GREAT DAY TODAY...SUNNY AND IN THE LOW TO MID 60'S.

TUESDAY WAS SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION DAY. TWO NEWCOMERS WERE ELECTED TO THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD. LARGE NUMBERS OF ABSENTEE BALLOTS PUT BOTH INTO
OFFICE.
CHALLENGER MARK PAPE DEFEATED TWO TERM INCOMBANT MARY BARTELS, 559 TO 465. PAPE HAD 298 ABSENTEE BALLOTS COMPARED TO 79 FOR BARTELS.
FOR DIRECTOR AT LARGE, MARTY HUDRLIK DEFEATED DOUG KNICKREHM IN A VERY CLOSE
RACE, 499 TO 493. HUDRLIK HAD 286 ABSENTEE VOTES COMPARED TO 96 FOR KNICKREHM.
BOTH NEW BOARD MEMBERS WILL BE SWORN IN AT THE NEXT SCHOOL BOARD MEETING.
THE $33-MILLION DOLLAR BOND QUESTION FOR THE EASTERN IOWA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
DISTRICT TO IMPROVE AND EXPAND THEIR CAMPUSES PASSED WITH ALMOST 64 PERCENT OF THE VOTES. MAQUOKETA IS HAPPY BECAUSE IT WILL GIVE CLINTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE $1.2 MILLION DOLLARS TO BUILD A CAMPUS BUILDING IN MAQUOKETA. YEARS AGO, MAQUOKETA HAD A COMMUNITY COLLEGE. THE NEW BUILDING MAY BE BUILDT UP BY THE HIGH SCHOOL.

ED JANSEN HIT A DEER YESTERDAY MORNING...AND CHUCK KIRK HIT ONE ALSO ABOUT THE SAME TIME.

BARACK OBAMA WILL BE IN MAQUOKETA AT 10 A.M. TOMORROW (THURSDAY) AT THE FIRST WARD PARK.

MAQUOKETA PLAYS AT MARION FRIDAY NIGHT. HOMECOMING IS A WEEK FROM THIS FRIDAY.

BOB AND ANN OSTERHAUS ARE GOING GRANDCHILD SITTING TOMORROW OUT EAST.

SOON, WE WILL BE ABLE TO RIDE A NEW ELEVATOR IN MAQUOKETA. WORK IS ALMOST COMPLETED ON THEIR ELAVATOR IN THE MAIN BANK. M-S-B...LIKE KMAQ....WILL BE 50 YEARS OLD NEXT YEAR. KMAQ IN AUGUST AND M-S-B IN SEPTEMBER. GUESS WHO WILL HAVE THE BIGGER PARTY?

CURVES...NEXT TO MAX RAY JEWELER...HAS CLOSED. CINEMA MOVIE RENTALS (ESTABLISHED IN 1984) ..NEXT TO THE THEATRE, HAS ALSO CLOSED. MAY RE-OPEN AGAIN LATER IN YEAR.
MOVIE RENTAL BUSINESS HAS CHANGED AND GONE DOWN A LOT OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS.

THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY CLUB IS HAVING A MEMBERSHIP DRIVE. GOOD CLUB.
I'M A MEMBER AND WOULD BE GLAD TO TAKE YOU TO A MEETING ONE OF THESE WEDNESDAYS,
OR JUST MEET YOU THERE AT 12 NOON. GIVE ME A CALL. WE MEET EVERY WEDNESDAY. IT IS OPEN TO BOTH MEN AND WOMEN. OUR PRESIDENT IS SHERI HICKS AND WE HAVE TWO OTHER WOMEN IN THE CLUB.

DR. BROMAN, WHO FELL IN HIS HOME, IS NOW A RESIDENT OF MAQUOKETA CARE, JUST SOUTH OF PIZZA HUT.

TOM RAY IS A YEAR OLDER. HIS BIRTHDAY WAS YESTERDAY. JENNIE STEWART CELEBRATING HER BIRTHDAY TODAY. THEIR (JENNIE AND ROGER) GRANDDAUGHTER GETS MARRIED
IN MINNEAPOLIS THIS SATURDAY. NANCY AND I AND GRANDMA ELOISE (AGE 97) ARE GOING UP TO THE WEDDING.

MY GRANDDAUGHTER, SARA CLASEN, GETS MARRIED A WEEK FROM FRIDAY. MORE LATER.

THANKS FOR CHECKING IN.

DENNIS VOY