SPORTS FLASH...
SATURDAY NIGHT, TONIGHT, AT ELDRIDGE, THE MAQUOKETA CARDINAL BOYS PLAYED #1 RATED 4-A TEAM NORTH SCOTT AND UPSET THE LANCERS...WINNING 63 TO 57. THAT'S RIGHT, MAQUOKETA 63, NORTH SCOTT 57. ADAM HEPKER LED MAQUOKETA WITH 25 POINTS AS THE CARDINALS IMPROVED THEIR RECORD TO 11 AND 3. LAST NIGHT'S GAME WAS A NON-CONFERENCE GAME. THE MAQUOKETA SOPHOMORES LOST IN OVERTIME, 71 TO 64.
Straight from the Desk of Dennis Voy @ KMAQ Radio Station Downtown Maquoketa Iowa
Saturday, January 31, 2004
THIS IS SEGMENT 4. DON'T FORGET TO GO BACK TO THE FIRST SEGMENT AND READ FROM THERE ON FIRST.
THE MAQUOKETA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT CLEANED UP A GAS SPILL FOLLOWIGN A 2 VEHICLE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AT PLATT AND PROSPECT. ONLY MINOR INJURIES AND NO FIRE FROM THE GAS SPILL. INVOLVED IN ACCIDENT, MICHAEL DONATCH, AGE 15, AND SANDRA DELL, AGE 48, BOTH OF MAQUOKETA.
THE JACKSON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS APPROVED GETTTING A $400,000 LOAN FROM THE MAQUOKETA STATE BANK AT 3.24 PERCENT INTEREST, TO PLAY OFF THE DEBT TO THE STATE OF IOWA FOR SERVICES PROVIDED TO JACKSON COUNTY. TWO YEARS AGO, SUPERVISORS DISCOVERED BILLS HAD NOT BEEN PAID BY A PREVIOUS DIRECTOR OF THE COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT. THE MONEY WILL BE PAID BACK IN $100,000 INCREMENTS OVER 4 YEARS. THE MONEY WILL COME OUT OF THE ANNUAL MENTAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT BUDGET. THEY TOOK BIDS FOR THE LOAN AND MAQUOKETA STATE BANK
OFFERED THE LOWEST INTEREST.
DICK'S SUPER MARKET, AND CONVENIENCE STORE NEXT DOOR, OPENED WEDNESDAY AND THE BIG PARKING LOT HAS BEEN FILLED DAY AND NIGHT SINCE THEN. IT IS IN THE NEW WESTGATE SHOPPING AREA OFF WEST PLATT STREET, WEST OF MCDONALDS AND THE SUPER 8 MOTEL, AND RIGHT NEXT TO THE NEW GASSER'S TRUE VALUE WHICH OPENED BEFORE CHRISTMAS.
THE JACKSON COUNTY PUBLIC HOSPITAL BOARD MET THIS WEEK AND VOTED TO GO AHEAD WITH THE NEXT PHASE OF THE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT, WHICH WILL NOW INCLUDE A NEW ENTRANCE TO THE HOSPITAL. THERE WILL BE 3 MORE PHASES FOR THIS SEGMENT, WITH A TOTAL COST OF $5.8 MILLION. THE FIRST SEGMENT , STILL NOT DONE, IS COSTING
AROUND $7 MILLION PLUS AND IS BEING PAID FOR BY MONEY ON HAND. THE ADDITIONAL
PHASES WILL BE DONE WITH BORROWED MONEY, TO BE PAID OFF BY HOSPITAL PROFITS.
THE PLANS ALSO INCLUDE A NEW BUILDING AREA JUST FOR OFFICES FOR ALL THE DOCTORS IN MAQUOKETA. BUT, THAT IS STILL UNDER STUDY AND LOCAL DOCTORS WOULD HAVE TO AGREE TO A PLAN WHEREBY THEY LEAVE AND SELL THEIR CURRENT BUILDINGS AND LOCATE IN A NEW ONE ADJACENT TO THE HOSPITAL.
THE MAQUOKETA FIREMEN HELD THEIR ANNUAL DINNER AND MEETING THIS LAST WEEK AND GAVE JERRY WIESE THE LEO CLASEN AWARD DURING THE EVENT. FIREFIGHTERS VOTE ON THE AWARD NAMED IN HONOR OF THE LATE LEO CLASEN, A VETERANN FIREMAN.
FIREFIGHTER JEFF MORITZ RECEIVED A PLAQUE FOR 10 YEARS OF SERVICE. FIRE CHIEF MARK BECK RECEIVED A CLOCK FOR 20 YEARS LOF SERVICE THREE NEW MEMBERS OF THE DEPARTMENT ARE ROBERT EDWARDS, BRIAN BOWLING AND JEFF BAKER.
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT ANSWERED 96 FIRE CALLS LAST YEAR AND 35 RESCUE CALLS.
MEMBERS OF THE MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL FINANCE COMMITTEE MET THIS WEEK AND WILL BE RECOMMEND TO THE ENTIRE COUNCIL, A 40-CENT TAX HIKE FOR NEXT YEAR.
THE MAQUOKETA CHAMBER HELD ITS ANNUAL MEETING THIS WEEK. CHAMBER DIRECTOR LINDA STURTZ PRESENTED HER ANNUAL AWARD TO LIFELONG MAQUOKETA RESIDENT DAVE HAYES. HAYES HAS BEEN THE ASSISTANT DEAN FOR CLINTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN MAQUOKETA SINCE 1980. AND THE PRESIDENT'S AWARD WENT GIVEN BY OUTGOING PRESIDENT BRUCE ENGEL TO JOHN CRESSEY, WHO WAS A SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER FOR 12 YEARS AND HAS BEEN ON THE CITY COUNCIL SINCE 1998. HE HAS BEEN A LONGTIME BUILDING CONTRACTOR IN MAQUOKETA. THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE CHAMBER IS
KELLY HESSONG, WHO RECENTLY CLOSED HER WOMEN'S CLOTHING STORE AND IN THE SAME BUILDING, HAS OPENED A NEW BUSINESS, CALLED "REFLEXTIONS". SHE IS HAVING HER GRAND OPENING NEXT FRIDAY.
ITS OFFICIAL, MAQUOKETA WILL BE GETTING A NEW "TACO JOHN'S RESTAURANT" THIS JUNE, ACROSS FROM WALMART, JUST WEST OF CRESSEY CONSTRUCTION. IT WILL BE OWNED BY TWO MAQUOKETA COUPLES, SANDRA AND BRUCE MYATT AND ANNE AND MIKE HAWKS.
THEY ARE HAPPY TO BE BUILDING THE FIRST OF A NEW DESIGN FOR THE COMPANY WHICH HAS ITS NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS IN CHEYENNE, WYOMING. IT WILL EMPLOY 20 FULL ADN PARTTIME PEOPLE.
MAQUOKETA TEACHERS ARE ASKING FOR A 5.3 PERCENT OVERALL BENEFITS PACKAGE INCREASE FOR NEXT YEAR. THE DISTRICT BOARD HAS COUNTERED WITH A 2.2 PERCENT INCREASE. THE FIRST NEGOTIATION SESSION WILL BE NEXT NEXT THURSDAY EVENING.
MAQUOKETA POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR THIEVES WHO STOLE DONATIONS FROM 4-H CANISTERS THIS WEEK, IN MAQUOEKTA. THEY SLICED OPEN THE CONTAINERS AT CAN CITY CONVENIENCE STORE AND ALSO AT THE SINCLAIR STATION. 4-H MEMBERS PUT THIS OUT SOLICITYING DONATIONS FOR THEIR ANNUAL VALENTINE EVENT.
MORE COURT NEWS: CHAD MILLER, AGE 26 OF MAQUOKETA WAS FINED $50 ON CHARGES OF OPERATING AN ALL TERRAIN VEHICLE WITHOUT A VALID LICENSE.
AND, STEVE STUTTING OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH OW, 2ND OFFENSE AND FOR DRIVING WHILE LICENSE WAS REVOKED AND FOR HAVING NO INSURANCE. HE
WAS ARRESTED THIS WEEK AS HE WAS TRYING TO START HIS STALLED CAR AT CAN CITY CONVENIENCE STORE.
THE KMAQ FARM AND HOME SHOW IS NEXT THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. NEARLY 50 EXHIBITORS ARE SIGNED-UP FOR THIS BIG EVENT AT THE FAIRGROUNDS IN MAQUOKETA.
THAT'S IT FOR ANOTHER WEEK...
HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
THE MAQUOKETA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT CLEANED UP A GAS SPILL FOLLOWIGN A 2 VEHICLE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AT PLATT AND PROSPECT. ONLY MINOR INJURIES AND NO FIRE FROM THE GAS SPILL. INVOLVED IN ACCIDENT, MICHAEL DONATCH, AGE 15, AND SANDRA DELL, AGE 48, BOTH OF MAQUOKETA.
THE JACKSON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS APPROVED GETTTING A $400,000 LOAN FROM THE MAQUOKETA STATE BANK AT 3.24 PERCENT INTEREST, TO PLAY OFF THE DEBT TO THE STATE OF IOWA FOR SERVICES PROVIDED TO JACKSON COUNTY. TWO YEARS AGO, SUPERVISORS DISCOVERED BILLS HAD NOT BEEN PAID BY A PREVIOUS DIRECTOR OF THE COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT. THE MONEY WILL BE PAID BACK IN $100,000 INCREMENTS OVER 4 YEARS. THE MONEY WILL COME OUT OF THE ANNUAL MENTAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT BUDGET. THEY TOOK BIDS FOR THE LOAN AND MAQUOKETA STATE BANK
OFFERED THE LOWEST INTEREST.
DICK'S SUPER MARKET, AND CONVENIENCE STORE NEXT DOOR, OPENED WEDNESDAY AND THE BIG PARKING LOT HAS BEEN FILLED DAY AND NIGHT SINCE THEN. IT IS IN THE NEW WESTGATE SHOPPING AREA OFF WEST PLATT STREET, WEST OF MCDONALDS AND THE SUPER 8 MOTEL, AND RIGHT NEXT TO THE NEW GASSER'S TRUE VALUE WHICH OPENED BEFORE CHRISTMAS.
THE JACKSON COUNTY PUBLIC HOSPITAL BOARD MET THIS WEEK AND VOTED TO GO AHEAD WITH THE NEXT PHASE OF THE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT, WHICH WILL NOW INCLUDE A NEW ENTRANCE TO THE HOSPITAL. THERE WILL BE 3 MORE PHASES FOR THIS SEGMENT, WITH A TOTAL COST OF $5.8 MILLION. THE FIRST SEGMENT , STILL NOT DONE, IS COSTING
AROUND $7 MILLION PLUS AND IS BEING PAID FOR BY MONEY ON HAND. THE ADDITIONAL
PHASES WILL BE DONE WITH BORROWED MONEY, TO BE PAID OFF BY HOSPITAL PROFITS.
THE PLANS ALSO INCLUDE A NEW BUILDING AREA JUST FOR OFFICES FOR ALL THE DOCTORS IN MAQUOKETA. BUT, THAT IS STILL UNDER STUDY AND LOCAL DOCTORS WOULD HAVE TO AGREE TO A PLAN WHEREBY THEY LEAVE AND SELL THEIR CURRENT BUILDINGS AND LOCATE IN A NEW ONE ADJACENT TO THE HOSPITAL.
THE MAQUOKETA FIREMEN HELD THEIR ANNUAL DINNER AND MEETING THIS LAST WEEK AND GAVE JERRY WIESE THE LEO CLASEN AWARD DURING THE EVENT. FIREFIGHTERS VOTE ON THE AWARD NAMED IN HONOR OF THE LATE LEO CLASEN, A VETERANN FIREMAN.
FIREFIGHTER JEFF MORITZ RECEIVED A PLAQUE FOR 10 YEARS OF SERVICE. FIRE CHIEF MARK BECK RECEIVED A CLOCK FOR 20 YEARS LOF SERVICE THREE NEW MEMBERS OF THE DEPARTMENT ARE ROBERT EDWARDS, BRIAN BOWLING AND JEFF BAKER.
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT ANSWERED 96 FIRE CALLS LAST YEAR AND 35 RESCUE CALLS.
MEMBERS OF THE MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL FINANCE COMMITTEE MET THIS WEEK AND WILL BE RECOMMEND TO THE ENTIRE COUNCIL, A 40-CENT TAX HIKE FOR NEXT YEAR.
THE MAQUOKETA CHAMBER HELD ITS ANNUAL MEETING THIS WEEK. CHAMBER DIRECTOR LINDA STURTZ PRESENTED HER ANNUAL AWARD TO LIFELONG MAQUOKETA RESIDENT DAVE HAYES. HAYES HAS BEEN THE ASSISTANT DEAN FOR CLINTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN MAQUOKETA SINCE 1980. AND THE PRESIDENT'S AWARD WENT GIVEN BY OUTGOING PRESIDENT BRUCE ENGEL TO JOHN CRESSEY, WHO WAS A SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER FOR 12 YEARS AND HAS BEEN ON THE CITY COUNCIL SINCE 1998. HE HAS BEEN A LONGTIME BUILDING CONTRACTOR IN MAQUOKETA. THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE CHAMBER IS
KELLY HESSONG, WHO RECENTLY CLOSED HER WOMEN'S CLOTHING STORE AND IN THE SAME BUILDING, HAS OPENED A NEW BUSINESS, CALLED "REFLEXTIONS". SHE IS HAVING HER GRAND OPENING NEXT FRIDAY.
ITS OFFICIAL, MAQUOKETA WILL BE GETTING A NEW "TACO JOHN'S RESTAURANT" THIS JUNE, ACROSS FROM WALMART, JUST WEST OF CRESSEY CONSTRUCTION. IT WILL BE OWNED BY TWO MAQUOKETA COUPLES, SANDRA AND BRUCE MYATT AND ANNE AND MIKE HAWKS.
THEY ARE HAPPY TO BE BUILDING THE FIRST OF A NEW DESIGN FOR THE COMPANY WHICH HAS ITS NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS IN CHEYENNE, WYOMING. IT WILL EMPLOY 20 FULL ADN PARTTIME PEOPLE.
MAQUOKETA TEACHERS ARE ASKING FOR A 5.3 PERCENT OVERALL BENEFITS PACKAGE INCREASE FOR NEXT YEAR. THE DISTRICT BOARD HAS COUNTERED WITH A 2.2 PERCENT INCREASE. THE FIRST NEGOTIATION SESSION WILL BE NEXT NEXT THURSDAY EVENING.
MAQUOKETA POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR THIEVES WHO STOLE DONATIONS FROM 4-H CANISTERS THIS WEEK, IN MAQUOEKTA. THEY SLICED OPEN THE CONTAINERS AT CAN CITY CONVENIENCE STORE AND ALSO AT THE SINCLAIR STATION. 4-H MEMBERS PUT THIS OUT SOLICITYING DONATIONS FOR THEIR ANNUAL VALENTINE EVENT.
MORE COURT NEWS: CHAD MILLER, AGE 26 OF MAQUOKETA WAS FINED $50 ON CHARGES OF OPERATING AN ALL TERRAIN VEHICLE WITHOUT A VALID LICENSE.
AND, STEVE STUTTING OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH OW, 2ND OFFENSE AND FOR DRIVING WHILE LICENSE WAS REVOKED AND FOR HAVING NO INSURANCE. HE
WAS ARRESTED THIS WEEK AS HE WAS TRYING TO START HIS STALLED CAR AT CAN CITY CONVENIENCE STORE.
THE KMAQ FARM AND HOME SHOW IS NEXT THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. NEARLY 50 EXHIBITORS ARE SIGNED-UP FOR THIS BIG EVENT AT THE FAIRGROUNDS IN MAQUOKETA.
THAT'S IT FOR ANOTHER WEEK...
HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
THIS IS SEGMENT 3 FOR TODAY, SATURDAY. DON'T FORGET TO GO BACK TO SEGMENT
ONE AND START READING FROM THERE FIRST.
MARGARET KAY DAVISON, AGE 65, OF MAQUOKETA DIED WEDNESDAY. SHE WORKED AS A NURSES AID AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL FOR 25 YEARS. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, KENNETH, JR....3 CHILDREN, DARYL DAVISON, KATHLEEN KAY SCOTT, AND DARBY DAVISON ALL OF MAQUOKETA. ALSO A BROTHER, GEORGE BURMAHL OF MAQUOKETA AND A SISTER, ARLA EDWARDS OF MAQUOKETA.
JAMES F. MCNICHOLS AGE 52 OF MAQUOKETA DIED WEDNESDAY. COMPLETE OBITUARY
NOT IN YET.
JIM CLARK, AGE 65, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED THURSDAY, AFTER A SUDDEN ILLNESS, IN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AT IOWA CITY. HE OWNED AND OPERATED CLARK SALES AND SERVICE IN MAQUOKETA FOR 42 AND A HALF YEARS. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, MADONNA, 4 CHILDREN....DAVID HEISTER OF WACO, TEXAS, STEVE HEISTER OF MAQUOKETA, DOUGLAS CLARK OF MAQUOKETA AND MARTIN CLARK OF MAQUOKETA.
ALSO 2 BROTHERS,INCLUDING WAYNE CLARK OF MAQUOKETA AND 3 SISTERS, INCLUDING ANNA ADAM OF MAQUOKETA.
HOWARD BECKER, 89, OF MONMOUTH, DIED AT THE CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME.
HE OPERATED BECKER PLUMBING AND HEATING IN MONMOUTH OF MANY YEARS.
JAMES DANIEL "JIM" SKIPPER, AGE 45, OF SILVER SPRINGS, FLORIDA, JANUARY 8TH.
HE WAS A PLUMBER. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, KAREN, 1 DAUGHTER, AND HIS PARENTS, CAROL AND KEN DAVIS OF MAQUOKETA.
CARL JORGENSEN, AGE 89, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED JANUARY 15TH. SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SISTER, HELEN KNIGHT, OF MAQUOKETA AND A BROTHER, MARVIN JORGENSEN OF MAQUOKETA.
IN COURT NEWS:
RON KRUMVIEDE, AGE 40, WAS SENTENCED TO 3 DAYS IN JAIL, SUSPENDED, ON CHARGES OF ASSAULT. HE WAS IN A FIGHT BACK ON AUGUST 7TH.
TROY BEHNKE, AGE 26, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS ARRESTED LAST FRIDAY NIGHT AND CHARGED WITH OWI.
TERRY KREMER, AGE 21, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH OPERATING A VEHICLE WITHOUT THE OWNERS CONSENT.
ERIC WAGNER, AGE 21, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH SELLING TOBACCO TO A PERSON UNDER THE LEGAL AGE. THE INCIDENT HAPPENED AT THE SINCLAIR STATION ON EAST PLATT. HE WAS ARRESTED AS A RESULT OF A ROUTINE CHECK OF ESTABLISHMENTS WHO SELL TOBACCO PRODUCTS.
THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD RECEIVED SOME GOOD NEWS THIS WEEK.
THE MAQUOKETA ATHLETIC BOOSTERS CLUB IS OFFERING $150,000 OVER 3 YEARS
TO GO TOWARDS A NEW TRACK AND 6 NEW TENNIS COURTS. THE TOTAL COST WILL BE ABOUT THREE TIMES THAT, SO THE MAQUOKETA BOARD NEEDS TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET MONEY FOR THEIR MATCH, BUT THEY DO HAVE SOME IDEA AS TO HOW IT COULD BE DONE. THE HIGH SCHOOL IS IN BAD NEED OF THE TRACK AND COURTS.
I'LL KEEP YOU POSTED. THE CLUB GETS MONEY FROM VARIOUS PROJECTS, THE TOP BEING AN ANNUAL SPORTS PUBLICATION IN THE FALL, WITH LOTS OF ADS BY LOCAL BUSINESS.
I WILL POST THIS AGAIN...MORE COMING SOON.
ONE AND START READING FROM THERE FIRST.
MARGARET KAY DAVISON, AGE 65, OF MAQUOKETA DIED WEDNESDAY. SHE WORKED AS A NURSES AID AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL FOR 25 YEARS. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, KENNETH, JR....3 CHILDREN, DARYL DAVISON, KATHLEEN KAY SCOTT, AND DARBY DAVISON ALL OF MAQUOKETA. ALSO A BROTHER, GEORGE BURMAHL OF MAQUOKETA AND A SISTER, ARLA EDWARDS OF MAQUOKETA.
JAMES F. MCNICHOLS AGE 52 OF MAQUOKETA DIED WEDNESDAY. COMPLETE OBITUARY
NOT IN YET.
JIM CLARK, AGE 65, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED THURSDAY, AFTER A SUDDEN ILLNESS, IN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AT IOWA CITY. HE OWNED AND OPERATED CLARK SALES AND SERVICE IN MAQUOKETA FOR 42 AND A HALF YEARS. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, MADONNA, 4 CHILDREN....DAVID HEISTER OF WACO, TEXAS, STEVE HEISTER OF MAQUOKETA, DOUGLAS CLARK OF MAQUOKETA AND MARTIN CLARK OF MAQUOKETA.
ALSO 2 BROTHERS,INCLUDING WAYNE CLARK OF MAQUOKETA AND 3 SISTERS, INCLUDING ANNA ADAM OF MAQUOKETA.
HOWARD BECKER, 89, OF MONMOUTH, DIED AT THE CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME.
HE OPERATED BECKER PLUMBING AND HEATING IN MONMOUTH OF MANY YEARS.
JAMES DANIEL "JIM" SKIPPER, AGE 45, OF SILVER SPRINGS, FLORIDA, JANUARY 8TH.
HE WAS A PLUMBER. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, KAREN, 1 DAUGHTER, AND HIS PARENTS, CAROL AND KEN DAVIS OF MAQUOKETA.
CARL JORGENSEN, AGE 89, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED JANUARY 15TH. SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SISTER, HELEN KNIGHT, OF MAQUOKETA AND A BROTHER, MARVIN JORGENSEN OF MAQUOKETA.
IN COURT NEWS:
RON KRUMVIEDE, AGE 40, WAS SENTENCED TO 3 DAYS IN JAIL, SUSPENDED, ON CHARGES OF ASSAULT. HE WAS IN A FIGHT BACK ON AUGUST 7TH.
TROY BEHNKE, AGE 26, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS ARRESTED LAST FRIDAY NIGHT AND CHARGED WITH OWI.
TERRY KREMER, AGE 21, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH OPERATING A VEHICLE WITHOUT THE OWNERS CONSENT.
ERIC WAGNER, AGE 21, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH SELLING TOBACCO TO A PERSON UNDER THE LEGAL AGE. THE INCIDENT HAPPENED AT THE SINCLAIR STATION ON EAST PLATT. HE WAS ARRESTED AS A RESULT OF A ROUTINE CHECK OF ESTABLISHMENTS WHO SELL TOBACCO PRODUCTS.
THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD RECEIVED SOME GOOD NEWS THIS WEEK.
THE MAQUOKETA ATHLETIC BOOSTERS CLUB IS OFFERING $150,000 OVER 3 YEARS
TO GO TOWARDS A NEW TRACK AND 6 NEW TENNIS COURTS. THE TOTAL COST WILL BE ABOUT THREE TIMES THAT, SO THE MAQUOKETA BOARD NEEDS TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET MONEY FOR THEIR MATCH, BUT THEY DO HAVE SOME IDEA AS TO HOW IT COULD BE DONE. THE HIGH SCHOOL IS IN BAD NEED OF THE TRACK AND COURTS.
I'LL KEEP YOU POSTED. THE CLUB GETS MONEY FROM VARIOUS PROJECTS, THE TOP BEING AN ANNUAL SPORTS PUBLICATION IN THE FALL, WITH LOTS OF ADS BY LOCAL BUSINESS.
I WILL POST THIS AGAIN...MORE COMING SOON.
BACK WITH ANOTHER SATURDAY SEGMENT...
WELL, ITS OFFICIALS, RAGRAI ...THE GREAT BIKE TREK ACROSS IOWA, SPONSORED FOR MANY, MANY YEARS BY THE DES MOINES REGISTER, WILL GO THROUGH MAQUOKETA.
IT WILL START ON JULY 25TH ON THE MISSOURI RIVER AND ALL WEEK LONG, TRAVEL EAST. FRIDAY NIGHT, THE BIKERS AND SUPPORT STAFF, WILL STAY OVERNIGHT IN MAQUOKETA FRIDAY, JULY 30TH, AND THEN GO ON THE FINAL LEG TO CLINTON SATURDAY. THERE WILL BE OVER 10,000 BIKERS AND MAYBE THAT MANY MORE IN SUPPORT. IT WILL BE A GOOD ECONOMIC EVENT FOR MAQUOKETA. I KNOW FOR SURE THAT BOTH THE COMFORT INN, NEW MOTEL SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA AND THE DECKER HOTEL DOWNTOWN, BOTH RENTED ALL THEIR ROOMS YESTERDAY FOR FRIDAY NIGHT, JULY 30TH. I IMAGINE THE SUPER 8 ALSO IF BOOKED SOLID. THAT'S THE SAME WEEK AS THE JACKSON COUNTY FAIR. THE LAST TIME THE BIKERS STAYED OVERNIGHT HERE WAS 10 YEARS AGO. AND I KNOW THEY ALSO STAYED OVERNIGHT ALSO IN THE 70'S.
SO, THIS WILL BE THE 3RD TIME. THE CHAMBER WILL MEET SOON TO NAME CO-CHAIRMEN FOR THE EVENT AND ESTABLISH OTHER COMMITTEES. IT IS GOING TO BE A BUSY, EXCITING SUMMER IN MAQUOKETA.
I WILL ENTER THIS AGAIN....MORE SOON.
WELL, ITS OFFICIALS, RAGRAI ...THE GREAT BIKE TREK ACROSS IOWA, SPONSORED FOR MANY, MANY YEARS BY THE DES MOINES REGISTER, WILL GO THROUGH MAQUOKETA.
IT WILL START ON JULY 25TH ON THE MISSOURI RIVER AND ALL WEEK LONG, TRAVEL EAST. FRIDAY NIGHT, THE BIKERS AND SUPPORT STAFF, WILL STAY OVERNIGHT IN MAQUOKETA FRIDAY, JULY 30TH, AND THEN GO ON THE FINAL LEG TO CLINTON SATURDAY. THERE WILL BE OVER 10,000 BIKERS AND MAYBE THAT MANY MORE IN SUPPORT. IT WILL BE A GOOD ECONOMIC EVENT FOR MAQUOKETA. I KNOW FOR SURE THAT BOTH THE COMFORT INN, NEW MOTEL SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA AND THE DECKER HOTEL DOWNTOWN, BOTH RENTED ALL THEIR ROOMS YESTERDAY FOR FRIDAY NIGHT, JULY 30TH. I IMAGINE THE SUPER 8 ALSO IF BOOKED SOLID. THAT'S THE SAME WEEK AS THE JACKSON COUNTY FAIR. THE LAST TIME THE BIKERS STAYED OVERNIGHT HERE WAS 10 YEARS AGO. AND I KNOW THEY ALSO STAYED OVERNIGHT ALSO IN THE 70'S.
SO, THIS WILL BE THE 3RD TIME. THE CHAMBER WILL MEET SOON TO NAME CO-CHAIRMEN FOR THE EVENT AND ESTABLISH OTHER COMMITTEES. IT IS GOING TO BE A BUSY, EXCITING SUMMER IN MAQUOKETA.
I WILL ENTER THIS AGAIN....MORE SOON.
9 BELOW YESTERDAY MORNING....4 ABOVE YESTERDAY FOR A HIGH....8 BELOW THIS MORNING AND A LITTLE WARMER WEATHER COMING OVER THE WEEKEND. WE MIGHT SEE HIGHS IN THE 20'S TOMORROW AND MONDAY. UP TO 10 INCHES OF SNOW POSSIBLE BY TUESDAY MORNING, MAINLY ON MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT. THEN BACK TO A HIGH OF 8 ON TUESDAY. IT HAS BEEN.... AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE ....WINTER AT ITS FINEST HERE IN EASTERN IOWA. SORRY SOME OF YOU DOWN SOUTH HAVE TO MISS IT.
THIS WILL BE A LONGER REPORT THAN USUAL...SO I WILL BREAK IT INTO MORE THAN ONE ENTRY. I HATE TO DO A SEGMENT AND THEN LOOSE IT BY ACCIDENT....GENERALLY CAUSED BECAUSE I TRY TO GO TOO FAST.
SPORTS FIRST: TUESDAY NIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA BOYS WON AGAIN...AND LAST NIGHT HERE THEY BEAT SOUTH TAMA, 55 TO 46. ADAM HEPKER HAS 18 POINTS. THE CARDINAL BOYS ARE NOW 10 AND 3 OVERALL AND 10 AND 1 IN THE CONFERENCE. THEY PLAY A NON-CONFERENCE GAME AGAINST NORTH SCOTT AT ELDRIDGE TONIGHT. NORTH SCOTT IS #1 IN CLASS 4-A.
THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS WON TWO TEAM EVENTS THURSDAY NIGHT AT GOOSE LAKE, DEFEATING THERE, BOTH NORTHEAST AND NORTH CEDAR...BOTH TEAMS SCORES WERE CLOSE THOUGH. THE WRESTLERS ARE AT BENTON COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL AT VAN HORNE TODAY FOR THE WAMAC INDIVIDUAL TOURNAMENT. FINALS AT 4:30 THIS AFTERNOON.
THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS AREN'T DOING AS WELL AS EARLIER IN SEASON. AGAIN LAST NIGHT, THEY LOST AT TAMA, TO SOUTH TAMA, 82 TO 51. TIFFANY HELMBRECHT HAD 12 POINTS FOR THE CARDS AND THEY NOW ARE 9 AND 3 IN THE WAMAC AND 10 AND 7 OVERALL. THE SOPHOMORE GIRLS LOST THEIR FIRST CONFERENCE GAME LAST NIGHT TO SOUTH TAMA. THE GIRLS PLAY NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT AT MARION.
I WILL POST THIS NOW AND MORE COMING SOON.
THIS WILL BE A LONGER REPORT THAN USUAL...SO I WILL BREAK IT INTO MORE THAN ONE ENTRY. I HATE TO DO A SEGMENT AND THEN LOOSE IT BY ACCIDENT....GENERALLY CAUSED BECAUSE I TRY TO GO TOO FAST.
SPORTS FIRST: TUESDAY NIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA BOYS WON AGAIN...AND LAST NIGHT HERE THEY BEAT SOUTH TAMA, 55 TO 46. ADAM HEPKER HAS 18 POINTS. THE CARDINAL BOYS ARE NOW 10 AND 3 OVERALL AND 10 AND 1 IN THE CONFERENCE. THEY PLAY A NON-CONFERENCE GAME AGAINST NORTH SCOTT AT ELDRIDGE TONIGHT. NORTH SCOTT IS #1 IN CLASS 4-A.
THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS WON TWO TEAM EVENTS THURSDAY NIGHT AT GOOSE LAKE, DEFEATING THERE, BOTH NORTHEAST AND NORTH CEDAR...BOTH TEAMS SCORES WERE CLOSE THOUGH. THE WRESTLERS ARE AT BENTON COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL AT VAN HORNE TODAY FOR THE WAMAC INDIVIDUAL TOURNAMENT. FINALS AT 4:30 THIS AFTERNOON.
THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS AREN'T DOING AS WELL AS EARLIER IN SEASON. AGAIN LAST NIGHT, THEY LOST AT TAMA, TO SOUTH TAMA, 82 TO 51. TIFFANY HELMBRECHT HAD 12 POINTS FOR THE CARDS AND THEY NOW ARE 9 AND 3 IN THE WAMAC AND 10 AND 7 OVERALL. THE SOPHOMORE GIRLS LOST THEIR FIRST CONFERENCE GAME LAST NIGHT TO SOUTH TAMA. THE GIRLS PLAY NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT AT MARION.
I WILL POST THIS NOW AND MORE COMING SOON.
Thursday, January 29, 2004
Monday, January 26, 2004
LIGHT SNOW FELL ON AND OFF TODAY, WITH A HIGH OF 28. WE HAVE HAD AROUND 1 TO 2 INCHES, AND ANOTHER 1
OR 2 EXPECTED TONIGHT AND ENDING SOMETIME TOMORROW MORNING EARLY.
IN LOCAL SPORTS, FRIDAY NIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA BOYS DEFEATED VINTON, AT VINTON. THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS
LOST TO VINTON THERE. AND ON SATURDAY NIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS LOST A NON-CONFERENCE GAME AT
DUBUQUE.
THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS IN A 20-TEAM TOURNAMENT AT CLINTON SATURDAY, FINISHED IN 3RD PLACE.
A PRIVATE OPEN HOUSE AT DICK'S SUPER MARKET IN MAQUOKETA YESTERDAY AFTERNOON WAS WELL ATTENDED. I WAS THERE AND CAN SAY IT IS A BEAUTIFUL STORE. IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC AT 10 A.M. WEDNESDAY, FOLLOWING A RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY. THE DICK'S CONVENIENCE STORE AND CAR WASH IS ALSO COMPLETED AND OPENS WEDNESDAY.
A VERY GOOD TURNOUT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON FOR THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AT THE MAQUOKETA PUBLIC LIBRARY. THERE WAS A 90-MINUTE PROGRAM, WITH COMMENTS BY ASHER SCHROEDER, BONNIE MITCHELL, REGINA
SAGERS, TOM BREUCH, TO NAME A FEW. TOURS WERE GIVEN...AND THERE WAS MUSIC, REFRESHMENTS AND A SMALL GIFT FOR EVERYONE.
THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD MEETS TONIGHT.
DARLENE M. NEAL STENDER, AGE 76, OF CHICAGO AND FORMERLY OF MONMOUTH, DIED LAST THURSDAY AT A CHICAGO NURSING HOME. SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SON, RICH NEAL, OF MAQUOKETA.
THE ROTARY CITIZEN OF THE WEEK IS DEAN SCHAUF, PRESIDENT OF THE MAQUOKETA ATHLETIC BOOSTERS CLUB. A PICTURE OF HIM AND STORY IS ON THE ROTARY WEB SITE AT www.maquoketa-rotary.org.
THERE WILL BE NO DAILY REPORT TOMORROW OR WEDNESDAY. HOPE TO HAVE MY NEXT REPORT THURSDAY NIGHT.
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OR 2 EXPECTED TONIGHT AND ENDING SOMETIME TOMORROW MORNING EARLY.
IN LOCAL SPORTS, FRIDAY NIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA BOYS DEFEATED VINTON, AT VINTON. THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS
LOST TO VINTON THERE. AND ON SATURDAY NIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS LOST A NON-CONFERENCE GAME AT
DUBUQUE.
THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS IN A 20-TEAM TOURNAMENT AT CLINTON SATURDAY, FINISHED IN 3RD PLACE.
A PRIVATE OPEN HOUSE AT DICK'S SUPER MARKET IN MAQUOKETA YESTERDAY AFTERNOON WAS WELL ATTENDED. I WAS THERE AND CAN SAY IT IS A BEAUTIFUL STORE. IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC AT 10 A.M. WEDNESDAY, FOLLOWING A RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY. THE DICK'S CONVENIENCE STORE AND CAR WASH IS ALSO COMPLETED AND OPENS WEDNESDAY.
A VERY GOOD TURNOUT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON FOR THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AT THE MAQUOKETA PUBLIC LIBRARY. THERE WAS A 90-MINUTE PROGRAM, WITH COMMENTS BY ASHER SCHROEDER, BONNIE MITCHELL, REGINA
SAGERS, TOM BREUCH, TO NAME A FEW. TOURS WERE GIVEN...AND THERE WAS MUSIC, REFRESHMENTS AND A SMALL GIFT FOR EVERYONE.
THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD MEETS TONIGHT.
DARLENE M. NEAL STENDER, AGE 76, OF CHICAGO AND FORMERLY OF MONMOUTH, DIED LAST THURSDAY AT A CHICAGO NURSING HOME. SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SON, RICH NEAL, OF MAQUOKETA.
THE ROTARY CITIZEN OF THE WEEK IS DEAN SCHAUF, PRESIDENT OF THE MAQUOKETA ATHLETIC BOOSTERS CLUB. A PICTURE OF HIM AND STORY IS ON THE ROTARY WEB SITE AT www.maquoketa-rotary.org.
THERE WILL BE NO DAILY REPORT TOMORROW OR WEDNESDAY. HOPE TO HAVE MY NEXT REPORT THURSDAY NIGHT.
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LIGHT SNOW FELL ON AND OFF TODAY, WITH A HIGH OF 28. WE HAVE HAD AROUND 1 TO 2 INCHES, AND ANOTHER 1 OR 2 EXPECTED TONIGHT AND ENDING SOMETIME TOMORROW MORNING EARLY.
IN LOCAL SPORTS...FRIDAY NIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA BOYS DEFEATED VINTON, AT VINTON. THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS
LOST TO VINTON HERE. AND ON SATURDAY NIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS LOST A NON-CONFERENCE GAME AT DUBUQUE.
THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS IN A 20 TEAM TOURNAMENT AT CLINTON SATURDAY, FINISHED IN 3RD PLACE.
A PRIVATE OPEN HOUSE AT DICK'S SUPER MARKET YESTERDAY AFTERNOON WAS WELL ATTENDED. I WAS THERE AND
CAN SAY IT IS A BEAUTIFUL STORE. IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC AT 10 A.M. WEDNESDAY, FOLLOWING A RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY. THE DICK'S CONVENIENCE STORE IS ALSO DONE AND OPENS WEDNESDAY.
A VERY GOOD TURNOUT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON FOR THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AT THE MAQUOKETA PUBLIC LIBRARY.
THERE WAS A 90-MINUTE PROGRAM FOLLOWED BY TOURS, ENTERTAINMENT, REFRESHMENTS AND A FREE GIFT.
THE MAQUOEKTA SCHOOL BOARD MEETS TONIGHT.
DARLENE M. NEAL STENDER, AGE 76, OF CHICAGO AND FORMERLY OF MONMOUTH, DIED LAST THURSDAY AT A CHICAGO NURSING HOME. SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SON, RICH NEAL OF MAQUOKETA.
THERE WILL BE NO DAILY REPORT TOMORROW OR WEDNESDAY. HOPE TO HAVE MY NEXT REPORT THURSDAY NIGHT.
DENNIS VOY
IN LOCAL SPORTS...FRIDAY NIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA BOYS DEFEATED VINTON, AT VINTON. THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS
LOST TO VINTON HERE. AND ON SATURDAY NIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS LOST A NON-CONFERENCE GAME AT DUBUQUE.
THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS IN A 20 TEAM TOURNAMENT AT CLINTON SATURDAY, FINISHED IN 3RD PLACE.
A PRIVATE OPEN HOUSE AT DICK'S SUPER MARKET YESTERDAY AFTERNOON WAS WELL ATTENDED. I WAS THERE AND
CAN SAY IT IS A BEAUTIFUL STORE. IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC AT 10 A.M. WEDNESDAY, FOLLOWING A RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY. THE DICK'S CONVENIENCE STORE IS ALSO DONE AND OPENS WEDNESDAY.
A VERY GOOD TURNOUT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON FOR THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AT THE MAQUOKETA PUBLIC LIBRARY.
THERE WAS A 90-MINUTE PROGRAM FOLLOWED BY TOURS, ENTERTAINMENT, REFRESHMENTS AND A FREE GIFT.
THE MAQUOEKTA SCHOOL BOARD MEETS TONIGHT.
DARLENE M. NEAL STENDER, AGE 76, OF CHICAGO AND FORMERLY OF MONMOUTH, DIED LAST THURSDAY AT A CHICAGO NURSING HOME. SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SON, RICH NEAL OF MAQUOKETA.
THERE WILL BE NO DAILY REPORT TOMORROW OR WEDNESDAY. HOPE TO HAVE MY NEXT REPORT THURSDAY NIGHT.
DENNIS VOY
Friday, January 23, 2004
A PREDICTION THIS MORNING FOR UP TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW TODAY...BUT WE ACTUALLY ONLY HAD FLURRIES OVER THE NOON HOUR. HIGH TODAY, 35.
THE MAQUOKETA CARDINAL WRESTLERS EASILY DEFEATED WESTERN DUBUQUE, HERE, LAST NIGHT AND TOMORROW WRESTLE ALL DAY LONG AT CLINTON.
THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN JACKSON COUNTY IN DECEMBER WAS 7%, UP FROM 6.3 IN NOVEMBER. A YEAR AGO IN DECEMBER, IT WAS 8.3.
MANY MAQUOKETA RESIDENTS WILL SEE A NEARLY $4 INCREASE IN THEIR ELECTRIC RATES BEGINNING IN FEBRUARY.
A MAQUOKETA MAN, IRV LEINEN, APPEARED BEFORE THE COUNCIL LAST SUMMER, COMPLANING ABOUT ILLEGAL BURNING IN MAQUOKETA. MONDAY NIGHT, HE APPEARED AGAIN ON SAME SUBJECT, SAYING THEY DID NOTHING ABOUT IT LAST YEAR AND THAT IT IS A REAL PROBLEM IN MAQUOKETA. THE CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE WILL MEET FEBRUARY 2ND TO TALK ABOUT. GOOD GOING IRV.
JACKSON COUNTY WILL BE PARTICIPATING WITH NEARBY COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT TWO YEARS IN A METHAMPHETAMINE TASK FORCE, WITH THE FOCUS ON FINDING THIEVES WHO ARE STEALING ANYDROUS AMMONIA FROM AREA FARMS. THAT FARM CHEMICAL IS USED IN MAKING ILLEGAL METHAMPHETAMINE.
THE MAQUOKETA BOYS BASKETBALL TEAMS PLAY AT VINTON TONIGHT....LONG RIDE....AND THE GIRLS HOST VINTON TONIGHT.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON, A VIP OPEN HOUSE OF THE NEW DICK'S SUPER MARKET, OPENING TO THE PUBLIC NEXT WEDNESDAY. SUNDAY AFTERNOON ALSO, THE 100TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION OF THE MAQUOKETA PUBLIC LIBRARY.
NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS.
HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.
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THE MAQUOKETA CARDINAL WRESTLERS EASILY DEFEATED WESTERN DUBUQUE, HERE, LAST NIGHT AND TOMORROW WRESTLE ALL DAY LONG AT CLINTON.
THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN JACKSON COUNTY IN DECEMBER WAS 7%, UP FROM 6.3 IN NOVEMBER. A YEAR AGO IN DECEMBER, IT WAS 8.3.
MANY MAQUOKETA RESIDENTS WILL SEE A NEARLY $4 INCREASE IN THEIR ELECTRIC RATES BEGINNING IN FEBRUARY.
A MAQUOKETA MAN, IRV LEINEN, APPEARED BEFORE THE COUNCIL LAST SUMMER, COMPLANING ABOUT ILLEGAL BURNING IN MAQUOKETA. MONDAY NIGHT, HE APPEARED AGAIN ON SAME SUBJECT, SAYING THEY DID NOTHING ABOUT IT LAST YEAR AND THAT IT IS A REAL PROBLEM IN MAQUOKETA. THE CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE WILL MEET FEBRUARY 2ND TO TALK ABOUT. GOOD GOING IRV.
JACKSON COUNTY WILL BE PARTICIPATING WITH NEARBY COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT TWO YEARS IN A METHAMPHETAMINE TASK FORCE, WITH THE FOCUS ON FINDING THIEVES WHO ARE STEALING ANYDROUS AMMONIA FROM AREA FARMS. THAT FARM CHEMICAL IS USED IN MAKING ILLEGAL METHAMPHETAMINE.
THE MAQUOKETA BOYS BASKETBALL TEAMS PLAY AT VINTON TONIGHT....LONG RIDE....AND THE GIRLS HOST VINTON TONIGHT.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON, A VIP OPEN HOUSE OF THE NEW DICK'S SUPER MARKET, OPENING TO THE PUBLIC NEXT WEDNESDAY. SUNDAY AFTERNOON ALSO, THE 100TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION OF THE MAQUOKETA PUBLIC LIBRARY.
NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS.
HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
Thursday, January 22, 2004
ONE BELOW THIS MORNING...THE HIGH TODAY, 11. SUNNY AND BREEZY ALL DAY.
A SUCCESSFUL BLOOD DRIVE YESTERDAY AT THE HIGH SCHOOL....86 PRODUCTIVE UNITS WERE GIVEN.
THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS HOST WESTERN DUBUQUE TONIGHT AND DOC KOOB WILL DESCRIBE THE MATCHES ON KMAQ-FM.
ERANA CAMP, 101, OF CHARLOTTE, DIED YESTERDAY. AMONG SURVIVORS, A DAUGHTER IN MAQUOKETA, NOEL HERTENSEN.
MABEL SCHNOOR, AGE 94, OF MAQUOKETA DIED YESTERDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. SURVIVORS INCLUDE A DAUGHTER, RUTH JORGENSEN, OF MAQUOKETA. AND A BROTHER, BILL ALDEN OF MAQUOKETA. SHE WAS A FARM HOMEMAKER.
SOME NEW PHOTOS TAKEN AROUND MAQUOKETA ARE UP TODAY ON THE KMAQ WEB SITE. GO TO THE KMAQ HOME PAGE AND CLICK ON TO DENNIS' DAILY PHOTOS.
BIG TURN OUT TODAY FOR GRAND OPENING OF GASSER'S TRUE VALUE HARDWARE STORE....THE GRAND OPENING CONTINUES THROUGH SUNDAY.
SHORT REPORT TODAY.
THANKS FOR CHECKING IN.
DENNIS VOY
A SUCCESSFUL BLOOD DRIVE YESTERDAY AT THE HIGH SCHOOL....86 PRODUCTIVE UNITS WERE GIVEN.
THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS HOST WESTERN DUBUQUE TONIGHT AND DOC KOOB WILL DESCRIBE THE MATCHES ON KMAQ-FM.
ERANA CAMP, 101, OF CHARLOTTE, DIED YESTERDAY. AMONG SURVIVORS, A DAUGHTER IN MAQUOKETA, NOEL HERTENSEN.
MABEL SCHNOOR, AGE 94, OF MAQUOKETA DIED YESTERDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. SURVIVORS INCLUDE A DAUGHTER, RUTH JORGENSEN, OF MAQUOKETA. AND A BROTHER, BILL ALDEN OF MAQUOKETA. SHE WAS A FARM HOMEMAKER.
SOME NEW PHOTOS TAKEN AROUND MAQUOKETA ARE UP TODAY ON THE KMAQ WEB SITE. GO TO THE KMAQ HOME PAGE AND CLICK ON TO DENNIS' DAILY PHOTOS.
BIG TURN OUT TODAY FOR GRAND OPENING OF GASSER'S TRUE VALUE HARDWARE STORE....THE GRAND OPENING CONTINUES THROUGH SUNDAY.
SHORT REPORT TODAY.
THANKS FOR CHECKING IN.
DENNIS VOY
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
HIGH TODAY OF 39...HIGHER THAN EXPECTED...BUT DOWN TO 0 TONIGHT AND HIGH IN TEENS TOMORROW.
LAST NIGHT, MAQUOKETA GIRLS LOST TO DEWITT, THERE. GOT OFF TO A BAD START..TRAILING 17 TO 0....BEFORE SCORING..BUT ALMOST CAUGHT UP.
RAGBRAI ... THE BIKE RIDE ACROSS IOWA...MAY COME THROUGH MAQUOKETA AGAIN THIS YEAR...STAYING OVERNIGHT FRIDAY NIGHT HERE, AND ENDING UP IN CLINTON ON SATURDAY. IN LATE JULY. MORE LATER WHEN IT IS FOR SURE.
THOUSANDS OF BIKERS GO ON IT..AND LAST TIME MAQUOKETA WAS AN OVERNIGHT HOST WAS 10 YEARS AGO.
MAQUOKETA WILL GET A NEW "TACO JOHNS" FAST FOOD RESTAURANT THIS SUMMER, ACROSS FORM WALMART.
OWNERS WILL BE MR. AND MRS. BRUCE MYATT OF MAQUOKETA AND MR. AND MRS. MICHAEL HAWKS OF MAQUOKETA.
DR. DON SCHWENKER OF MAQUOKETA RECENTLY OPENED A CHIROPRACTIC OFFICE ON WEST PLATT IN MAQUOKETA.
DR. MATT WAACK WILL OPEN AN OFFICE ON MCKINSEY DRIVE AND ANOTHER CHIROPRACTOR IS GOING INTO BUSINESS IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA. I DON'T HAVE HIS NAME HANDY.
MR. AND MRS. ERIC MOORE OPEN THEIR "DEPOT SPORTS BAR AND GRILL" TONIGHT.
DEAN SCHAUFF OF MAQUOKETA PLANS TO OPEN A MORTGAGE COMPANY CALLED METROPOLITAN MORTGAGE AT 619 S. MAIN STREET, IN THE SAME BUILDING OF PAUL MILLER INSURANCE. MILLER OWNS THE BUILDING (LONG AGO THE A AND W ROOT BEER STAND) AND IS NOW FINISHING UP AN ADDITION TO THE BUILDING TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE
SCHAUFF OFFICE.
VELMA SHADY, 85, OF MAQUOKETA DIED THIS MORNING AT HER HOME. SHE MARRIED LAWRENCE RILEY IN 1934 AND HE DIED IN 1946. IN 1947, SHE MARRIED JACK SHADY OF MAQUOKETA AND THEY FARMED IN THE MAQUOKETA AREA FOR MANY YEARS. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, JACK AND 5 CHILDREN....LAWRENCE RILEY OF MAQUOKETA, JANET ROLLINGER OF MAQUOKETA, HERBERT RILEY OF BLOOMINGTON, INDIANNA, LINDA BULLOCK OF MAQUOKETA AND DIANNA BLOCK OF MAQUOKETA.
THANKS FOR STOPPING BY.
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LAST NIGHT, MAQUOKETA GIRLS LOST TO DEWITT, THERE. GOT OFF TO A BAD START..TRAILING 17 TO 0....BEFORE SCORING..BUT ALMOST CAUGHT UP.
RAGBRAI ... THE BIKE RIDE ACROSS IOWA...MAY COME THROUGH MAQUOKETA AGAIN THIS YEAR...STAYING OVERNIGHT FRIDAY NIGHT HERE, AND ENDING UP IN CLINTON ON SATURDAY. IN LATE JULY. MORE LATER WHEN IT IS FOR SURE.
THOUSANDS OF BIKERS GO ON IT..AND LAST TIME MAQUOKETA WAS AN OVERNIGHT HOST WAS 10 YEARS AGO.
MAQUOKETA WILL GET A NEW "TACO JOHNS" FAST FOOD RESTAURANT THIS SUMMER, ACROSS FORM WALMART.
OWNERS WILL BE MR. AND MRS. BRUCE MYATT OF MAQUOKETA AND MR. AND MRS. MICHAEL HAWKS OF MAQUOKETA.
DR. DON SCHWENKER OF MAQUOKETA RECENTLY OPENED A CHIROPRACTIC OFFICE ON WEST PLATT IN MAQUOKETA.
DR. MATT WAACK WILL OPEN AN OFFICE ON MCKINSEY DRIVE AND ANOTHER CHIROPRACTOR IS GOING INTO BUSINESS IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA. I DON'T HAVE HIS NAME HANDY.
MR. AND MRS. ERIC MOORE OPEN THEIR "DEPOT SPORTS BAR AND GRILL" TONIGHT.
DEAN SCHAUFF OF MAQUOKETA PLANS TO OPEN A MORTGAGE COMPANY CALLED METROPOLITAN MORTGAGE AT 619 S. MAIN STREET, IN THE SAME BUILDING OF PAUL MILLER INSURANCE. MILLER OWNS THE BUILDING (LONG AGO THE A AND W ROOT BEER STAND) AND IS NOW FINISHING UP AN ADDITION TO THE BUILDING TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE
SCHAUFF OFFICE.
VELMA SHADY, 85, OF MAQUOKETA DIED THIS MORNING AT HER HOME. SHE MARRIED LAWRENCE RILEY IN 1934 AND HE DIED IN 1946. IN 1947, SHE MARRIED JACK SHADY OF MAQUOKETA AND THEY FARMED IN THE MAQUOKETA AREA FOR MANY YEARS. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, JACK AND 5 CHILDREN....LAWRENCE RILEY OF MAQUOKETA, JANET ROLLINGER OF MAQUOKETA, HERBERT RILEY OF BLOOMINGTON, INDIANNA, LINDA BULLOCK OF MAQUOKETA AND DIANNA BLOCK OF MAQUOKETA.
THANKS FOR STOPPING BY.
DENNIS VOY
Tuesday, January 20, 2004
SUNNY AND HIGH OF 25.
775 JACKSON COUNTY CITIZENS ATTENDED THE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS LAST NIGHT. AND, JACKSON COUNTY, LIKE STATEWIDE, GAVE JOHN KERRY THE VICTORY. DICK GELPHARDT FINISHED 2ND AND HOWARD DEAN AND JOHN EDWARDS TIED FOR 3RD. I ATTENED PRECINCT 13 (MAQUOKETA 2ND WARD) AT THE COURTHOUSE AND MY PRECINCT ALSO GAVE KERRY THE MOST DELEGATES. I WAS THERE FROM 6:15 UNTIL 7:45. I WAS FOR KERRY AND I'M SURE HE WILL MAKE AN EXCELLENT CANDIDATE TO OPPOSE PRESIDENT BUSH IN NOVEMBER.
THE MAQUOKETA CARDINALS ARE #10 IN THE STATE TODAY. BUT, THEY LOST LAST NIGHT TO DEWITT SO WILL NO DOUBT FALL BACK OUT OF THE TOP 10 NEXT WEEK. MAQUOKETA LOST 43 TO 41 IN THE FINAL SECOND. BRENT CARRINDER LED MAQUOKETA WITH 22 POINTS. THE MAQUOKETA SOPHOMORES WON THEIR GAME LAST NIGHT.
TONIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS PLAY AT DEWITT. BEFORE THE CHRISTMAS BREAK, MAQUOKETA DEFEATED DEWITT BY 4 POINTS HERE IN MAQUOKETA.
THE WRESTLERS WRESTLE AT HOME THIS THURSDAY NIGHT.
LAINE WOLTER BOWLED A 300 GAME AT TIMBER LANES LAST NIGHT...HIS 3RD GAME OF THE EVENING.
CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT. ON THE AGENDA AGAIN, THE PROPOSED NEW TRUCK STOP FOR THE SOUTH EDGE OF MAQUOKETA.
CHRISTA AND DAVID MCLAUGHLIN OF ELDRIDGE ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN JANURARY 15TH AT GENESIS EAST HOSPITAL IN DAVENPORT. MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE CHUCK AND MARY ANN LINDGREN OF MAQUOKETA AND PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE LORAS AND MARY ANN MCLAUGHLIN OF MAQUOKETA.
IOWA VERSUS IOWA STATE IN BASKETBALL TOMORROW NIGHT...SHOULD BE A GOOD GAME. AT AMES. IT IS A SELL OUT.
BOTH HAVE SIMILAR RECORDS.
SLEEP WELL.
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775 JACKSON COUNTY CITIZENS ATTENDED THE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS LAST NIGHT. AND, JACKSON COUNTY, LIKE STATEWIDE, GAVE JOHN KERRY THE VICTORY. DICK GELPHARDT FINISHED 2ND AND HOWARD DEAN AND JOHN EDWARDS TIED FOR 3RD. I ATTENED PRECINCT 13 (MAQUOKETA 2ND WARD) AT THE COURTHOUSE AND MY PRECINCT ALSO GAVE KERRY THE MOST DELEGATES. I WAS THERE FROM 6:15 UNTIL 7:45. I WAS FOR KERRY AND I'M SURE HE WILL MAKE AN EXCELLENT CANDIDATE TO OPPOSE PRESIDENT BUSH IN NOVEMBER.
THE MAQUOKETA CARDINALS ARE #10 IN THE STATE TODAY. BUT, THEY LOST LAST NIGHT TO DEWITT SO WILL NO DOUBT FALL BACK OUT OF THE TOP 10 NEXT WEEK. MAQUOKETA LOST 43 TO 41 IN THE FINAL SECOND. BRENT CARRINDER LED MAQUOKETA WITH 22 POINTS. THE MAQUOKETA SOPHOMORES WON THEIR GAME LAST NIGHT.
TONIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS PLAY AT DEWITT. BEFORE THE CHRISTMAS BREAK, MAQUOKETA DEFEATED DEWITT BY 4 POINTS HERE IN MAQUOKETA.
THE WRESTLERS WRESTLE AT HOME THIS THURSDAY NIGHT.
LAINE WOLTER BOWLED A 300 GAME AT TIMBER LANES LAST NIGHT...HIS 3RD GAME OF THE EVENING.
CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT. ON THE AGENDA AGAIN, THE PROPOSED NEW TRUCK STOP FOR THE SOUTH EDGE OF MAQUOKETA.
CHRISTA AND DAVID MCLAUGHLIN OF ELDRIDGE ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN JANURARY 15TH AT GENESIS EAST HOSPITAL IN DAVENPORT. MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE CHUCK AND MARY ANN LINDGREN OF MAQUOKETA AND PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE LORAS AND MARY ANN MCLAUGHLIN OF MAQUOKETA.
IOWA VERSUS IOWA STATE IN BASKETBALL TOMORROW NIGHT...SHOULD BE A GOOD GAME. AT AMES. IT IS A SELL OUT.
BOTH HAVE SIMILAR RECORDS.
SLEEP WELL.
DENNIS VOY
Monday, January 19, 2004
SUNNY AND COLD TODAY, HIGH IN THE TEENS.
MAQUOKETA POLICE CHARGED NEIL MOREHEAD, 71, OF MAQUOKETA (CITY COUNCILMAN) WITH UNSAFE BACKING FOLLOWING A TWO-VEHICLE ACCIDENT THIS MORNING ON KATHEY DRIVE. MOREHEAD WAS BACKING OUT OF THIS DRIVEWAY AND HIT A PARKED CAR OWNED BY KATE KRABBENHOFT. $1,500 DAMAGE TO KRABBENHOFF'S CAR AND NO DAMAGE TO MOREHEAD'S PICKUP.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY, A BIG CELEBRATION WAS HELD IN MAQUOKETA....THE DEDICATION OF THE MAQUOKETA PUBLIC LIBRARY. THE FUND DRIVE (AND CONSTRUCTION) STARTED THE YEAR BEFORE TO MATCH A $10,000 GRANT FROM THE ANDREW CARNEGE FOUNDATION. A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION WILL BE HELD, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, THIS COMING SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT 2.
TARA WILLIAMS OF MAQUOKETA IS THE MOTHER OF A BOY, BORN LAST WEDNESDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.
MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE DEB GOODWIN OF MAQUOKETA AND JIM AND SUE TALLMAN OF BALDWIN. GREAT-GRANDMOTHER IS MARY TALLMAN OF MAQUOKETA.
CARL JORGENSEN, AGE 89, OF MAQUOKETA DIED THURSDAY. HE DROVE A TRUCK FROM REICHLING OIL COMPANY IN MAQUOKETA FOR MANY YEARS. HE IS SURVIVED BY 3 SISTERS, INCLUDING HELEN KNIGHT OF MAQUOKETA AND 2 BROTHERS, INCLUDING MARVIN JORGENSEN OF MAQUOKETA.
LAVONNE GAVIN, AGE 69, OF DUBUQUE AND FORMERLY OF CASCADE, DIED SATURDAY AT A DUBUQUE HOSPITAL.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY ONE SON, MANY GRANDCHILDREN, 3 BROTHERS, INCLUDING JOHN GAVIN OF MAQUOKETA AND A SISTER-IN-LAW IN MAQUOKETA, CECELIA GAVIN OF MAQUOKETA.
THE MAQUOEKTA BOYS HOST DEWITT TONIGHT. THE SOPHOMORE GAME AT 6:15 AND THE VARSITY GAME AROUND 8.
THE TWO TOP TEAMS IN THE WAMAC. EARLIER THIS SEASON, MAQUOKETA BEAT DEWITT THERE. SHOULD BE A BIG CROWD. GAME WILL BE ON KMAQ-FM WITH BOB WARNER AT THE PLAY-BY-PLAY MIC.
CAUCUS NIGHT TONIGHT IN IOWA. WILL HAVE THE JACKSON COUNTY WINNERS TOMORROW.
ALLEN BODKIN WAS IN TO SEE ME THIS MORNING. VISITING HERE A COUPLE DAYS. BEEN GONE FROM MAQUOKETA FOR OVER 45 YEARS. RETIRED FROM THE US ARMY. NOW LIVES AT IBERIA, MISSOURI. HIS WIFE IS FROM
GERMANY AND SO HE GOES THERE JUST ABOUT EVERY YEAR FOR A VISIT TO HER PARENTS. THEY HAVE 3 CHILDREN THAT ALL LIVE IN MISSOURI. I HAVE HIS EMAIL ADDRESS IF ANYONE WANTS TO CONTACT HIM. CHECKS THIS DAILY QUITE OFTEN.
TAKE IT EASY.
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MAQUOKETA POLICE CHARGED NEIL MOREHEAD, 71, OF MAQUOKETA (CITY COUNCILMAN) WITH UNSAFE BACKING FOLLOWING A TWO-VEHICLE ACCIDENT THIS MORNING ON KATHEY DRIVE. MOREHEAD WAS BACKING OUT OF THIS DRIVEWAY AND HIT A PARKED CAR OWNED BY KATE KRABBENHOFT. $1,500 DAMAGE TO KRABBENHOFF'S CAR AND NO DAMAGE TO MOREHEAD'S PICKUP.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY, A BIG CELEBRATION WAS HELD IN MAQUOKETA....THE DEDICATION OF THE MAQUOKETA PUBLIC LIBRARY. THE FUND DRIVE (AND CONSTRUCTION) STARTED THE YEAR BEFORE TO MATCH A $10,000 GRANT FROM THE ANDREW CARNEGE FOUNDATION. A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION WILL BE HELD, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, THIS COMING SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT 2.
TARA WILLIAMS OF MAQUOKETA IS THE MOTHER OF A BOY, BORN LAST WEDNESDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.
MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE DEB GOODWIN OF MAQUOKETA AND JIM AND SUE TALLMAN OF BALDWIN. GREAT-GRANDMOTHER IS MARY TALLMAN OF MAQUOKETA.
CARL JORGENSEN, AGE 89, OF MAQUOKETA DIED THURSDAY. HE DROVE A TRUCK FROM REICHLING OIL COMPANY IN MAQUOKETA FOR MANY YEARS. HE IS SURVIVED BY 3 SISTERS, INCLUDING HELEN KNIGHT OF MAQUOKETA AND 2 BROTHERS, INCLUDING MARVIN JORGENSEN OF MAQUOKETA.
LAVONNE GAVIN, AGE 69, OF DUBUQUE AND FORMERLY OF CASCADE, DIED SATURDAY AT A DUBUQUE HOSPITAL.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY ONE SON, MANY GRANDCHILDREN, 3 BROTHERS, INCLUDING JOHN GAVIN OF MAQUOKETA AND A SISTER-IN-LAW IN MAQUOKETA, CECELIA GAVIN OF MAQUOKETA.
THE MAQUOEKTA BOYS HOST DEWITT TONIGHT. THE SOPHOMORE GAME AT 6:15 AND THE VARSITY GAME AROUND 8.
THE TWO TOP TEAMS IN THE WAMAC. EARLIER THIS SEASON, MAQUOKETA BEAT DEWITT THERE. SHOULD BE A BIG CROWD. GAME WILL BE ON KMAQ-FM WITH BOB WARNER AT THE PLAY-BY-PLAY MIC.
CAUCUS NIGHT TONIGHT IN IOWA. WILL HAVE THE JACKSON COUNTY WINNERS TOMORROW.
ALLEN BODKIN WAS IN TO SEE ME THIS MORNING. VISITING HERE A COUPLE DAYS. BEEN GONE FROM MAQUOKETA FOR OVER 45 YEARS. RETIRED FROM THE US ARMY. NOW LIVES AT IBERIA, MISSOURI. HIS WIFE IS FROM
GERMANY AND SO HE GOES THERE JUST ABOUT EVERY YEAR FOR A VISIT TO HER PARENTS. THEY HAVE 3 CHILDREN THAT ALL LIVE IN MISSOURI. I HAVE HIS EMAIL ADDRESS IF ANYONE WANTS TO CONTACT HIM. CHECKS THIS DAILY QUITE OFTEN.
TAKE IT EASY.
DENNIS VOY
Saturday, January 17, 2004
CLOUDY TODAY. LAST NIGHT, MAQUOKETA RECEIVED 1/3 INCH OF RAIN....THAT, WITH A TEMPERATURE RIGHT AROUND 32 ALL NIGHT LONG, MADE FOR SLIPPERY, BUT NOT REAL BAD CONDITIONS. NO BASKETBALL GAMES WERE CALLED OFF.
CITY STREETS AND STATE HIGHWAYS WERE SALTED, BUT COUNTY GRAVEL ROADS WERE THE WORST THIS MORNING.
TODAY'S HIGH 37 AND WE HAVE A COLD FORECAST FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS, WITH WINDY CONDITIONS, THAT WILL GIVE US A LOT OF BELOW ZERO WIND-CHILL WEATHER.
BOTH THE MAQUOKETA BOYS AND GIRLS WON THEIR GAMES LAST NIGHT AGAINST BENTON COMMUNITY. HERE IN TOWN, THE CARDINALL BOYS WON EASILY WITH ADAM HEPKER SCORING 24 POINTS AND TYLER KRUEGER, 22. THE SOPHOMORES ALSO BEAT BENTON. I HAVE NO DETAILS ON THE GIRL'S GAME, OTHER THAT THE CARDINALS WON.THERE.
THE WRESTLERS ARE HOSTING A DUALS TOURNAMENT TODAY AT THE MCHS GYM. NOTHING ON IT YET.
YESTERDAY, ROBIN CONNER OF 216 DELMAR AVENUE, DELMAR, WAS ARRESTED BY THE CLINTON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ON A WARRANT FOR 4 COUNTS OF ANIMAL NEGLECT. AT THAT TIME, A SEARCH WARRANT WAS ALSO SERVED AND SEVERAL ANIMALS WERE REMOVED FROM THE RESIDENCE, INCLUDING CATS, DOGS, BIRDS AND A PIG. THE CASE REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION.
SERVICES ARE PENDING AT THE CARSON AND SON FUNERAL HOME FOR CARL J. JORGENSEN, AGE 89, OF MAQUOKETA, AND FORMERLY OF ANDREW, WHO DIED THURSDAY AFTERNOON AT THE CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME IN MAQUOKETA.
THE BIG IOWA CAUCUS NIGHT IS MONDAY NIGHT....AND MOST CITIZENS ARE GLAD THE NIGHT IS NEARLY HERE.
THE CANDIDATES ARE BLITZING THE STATE THIS WEEKEND. I ATTENDED MY FINAL TWO CANDIDATE SESSIONS HERE IN MAQUOKETA, LAST NIGHT AND THIS AFTERNOON. LAST NIGHT, A GOOD CROWD, DESPITE A BAD WEATHER FORECAST, SHOWED UP TO MEET AND HEAR JOHN KERRY AT THE MAQUOKETA MIDDLE SCHOOL CAFETERIA. IT WAS NEARLY FULL OF KERRY STAFF, THE PRESS, SUPPORTERS AND THOSE STILL NOT SURE, LIKE ME. IT WAS TO BE AN 8 P.M. GATHERING, BUT THE KERRY BUS WAS LATE, A GOOD HALF-HOUR. BANNERS WERE EVERYWHERE IN THE ROOM, MUSIC WAS PLAYING, THE LARGE COFFEE CONTAINERS WERE THERE ALONG WITH COOKIES AND ALL AGES CHATTED AWAY, WAITING FOR SENATOR JOHN TO SPEAK. WHEN HE FINIALLY ARRIVEED, FIRST, STATE SENATOR ROGER STEWART MADE SOME SHORT INTRODUCTORY WELCOME REMARKS AND NEXT, STATE REPRESENTATIVE BOB OSTERHAUS OF MAQUOKETA TOOK THE WIRELESS MIC AND MADE SOME FLATTERING REMARKS ABOUT THE CANDIDATE HE HAS SUPPORTED FOR MONTHS AND THEN PASSED HIM THE MIC. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM, HE THEN TALKED, AND TALKED AND TALKED FOR I'D SAY 45 MINUTES, AND THEN ANSWERED SOME VERY GOOD QUESTIONS. YOU COULD SEE HE WAS TIRED (THEY SAY HE STARTED THE DAY AT 6 A.M.) BUT HE DID WELL AND WENT BEYOND HIS PLANNED TIME PERIOD. I SHOOK HANDS WITH HIM AND THEN VISITED WITH BOTH ANN AND BOB OSTERHAUS AND HEADED HOME, THINKING HOW THIS HAS TO BE AN UNBEARABLE GRIND FOR A CANDIDATE TO ENDURE DAY AFTER DAY.
THIS AFTERNOON, AS SOON AS THE IOWA GAME WAS OVER (IOWA LOST) I HEADED FOR THE MAQUOKETA PUBLIC LIBRARY COMMUNITY ROOM FOR A 1 P.M. APPEARANCE BY SENATOR JOHN EDWARDS. I GOT THERE AT 1:10...AND THE BUS WAS STILL NOT THERE AND TO MY SURPRISE, THE ROOM WAS FULL, STANDING ROOM ONLY. IT WAS NOT BIG ENOUGH FOR THE GATHERING, BUT TOO LATE TO CHANGE. I DID MANAGE TO GET JUST INSIDE ONE OF THE TWO DOORS WHERE I COULD STAND AND LISTEN TO SOME TALKING. THAT TALKING WENT ON AND ON, BY I BELIEVE, ROXANNE CONLIN AND ROB APPLE, WHO I THINK ARE EDWARD'S CO-CHAIRMEN IN IOWA. ROXANNE, A LAWYER, RAN UNSUCCESSFULLY FOR GOVERNOR IN THE 90'S AND APPLE RAN UNUCCESSFULLY FOR CONGRESS, A FEW YEARS AGO.
ROXANNE, WITH NO MIC, SAID NOTHING BUT GREAT THINGS ABOUT JOHN, TO A POINT WHERE THE PRAISE FOR HIM
WAS GETTING TIRESOME. APPLE KEPT HIS COMMENTS SHORTER. THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A PA SYSTEM. ONE WOULD THINK THAT AFTER RIDING FROM CITY TO CITY IN A $400,000 BUS, TO INSURE THE CANDIDATE WILL BE HEARD, THEY DIDN'T THINK ABOUT CARRYING IN THE CARGO AREA OF THE BUS, A GOOD $400 PA SYSTEM. ANYWAY, THE SENATOR STARTED HIS TALK (SOMEONE ACCIDENTALLY BLINKING THE LIGHTS) AND AFTER ABOUT 15 MINUTES, I DECIDED TO LEAVE. MY BACK WAS STARTING TO ACHE. AND JOHN STARTED SOUNDING TO MY LIKE CANDIDATES I'VE HEARD MANY TIMES BEFORE OVER THE YEARS.
JOHN KERRY GAVE A MUCH BETTER TALK LAST NIGHT!
MONTHS AGO, I STARTED OUT THINKING DEAN WAS THE MAN....THEN MET BOTH JOHN KERRY AND HIS WIFE AT SEPARATE EVENTS AND WAS LEANING TOWARD HIM...THEN STARTED LIKING GEPHARDT....THEN EDWARDS....AND NOW......FOR ME...THE FINAL DECISION WAS MADE THIS AFTERNOON. I'LL BE AT THE JACKSON COUNTY COURTHOUSE MONDAY NIGHT (ONE HAS TO BE THERE NO LATER THAN 6:30 P.M.) AND GIVE MY SUPPORT TO JOHN KERRY. BY THE 10 O'CLOCK NEWS, THE RESULTS SHOULD BE IN AND THE WINNER ANNOUNCED.
SO THERE...ESPECIALLY FOR YOU READERS OUT OF STATE...A LITTLE COLOR ON THE FAMOUS IOWA CAUCUS...FROM ONE WHO'S HERE...WHO'S BEEN THERE. THE ESTIMATE IS.....THAT $100 WILL HAVE BEEN SPENT ON EACH VOTE AT THE CAUCUS MONDAY NIGHT STATEWIDE.
TUESDAY, MAQUOKETA AND IOWA GETS BACK TO NORMAL.
AND DID YOU READ YESTERDAY THAT CUBS PITCHER KERRY WOOD WILL GET NEARL $10-MILLION DOLLARS FOR THE 2004 SEASON....ONE SEASON. ONLY IN AMERICA. YES...THE BASEBALL SPRING TRAINING SEASON STARTS ONE MONTH FROM TODAY....JUST A MATTER OF DAYS AFTER FOOTBALL'S SUPER BOWL FEBRUARY 1ST.
MONDAY, IS A HOLIDAY FOR STUDENTS, BANKERS, POSTAL WORKERS AND MILLIONS OF OTHERS. BUT NOT FOR RADIO STATION STAFF MEMBERS.
WE'LL ALL BE HERE AT KMAQ MONDAY....AND I'LL HAVE MY NEXT REPORT FOR YOU MONDAY AT THE REGULAR TIME.
CHECK BACK THEN..AND ENJOY YOUR WEEK AHEAD.
DENNIS VOY
CITY STREETS AND STATE HIGHWAYS WERE SALTED, BUT COUNTY GRAVEL ROADS WERE THE WORST THIS MORNING.
TODAY'S HIGH 37 AND WE HAVE A COLD FORECAST FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS, WITH WINDY CONDITIONS, THAT WILL GIVE US A LOT OF BELOW ZERO WIND-CHILL WEATHER.
BOTH THE MAQUOKETA BOYS AND GIRLS WON THEIR GAMES LAST NIGHT AGAINST BENTON COMMUNITY. HERE IN TOWN, THE CARDINALL BOYS WON EASILY WITH ADAM HEPKER SCORING 24 POINTS AND TYLER KRUEGER, 22. THE SOPHOMORES ALSO BEAT BENTON. I HAVE NO DETAILS ON THE GIRL'S GAME, OTHER THAT THE CARDINALS WON.THERE.
THE WRESTLERS ARE HOSTING A DUALS TOURNAMENT TODAY AT THE MCHS GYM. NOTHING ON IT YET.
YESTERDAY, ROBIN CONNER OF 216 DELMAR AVENUE, DELMAR, WAS ARRESTED BY THE CLINTON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ON A WARRANT FOR 4 COUNTS OF ANIMAL NEGLECT. AT THAT TIME, A SEARCH WARRANT WAS ALSO SERVED AND SEVERAL ANIMALS WERE REMOVED FROM THE RESIDENCE, INCLUDING CATS, DOGS, BIRDS AND A PIG. THE CASE REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION.
SERVICES ARE PENDING AT THE CARSON AND SON FUNERAL HOME FOR CARL J. JORGENSEN, AGE 89, OF MAQUOKETA, AND FORMERLY OF ANDREW, WHO DIED THURSDAY AFTERNOON AT THE CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME IN MAQUOKETA.
THE BIG IOWA CAUCUS NIGHT IS MONDAY NIGHT....AND MOST CITIZENS ARE GLAD THE NIGHT IS NEARLY HERE.
THE CANDIDATES ARE BLITZING THE STATE THIS WEEKEND. I ATTENDED MY FINAL TWO CANDIDATE SESSIONS HERE IN MAQUOKETA, LAST NIGHT AND THIS AFTERNOON. LAST NIGHT, A GOOD CROWD, DESPITE A BAD WEATHER FORECAST, SHOWED UP TO MEET AND HEAR JOHN KERRY AT THE MAQUOKETA MIDDLE SCHOOL CAFETERIA. IT WAS NEARLY FULL OF KERRY STAFF, THE PRESS, SUPPORTERS AND THOSE STILL NOT SURE, LIKE ME. IT WAS TO BE AN 8 P.M. GATHERING, BUT THE KERRY BUS WAS LATE, A GOOD HALF-HOUR. BANNERS WERE EVERYWHERE IN THE ROOM, MUSIC WAS PLAYING, THE LARGE COFFEE CONTAINERS WERE THERE ALONG WITH COOKIES AND ALL AGES CHATTED AWAY, WAITING FOR SENATOR JOHN TO SPEAK. WHEN HE FINIALLY ARRIVEED, FIRST, STATE SENATOR ROGER STEWART MADE SOME SHORT INTRODUCTORY WELCOME REMARKS AND NEXT, STATE REPRESENTATIVE BOB OSTERHAUS OF MAQUOKETA TOOK THE WIRELESS MIC AND MADE SOME FLATTERING REMARKS ABOUT THE CANDIDATE HE HAS SUPPORTED FOR MONTHS AND THEN PASSED HIM THE MIC. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM, HE THEN TALKED, AND TALKED AND TALKED FOR I'D SAY 45 MINUTES, AND THEN ANSWERED SOME VERY GOOD QUESTIONS. YOU COULD SEE HE WAS TIRED (THEY SAY HE STARTED THE DAY AT 6 A.M.) BUT HE DID WELL AND WENT BEYOND HIS PLANNED TIME PERIOD. I SHOOK HANDS WITH HIM AND THEN VISITED WITH BOTH ANN AND BOB OSTERHAUS AND HEADED HOME, THINKING HOW THIS HAS TO BE AN UNBEARABLE GRIND FOR A CANDIDATE TO ENDURE DAY AFTER DAY.
THIS AFTERNOON, AS SOON AS THE IOWA GAME WAS OVER (IOWA LOST) I HEADED FOR THE MAQUOKETA PUBLIC LIBRARY COMMUNITY ROOM FOR A 1 P.M. APPEARANCE BY SENATOR JOHN EDWARDS. I GOT THERE AT 1:10...AND THE BUS WAS STILL NOT THERE AND TO MY SURPRISE, THE ROOM WAS FULL, STANDING ROOM ONLY. IT WAS NOT BIG ENOUGH FOR THE GATHERING, BUT TOO LATE TO CHANGE. I DID MANAGE TO GET JUST INSIDE ONE OF THE TWO DOORS WHERE I COULD STAND AND LISTEN TO SOME TALKING. THAT TALKING WENT ON AND ON, BY I BELIEVE, ROXANNE CONLIN AND ROB APPLE, WHO I THINK ARE EDWARD'S CO-CHAIRMEN IN IOWA. ROXANNE, A LAWYER, RAN UNSUCCESSFULLY FOR GOVERNOR IN THE 90'S AND APPLE RAN UNUCCESSFULLY FOR CONGRESS, A FEW YEARS AGO.
ROXANNE, WITH NO MIC, SAID NOTHING BUT GREAT THINGS ABOUT JOHN, TO A POINT WHERE THE PRAISE FOR HIM
WAS GETTING TIRESOME. APPLE KEPT HIS COMMENTS SHORTER. THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A PA SYSTEM. ONE WOULD THINK THAT AFTER RIDING FROM CITY TO CITY IN A $400,000 BUS, TO INSURE THE CANDIDATE WILL BE HEARD, THEY DIDN'T THINK ABOUT CARRYING IN THE CARGO AREA OF THE BUS, A GOOD $400 PA SYSTEM. ANYWAY, THE SENATOR STARTED HIS TALK (SOMEONE ACCIDENTALLY BLINKING THE LIGHTS) AND AFTER ABOUT 15 MINUTES, I DECIDED TO LEAVE. MY BACK WAS STARTING TO ACHE. AND JOHN STARTED SOUNDING TO MY LIKE CANDIDATES I'VE HEARD MANY TIMES BEFORE OVER THE YEARS.
JOHN KERRY GAVE A MUCH BETTER TALK LAST NIGHT!
MONTHS AGO, I STARTED OUT THINKING DEAN WAS THE MAN....THEN MET BOTH JOHN KERRY AND HIS WIFE AT SEPARATE EVENTS AND WAS LEANING TOWARD HIM...THEN STARTED LIKING GEPHARDT....THEN EDWARDS....AND NOW......FOR ME...THE FINAL DECISION WAS MADE THIS AFTERNOON. I'LL BE AT THE JACKSON COUNTY COURTHOUSE MONDAY NIGHT (ONE HAS TO BE THERE NO LATER THAN 6:30 P.M.) AND GIVE MY SUPPORT TO JOHN KERRY. BY THE 10 O'CLOCK NEWS, THE RESULTS SHOULD BE IN AND THE WINNER ANNOUNCED.
SO THERE...ESPECIALLY FOR YOU READERS OUT OF STATE...A LITTLE COLOR ON THE FAMOUS IOWA CAUCUS...FROM ONE WHO'S HERE...WHO'S BEEN THERE. THE ESTIMATE IS.....THAT $100 WILL HAVE BEEN SPENT ON EACH VOTE AT THE CAUCUS MONDAY NIGHT STATEWIDE.
TUESDAY, MAQUOKETA AND IOWA GETS BACK TO NORMAL.
AND DID YOU READ YESTERDAY THAT CUBS PITCHER KERRY WOOD WILL GET NEARL $10-MILLION DOLLARS FOR THE 2004 SEASON....ONE SEASON. ONLY IN AMERICA. YES...THE BASEBALL SPRING TRAINING SEASON STARTS ONE MONTH FROM TODAY....JUST A MATTER OF DAYS AFTER FOOTBALL'S SUPER BOWL FEBRUARY 1ST.
MONDAY, IS A HOLIDAY FOR STUDENTS, BANKERS, POSTAL WORKERS AND MILLIONS OF OTHERS. BUT NOT FOR RADIO STATION STAFF MEMBERS.
WE'LL ALL BE HERE AT KMAQ MONDAY....AND I'LL HAVE MY NEXT REPORT FOR YOU MONDAY AT THE REGULAR TIME.
CHECK BACK THEN..AND ENJOY YOUR WEEK AHEAD.
DENNIS VOY
Friday, January 16, 2004
HIGH TODAY, 36. FREEZING RAIN IN FORECAST FOR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW MORNING AND A HIGH TOMORROW OF 40.
THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS PLAY AT BENTON COMMUNITY TONIGHT AND THE BOYS HOST BENTON COMMUNITY. TOMORROW, THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS HOST A TOURNAMENT.
A MAQUOKETA WOMAN WAS CHARGED FOLLOWING A TWO-VEHICLE ACCIDENT AT 1 YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT SUMMIT AND NIAGARA. MAQUOKETA OFFICER PAT FIER CHARGED JOSEPHINE MARTIN, 59, WITH FAILURE TO YIELD ON ENTERING A STREET. HE WAS DRIVING ON NIAGARA AND DIDN'T SEE A VEHICLE ON SUMMIT, DRIVEN BY JOSEPH BARTELS, 17, OF MAQUOKETA AND THE TWO COLLIDED.
DAMAGES TO BOTH VEHICLES, ABOUT $2,000 EACH.
NO CITY COUNCIL MEETING MONDAY NIGHT...MOVED TO TUESDAY NIGHT SO SOME COUNCIL MEMBERS CAN ATTEND MONDAY NIGHT'S CAUCUS SESSIONS.
JOHN KERRY WILL BE IN MAQUOKETA AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL FROM 8 'TIL 9 TONIGHT.
JOHN EDWARDS IS COMING TO TOWN TOMORROW FOR HIS FINAL APPEARANCE IN THE TIMBER CITY.
DR. BROMAN BACK HOME IN MAQUOKETA.
NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS.
HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS PLAY AT BENTON COMMUNITY TONIGHT AND THE BOYS HOST BENTON COMMUNITY. TOMORROW, THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS HOST A TOURNAMENT.
A MAQUOKETA WOMAN WAS CHARGED FOLLOWING A TWO-VEHICLE ACCIDENT AT 1 YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT SUMMIT AND NIAGARA. MAQUOKETA OFFICER PAT FIER CHARGED JOSEPHINE MARTIN, 59, WITH FAILURE TO YIELD ON ENTERING A STREET. HE WAS DRIVING ON NIAGARA AND DIDN'T SEE A VEHICLE ON SUMMIT, DRIVEN BY JOSEPH BARTELS, 17, OF MAQUOKETA AND THE TWO COLLIDED.
DAMAGES TO BOTH VEHICLES, ABOUT $2,000 EACH.
NO CITY COUNCIL MEETING MONDAY NIGHT...MOVED TO TUESDAY NIGHT SO SOME COUNCIL MEMBERS CAN ATTEND MONDAY NIGHT'S CAUCUS SESSIONS.
JOHN KERRY WILL BE IN MAQUOKETA AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL FROM 8 'TIL 9 TONIGHT.
JOHN EDWARDS IS COMING TO TOWN TOMORROW FOR HIS FINAL APPEARANCE IN THE TIMBER CITY.
DR. BROMAN BACK HOME IN MAQUOKETA.
NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS.
HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
Thursday, January 15, 2004
HIGH ONLY 30 TODAY, BUT LITTLE WIND.
ICE IN FORECAST TOMORROW NIGHT.
ERIC MOORE OF MAQUOKETA WILL OPEN "THE DEPOT BAR AND GRILL" ON EAST PLATT STREET IN MAQUOKETA, YEARS AGO THE MAQUOKETA RAILROAD DEPOT. HIS PARENTS OWNED BILL'S TAP UNTIL 1979. THE DEPOT HAS BEEN CLOSED FOR A YEAR OR MORE AFTER BEING A NIGHTCLUB FOR A COUPLE YEARS. MOORE SAID HE'S RENTING THE BUILDING AND HAS BUILDT A NEW BAR AND INSTALLED A NEW WOODEN DANCE FLOOR. HE WILL OPEN NEXT WEDNESDAY. HE PLANS TO HAVE LIVE BANDS AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH AND DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS, WILL USE THE OUTDOOR PATIO AND HE ALSO HAS A POOL AND GAME ROOM. MOORE HAS BEEN A TRUCK DRIVER FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
THE ROOF OF THE HURSTVILLE INTERPRETIVE CENTER WILL BE ON BY THE END OF THIS WEEK. DARYL PARKER, JACKSON COUNTY CONSERVATION BOARD FULLTIME DIRECTOR, TOLD THE JACKSON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVIORS THIS WEEK THE WEATHER HAS BEEN COOPERATIVE TO ALLOW AS MUCH CONSTRUCTION AS THEY'VE DONE ON THE CENTER JUST NORTH OF MAQUOKETA ON HIGHWAY 61. HE SAID THE CONTRACTORS ARE READY TO START INSIDE. ONE OF THESE DAYS, I'LL GET A PHOTO THE CENTER THAT WILL COST CLOSE TO A MILLION DOLLARS.
LORRAINE SWITZER, AGE 72, DIED TUESDAY AT HER HOME IN MONMOUTH. SHE WORKED FOR CLINTON ENGINES AND WAS ALSO A BARTENDER. SURVIVORS INCLUDE 4 DAUGHTERS, INCLUDING LORI FROST OF MAQUOKETA.
GOT A NICE EMAIL FROM BETH (WIDEL) LUNA (NATIVE OF THIS AREA) IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA. SHE'S A BIG CAROLINA PANTHERS FAN. SAID ITS A LITTLE COLD DOWN THERE TOO.
WRITE AGAIN BETH. SHE READS THIS DAILY REGULARLY.
ALSO, GOT ANOTHER NICE EMAIL ......FROM ANOTHER READER, DENNIS HOPPE IN FLORIDA, A 1969 MAQUOKETA HIGH GRADUATE. GOOD HEARING FROM YOU DENNIS. GLAD YOU LIKE THIS REPORT.
HAD LUNCH AT BELLEVUE CHAMBER MEETING TUESDAY AND SAT NEXT TO CITY ADMINISTRATOR LORIS HERRIG. YEARS AGO, HE WAS A MAQUOKETA BANKER...LOAN OFFICER, SO HE REMEMBERS LOTS OF PEOPLE FROM MAQUOKETA AREA AND THEREFORE..HE TOO CHECKS THIS DAILY REPORT, REGULARLY.
LOTS OF GOOD THINGS GOING ON IN BELLEVUE THESE DAYS, INCLUDING A NEW SUBWAY RESTAURANT OPENING MARCH 1ST AND CITY IS BUILDING A LARGE CONCRETE SIGN ALONG THE RIVERFRONT, IN STATE OF IOWA OUTLINE, THAT LETS BOATERS KNOW WHAT CITY THEY ARE PASSING BY. BY EARLY THIS SUMMER, THE ENTIRE RIVERFRONT FROM NORTH TO SOUTH WILL BE COMPLETED WITH COBBLE OR BRICK SIDEWALKS, BENCHES, TREES, DOCKS, THE WHOLE WORKS. NEXT TIME YOU VISIT THIS AREA...TAKE SOME TIME TO SEE BELLEVUE'S RIVERFRONT PARK. FANTASTIC.
OH YES..ALSO AT THE LUNCH TABLE NEXT TO ME, PAUL PETERSON, ALSO FORMER MAQUOKETA BANKER, NOW A BELLEVUE BANKER AND BOB ERNST, LONGTIME INSURANCE MAN WHO HAS HIS OFFICE OVERLOOKING THE BEAUTIFUL MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI. HIS WIFE, GRACE, LIVED IN MAQUOKETA MANY YEARS. HE HAS WINDOWS LOOKING OVER THE RIVER AND A PAIR OF BINOCULARS THAT THE STAFF SHARES WHEN SOMETHING INTERESTING COMES DOWN THE RIVER. LOTS, LOTS OF BALD EAGLES ON THE MISSISSIPPI THESE DAYS. NO SHORTAGE OF THOSE ANYMORE.
AND, STILL ANOTHER NICE EMAIL FROM TOM VEIT IN COLORADO.....FORMER MAQUOKETANS.
TOM IS A PHARMACEUTICAL REP AND LYNETTTE (KEIL), HIS WIFE, IS A REALTOR FOR COLWELL BANKER OUT THERE. HE ALSO SAID THAT RON, BARB AND STEVE ALL LIVE IN DENVER AND THEY SEE THEM OFTEN. GLAD YOU LIKE THE DAILY REPORT TOM AND I FORWARDED YOUR EMAIL TO MY SON RICK.
DAVE UPDEGRAPH, FROM DUBUQUE, AND WITH MAQUOKETA STATE BANK, IS A GOOD FRIEND AND FELLOW ROTARIAN. HE'S A COMPUTER GENIUS AND DOES LOTS OF WEB SITES FOR MSB AND CLIENTS THEY HAVE. HE ALSO IS THE CARETAKER OF THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY WEB SITE.
HE JUST GOT A NEW DIGITAL CAMERA AND SOFTWARE TO PUT LIVE-ACTION VIDEO ON WEB SITES AND
RECORDED MY SHORT NEWSCAST TO THE ROTARY MEMBERS WEDNESDAY. I DO THE NEWS AND SPORTS HEADLINES AT EVERY MEETING. SO, TO SEE HOW IT WORKS....GO TO THE WEB SITE...www.maquoketa-rotary.org AND GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THE HOME PAGE. TRY THE FAST WAY FIRST, IT IS BEST. IF THAT DOESN'T WORK, CLICK TO THE SLOW WAY. IT LOADS QUICKLY AND YOU'LL SEE ME DO THE NEWS/SPORTS REPORT. IN THE FUTURE, HE WILL DO SOME BETTER THINGS ON THE SITE THAN RECORDING ME. AND, I HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO DO THIS ALSO ON THE KMAQ HOME PAGE, SO WILL DO SOMETHING IN THE NEAR FUTURE. LIKE, JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT, I COULD TO THIS DAILY REPORT IN TV NEWSCASTER STYLE. OR...MY SON DAVE SAYS, I COULD USE THE SOFTWARE, TO RECORD THE ENTIRE MIDDAY NEWS ON KMAQ, AUDIO ONLY, FOR YOU TO GIVE A LISTEN. ONCE IN AWHLE, WE NEED NEW TOYS TO PLAY WITH. JOHN JONES, DON'T THINK THIS WILL WORK ON YOUR WEB-TV.
BETTER HEAD HOME...NANCY CALLED AND THE PORK ROAST IS READY.
THANKS FOR THE VISIT.
DENNIS VOY
ICE IN FORECAST TOMORROW NIGHT.
ERIC MOORE OF MAQUOKETA WILL OPEN "THE DEPOT BAR AND GRILL" ON EAST PLATT STREET IN MAQUOKETA, YEARS AGO THE MAQUOKETA RAILROAD DEPOT. HIS PARENTS OWNED BILL'S TAP UNTIL 1979. THE DEPOT HAS BEEN CLOSED FOR A YEAR OR MORE AFTER BEING A NIGHTCLUB FOR A COUPLE YEARS. MOORE SAID HE'S RENTING THE BUILDING AND HAS BUILDT A NEW BAR AND INSTALLED A NEW WOODEN DANCE FLOOR. HE WILL OPEN NEXT WEDNESDAY. HE PLANS TO HAVE LIVE BANDS AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH AND DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS, WILL USE THE OUTDOOR PATIO AND HE ALSO HAS A POOL AND GAME ROOM. MOORE HAS BEEN A TRUCK DRIVER FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
THE ROOF OF THE HURSTVILLE INTERPRETIVE CENTER WILL BE ON BY THE END OF THIS WEEK. DARYL PARKER, JACKSON COUNTY CONSERVATION BOARD FULLTIME DIRECTOR, TOLD THE JACKSON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVIORS THIS WEEK THE WEATHER HAS BEEN COOPERATIVE TO ALLOW AS MUCH CONSTRUCTION AS THEY'VE DONE ON THE CENTER JUST NORTH OF MAQUOKETA ON HIGHWAY 61. HE SAID THE CONTRACTORS ARE READY TO START INSIDE. ONE OF THESE DAYS, I'LL GET A PHOTO THE CENTER THAT WILL COST CLOSE TO A MILLION DOLLARS.
LORRAINE SWITZER, AGE 72, DIED TUESDAY AT HER HOME IN MONMOUTH. SHE WORKED FOR CLINTON ENGINES AND WAS ALSO A BARTENDER. SURVIVORS INCLUDE 4 DAUGHTERS, INCLUDING LORI FROST OF MAQUOKETA.
GOT A NICE EMAIL FROM BETH (WIDEL) LUNA (NATIVE OF THIS AREA) IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA. SHE'S A BIG CAROLINA PANTHERS FAN. SAID ITS A LITTLE COLD DOWN THERE TOO.
WRITE AGAIN BETH. SHE READS THIS DAILY REGULARLY.
ALSO, GOT ANOTHER NICE EMAIL ......FROM ANOTHER READER, DENNIS HOPPE IN FLORIDA, A 1969 MAQUOKETA HIGH GRADUATE. GOOD HEARING FROM YOU DENNIS. GLAD YOU LIKE THIS REPORT.
HAD LUNCH AT BELLEVUE CHAMBER MEETING TUESDAY AND SAT NEXT TO CITY ADMINISTRATOR LORIS HERRIG. YEARS AGO, HE WAS A MAQUOKETA BANKER...LOAN OFFICER, SO HE REMEMBERS LOTS OF PEOPLE FROM MAQUOKETA AREA AND THEREFORE..HE TOO CHECKS THIS DAILY REPORT, REGULARLY.
LOTS OF GOOD THINGS GOING ON IN BELLEVUE THESE DAYS, INCLUDING A NEW SUBWAY RESTAURANT OPENING MARCH 1ST AND CITY IS BUILDING A LARGE CONCRETE SIGN ALONG THE RIVERFRONT, IN STATE OF IOWA OUTLINE, THAT LETS BOATERS KNOW WHAT CITY THEY ARE PASSING BY. BY EARLY THIS SUMMER, THE ENTIRE RIVERFRONT FROM NORTH TO SOUTH WILL BE COMPLETED WITH COBBLE OR BRICK SIDEWALKS, BENCHES, TREES, DOCKS, THE WHOLE WORKS. NEXT TIME YOU VISIT THIS AREA...TAKE SOME TIME TO SEE BELLEVUE'S RIVERFRONT PARK. FANTASTIC.
OH YES..ALSO AT THE LUNCH TABLE NEXT TO ME, PAUL PETERSON, ALSO FORMER MAQUOKETA BANKER, NOW A BELLEVUE BANKER AND BOB ERNST, LONGTIME INSURANCE MAN WHO HAS HIS OFFICE OVERLOOKING THE BEAUTIFUL MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI. HIS WIFE, GRACE, LIVED IN MAQUOKETA MANY YEARS. HE HAS WINDOWS LOOKING OVER THE RIVER AND A PAIR OF BINOCULARS THAT THE STAFF SHARES WHEN SOMETHING INTERESTING COMES DOWN THE RIVER. LOTS, LOTS OF BALD EAGLES ON THE MISSISSIPPI THESE DAYS. NO SHORTAGE OF THOSE ANYMORE.
AND, STILL ANOTHER NICE EMAIL FROM TOM VEIT IN COLORADO.....FORMER MAQUOKETANS.
TOM IS A PHARMACEUTICAL REP AND LYNETTTE (KEIL), HIS WIFE, IS A REALTOR FOR COLWELL BANKER OUT THERE. HE ALSO SAID THAT RON, BARB AND STEVE ALL LIVE IN DENVER AND THEY SEE THEM OFTEN. GLAD YOU LIKE THE DAILY REPORT TOM AND I FORWARDED YOUR EMAIL TO MY SON RICK.
DAVE UPDEGRAPH, FROM DUBUQUE, AND WITH MAQUOKETA STATE BANK, IS A GOOD FRIEND AND FELLOW ROTARIAN. HE'S A COMPUTER GENIUS AND DOES LOTS OF WEB SITES FOR MSB AND CLIENTS THEY HAVE. HE ALSO IS THE CARETAKER OF THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY WEB SITE.
HE JUST GOT A NEW DIGITAL CAMERA AND SOFTWARE TO PUT LIVE-ACTION VIDEO ON WEB SITES AND
RECORDED MY SHORT NEWSCAST TO THE ROTARY MEMBERS WEDNESDAY. I DO THE NEWS AND SPORTS HEADLINES AT EVERY MEETING. SO, TO SEE HOW IT WORKS....GO TO THE WEB SITE...www.maquoketa-rotary.org AND GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THE HOME PAGE. TRY THE FAST WAY FIRST, IT IS BEST. IF THAT DOESN'T WORK, CLICK TO THE SLOW WAY. IT LOADS QUICKLY AND YOU'LL SEE ME DO THE NEWS/SPORTS REPORT. IN THE FUTURE, HE WILL DO SOME BETTER THINGS ON THE SITE THAN RECORDING ME. AND, I HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO DO THIS ALSO ON THE KMAQ HOME PAGE, SO WILL DO SOMETHING IN THE NEAR FUTURE. LIKE, JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT, I COULD TO THIS DAILY REPORT IN TV NEWSCASTER STYLE. OR...MY SON DAVE SAYS, I COULD USE THE SOFTWARE, TO RECORD THE ENTIRE MIDDAY NEWS ON KMAQ, AUDIO ONLY, FOR YOU TO GIVE A LISTEN. ONCE IN AWHLE, WE NEED NEW TOYS TO PLAY WITH. JOHN JONES, DON'T THINK THIS WILL WORK ON YOUR WEB-TV.
BETTER HEAD HOME...NANCY CALLED AND THE PORK ROAST IS READY.
THANKS FOR THE VISIT.
DENNIS VOY
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
COLD AND WINDY TODAY......BURRRRRRR.
THE MAQUOKETA BOYS REMAIN IN FIRST PLACE IN WAMAC BASKETBALL ......WINNING AGAIN LAST NIGHT AT WESTERN DUBUQUE.
SAME FOR THE GIRLS...WHO ALSO WON LAST NIGHT AT THE MCHS GMY.
AND THE CARDINAL WRESTLERS WON ANOTHER MEET...EASILY BEATING CAMANCHE THERE LAST NIGHT.
JASON HAYNES, OF RURAL LAMOTTE, A ONE-TERM JACKSON COUNTY SUPERVISOR IN THE 1990'S, ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY THAT HE WILL RUN IN THE JUNE PRIMARY FOR THE SEAT IN THE IOWA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THAT WILL BE VACATED AFTER THIS YEAR BY BOB OSTERHAUS. HE BECOMES THE 2ND CANDIDATE. MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCILMAN TOM SCHUELLER ANNOUNCED LAST WEEK THAT HE WILL RUN AS A DEMOCRAT FOR THE SEAT. NO WORD ON WHO WILL RUN ON THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
THE CAUCUS DAY IS MONDAY IN IOWA.....THE DEMOCRAT CANDIDATES ARE EVERYWHERE THIS WEEK....LAST WEEK OF CAMPAIGNING. EVERY DAY...TELEMARKETING CALLS....EMAILS....PAMPHLET MAILINGS....RADIO AND TV ADS GALORE...
CARAVANS TO ONE TOWN AFTER ANOTHER...IOWA IS ON THE MAP AND LOTS OF BUCKS ARE BEING SPENT IN THE HAWKEYE STATE. WHO WILL WIN? GOING TO BE CLOSE BETWEEN DEAN AND GEPHARDT AND WANTING 3RD PLACE REAL BAD, EDWARDS AND KERRY. LOTS OF UNCOMMITTED YET. GUESS I'LL CAUCUS FOR EDWARDS...BUT MIGHT CHANGE TO KERRY. THE DES MOINES REGISTER ENDORSED EDWARDS AND THE QUAD CITY TIMES, KERRY.
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR DICK HOSCH, AGE 56, OF MAQUOKETA, WILL BE AT 11 TOMORROW MORNING. HE DIED FROM CANCER MONDAY. HE WAS A TRUCK DRIVER. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE, TERESA, A DAUGHTER, TAMMY HOSCH AND 2 SONS, BRIAN AND JASON, BOTH OF MAQUOKETA. ALSO 6 GRANDCHILDREN AND HIS MOTHER, MARGE, IN MONTICELLO.
NOT A LOT GOING ON THE EARLY PART OF THIS WEEK.
CHECK BACK AGAIN TOMORROW.
DENNIS VOY
THE MAQUOKETA BOYS REMAIN IN FIRST PLACE IN WAMAC BASKETBALL ......WINNING AGAIN LAST NIGHT AT WESTERN DUBUQUE.
SAME FOR THE GIRLS...WHO ALSO WON LAST NIGHT AT THE MCHS GMY.
AND THE CARDINAL WRESTLERS WON ANOTHER MEET...EASILY BEATING CAMANCHE THERE LAST NIGHT.
JASON HAYNES, OF RURAL LAMOTTE, A ONE-TERM JACKSON COUNTY SUPERVISOR IN THE 1990'S, ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY THAT HE WILL RUN IN THE JUNE PRIMARY FOR THE SEAT IN THE IOWA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THAT WILL BE VACATED AFTER THIS YEAR BY BOB OSTERHAUS. HE BECOMES THE 2ND CANDIDATE. MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCILMAN TOM SCHUELLER ANNOUNCED LAST WEEK THAT HE WILL RUN AS A DEMOCRAT FOR THE SEAT. NO WORD ON WHO WILL RUN ON THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
THE CAUCUS DAY IS MONDAY IN IOWA.....THE DEMOCRAT CANDIDATES ARE EVERYWHERE THIS WEEK....LAST WEEK OF CAMPAIGNING. EVERY DAY...TELEMARKETING CALLS....EMAILS....PAMPHLET MAILINGS....RADIO AND TV ADS GALORE...
CARAVANS TO ONE TOWN AFTER ANOTHER...IOWA IS ON THE MAP AND LOTS OF BUCKS ARE BEING SPENT IN THE HAWKEYE STATE. WHO WILL WIN? GOING TO BE CLOSE BETWEEN DEAN AND GEPHARDT AND WANTING 3RD PLACE REAL BAD, EDWARDS AND KERRY. LOTS OF UNCOMMITTED YET. GUESS I'LL CAUCUS FOR EDWARDS...BUT MIGHT CHANGE TO KERRY. THE DES MOINES REGISTER ENDORSED EDWARDS AND THE QUAD CITY TIMES, KERRY.
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR DICK HOSCH, AGE 56, OF MAQUOKETA, WILL BE AT 11 TOMORROW MORNING. HE DIED FROM CANCER MONDAY. HE WAS A TRUCK DRIVER. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE, TERESA, A DAUGHTER, TAMMY HOSCH AND 2 SONS, BRIAN AND JASON, BOTH OF MAQUOKETA. ALSO 6 GRANDCHILDREN AND HIS MOTHER, MARGE, IN MONTICELLO.
NOT A LOT GOING ON THE EARLY PART OF THIS WEEK.
CHECK BACK AGAIN TOMORROW.
DENNIS VOY
Monday, January 12, 2004
NICE YESTERDAY...SUNNY AND NICE AGAIN TODAY....MIGHT GET UP TO 40.
AND..THAT REMINDS ME..NANCY AND I ARE CELEBRATING OUR 40TH TODAY. REV. HAROLD KUMPF MARRIED US AT FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH IN MAQUOKETA. OUR HONEYMOON TRIP WAS THE RETURN TRIP TO FORT HOOD, TEXAS, WHERE I WAS A MEMBER OF THE FAMOUS "HELL ON WHEELS" 2ND ARMORED DIVISION, NOW DE-ACTIVATED.
WE...AND THE WHOLE FAMILY... CELEBRATED YESTERDAY AT A BRUNCH AT POTTER'S MILL AT BELLEVUE, COURTESY OF THE
KIDS. NEXT TIME YOU VISIT MAQUOKETA...YOU'LL HAVE TO TAKE IN THAT SUNDAY BRUNCH. IT'S SOMETHING ELSE!
OH, YOU WILL NOT BE SURPRISED THAT I NO LONGER FIT INTO MY ARMY UNIFORM.
WEEKEND SPORTS RE-CAP:
BASKETBALL: MAQUOEKETA BOYS ARE 5 AND 0 IN THE WAMAC AND 6 AND 2 OVERALL AFTER BEATING WATERLOO
COLUMBUS FRIDAY NIGHT, THERE, 40 TO 44. THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS ALSO DEFEATED WATERLOO COLUMBUS, HERE, FRIDAY NIGHT 52 TO 49 BUT SATURDAY, HERE AGAIN, LOST TO NON-CONFERENCE NORTH SCOTT, 40 TO 39. THEY ARE NOW 6 AND 0 IN THE CONFERENCE AND 7 AND 3 OVERALL. TOMORROW NIGHT, THE GIRLS HOST WESTERN DUBUQUE AND THE BOYS PLAY THERE.
WRESTLING: THE MAQUOKETA CARDINALS TOOK 3RD PLACE, IN A 15 TEAM TOURNAMENT, AT BENTON COMMUNITY VAN HORNE SATURDAY. ONE CHAMPION FROM MAQUOKETA....DANE PAPE AT 215. CHRIS HAHN AT 145 AND CHARLIE HAYES AT HEAVYWEIGHT, EACH PLACED 2ND. THE CARDINALS WILL WRESTLE AGAIN TOMORROW NIGHT AT CAMANCHE.
MORE CITY COMMISSION APPOINTMENTS: KENT CRAWFORD (BAND INSTRUCTOR) WAS RE-APPOINTED TO THE AIRPORT COMMISSION. HE'S A PILOT. THE COUNCIL ALSO REDUCED THE NUMBER OF MEMBERS FROM 7 TO 5.
THE ARC(SWIMMING POOL)COMMITTEE HAS A NEW, BUT FORMER, MEMBER, DEB LANE AND MARGO SHOUSE WAS RE-APPOINTED TO IT. JEFF BODENHOFER WAS RE-APPOINTED TO THE CABLE COMMISSION AND LORI (PAUL) MCCAULLEY AND JODI COAKLEY WERE RE-APPOINTED TO THE PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION.
A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR ALL PACKER FANS---------------------------------------------------------------------------TALK ABOUT GIVING AWAY A GAME ABOUT 4 OR 5 TIMES.
THE NEW "CITIZEN OF THE WEEK" ON THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY CLUB "WEB SITE" IS A 60'S MHS GRADE. SEE A PICTURE OF HER AND READ ABOUT HER AT www.maquoketa-rotary.org WAIT UNTIL TONIGHT....I'M NOT SURE IT IS UP ON THE SITE YET.
PAUL HAYES, A LIFELONG RESIDENT OF MAQUOKETA, CELEBRATES HIS 80TH BIRTHDAY, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14TH. HE WAS BORN AT GIBSONVILLE, WHICH WAS NEAR HERE. ONE OF 10 CHILDREN AND HE IS SOLE SURVIVING MEMBER OF THE FAMILY.
HE WORKED AT SEVERAL DOWNTOWN STORES, INCLUDING THE COAST TO COAST STORE, KENDALL MEN'S WEAR,
MANNING'S MEAT MARKET, LAHEY FUNERAL HOME AND MANAGED A MOTEL FOR A COUPLE YEARS IN CALIFORNIA.
HE AND WIFE GERI LIVE AT 119 THOMAS AVENUE IN MAQUOKETA. BOTH WELL AND VISIT DOWNTOWN ALMOST DAILY. SEND HIM A CARD. OR GIVE HIM A CALL...563-652-5988.
MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD MEETING TONIGHT.
TW0 CAR ACCIDENT FRIDAY AFTERNOON....LINDA DAVIDSON, 46 IN ONE CAR AND PATSY CLARK, 57, IN OTHER....ON PERSHING ROAD DAVIDSON WAS CHARGED WITH FAILURE TO YIELD. BOTH CARS RECEIVED ABOUT $2,000 IN DAMAGE.
NANCY AND I BOTH SAW "SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE" STARRING JACK NICKOLSON....GREAT SHOW....TRY AND SEE IT.
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU TOOK HER TO A GOOD MOVIE?? REALLY DO IT UP RIGHT, AND DINE FIRST AT MCDONALD'S. AND SAVE SOME MONEY FOR POPCORN!
POLICE BLOTTER: BECKY SHADY OF 502 ROSEMERE REPORTED SOMEONE TOOK A $400 BOY'S BIKE SATURDAY.
QUITE A BIKE!? AND.. SOMEONE DROVE OFF THE LOT AT KJ'S CONVENIENCE WITHOUT PAYING FOR $24 WORTH OF GASOLINE.
FOUR DEER ACCIDENTS OVER THE WEEKEND IN AREA. RANDY THEISEN, VICKI DRISCOLL, KEVIN FUSS AND KEVIN DAVID ALL REPORTED HITTING A DEARL.
HAPPY 2ND ANNIVERSARY TO MY DAUGHTER LONNA AND HUSBAND SHAWN. YUP, MARRIED ON OUR ANNIVERSARY.,
HELEN SHADY HAS RESIGNED AS TREASURER OF THE JACKSON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS. ARLENE WEIRUP OF BALDWIN HAS BEEN APPOINTED TO TAKE HER PLACE. GOOD JOB, WELL DOWN, BY A LONGTIME MAQUOKETA BOOSTER, HELEN SHADY.
RICHARD HOSCH, 56, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED TODAY AT HIS HOME AT JOINERVILLE, RURAL MAQUOKETA, FROM CANCER.
HIS SON IS JASON, WHO OWNS, WITH WIFE KRISTY, KRISTEENO'S PIZZERIA DOWNTOWN. MORE TOMORROW.
NO BIRTHS.
JAKE BICKFORD JUST CALLED....WANTS TO TAKE A BREAK FROM HIS WALL TO WALL SALE AT BILL MOLER'S MENSWEAR, TO HAVE A COFFEE BREAK. SO, I'LL GET MORE NEWS IN A FEW MINUTES. PROBABLY NOT ALL PRINTABLE.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY
AND..THAT REMINDS ME..NANCY AND I ARE CELEBRATING OUR 40TH TODAY. REV. HAROLD KUMPF MARRIED US AT FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH IN MAQUOKETA. OUR HONEYMOON TRIP WAS THE RETURN TRIP TO FORT HOOD, TEXAS, WHERE I WAS A MEMBER OF THE FAMOUS "HELL ON WHEELS" 2ND ARMORED DIVISION, NOW DE-ACTIVATED.
WE...AND THE WHOLE FAMILY... CELEBRATED YESTERDAY AT A BRUNCH AT POTTER'S MILL AT BELLEVUE, COURTESY OF THE
KIDS. NEXT TIME YOU VISIT MAQUOKETA...YOU'LL HAVE TO TAKE IN THAT SUNDAY BRUNCH. IT'S SOMETHING ELSE!
OH, YOU WILL NOT BE SURPRISED THAT I NO LONGER FIT INTO MY ARMY UNIFORM.
WEEKEND SPORTS RE-CAP:
BASKETBALL: MAQUOEKETA BOYS ARE 5 AND 0 IN THE WAMAC AND 6 AND 2 OVERALL AFTER BEATING WATERLOO
COLUMBUS FRIDAY NIGHT, THERE, 40 TO 44. THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS ALSO DEFEATED WATERLOO COLUMBUS, HERE, FRIDAY NIGHT 52 TO 49 BUT SATURDAY, HERE AGAIN, LOST TO NON-CONFERENCE NORTH SCOTT, 40 TO 39. THEY ARE NOW 6 AND 0 IN THE CONFERENCE AND 7 AND 3 OVERALL. TOMORROW NIGHT, THE GIRLS HOST WESTERN DUBUQUE AND THE BOYS PLAY THERE.
WRESTLING: THE MAQUOKETA CARDINALS TOOK 3RD PLACE, IN A 15 TEAM TOURNAMENT, AT BENTON COMMUNITY VAN HORNE SATURDAY. ONE CHAMPION FROM MAQUOKETA....DANE PAPE AT 215. CHRIS HAHN AT 145 AND CHARLIE HAYES AT HEAVYWEIGHT, EACH PLACED 2ND. THE CARDINALS WILL WRESTLE AGAIN TOMORROW NIGHT AT CAMANCHE.
MORE CITY COMMISSION APPOINTMENTS: KENT CRAWFORD (BAND INSTRUCTOR) WAS RE-APPOINTED TO THE AIRPORT COMMISSION. HE'S A PILOT. THE COUNCIL ALSO REDUCED THE NUMBER OF MEMBERS FROM 7 TO 5.
THE ARC(SWIMMING POOL)COMMITTEE HAS A NEW, BUT FORMER, MEMBER, DEB LANE AND MARGO SHOUSE WAS RE-APPOINTED TO IT. JEFF BODENHOFER WAS RE-APPOINTED TO THE CABLE COMMISSION AND LORI (PAUL) MCCAULLEY AND JODI COAKLEY WERE RE-APPOINTED TO THE PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION.
A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR ALL PACKER FANS---------------------------------------------------------------------------TALK ABOUT GIVING AWAY A GAME ABOUT 4 OR 5 TIMES.
THE NEW "CITIZEN OF THE WEEK" ON THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY CLUB "WEB SITE" IS A 60'S MHS GRADE. SEE A PICTURE OF HER AND READ ABOUT HER AT www.maquoketa-rotary.org WAIT UNTIL TONIGHT....I'M NOT SURE IT IS UP ON THE SITE YET.
PAUL HAYES, A LIFELONG RESIDENT OF MAQUOKETA, CELEBRATES HIS 80TH BIRTHDAY, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14TH. HE WAS BORN AT GIBSONVILLE, WHICH WAS NEAR HERE. ONE OF 10 CHILDREN AND HE IS SOLE SURVIVING MEMBER OF THE FAMILY.
HE WORKED AT SEVERAL DOWNTOWN STORES, INCLUDING THE COAST TO COAST STORE, KENDALL MEN'S WEAR,
MANNING'S MEAT MARKET, LAHEY FUNERAL HOME AND MANAGED A MOTEL FOR A COUPLE YEARS IN CALIFORNIA.
HE AND WIFE GERI LIVE AT 119 THOMAS AVENUE IN MAQUOKETA. BOTH WELL AND VISIT DOWNTOWN ALMOST DAILY. SEND HIM A CARD. OR GIVE HIM A CALL...563-652-5988.
MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD MEETING TONIGHT.
TW0 CAR ACCIDENT FRIDAY AFTERNOON....LINDA DAVIDSON, 46 IN ONE CAR AND PATSY CLARK, 57, IN OTHER....ON PERSHING ROAD DAVIDSON WAS CHARGED WITH FAILURE TO YIELD. BOTH CARS RECEIVED ABOUT $2,000 IN DAMAGE.
NANCY AND I BOTH SAW "SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE" STARRING JACK NICKOLSON....GREAT SHOW....TRY AND SEE IT.
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU TOOK HER TO A GOOD MOVIE?? REALLY DO IT UP RIGHT, AND DINE FIRST AT MCDONALD'S. AND SAVE SOME MONEY FOR POPCORN!
POLICE BLOTTER: BECKY SHADY OF 502 ROSEMERE REPORTED SOMEONE TOOK A $400 BOY'S BIKE SATURDAY.
QUITE A BIKE!? AND.. SOMEONE DROVE OFF THE LOT AT KJ'S CONVENIENCE WITHOUT PAYING FOR $24 WORTH OF GASOLINE.
FOUR DEER ACCIDENTS OVER THE WEEKEND IN AREA. RANDY THEISEN, VICKI DRISCOLL, KEVIN FUSS AND KEVIN DAVID ALL REPORTED HITTING A DEARL.
HAPPY 2ND ANNIVERSARY TO MY DAUGHTER LONNA AND HUSBAND SHAWN. YUP, MARRIED ON OUR ANNIVERSARY.,
HELEN SHADY HAS RESIGNED AS TREASURER OF THE JACKSON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS. ARLENE WEIRUP OF BALDWIN HAS BEEN APPOINTED TO TAKE HER PLACE. GOOD JOB, WELL DOWN, BY A LONGTIME MAQUOKETA BOOSTER, HELEN SHADY.
RICHARD HOSCH, 56, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED TODAY AT HIS HOME AT JOINERVILLE, RURAL MAQUOKETA, FROM CANCER.
HIS SON IS JASON, WHO OWNS, WITH WIFE KRISTY, KRISTEENO'S PIZZERIA DOWNTOWN. MORE TOMORROW.
NO BIRTHS.
JAKE BICKFORD JUST CALLED....WANTS TO TAKE A BREAK FROM HIS WALL TO WALL SALE AT BILL MOLER'S MENSWEAR, TO HAVE A COFFEE BREAK. SO, I'LL GET MORE NEWS IN A FEW MINUTES. PROBABLY NOT ALL PRINTABLE.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY
Friday, January 09, 2004
1/4 INCH OF SNOW LAST NIGHT. TOTAL IN JANUARY SO FAR, 5 1/4"...ALREADY AN INCH MORE THAN LAST JANUARY. HIGH TODAY, 30.
THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS BEAT DEWITT LAST NIGHT BY 4 TEAM POINTS. THERE WERE 14 MATCHES AND MAQUOKETA WON 7 AND DEWITT WON 7.
THE MAQUOKETA BOYS BASKETBALL TEAMS PLAY AT WATERLOO COLUMBUS TONIGHT IN WAMAC ACTION...GOING AFTER THEIR 6TH WIN IN A ROW. THE GIRLS HOST WATERLOO AT THE MCHS GYM. TOMORROW NIGHT, THE GIRLS HOST NORTH SCOTT IN NON-CONFERENCE PLAY.
THE HOUSE FIRE LAST NIGHT RESULTED IN TOTAL LOSS OF THE HOME AT AN ESTIMATED LOSS OF $100,000. THE HOUSE STANDS YET TODAY, BUT JUST THE SHELL.
FIREMEN FROM MAQUOKETA AND ANDREW SPENT OVER 4 HOURS FIGHTING THE BLAZE LAST NIGHT. THE FARM HOME OWNED BY OWEN LINDSTROM AND LOCATED ON 17TH STREET EAST OF MAQUOKETA OFF HIGHWAY 64. THE FIRE CALL CAME IN AFTER 4:30 YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AND NO ONE WAS HOME AT THE TIME THE FIRE BROKE OUT AND WAS REPORTED BY A PASSER-BY. IT IS BELIEVED THE FIRE STARTED AT THE WOOD BURNING STOVE. OWEN'S FOLKS ARE ARNOLD AND LIZ LINDSTROM.
JOSH SHADE, AGE 23, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS IN AN ACCIDENT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF MAQUOKETA ON DARK HOLLOW ROAD. DEPUTY SHERIFF RUSS LONG SAID SHADY LOST CONTROL OF HIS DODGE RAM PICKUP ON THE SNOW COVERED GRAVEL ROAD...AND IT WENT INTO THE DITCH AND ROLLED, CAUSING ABOUT $3,000 IN DAMAGES. NO INJURIES.
RYAN GERISCHER OF 410 S. 5TH STREET REPORTED TO POLICE THAT TAKEN FROM HIS RESIDENCE...A GAME CUBE, DVD PLAYER AND GAMES.
IN DISTRICT COURT, DAVID J. WEINSCHENK, AGE 41, OF MAQUOKETA WAS SENTENCED TO 30 DAYS IN JAIL, 28 SUSPENDED, ON CHARGES OF OWI. HE WAS ARRESTED ONN OCTOBER 15TH.
THE MAQUOKETA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HAD A CONTEST THIS CHRISTMAS.
THE PERSON THAT (SAVING SALES RECEIPTS AND TURNING THEM IN ON A FORM)
SPENT THE MOST IN MAQUOKETA DURING THE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING SEASON WOULD GET ONE-HUNDRED CHAMBER BUCKS. WINNERS ANNOUNCED TODAY: DEB MILLWRIGHT OF MAQUOKETA WHO SPENT OVER $16,000. TAKING SECOND PLACE AND RECEIVING 50 CHAMBER BUCKS, WAS DAVID AND SUE DANIELS OF MILES, SPENDING JUST OVER $14,000. AND TAKING THIRD PLACE, AND GETTING 25 CHAMBER BUCKS, AL MUHLHAUSEN OF MAQUOKETA, SPENDING NEARLY $7,500.
ELLEN LINDEMIER, AGE 74, OF MAQUOKETA DIED YESTERDAY AT HER HOME.
SHE AND HUSBAND DON FARMED IN THE EMILINE AREA UNTIL MOVING TO MAQUOKETA IN 2002. THEY HAD ALSO OWNED THE LINDY'S RESTAURANT IN DELMAR FOR SEVERAL YEARS. SURVIVORS INCLUDE: HUSBAND DON, 3 CHILDREN....BARBARA BERG OF DELMAR, ROY LINDEMIER OF MAQUOKETA AND NANCY SUTHERS OF DELMAR.
HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS BEAT DEWITT LAST NIGHT BY 4 TEAM POINTS. THERE WERE 14 MATCHES AND MAQUOKETA WON 7 AND DEWITT WON 7.
THE MAQUOKETA BOYS BASKETBALL TEAMS PLAY AT WATERLOO COLUMBUS TONIGHT IN WAMAC ACTION...GOING AFTER THEIR 6TH WIN IN A ROW. THE GIRLS HOST WATERLOO AT THE MCHS GYM. TOMORROW NIGHT, THE GIRLS HOST NORTH SCOTT IN NON-CONFERENCE PLAY.
THE HOUSE FIRE LAST NIGHT RESULTED IN TOTAL LOSS OF THE HOME AT AN ESTIMATED LOSS OF $100,000. THE HOUSE STANDS YET TODAY, BUT JUST THE SHELL.
FIREMEN FROM MAQUOKETA AND ANDREW SPENT OVER 4 HOURS FIGHTING THE BLAZE LAST NIGHT. THE FARM HOME OWNED BY OWEN LINDSTROM AND LOCATED ON 17TH STREET EAST OF MAQUOKETA OFF HIGHWAY 64. THE FIRE CALL CAME IN AFTER 4:30 YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AND NO ONE WAS HOME AT THE TIME THE FIRE BROKE OUT AND WAS REPORTED BY A PASSER-BY. IT IS BELIEVED THE FIRE STARTED AT THE WOOD BURNING STOVE. OWEN'S FOLKS ARE ARNOLD AND LIZ LINDSTROM.
JOSH SHADE, AGE 23, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS IN AN ACCIDENT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF MAQUOKETA ON DARK HOLLOW ROAD. DEPUTY SHERIFF RUSS LONG SAID SHADY LOST CONTROL OF HIS DODGE RAM PICKUP ON THE SNOW COVERED GRAVEL ROAD...AND IT WENT INTO THE DITCH AND ROLLED, CAUSING ABOUT $3,000 IN DAMAGES. NO INJURIES.
RYAN GERISCHER OF 410 S. 5TH STREET REPORTED TO POLICE THAT TAKEN FROM HIS RESIDENCE...A GAME CUBE, DVD PLAYER AND GAMES.
IN DISTRICT COURT, DAVID J. WEINSCHENK, AGE 41, OF MAQUOKETA WAS SENTENCED TO 30 DAYS IN JAIL, 28 SUSPENDED, ON CHARGES OF OWI. HE WAS ARRESTED ONN OCTOBER 15TH.
THE MAQUOKETA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HAD A CONTEST THIS CHRISTMAS.
THE PERSON THAT (SAVING SALES RECEIPTS AND TURNING THEM IN ON A FORM)
SPENT THE MOST IN MAQUOKETA DURING THE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING SEASON WOULD GET ONE-HUNDRED CHAMBER BUCKS. WINNERS ANNOUNCED TODAY: DEB MILLWRIGHT OF MAQUOKETA WHO SPENT OVER $16,000. TAKING SECOND PLACE AND RECEIVING 50 CHAMBER BUCKS, WAS DAVID AND SUE DANIELS OF MILES, SPENDING JUST OVER $14,000. AND TAKING THIRD PLACE, AND GETTING 25 CHAMBER BUCKS, AL MUHLHAUSEN OF MAQUOKETA, SPENDING NEARLY $7,500.
ELLEN LINDEMIER, AGE 74, OF MAQUOKETA DIED YESTERDAY AT HER HOME.
SHE AND HUSBAND DON FARMED IN THE EMILINE AREA UNTIL MOVING TO MAQUOKETA IN 2002. THEY HAD ALSO OWNED THE LINDY'S RESTAURANT IN DELMAR FOR SEVERAL YEARS. SURVIVORS INCLUDE: HUSBAND DON, 3 CHILDREN....BARBARA BERG OF DELMAR, ROY LINDEMIER OF MAQUOKETA AND NANCY SUTHERS OF DELMAR.
HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
Thursday, January 08, 2004
CLOUDY TODAY....SNOW PREDICTED BUT DIDN'T ARRIVE....AND IT WAS 32 FOR A HIGH.
THE MAQUOKETA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT RIGHT NOW IS FIGHTING A HOUSE FIRE EAST OF MAQUOKETA. THE FIRE IS AT THE OWEN LINDSTROM RESIDENCE ON 17TH STREET. ANDREW FIREMEN WERE CALLED TO BRING A TANKER.
LONGTIME MAQUOKETA BUSINESSMAN, ST. REP. BOB OSTERHAUS , CALLED A NEWS CONFERENCE AT 4 THIS AFTERNOON AT THE MAQUOKETA CITY HALL TO ANNOUNCE THAT HE WILL NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THIS NOVEMBER.
THE DEMOCRAT HAS SERVED 8 YEARS, HAVING BEEN ELECTED IN JANUARY 1996.
HE HAS ONE SESSION LEFT, STARTING LATER THIS MONTH AND SAID THE COMING SESSION WILL NOT BE AN EASY ONE, BUT BELIEVES MUCH CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED.
HE THANKED HIS WIFE, ANN, WHO HAS SERVED AS HIS LEGISLATIVE CLERK THROUGHOUT THE YEARS. ALSO AT THE NEWS CONFERENCE, OSTERHAUS INTRODUCED MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCILMAN TOM SCHUELLER, SAYING SCHUELLER WILL SEEK THE OSTERHAUS POSITION IN HOUSE DISTRICT 25. SCHUELLER IS A LOCAL CONTRACTOR AND ALSO OWNS A CARE CENTER FOR SENIORS. HE HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL FOR 10 YEARS.
AT THIS PAST MONDAY NIGHT'S CITY COUNCIL MEETING, APPOINTMENTS TO CITY
COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS WERE MADE. THE MAQUOKETA MUNICIPAL
ELECTRIC UTILITY WILL HAVE TWO NEW MEMBERS APPOINTED BY MAYOR TOM
MESSERLI. THEY ARE BOB GAVIN AND RON FRANDSEN. THEY REPLACE TWO MEN WHO HAVE BEEN ON THE MMEU BOARD SINCE IT WAS STARTED BACK IN THE LATE 80'S.
PRIOR TO THEN, THE CITY COUNCIL GOVERNED THE UTILITY. GOING OFF THE UTILITY BOARD, BOB EVERDING AND ROY FRANDSEN. BOTH DID A GOOD JOB AND HAVE SEEN LOTS OF CHANGES AND GROWTH OVER THE YEARS. IN THE DAYS AHEAD, I'LL MENTION OTHER APPOINTMENS IN THIS DAILY REPORT.
MAQUOKETA POLICE INVESTIGATED A HIT AND RUN ACCIDENT WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON. BETTY ZIRKELBACH, 82, OF MAQUOKETA WAS DRIVING NORTH ON MCKINSEY DRIVE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AND WHEN MAKING A LEFT TURN, SHE WAS HIT BY ANOTHER VEHICLE AND THAT VEHICLE DID NOT STOP. $2,000 DAMAGE TO HER 98 MERCURY AND NO INJURIES.
BILL PAYSEN, 408 BUTTERNUT, SAID SOMEONE TOOK HIS COMPUTER FROM HIS HOME. NO VALUE LISTED.
LONGTIME MAQUOKETA BARBER, JIM BELLER, AGE 77, DIED YESTERDAY AT HIS HOME.
HE WAS A BARBER FOR 52 YEARS. HE ALSO SERVED ON THE SCHOOL BOARD AND HAD A REAL ESTATE LICENSE. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, SHARON, 2 DAUGHTERS,
CONNIE ALBAUGH OF RENO, NEVADA AND KAREN SEDLACEK OF CEDAR RAPIDS.
ALSO 2 SONS, THOM OF ELYRIA, OHIO AND CHARLIE OF MARION. ALSO 13 GRANDCHILDREN AND 5 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.
THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS HOST DEWITT TONIGHT. IN A SABER TOURNAMENT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, THE CARDINALS PLACED BELOW DEWITT, BUT TONIGHT, MAQUOKETA HAS THE HOME ADVANTAGE. SHOULD BE A GOOD MEET. WE'LL BE BROADCASTING IT ON KMAQ-FM WITH DR. PAUL KOOB DESCRIBING THE MATCHES.
GIRL SCOUT COOKIES GO ON SALE TOMOROW, AT $3.00 A BOX.
ON A PERSONAL NOTE, MY CONGRATULATIONS GO OUT TO MY SON RICK, AGE 36, OF
BETTENDORF, WHO HAS BEEN PROMOTED TO A DETECTIVE POSITION WITH THE DAVENPORT POLICE DEPARTMENT. HE WAS AN MP WITH THE U.S. MARINES FOR OVER A DOZEN YEARS AND HAS BEEN WITH THE DAVENPORT POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR
NEARLY 6 YEARS. THERE ARE AROUND 15 DETECTIVES ON THE DEPARTMENT.
NO MORE UNIFORM. HE HAS JOINED HIS DAD WITH SHIRT AND TIE GARB. AND, BETTER HOURS TOO, TO SPEND WITH WIFE SHERI AND DAUGHTER CASSIE.
CASSIE, IN FIRST GRADE, GETS BUSY TOMORROW SELLING THOSE GIRL SCOUT COOKIES I MENTIONED EARLIER. HER GRANDMA NANCY HAS ALREADY ORDERED SEVERAL BOXES FROM HER.
THANKS FOR CHECKING IN TODAY. I'LL HAVE THAT BIG WRESTLING SCORE FOR YOU TOMORROW.
DENNIS VOY
THE MAQUOKETA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT RIGHT NOW IS FIGHTING A HOUSE FIRE EAST OF MAQUOKETA. THE FIRE IS AT THE OWEN LINDSTROM RESIDENCE ON 17TH STREET. ANDREW FIREMEN WERE CALLED TO BRING A TANKER.
LONGTIME MAQUOKETA BUSINESSMAN, ST. REP. BOB OSTERHAUS , CALLED A NEWS CONFERENCE AT 4 THIS AFTERNOON AT THE MAQUOKETA CITY HALL TO ANNOUNCE THAT HE WILL NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THIS NOVEMBER.
THE DEMOCRAT HAS SERVED 8 YEARS, HAVING BEEN ELECTED IN JANUARY 1996.
HE HAS ONE SESSION LEFT, STARTING LATER THIS MONTH AND SAID THE COMING SESSION WILL NOT BE AN EASY ONE, BUT BELIEVES MUCH CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED.
HE THANKED HIS WIFE, ANN, WHO HAS SERVED AS HIS LEGISLATIVE CLERK THROUGHOUT THE YEARS. ALSO AT THE NEWS CONFERENCE, OSTERHAUS INTRODUCED MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCILMAN TOM SCHUELLER, SAYING SCHUELLER WILL SEEK THE OSTERHAUS POSITION IN HOUSE DISTRICT 25. SCHUELLER IS A LOCAL CONTRACTOR AND ALSO OWNS A CARE CENTER FOR SENIORS. HE HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL FOR 10 YEARS.
AT THIS PAST MONDAY NIGHT'S CITY COUNCIL MEETING, APPOINTMENTS TO CITY
COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS WERE MADE. THE MAQUOKETA MUNICIPAL
ELECTRIC UTILITY WILL HAVE TWO NEW MEMBERS APPOINTED BY MAYOR TOM
MESSERLI. THEY ARE BOB GAVIN AND RON FRANDSEN. THEY REPLACE TWO MEN WHO HAVE BEEN ON THE MMEU BOARD SINCE IT WAS STARTED BACK IN THE LATE 80'S.
PRIOR TO THEN, THE CITY COUNCIL GOVERNED THE UTILITY. GOING OFF THE UTILITY BOARD, BOB EVERDING AND ROY FRANDSEN. BOTH DID A GOOD JOB AND HAVE SEEN LOTS OF CHANGES AND GROWTH OVER THE YEARS. IN THE DAYS AHEAD, I'LL MENTION OTHER APPOINTMENS IN THIS DAILY REPORT.
MAQUOKETA POLICE INVESTIGATED A HIT AND RUN ACCIDENT WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON. BETTY ZIRKELBACH, 82, OF MAQUOKETA WAS DRIVING NORTH ON MCKINSEY DRIVE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AND WHEN MAKING A LEFT TURN, SHE WAS HIT BY ANOTHER VEHICLE AND THAT VEHICLE DID NOT STOP. $2,000 DAMAGE TO HER 98 MERCURY AND NO INJURIES.
BILL PAYSEN, 408 BUTTERNUT, SAID SOMEONE TOOK HIS COMPUTER FROM HIS HOME. NO VALUE LISTED.
LONGTIME MAQUOKETA BARBER, JIM BELLER, AGE 77, DIED YESTERDAY AT HIS HOME.
HE WAS A BARBER FOR 52 YEARS. HE ALSO SERVED ON THE SCHOOL BOARD AND HAD A REAL ESTATE LICENSE. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, SHARON, 2 DAUGHTERS,
CONNIE ALBAUGH OF RENO, NEVADA AND KAREN SEDLACEK OF CEDAR RAPIDS.
ALSO 2 SONS, THOM OF ELYRIA, OHIO AND CHARLIE OF MARION. ALSO 13 GRANDCHILDREN AND 5 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.
THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS HOST DEWITT TONIGHT. IN A SABER TOURNAMENT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, THE CARDINALS PLACED BELOW DEWITT, BUT TONIGHT, MAQUOKETA HAS THE HOME ADVANTAGE. SHOULD BE A GOOD MEET. WE'LL BE BROADCASTING IT ON KMAQ-FM WITH DR. PAUL KOOB DESCRIBING THE MATCHES.
GIRL SCOUT COOKIES GO ON SALE TOMOROW, AT $3.00 A BOX.
ON A PERSONAL NOTE, MY CONGRATULATIONS GO OUT TO MY SON RICK, AGE 36, OF
BETTENDORF, WHO HAS BEEN PROMOTED TO A DETECTIVE POSITION WITH THE DAVENPORT POLICE DEPARTMENT. HE WAS AN MP WITH THE U.S. MARINES FOR OVER A DOZEN YEARS AND HAS BEEN WITH THE DAVENPORT POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR
NEARLY 6 YEARS. THERE ARE AROUND 15 DETECTIVES ON THE DEPARTMENT.
NO MORE UNIFORM. HE HAS JOINED HIS DAD WITH SHIRT AND TIE GARB. AND, BETTER HOURS TOO, TO SPEND WITH WIFE SHERI AND DAUGHTER CASSIE.
CASSIE, IN FIRST GRADE, GETS BUSY TOMORROW SELLING THOSE GIRL SCOUT COOKIES I MENTIONED EARLIER. HER GRANDMA NANCY HAS ALREADY ORDERED SEVERAL BOXES FROM HER.
THANKS FOR CHECKING IN TODAY. I'LL HAVE THAT BIG WRESTLING SCORE FOR YOU TOMORROW.
DENNIS VOY
Wednesday, January 07, 2004
WARMER TODAY..SUNNY AND 24.
BASKETBALL LAST NIGHT. THE MAQUOKETA BOYS WON BOTH GAMES IN OVERTIME.
TYLER KRUEGER WAS LEADING SCORER IN THE VARSITY GAME WITH 22 POINTS.
THE WINS WERE HERE, OVER DYERSVILLE. MAQUOKETA IS NOW 4 AND 0 IN THE CONFERENCE.
THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS VARSITY TEAM ALSO BEAT DYERSVILLE LAST NIGHT, UP THERE.
STEVE TEBBE,OWNER OF WHISPERING MEADOWS RESORT NEAR SPRINGBROOK, IS THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE JACKSON COUNTY TOURISM ASSOCIATION. HE SUCCEEDS LINDA POWLISTHA OF MAQUOKETA. ELLEN FRANTZEN OF MAQUOKETA IS THE NEW VICE-PRESIDENT AND KATHY TILL OF ANDREW IS THE TREASURER. THE GROUP MEETS ONCE A MONTH TO PROMOTE TOURISM IN JACKSON COUNTY.
A MAQUOKETA MAN, KURTIS FELDERMAN, AGE 21, IS FACING SEVERAL CHARGES AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY TOLD JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES SOMEONE SHOT HIM LAST FALL, WHEN HE ACCIDENTALLY SHOT HIMSELF.
A LAMOTTE MAN, DALE KILBURG, AGE 45, HIT TWO CALVES ON THE BELLEVUE-CASCADE ROAD ABOUT 6 THIS MORNING. HE WAS NOT INJURED.
A VANDALISM INCIDENT. REPRESENTATIVES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES SAID ONE OF THEIR VEHICLES HAD A WINDOW BROKEN WHILE PARKED AT 117 S. OLIVE STREET.
ELEANOR ULVESTAD DIED YESTERDAY AT MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER, AT AGE 90.
SHE WORKED AS A BEAUTICIAN, ALSO AT MAX RAY JEWELER, AND ALSO FOR HEPKER CHIROPRACTIC. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, CLIFF....2 CHILDREN, CAROL ULVESTAD OF DAVENPORT AND GENE OF AMES, PLUS 3 GRANDCHILDREN AND 7 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN AND A SISTER IN ROCKFORD.
GOT A NICE EMAIL FROM STAN AND PAT WEETS WHO ARE ENJOYING WARM WEATHER DOWN IN THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY AT MCALLEN, TEXAS. THEY SAID THEY TOOK MOSTLY ROADS THROUGH SMALL TOWNS ON THE WAY DOWN, BEFORE CHRISTMAS AND SAID NONE OF THE TOWNS HAD CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS DOWNTOWN AS NICE AS THE ONES IN MAQUOKETA.
JIM BOLLMAN OF MAQUOKETA, WHO RETIRED AS CITY COUNCIMAN DECEMBER 31ST, IS THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY "CITIZEN OF THE WEEK". SEE A PICTURE OF HIM AND A STORY ABOUT HIM ON THE ROTARY WEB SITE...www.maquoketa-rotary.org.
THAT'S IT FOR TODAY. KEEP WARM.
DENNIS VOY
BASKETBALL LAST NIGHT. THE MAQUOKETA BOYS WON BOTH GAMES IN OVERTIME.
TYLER KRUEGER WAS LEADING SCORER IN THE VARSITY GAME WITH 22 POINTS.
THE WINS WERE HERE, OVER DYERSVILLE. MAQUOKETA IS NOW 4 AND 0 IN THE CONFERENCE.
THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS VARSITY TEAM ALSO BEAT DYERSVILLE LAST NIGHT, UP THERE.
