PARTY SUNNY AND HIGH AROUND 30 TODAY. MID 40'S FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY ANDTHURSDAY.

A FOUR YEAR OLD DELMAR GIRL DIED LAST NIGHT AROUND 10:30 AS THE RESULT OF A HOUSE FIRE IN DELMAR, WHICH APPARENTLY IS BEING CONSIDERED SUSPICIOUS, AS THE DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AND STATE FIRE MARSHALL HAVE BEEN CALLED IN. THE GIRL IS EVE PETERSON, AGE 4, AND THE DAUGHTER OF DAMON PETERSON AND SHALENE POTENZO, WHO LIVE AT 214 LINCOLN AVENUE IN DELMAR.
THE HOUSE SUSTAINED ONLY SMOKE DAMAGE. THE BODY WAS TAKEN TO MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE IN DES MOINES FOR AN AUTOPSY.

TWO PEOPLE WERE STABBED DURING AN ARGUMENT AT HEARTLAND MOBILE HOME PARK IN MAQUOKETA SATURDAY EVENING. TWO MEN ARE IN THE JACKSON COUNTY JAIL ON CHARGES INVOLDING THE STABBING AND ARE BEING HELD ON CASH BOND.
ONE OF THE VICTIMS, DANIEL RINIKER, JR. IS LISTED IN STABLE CONDITION AT A DAVENPORT HOSPITAL, AFTER BEING AIRLIFTED THERE FROM THE LOCAL MAQUOKETA HOSPITAL. THE OTHER VICTIM, IS ONE OF THE TWO BEING CHARGED. HE IS RYAN RENFROW, AGE 24, OF MAQUOKETA. THE OTHER BEING HELD IN JAIL IS WILLIAM BENTON, 44, OF LOST NATION. RENFROW AND BENTON WERE AT RENIKER'S HOUSE SATURDAY NIGHT AND AN ARGUMENT BEGAN. DURING A SCUFFLE, BENTON STABBED RENFROW IN THE UPPER ARM RESULTING IN A FIVE-INCH GASH. HE WAS TREATED AND RELSEASED AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. BENTON ALSO STABBED RENIKER SEVEN TIMES AND THE MOST SERIOUS WOUND WAS IN THE CHEST.
ASSISTANT POLICE CHIEF CRAIG JACKSON SAID THEY STILL DON'T KNOW THE REASON FOR THE FIGHT AND ARE STILL INVESTIGATING. RENFROW WAS ARRESTED SATURDAY NIGHT AND BENTON (APPARENTLY LEFT THE SCENE SATURDAY NIGHT BEFORE OFFICERS ARRIVED) AND WASN'T ARRESTED UNTIL LAST NIGHT.

MAQUOKETA FIREMEN WERE CALLED TO NASHVILLE, JUST EAST OF MAQUOKETA, WHERE SOMEONE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON WAS TRYING TO START AN OLDER MODEL SNOWMOBILE AND IT CAUGHT ON FIRE. FIREMEN QUICKLY EXTINGUISHED THE BURING VEHICLE.

IN COURT NEWS: HEATHER SHEPHARD, 29, MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED AFTER SHE GRABBED HER LIVE-IN BOYFRIEND BY THE NECK LAST NIGHT ON PERSHING ROAD.

THE MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT.

RED HENTON IS THE ROTARY "CITIZEN OF THE WEEK" ON THE ROTARY WEB SITE...www.maquoketa-rotary.org. SEE A PICTURE OF HIM AND STORY ABOUT HIM THERE...AND ALSO ON THE SITE, YOU CAN HEAR RED SING A SONG HE WROTE LAST WEEK FOR VALENTINE'S DAY. IF YOU HAVE SLOW INTERNET SERVICE.....YOU MAY HAVE TO WAIT AWHILE FOR THE SONG TO COMPLETELY LOAD.

THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS AS A TEAM, TOOK 2ND PLACE SATURDAY IN THE
SECTIONAL WRESTLING TOURNAMENT IN MONTICELLO. DEWITT TOOK FIRST.
SIX WRESTLERS TOOK FIRST OR SECOND AND WILL GO TO THE DISTRICT THIS SATURDAY AT ANAMOSA THIS SATURDAY. THEY ARE: CASEY STUART, 103....
BILLY KIRK, 119.....DANE PAPE, 215. ALL 3 FINISHED FIRST IN MONTICELLO.
FINISHING SECOND AND MOVING ON: JON POLL, 125....CHRIS HAHN, 145 AND BLAKE ROCKWELL, 152.

I UNDERSTAND THEY KNOW WHO DID THE "STREAKING" AT FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAME.
HE APPARENTLY IS A STUDENT AND I HAVE NOT HEARD WHAT ACTION WILL BE TAKEN AGAINST HIM.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY