HOT TODAY...HIGH OF 87.

DELWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT WILL WILL RECIEVE A STATE GRAND OF NEARLY $48,000 FOR ITS PRE-SCHOOL PROGRAM. MORE THAN 180 SCHOOL DISTRICTS APPLIED FOR FUNDING AND 52 WERE GIVEN A GRANT. SEN. ROGER STEWART, DEMOCRAT FROM RURAL MAQUOKETA-PRESTON, HELPED PASS THE ALLOCATION OF $15 MILLION STATE WIDE FOR THIS FUNDING.

SPEAKING OF SENATOR STEWART, HE GOT A NEW KNEE A COUPLE DAYS AGO AND IS DOING FINE.
SHOULD COME HOME IN A DAY OR SO.

A MAQUOKETA RESIDENT COMPLAINED TO THE CITY COUNCIL THIS WEEK OF A CREOSOTE POSTS ODOR FROM GASSER TRUE VALUE STORE. LEVI SCHMIDT LIVES BEHIND GASSERS.
NO ONE HAD A SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM.

ONWARD FINE ARTS CENTER HAS HIRED A PART-TIME ASSISTANT TOTHE DIRECTOR.
TRACY COSTELLO WILL ASSUME THE DUTIES TO ASSIST LIZ LECHTENBERG. FUNDING WILL BE WITH A IOWA COMMUNITY CULTURAL GRANT. TAYLOR WILL WORK AFTERNOONS MONDAY THRU THURSDAY, DOING BOOKINGS, ADVERTISING, TICKET SALES, ETC. TAYLOR AND HER HUSBAND WILL CONTINUE TO OPERATE COSTELLO'S OLD MILL RECEPTION CENTER JUST EAST OF MAQUOKETA.

SUE SCOTT, ALLEN BRADY AND DOROTHY CHITTENDEN OBITUARIES ARE ALL AT www.carsonandson.com

DOROTHY SANDLIN, AGE 80, OF BETTENDORF AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED TUESDAY.
ARRANGEMENTS ARE PENDING AT THE KRAMER FUNERAL HOME IN MONTICELLO.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT. CHECK THE OLD PHOTO BELOW IF YOU HAVE NOT YET LOOKED AT IT.

DENNIS VOY