONALD AND MARAY KAY TRACY OF MAQUOKETA.
BETTY AND LARRY YOUNG OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN SEPTEMBER 6TH AT MERCY IN DUBUQUE.
PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE EDWIN AND VIRGINIA YOUNG OF MAQUOKETA.
DARRAL "GOODY" GOODENOW, AGE 76, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY. HE WORKED AT THE FORMER ROSENBERG AUTO SUPPLY IN MAQUOKETA FOR 45 YEARS. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, VIRGINIA, 1 SISTER, SHIRLEY BURNS OF MAQUOKETA AND 1 BROTHER FRANK OF MAQUOKETA.
DARWIN LEE WEIMERSKIRCH, INFANT SON OF RANDY AND JAMI WEIMERSKIRCH OF CLINTON WAS STILLBORN FRIDAY EVENING AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS IN IOWA CITY. GREAT GRANDMOTHER IS CLARA WEIMERSKIRCH OF MAQUOKETA.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY