WE HAD SNOW ON THE GROUND THIS MORNING. LIGHT SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT AND EARLY THIS MORNING, LESS THAN AN INCH, AND IT DID NOT LAST LONG.
BETTY SWIETER, 77, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED SATURDAY AT HER HOME.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY 2 SONS, JOHN OF PLANO, TEXAS AND JIM OF FRISCO, TEXAS.
ALSO 3 GRANDSONS AND TWO SISTERS, DOROTHY KELCHNER OF MAQUOKETA AND ELAINE WIER OF DAVENPORT.
THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY "CITIZEN OF THE WEEK" IS LONGTIME MANAGER OF MCDONALDS IN MAQUOKETA, SUE BRIMEYER. A PHOTO AND STORY ON
ROTARY WEB HOME PAGE, www.maquoketa-rotary.org
ON THE KMAQ HOME PAGE, CLICK ON DENNIS' DAILY PHOTOS AND SEE A NIGHTTIME PHOTO TAKEN OF THE CHAMBER OFFICE BUILDING IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA WITH THE NEW CHRISTMAS LIGHTS.
FORMER KMAQ PART TIME HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT ANNOUNCER, DAVID MOORE, AND SON OF KMAQ SALESPERSON, NANCY MOORE, HAS BEEN NAMED A WENDT CHARACTOR SCHOLAR FOR THE 2004-2005 ACADEMIC YEAR. HIS PARENTS ARE DAVID AND NANCY MOORE OF SOUTH MAIN STREET. EACH WENDT SCHOLAR RECEIVES A $4,000 AWARD. DAVID IS A SENIOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE. THOSE WHO RECEIVE THE ANNUAL AWARD HAVE DEMONSTRATED THE ACTIVE APPLICATION OF THE VIRTUES OF TRUTHFULNESS, HONESTY, FAIRNESS AND THE GOLDEN RULE IN THEIR LIVES. CONGRATULATION DAVID!
THE KMAQ TRAVEL BUS, WITH ME ABOARD AS ESCORT, LEAVES FOR BRANSON AT 5 TOMORROW MORNING. WE WILL SEE 6 BRANSON SHOWS, INCLUDING THE NEW MICKEY ROONEY CHRISTMAS SHOW. SO, NO MORE DAILY REPORTS THIS WEEK.
IF I CAN FIND TIME SATURDAY, I'LL GIVE YOU A REPORT ON TOP NEWS OF THE WEEK THEN.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY
Friday, November 26, 2004
YOU FOLKS DOWN SOUTH....MISSING OUR WIND AND 40 DEGREE WEATHER.
SNOW POSSIBLE TOMORROW...ONLY A HALF INCH OR SO.
GOLFERS WERE STILL OUT THIS WEEK. IN FACT, TUESDAY, DUB ROMER (JUST CELEBRTED HIS 85TH) SHOT A 45, BEATING HIS GOLFING BUDDIES, MORRIE MORRIS AND JERRY RASMUSSEN.
SCROOGE HAS ALREADY VISITED MAQUOKETA. BRUCE RUCHOSKE AT 301 WEST WASHINGTON STREET IN MAQUOKETA, SAID SOMEONE TOOK ORNAMENTS FROM HIS YARD AND HE FOUND THEM LATER, BROKEN AND IN A HEAP ON PERSHING ROAD.
THE MAQUOKETA FIREMEN HAD TWO THANKSGIVING FIRES...A MINOR CHIMNEY FIRE AT THE MIKE CHAPLIN RESIDENCE ON WEST PLEASANT STREET...AROUND 5:30 P.M.
AND A BARN FIRE AT 7 P.M. NEAR BALDWIN. THEY WERE AT THE SCENE ABOUT 2 HOURS FIGHTING IT.
150 PEOPLE WERE SERVED AT THE COMMUNITY THANKSGIVING SERVICE IN MAQUOKETA AT THE SENIOR CENTER. THE MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION COORDINATED THE EVENT AND TOM AND LUANN CAHILL CHAIRED THE COMMITTEE THAT ORGANIZED IT.
SMALL SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH DECLINING ENROLLMENT.
ANDREW MAY END UP WITH A DEFICIT OF MORE THAN $200,000 THIS SCHOOL YEAR.
DARLENE KIRCHOFF HAS A GREAT CHRISTMAS DISPLAY AT HER HOME ON JUDSON STREET, JUST EAST OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS, WHO LOST THEIR FIRST BASKETBALL GAME EARLIER THIS WEEK, PLAY NORTHEAST TONIGHT AT GOOSE LAKE.
THERE AT FOUR HOMES FOR SALE IN MAQUOKETA, WITH AN ASKING PRICE OF
OVER $225,000 EACH. FIRST TIME EVER.
HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
SNOW POSSIBLE TOMORROW...ONLY A HALF INCH OR SO.
GOLFERS WERE STILL OUT THIS WEEK. IN FACT, TUESDAY, DUB ROMER (JUST CELEBRTED HIS 85TH) SHOT A 45, BEATING HIS GOLFING BUDDIES, MORRIE MORRIS AND JERRY RASMUSSEN.
SCROOGE HAS ALREADY VISITED MAQUOKETA. BRUCE RUCHOSKE AT 301 WEST WASHINGTON STREET IN MAQUOKETA, SAID SOMEONE TOOK ORNAMENTS FROM HIS YARD AND HE FOUND THEM LATER, BROKEN AND IN A HEAP ON PERSHING ROAD.
THE MAQUOKETA FIREMEN HAD TWO THANKSGIVING FIRES...A MINOR CHIMNEY FIRE AT THE MIKE CHAPLIN RESIDENCE ON WEST PLEASANT STREET...AROUND 5:30 P.M.
AND A BARN FIRE AT 7 P.M. NEAR BALDWIN. THEY WERE AT THE SCENE ABOUT 2 HOURS FIGHTING IT.
150 PEOPLE WERE SERVED AT THE COMMUNITY THANKSGIVING SERVICE IN MAQUOKETA AT THE SENIOR CENTER. THE MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION COORDINATED THE EVENT AND TOM AND LUANN CAHILL CHAIRED THE COMMITTEE THAT ORGANIZED IT.
SMALL SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH DECLINING ENROLLMENT.
ANDREW MAY END UP WITH A DEFICIT OF MORE THAN $200,000 THIS SCHOOL YEAR.
DARLENE KIRCHOFF HAS A GREAT CHRISTMAS DISPLAY AT HER HOME ON JUDSON STREET, JUST EAST OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS, WHO LOST THEIR FIRST BASKETBALL GAME EARLIER THIS WEEK, PLAY NORTHEAST TONIGHT AT GOOSE LAKE.
THERE AT FOUR HOMES FOR SALE IN MAQUOKETA, WITH AN ASKING PRICE OF
OVER $225,000 EACH. FIRST TIME EVER.
HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
Monday, November 22, 2004
MOSTLY CLOUDY AND IN 40'S TODAY.
THE BEAR CREEK NARCOTICS TASK FORCE MEMBERS WERE CALLED OUT LAST NIGHT IN MAQUOKETA, TO INVESTIGATE A VAN STOPPED NEAR CARDINAL SCHOOL AND LISA DRIVE. THE COUNTY'S DRUG DOG LEAD THE MEMBERS TO BELIEVE THERE MIGHT BE DRUGS OR INGREDIENTS USED TO MAKE DRUGS, IN THE VAN.
POLICE CHIEF BRAD KORANDA SAID CHARGES ARE PENDING IN THE INCIDENT.
NO NAMES RELEASED.
