THUNDER AND LIGHTNING AND RAIN EARLY THIS MORNING...
PARTLY SUNNY AND HUMID TODAY...HIGH OF 85.
TOMORROW AND REST OF WEEK WILL BE NICE AND COOLER.

JACKSON COUNTY OFFICIALS HOPE TO KNOW NEXT WEEK WHETHER JACKSON
COUNTY WILL RECEIVE A FEMA NATIONAL DISASTER DECLARATION.
IF SO, THERE ARE NUMEROUS FEDERAL PROGRAMS THAT WILL BE AVAILABLE
TO RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES WHO HAD DAMAGE DURING THE RECENT FLOOD
IN THE COUNTY ALONG THE MAQUOKETA RIVER.

THE MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS MONDAY NIGHT ENDORSED A REQUEST BY THE MAQUOKETA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO ASK FOR RAGBRAI (GREAT RIDE
ACROSS IOWA) TO RETURN TO MAQUOKETA SOMETIME IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS.
IT WOULD STAY ON A FRIDAY NIGHT BEFORE THE FINAL DAY IN A MISSSISSIPPI
RIVER TOWN. RAGBRAI LAST CAME THROUGH MAQUOKETA IN 2004.

SEVEN UNLOCKED VEHICLES WERE RANSACKED OVERNIGHT MONDAY.
MAQUOKETA POLICE SAY LITTLE WAS REPORTED STOLEN.

LAST NIGHT, ABOUT 750 PEOPLE ATTENDED NATIONAL NIGHT OUT IN LITTLE BEAR PARK IN MAQUOKETA, DESPITE HOT AND MUGGY WEATHER. ABOUT THE SAME AS
LAST YEAR.

I WAS INFORMED TODAY THAT PFC COYLA CLARK OF MAQUOKETA, ALSO WAS DEPLOYED YESTERDAY FOR AFGHANISTAN. SHE WENT TO TRINING TO CALIFORNIA WHERE THEY WILL BE SHIPPED OUT OF THE COUNTRY. SHE ALSO EXPECTS TO BE THERE FOR A YEAR. HER PARENTS ARE CRAIG AND JoANN CLARK, NOW OF ONSLOW AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA.

THAT 'S IT FOR ANOTHER REPORT.

DENNIS VOY