BEAUTIFUL DAY..HIGH OF 74. BUT, TOMORROW, AN 80 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN AND TOMORROW NIGHT, A LOW OF30-32.
THIS AFTERNOON, I SPENT A DELIGHTFUL 3-HOURS ON THE BEAUTIFUL MAQUOKETA RIVER. I HAVE LIVED IN MAQUOKETA 46 YEARS AND HAVE NEVER BEEN ON A BOAT ON THE MAQUOKETA. I TOLD THIS RECENTLY TO KENNY WIDEL OF CANTON, MY WIFE NANCY'S UNCLE, AND HE TOLD ME HE WOULD TAKE ME FOR A RIDE IN HIS BOAT SOON. TODAY WAS THE DAY. WE HIT THE WATER AT 12:30 AND GOT BACK AT 3:30. FOR THE MOST PART, IT WAS A SLOW, QUIET RIDE TO OBSERVE THE BEAUTY OF THE SHORELINES. KENNY'S BOAT IS A 16-FOOT ALUMACRAFT, WITH 3 MOTORS, INCLUDING A 1956 EVENRUDE THAT PURRS LIKE A KITTEN. WE ALSO USED HIS BIGGER JOHNSON TO GO A LITTLE FASTER FOR AWHILE. AND HE HAS A TROLLING MOTOR. ANYWAY, WE PUT IN AT THE JOINERVILLE PARK BOAT RAMP WEST OF MAQUOKETA. FIRST WE WENT DOWNSTREAM TO THE DAM AND THEN CAME BACK TO J OINERVILLE AND WENT UPSTREAM A FEW MILES UNTIL THE WATER WAS GETTING A LITTLE SHALLOW. I HAD ALWAYS BEEN TOLD HOW BEAUTIFUL THE MAQUOKETA RIVER WAS...AND NOW I KNOW. I'M SURE THERE ARE MANY OTHER MAQUOKETANS WHO HAVE NOT HAD THE EXPERIENCE AND I SURE HOPE THEY ALSO GET A CHANCE. THE LEAVES ARE STARTING TO TURN, AND I'M SURE IN A COUPLE WEEKS, THE TRIP WILL BE EVEN MORE SCENIC. KENNY, WHO IS RETIRED, AND HAD A CAREER THAT INCLUDED WORKING FOR CLINTON ENGINES FOR 22 YEARS, WAS A PERFECT HOST AND COULD POINT OUT LOTS OF INTERESTING THINGS. I COULD GO ON AND ON ABOUT THE TRIP, BUT NEED TO MOVE ALONG ON THIS REPORT. THANKS KENNY.
THE MAQUOKETA SPORTRS BOOSTERS CLUB IS HAVING A RAFFLE FOR A 2005 FORD FOCUS AND THE DRAWING WILL BE A WEEK FROM TOMORROW DURING THE HOMECOMING GAME. THERE WILL ALSO BE THREE $250 PRIZES. $20 A TICKET. SEND ME YOUR TWENTY BUCKS....AND HELP THIS GREAT CLUB THAT HAS DONE SO MUCH FOR SPORTS IN MAQUOKETA. I'LL ENTER YOUR NAME ON YOUR TICKET AND LIST YOU HERE ON THIS REPORT AS A BOOSTER...AND THE MORNING AFTER THE DRAWING, WILL COME ON LINE WITH THE WINNERS.
MAKE YOUR CHECK OUT TO MAQUOKETA SPORTS BOOSTERS AND MAIL IT TO KMAQ, BOX 940, MAQUOKETA, IOWA 52060.
WE NOW HAVE A NEW KMAQ GUEST BOOK. CHECK IT OUT. BUT, IF YOU MAKE AN ENTRY, DO NOT CLICK ON THE SMALL SQUARE ABOUT PRIVATE ENTRY. I WILL NOT TAKE TIME TO LOOK AT PRIVATE ENTRIES. THANKS.
I HAD SEVERAL PEOPLE EMAIL ME SAYING CATFISH IN MAQUOKETA WAS CATFISH MCKINSEY.
RIGHT! A COLORFUL GUY. ONE PERSON, JIM HANLON, REMINDS US THAT CATFISH RAN THE MOTEL/CABINS AND HAMURGER PLACE ON WEST PLATT. I DIDN'T KNOW HIM VERY WELL, BUT TWO OF HIS CHILDREN WERE GOOD FRIENDS OF MINE. DOROTHY, A GOOD NEWS REPORTER AND BUD, WHO SOLD ME THE DRIVE-IN THEATRE AND LATER WAS CO-OWNER OF A MAQUOKETA INDUSTRY (PMW) AND ALSO WAS A BIG ECONOMIC BOOSTER AND VOLUNTEER WORKER FOR MAQUOKETA.
JIM HANLON ALSO SAYS HE LIKED THE WRITE-UP BY THE ROTARY CLUB ON BUBBY NIMS. HE CORRECTED US ....SAYING IT IS BUBBY, NOT BUBBA. YOU BETTER BE RIGHT JIM!
TWO MAQUOKETA TEENAGERS, FRANK BALLARD, AGE 18 AND BRIAN RAMM, AGE 17, HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH THIS SUMMER'S BURGLARIES AT PRARIE CREEK GOLF COURSE AND BRIDGEPORT AUTO SALES.
BUSINESS NEWS ...AS REPORTED BY LINDA STURTZ, MAQUOKETA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR. QUEST COMUNICATIONS HAS ANNOUNCED HIGH SPEED INTERNET SERVICE KNOWN AS QUEST DSL, IS NOW AVAIABLE IN MAQUOKETA.
TEN OF SEVENTEEN LOTS IN THE NEW PRAIRIE CREEK SUBDIVSION HAVE BEEN SOLD AND FOUR HAVE BEEN RETAINED FOR SPEC HOMES, LEAVING JUST THREE LOTS FOR SALE.
ALSO, JIM HOLTZ, THE OWNER OF THE GOLF COURSE, THIS SUMMER, ADDED TWO MORE HOLES TO THE COURSE, BRINGING IT TO 11 AND NO TIMELINE HAS BEEN SET FOR THE REMAINING 7 HOLES.
POWER GRAPHICS HAS OPENED FOR BUSINESS AT 117 EAST PLATT, AND OWNED BY CHAD POWERS.
IT PROVIDES GRAPHICS AND ADVERTISING DESIGN SERVICES....SIGNS, LETTERING, BOAT LETTERING, ETC.
SHE ALSO REPORTED TWO BUSINESSES HAVE CLOSED..TRI-STATE GRAPHICS IN THE MAQUOKETA NEWSPAPER BUILDING AND SUNRISE RESTAURANT AT SOUTH EDGE OF MAQUOKETA.
SHE ALSO REPORTED TWO OR THREE INDUSTRIAL PROSPECTS ARE LOOKING AT MAQUOKETA AND INTERESTED IN BUILDINGS IN THE INDUSTRIAL PARK.
RECENTLY RE-ELECTED SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER LESLIE LAWSON IS THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD. BOARD MEMBER BILL SCHWENKER HAS SERVED AS PRESIDENT FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
BRIGGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WILL CELEBRATE 50 YEARS WITH A PARTY ON NOVEMBER 11TH.
DETAILS WILL BE ANNOUNCED LATER.
MAQUOKETA SCHOOL TEACHER BILL COOEY BROKE HIS LEG LAST FRIDAY NIGHT DURING THE ANAMOSA FOOTBALL GAME, WHILE TAKING PICTURES FOR THE SCHOOL YEARBOOK. SOME PLAYERS CRASHED INTO HIM AND IT IS BELIEVED HE BROKE HIS LEG IN 5 PLACES. HE IS TO HAVE SURGERY THIS WEEK AT IOWA CITY.
IN MAGISTRATE COURT NEWS: LORI FARRELL, AGE 36, WAS CHARGED WITH OWI LAST NIGHT ON WEST PLATT STREET.
CHARLA ROBERTS, 52, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED DOESTIC ASSAULT FOR POINTING A SHOTGUN LAST NIGHT AT HER LIVE-IN BOYFRIEND AT 700 PERSHING ROAD, APARTMENT 67. SHE IS BEING HELD IN JAIL ON $6,500 CASH BOND.
ESTHER TRACY, AGE 90, DIED THIS MORNING AT MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER. SHE AND LATE HUSBAND CLIFFORD FARMED NEAR MAQUOKETA UNTIL 1979 WHEN THEY RETIRED. SURVIVORS INCLUDE: A DAUGHTER MAXINE MILLER OF MAQUOKETA, AND A BROTHER-IN-LAW WALTER HAYWARD OF MAQUOKEKTA.
ANOTHER LONG REPORT DONE.. DON'T FORGET TO SEND A RAFFLE CHECK IF YOU WANT TO WIN A NEW CAR.
AND THANKS FOR THE VISIT. NOW , GO CHECK OUT THE NEW GUEST BOOK THAT SON DAVE PUT UP TODAY.
DENNIS VOY
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
I'M BACK...
NANCY AND I AND GRANDKIDS NATE AND SARA ENJOYED DINNER....AT THE HISTORIC DECKER HOTEL...SERVING MAQUOKETA PROUDLY SINCE 1876. THE 18TH ROOM WAS JUST RE-DONE...AND NOW ALL 18 ROOMS ARE JUST LIKE NEW...BUT WITH THAT TOUCH OF YESTERYEAR. ALL WITH NEW BATHROOMS. IN ITS EARLY DAYS...IT HAD THICK ROPES IN SOME ROOMS....TO THROW OUT THE WINDOW FOR FIRE ESCAPE. THE NEAT RESTAURANT IS TO THE BACK ON THE MAIN FLOOR, WITH A SMALL PRIVATE ROOM ADJACENT FOR PARTIES (KIWANIS HAS ITS WEEKLY MEETING IN THE ROOM) AND DOWNSTAIRS, THERE'S THE PUB BAR AND THE WALLS STILL ARE OF KNOTTY PINE, THE POPULAR "PANELING" OF MANY YEARS AGO. TROY AND RAEANN OWN IT AND RUN IT....THEY ARE PAST THEIR MID 30'S AND HAVE 2 BOYS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND A CUTE LITTLE 4-YEAR OLD BLONDE, NAMED TAYLOR. PAY A VISIT TO THE DECKER NEXT TIME YOU COME TO MAQUOKETA AND STOP IN HERE AT KMAQ, RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET. THE COFFEE POT IS ALWAYS ON.
SOMEONE BROKE INTO BOB BRINKER'S RURAL MAQUOKETA HOME ON THE DARK HOLLOW ROAD LAST NIGHT. OVER A THOUSAND DOLLARS DAMAGE DONE TO A CURIO CABINET...EYE GLASSES...AND A DOOR.
WILL IT BE PEPSI OR COKE, EXCLUSIVELY, FOR MAQUOEKTA SCHOOLS. CURRENT COKE AGREEMENT HAS EXPIRED AND NOW...WHO TO GO WITH IN THE FUTURE. COKE IS OFFERING $7,000 UP FRONT IN CASH EACH YEAR, FOR A 5-YEAR CONTRACT. PEPSI SAID BECAUSE OF THEIR POPULAR MOUNTAIN DEW, POP SALES AND PROFIT FOR THE SCHOOL WILL DOUBLE. MILK MACHINE WAS TRIED AT ONE SCHOOL AND POOR SALES. NO DECISION MADE LAST NIGHT. THERE WAS A TIME WHEN RC COLA...WAS BOTTLED RIGHT HERE IN TOWN.
AMBER MANERS AND ROBERT SUTHERS OF LOST NATION ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN LAST SATURDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. MATERNAL GRANDPARENT ISSHERYL MOUNTS OF MAQUOKETA. GREAT-GRANDFATHER IS LYLE SUTHERS OF MAQUOKETA.
DON "CATFISH" MEYERS, AGE 62, OF SABULA DIED MONDAY. REMINDS ME THAT MAQUOKETA HAD A MAN KNOWN TO ALL AS "CATFISH". REMEMBER HIS FULL NAME?
PRE-MATURE TWINS WERE BORN LAST WEEK TO SHAWN AND JENNIFER MEYER OF CRYSTAL LAKE, ILLINOIS, BUT BOTH DIED SHORTLY AFTER. A GIRL AND BOY. GRANDPARENTS ARE FRED AND IRMA MEYER OF MAQUOKETA. GREAT-GRANDMOTHER IS HELEN MEYER OF MAQUOKETA.
HAD LUNCH YESTERDAY WITH BOB OSTERHAUS. HE AND ANN WENT TO THE IOWA GAME AT MICHIGAN LAST SATURDAY...ALONG WITH OVER 110,000 OTHER FANS. IMAGINE THAT CROWD. TALKED TO DONA HEISTER TODAY (SHE WORKS AT BOTH OSTERHAUS PHARMACY AND OBIE'S TACOS, AND DOES A GREAT JOB AT BOTH)...AND THIS FRIDAY, LEAVES FOR THE BIG RACE AT TALLADEJA, ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF ANNISTON, ALABAMA...THE MOST FAMOUS NASCAR TRACK IN THE COUNTRY. IT WILL BE HER 10TH YEAR IN A ROW TO GO TO THE BIG RACE. THERE WILL BE 9 IN HER PARTY...AND THEY WILL JOIN UP WITH 59 RACING FANS FROM BERNARD....ALL STAYING IN AN RV PARK RIGHT AT THE TRACK. AND...THERE WILL BE OVER 200,000 AT THE RACE. WOW.
I SAW THE TRACK ONCE, WHILE PASSING BY. SON RICK WAS STATIONED WITH THE MARINES DOWN THERE AND HE AND SHERI LIVED NEAR ANNISTON....GRANDDAUGHTER CASSIE WAS BORN DOWN THERE.
A COUPLE TIMES, RICK AND OTHER MARINES WORKED THE RACE....I THINK IT WAS IN SECURITY.
OR MAYBE THEY RAN A FOOD STAND. CAN'T REMEMER. SORRY TO REPORT, I'M NOT A RACE FAN.
BUT...AGAIN THIS YEAR, WAS A CO-SPONSOR OF A STOCK CAR AT THE LOCAL JACKSON COUNTY RACEWAY. IT WAS A HOBBY STOCK CAR #4 OWNED AND DRIVEN BY DAVE KOOB OF MAQUOKETA.. I DON'T THINK THE CAR DID VERY GOOD THIS YEAR.
THANKS FOR THE VISIT.
REMEMBER...ANYTIME YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, COMPLAINTS, NEWS, ....EMAIL
ME AT kmaq@kmaq.com
DENNIS VOY
NANCY AND I AND GRANDKIDS NATE AND SARA ENJOYED DINNER....AT THE HISTORIC DECKER HOTEL...SERVING MAQUOKETA PROUDLY SINCE 1876. THE 18TH ROOM WAS JUST RE-DONE...AND NOW ALL 18 ROOMS ARE JUST LIKE NEW...BUT WITH THAT TOUCH OF YESTERYEAR. ALL WITH NEW BATHROOMS. IN ITS EARLY DAYS...IT HAD THICK ROPES IN SOME ROOMS....TO THROW OUT THE WINDOW FOR FIRE ESCAPE. THE NEAT RESTAURANT IS TO THE BACK ON THE MAIN FLOOR, WITH A SMALL PRIVATE ROOM ADJACENT FOR PARTIES (KIWANIS HAS ITS WEEKLY MEETING IN THE ROOM) AND DOWNSTAIRS, THERE'S THE PUB BAR AND THE WALLS STILL ARE OF KNOTTY PINE, THE POPULAR "PANELING" OF MANY YEARS AGO. TROY AND RAEANN OWN IT AND RUN IT....THEY ARE PAST THEIR MID 30'S AND HAVE 2 BOYS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND A CUTE LITTLE 4-YEAR OLD BLONDE, NAMED TAYLOR. PAY A VISIT TO THE DECKER NEXT TIME YOU COME TO MAQUOKETA AND STOP IN HERE AT KMAQ, RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET. THE COFFEE POT IS ALWAYS ON.
SOMEONE BROKE INTO BOB BRINKER'S RURAL MAQUOKETA HOME ON THE DARK HOLLOW ROAD LAST NIGHT. OVER A THOUSAND DOLLARS DAMAGE DONE TO A CURIO CABINET...EYE GLASSES...AND A DOOR.
WILL IT BE PEPSI OR COKE, EXCLUSIVELY, FOR MAQUOEKTA SCHOOLS. CURRENT COKE AGREEMENT HAS EXPIRED AND NOW...WHO TO GO WITH IN THE FUTURE. COKE IS OFFERING $7,000 UP FRONT IN CASH EACH YEAR, FOR A 5-YEAR CONTRACT. PEPSI SAID BECAUSE OF THEIR POPULAR MOUNTAIN DEW, POP SALES AND PROFIT FOR THE SCHOOL WILL DOUBLE. MILK MACHINE WAS TRIED AT ONE SCHOOL AND POOR SALES. NO DECISION MADE LAST NIGHT. THERE WAS A TIME WHEN RC COLA...WAS BOTTLED RIGHT HERE IN TOWN.
AMBER MANERS AND ROBERT SUTHERS OF LOST NATION ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN LAST SATURDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. MATERNAL GRANDPARENT ISSHERYL MOUNTS OF MAQUOKETA. GREAT-GRANDFATHER IS LYLE SUTHERS OF MAQUOKETA.
DON "CATFISH" MEYERS, AGE 62, OF SABULA DIED MONDAY. REMINDS ME THAT MAQUOKETA HAD A MAN KNOWN TO ALL AS "CATFISH". REMEMBER HIS FULL NAME?
PRE-MATURE TWINS WERE BORN LAST WEEK TO SHAWN AND JENNIFER MEYER OF CRYSTAL LAKE, ILLINOIS, BUT BOTH DIED SHORTLY AFTER. A GIRL AND BOY. GRANDPARENTS ARE FRED AND IRMA MEYER OF MAQUOKETA. GREAT-GRANDMOTHER IS HELEN MEYER OF MAQUOKETA.
HAD LUNCH YESTERDAY WITH BOB OSTERHAUS. HE AND ANN WENT TO THE IOWA GAME AT MICHIGAN LAST SATURDAY...ALONG WITH OVER 110,000 OTHER FANS. IMAGINE THAT CROWD. TALKED TO DONA HEISTER TODAY (SHE WORKS AT BOTH OSTERHAUS PHARMACY AND OBIE'S TACOS, AND DOES A GREAT JOB AT BOTH)...AND THIS FRIDAY, LEAVES FOR THE BIG RACE AT TALLADEJA, ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF ANNISTON, ALABAMA...THE MOST FAMOUS NASCAR TRACK IN THE COUNTRY. IT WILL BE HER 10TH YEAR IN A ROW TO GO TO THE BIG RACE. THERE WILL BE 9 IN HER PARTY...AND THEY WILL JOIN UP WITH 59 RACING FANS FROM BERNARD....ALL STAYING IN AN RV PARK RIGHT AT THE TRACK. AND...THERE WILL BE OVER 200,000 AT THE RACE. WOW.
I SAW THE TRACK ONCE, WHILE PASSING BY. SON RICK WAS STATIONED WITH THE MARINES DOWN THERE AND HE AND SHERI LIVED NEAR ANNISTON....GRANDDAUGHTER CASSIE WAS BORN DOWN THERE.
A COUPLE TIMES, RICK AND OTHER MARINES WORKED THE RACE....I THINK IT WAS IN SECURITY.
OR MAYBE THEY RAN A FOOD STAND. CAN'T REMEMER. SORRY TO REPORT, I'M NOT A RACE FAN.
BUT...AGAIN THIS YEAR, WAS A CO-SPONSOR OF A STOCK CAR AT THE LOCAL JACKSON COUNTY RACEWAY. IT WAS A HOBBY STOCK CAR #4 OWNED AND DRIVEN BY DAVE KOOB OF MAQUOKETA.. I DON'T THINK THE CAR DID VERY GOOD THIS YEAR.
THANKS FOR THE VISIT.
REMEMBER...ANYTIME YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, COMPLAINTS, NEWS, ....EMAIL
ME AT kmaq@kmaq.com
DENNIS VOY
SUNNY...BUT A NORTHERLY WIND...AND COOLER TODAY... HIGH OF ONLY 66. SCATTERED FROST POSSIBLE TONIGHT WITH A LOW IN THE MID 30'S.
HOMECOMING WEEK IS NEXT WEEK IN MAQUOKETA. QUEEN CANDIDATES ARE: KAYDE MERRELL...DANA KLOFT....MARY PARMER....BRITTANY RUBEL....DANIELLE TREANOR....AUBRIE
CARRINDER....JENNA OLSON.....AND NIKKI GOODALL. ESCORT CANDIDATES ARE: ADAM BOWMAN....JACK OSTERHAUS....STEVE FERGUSON....CASEY MCLAUGHLIN....BRYAN DUHME....ADAM ELKINS...JON FITZPATRICK....AND CALE KROGMAN. QUEEN AND KING CORONATION WILL BE MONDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 4TH....HOMECOMING GAME IS FRIDAY, OCT 8TH AND THE HOMECOMING DANCE ON SATURDAY, OCT 9TH.
I'M GOING ACROSS THE STREET TO DINNER AT THE DECKER...
WHEN I GET BACK, I'LL CONTINUE ON WITH PART 2 OF TODAY'S DAILY REPORT...
DENNIS VOY
HOMECOMING WEEK IS NEXT WEEK IN MAQUOKETA. QUEEN CANDIDATES ARE: KAYDE MERRELL...DANA KLOFT....MARY PARMER....BRITTANY RUBEL....DANIELLE TREANOR....AUBRIE
CARRINDER....JENNA OLSON.....AND NIKKI GOODALL. ESCORT CANDIDATES ARE: ADAM BOWMAN....JACK OSTERHAUS....STEVE FERGUSON....CASEY MCLAUGHLIN....BRYAN DUHME....ADAM ELKINS...JON FITZPATRICK....AND CALE KROGMAN. QUEEN AND KING CORONATION WILL BE MONDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 4TH....HOMECOMING GAME IS FRIDAY, OCT 8TH AND THE HOMECOMING DANCE ON SATURDAY, OCT 9TH.
I'M GOING ACROSS THE STREET TO DINNER AT THE DECKER...
WHEN I GET BACK, I'LL CONTINUE ON WITH PART 2 OF TODAY'S DAILY REPORT...
DENNIS VOY
Monday, September 27, 2004
79 THE HIGH IN MAQUOKETA TODAY...BEAUTIFUL WEEKEND CONTINUED THRU TODAY AND REST OF THE WEEK AHEAD LOOKS GOOD, BUT COOLER.
NEW POLICE CHIEF BRAD KORANDA IS THE MAQUOKETA ROTERY "CITIZEN OF THE WEEK". A PICTURE AND STORY IS AT THE ROTARY WEB SITE....www.maquoketa-rotary.org
GUESS I FORGOT TO ENTER THE MAQUOKETA FOOTBALL SCORE SATURDAY MORNING.
SORRY ABOUT THAT. MAQUOKETA LOST TO ANAMOSA, 40 TO 20 AND THIS FRIDAY NIGHT WILL PLAY AT MANCHESTER. AGAIN FRIDAY NIGHT, THE CARDINALL SOPHOMORES WON BIG.
JENNIFER WESTPHAL AND HUSBAND OWN THE JACKSON COUNTY HOME FURNISHINGS FURNITURE STORE IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA. THEY LIVE IN DELMAR. FRIDAY NIGHT, HER SISTER JANA PALMER, AGE 30, OF SLATER AND FORMERLY OF GRAND MOUND, SUFFERED A SEVER ASTHMA ATTACK AND DIED AT THE AMES HOSPITAL, LEAVING 4 CHILDREN AT HOME, AGES 2, 3, 5 AND 10.
HER 10-YEAR OLD BOY BRAVELY CALLED 9-1-1. HUSBAND DAVID HAS BEEN AT FORT BLISS AND WOULD HAVE GONE TO IRAQ IN TWO WEEKS. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HER FATHER AND MOTHER, WELL-KNOWN BUSINESS PEOPLE, CHUCK AND DENISE GREGOIRE OF GRAND MOUND.
EVELYN MCKINSEY, AGE 80, DIED YESTERDAY AT THE MILL VALLEY CARE CENTER IN BELLEVUE.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY 3 DAUGHTERS, INCLUDING DIANE DERGANZ OF MAQUOKETA.
ALSO TWO SONS, JACK HINKE OF EL DORADO, CALIFORNIA AND PAT HINKE OF CEDAR RAPIDS. ALSO A STEPSON, MAC MCKINSEY OF DEL RAY BEACH, CALIFORNIA.
ANN G. SMITH, AGE 102, DIED YESTERDAY AT THE MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER.
SHE WAS FORMERLY OF FOND DU LAC , WISCONSIN AND SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SON, EUGENE STREETS OF MAQUOKETA.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK!
DENNIS VOY
NEW POLICE CHIEF BRAD KORANDA IS THE MAQUOKETA ROTERY "CITIZEN OF THE WEEK". A PICTURE AND STORY IS AT THE ROTARY WEB SITE....www.maquoketa-rotary.org
GUESS I FORGOT TO ENTER THE MAQUOKETA FOOTBALL SCORE SATURDAY MORNING.
SORRY ABOUT THAT. MAQUOKETA LOST TO ANAMOSA, 40 TO 20 AND THIS FRIDAY NIGHT WILL PLAY AT MANCHESTER. AGAIN FRIDAY NIGHT, THE CARDINALL SOPHOMORES WON BIG.
JENNIFER WESTPHAL AND HUSBAND OWN THE JACKSON COUNTY HOME FURNISHINGS FURNITURE STORE IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA. THEY LIVE IN DELMAR. FRIDAY NIGHT, HER SISTER JANA PALMER, AGE 30, OF SLATER AND FORMERLY OF GRAND MOUND, SUFFERED A SEVER ASTHMA ATTACK AND DIED AT THE AMES HOSPITAL, LEAVING 4 CHILDREN AT HOME, AGES 2, 3, 5 AND 10.
HER 10-YEAR OLD BOY BRAVELY CALLED 9-1-1. HUSBAND DAVID HAS BEEN AT FORT BLISS AND WOULD HAVE GONE TO IRAQ IN TWO WEEKS. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HER FATHER AND MOTHER, WELL-KNOWN BUSINESS PEOPLE, CHUCK AND DENISE GREGOIRE OF GRAND MOUND.
EVELYN MCKINSEY, AGE 80, DIED YESTERDAY AT THE MILL VALLEY CARE CENTER IN BELLEVUE.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY 3 DAUGHTERS, INCLUDING DIANE DERGANZ OF MAQUOKETA.
ALSO TWO SONS, JACK HINKE OF EL DORADO, CALIFORNIA AND PAT HINKE OF CEDAR RAPIDS. ALSO A STEPSON, MAC MCKINSEY OF DEL RAY BEACH, CALIFORNIA.
ANN G. SMITH, AGE 102, DIED YESTERDAY AT THE MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER.
SHE WAS FORMERLY OF FOND DU LAC , WISCONSIN AND SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SON, EUGENE STREETS OF MAQUOKETA.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK!
DENNIS VOY
Friday, September 24, 2004
76 FOR A HIGH TODAY....SUNNY....GOOD WEEKEND FORECAST....HAD SOME LIGHT RAIN LAST NIGHT, VERY LIGHT, BUT IT HELPED.
THERE ARE 10 CERTIFIED CANDIDATES FOR 3 OPENINGS ON THE MAQUOKETA POLICE DEPARTMENT, INLCLUDING ONE WOMAN. NEW POLICE CHIEF BRAD KORANDA SAID THE NEXT STEP WILL BE TO INTERVIEW THE CANDIDATES BEFORE HE MAKES A FINAL SELECTION.
MAQUOKETA CITY CREWS CUT A TELEPHONE LINE WHEN THEY REPAIRED A CURB RECENTLY AND QWEST WANTS TO BE PAID FOR THE REPAIRS. AT A MEETINGTHIS MORNING OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE OF THE CITY COUNCIL, CITY MANAGER BRIAN WAGNER SAID THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT WAS USING A JACKHAMMER TO DIG UP SOME CEMENT TO REPAIR A CURB AT SECOND AND LOCUST STREETS.
THE PHONE LINE WAS JUST BELOW THE CURB ON THE GROUND AND THE LINE WAS CUT. QWEST SENT A BILL FOR $2,887 AND WHEN THE CITY SAID THEY BELEIVED IT WAS TOO HIGH, QWEST NEGOTIATED IT DOWN TO $2,300 AND THE CITY WILL HAVE TO PAY THAT LOWER AMOUNT.
A MAQUOKETA WOMAN, JACQUELINE DAVISON, AGE 64, BACKED INTO A FIRE HYDRANT IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. DAMAGES WERE LISTED AT $800 TO HER CAR AND MINOR DAMAGE TO THE HYDRANT. THERE WAS NO LEAK AND NO INJURIES. NO CHARGES WERE FILED.
RUTH DMOCHOWSKI, AGE 88, OF MAQUOKETA AND FORMERLY OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, DIED AT THE MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER WEDNESDAY. SHE WAS A RETIRED NURSE AND SURIVORS INCLUDE A SISTER, FERN CLARKE OF MAQUOKETA.
MAQUOKETA PLAYS AT ANAMOSA TONIGHT IN FOOTBALL. ANAMOSA WILL BE HARD TO BEAT.
IOWA PLAYS AT MICHIGAN TOMORROW AND MICHIGAN WILL BE HARD TO BEAT.
IOWA STATE HAS NO GAME TOMORROW.
CHECK BACK TOMORROW FOR THE MAQUOKETA CARDINAL FOOTBALL SCORE.
HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
THERE ARE 10 CERTIFIED CANDIDATES FOR 3 OPENINGS ON THE MAQUOKETA POLICE DEPARTMENT, INLCLUDING ONE WOMAN. NEW POLICE CHIEF BRAD KORANDA SAID THE NEXT STEP WILL BE TO INTERVIEW THE CANDIDATES BEFORE HE MAKES A FINAL SELECTION.
MAQUOKETA CITY CREWS CUT A TELEPHONE LINE WHEN THEY REPAIRED A CURB RECENTLY AND QWEST WANTS TO BE PAID FOR THE REPAIRS. AT A MEETINGTHIS MORNING OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE OF THE CITY COUNCIL, CITY MANAGER BRIAN WAGNER SAID THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT WAS USING A JACKHAMMER TO DIG UP SOME CEMENT TO REPAIR A CURB AT SECOND AND LOCUST STREETS.
THE PHONE LINE WAS JUST BELOW THE CURB ON THE GROUND AND THE LINE WAS CUT. QWEST SENT A BILL FOR $2,887 AND WHEN THE CITY SAID THEY BELEIVED IT WAS TOO HIGH, QWEST NEGOTIATED IT DOWN TO $2,300 AND THE CITY WILL HAVE TO PAY THAT LOWER AMOUNT.
A MAQUOKETA WOMAN, JACQUELINE DAVISON, AGE 64, BACKED INTO A FIRE HYDRANT IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. DAMAGES WERE LISTED AT $800 TO HER CAR AND MINOR DAMAGE TO THE HYDRANT. THERE WAS NO LEAK AND NO INJURIES. NO CHARGES WERE FILED.
RUTH DMOCHOWSKI, AGE 88, OF MAQUOKETA AND FORMERLY OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, DIED AT THE MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER WEDNESDAY. SHE WAS A RETIRED NURSE AND SURIVORS INCLUDE A SISTER, FERN CLARKE OF MAQUOKETA.
MAQUOKETA PLAYS AT ANAMOSA TONIGHT IN FOOTBALL. ANAMOSA WILL BE HARD TO BEAT.
IOWA PLAYS AT MICHIGAN TOMORROW AND MICHIGAN WILL BE HARD TO BEAT.
IOWA STATE HAS NO GAME TOMORROW.
CHECK BACK TOMORROW FOR THE MAQUOKETA CARDINAL FOOTBALL SCORE.
HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
Monday, September 20, 2004
79 TODAY..NICE DAY...GOOD WEEK AHEAD, WITH MAYBE SOME RAIN ON THURSDAY.
NOEL BECKER, AGE 48, OF LOST NATION WAS KILLED ABOUT 2:30 YESTERDAYAFTERNOON WHEN HIS TRACTOR OVERTURNED IN A FIELD.
BELLEVUE VOTERS GO TO THE POLLS TOMORROW TO VOTE ON A BOND ISSUE OF $1-MILLION THAT COULD GO TOWARD A NEW SWIMMING POOL TO REPLACE THE CURRENT POOL, 39 YEARS OLD.
COURT NEWS: DANIEL TODD, AGED 33, OF MAQUOKETA , HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH SEXUAL ABUSE IN THE 2ND DEGREE. POLICE SAY HE ASSAULTED AN 8-YEAR-OLD FEMALE BACK IN JULY, HERE IN MAQUOKETA. HE IS IN JAIL ON A $32,500 BOND.
ROGER BUNYON, AGE 31, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED IWTH ASSAULT SUNDAY NIGHT, FOR ALLEGEDLY HITTING DANIEL RINIKER SEVERAL TIMES.
CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT. MAIN ITEM, TO APPROVE THE APPOINTMENT OF A NEW POLICE CHIEF.
THE MAYOR HAS PICKED SGT. BRAD KORADA TO BE THE NEW CHIEF. A SIMPLE MAJORITY IS NEEDED.
CHAD AND JODI COAKLEY OF MAQUOKETA HAD A BOY LAST FRIDAY IN DUBUQUE. GRANDPARENTS ARE BONNIE AND BURTH COAKLEY OF OTTER CREEK AND PATRICIA DIESING OF MAQUOKETA.
THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY CITIZEN OF THE WEEK IS BUBBA NIMS OF MAQUOKETA,LONGTIME MEAT CUTTER AND TRUCK FARMER AND OWNER OF NIM'S GARDEN ON PERSHING ROAD. PICTURE AND STORY ON ROTARY WEB SIDE...www.maquoketa-rotary.org
STEVE MEDINGER, 42, OF NAPLES, FLORIDA DIED FROM INJURIES HE RECEIVED IN A STOCK CAR ACCIDENT SATURDAY EVENING IN CLEWISTON, FLORIDA. HIS PARENTS ARE VINCENT AND ARLA MEDINGER OF MAQUOKETA.
DEE ANN FLENKER OF MAQUOKETA IS STARTING THE PLANNING FOR THE MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1980 REUNION. IT WILL BE ON THE WEEKEND OF AUGUST 5,6 AND 7TH, 2005. HER MAILING ADDRESS IS 21991 HIGHWAY 64, MAQUOKETA.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK. MY NEXT REPORT WILL NOT BE UNTIL FRIDAY.
DENNIS VOY
NOEL BECKER, AGE 48, OF LOST NATION WAS KILLED ABOUT 2:30 YESTERDAYAFTERNOON WHEN HIS TRACTOR OVERTURNED IN A FIELD.
BELLEVUE VOTERS GO TO THE POLLS TOMORROW TO VOTE ON A BOND ISSUE OF $1-MILLION THAT COULD GO TOWARD A NEW SWIMMING POOL TO REPLACE THE CURRENT POOL, 39 YEARS OLD.
COURT NEWS: DANIEL TODD, AGED 33, OF MAQUOKETA , HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH SEXUAL ABUSE IN THE 2ND DEGREE. POLICE SAY HE ASSAULTED AN 8-YEAR-OLD FEMALE BACK IN JULY, HERE IN MAQUOKETA. HE IS IN JAIL ON A $32,500 BOND.
ROGER BUNYON, AGE 31, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED IWTH ASSAULT SUNDAY NIGHT, FOR ALLEGEDLY HITTING DANIEL RINIKER SEVERAL TIMES.
CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT. MAIN ITEM, TO APPROVE THE APPOINTMENT OF A NEW POLICE CHIEF.
THE MAYOR HAS PICKED SGT. BRAD KORADA TO BE THE NEW CHIEF. A SIMPLE MAJORITY IS NEEDED.
CHAD AND JODI COAKLEY OF MAQUOKETA HAD A BOY LAST FRIDAY IN DUBUQUE. GRANDPARENTS ARE BONNIE AND BURTH COAKLEY OF OTTER CREEK AND PATRICIA DIESING OF MAQUOKETA.
THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY CITIZEN OF THE WEEK IS BUBBA NIMS OF MAQUOKETA,LONGTIME MEAT CUTTER AND TRUCK FARMER AND OWNER OF NIM'S GARDEN ON PERSHING ROAD. PICTURE AND STORY ON ROTARY WEB SIDE...www.maquoketa-rotary.org
STEVE MEDINGER, 42, OF NAPLES, FLORIDA DIED FROM INJURIES HE RECEIVED IN A STOCK CAR ACCIDENT SATURDAY EVENING IN CLEWISTON, FLORIDA. HIS PARENTS ARE VINCENT AND ARLA MEDINGER OF MAQUOKETA.
DEE ANN FLENKER OF MAQUOKETA IS STARTING THE PLANNING FOR THE MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1980 REUNION. IT WILL BE ON THE WEEKEND OF AUGUST 5,6 AND 7TH, 2005. HER MAILING ADDRESS IS 21991 HIGHWAY 64, MAQUOKETA.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK. MY NEXT REPORT WILL NOT BE UNTIL FRIDAY.
DENNIS VOY
Saturday, September 18, 2004
LAST (FRIDAY) NIGHT, AT GOODENOW FIELD HERE IN MAQUOKTA,
MAQUOKETA SCORED TWO TOUCHDOWNS AND HAD A 14 TO 0 LEAD , BUT MT. VERNON CAME BACK STRONG IN SECOND HALF TO DEFEAT MAQUOKETA 17 TO 14. MAQUOKETA IS NOW 1 AND 2 FOR THE SEASON AND WILL PLAY A GOOD ANAMOSA TEAM NEXT FRIDAY NIGHT.
BEAUTIFUL DAY IN MAQUOKETA.
HAVE A TERRIFIC SUNDAY.
MAQUOKETA SCORED TWO TOUCHDOWNS AND HAD A 14 TO 0 LEAD , BUT MT. VERNON CAME BACK STRONG IN SECOND HALF TO DEFEAT MAQUOKETA 17 TO 14. MAQUOKETA IS NOW 1 AND 2 FOR THE SEASON AND WILL PLAY A GOOD ANAMOSA TEAM NEXT FRIDAY NIGHT.
BEAUTIFUL DAY IN MAQUOKETA.
HAVE A TERRIFIC SUNDAY.
Friday, September 17, 2004
ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL DAY IN MAQUOKETA.
MAQUOKETA WILL HOST MT. VERNON IN FOOTBALL TONIGHT. MAQUOKETA IS 1 AND 1 AND THEY ARE 0 AND 2. THE WERE IN THE STATE PLAYOFFS LAST YEAR, BUT LOST KEY MEN.
A FORMER MAQUOKETA WOMAN HAS DIED OF INJURIES SHE RECEIVED IN AN ACCIDENT IN IOWA CITY ON SUNDAY. SUSAN ROTMAN, AGE 52, DIED YESTERDAY AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS IN IOWA CITY.
SHE HAS HAD TO USE A WHEELCHAIR ALL HER LIFE AND WAS IN HER WHEELCHAIR WHEN SHE WAS HIT BY A CAR AS SHE ATTEMPTED TO CROSS A STREET IN IOWA CITY, AT 6:53 SUNDAY NIGHT. A VEHICLE DRIVEN BY JACOB CONNOR, AGE 19, OF IOWA CITY, HIT ROTMAN AND KNOCKED HER OUT OF THE WHEELCHAIR, CAUSING HER TO HIT HER HEAD. NO CHARGES WILL BE FILED AGAINST CONNER. A PUBLIC VISITATION WILL BE HELD FROM 4-6 P.M. MONDAY AT THE CARSON FUNERAL HOME HERE IN MAQUOKETA. THERE WILL BE A PRIVATE GRAVESIDE SERVICE. SHE GRADUATED IN 1970 FROM MCHS AND THEN ATTENDED THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AND RECEIVED A BS AND MASTERS DEGREE IN PSYCHOLOGY AND COUNSELING.
SHE WAS INTERESTED IN SOCIAL JUSTICE AND DOING VOLUNTEER WORK. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HER FATHER AND STEP-MOTHER, CARL AND LINDA ROTMAN OF MAQUKETA, A BROTHER, ROB OF CHICAGO AND A STEP-SISTER, ANNE OF OMAHA.
JACKSON COUNTY'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN AUGUST WAS 5.1 PERCENT, AN INCREASE FROM 4.8 PERCENT IN JULY.
A FORMER MAQUKETA BANKER, JERRY MAPLES, OF FOUNTAIN HILLS, ARIZONA, HAS WRITTEN HIS FIRST NOVEL, "DIVINE MISGUIDANCE". THE NEW DETECTIVE NOVEL EXPLORES THE EMOTIONAL AND CONTROVERSIAL TOPIC OF EUTHANASIA. JERRY MAPLES RAN THE JACKSON STATE SAVINGS BANK BACK IN THE 70'S. HE HAS SINCE ALSO BECOME A PROFESSONAL ARTIST. HE VISITED FRIENDS IN MAQUOKETA LAST YEAR. THE BOOK IS $13.95 PLUS $2.50 SHIPPING AND HANDLING. IT CAN BE ORDERED BY EMAIL: mstpub@earthlink.net A GOOD FRIEND OF JERRY'S, BOB ENGEL IN MAQUOKETA, SAID HE IS PLANNING TO HAVE AN AUTOGRAPH SESSION HERE IN MAQUOKETA IN NOVEMBER.
MAYBE I'LL HAVE THE FOOTBALL SCORE FOR YOU TOMORROW.
HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
MAQUOKETA WILL HOST MT. VERNON IN FOOTBALL TONIGHT. MAQUOKETA IS 1 AND 1 AND THEY ARE 0 AND 2. THE WERE IN THE STATE PLAYOFFS LAST YEAR, BUT LOST KEY MEN.
A FORMER MAQUOKETA WOMAN HAS DIED OF INJURIES SHE RECEIVED IN AN ACCIDENT IN IOWA CITY ON SUNDAY. SUSAN ROTMAN, AGE 52, DIED YESTERDAY AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS IN IOWA CITY.
SHE HAS HAD TO USE A WHEELCHAIR ALL HER LIFE AND WAS IN HER WHEELCHAIR WHEN SHE WAS HIT BY A CAR AS SHE ATTEMPTED TO CROSS A STREET IN IOWA CITY, AT 6:53 SUNDAY NIGHT. A VEHICLE DRIVEN BY JACOB CONNOR, AGE 19, OF IOWA CITY, HIT ROTMAN AND KNOCKED HER OUT OF THE WHEELCHAIR, CAUSING HER TO HIT HER HEAD. NO CHARGES WILL BE FILED AGAINST CONNER. A PUBLIC VISITATION WILL BE HELD FROM 4-6 P.M. MONDAY AT THE CARSON FUNERAL HOME HERE IN MAQUOKETA. THERE WILL BE A PRIVATE GRAVESIDE SERVICE. SHE GRADUATED IN 1970 FROM MCHS AND THEN ATTENDED THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AND RECEIVED A BS AND MASTERS DEGREE IN PSYCHOLOGY AND COUNSELING.
SHE WAS INTERESTED IN SOCIAL JUSTICE AND DOING VOLUNTEER WORK. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HER FATHER AND STEP-MOTHER, CARL AND LINDA ROTMAN OF MAQUKETA, A BROTHER, ROB OF CHICAGO AND A STEP-SISTER, ANNE OF OMAHA.
JACKSON COUNTY'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN AUGUST WAS 5.1 PERCENT, AN INCREASE FROM 4.8 PERCENT IN JULY.
A FORMER MAQUKETA BANKER, JERRY MAPLES, OF FOUNTAIN HILLS, ARIZONA, HAS WRITTEN HIS FIRST NOVEL, "DIVINE MISGUIDANCE". THE NEW DETECTIVE NOVEL EXPLORES THE EMOTIONAL AND CONTROVERSIAL TOPIC OF EUTHANASIA. JERRY MAPLES RAN THE JACKSON STATE SAVINGS BANK BACK IN THE 70'S. HE HAS SINCE ALSO BECOME A PROFESSONAL ARTIST. HE VISITED FRIENDS IN MAQUOKETA LAST YEAR. THE BOOK IS $13.95 PLUS $2.50 SHIPPING AND HANDLING. IT CAN BE ORDERED BY EMAIL: mstpub@earthlink.net A GOOD FRIEND OF JERRY'S, BOB ENGEL IN MAQUOKETA, SAID HE IS PLANNING TO HAVE AN AUTOGRAPH SESSION HERE IN MAQUOKETA IN NOVEMBER.
MAYBE I'LL HAVE THE FOOTBALL SCORE FOR YOU TOMORROW.
HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
Thursday, September 16, 2004
BEAUTIFUL DAY TODAY, HIGH OF 71. 31/100 OF AN INCH OF RAIN YESTERDAY.
IN THE SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION TUESDAY, TWO OF MAQUOKETA'S CURRENT SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS, LESLIE LAWSON AND MARY BARTERS, BOTH WERE RE-ELECTED, UN-OPPOSED. LESLIE GOT 68 VOTES AND MARY 71.