MAQUOKETA POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING 3 VEHICLE BREAK-INS THAT HAPPEND OVERNIGHT THURSDAY. CARS ENTERED AND ITEMS TAKEN BELONG TO JIM BOLLMAN, GREG DANIELS AND TIM SOMMERS.
ALSO, POLICE SAY SOME VANDALISM WAS DONE TO THE NEW BATHROOMS (YES, THEY HAVE A SHOWER FACILITY) AT HORSESHOE POND PARK, SATURDAY NIGHT.
REGINA SAGERS, 91, IS THIS WEEK'S MAQUOKETA ROTARY "CITIZEN OF THE WEEK".
SEE A NICE PHOTO AND STORY ON HER AT THE ROTARY WEB SITE...www.maquoketa-rotary.org
MOST OF YOU HAVE HEARD OF THE HUNTING TRAGEDY IN NORTHERN WISCONSIN.
THE ATTENDING DOCTOR FOR THOSE WHO SURVIVED IS MCHS GRAD, LYNN
KOOB. DR. LYNN IS OLDER BROTHER OF DR. PAUL KOOB OF MAQUOKETA.
I HEAR HE WAS SEEN ON A TV NEWS REPORT.
TWO DEATHS.
LEROY BICKFORD, 79, DIED FRIDAY AFTERNOON AT THE HOSPITAL. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, ROSE MARY, AND A SISTER, DORIS YADDOF OF MAQUOKETA.
ELEANOR KEENEY, 87, ALSO OF MAQUOKETA, DIED SATURDAY AT THE MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY 5 SONS: BLAYNE OF DAVENPORT....WAYNE OF MARION....LIONEL OF MAQUOKETA....ALLAN OF MIDDLETON, WISCONSIN.....AND JAMES OF URBANDALE. ALSO, 2 BROTHERS, LEON SPECHT OF WISCONSIN AND LARRY SPECHT OF MAQUOKETA.
HOW ABOUT THOSE HAWKEYES AND CYCLONES...BOTH WINNERS AGAIN SATURDAY AND BOTH GOING TO A BOWL GAME.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOHY
THE BEAR CREEK NARCOTICS TASK FORCE MEMBERS WERE CALLED OUT LAST NIGHT IN MAQUOKETA, TO INVESTIGATE A VAN STOPPED NEAR CARDINAL SCHOOL AND LISA DRIVE. THE COUNTY'S DRUG DOG LEAD THE MEMBERS TO BELIEVE THERE MIGHT BE DRUGS OR INGREDIENTS USED TO MAKE DRUGS, IN THE VAN.
POLICE CHIEF BRAD KORANDA SAID CHARGES ARE PENDING IN THE INCIDENT.
NO NAMES RELEASED.
MAQUOKETA POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING 3 VEHICLE BREAK-INS THAT HAPPEND OVERNIGHT THURSDAY. CARS ENTERED AND ITEMS TAKEN BELONG TO JIM BOLLMAN, GREG DANIELS AND TIM SOMMERS.
ALSO, POLICE SAY SOME VANDALISM WAS DONE TO THE NEW BATHROOMS (YES, THEY HAVE A SHOWER FACILITY) AT HORSESHOE POND PARK, SATURDAY NIGHT.
REGINA SAGERS, 91, IS THIS WEEK'S MAQUOKETA ROTARY "CITIZEN OF THE WEEK".
SEE A NICE PHOTO AND STORY ON HER AT THE ROTARY WEB SITE...www.maquoketa-rotary.org
MOST OF YOU HAVE HEARD OF THE HUNTING TRAGEDY IN NORTHERN WISCONSIN.
THE ATTENDING DOCTOR FOR THOSE WHO SURVIVED IS MCHS GRAD, LYNN
KOOB. DR. LYNN IS OLDER BROTHER OF DR. PAUL KOOB OF MAQUOKETA.
I HEAR HE WAS SEEN ON A TV NEWS REPORT.
TWO DEATHS.
LEROY BICKFORD, 79, DIED FRIDAY AFTERNOON AT THE HOSPITAL. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, ROSE MARY, AND A SISTER, DORIS YADDOF OF MAQUOKETA.
ELEANOR KEENEY, 87, ALSO OF MAQUOKETA, DIED SATURDAY AT THE MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY 5 SONS: BLAYNE OF DAVENPORT....WAYNE OF MARION....LIONEL OF MAQUOKETA....ALLAN OF MIDDLETON, WISCONSIN.....AND JAMES OF URBANDALE. ALSO, 2 BROTHERS, LEON SPECHT OF WISCONSIN AND LARRY SPECHT OF MAQUOKETA.
HOW ABOUT THOSE HAWKEYES AND CYCLONES...BOTH WINNERS AGAIN SATURDAY AND BOTH GOING TO A BOWL GAME.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOHY
Friday, November 19, 2004
ANOTHER DRIZZLE DAY. HIGH OF 54.
NEW UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES ARE OUT. JACKSON COUNTY'S JOBLESS RATE
DROPPED IN OCTOBER TO 4.8, FROM 4.9 IN SEPTEMBER. A YEAR AGO, IT WAS
AT 5.8.
COUPLE OF MINOR ACCIDENTS. EMELIE HARMON OF MAQUOKETA, DRIVING THE RTA BUS, STRUCK THE MIRROR OF A PARKED CAR BELONGING TO MARK PAPE OF MAQUOKETA.
AND A VEHICLE DRIVEN BY ARLENE JORGENSON, 81, OF MAQUOKETA, IN THE FAREWAY PARKING LOT, WAS STRUCK BY A VEHICLE DRIVEN BY FERN WARNER, 79, OF MAQUOEKTA.
MARGARET EVERS, AGE 85, DIED YESTERDAY MORNING AT CRESTRIDGE. SHE WAS A HOMEMAKER AND IS SURVIVED BY A DAUGHTER, DELI, IN LAMOTTE AND A SON LYNN OF QUEEN CREEK, ARIZONA.
SERVICES ARE PENDING FOR LEROY BICKFORD, 79, OF MAQUOKETA, WHO DIED THIS AFTERNOON AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.
IOWA STATE NEEDS A FOOTBALL WIN TOMORROW, OR NEXT SATURDAY FOR SURE, TO GET A BOWL BID. AND IOWA AND WISCONSIN BATTLE TOMORROW AFTERNOON AT KINNICK STADIUM IN IOWA CITY.
HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
NEW UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES ARE OUT. JACKSON COUNTY'S JOBLESS RATE
DROPPED IN OCTOBER TO 4.8, FROM 4.9 IN SEPTEMBER. A YEAR AGO, IT WAS
AT 5.8.
COUPLE OF MINOR ACCIDENTS. EMELIE HARMON OF MAQUOKETA, DRIVING THE RTA BUS, STRUCK THE MIRROR OF A PARKED CAR BELONGING TO MARK PAPE OF MAQUOKETA.
AND A VEHICLE DRIVEN BY ARLENE JORGENSON, 81, OF MAQUOKETA, IN THE FAREWAY PARKING LOT, WAS STRUCK BY A VEHICLE DRIVEN BY FERN WARNER, 79, OF MAQUOEKTA.
MARGARET EVERS, AGE 85, DIED YESTERDAY MORNING AT CRESTRIDGE. SHE WAS A HOMEMAKER AND IS SURVIVED BY A DAUGHTER, DELI, IN LAMOTTE AND A SON LYNN OF QUEEN CREEK, ARIZONA.
SERVICES ARE PENDING FOR LEROY BICKFORD, 79, OF MAQUOKETA, WHO DIED THIS AFTERNOON AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.
IOWA STATE NEEDS A FOOTBALL WIN TOMORROW, OR NEXT SATURDAY FOR SURE, TO GET A BOWL BID. AND IOWA AND WISCONSIN BATTLE TOMORROW AFTERNOON AT KINNICK STADIUM IN IOWA CITY.
HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
A LITTLE RAIN LAST NIGHT....CLOUDY AND WARM TODAY....HIGH IN 60'S.
HAD A SANDWICH AT MAQUOKETA FAMILY RESTAURANT LAST NIGHT.....GOOD FOOD....FORMER SUNRISE RESTAURANT ON SOUTH MAIN. JOHN JONES DOWN IN ARIZONA...YOU WOULD LIKE THE PLACE. I KNOW YOU LIKED EATING THERE BEFORE.
OLD TIME TURKEY SHOOTS STARTED AGAIN TODAY ON KMAQ.....WE HAVE BEEN DOING THEM ON KMAQ AT THANKSGIVING TIME SINCE THE LATE 50'S.
IF I REMEMER RIGHT....A KMAQ MANAGER WAY BACK THEN.....I THINK HIS NAME WAS BROWN.....STARTED THEM UP. SOME OF YOU THAT USED TO LIVE HERE IN MAQUOKETA MAY REMEMBER THEM.
CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS ARE UP IN MAQUOKETA....I'LL TAKE A PICTURE SOON.
NOTHING HAPPENING AROUND MAQUOKETA..SLOW NEWS WEEK.
HOPEFULLY, MORE TOMORROW.
NO DEATHS.
TAKE IT EASY.
DENNIS VOY
HAD A SANDWICH AT MAQUOKETA FAMILY RESTAURANT LAST NIGHT.....GOOD FOOD....FORMER SUNRISE RESTAURANT ON SOUTH MAIN. JOHN JONES DOWN IN ARIZONA...YOU WOULD LIKE THE PLACE. I KNOW YOU LIKED EATING THERE BEFORE.
OLD TIME TURKEY SHOOTS STARTED AGAIN TODAY ON KMAQ.....WE HAVE BEEN DOING THEM ON KMAQ AT THANKSGIVING TIME SINCE THE LATE 50'S.
IF I REMEMER RIGHT....A KMAQ MANAGER WAY BACK THEN.....I THINK HIS NAME WAS BROWN.....STARTED THEM UP. SOME OF YOU THAT USED TO LIVE HERE IN MAQUOKETA MAY REMEMBER THEM.
CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS ARE UP IN MAQUOKETA....I'LL TAKE A PICTURE SOON.
NOTHING HAPPENING AROUND MAQUOKETA..SLOW NEWS WEEK.
HOPEFULLY, MORE TOMORROW.
NO DEATHS.
TAKE IT EASY.
DENNIS VOY
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Monday, November 15, 2004
RAINING AND COLD TODAY IN IOWA.
THE FARM BUREAU ANNUAL MEETING WAS HELD SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE FAIRGROUNDS IN MAQUOKETA. I WENT AND HERE ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS.
500 ENJOYED A RIB-EYE DINNER. THE NEW BEEF QUEEN IS CASSIE GREGORICH OF BELLEVUE AND BEEF PRINCESS IS CRYSTAL WATTERS, OF MAQUOKETA,DAUGHTER OF MR.AND MRS.BRIAN WATTERS. MATT GERLACH IS A NEW BEEF AMBASSADOR...HE IS A FRESHMAN AT MHS AND SON OF THE PAUL GERLACHS OF
MAQUOKETA. LARRY JOHNSON, WHO FARMS 15-HUNDRED ACRES EAST OF MAQUOKETA WAS THE OUTSTANDING YOUNG FARMER FOR 2004. THE BUSINESS ASSOCIATE AWARD WENT TO JOHN DAGUE IN MAQUOKETA, OWNER OF DAGUE EQUIPMENT AND BOB LARKEY, OF MAQUOKETA, OWNER OF MAQUOKETA SALES COMPANY WAS NAMED TO THE JACKSON COUNTY CATTLEMAN'S HALL OF FAME.
TWO MEN HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH STEALING BEER FROM THE DEPOT BAR LAST WEEK. THEY ARE MITCHELL STREETS, AGE 23, OF MAQUOKETA AND TRAVIS STASKAL, AGE 23, ALSO OF MAQUOKETA.
MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT.
COURT NEWS: ROBERT CLARK, AGE 25, OF MAQUOKETA WAS CHARGED WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE AFTER KICKING HIS GIRLFRIEND AT 12:30 YESTERDAY MORNING AT 197 CRESSLANE IN MAQUOKETA.
DAVID BREN, AGE 37, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH OWI LAST FRIDAY NIGHT. HIS BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL REGISTERED .358 WITH .08 AS THE LEGAL LIMIT.
MARTI WALSH, AGE 38, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE AND POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHENALIA. HE WAS ARRESTED LAST SATURDAY NIGHT AT BILL'S TAP.
JAY AND TARA GOHLMANN OF BOSTON, MA ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN SUNDAY AT BOSTON. GRANDPARENTS ARE FLORIAN AND KAREN STEFFEN OF MAQUOKETA.
SHARON SHILLING, AGE 61, OF MAQUOKETA,DIED FRIDAY AT CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME AFTER A SHORT ILLNESS. SHE IS SURVIVED BY 3 DAUGHTERS IN MAQUOKETA, KATHY SHILLING AND KARI EVEN.
HARRY WIERSMA, AGE 85, OF BELLEVUE AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED SATURDAY AT THE NURSING HOME IN BELLEVUE. HE WAS A WORLD WAR 2 VET AND WORKED FOR CLINTON ENGINES FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND THEN WAS A WELDING SUPPLIES SALESMAN. HE IS SURVIVED BY A SON, JOHN,IN MINNESOTA AND A DAUGHTER, SHERI, IN RHOAD ISLAND.
THE ROTARY CITIZENS OF THE WEEK ARE KATHY AND VERL BANOWETZ. SEE THEIR PICTURE AND WRITE-UP AT www.maquoketa-rotary.org
THANKS FOR CHECKING IN.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY
THE FARM BUREAU ANNUAL MEETING WAS HELD SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE FAIRGROUNDS IN MAQUOKETA. I WENT AND HERE ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS.
500 ENJOYED A RIB-EYE DINNER. THE NEW BEEF QUEEN IS CASSIE GREGORICH OF BELLEVUE AND BEEF PRINCESS IS CRYSTAL WATTERS, OF MAQUOKETA,DAUGHTER OF MR.AND MRS.BRIAN WATTERS. MATT GERLACH IS A NEW BEEF AMBASSADOR...HE IS A FRESHMAN AT MHS AND SON OF THE PAUL GERLACHS OF
MAQUOKETA. LARRY JOHNSON, WHO FARMS 15-HUNDRED ACRES EAST OF MAQUOKETA WAS THE OUTSTANDING YOUNG FARMER FOR 2004. THE BUSINESS ASSOCIATE AWARD WENT TO JOHN DAGUE IN MAQUOKETA, OWNER OF DAGUE EQUIPMENT AND BOB LARKEY, OF MAQUOKETA, OWNER OF MAQUOKETA SALES COMPANY WAS NAMED TO THE JACKSON COUNTY CATTLEMAN'S HALL OF FAME.
TWO MEN HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH STEALING BEER FROM THE DEPOT BAR LAST WEEK. THEY ARE MITCHELL STREETS, AGE 23, OF MAQUOKETA AND TRAVIS STASKAL, AGE 23, ALSO OF MAQUOKETA.
MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT.
COURT NEWS: ROBERT CLARK, AGE 25, OF MAQUOKETA WAS CHARGED WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE AFTER KICKING HIS GIRLFRIEND AT 12:30 YESTERDAY MORNING AT 197 CRESSLANE IN MAQUOKETA.
DAVID BREN, AGE 37, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH OWI LAST FRIDAY NIGHT. HIS BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL REGISTERED .358 WITH .08 AS THE LEGAL LIMIT.
MARTI WALSH, AGE 38, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE AND POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHENALIA. HE WAS ARRESTED LAST SATURDAY NIGHT AT BILL'S TAP.
JAY AND TARA GOHLMANN OF BOSTON, MA ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN SUNDAY AT BOSTON. GRANDPARENTS ARE FLORIAN AND KAREN STEFFEN OF MAQUOKETA.
SHARON SHILLING, AGE 61, OF MAQUOKETA,DIED FRIDAY AT CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME AFTER A SHORT ILLNESS. SHE IS SURVIVED BY 3 DAUGHTERS IN MAQUOKETA, KATHY SHILLING AND KARI EVEN.
HARRY WIERSMA, AGE 85, OF BELLEVUE AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED SATURDAY AT THE NURSING HOME IN BELLEVUE. HE WAS A WORLD WAR 2 VET AND WORKED FOR CLINTON ENGINES FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND THEN WAS A WELDING SUPPLIES SALESMAN. HE IS SURVIVED BY A SON, JOHN,IN MINNESOTA AND A DAUGHTER, SHERI, IN RHOAD ISLAND.
THE ROTARY CITIZENS OF THE WEEK ARE KATHY AND VERL BANOWETZ. SEE THEIR PICTURE AND WRITE-UP AT www.maquoketa-rotary.org
THANKS FOR CHECKING IN.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
DENNIS VOY
Friday, November 12, 2004
SUNNY TODAY, HIGH IN MID 40'S.
TWO NEW FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS IN NEWS TODAY. THE FORMER SUNRISE FAMILY RESTAURANT ON SOUTH MAIN HAS RE-OPENED AS MAQUOKETA FAMILY RESTAURANT. OWNER IS JOSE ALVAREZ OF CHICAGO AREA. HE WILL FEATURE BOTH AMERICAN AND MEXICAN FOOD.
AND, LUKE HAYLE AND TONY SCHMIDT ARE OPENING THE GNOMAD CAFE SOON, ON NORTH MAIN STREET. IT WILL BE A COFFEE SHOP AND CYBER CAFE. COMPUTERS WILL BE IN THE CAFE FOR PATRONS TO USE THE INTERNET. THEY WILL SERVE A VARIETY OF COFFEES AND BAKERY ITMES, AND MAYBE LATER, DELI SANDWICHES.
THE VFW VOICE OF DEMOCRACY RADIO SPEECH WINNER THIS YEAR IS AUBRIE
CARINDER, A SENIOR AT MCHS, AND DAUGHTER OF BILL AND KATE CARINDER OF MAQUOKETA. HER SPEECH, ON TAPE , (RECORDED HERE AT KMAQ AND JUDGED BY A PANEL OF JUDGES HERE ALSO) WILL NOW ENTER IN COMPETION ON THE DISTRICT LEVEL NOVEMBER 20TH.
A BIRTH. A BOY BORN NOV. 11TH TO PAUL AND SUSAN FIX, WHO LIVE IN A SUBURB OF MINNEAPOLIS. GRANDPARENTS ARE RICHARD AND FAY FIX OF MAQUOKETA.
THEY NOW HAVE 2 BOYS AND 2 GIRLS.
HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
TWO NEW FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS IN NEWS TODAY. THE FORMER SUNRISE FAMILY RESTAURANT ON SOUTH MAIN HAS RE-OPENED AS MAQUOKETA FAMILY RESTAURANT. OWNER IS JOSE ALVAREZ OF CHICAGO AREA. HE WILL FEATURE BOTH AMERICAN AND MEXICAN FOOD.
AND, LUKE HAYLE AND TONY SCHMIDT ARE OPENING THE GNOMAD CAFE SOON, ON NORTH MAIN STREET. IT WILL BE A COFFEE SHOP AND CYBER CAFE. COMPUTERS WILL BE IN THE CAFE FOR PATRONS TO USE THE INTERNET. THEY WILL SERVE A VARIETY OF COFFEES AND BAKERY ITMES, AND MAYBE LATER, DELI SANDWICHES.
THE VFW VOICE OF DEMOCRACY RADIO SPEECH WINNER THIS YEAR IS AUBRIE
CARINDER, A SENIOR AT MCHS, AND DAUGHTER OF BILL AND KATE CARINDER OF MAQUOKETA. HER SPEECH, ON TAPE , (RECORDED HERE AT KMAQ AND JUDGED BY A PANEL OF JUDGES HERE ALSO) WILL NOW ENTER IN COMPETION ON THE DISTRICT LEVEL NOVEMBER 20TH.
A BIRTH. A BOY BORN NOV. 11TH TO PAUL AND SUSAN FIX, WHO LIVE IN A SUBURB OF MINNEAPOLIS. GRANDPARENTS ARE RICHARD AND FAY FIX OF MAQUOKETA.
THEY NOW HAVE 2 BOYS AND 2 GIRLS.
HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
Thursday, November 11, 2004
SUNNY, BUT COOL TODAY...HIGH LOW 40'S.
BELLEVUE MARQUETTE GIRLS LOST 3 OUT OF 4 TO TREYNOR AT THE STATE
VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT THIS AFTERNOON AT CEDAR RAPIDS. ALL 4 WERE VERY CLOSE.
ACCIDENTS: LARRY HAYWARD, 60, OF MAQUOKETA WAS STOPPED AT INTERSECTION OF SUMMIT AND MAIN, PULLED INTO THE INTERSECTION AND DID NOT SEE A SEMI DRIVEN BY ROGER WILMS, 61, OF MAQUOKETA AND WILMS HIT THE HAWARD VEHICLE. HAYWARD WAS CHARGED. $5,000 DAMAGE TO HAYWARD'S 2000 GMC PICKUP AND $3,000 TO WILM'S 95 SEMI..
AND.....MAXINE FRICK, MAQUOKETA, 79, SAW LYNN SCHNOOR, 51, DRIVE HIS TRUCK DOWN AN ALLEY BUT DID NOT SEE THE LOW TRAILER HE WAS PULLING AND WHILE BACKING OUT OF HER DRIVEWAY, BACKED UP ANDN OVER THE TRAILER AND HIT A BUILDING HOUSING SPRAGUE SMALL ENGINES. NO INJURIES. $1,500 TO THE SPRAGUE BUILDING...NO DAMAGE TO SCHNOOR'S PICKUP AND FRICK'S CAR RECEIVED $750 WORTH OF DAMAGE.
JERRY MAPLES, FORMER MAQUOEKTA BANKER, WILL BE AT THE LIBRARY FOR A BOOK SIGNING SESSION THIS SATURDAY, FOR HIS NEW MYSTERY THAT IS SET IN DUBUQUE AND IS CENTERED AROUND TERMINAL ILLNESS. TITLE IS "DIVINE
MISGUIDANCE". ALSO SIGNING SATURDAY, TIM RASK, WHO HAS WRITTEN AN ILLUSTRATED BOOK ON THE JOHN O'DONNELL BASEBALL STADIUM IN DAVENPORT.
HE'S A GRAD OF MCHS, AND IS THE SON OF DR. CLIFFORD AND CAROL RASK.
MORE ON THE LARRY BARTELS ACCIDENT. I GOT AN EMAIL FROM HIS WIFE, MARY.
SHE SAID HE WAS TO HAVE SURGERY EARLY THIS MORNING. SHE SAYS HE HAS MULTIPLE FACIAL FRACTURES, BUT THEY BELIEVE NO RECONSTRUCTIVE
SURGERY WILL BE NEEDED. THEY ARE AWAITING ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY ON THE BROKEN LEG. SHE SAYS HE IS AS COMFORTABLE AS CAN BE EXPECTED CONSIDERING THE CIRCUMSTANCES. SHE ALSO SAID BOTH SHE AND LARRY WERE SO IMPRESSED WITH THE DECISION MAKING AND THE CHAIN OF EVENTS THAT OCCURRED AFTER THE ACCIDENT. AND, THE CARE THAT LARRY RECEIVED AFTER FROM STATE TROOPER MILAN JAMES AND DEPUTY STEVE SCHROEDER. SHE ALSO MENTIONED THE WONDERFUL PARAMEDICS, AND THE EXPERTISE OF THE HOSPITAL STAFF AND THEIR CARE AND COMFORT. MARY WENT ON TO SAY IN THE EMAIL TO ME: "I JUST CAN'T SAY ENOUGH OF HOW TRULY BLESSED WE ARE TO HAVE SUCH WONDERFUL PROFESSIONALS RIGHT HERE IN JACKSON COUNTY. WE ARE ALL SO VERY GRATEFUL TO HAVE A COMMUNITY SUCH AS THIS".
MARY.....WE ALL HOPE THAT LARRY WILL BE UP AND ABOUT SOON.
AND NOW...ITS 4 P.M. AND TIME FOR ME TO GET BACK ON-THE-AIR AND DO THE NEXT HOUR MUSIC SHOW ON KMAQ-FM...THEN THE 5:05 NEWS FINAL THAT IS CARRIED ON BOTH KMAQ AM & FM....THEN HOME FOR SOME PIZZA...AND BACK HERE FOR THE 6-7 SPEICAL WEEK LONG KMAQ AUCTION SHOW ON BOTH STATIONS.
TAKE IT EASY WHEREVER YOU ARE.
DENNIS VOY
BELLEVUE MARQUETTE GIRLS LOST 3 OUT OF 4 TO TREYNOR AT THE STATE
VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT THIS AFTERNOON AT CEDAR RAPIDS. ALL 4 WERE VERY CLOSE.
ACCIDENTS: LARRY HAYWARD, 60, OF MAQUOKETA WAS STOPPED AT INTERSECTION OF SUMMIT AND MAIN, PULLED INTO THE INTERSECTION AND DID NOT SEE A SEMI DRIVEN BY ROGER WILMS, 61, OF MAQUOKETA AND WILMS HIT THE HAWARD VEHICLE. HAYWARD WAS CHARGED. $5,000 DAMAGE TO HAYWARD'S 2000 GMC PICKUP AND $3,000 TO WILM'S 95 SEMI..
AND.....MAXINE FRICK, MAQUOKETA, 79, SAW LYNN SCHNOOR, 51, DRIVE HIS TRUCK DOWN AN ALLEY BUT DID NOT SEE THE LOW TRAILER HE WAS PULLING AND WHILE BACKING OUT OF HER DRIVEWAY, BACKED UP ANDN OVER THE TRAILER AND HIT A BUILDING HOUSING SPRAGUE SMALL ENGINES. NO INJURIES. $1,500 TO THE SPRAGUE BUILDING...NO DAMAGE TO SCHNOOR'S PICKUP AND FRICK'S CAR RECEIVED $750 WORTH OF DAMAGE.
JERRY MAPLES, FORMER MAQUOEKTA BANKER, WILL BE AT THE LIBRARY FOR A BOOK SIGNING SESSION THIS SATURDAY, FOR HIS NEW MYSTERY THAT IS SET IN DUBUQUE AND IS CENTERED AROUND TERMINAL ILLNESS. TITLE IS "DIVINE
MISGUIDANCE". ALSO SIGNING SATURDAY, TIM RASK, WHO HAS WRITTEN AN ILLUSTRATED BOOK ON THE JOHN O'DONNELL BASEBALL STADIUM IN DAVENPORT.
HE'S A GRAD OF MCHS, AND IS THE SON OF DR. CLIFFORD AND CAROL RASK.
MORE ON THE LARRY BARTELS ACCIDENT. I GOT AN EMAIL FROM HIS WIFE, MARY.
SHE SAID HE WAS TO HAVE SURGERY EARLY THIS MORNING. SHE SAYS HE HAS MULTIPLE FACIAL FRACTURES, BUT THEY BELIEVE NO RECONSTRUCTIVE
SURGERY WILL BE NEEDED. THEY ARE AWAITING ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY ON THE BROKEN LEG. SHE SAYS HE IS AS COMFORTABLE AS CAN BE EXPECTED CONSIDERING THE CIRCUMSTANCES. SHE ALSO SAID BOTH SHE AND LARRY WERE SO IMPRESSED WITH THE DECISION MAKING AND THE CHAIN OF EVENTS THAT OCCURRED AFTER THE ACCIDENT. AND, THE CARE THAT LARRY RECEIVED AFTER FROM STATE TROOPER MILAN JAMES AND DEPUTY STEVE SCHROEDER. SHE ALSO MENTIONED THE WONDERFUL PARAMEDICS, AND THE EXPERTISE OF THE HOSPITAL STAFF AND THEIR CARE AND COMFORT. MARY WENT ON TO SAY IN THE EMAIL TO ME: "I JUST CAN'T SAY ENOUGH OF HOW TRULY BLESSED WE ARE TO HAVE SUCH WONDERFUL PROFESSIONALS RIGHT HERE IN JACKSON COUNTY. WE ARE ALL SO VERY GRATEFUL TO HAVE A COMMUNITY SUCH AS THIS".
MARY.....WE ALL HOPE THAT LARRY WILL BE UP AND ABOUT SOON.
AND NOW...ITS 4 P.M. AND TIME FOR ME TO GET BACK ON-THE-AIR AND DO THE NEXT HOUR MUSIC SHOW ON KMAQ-FM...THEN THE 5:05 NEWS FINAL THAT IS CARRIED ON BOTH KMAQ AM & FM....THEN HOME FOR SOME PIZZA...AND BACK HERE FOR THE 6-7 SPEICAL WEEK LONG KMAQ AUCTION SHOW ON BOTH STATIONS.
TAKE IT EASY WHEREVER YOU ARE.
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Wednesday, November 10, 2004
PARTLY SUNNY TODAY AND HIGH OF 60.
BRIGG'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WILL CELEBRATE 50 YEARS TOMORROW. STUDENTS WILL HAVE AN ASSEMBLY AT 2 P.M. THE SCHOOL WILL BE OPEN ALL DAY FOR TOURS. AN OPEN HOUSE IS PLANNED FROM 5:30 UNTIL 7 P.M. A RIBBON CUTTING AND SHORT SPEECHES ARE PLANNED FOR 6 P.M.
PAST PRINCIPALS DOUG SCHERMER AND CLEM BODENSTIENER WILL BE PRESENT. CURRENT PRINCIPAL IS PAT BOLLMAN.
THE MAQUOKETA VETERAN'S DAY PROGRAM WILL START AT 8:45 TOMORROW MORNING AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL. THE ADDRESS WILL BE GIVEN BY PASTOR MEL VALDEZ OF THE METHODIST CHURCH.
A LONGTIME JACKSON COUNTY LAWYER (52 YEARS) DIED YESTERDAY AT A DUBUQUE HOSPITAL.
ERWIN E. STAMP, AGE 85. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, 1 SON AND 4 DAUGHTERS. ONE OF THE DAUGHTERS IS JUDIE KLEIS OF BALDWIN. ALL OTHER CHILDREN ARE OUTSIDE JACKSON COUNTY.
HE WAS A MEMBER OF MANY ORGANIZATIONS. HE WAS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF THE PEARSON MEMORIAL BOARD, THE BOARD THAT WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR BUILDING THE PEARSON MEMORIAL CENTER AT THE FAIRGROUNDS, FOLLOWING A LARGE GIFT OF MONEY FROM MR. PEARSON. I SERVED ON THAT BOARD WITH HIM FOR MANY OF THOSE YEARS AND HE WAS STILL A MEMBER. I THINK THE LAST TIME I SAW HIM WAS AT OUR LAST MEETING.
THE #1 RATED BELLEVUE MARQUETTE GIRLS PLAY AT 1 TOMORROW AFTERNOON AT THE STATE VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT IN CEDAR RAPIDS. KMAQ WILL BROADCAST THE MATCH.
"THE POLAR EXPRESS" CHRISTMAS MOVIE FOR KIDS STARTS NATIONWIDE TONIGHT AND ALSO HERE IN MAQUOKETA. ONE YOU WILL WANT TO TAKE THE GRANDKIDS TO.
AT AGE 84, RED HENTON HAS JOINED THE MAQUOEKTA ROTARY CLUB. GOOD GOING RED.
CHECK BACK TOMORROW. TAKE CARE 'TIL THEN.
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BRIGG'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WILL CELEBRATE 50 YEARS TOMORROW. STUDENTS WILL HAVE AN ASSEMBLY AT 2 P.M. THE SCHOOL WILL BE OPEN ALL DAY FOR TOURS. AN OPEN HOUSE IS PLANNED FROM 5:30 UNTIL 7 P.M. A RIBBON CUTTING AND SHORT SPEECHES ARE PLANNED FOR 6 P.M.
PAST PRINCIPALS DOUG SCHERMER AND CLEM BODENSTIENER WILL BE PRESENT. CURRENT PRINCIPAL IS PAT BOLLMAN.
THE MAQUOKETA VETERAN'S DAY PROGRAM WILL START AT 8:45 TOMORROW MORNING AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL. THE ADDRESS WILL BE GIVEN BY PASTOR MEL VALDEZ OF THE METHODIST CHURCH.
A LONGTIME JACKSON COUNTY LAWYER (52 YEARS) DIED YESTERDAY AT A DUBUQUE HOSPITAL.
ERWIN E. STAMP, AGE 85. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, 1 SON AND 4 DAUGHTERS. ONE OF THE DAUGHTERS IS JUDIE KLEIS OF BALDWIN. ALL OTHER CHILDREN ARE OUTSIDE JACKSON COUNTY.
HE WAS A MEMBER OF MANY ORGANIZATIONS. HE WAS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF THE PEARSON MEMORIAL BOARD, THE BOARD THAT WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR BUILDING THE PEARSON MEMORIAL CENTER AT THE FAIRGROUNDS, FOLLOWING A LARGE GIFT OF MONEY FROM MR. PEARSON. I SERVED ON THAT BOARD WITH HIM FOR MANY OF THOSE YEARS AND HE WAS STILL A MEMBER. I THINK THE LAST TIME I SAW HIM WAS AT OUR LAST MEETING.
THE #1 RATED BELLEVUE MARQUETTE GIRLS PLAY AT 1 TOMORROW AFTERNOON AT THE STATE VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT IN CEDAR RAPIDS. KMAQ WILL BROADCAST THE MATCH.
"THE POLAR EXPRESS" CHRISTMAS MOVIE FOR KIDS STARTS NATIONWIDE TONIGHT AND ALSO HERE IN MAQUOKETA. ONE YOU WILL WANT TO TAKE THE GRANDKIDS TO.
AT AGE 84, RED HENTON HAS JOINED THE MAQUOEKTA ROTARY CLUB. GOOD GOING RED.
CHECK BACK TOMORROW. TAKE CARE 'TIL THEN.
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Tuesday, November 09, 2004
SUNNY AND IN THE 50'S TODAY....
STILL PREDICTING COLD AND SNOW FLURRIES THURSDAY.
A MAQUOKETA MAN IS AWAITING SURGERY AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS IN IOWA CITY AFTER FALLING FROM A CORN CRIB SUNDAY AFTERNOON. LARRY BARTELS IS DOING WELL ACCORDING TO HIS WIFE, MARY. SHE SAID SURGERY TO REPAIR NUMEROUS BROKEN BONES IN HIS FACE AND LEG ARE PLANNED FOR TOMORROW. SHE SAID LARRY FELL FROM THE RAFTERS IN THE CORN CRIB JUST BEFORE 1 P.M. SUNDAY. SHE SAID HE FELL 20 TO 25 FEET ....LANDING FACE-FIRST ON CONCRETE. THE COUPLE LIVES EAST OF MAQUOKETA JUST OFF HIGHWAY 64. HE WAS AIRLIFTED TO IOWA CITY SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
COURT NEWS: SEAN GOODWIN, SR. AGE 33, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH PUBLIC INTOXICATION EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING ON PERSHING ROAD.
SEAN HAYLOCK, AGE 20, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH MAKING ALCOHOL AVILABLE TO MINORS, EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING IN AN APARTMENT ON WESTERN AVENUE.
CHARLEY DUHME, AGE 87, OF DUBUQUE AND FORMERLY OF ANDREW, DIED SUNDAY AT A DUBUQUE NURSING HOME. HE WORKED AT CLINTON ENGINES ON THE BLOCK LINE FOR OVER 20 YEARS.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE A BROTHER, OSCAR, IN MAQUOKETA AND A SISTER, DOROTHY BARTELS OF DELMAR.
BILL AND AUDREY UPMEYER LAST WEEK CELEBRATED THEIR 55TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY.
I AM GOING TO A BOY SCOUT SPAGETTI SUPPER TONIGHT, AT THE FORMER CITADEL BUILDING AT HORSESHOE POND PARK AT THE SOUTH EDGE OF MAQUOKETA. THAT BUILDING IS BEING USED FOR A LOT OF EVENTS IN ADDITION TO BOY SCOUT MEETINGS. THERE IS A NICE MEETING ROOM WITH KITCHEN IN THE BASEMENT AND THE UPSTAIRS, WHICH WAS THE OLD SALVATION ARMY CHURCH, IS ALSO USED FOR EVENTS, INCLUDING WEDDINGS.
THANKS FOR CHECKING IN AGAIN.
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STILL PREDICTING COLD AND SNOW FLURRIES THURSDAY.
A MAQUOKETA MAN IS AWAITING SURGERY AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS IN IOWA CITY AFTER FALLING FROM A CORN CRIB SUNDAY AFTERNOON. LARRY BARTELS IS DOING WELL ACCORDING TO HIS WIFE, MARY. SHE SAID SURGERY TO REPAIR NUMEROUS BROKEN BONES IN HIS FACE AND LEG ARE PLANNED FOR TOMORROW. SHE SAID LARRY FELL FROM THE RAFTERS IN THE CORN CRIB JUST BEFORE 1 P.M. SUNDAY. SHE SAID HE FELL 20 TO 25 FEET ....LANDING FACE-FIRST ON CONCRETE. THE COUPLE LIVES EAST OF MAQUOKETA JUST OFF HIGHWAY 64. HE WAS AIRLIFTED TO IOWA CITY SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
COURT NEWS: SEAN GOODWIN, SR. AGE 33, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH PUBLIC INTOXICATION EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING ON PERSHING ROAD.
SEAN HAYLOCK, AGE 20, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH MAKING ALCOHOL AVILABLE TO MINORS, EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING IN AN APARTMENT ON WESTERN AVENUE.
CHARLEY DUHME, AGE 87, OF DUBUQUE AND FORMERLY OF ANDREW, DIED SUNDAY AT A DUBUQUE NURSING HOME. HE WORKED AT CLINTON ENGINES ON THE BLOCK LINE FOR OVER 20 YEARS.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE A BROTHER, OSCAR, IN MAQUOKETA AND A SISTER, DOROTHY BARTELS OF DELMAR.
BILL AND AUDREY UPMEYER LAST WEEK CELEBRATED THEIR 55TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY.
I AM GOING TO A BOY SCOUT SPAGETTI SUPPER TONIGHT, AT THE FORMER CITADEL BUILDING AT HORSESHOE POND PARK AT THE SOUTH EDGE OF MAQUOKETA. THAT BUILDING IS BEING USED FOR A LOT OF EVENTS IN ADDITION TO BOY SCOUT MEETINGS. THERE IS A NICE MEETING ROOM WITH KITCHEN IN THE BASEMENT AND THE UPSTAIRS, WHICH WAS THE OLD SALVATION ARMY CHURCH, IS ALSO USED FOR EVENTS, INCLUDING WEDDINGS.
THANKS FOR CHECKING IN AGAIN.
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Monday, November 08, 2004
NICE WEEKEND...AND TODAY WAS MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A HIGH IN THE UPPER 40'S
THE FORECAST IS CALLING FOR A HIGH THURSDAY OF 38 WITH SNOW FLURRIES.
A MAQUOKETA WOMAN, BETTY LOU BAUER, AGE 75, WAS KILLED IN A TWO CAR ACCIDENT YESTERDAY MORNING NEAR SABULA. SHE HAD WORKED UNTIL RETIRING IN 2002 AT ENSIGN COIL IN BELLEVUE.
NO SURVIVORS IN MAQUOKETA.
AT THE ANNUAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY HARVEST DINNER YESTERDAY AT THE FAIRGROUNDS IN MAQUOKETA, THREE MEN WERE INDUCTED INTO THE JACKSON COUNTY HALL OF FAME....AN 1840'S MINISTER, OLIVER EMERSON WHO LIVED IN PRESTON AND THEN SABULA. ALSO INDUCTED, GIL STROMEYER, WHO DIED IN HIS EARLY 90'S AND HAD LIVED IN PRESTON AND HAD HIS OWN POPULAR BAND. AND ALSO INDUCTED, LONGTIME EXTENSION DIRECTOR, JOHN HENDERSON, WHO DIED
FOUR YEARS AGO.
THE MAQUOKETA ROTATY CITIZEN OF THE WEEK IS MATT OSTERHAUS OF MAQUOKETA. A PHOTO AND STORY CAN BE BROUGHT UP AT www.maquoketa-rotary.org
DAVE AND JENNIFER DEWITT OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN LAST THURSDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. GRANDPARENTS ARE JOHN AND BARB MCCRAY AND SHARON AND JEFF DOUD, ALL OF MAQUOKETA.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
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THE FORECAST IS CALLING FOR A HIGH THURSDAY OF 38 WITH SNOW FLURRIES.
A MAQUOKETA WOMAN, BETTY LOU BAUER, AGE 75, WAS KILLED IN A TWO CAR ACCIDENT YESTERDAY MORNING NEAR SABULA. SHE HAD WORKED UNTIL RETIRING IN 2002 AT ENSIGN COIL IN BELLEVUE.
NO SURVIVORS IN MAQUOKETA.
AT THE ANNUAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY HARVEST DINNER YESTERDAY AT THE FAIRGROUNDS IN MAQUOKETA, THREE MEN WERE INDUCTED INTO THE JACKSON COUNTY HALL OF FAME....AN 1840'S MINISTER, OLIVER EMERSON WHO LIVED IN PRESTON AND THEN SABULA. ALSO INDUCTED, GIL STROMEYER, WHO DIED IN HIS EARLY 90'S AND HAD LIVED IN PRESTON AND HAD HIS OWN POPULAR BAND. AND ALSO INDUCTED, LONGTIME EXTENSION DIRECTOR, JOHN HENDERSON, WHO DIED
FOUR YEARS AGO.
THE MAQUOKETA ROTATY CITIZEN OF THE WEEK IS MATT OSTERHAUS OF MAQUOKETA. A PHOTO AND STORY CAN BE BROUGHT UP AT www.maquoketa-rotary.org
DAVE AND JENNIFER DEWITT OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN LAST THURSDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. GRANDPARENTS ARE JOHN AND BARB MCCRAY AND SHARON AND JEFF DOUD, ALL OF MAQUOKETA.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.
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Tuesday, November 02, 2004
PARTLY SUNNY AND UPPER 40'S TODAY...NOT A BAD DAY FOR VOTING.
VOTING HEAVY IN MAQUOKETA.
AN APPOINTED COMMITTEE IS SUGGESTING MAQUOKETA MUNICIPAL
ELECTRIC UTILITY NOT GO INTO THE NATURAL GAS BUSINESS. THE COMMITTEE RECOMENDATION WILL NOW GO TO THE MMEU BOARD TO BE DISCUSSED AT THEIR
NOV. 18TH MEETING. IT WILL THEN BE UP TO THE MMEU BOARD TO DECIDE TO DROP THE IDEA OR ASK THE CITY COUNCIL FOR A REFERENDUM. KIM HUCKSTADT HAS SERVED AS THE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN AND ON THE COMMITTEE WITH HIM:
KEN ALTHOFF, ASHER SCHROEDER, PAT HURLEY, TROY THIEDE, PAT WELLS AND ANNE HAWKS.
NO DEATHS.
A BOY WAS BORN OCT. 26TH IN ROSWELL, GEORGIA TO WESLEY AND DENISE ABBOTT. GRANDPARENTS ARE DON AND ARLENE SMITH OF MAQUOKETA AND DENNIS AND PAT HASENBANK OF MAQUOKETA.
IF I DON'T FORGET, LATER TONIGHT I WILL COME HERE TO GIVE YOU A SHORT ELECTION REPORT.
DON'T FORGET TO VOTE.
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VOTING HEAVY IN MAQUOKETA.
AN APPOINTED COMMITTEE IS SUGGESTING MAQUOKETA MUNICIPAL
ELECTRIC UTILITY NOT GO INTO THE NATURAL GAS BUSINESS. THE COMMITTEE RECOMENDATION WILL NOW GO TO THE MMEU BOARD TO BE DISCUSSED AT THEIR
NOV. 18TH MEETING. IT WILL THEN BE UP TO THE MMEU BOARD TO DECIDE TO DROP THE IDEA OR ASK THE CITY COUNCIL FOR A REFERENDUM. KIM HUCKSTADT HAS SERVED AS THE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN AND ON THE COMMITTEE WITH HIM:
KEN ALTHOFF, ASHER SCHROEDER, PAT HURLEY, TROY THIEDE, PAT WELLS AND ANNE HAWKS.
NO DEATHS.
