IT IS RAINING IN MAQUOKETA.

BILL WUNDRUM JUST LEFT MY OFFICE.....WE HAD A NICE VISIT. I'LL PROBABLY BE MENTIONED IN ONE OF HIS UPCOMING COLUMNS. GREAT GUY. BEEN AT THE QC TIMES OVER 60 YEARS. MIGHT EVEN BE 65 YEARS. CAME UP IN A LITTLE RED PT CONVERTIBLE. HE'S IN HIS 80'S BUT HAS NO PLANS TO RETIRE.

ON THE POLICE BLOTTER: DANA MESS REPORTED HER VEHICLE WAS VANDALIZED SEVERAL TIMES WHILE PARKED IN THE LOT OF PACIFIC COAST FEATHER.
BONNIE WALLER REPORTED SOMEONE BROKE INTO THEIR CAMPER PARKED AT HORSESHOE POND PARK AND TAKEN WAS AN MP3 PLAYER.
JAMES ELKINS REPORTED YESTERDAY THAT SOMEONE TOOK A RADIO FROM HIS UNLOCKED VEHICLE.

RANDY AND JEREMY HOWELL OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN TUESDAY AT GENESIS IN DAVENPORT. MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE DWAYNE AND KATHY RUPP OF MAQUOKETA. PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE JAN HOWELL OF MAQUOKETA AND KATE HOWELL OF MAQUOKETA.

THE WATER TOWER PAINT JOB IS DONE....AND THE CARDINAL PAINTED ON IT IS
BIGGER THAN THE LAST ONE....LOOKS GOOD. THE WORD MAQUOKETA IS ALSO A LITTLE LARGER. THE WATER TASTES GOOD TOO.

HAVE A GOOD THURSDAY.

DENNIS VOY