THE CARSON AND BARNES CIRCUS IS COMING TO MAQUOKETA MONDAY FOR TWO PERFORMANCES...4:30 AND 7:30 AT THE FAIRGROUNDS. IT IS A VERY OLD CIRCUS AND THEY STILL USE ELEPHANTS TO RAISE THE BIG TENT.
THE BRAD DEERY COMMERCIAL I PUT ON THIS SITE YESTERDAY, WAS RECORDED TOO LOUD AND THEREFORE HARD TO UNDERSTAND...SORRY ABOUT THAT.
THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL DISTRICT PURCHASED A HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET, SOUTH, OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOL, FOR $43,500, FROM DAVE BRADY. IT WILL BE DEMOLISHED, AND FENCING AND GRAVEL ADDED, AT A COST OF ABOUT $20,000. IT WILL PROVIDE 80 PARKING SPACES FOR THE SCHOOL, WHERE PARKING IS BADLY NEEDED, ESPECIALLY NOW THAT A FEW MORE SPACES WILL BE GONE AS THEY ARE BUILDING AN ADDITION TO THE SCHOOL FOR AN OFFICE. FUNDS FOR THE NEW PARKING LOT WILL COME FROM THE DISTRICT'S PHYSICAL AND EQUIPMENT LEVY. LATER ON, AT ANOTHER $20,000, THE LOT WILL BE PAVED. THAT MAY BE A YEAR OR MORE AWAY.
MAYOR TOM MESSERLI ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT HE HAS DECIDED ON THE NEW POLICE CHIEF. HE INTENDS TO APPOINT BRAD KORANDA TO THE POSITION AT NEXT MONDAY'S COUNCIL MEETING.
UNDER CITY CODE, THE MAYOR MAKES THE APPOINTMENT AND THE COUNCIL, WITH AT LEAST 4 VOTES, HAS TO RATIFIY THE DECISION. IF APPROVED MONDAY NIGHT BY THE COUNCIL, HE WOULD START IMMEDIATELY. HE HAS BEEN FULLTIME WITH THE DEPARTMENT SINCE 1988 AND WAS NAMED SERGEANT IN 1997. HE AND HIS WIFE, BECKY, HAVE TWO CHILDREN. ONE SON, BODE, IS A SENIOR AT MCHS AND A DAUGHTER, BROOKLYN IS A 7TH GRADER. HIS FATHER IS LONGTIME BUSINESSMAN, AND A FORMER POLICE OFFICER IN TOWN FOR MANY YEARS, ARNOLD KORANDA.
VANDALS KNOCKED OVER FOUR HEADSTONES THIS WEEK AT MT. HOPE CEMETERY.
TIM AND BECKY CHAPIN OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF TWIN GIRLS BORN EARLIER THIS WEEK.
NO LOCAL DEATHS.
THANKS FOR THE VISIT.
DENNIS VOY
IN THE SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION TUESDAY, TWO OF MAQUOKETA'S CURRENT SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS, LESLIE LAWSON AND MARY BARTERS, BOTH WERE RE-ELECTED, UN-OPPOSED. LESLIE GOT 68 VOTES AND MARY 71.
THE CARSON AND BARNES CIRCUS IS COMING TO MAQUOKETA MONDAY FOR TWO PERFORMANCES...4:30 AND 7:30 AT THE FAIRGROUNDS. IT IS A VERY OLD CIRCUS AND THEY STILL USE ELEPHANTS TO RAISE THE BIG TENT.
THE BRAD DEERY COMMERCIAL I PUT ON THIS SITE YESTERDAY, WAS RECORDED TOO LOUD AND THEREFORE HARD TO UNDERSTAND...SORRY ABOUT THAT.
THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL DISTRICT PURCHASED A HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET, SOUTH, OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOL, FOR $43,500, FROM DAVE BRADY. IT WILL BE DEMOLISHED, AND FENCING AND GRAVEL ADDED, AT A COST OF ABOUT $20,000. IT WILL PROVIDE 80 PARKING SPACES FOR THE SCHOOL, WHERE PARKING IS BADLY NEEDED, ESPECIALLY NOW THAT A FEW MORE SPACES WILL BE GONE AS THEY ARE BUILDING AN ADDITION TO THE SCHOOL FOR AN OFFICE. FUNDS FOR THE NEW PARKING LOT WILL COME FROM THE DISTRICT'S PHYSICAL AND EQUIPMENT LEVY. LATER ON, AT ANOTHER $20,000, THE LOT WILL BE PAVED. THAT MAY BE A YEAR OR MORE AWAY.
MAYOR TOM MESSERLI ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT HE HAS DECIDED ON THE NEW POLICE CHIEF. HE INTENDS TO APPOINT BRAD KORANDA TO THE POSITION AT NEXT MONDAY'S COUNCIL MEETING.
UNDER CITY CODE, THE MAYOR MAKES THE APPOINTMENT AND THE COUNCIL, WITH AT LEAST 4 VOTES, HAS TO RATIFIY THE DECISION. IF APPROVED MONDAY NIGHT BY THE COUNCIL, HE WOULD START IMMEDIATELY. HE HAS BEEN FULLTIME WITH THE DEPARTMENT SINCE 1988 AND WAS NAMED SERGEANT IN 1997. HE AND HIS WIFE, BECKY, HAVE TWO CHILDREN. ONE SON, BODE, IS A SENIOR AT MCHS AND A DAUGHTER, BROOKLYN IS A 7TH GRADER. HIS FATHER IS LONGTIME BUSINESSMAN, AND A FORMER POLICE OFFICER IN TOWN FOR MANY YEARS, ARNOLD KORANDA.
VANDALS KNOCKED OVER FOUR HEADSTONES THIS WEEK AT MT. HOPE CEMETERY.
TIM AND BECKY CHAPIN OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF TWIN GIRLS BORN EARLIER THIS WEEK.
NO LOCAL DEATHS.
THANKS FOR THE VISIT.
DENNIS VOY
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Monday, September 13, 2004
NICE, BUT HOT...IN MID 80'S TODAY, WITH A NICE BREEZE. WE NEED RAIN AND IT IS FORECAST FOR TONIGHT, TOMORROW AND TOMORROW NIGHT.
THE BEAR CREEK NARCOTICS TASK FORCE RAIDED A RURAL MAQUOKETA HOME SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND FOUND METHAMPHETAMINE ON TWO RESIDENTS, STEVEN VAN HECKE, AGE 39 AND DALE WEIMERSKIRCH, AGE 51, WHO BOTH LIVED ON THE PROPERTY AT 16075, 85TH STREET, RURAL MAQUOKETA. BOTH MEN WERE ORIGINALLY JAILED ON $13,000 BOND EACH. IN MAGISTRATE COURT TODAY, VAN HECKE'S BOND WAS REDUCED TO $1,950 (UNSECURED) BOND AND WEIMERSKIRCH'S BOND WAS REDUCED TO $9,750.
ADDITIONAL CHARGES ARE PENDING AGAINST BOTH.
SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION DAY TOMORROW. NO CONTEST HERE IN MAQUOKETA FOR THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL DISTRICT. BOTH INCUMBENTS, LESLIE LAWSON AND MARY BARTELS ARE SEEKING RE-ELECTION UNOPPOSED.
A COUPLE ACCIDENTS OVER THE WEEKEND. LLOYD THOLA, AGE 49, OF MAQUOKETA WAS IN A TWO-VEHICLE ACCIDENT SUNDAY AFTERNOON ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTH OF LAMOTTE. THE OTHER VEHICLE WAS DRIVEN BY DAISY CLASEN, AGE 87, OF LAMOTTE. CLASEN WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL IN DUBUQUE.
THOLA'S 2004 TRUCK RECEIVED NO DAMAGE AND CLASEN'S 98 FORD RECEIVED ABOUT $4,500 IN DAMAGES.
MICHAEL KUHLMAN, AGE 42, OF MAQUOEKTA WAS IN AN ACCIDENT SUNDAY AFTERNOON ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF MAQUOKETA. HE DIDN'T MAKE A CURVE AND HIT AND MAILBOX AND POLE AND WAS NOT INJURED.
MORE COURT NEWS: KEITH WILSON, AGE 37, OF MAQUOKETA WAS CHARGED WITH DOMESTIC ASSAULT. THE POLICE REPORT SAYS HE GBABBED HIS GIRLFRIEND AROUND THE NECK SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT 203 1/2 SOUTH MAIN STREET.
A LAND USE MEETING IN MAQUOKETA TONIGHT AND A SCHOOL BOARD MEETING TOO.
NO MAQUOKETA DEATHS.
THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY CITIZENS OF THE WEEK THIS WEEK ARE JOHN FAGERLAND AND HIS DAUGHTER, KENDRA BECK. INTERESTING STORY AS TO WHY THEY ARE BEING HONORED THIS WEEK.....CHECK IT OUT AT THE ROTARY WEB SITE...www.maquoketa-rotary.org.
LOUIE CLASEN, OWNER OF TIMBER LANES IN MAQUOKETA ROLLED ANOTHER 300 GAME LAST THURSDAY NIGHT.
MAQUOKETA SENIOR TAILBACK JON FITZPATRICK SET A MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL INDIVIDUAL GAME
RUSHING RECORD FRIDAY NIGHT HELPING THE CARDINALS TO A 37 TO 6 WIN OVER MONTICELLO. HE CARRIED THE BALL 21 TIMES FOR 240 YARDS. HE HAD TWO TOUCHDOWNS ON RUNS OF 57 AND 61 YARDS AS MAQUOKETA EVENED THEIR RECORD AT 1 AND 1. HIS PARENTS ARE DAVE AND BRENDA FITZPATRICK.
THE CARDINALS HOST MT. VERNON THIS FRIDAY NIGHT.
THAT'S IT FOR A MONDAY...
CHECK IN AGAIN TOMOROW.
DENNIS VOY
THE BEAR CREEK NARCOTICS TASK FORCE RAIDED A RURAL MAQUOKETA HOME SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND FOUND METHAMPHETAMINE ON TWO RESIDENTS, STEVEN VAN HECKE, AGE 39 AND DALE WEIMERSKIRCH, AGE 51, WHO BOTH LIVED ON THE PROPERTY AT 16075, 85TH STREET, RURAL MAQUOKETA. BOTH MEN WERE ORIGINALLY JAILED ON $13,000 BOND EACH. IN MAGISTRATE COURT TODAY, VAN HECKE'S BOND WAS REDUCED TO $1,950 (UNSECURED) BOND AND WEIMERSKIRCH'S BOND WAS REDUCED TO $9,750.
ADDITIONAL CHARGES ARE PENDING AGAINST BOTH.
SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION DAY TOMORROW. NO CONTEST HERE IN MAQUOKETA FOR THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL DISTRICT. BOTH INCUMBENTS, LESLIE LAWSON AND MARY BARTELS ARE SEEKING RE-ELECTION UNOPPOSED.
A COUPLE ACCIDENTS OVER THE WEEKEND. LLOYD THOLA, AGE 49, OF MAQUOKETA WAS IN A TWO-VEHICLE ACCIDENT SUNDAY AFTERNOON ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTH OF LAMOTTE. THE OTHER VEHICLE WAS DRIVEN BY DAISY CLASEN, AGE 87, OF LAMOTTE. CLASEN WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL IN DUBUQUE.
THOLA'S 2004 TRUCK RECEIVED NO DAMAGE AND CLASEN'S 98 FORD RECEIVED ABOUT $4,500 IN DAMAGES.
MICHAEL KUHLMAN, AGE 42, OF MAQUOEKTA WAS IN AN ACCIDENT SUNDAY AFTERNOON ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF MAQUOKETA. HE DIDN'T MAKE A CURVE AND HIT AND MAILBOX AND POLE AND WAS NOT INJURED.
MORE COURT NEWS: KEITH WILSON, AGE 37, OF MAQUOKETA WAS CHARGED WITH DOMESTIC ASSAULT. THE POLICE REPORT SAYS HE GBABBED HIS GIRLFRIEND AROUND THE NECK SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT 203 1/2 SOUTH MAIN STREET.
A LAND USE MEETING IN MAQUOKETA TONIGHT AND A SCHOOL BOARD MEETING TOO.
NO MAQUOKETA DEATHS.
THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY CITIZENS OF THE WEEK THIS WEEK ARE JOHN FAGERLAND AND HIS DAUGHTER, KENDRA BECK. INTERESTING STORY AS TO WHY THEY ARE BEING HONORED THIS WEEK.....CHECK IT OUT AT THE ROTARY WEB SITE...www.maquoketa-rotary.org.
LOUIE CLASEN, OWNER OF TIMBER LANES IN MAQUOKETA ROLLED ANOTHER 300 GAME LAST THURSDAY NIGHT.
MAQUOKETA SENIOR TAILBACK JON FITZPATRICK SET A MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL INDIVIDUAL GAME
RUSHING RECORD FRIDAY NIGHT HELPING THE CARDINALS TO A 37 TO 6 WIN OVER MONTICELLO. HE CARRIED THE BALL 21 TIMES FOR 240 YARDS. HE HAD TWO TOUCHDOWNS ON RUNS OF 57 AND 61 YARDS AS MAQUOKETA EVENED THEIR RECORD AT 1 AND 1. HIS PARENTS ARE DAVE AND BRENDA FITZPATRICK.
THE CARDINALS HOST MT. VERNON THIS FRIDAY NIGHT.
THAT'S IT FOR A MONDAY...
CHECK IN AGAIN TOMOROW.
DENNIS VOY
Saturday, September 11, 2004
NICE...AND WARM....DAY TODAY...HIGH IN 80'S. MORE OF THE SAME TOMORROW.
THE MAQUOKETA CARDINALS DEFEATED MONTICELLO HERE LAST NIGHT, 37 TO 6, FOR THEIR FIRST WIN OF SEASON...A NON-DISTRICT GAME.
IOWA DEFEATED IOWA STATE TODAY, 17 TO 10 IN A GOOD GAME AT IOWA CITY...A CLOSER GAME THAN WAS PREDICTED BY MOST.
HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY TODAY TO MARIAN MOELLER OF MAQUOKETA. SHE WAS BORN OUT ON A FARM.... ON A RAINING MORNING ON THE DARK HOLLOW ROAD AND STONY POINT AREA FIVE MILES SOUTHEAST OF ANDREW, THAT DR. S.M LITTLEFIELD OF ANDREW REACHED OVER DIRT MID ROADS WITH A HORSE AND BUGGY. SHE WAS AN INDUSTRIAL HEALTH NURSE FOR CLINTON ENGINES FOR 16 YEARS AND WORKED AT CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME AS A REGISTERED NURSE FOR EIGHT YEARS.
THE RAGBRAO COMMITTEE MET THIS WEEK AND OFFICIALS WERE SURPRISED THIS WEEK WHEN THE DES MOINES REGISTER, SPONSOR OF RAGBRAI, DONATED $8,200 TO MAQUOKETA FOR HOSTING RAGBRAI IN LATE JULY. THE LOCAL COMMITTEE ALSO CAME UP WITH A LITTLE PROFIT FROM ACTIVITIES HERE..... AND THE COMMITTEE NOW PLANS TO DO SOME SORT OF COMMUNITY PROJECT THAT WOULD BENEFIT EVERYONE. NOTHING HAS YET BEEN DECIDED. THE LOCAL COMMITTEE, ESTIMATED EACH RAGBRAI VISITOR SPENT AT LEAST $20 WHILE IN MAQUOKETA, AND BELIEVES THAT THE RAGBRAI EVENT MENT AN ADDITIONAL $300,000 WAS SPENT IN MAQUOKETA THAT DAY, NIGHT AND NEXT MORNING. LOCAL CLUBS THAT SPONSORED FOOD STAND, FOR THE MOST PART, ALSO SHOWED A PROFIT FOR THEIR TREASURY. MANY RAN OUT OF FOOD THAT NIGHT. SO....THE GENERAL CONSENSUS...RAGBRAI WAS A BIG SUCCESS IN MANY WAYS, INCLUDING FINANCIALLY.
I STOPPED UP AT THE JACKSON COUNTY PUBLIC HOSPITAL NEW EXTENDED CARE WING YESTERDAY OVER THE NOON HOUR AND VISITED WITH TWO RESIDENTS THERE....GEORGE SPALDING, LONGTIME SHOE STORE OWNER IN MAQUOKETA AND LONGTIME DOCTOR, CLAY RISSER. GEORGE LOOKED GOOD AND IS RECOVERING FROM HIP SURGERY AND WE DISCUSSED FOOTBALL AND OTHER THINGS. DR. RISSER WAS IN A GOOD MOOD, ASKED FOR SOME MUSIC AND THEY PLAYED SOME CD MUSIC AND HE (AT 105) RAISED HIS ARMS AND HANDS TO ENCOURAGE AND DIRECT OTHERS IN ROOM IN SINGING ALONG WITH THE CD.
HE TALKS A LOT, BUT HIS HEARING IS NOT GOOD AND HE IS A LITTLE HARD TO UNDERSTAND. ALSO SAID HI TO BOTH MARIETTA RIPPLE AND DIXIE MILLER AS BOTH KNEW ME. I BELIEVE THERE 17 TO 19 ROOMS IN THAT NEW BUILDING AND IT IS VERY NICE. I THINK IT HAS ONE OPEN ROOM AT THE PRESENT TIME.
HAVE A NICE SUNDAY AND WEEK AHEAD.
DENNIS VOY
THE MAQUOKETA CARDINALS DEFEATED MONTICELLO HERE LAST NIGHT, 37 TO 6, FOR THEIR FIRST WIN OF SEASON...A NON-DISTRICT GAME.
IOWA DEFEATED IOWA STATE TODAY, 17 TO 10 IN A GOOD GAME AT IOWA CITY...A CLOSER GAME THAN WAS PREDICTED BY MOST.
HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY TODAY TO MARIAN MOELLER OF MAQUOKETA. SHE WAS BORN OUT ON A FARM.... ON A RAINING MORNING ON THE DARK HOLLOW ROAD AND STONY POINT AREA FIVE MILES SOUTHEAST OF ANDREW, THAT DR. S.M LITTLEFIELD OF ANDREW REACHED OVER DIRT MID ROADS WITH A HORSE AND BUGGY. SHE WAS AN INDUSTRIAL HEALTH NURSE FOR CLINTON ENGINES FOR 16 YEARS AND WORKED AT CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME AS A REGISTERED NURSE FOR EIGHT YEARS.
THE RAGBRAO COMMITTEE MET THIS WEEK AND OFFICIALS WERE SURPRISED THIS WEEK WHEN THE DES MOINES REGISTER, SPONSOR OF RAGBRAI, DONATED $8,200 TO MAQUOKETA FOR HOSTING RAGBRAI IN LATE JULY. THE LOCAL COMMITTEE ALSO CAME UP WITH A LITTLE PROFIT FROM ACTIVITIES HERE..... AND THE COMMITTEE NOW PLANS TO DO SOME SORT OF COMMUNITY PROJECT THAT WOULD BENEFIT EVERYONE. NOTHING HAS YET BEEN DECIDED. THE LOCAL COMMITTEE, ESTIMATED EACH RAGBRAI VISITOR SPENT AT LEAST $20 WHILE IN MAQUOKETA, AND BELIEVES THAT THE RAGBRAI EVENT MENT AN ADDITIONAL $300,000 WAS SPENT IN MAQUOKETA THAT DAY, NIGHT AND NEXT MORNING. LOCAL CLUBS THAT SPONSORED FOOD STAND, FOR THE MOST PART, ALSO SHOWED A PROFIT FOR THEIR TREASURY. MANY RAN OUT OF FOOD THAT NIGHT. SO....THE GENERAL CONSENSUS...RAGBRAI WAS A BIG SUCCESS IN MANY WAYS, INCLUDING FINANCIALLY.
I STOPPED UP AT THE JACKSON COUNTY PUBLIC HOSPITAL NEW EXTENDED CARE WING YESTERDAY OVER THE NOON HOUR AND VISITED WITH TWO RESIDENTS THERE....GEORGE SPALDING, LONGTIME SHOE STORE OWNER IN MAQUOKETA AND LONGTIME DOCTOR, CLAY RISSER. GEORGE LOOKED GOOD AND IS RECOVERING FROM HIP SURGERY AND WE DISCUSSED FOOTBALL AND OTHER THINGS. DR. RISSER WAS IN A GOOD MOOD, ASKED FOR SOME MUSIC AND THEY PLAYED SOME CD MUSIC AND HE (AT 105) RAISED HIS ARMS AND HANDS TO ENCOURAGE AND DIRECT OTHERS IN ROOM IN SINGING ALONG WITH THE CD.
HE TALKS A LOT, BUT HIS HEARING IS NOT GOOD AND HE IS A LITTLE HARD TO UNDERSTAND. ALSO SAID HI TO BOTH MARIETTA RIPPLE AND DIXIE MILLER AS BOTH KNEW ME. I BELIEVE THERE 17 TO 19 ROOMS IN THAT NEW BUILDING AND IT IS VERY NICE. I THINK IT HAS ONE OPEN ROOM AT THE PRESENT TIME.
HAVE A NICE SUNDAY AND WEEK AHEAD.
DENNIS VOY
Thursday, September 09, 2004
AGAIN..SUPER DAY IN MAQUKETA..HIGH OF 76.
MAQUOKETA FIREMEN CALLED OUT THIS AFTERNOON TO EXTINGUISH A BEAN FIELD FIRE AT THE JIM SUTTON FARM OFF HIGHWAY61. ABOUT 4 ACRES BURNED. NOT SURE HOW IT GOT STARTED.
I ATTENDED THE RIBBON-CUTTING CEREMONY AT 3:45 THIS AFTERNOON AT A NEW MAQUOKETA BUSINESS....CHEM RIGHT LABORATORIES. IT IS LOCATED IN THE FORMER DR. BIEHL DENTIST BUILDING ON NORTH MAIN STREET. IT IS OWNED BY MR. AND MRS. DAVID GOSSMAN. THEY BOTH WORK NEAR DEKALB, ILLINOIS, BUT ALSO HAVE OWNED A 600 ACRE FARM NORTH OF MAQUOKETA FOR NEARLY 10 YEARS SO THEY ARE NO STRANGERS TO MAQUOKTA AREA AND HAVE SPENT LOTS OF TIME BETWEEN THEIR MAQUOKETA AND ILLINOIS HOMES. NOW, THIS NEW BUSINESS WILL DO BOTH WATER AND SOIL TESTING FOR EASTERN IOWA. DAVID AND HIS WIFE BOTH HAVE A BACKGROUND IN TESTING AND THEIR CHEMIST HERE IN MAQUOKETA IS CYNTHIA DYE OF BELLEVUE AND THEIR LABORATORY MANAGER IS DANIEL DARLAND, WHO LIVES IN DEWITT. QUITE A LAYOUT. THEY HAVE LOTS OF EQUIPMENT, FILLING THAT BUILDING FROM THE FRONT DOOR TO THE BACK DOOR. BEST OF LUCK TO T HEM IN THEIR NEW BUSINESS.