STEVE TEBBE,OWNER OF WHISPERING MEADOWS RESORT NEAR SPRINGBROOK, IS THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE JACKSON COUNTY TOURISM ASSOCIATION. HE SUCCEEDS LINDA POWLISTHA OF MAQUOKETA. ELLEN FRANTZEN OF MAQUOKETA IS THE NEW VICE-PRESIDENT AND KATHY TILL OF ANDREW IS THE TREASURER. THE GROUP MEETS ONCE A MONTH TO PROMOTE TOURISM IN JACKSON COUNTY.
A MAQUOKETA MAN, KURTIS FELDERMAN, AGE 21, IS FACING SEVERAL CHARGES AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY TOLD JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES SOMEONE SHOT HIM LAST FALL, WHEN HE ACCIDENTALLY SHOT HIMSELF.
A LAMOTTE MAN, DALE KILBURG, AGE 45, HIT TWO CALVES ON THE BELLEVUE-CASCADE ROAD ABOUT 6 THIS MORNING. HE WAS NOT INJURED.
A VANDALISM INCIDENT. REPRESENTATIVES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES SAID ONE OF THEIR VEHICLES HAD A WINDOW BROKEN WHILE PARKED AT 117 S. OLIVE STREET.
ELEANOR ULVESTAD DIED YESTERDAY AT MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER, AT AGE 90.
SHE WORKED AS A BEAUTICIAN, ALSO AT MAX RAY JEWELER, AND ALSO FOR HEPKER CHIROPRACTIC. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, CLIFF....2 CHILDREN, CAROL ULVESTAD OF DAVENPORT AND GENE OF AMES, PLUS 3 GRANDCHILDREN AND 7 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN AND A SISTER IN ROCKFORD.
GOT A NICE EMAIL FROM STAN AND PAT WEETS WHO ARE ENJOYING WARM WEATHER DOWN IN THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY AT MCALLEN, TEXAS. THEY SAID THEY TOOK MOSTLY ROADS THROUGH SMALL TOWNS ON THE WAY DOWN, BEFORE CHRISTMAS AND SAID NONE OF THE TOWNS HAD CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS DOWNTOWN AS NICE AS THE ONES IN MAQUOKETA.
JIM BOLLMAN OF MAQUOKETA, WHO RETIRED AS CITY COUNCIMAN DECEMBER 31ST, IS THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY "CITIZEN OF THE WEEK". SEE A PICTURE OF HIM AND A STORY ABOUT HIM ON THE ROTARY WEB SITE...www.maquoketa-rotary.org.
THAT'S IT FOR TODAY. KEEP WARM.
DENNIS VOY
Tuesday, January 06, 2004
IT IS REALLY COLD IN IOWA. 4 BELOW IN MAQUOKETA THIS MORNING. NOW, SUNNY AND 10.
A COUPLE MORE DAYS AND IT WILL WARM UP A LITTLE.
LINDA POWLISTHA BROUGHT IN SOME PICTURE OF THE ONWARD FINE ARTS CENTER (LARGE AUDITORIUM) THAT IS GOING UP ON EAST PLATT STREET, ACROSS FROM THE FAIR GROUNDS. BEING BUILDT BY VOLUNTEERS, INCLUDING HER HUSBAND DON, AND NO TAX MONEY FOR IT....ALL DONATIONS. WON'T BE DOWN FOR A FEW MORE MONTHS AT LEAST. GO TO KMAQ HOME PAGE, CLICK TO PHOTOS AND YOU'LL SEE AN OUTSIDE PHOTO OF IT. CLICK ON IT FOR ABOUT 6 OR MORE PHOTOS OF THE INSIDE.
JACKSON COUNTY RECORDER PHYLLIS GERLACH IS MAD AT THE SUPERVISORS. SHE WANTS A HIGHER SALARY AND ALSO WANTS TO GIVE HER EMPLOYEES A RAISE AND SUPERVISORS WON'T AGREE TO IT, BECAUSE THERE IS NOT ENOUGH MONEY IN HER BUDGET. AT LEAST TWICE BEFORE SHE WAS AT ONE OF THEIR MEETINGS AND SHE WAS AT THE MEETING OF THE SUPERVISORS AGAIN TODAY. TODAY, SHE ASKED THE SUERVISORS IF SHE WERE A MAN WOULD THEIR DECISION BE DIFFERENT. SHE SAID A MAN WOULD NOT HAVE TO PUT UP WITH WHAT SHE HAS HAD TO. AND SHE ONCE AGAIN TODAY COMPLAINED THAT HER SALARY WAS LESS THAN THE SALARY FOR THE AUDITOR AND TREASURER. SUPERVISORS DECLINED TODAY TO APPROVE ANY RAISES AND SUPERVISOR DAVE KENDELL SAID THE SALARY ISSUE IS UP TO THE COMPENSATION BOARD AND THAT BOARD WILL MEET FOR ITS ANNUAL MEETING NEXT TUESDAY.
A MAQUOKETA MAN, TED WIGGINS, 74, WAS CHARGED WITH FAILURE TO YIELD ON A LEFT TURN FOLLOWING A TWO-VEHICLE ACCIDENT MONDAY MORNING EAST OF MAQUOKETA. THE OTHER VEHICLE WAS DRIVEN BY MADONNA SAGERS, 63, OF MAQUOKETA. DAMAGES WERE ESTIMATED AT $1,000 TO WIGGIN'S 2004 DODGE AND $2,500 TO SAGERS 2002 DODGE. NO INJURIES.
ELEANOR G. ULVESTAD, AGE 90, DIED TODAY AT THE MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER. SERVICES ARE PENDING.
I'LL HAVE MORE WHEN I GET THE COMPLETE ARRANGEMENTS FROM THE FUNERAL HOME.
THE MAQUOKETA BOYS HOST DYERSVILLE TONIGHT IN BOY'S WAMAC CONFERENCE BASKETBALL AND THE GIRLS PLAY THERE.
THANKS FOR THE VISIT.
DENNIS VOY
A COUPLE MORE DAYS AND IT WILL WARM UP A LITTLE.
LINDA POWLISTHA BROUGHT IN SOME PICTURE OF THE ONWARD FINE ARTS CENTER (LARGE AUDITORIUM) THAT IS GOING UP ON EAST PLATT STREET, ACROSS FROM THE FAIR GROUNDS. BEING BUILDT BY VOLUNTEERS, INCLUDING HER HUSBAND DON, AND NO TAX MONEY FOR IT....ALL DONATIONS. WON'T BE DOWN FOR A FEW MORE MONTHS AT LEAST. GO TO KMAQ HOME PAGE, CLICK TO PHOTOS AND YOU'LL SEE AN OUTSIDE PHOTO OF IT. CLICK ON IT FOR ABOUT 6 OR MORE PHOTOS OF THE INSIDE.
JACKSON COUNTY RECORDER PHYLLIS GERLACH IS MAD AT THE SUPERVISORS. SHE WANTS A HIGHER SALARY AND ALSO WANTS TO GIVE HER EMPLOYEES A RAISE AND SUPERVISORS WON'T AGREE TO IT, BECAUSE THERE IS NOT ENOUGH MONEY IN HER BUDGET. AT LEAST TWICE BEFORE SHE WAS AT ONE OF THEIR MEETINGS AND SHE WAS AT THE MEETING OF THE SUPERVISORS AGAIN TODAY. TODAY, SHE ASKED THE SUERVISORS IF SHE WERE A MAN WOULD THEIR DECISION BE DIFFERENT. SHE SAID A MAN WOULD NOT HAVE TO PUT UP WITH WHAT SHE HAS HAD TO. AND SHE ONCE AGAIN TODAY COMPLAINED THAT HER SALARY WAS LESS THAN THE SALARY FOR THE AUDITOR AND TREASURER. SUPERVISORS DECLINED TODAY TO APPROVE ANY RAISES AND SUPERVISOR DAVE KENDELL SAID THE SALARY ISSUE IS UP TO THE COMPENSATION BOARD AND THAT BOARD WILL MEET FOR ITS ANNUAL MEETING NEXT TUESDAY.
A MAQUOKETA MAN, TED WIGGINS, 74, WAS CHARGED WITH FAILURE TO YIELD ON A LEFT TURN FOLLOWING A TWO-VEHICLE ACCIDENT MONDAY MORNING EAST OF MAQUOKETA. THE OTHER VEHICLE WAS DRIVEN BY MADONNA SAGERS, 63, OF MAQUOKETA. DAMAGES WERE ESTIMATED AT $1,000 TO WIGGIN'S 2004 DODGE AND $2,500 TO SAGERS 2002 DODGE. NO INJURIES.
ELEANOR G. ULVESTAD, AGE 90, DIED TODAY AT THE MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER. SERVICES ARE PENDING.
I'LL HAVE MORE WHEN I GET THE COMPLETE ARRANGEMENTS FROM THE FUNERAL HOME.
THE MAQUOKETA BOYS HOST DYERSVILLE TONIGHT IN BOY'S WAMAC CONFERENCE BASKETBALL AND THE GIRLS PLAY THERE.
THANKS FOR THE VISIT.
DENNIS VOY
Monday, January 05, 2004
ITS COLD IN IOWA. NOW AT 5 P.M...JUST 7 ABOVE AND WE EXPECT TO GO BELOW ZERO TONIGHT. WE HAD 5 INCHES OF SNOW OVER THE WEEKEND.
A MAQUOKETA MAN, WILLIAM SIMONS, AGE 23, IS IN THE JACKSON COUNTY DETENTION CENTER ON A $6,500 BOND AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY SHOT OFF HIS GUN AND THREATENED ANOTHER MAN LAST NIGHT AROUND 7:30 ON EAST MAPLE STREET.
MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT. THREE NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS WILL TAKE THEIR SEATS TONIGHT. NEIL MOREHEAD, MARSHA MEYERS AND PAUL HAHLE.
ROBERT NIEBUHR, 74, OF LOST NATION, DIED SATURDAY. HE AND HIS WIFE OPERATED NIEBUHR'S MEAT MARKET IN LOST NATION FROM 1966 UNTIL 1991.
JOAN HOWELL, AGE 78, OF MAQUOKETA DIED SATURDAY AT CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME. HE AND HER LATE HUSBAND, SLIP, FOUNDED "SLIP'S INN" IN 1959 AND OPERATED THE TAVERN UNTIL RETIRING IN 1989.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY ONE SON, VERL HOWELL OF MAQUOKETA AND A DAUGHTER, MELODY MILLER OF MAQUOKETA. ALSO 4 GRANDCHILDREN AND 3 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN..AND A SISTER BETTY WHO LIVES IN LONDON, ENGLAND.
LARRY BERNER, AGE 57, OF HOFFMAN ESTATES, ILLINOIS AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED SATURDAY IN ILLINOIS. HE WORKED FOR AN INDUSTRY IN CHICAGO. HE IS SURVIVED BY 4 SONS, DAVE, STEVE, DOUG AND SCOTT, AND 6 GRANDCHLDREN. ALSO 2 SISTERS, INCLUDING ARLENE BERNER OF MAQUOKETA AND 4 BROTHERS, INCLUDING CLIFF BERNER OF MAQUOKETA AND GLENN BERNER OF BALDWIN.
HELENE RUFF, AGE 90, DIED LAST NIGHT AT THE MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER. SHE AND HER FIRST HUSBAND, CARROLL STODDARD OWNED THE DELMAR JOURNAL FOR 10 YEARS. SHE ALSO WORKED AS A
BOOKEEPER FOR 19 YEARS FOR MITCHELL-MASKREY COMPANY IN MAQUOKETA. SHE MARRIED HARLAN RUFF IN 1964 AND HE DIED IN 2000. SHE IS SURVIVED BY 1 BROTHER IN SAN DIEGO AND 1 SISTER IN PLACERVILLE, CALIFORNIA.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY
A MAQUOKETA MAN, WILLIAM SIMONS, AGE 23, IS IN THE JACKSON COUNTY DETENTION CENTER ON A $6,500 BOND AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY SHOT OFF HIS GUN AND THREATENED ANOTHER MAN LAST NIGHT AROUND 7:30 ON EAST MAPLE STREET.
MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT. THREE NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS WILL TAKE THEIR SEATS TONIGHT. NEIL MOREHEAD, MARSHA MEYERS AND PAUL HAHLE.
ROBERT NIEBUHR, 74, OF LOST NATION, DIED SATURDAY. HE AND HIS WIFE OPERATED NIEBUHR'S MEAT MARKET IN LOST NATION FROM 1966 UNTIL 1991.
JOAN HOWELL, AGE 78, OF MAQUOKETA DIED SATURDAY AT CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME. HE AND HER LATE HUSBAND, SLIP, FOUNDED "SLIP'S INN" IN 1959 AND OPERATED THE TAVERN UNTIL RETIRING IN 1989.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY ONE SON, VERL HOWELL OF MAQUOKETA AND A DAUGHTER, MELODY MILLER OF MAQUOKETA. ALSO 4 GRANDCHILDREN AND 3 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN..AND A SISTER BETTY WHO LIVES IN LONDON, ENGLAND.
LARRY BERNER, AGE 57, OF HOFFMAN ESTATES, ILLINOIS AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED SATURDAY IN ILLINOIS. HE WORKED FOR AN INDUSTRY IN CHICAGO. HE IS SURVIVED BY 4 SONS, DAVE, STEVE, DOUG AND SCOTT, AND 6 GRANDCHLDREN. ALSO 2 SISTERS, INCLUDING ARLENE BERNER OF MAQUOKETA AND 4 BROTHERS, INCLUDING CLIFF BERNER OF MAQUOKETA AND GLENN BERNER OF BALDWIN.
HELENE RUFF, AGE 90, DIED LAST NIGHT AT THE MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER. SHE AND HER FIRST HUSBAND, CARROLL STODDARD OWNED THE DELMAR JOURNAL FOR 10 YEARS. SHE ALSO WORKED AS A
BOOKEEPER FOR 19 YEARS FOR MITCHELL-MASKREY COMPANY IN MAQUOKETA. SHE MARRIED HARLAN RUFF IN 1964 AND HE DIED IN 2000. SHE IS SURVIVED BY 1 BROTHER IN SAN DIEGO AND 1 SISTER IN PLACERVILLE, CALIFORNIA.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY
Friday, January 02, 2004
51 TODAY, WITH NO SUNSHINE. COLD WEATHER COMING, VERY COLD.
MAQUOKETA'S 3-YEAR-OLD GOLF COURSE....WILL SOMEDAY BE AN 18-HOLE COURSE. JIM HOLTZ, THE OWNER, TOLD KMAQ SPORTS TODAY THAT HE HAS PURCHASED TWO PIECES OF PROPERTY ADJACENT
TO THE PRESENT 9-HOLE COURSE. ONE PIECE IS NEAR THE ENTRYWAY AND THE OTHER IS TO THE SOUTHEAST OF THE COURSE AND INCLUDES THE LAND THAT IS CURRENTLY USED FOR THE DRIVING RANGE.
NO DEFINITE PLANS FOR THE 2ND NINE WERE ANNOUNCED. HOLTZ APPARENTLY PLANS TO START
BY CONSTRUCTING 2 OR 3 ADDITONAL HOLES SOON AND THEN ADD MORE LATER. MEANWHILE, THE DRIVING RANGE WILL REMAIN OPEN UNTIL WORK BEGINS ON THAT LAND. HOW ABOUT THAT, AN 18-HOLE GOLF COURSE FOR MAQUOKETA...."PRAIRIE CREEK"...IN ADDITION TO THE MAQUOKETA COUNTRY CLUB COURSE WHICH IS 9 AND HAS NO ROOM FOR EXPANSION.
LINDA MOHR, AGGE 33, OF MAQUOKETA WAS IN A MINOR ACCIDENT AT 4:40 THIS MORNING ON THE MAQUOKETA CAVES ROAD, ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF MAQUOKETA. SHE WAS DRIVING EAST AND HIT AN ICE SPOT AND SLID ACROSS THE ROAD AND INTO THE DITCH COMING TO REST ON A CONCRETE WALL. ACCORDING TO VETERAN DEPUTY ED CLARK, MOHR WAS TAKEN TO THE JACKSON COUNTY PUBLIC HOSPITAL BY HER HUSBAND AND DAMAGE TO THE 2002 FORD TRUCK WAS ESTIMATED AT ABOUT $4,000.
STEPHEN TILL, AGE 44, OF BELLEVUE WAS DRIVING OVER A HILL ON RAOD E-17 AND THERE WERE 4 HORSES IN THE ROAD. HE HIT ONE AND IT HAD TO BE PUT DOWN. DAMAGE TO HIS CAR, ABOUT $2,500.
DAVE KENDALL IS THE NEW CHAIRMAN OF THE JACKSON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. HE REPLACES SUPERVISOR JACK WILLEY. JC ENGEL WAS ELECTED VICE-CHAIRMAN. THEY ALTERNATE THE JOB EVERY YEAR.
IT WAS CLEAN-UP DAY AT THE DECKER HOTEL YESTERDAY AND TODAY. NEW YEAR'S EVE, SOMEONE FELL ASLEEP IN A 3RD FLOOR HOT TUB....AND IT OVER-FLOWED, AND OVERFLOWED, AND OVERFLOWED...WITH THE WATER RUNNING ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE LOBBY. PROFESSIONAL CLEANERS WERE CALLED IN AND THEY WORKED ALL DAY NEW YEAR'S DAY.
NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS.
HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
MAQUOKETA'S 3-YEAR-OLD GOLF COURSE....WILL SOMEDAY BE AN 18-HOLE COURSE. JIM HOLTZ, THE OWNER, TOLD KMAQ SPORTS TODAY THAT HE HAS PURCHASED TWO PIECES OF PROPERTY ADJACENT
TO THE PRESENT 9-HOLE COURSE. ONE PIECE IS NEAR THE ENTRYWAY AND THE OTHER IS TO THE SOUTHEAST OF THE COURSE AND INCLUDES THE LAND THAT IS CURRENTLY USED FOR THE DRIVING RANGE.
NO DEFINITE PLANS FOR THE 2ND NINE WERE ANNOUNCED. HOLTZ APPARENTLY PLANS TO START
BY CONSTRUCTING 2 OR 3 ADDITONAL HOLES SOON AND THEN ADD MORE LATER. MEANWHILE, THE DRIVING RANGE WILL REMAIN OPEN UNTIL WORK BEGINS ON THAT LAND. HOW ABOUT THAT, AN 18-HOLE GOLF COURSE FOR MAQUOKETA...."PRAIRIE CREEK"...IN ADDITION TO THE MAQUOKETA COUNTRY CLUB COURSE WHICH IS 9 AND HAS NO ROOM FOR EXPANSION.
LINDA MOHR, AGGE 33, OF MAQUOKETA WAS IN A MINOR ACCIDENT AT 4:40 THIS MORNING ON THE MAQUOKETA CAVES ROAD, ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF MAQUOKETA. SHE WAS DRIVING EAST AND HIT AN ICE SPOT AND SLID ACROSS THE ROAD AND INTO THE DITCH COMING TO REST ON A CONCRETE WALL. ACCORDING TO VETERAN DEPUTY ED CLARK, MOHR WAS TAKEN TO THE JACKSON COUNTY PUBLIC HOSPITAL BY HER HUSBAND AND DAMAGE TO THE 2002 FORD TRUCK WAS ESTIMATED AT ABOUT $4,000.
STEPHEN TILL, AGE 44, OF BELLEVUE WAS DRIVING OVER A HILL ON RAOD E-17 AND THERE WERE 4 HORSES IN THE ROAD. HE HIT ONE AND IT HAD TO BE PUT DOWN. DAMAGE TO HIS CAR, ABOUT $2,500.
DAVE KENDALL IS THE NEW CHAIRMAN OF THE JACKSON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. HE REPLACES SUPERVISOR JACK WILLEY. JC ENGEL WAS ELECTED VICE-CHAIRMAN. THEY ALTERNATE THE JOB EVERY YEAR.
IT WAS CLEAN-UP DAY AT THE DECKER HOTEL YESTERDAY AND TODAY. NEW YEAR'S EVE, SOMEONE FELL ASLEEP IN A 3RD FLOOR HOT TUB....AND IT OVER-FLOWED, AND OVERFLOWED, AND OVERFLOWED...WITH THE WATER RUNNING ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE LOBBY. PROFESSIONAL CLEANERS WERE CALLED IN AND THEY WORKED ALL DAY NEW YEAR'S DAY.
NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS.
HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY