NICE TODAY...82.

DYNAMIC METAL FORMING (BUILDING STANDS WHERE OLD GOLF COURSE CLUBHOUSE STOOD)ON EAST MAPLE STREET, HAS BEEN SOLD. THE INDUSTRY WILL NOW BE KNOWN AS DYNAMIC TILE AND THE NEW OWNER IS DAN PAWLOWSKI OF CLINTON. HE SAID ALL 36 EMPLOYEES WILL BE RETAINED. GREG GADD CONTINUES AS PLANT MANAGER OF THE COMPANY THAT ASSEMBLES DIESEL AND HYDRAULIC LINES.

GENERAC POWER SYSTEMS (BUILDERS OF GENERATORS) JUST SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA LOCATED IN THEIR NEW HUGE BUILDING, IS HAVING THEIR BEST EVER MONTH. MANAGER MIKE DONLEY TOLD THIS TO ECONOMIC DIRECTOR FOR MAQUOKETA, LINDA STURTZ, AND SHE REPORTED THIS TO THE CITY COUNCIL LAST NIGHT.

MAQUOKETA'S HOMECOMING WILL BE ON FRIDAY, SEPT. 26TH. QUEEN CANDIDATES: JENNI LANSING, ALECIA HENEKE, SARAH BECK, ABBY FERGUSON, MANDY GULZINSKI, MISSY GERLACH, CRISTA COATES AND MISSY COLL.
KING CANDIDATES ARE: BRENT CARINDER, JAKE BOWMAN, TYLER KRUEGER, ADAM HEPKER, ANDY HAMILTON, ANDY YARAOLIM, DANE PAPE ANDERIC THORSON.

MAQUOKETA FIREMEN WERE CALLED OUT YESTERDAY MORNING TO THE GUS GLASER RESIDENCE AT 612 COUNTRY CLUB DFRIVE, WHERE GLASER WAS BURNING VINYL SIDING. FIREMEN PUT OUT THE FIRE. IT IS ELEGAL TO BURN CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS. THERE'S A STATE LAW AGAINST THAT. GLASER IS NOT THE ONLY ONE THAT HAS DONE THIS AND MARK BECK, THE FIRE CHEIF, SAID THEY ARE INVESTIGATING WHETHER CHARGES WILL BE FILED AGAINST THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN BURNING THE ITEMS THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO BE TAKEN TO THE LANDFILL. GLASER, FORMER CITY MANAGER, HAS TWO HOMES ON COUNTRY CLUB DRIVE. ONE HE LIVES IN AND THE OTHER HE IS BUILDING TO SELL.

MYRNA LARKEY WON $45 YESTERDAY (THE FIRST WINNER) IN THE KMAQ ANNIVERSARY BUMPER STICKER PROMOTION. THANKS TO MYRNA FOR DISPLAYING A KMAQ STICKER ON HER VEHICLE.

THEY ARE POURING SIDEWALKS AT THE NEW ADDITION TO THE HOSPITAL.

THE NEW GASSER TRUE VALUE STORE IS EXPECTED TO OPEN IN LATE NOVEMBER. NO DATE ANNOUNCED YET FOR THE DICK'S SUPERMARKET NEXT TO IT....BOTH AT THE WEST EDGE OF MAQUOKETA.

GARY GRUENWALD, A 1971 GRADUATE OF MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL, WAS IN TO SEE ME A COUPLE WEEKS AGO. HE VISITS HIS PARENTS IN MAQUOKETA ABOUT ONCE A YEAR.
HE LIVES IN VENICE, ITALY AND HAS FOR MANY YEARS. HIS SON, DAVID, AND ANOTHER MAN, AN ITALIAN, WERE
PRESENTED SILVER AND GOLD MEDALS FOR ACTS OF HEROISM. THE AWARDS WERE GIVEN BY ORDERS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC. BACK IN THE SUMMER OF 2001, DAVID AND THE OTHER MAN, ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON, CAME ACROSS AN ACCIDENT. TWO YOUNG MEN, COUSINS, FROM NAPLES, WERE TRAVELING IN AN OPEL CAR AND LOST CONTROL ON A CURVE, HIT THE PROTECTIVE WALL SEPARATING THE ROAD FROM THE SILE RIVER, AND ENDED UP SUBMERGED ABOUT 15 YARDS FROM SHORE. DAVID WAS RETURNING HOME AND SAW SEVERAL PEOPLE STANDING ON THE SHORE LOOKING OUT IN THE RIVER. SO HE STOPPED HIS CAR TO SEE WHAT HAPPENED. ALL HE SAW WAS THE REAR BUMPER OF THE SUBMERGED CAR. ONE OF THE COUSINS BROKE THE SURFACE OF THE WATER AND YELLED FOR HELP. DAVID AND THE OTHER MAN, JUMPED IN AND ASSISTED THE MAN TO SHORE. THE MAN THEN GOT THE MESSAGE TO THEM THAT ANOTHER PERSON WAS STILL IN THE CAR UNDER WATER AND THE TWO MEN DIVED IN AGAIN AND BACK TO THE CAR WHERE DAVID FOUND AND OPENED ONE OF THE BACK DOORS, ENTERED THE CAR, UNLATCHED THE SEAT BELT AND YANKED HIM FROM THE CAR AND GOT HIM TO SHORE AND APPLIED CPR TECHNIQUES. BOTH COUSINS WERE IN CRITICAL CONDITION AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL TWO YEARS LATER THAT BOTH WERE ABLE TO RETURN TO THEIR JOBS. DAVID WAS A COOK AT THE TIME AND NOW IS SELLING PRODUCTS IN THE WINE INDUSTRY IN ITALY AND CALIFORNIA. HIS FATHER, GARY, IS THE SONE OF LYLE AND LOIS GRUENWALD OF MAQUOKETA. HIS WIFE ADRIANA IF A NATIVE OF ITALY. IF YOU KNOW GARY AND WOULD LIKE HIS EMAIL ADRESS, EMAIL ME AT KMAQ@KMAQ.COM.

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY.

DENNIS VOY