TURNS OUT, THE ONE-HOUR POWER FAILURE YESERDAY MORNING, WAS RIGHT NEAR THE POWER PLANT ON NORTH MAIN STREET. CREWS DISCOVERED A FRIED BIRD...YES BIRD... IN THE REGULATOR NEAR THE PLANT.
THAT LITTLE CRITTER CAUSED THE ONE-HOUR POWER FAILURE.
IN MAGISTRATE COURT....JOSEPH MAXWELL, 31, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH OWI, AND POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, MARIJUANA, AND POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHENALIA WHEN STOPPED BY POLICE JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT LAST NIGHT.
THAT'S IT FOR ANOTHER DAY. TAKE IT EASY.
DENNIS VOY
MAQUOKETA FIREMEN CALLED OUT THIS AFTERNOON TO EXTINGUISH A BEAN FIELD FIRE AT THE JIM SUTTON FARM OFF HIGHWAY61. ABOUT 4 ACRES BURNED. NOT SURE HOW IT GOT STARTED.
I ATTENDED THE RIBBON-CUTTING CEREMONY AT 3:45 THIS AFTERNOON AT A NEW MAQUOKETA BUSINESS....CHEM RIGHT LABORATORIES. IT IS LOCATED IN THE FORMER DR. BIEHL DENTIST BUILDING ON NORTH MAIN STREET. IT IS OWNED BY MR. AND MRS. DAVID GOSSMAN. THEY BOTH WORK NEAR DEKALB, ILLINOIS, BUT ALSO HAVE OWNED A 600 ACRE FARM NORTH OF MAQUOKETA FOR NEARLY 10 YEARS SO THEY ARE NO STRANGERS TO MAQUOKTA AREA AND HAVE SPENT LOTS OF TIME BETWEEN THEIR MAQUOKETA AND ILLINOIS HOMES. NOW, THIS NEW BUSINESS WILL DO BOTH WATER AND SOIL TESTING FOR EASTERN IOWA. DAVID AND HIS WIFE BOTH HAVE A BACKGROUND IN TESTING AND THEIR CHEMIST HERE IN MAQUOKETA IS CYNTHIA DYE OF BELLEVUE AND THEIR LABORATORY MANAGER IS DANIEL DARLAND, WHO LIVES IN DEWITT. QUITE A LAYOUT. THEY HAVE LOTS OF EQUIPMENT, FILLING THAT BUILDING FROM THE FRONT DOOR TO THE BACK DOOR. BEST OF LUCK TO T HEM IN THEIR NEW BUSINESS.
TURNS OUT, THE ONE-HOUR POWER FAILURE YESERDAY MORNING, WAS RIGHT NEAR THE POWER PLANT ON NORTH MAIN STREET. CREWS DISCOVERED A FRIED BIRD...YES BIRD... IN THE REGULATOR NEAR THE PLANT.
THAT LITTLE CRITTER CAUSED THE ONE-HOUR POWER FAILURE.
IN MAGISTRATE COURT....JOSEPH MAXWELL, 31, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH OWI, AND POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, MARIJUANA, AND POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHENALIA WHEN STOPPED BY POLICE JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT LAST NIGHT.
THAT'S IT FOR ANOTHER DAY. TAKE IT EASY.
DENNIS VOY
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
ANOTHER SUPER DAY...73 THE HIGH.
A CITY-WIDE POWER FAILURE FROM 6:40 UNTIL 7:40 THIS MORNING. MAQUOKETA MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC MANAGER DOUG OWEN SAID THE PROBLEM WAS NOT LOCAL. KMAQ OFF-THE-AIR ALSO FOR THE HOUR.
THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD MET LAST NIGHT AND VOTED TO SPEND AN ADDITONAL $24,000 ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW TRACK. BUT, IT IS STILL UNDER BUDGET. IT AND THE NEW TENNIS COURTS WERE ESTIMATED TO COST $430,000 BUT WILL COME IN AT $391,000. THE COURTS ARE ALMOST DONE AND THE TRACK WILL BE READY FOR SPRING USE.
IN COURT NEWS, JAMES HEAD OF MAQUOKETA, AGE 56, WAS CHARGED MONDAY NIGHT WITH OWI AT MAIN AND PLATT STREETS.
ROBERT MELOW, 46, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED DOMESTIC ASSAULT FOR HITTING HIS GIRLFRIEND IN THE FACE WITH HIS FIST, LOOSENING TWO TEETH.
BRENT AND SHEILA HANLON PAULS OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN LAST TUESDAY, AUG. 31ST AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. GRANDPARENTS ARE JACK AND GAIL HANLON OF MAQUOKETA AND BRUCE AND ARLOEEN PAULS OF MAQUOKETA.
DARIN AND STACIA GALLOWAY HANSEN OF OXFORD JUNCTION HAD A BOY SEPTEMBER 1ST. GREAT GRANDPARENTS ARE VERN AND EVA HERKELMAN OF MAQUOKETA.
LURA DANIELS AND WILLLIAM BAKER, SR. OF MAQUOKETA, ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN SEPT. 1ST AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.
IOWA IS FAVORED BY 4 TOUCHDOWNS OVER IOWA STATE THIS SATURDAY AT IOWA CITY.
NO LOCAL DEATHS.
TAKE CARE.
DENNIS VOY
A CITY-WIDE POWER FAILURE FROM 6:40 UNTIL 7:40 THIS MORNING. MAQUOKETA MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC MANAGER DOUG OWEN SAID THE PROBLEM WAS NOT LOCAL. KMAQ OFF-THE-AIR ALSO FOR THE HOUR.
THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD MET LAST NIGHT AND VOTED TO SPEND AN ADDITONAL $24,000 ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW TRACK. BUT, IT IS STILL UNDER BUDGET. IT AND THE NEW TENNIS COURTS WERE ESTIMATED TO COST $430,000 BUT WILL COME IN AT $391,000. THE COURTS ARE ALMOST DONE AND THE TRACK WILL BE READY FOR SPRING USE.
IN COURT NEWS, JAMES HEAD OF MAQUOKETA, AGE 56, WAS CHARGED MONDAY NIGHT WITH OWI AT MAIN AND PLATT STREETS.
ROBERT MELOW, 46, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED DOMESTIC ASSAULT FOR HITTING HIS GIRLFRIEND IN THE FACE WITH HIS FIST, LOOSENING TWO TEETH.
BRENT AND SHEILA HANLON PAULS OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN LAST TUESDAY, AUG. 31ST AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. GRANDPARENTS ARE JACK AND GAIL HANLON OF MAQUOKETA AND BRUCE AND ARLOEEN PAULS OF MAQUOKETA.
DARIN AND STACIA GALLOWAY HANSEN OF OXFORD JUNCTION HAD A BOY SEPTEMBER 1ST. GREAT GRANDPARENTS ARE VERN AND EVA HERKELMAN OF MAQUOKETA.
LURA DANIELS AND WILLLIAM BAKER, SR. OF MAQUOKETA, ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN SEPT. 1ST AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.
IOWA IS FAVORED BY 4 TOUCHDOWNS OVER IOWA STATE THIS SATURDAY AT IOWA CITY.
NO LOCAL DEATHS.
TAKE CARE.
DENNIS VOY
Tuesday, September 07, 2004
SUPER DAY TODAY...HIGH OF 72.
MORE OF THE SAME FOR THE ENTIRE WEEK AHEAD, WITH NO RAIN.
HOLIDAY WEATHER WAS ALSO GREAT THIS PAST WEEKEND.
CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT.
RANDY TIGGES OF MAQUOKTA HIT A DEER ON HIGHWAY 61 AT 4:45 THIS MORNING, NEAR THE FAMILY DOLLAR DISTRIBUTION CENTER....$2,500 DAMAGE TO HIS 2001 CHEVY PICKUP.
IN DISTRICT COURT, BARBARA VAN AMBURG, AGE 33, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS SENTENCED BY DISTRICT JUDGE BOBBI ALPERS, TO PRIZON FOR 10 YEARS FOR MAKING METHAMPHETAMINE.
LEARNED AT COFFEE THIS MORNING, THAT FLORIDA HOMES OWNED BY FRANCIS LAMB AND BILL AND JUNE URBANEK, WERE EXTENSIVELY DAMAGED BECAUSE OF THE HURRICANES.
GROVER WILLEY, 82, OF LOST NATION, DIED YESTERDAY. HE FARMED AND DROVE TRUCK AND SURVIVORS INCLUDE 2 DAUGHTERS AND 3 SONS, INCLUDING JAY WILLEY OF MAQUOKETA.
JACK JONES OF MAQUOKETA, WHO TODAY BEGAN HIS 31ST YEAR AS MANAGER OF THE VOY THEATRES IN MAQUOKETA, IS THIS WEEK'S MAQUOKETA ROTARY "CITIZEN OF THE WEEK". A PHOTO AND STORY IS ON THE RORARY WEB SITE, www.maquoketa-rotary.org
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY
MORE OF THE SAME FOR THE ENTIRE WEEK AHEAD, WITH NO RAIN.
HOLIDAY WEATHER WAS ALSO GREAT THIS PAST WEEKEND.
CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT.
RANDY TIGGES OF MAQUOKTA HIT A DEER ON HIGHWAY 61 AT 4:45 THIS MORNING, NEAR THE FAMILY DOLLAR DISTRIBUTION CENTER....$2,500 DAMAGE TO HIS 2001 CHEVY PICKUP.
IN DISTRICT COURT, BARBARA VAN AMBURG, AGE 33, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS SENTENCED BY DISTRICT JUDGE BOBBI ALPERS, TO PRIZON FOR 10 YEARS FOR MAKING METHAMPHETAMINE.
LEARNED AT COFFEE THIS MORNING, THAT FLORIDA HOMES OWNED BY FRANCIS LAMB AND BILL AND JUNE URBANEK, WERE EXTENSIVELY DAMAGED BECAUSE OF THE HURRICANES.
GROVER WILLEY, 82, OF LOST NATION, DIED YESTERDAY. HE FARMED AND DROVE TRUCK AND SURVIVORS INCLUDE 2 DAUGHTERS AND 3 SONS, INCLUDING JAY WILLEY OF MAQUOKETA.
JACK JONES OF MAQUOKETA, WHO TODAY BEGAN HIS 31ST YEAR AS MANAGER OF THE VOY THEATRES IN MAQUOKETA, IS THIS WEEK'S MAQUOKETA ROTARY "CITIZEN OF THE WEEK". A PHOTO AND STORY IS ON THE RORARY WEB SITE, www.maquoketa-rotary.org
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY
Friday, September 03, 2004
TODAY, FOR THE 2ND DAY IN A ROW..SUNNY AND WARM, A HIGH OF 87, LIKE YESTERDAY.
NICE WEATHER FORECAST FOR TOMORROW WITH RAIN POSSIBLE SUNDAY.
NO MAQUOKETA FOOTBALL GAME TONIGHT...THEIR NEXT GAME IN A WEEK.
THE GRANDSON OF DON AND THELMA DAVIS OF MAQUOKETA , AND HIS WIFE, WERE MURDERED IN A CONVENIENCE STORE IN ANNISTON, ALABAMA, JUST AFTER 10 LAST NIGHT. BOTH JOSHUA DAVIS, AGE 24, AND HIS WIFE, LINDA MICHELLE, AGE 34, WERE EMPLOYEES AND WERE FOUND SHOT TO DEATH BEHIND THE COUNTER OF THE STORE. JOSHUA IS THE SON OF DAVID DAVIS OF TORNOTO, IOWA AND WAS A GRADUATE OF CALAMUS-WHEATLAND HIGH SCHOOL. THE DAUGHTER OF LINDA, JORDON NICHOLE TODARO, AGE 14, WAS KIDNAPPED BY THE ALLEDGED KILLER, GEORGE HONEA, AGE 34, OF ANNISTON. AT LAST REPORT, A STANDOFF WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT IS UNDERWAY IN A SMALL TOWN MOTEL SOUTH OF ANNISTON.
HONEA IS KNOW TO POLICE BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN A FUGITIVE SINCE WEDNESDAY WHEN WARRANTS WERE ISSUED FOR HIS ARREST, ON RAPE AND THEFT CHARGES. HE APPARENTLY WAS GOING TO ROB THE CONVENIENCE STORE AND THE DOUBLE MURDER AND KIDNAPPING THEN OCCURRED.
BENJAMIN HIGGINS, AGE 72, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS TAKEN TO MERCY HOSPITAL IN CLINTON BY SABULA AMBULANCE AFTER HIS CAR FLIPPED IN THE DITCH YESTERDAY AFTERNOON ABOUT 4:30 THE THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAYS 52 AND 64. NO REPORT ON HIS CONDITION.
A MAQUOKETA WOMAN, NICOLE DODDS, AGE 26, ESCAPED INJURY AFTER SHE PUT HER VEHICLE INTO THE DITCH AND THROUGH A CREEK LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT NEAR ANDREW. SHE WAS CHARGED BY SHERIFF RUSS KETTMAN FOR FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL AND DRIVING WHILE LICENSE BARRED. SHE SAID SHE SWERVED TO AVOID A DEER.
IN DISTRICT COURT, ROBERT ALLEN FELTES, AGE 29, WAS SENTENCED TO 30 DAYS IN JAIL, 28 SUSPENDED, ON CHARGES BACK ON JUNE 13TH OF OPERATING A VEHICLE WHILE INTOXICATED.
RICHARD L. STARRY, 67, OF GARNER , IOWA, DIED YESTERDAY. HE WAS FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA.
HAROLD "DOC" GRAVES OF MAQUOKETA, AGE 72, DIED TODAY AT THE HOSPITAL IN DEWITT.
HE NEVER MARRIED AND WORKED FOR YEARS AT CLINTON ENGINES AND FOR THE CITY WASTWATER AND SEWER DEPARTMENTS, RETIRING IN 1990. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS SISTER, DARLENE COON OF MAQUOKETA AND A BROTHER, BOBBY GRAVES,OF MAQUOKETA.
THE IOWA HAWKEYES OPEN THE SEASON AT HOME AGAINST KENT STATE TOMORROW. 11 A.M. KICKOFF. THE GAME WILL BE ON KMAQ-FM. THE IOWA STATE CYYCLONES OPEN AT HOME ALSO, IN AMES, HOSTING UNI OF CEDAR FALLS. THE GAME KICKOFF AT 1 P.M. AND THE GAME WILL BE ON KMAQ-AM.
IOWA IS RATED HIGH IN PRE-SEASON POLLS AND IOWA STATE NEEDS TO IMPROVE AFTER WINNING ONLY 2 GAMES LAST SEASON. GO HAWKS. GO CYCLONES.
HAVE A GOOD LABOR DAY HOLIDAY.
DENNIS VOY
NICE WEATHER FORECAST FOR TOMORROW WITH RAIN POSSIBLE SUNDAY.
NO MAQUOKETA FOOTBALL GAME TONIGHT...THEIR NEXT GAME IN A WEEK.
THE GRANDSON OF DON AND THELMA DAVIS OF MAQUOKETA , AND HIS WIFE, WERE MURDERED IN A CONVENIENCE STORE IN ANNISTON, ALABAMA, JUST AFTER 10 LAST NIGHT. BOTH JOSHUA DAVIS, AGE 24, AND HIS WIFE, LINDA MICHELLE, AGE 34, WERE EMPLOYEES AND WERE FOUND SHOT TO DEATH BEHIND THE COUNTER OF THE STORE. JOSHUA IS THE SON OF DAVID DAVIS OF TORNOTO, IOWA AND WAS A GRADUATE OF CALAMUS-WHEATLAND HIGH SCHOOL. THE DAUGHTER OF LINDA, JORDON NICHOLE TODARO, AGE 14, WAS KIDNAPPED BY THE ALLEDGED KILLER, GEORGE HONEA, AGE 34, OF ANNISTON. AT LAST REPORT, A STANDOFF WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT IS UNDERWAY IN A SMALL TOWN MOTEL SOUTH OF ANNISTON.
HONEA IS KNOW TO POLICE BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN A FUGITIVE SINCE WEDNESDAY WHEN WARRANTS WERE ISSUED FOR HIS ARREST, ON RAPE AND THEFT CHARGES. HE APPARENTLY WAS GOING TO ROB THE CONVENIENCE STORE AND THE DOUBLE MURDER AND KIDNAPPING THEN OCCURRED.
BENJAMIN HIGGINS, AGE 72, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS TAKEN TO MERCY HOSPITAL IN CLINTON BY SABULA AMBULANCE AFTER HIS CAR FLIPPED IN THE DITCH YESTERDAY AFTERNOON ABOUT 4:30 THE THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAYS 52 AND 64. NO REPORT ON HIS CONDITION.
A MAQUOKETA WOMAN, NICOLE DODDS, AGE 26, ESCAPED INJURY AFTER SHE PUT HER VEHICLE INTO THE DITCH AND THROUGH A CREEK LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT NEAR ANDREW. SHE WAS CHARGED BY SHERIFF RUSS KETTMAN FOR FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL AND DRIVING WHILE LICENSE BARRED. SHE SAID SHE SWERVED TO AVOID A DEER.
IN DISTRICT COURT, ROBERT ALLEN FELTES, AGE 29, WAS SENTENCED TO 30 DAYS IN JAIL, 28 SUSPENDED, ON CHARGES BACK ON JUNE 13TH OF OPERATING A VEHICLE WHILE INTOXICATED.
RICHARD L. STARRY, 67, OF GARNER , IOWA, DIED YESTERDAY. HE WAS FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA.
HAROLD "DOC" GRAVES OF MAQUOKETA, AGE 72, DIED TODAY AT THE HOSPITAL IN DEWITT.
HE NEVER MARRIED AND WORKED FOR YEARS AT CLINTON ENGINES AND FOR THE CITY WASTWATER AND SEWER DEPARTMENTS, RETIRING IN 1990. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS SISTER, DARLENE COON OF MAQUOKETA AND A BROTHER, BOBBY GRAVES,OF MAQUOKETA.
THE IOWA HAWKEYES OPEN THE SEASON AT HOME AGAINST KENT STATE TOMORROW. 11 A.M. KICKOFF. THE GAME WILL BE ON KMAQ-FM. THE IOWA STATE CYYCLONES OPEN AT HOME ALSO, IN AMES, HOSTING UNI OF CEDAR FALLS. THE GAME KICKOFF AT 1 P.M. AND THE GAME WILL BE ON KMAQ-AM.
IOWA IS RATED HIGH IN PRE-SEASON POLLS AND IOWA STATE NEEDS TO IMPROVE AFTER WINNING ONLY 2 GAMES LAST SEASON. GO HAWKS. GO CYCLONES.
HAVE A GOOD LABOR DAY HOLIDAY.
DENNIS VOY
Thursday, September 02, 2004
87 TODAY...
LOIS SCHEPERS OF LOST NATION, MCHS GRAD, AND DAUGHTER OF FAY MOELLER OF MAQUOKETA, CALLED ME THIS MORNING TO TELL ME HER BROTHER, DICK MOELLER, LIVES DOWN IN FLORIDA WHERE THE HURRICANE WARNING IS IN EFFECT AND THEREFORE LEFT THE AREA NEAR PALM BEACH AND WENT TO HIS SON'S HOME IN VIRGINIA UNTIL THE STORM IS OVER. FAY, BY THE WAY, WILL BE 95 IN NOVEMBER. STILL PLAYS PIANO AND SINGS ONCE A MONTH FOR THE CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME RESIDENTS.
THE CLASS OF 1959 IS HAVING A BIG RE-UNION (45TH) THIS WEEKEND. FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, INCLUDING A TOUR OF THEIR HIGH SCHOOL, NOW THE MIDDLE SCHOOL. I KNEW QUITE A FEW FROM THAT CLASS, BECAUSE THEY STARTED THEIR SENIOR YEAR IN 1958 JUST AFTER KMAQ WENT ON THE AIR.
I ATE MANY OF MY MEALS AT THE GREEN MILL IN THOSE DAYS AND A LOT OF THOSE SENIORS STOPPED AT THE GREEN MILL AFTER SCHOOL OR AFTER A MOVIE AT THE PASTIME THEATRE. GEORGE PETAROS WOULD FIX A BUNCH OF COKES AND CHERRY COKES AHEAD OF TIME, SO WHEN THE KIDS CAME IN AFTER SCHOOL, THERE WAS NOT WAITING.
VERY LITTLE MAQUOKETA NEWS TODAY, AND NO DEATHS.
SHORT REPORT...BUT BETTER THAN NONE??
THANKS FOR CHECKING IN.
DENNIS VOY
LOIS SCHEPERS OF LOST NATION, MCHS GRAD, AND DAUGHTER OF FAY MOELLER OF MAQUOKETA, CALLED ME THIS MORNING TO TELL ME HER BROTHER, DICK MOELLER, LIVES DOWN IN FLORIDA WHERE THE HURRICANE WARNING IS IN EFFECT AND THEREFORE LEFT THE AREA NEAR PALM BEACH AND WENT TO HIS SON'S HOME IN VIRGINIA UNTIL THE STORM IS OVER. FAY, BY THE WAY, WILL BE 95 IN NOVEMBER. STILL PLAYS PIANO AND SINGS ONCE A MONTH FOR THE CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME RESIDENTS.
THE CLASS OF 1959 IS HAVING A BIG RE-UNION (45TH) THIS WEEKEND. FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, INCLUDING A TOUR OF THEIR HIGH SCHOOL, NOW THE MIDDLE SCHOOL. I KNEW QUITE A FEW FROM THAT CLASS, BECAUSE THEY STARTED THEIR SENIOR YEAR IN 1958 JUST AFTER KMAQ WENT ON THE AIR.
I ATE MANY OF MY MEALS AT THE GREEN MILL IN THOSE DAYS AND A LOT OF THOSE SENIORS STOPPED AT THE GREEN MILL AFTER SCHOOL OR AFTER A MOVIE AT THE PASTIME THEATRE. GEORGE PETAROS WOULD FIX A BUNCH OF COKES AND CHERRY COKES AHEAD OF TIME, SO WHEN THE KIDS CAME IN AFTER SCHOOL, THERE WAS NOT WAITING.
VERY LITTLE MAQUOKETA NEWS TODAY, AND NO DEATHS.
SHORT REPORT...BUT BETTER THAN NONE??
THANKS FOR CHECKING IN.
DENNIS VOY
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