BEAUTIFUL MONDAY....69 DEGREES

FOUR PEOPLE RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES IN A TWO-VEHICLE ACCIDENT SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT HIGHWAY 61 AND THE CAVES ROAD. IT IS THE ACCIDENT I REFERRED TO IN YESTERDAY'S REPORT. NO ONE FROM MAQUOKETA IN THE ACCIDENT.

A MAQUOKETA MAN, JACK BRADFORD KOONTZ, AGE 45, WAS SENTENCED TO 5 YEARS IN PRISON ON EACH OF TWO CHARGES OF LASCIVIOUS ACTS WITH A 6 YEAR OLD IN 1999 AND ANOTHER 6 YEAR OLD BETWEEN 1994-1998.

ON THE POLICE BLOTTER...A BURGLARY AND A VANDALISM REPORT OVER THE WEEKEND. CARQUEST, ON EAST PLATT, REPORTED SOMONE ENTERED THROUGH A WINDOW AND A SMALL AMOUNT OF CASH WAS TAKEN AND GREG KROGMAN, 513 W. PLATT, SAID SOMEONE PULLED OUT SOME LIGHTS AND DESTROYED SOME HALOWEEN DECORATIONS.

THE TUG-OF-WAS CONTEST YESTERDAY AT "PIONEER DAY" AT THE FAIRGROUNDS WAS WON BY SCHUELLEER AND SONS CONSTRUCTION IN MAQUOKETA. TOP PRIZE WAS $100. THERE WERE 3 OTHER TEAMS.

BIG COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT WITH A LONG AGENDA.

JOHN ROTH, AGE 60, OF ST. JOSEPHY, MISSOURI, AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY AFTER A BRIEF ILLNESS. HE WAS A LICENSED MASAGE THERAPIST AT THE YMCA FOR 39 YEARS. HE IS SURVIVED BY A BROTHER, RICHARD ROTH OF MAQUOKETA.

ESTHER TIMMERMAN, AGE 92, OF DUBUQUE, DIED LAST WEEK. SHE AND HER HUSBAND RAN "THE CIRCLE" IN EAST DUBUQUE IN THE LATE 50'S AND THEN BUILDT THE POPULAR "TIMMERMAN'S SUPPER CLUB" IN EAST DUBUQUE IN 1962 AND RAN IT FOR MANY YEARS. AFTER HER HUSBAND DIED, SHE ADDED A MOTEL NEXT TO THE RESTAURANT.
THE RESTAURANT IS STILL A NICE PLACE TO DINE, OVERLOOKING DUBUQUE AND THE MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI.

TAKE CARE.

DENNIS VOY