CLOUDY AND COOL TODAY, HIGH 47. SNOW EXPECTED MONDAY.

MAQUOKETA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT CALLED TODAY TO JEZABELL'S BITS AND PIECES IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA (SANDWICH, SOUP, DESSERT AND ANTIQUE
PLACE) BECAUSE OF A REPORT OF SMOKE IN BUILDING. THE OWNER WAS DOING COOKING IN THE REAR, AND APPARENTLY LEFT A PAN UNATTENDED. NO FIRE, JUST SMOKE.

JACKSON COUNTY'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN OCTOBER REMAINED AT 5.7 PERCENT, SAME AS SEPTEMBER. A YEAR AGO,IT WAS AT 4.6. ALL OTHER COUNTIES AROUND WERE LOWER THAN JACKSON COUNTY.

MICK LAUGHLIN HIT NOT ONE, BUT TWO DEER LAST NIGHT NEAR THE MAQUOKETA RIVER BRIDGE ON HIGHWAY 61. DAMAGE TO HIS VEHICLE, $4,500. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AND TREATED FOR MINOR INJURIES.

DENISE AND JEFF SWANSON HAD A BOY THIS PAST MONDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE PETTE AND LINDA SWANSON OF RURAL MAQUOEKTA. MATERNAL GRANDMOHTER IS LILLIAN SCHMITZ OF MAQUOKETA.

A BOY WAS BORN YESTERDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL TO KIM DOTTERWICH OF MAQUOKETA AND BRYAN EDWARDS OF MAQUOKETA. MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE
JERRY AND COLLEEN DOTTERWICH OF RURAL MAQUOKETA.

SERVICES ARE PENDING AT THE CARSON AND SON FUNERAL HOME IN MAQUOKETA FOR RALPH HEINZEL, AGE 86, OF MAQUOKETA. HE DIED YESTERDAY AT CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME IN MAQUOKETA.

BIG GAME TOMORROW BETWEEN IOWA AND WISCOSIN...AT MADISON.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY