SUNNY TODAY, BUT COOL.

THE U.S. SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION TODAY ANNOUNCED THE S.B.A. IS MAKING LOW-INTEREST ECONOMIC INJURY DISASTER LOANS AVAILABLE TO THE BUSINESSES ECONOMICALLY IMPACTED BY THE FIRE THAT DESTROYED SEVERAL
BUILDINGS ON MAIN STREET IN MAQUOKETA ON JANUARY 19TH. THE S.B.A.
IS OFFERING WORKING CAPITAL LOANS OF UP TO $1.5 MILLION AT AN INTEREST RATE OF 4 PERCENT WITH TERMS UP TO 30 YEARS. UNFORTUNATELY THE MONEY CAN NOT BE USED FOR CLEAN-UP OF THE SITES.

VIOLA WEIMERSKIRCH OF MAQUOKETA WON THE MARCH 50TH ANNIVERSARY KMAQ RADIO IN A DRAWING LAST NIGHT ON KMAQ.

AN ESTIMATED 450 PEOPLE ATTENDED THE 20TH ANNUAL JACKSON-CLINTON
COUNTY DAIRY BANQUET SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE FAIRGROUNDS IN MAQUOKTA.
JENNY IHRIG, THE DAUGHTER OF BILL AND CAROL IHRIG WAS SELECTED AS THE NEW DAIRY PRINCESS. JILL HEINRICH, DAUGHTER OF JOE AND SHELLY HEINRICH
WAS NAMED AS THE ALTERNATE DAIRY PRINCESS. LITTLE MISS DAIRY MAIDS ARE MARY HOLTZ, DAUGHTER OF JEFF AND LISA HOLTZ AND PEARL NIENKIRK, DAUGHTER OF ALLEN AND STACY NIENKIRK. DAIRY AMBASSADOR IS MARK TILL, SON OF ALLEN AND KAREN TILL AND LITTLE SIR DAIRYMAN IS WYATT LINDSTROM, SON OF OWEN AND COLLEEN LINDSTROM. SPECIAL RECOGINITION WAS GIVEN TO DARRYL FELLER, LONGTIME MILK HAULER AND ALSO GARY AND JOYCE TRACY, OWNERS OF THE T-N-T CONE SHOP IN MAQUOKETA. THE TRACY'S HAVE SOLD
THE CONE SHOP AND I'LL HAVE MORE ABOUT THAT IN A LATER REPORT.'

THE BIG RAGBRAI BIKING EVENT WILL NOT GO THROUGH JACKSON COUNTY THIS YEAR, BUT THERE WILL BE AN OVER-NIGHT STOP AT TIPTON AND THEN END UP AT LECLAIRE.

CLARA WHITE, AGE 96, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED SUNDAY EVENING. HER COMPLETE OBITUARY CAN BE READ AT www.carsonandson.com

A NEW AUTOMOTIVE BUSINESS IS STARTING UP SOON ON EAST PLATT STREET
IN MAQUOKETA, JUST EAST ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE FIRST LUTHERAN
CHURCH. IT WAS A CORNER GAS STATION FOR MANY YEARS, BUT GAS WILL NOT
BE SOLD AT THE NEW BUSINESS. MORE DETAILS AND A PHOTO COMING LATER.
THE BUILDING AND GROUNDS LOOK NICE, A GREAT IMPROVEMENT ON THE CORNER.

AND AT FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH, A NEW SIGN. A PHOTO OF IT WHEN A FEW MORE THINGS ARE DONE ON IT. IT IS A TRAVELING MESSAGE SIGN, WITH WORDING
RUN BY A COMPUTER.

DID YOU HEAR HOW THE CUBS DID YESTERDAY?
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DENNIS VOY