A BOY WAS BORN OCT. 26TH IN ROSWELL, GEORGIA TO WESLEY AND DENISE ABBOTT. GRANDPARENTS ARE DON AND ARLENE SMITH OF MAQUOKETA AND DENNIS AND PAT HASENBANK OF MAQUOKETA.
IF I DON'T FORGET, LATER TONIGHT I WILL COME HERE TO GIVE YOU A SHORT ELECTION REPORT.
DON'T FORGET TO VOTE.
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Monday, November 01, 2004
RAINY ALL DAY...HIGH 49. TOMORROW, NOT MUCH BETTER WEATHER EXPECTED.
TOMORROW, ELECTION DAY, WE HAVE SEVERAL LOCAL RACES. FOR ST. REPRESENTATIVE TO REPLACE RETIRING BOB OSTERHAUS, THE DEMOCRAT IS TOM SCHUELLER AND THE REPUBLICAN IS PAUL CARSTENSEN. FOR COUNTY AUDITOR, REPUBLICAN INCUMBANT MIKE COTTON IS OPPOSED BY DEMOCRAT M. JOELL DELPPE. FOR SHERIFF, SHERIFF RUSS KETTMAN, DEMOCRAT, IS OPPOSED BY
RETIRED FORMER DEPUTY, DICK WARD, RUNNING AS AN INDEPENDANT. FOR SUPERVIOR, REPUBLICAN DAVE KENDALL RUNNING FOR RE-ELECTION, IS BEING OPPOSED BY LARRY "BUCK" KOOS.
POLICE BLOTTER: VERL HOWELL AT 111 NORTH VERMONT SAID SOMEONE TOOK A LEAF BLOWER, SNOWBLOWER, AND SOME OTHER ITEMS FROM HIS GARAGE OVER THE WEEKEND. AND THE DUMPSTER WAS AGAIN TIPPED OVER AT CARDINAL SCHOOL.
COURT NEWS: JEFFREY CHARLES BUEGE, 37, OF MAQUOKETA, RECEIVED A DEFERRED JUDGEMENT ON CHARGES OF OWI.
DAVID KEMP, 36, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS SENTENCED TO 5 YEARS IN PRISON ON CHARGES OF OWI, 3RD OFFENSE.
MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT.
A BIRTH: SHAWN AND AMY MANNING OF RURAL MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN MONDAY, OCT 25TH AT FINELY HOSPITAL IN DUBUQUE. GRANDMOTHER IS KATHY CARNER OF MAQUOKETA AND GRANDPARENTS TOO ARE STEVE AND CHERYL MANNING OF RURAL MAQUOKETA.
FAY MOELLER, SOON TO BE 95, AND STILL ENTERTAINING MONTHLY AT CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME (SINGS AND PLAYS PIANO) IS THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY "CITIZEN OF THE WEEK". A PICTURE OF FAY AND SOME OF HIS POTATO CROP CAN BE SEEN ON THE ROTARY WEB SITE..www.maquoketa-rotary.org
SYLVIA DAEHLER, 83, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED SUNDAY AT DAVENPORT HOSPITAL. SHE DID BABYSITTING AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE LEGION AUXILIARY. SHE IS SURVIVED BY 5 CHILDREN, INCLUDING DORIS JOHNSON OF MAQUOKETA, JIM OF MAQUOKETA AND DON OF MAQUOKETA.
ALSO 18 GRANDCHILDREN.
ANNABELLE HOFFMAN, 87, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED SUNDAY AT THE MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER.
SHE ASSISTED HER LATE HUSBAND LOWEL IN HIS BUSINESS OF HOFFMAN EGGS. THEY LIKED FLYING THEIR OWN PLANE AND SHE WAS PROUD THAT SHE FIRST FLEW SOLO AFTER BECOMING A GRANDMOTHER. SHE IS SURVIVED BY DAUGHTER SHARON RETTIG OF MAQUOKETA AND SON FRED OF DULUTH, GEORGIA AND ALSO SHARON MERZ OF SOUTH CAROLINA WHO SHE AND LOWELL RAISED.
BE SURE AND VOTE TOMORROW.
AND HAVE A GOOD NIGHT AND GREAT TUESDAY.
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TOMORROW, ELECTION DAY, WE HAVE SEVERAL LOCAL RACES. FOR ST. REPRESENTATIVE TO REPLACE RETIRING BOB OSTERHAUS, THE DEMOCRAT IS TOM SCHUELLER AND THE REPUBLICAN IS PAUL CARSTENSEN. FOR COUNTY AUDITOR, REPUBLICAN INCUMBANT MIKE COTTON IS OPPOSED BY DEMOCRAT M. JOELL DELPPE. FOR SHERIFF, SHERIFF RUSS KETTMAN, DEMOCRAT, IS OPPOSED BY
RETIRED FORMER DEPUTY, DICK WARD, RUNNING AS AN INDEPENDANT. FOR SUPERVIOR, REPUBLICAN DAVE KENDALL RUNNING FOR RE-ELECTION, IS BEING OPPOSED BY LARRY "BUCK" KOOS.
POLICE BLOTTER: VERL HOWELL AT 111 NORTH VERMONT SAID SOMEONE TOOK A LEAF BLOWER, SNOWBLOWER, AND SOME OTHER ITEMS FROM HIS GARAGE OVER THE WEEKEND. AND THE DUMPSTER WAS AGAIN TIPPED OVER AT CARDINAL SCHOOL.
COURT NEWS: JEFFREY CHARLES BUEGE, 37, OF MAQUOKETA, RECEIVED A DEFERRED JUDGEMENT ON CHARGES OF OWI.
DAVID KEMP, 36, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS SENTENCED TO 5 YEARS IN PRISON ON CHARGES OF OWI, 3RD OFFENSE.
MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT.
A BIRTH: SHAWN AND AMY MANNING OF RURAL MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN MONDAY, OCT 25TH AT FINELY HOSPITAL IN DUBUQUE. GRANDMOTHER IS KATHY CARNER OF MAQUOKETA AND GRANDPARENTS TOO ARE STEVE AND CHERYL MANNING OF RURAL MAQUOKETA.
FAY MOELLER, SOON TO BE 95, AND STILL ENTERTAINING MONTHLY AT CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME (SINGS AND PLAYS PIANO) IS THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY "CITIZEN OF THE WEEK". A PICTURE OF FAY AND SOME OF HIS POTATO CROP CAN BE SEEN ON THE ROTARY WEB SITE..www.maquoketa-rotary.org
SYLVIA DAEHLER, 83, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED SUNDAY AT DAVENPORT HOSPITAL. SHE DID BABYSITTING AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE LEGION AUXILIARY. SHE IS SURVIVED BY 5 CHILDREN, INCLUDING DORIS JOHNSON OF MAQUOKETA, JIM OF MAQUOKETA AND DON OF MAQUOKETA.
ALSO 18 GRANDCHILDREN.
ANNABELLE HOFFMAN, 87, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED SUNDAY AT THE MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER.
SHE ASSISTED HER LATE HUSBAND LOWEL IN HIS BUSINESS OF HOFFMAN EGGS. THEY LIKED FLYING THEIR OWN PLANE AND SHE WAS PROUD THAT SHE FIRST FLEW SOLO AFTER BECOMING A GRANDMOTHER. SHE IS SURVIVED BY DAUGHTER SHARON RETTIG OF MAQUOKETA AND SON FRED OF DULUTH, GEORGIA AND ALSO SHARON MERZ OF SOUTH CAROLINA WHO SHE AND LOWELL RAISED.
BE SURE AND VOTE TOMORROW.
AND HAVE A GOOD NIGHT AND GREAT TUESDAY.
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