HOT AND HUMID TODAY...92

SHORT REPORT TODAY...

DEWITT HIRED A NEW HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL LAST NIGHT....FROM DAVENPORT....FOR
$85,000.

BELLEVUE HAS A NEW COUNCILMAN, SELECTED LAST NIGHT TO SERVE UNTIL A SPECIAL ELECTION IN SEPTEMBER. HE IS MIKE DEMPEWOLF. BELLEVUE ALSO IS HOPING TO REPLACE THEIR 42-YEAR OLD SWIMMING POOL WITH A NEW $2.5 MILLION DOLLAR AQUATIC CENTER. BELLEVUE GETS THINGS DONE! CITY ADMINISTRATOR LORAS HERRIG, FORMER MAQUOKETA BANKER, IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY. THEIR NEW WALKWAY ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER IS REALLY NEAT, AND SO IS THEIR NEW SIGN THAT IS VISABLE BY ALL BOATERS ON THE MISSISSIPPI. I TRY TO VISIT BELLEVUE WHENEVER I GET A CHANCE.

THE MAQUOKETA MANPOWER OFFICE HAS CLOSED IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA. MAQUOKETA WILL BE SERVED OUT OF THE CLINTON OFFICE. THE LOCAL PHONE NUMBER IS RE-ROUTED TO THE CLINTON OFFICE.

AN OPEN HOUSE WILL BE HELD FROM 6 'TIL 8 THURSDAY NIGHT AT THE MAQUOKETA CAVES STATE PARK. THERE WILL BE A PROGRAM ON THE HISTORY OF THE PARK ALONG WITH RECOGNITION OF PARK VOLUNTEERS, SAYS PARK RANGER, JIM MAGIRL.

THE DAY OF THE RAGBRAI BIKERS VISIT TO MAQUOKETA, (JULY 30) WHEN THE CITY WILL HOST 10,000-PLUS BIKERS, THERE WILL BE A BUS SHUTTLE SERVICE IN OPERATION THAT WILL GIVE BIKERS A RIDE TO THE CAVES, OUR #1 TOURIST ATTRACTION AND KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE MIDWEST.

COURT NEWS: EVERETT CLARK,AGE 26, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED LAST NIGHT WITH OWI, 3RD OFFENSE. HE WAS PUT IN JAIL ON CASH BOND OF $16,250.

ROBERT AND TWYLA RUFF MOHR OF SAN ANTONIO ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN JULY 10TH IN TEXAS.
GRANDPARENTS ARE MARVIN AND JANET MOHR OF MAQUOKETA.

FOR THE 2ND DAY IN A ROW, NO OBITUARYS IN OUR LOCAL NEWS.

KEEP COOL, WHEREVER YOU ARE.

DENNIS VOY