NICE TODAY. NICE YESTERDAY.
HAD A GOOD TIME AT CHICAGO YESTERDAY WITH A KMAQ TRAVEL FULL BUS TO SEE THE "MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET" AT THE APOLLO THEATRE. IT'S THE STORY OF A
1956 JAM SESSION FEATURING JOHNNY CASH, JERRY LEE LEWIS, CARL PERKINS AND
ELVIS. THE SINGER THAT PLAYED JERRY LEE LEWIS WAS THE BEST, LANCE LIPINSKY.
OTHERS WERE GOOD ALSO. THANKS TO ALL THAT WENT. ONLY PROBLEM WAS THE TRAFFIC AND ROAD CONSTRUCTION GETTING OUT OF CHICAGO....CAUSING US A DELAY OF 2-HOURS GETTING HOME.
NANCY AND I ARE GOING TO A WEDDING SATURDAY, IN CEDAR RAPIDS. FORMER
KMAQ STUDENT ANNOUNCER (AND SON OF KMAQ NEWS DIRECTOR SHERI MELVOLD) TIM MELVOLD GETS MARRIED TO HILLARY WADDELL OF CEDAR RAPIDS. TIM'S DAD IS DOUG MELVOLD AND HIS GRANDMOTHER IS FRANCIS MELVOLD, BOTH OF MAQUOKETA SENTINEL-PRESS FAME. HILLARY GRADUATED AT CLARKE COLLEGE IN DUBUQUE AND TIM FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE. SHE TEACHES HERE IN MAQUOKETA AND TIM IS AN ADMISSIONS COUNSELOR AT UD AND THEY HAVE PURCHASED A HOME IN DUBUQUE. CONGRATULATIONS TIM AND
HILLARY!
WITH LEIGHTON HEPKER GONE THIS WEEK AND SHERI ALSO GONE, BUSY GETTING READY FOR THE WEDDING, THERE WAS NO WAY I COULD GET OUT OF HERE AND GO TO COLUMBUS, OHIO AND JOIN CINDY AND LEIGHTON (AND OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS) AT JUSTIN HEPKER'S GRADUATION FROM THE MEDICAL COLLEGE AT OHIO UNIVERSITY. I AM JUSTIN'S GODFATHER AND DARN PROUD OF THE NEW DOCTOR HEPKER. CONGRATULATIONS JUSTIN! HE BEGINS HIS INTERNSHIP FOR 3 YEARS AS AN ER DOCTOR FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS-CHICAGO HOSPITAL NOT FAR FROM THE LAKE.
THANKS TO ARNOLD KORANDA OF DADE CITY, FLORIDA AND FORMERLY OF
MAQUOEKTA, FOR BUYING TWO ROTARY DUCKS WHEN HOME LAST WEEK.
HE WAS HERE TO SEE HIS GRANDDAUGTHER BROOKLYN KORANDA GRADUATE FROM MCHS AND ALSO SEE HER PITCH FOR THE MAQUOKETA GIRL'S SOFTBALL TEAM. ARNOLD AND HIS WIFE SUE ARE PLANNING TO COME BACK TO TOWN IN JULY FOR A LITTLE LONGER STAY.
IN GIRL'S SOFTBALL LAST NIGHT, THE CARDINAL GIRLS BEAT BENTON COMMUNITY TWICE AND REMAIN UNDEFEATED. IN GAME 1 LAST NIGHT, THE CARDS WON
12 TO 0. KELSEY BOLLMAN HIT A GRAND SLAM HOMER AND HAILEY BICKFORD
PITCHED WITH 7 STRIKEOUTS. IN GAME 2, MAQUOKETA WON 5 TO 1 AND BROOKE KORANDA PITCHED AND GOT 9 STRIKEOUTS.
THE BOYS ARE ALSO UNDEFEATED. TUESDAY NIGHT, THE BEAT DEWITT
5 TO 1 IN GAME ONE AND GAME TWO WAS SUSPENDED IN THE TOP OF THE 4TH BECAUSE OF STORMY WEATHER. DEWITT WAS AHEAD THEN 8 TO 7 AND THE GAME WILL BE COMPLETED AT A LATER DATE.
TOMORROW NIGHT IS "PACK THE STANDS" NIGHT AT THE MAQUOKETA HIGH
SCHOOL BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL DIAMONDS, AS BOTH TEAMS HOST MIDLAND OF WYOMING. THE BOYS GAME STARTS AT 5:30 AND THE GIRLS AT 6:00.
LOTS OF FUN THINGS ARE PLANNED TRY AND MAKE IT.
CHECK OUT THE NEW PHOTOS BELOW.
DENNIS VOY
Thursday, June 03, 2010
THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN EARLIER THIS WEEK IN FRONT OF THE GRAND STAIRWAYAT THE HISTORIC DECKER HOTEL (1876) THAT IS NOW UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP.
THE NEW OWNERS ARE MATT AND LISA MILLEN, AT RIGHT. ON LEFT, TROY AND
RAEANN THEDE, WHO HAD OWNED THE DECKER FOR AROUND 19 YEARS.
BACK IN MAY ON THIS DAILY REPORT, YOU WILL FIND A PHOTO OF THE DECKER AND MORE INFORMATION ON THE SALE, IF YOU MISSED IT THEN. CLICK-ON PHOTO
TO ENLARGE IT.
DENNIS VOY
STORE HERE) RECENTLY MOVED HIS STORE FROM NORTH JONES IN MAQUOKETA TO
A VACANT BUILDING IN THE LITTLE JACKSON COUNTY TOWN OF CANTON, LOCATED
ALONG THE MAQUOKETA RIVER. HE BOUGHT THE BUILDING AND HAS DONE
EXTENSIVE RENOVATIONS ALREADY INSIDE AND ON THE GROUNDS AND MORE ARE
PLANNED. I'M SURE CANTON AREA RESIDENTS ARE, AND SHOULD BE , PROUD OF THEIR NEW CONVENIENCE STORE, VIDEO RENTALS, AND CANOE RENTALS.
IN THIS PHOTO, TWO EMPLOYEES. ON THE LEFT IS DENNIS' DAUGHTER.
THIS FORMER RESTAUANT BUILDING AND TAVERN WILL NOW BRING NEW LIFE TO
CANTON, WHICH IN THE VERY EARLY DAYS OF JACKSON COUNTY, BEFORE THE
RAILROAD CAME, WAS THE BIGGEST CITY IN JACKSON COUNTY. CLICK-ON THE
PHOTO TO ENLARGE IT.
DENNIS VOY
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