COLD AND WET TODAY(THURSDAY)

NOTE: THIS REPORT DID NOT GO UP AS IT WAS SUPPOSED TO THURSDAY AFTERNOON...SO HOPEFULLY IT WILL GO UP SOMETIME TODAY, FRIDAY.

NOT VERY NICE WEATHER FOR THE FIREMEN'S CONVENTION, BUT WE NEEDED SOME RAIN AND THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS WILL BE MUCH BETTER.....
SHOULD HAVE SUNSHINE BOTH TOMORROW AND SATURDAY AND IN THE 70'S.

GROUNDBREAKING WILL BE SCHEDULED IN THE NEXT COUPLE WEEKS FOR A SATELLITE CAMPUS IN MAQUOKETA FOR CLINTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE.
KAREN VICKER, THE COLLEGE PRESIDENT, SAID THEY ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE BUILDING BEING COMPLETED A YEAR FROM NOW. IT WILL BE CONSTRUCTED ON LAND AT THE CORNER OF SOUTH FIFTH STREET AND WASHINGTON STREET,
AT THE EDGE OF THE HIGH SCHOOL. THE SCHOOL DISTRICT SOLD THE COLLEGE THE LAND FOR $1.00. A CONTRACT HAS BEEN AWARDED TO THE LOW BIDDER, PORTZEN CONSTRUCTION OF DUBUQUE, FOR $1.7 MILLION. THE 11,000 SQUARE FOOT BUILDING WILL HAVE SEVERAL CLASSROOMS, COMPUTER LABS, AND A CAREER TECHNOLOGY LAB AS WELL AS A COMMUNITY ROOM. FUNDING WILL COME FROM THE PASSAGE OF A REFERENDUM LAST FALL WHICH INCLUDED THE MAQUOKETA BUILDING AND SEVERAL OTHER COLLEGE PROJECTS. ALSO, THE LATE JOHN FAGERLAND OF MAQUOKETA, WHO WAS A LONGTIME COLLEGE BOARD MEMBER, DONATED $250,000 TOWARD THE MAQUOKETA SATELLITE CAMPUS.

NO ONE FROM THE PUBLIC ATTENDED A HEARING THIS WEEK OF THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION ABOUT REZONING SOME PROPERTY ON WESTERN AVENUE. THE ZONING COMMISSION UNAMIOUSLY APPROVED A REQUEST FROM DUANE STICKLEY TO REZONE THE PROPERTY AT 113 WESTERN AVENUE FROM RESIDENTIAL TO BUSINESS. STICKLEY AND HIS FATHER, GALE, HAVE BEEN OPERATING THEIR ELECTRIC BUSINESS FROM THE SITE FOR ALMOST 50 YEARS.
PART OF THE PROPERTY IS ZONED RESIDENTIAL AND PART BUSINESS.
STICKLEY SAID HE PLANS TO DEMOLISH THE HOUSE ON THE PROPERTY AND BUILD A 35 BY 80-FOOT STORAGE BUILDING.

YES..THE PICTURE OF THE MOST POPULAR MAQUOKETA RESTAURANT (ON THIS REPORT EARLIER THIS WEEK) WAS OF BLUFF LAKE CATFISH FARM NORTHWEST OF MAQUOKETA, JUST BEYOND THE CAVES STATE PARK. HAD LOTS OF EMAILS AND ALL GUESSED IT. IT HAS NO SIGN ON BUILDING. LATELY, SATURDAY NIGHT
CUSTOMERS HAVE HAD TO WAIT AT LEAST 90-MINUTES TO GET SEATED.
IT WAS FEATURED BY BILL WUNDRUM IN THE QUAD CITY TIMES EARLIER THIS SUMMER. IT IS OPEN THURSDAY THRU SUNDAY.

MAQUOKETA HOSTS WAUKON IN FOOTBALL TOMORROW NIGHT AT GOODENOW
FIELD.

SOMEONE IS CLEANING OUT THE BUILDING ON SOUTH MAIN THAT WAS SAVED IN THE JANUARY BIG FIRE. WHERE THE SUB SANDWICH SHOP WAS PLANNING TO OPEN. WHAT KIND OF BUSINESS WILL LOCATE THERE? I'LL LET YOU KNOW WHEN I FIND OUT. APPARENTLY IT WILL NOT BE A RESTAURANT.

CHRISTOPHER AND JENNIE WEIS OF IOWA CITY ARE PARENTS OF A BOY.
GRANDPARENTS ARE ARDELL AND DEBBIE WEIS OF BELLEVUE AND GREAT GRANDPARENTS ARE ELDON AND IRENE WALLER OF BELLEVUE AND GRETRUDE DAEHLER OF MAQUOKETA.

YESTERDAY MORNING AT 3 A.M......THE JACKSON COUNTY DISPATCH CENTER RECEIVED THE REPORT OF A FIRE AT 7501 214TH AVE, JUST NORTH OF MAQUOKETA.
THE HOUSE/GARAGE FIRE WAS AT THE HOME OF STEVEN AND CINDY MUELLER AND UPON ARRIVAL, FIREMEN FOUND THE HOUSE FULL ENGULFED. MAQUOKETA, ANDREW, BALDWIN AND DELMAR FIRE DEPARTMENTS RESPONDED TO THE SCENE.
THE STATE FIRE MARSHALL'S OFFICE WAS CALLED AND THE FIRE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION.

SAGE ROSENFELTS STARTS ANOTHER SEASON SUNDAY AS BACKUP QUARTERBACK FOR THE HOUSTON TEXANS. HE WAS MAQUOKETA CARDINAL QUARTERBACK
AND ALSO THE IOWA STATE CYCLONE QB AND WENT PRO AFTER COLLEGE.
HAD A GOOD PRE-SEASON.

THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY CLUB IS SELLING CHANCES AGAIN IN A RAFFLE FOR TWO TICKETS TO THE IOWA-IOWA STATE FOOTBALL CLASH. $5 A CHANCE. I HAVE SOME RAFFLE TICKETS IF YOU ARE INTERESTED. IF SO, JUST EMAIL ME AT kmaq@kmaq.com

NOTE: THIS BEING ADDED FRIDAY MORNING. SUNSHINE IN MAQUOKETA FRIDAY MORNING. THE QUAD CITY TIMES HAS A NICE ARTICLE ABOUT KMAQ THIS
(FRIDAY) MORNING, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BUSINESS PAGE. A NEAT WIDE-ANGLE
PHOTO OF ME IN THE FM CONTROL ROOOM. YOU CAN GO TO THAT
SITE: www.qctimes.com AND THEN CLICK TO NEWS...AND THEN GO TO BUSINESS
AND SCROLL DOWN TO THE KMAQ STORY.



THE PHOTO WAS TAKEN BY KEVIN E. SCHMIDT OF MAQUOKETA, A FULLTIME PHOTOGRAPHER (AND A GOOD ONE) FOR THE QUAD CITY TIMES. THE STORY WRITTEN BY THOMAS GEYER AND HE DID A VERY GOOD, VERY ACCURATE STORY ON KMAQ. THANKS TO BOTH KEVIN AND THOMAS. THOMAS ALSO COVERS THE POLICE BEAT AT DAVENPORT AND
THAT IS HOW HE GOT THE COMMENT FROM MY SON RICK.

DENNIS VOY