Thursday, March 31, 2011

50 TODAY...NICE DAY.
RAIN OR SNOW TONIGHT...LOW 35
TOMORROW, CLOUDY AND HIGH OF 47
AND SATURDAY, ANOTHER NICE DAY WITH SUNSHINE AND AROUND 50 PLUS.

BIG RURAL HOME FIRE AT BELLEVUE TODAY.....BELLEVUE, LAMOTTE AND SPRINGBROOK FIREMEN WERE CALLED AND THE HOUSE WAS A TOTAL LOSS, AT AN ESTIMATED $300,000. IT BELONGED TO JOEL SCHROEDER.

POLICE BLOTTER: ROGER BOWLING ON ANDERSON STREET REPORTED HIS VEHICLE HAD BEEN KEYED OVERNIGHT TUESDAY.
AND MEGAN FRANZEN REPORTED THIS MORNING THAT TWO VEHICLES PARKED
AT OBIE'S HAD THEIR TIRES SLASHED.

DISNEY'S "GNOMEO & JULIET" STARTS TOMORROW. RATED G.
THE DRIVE-IN OPENS A WEEK FROM TOMORROW.

DID YOU KNOW? TO MAKE A HALF A KILO OF HONEY, BEES MUST COLLECT
RECTAR FROM OVER 2 MILLION INDIVIDUAL FLOWERS? I'LL HAVE TO ASK
LOCAL HONEY PROVIDER DAVE HAYES ABOUT THAT. I'LL ASK HIM ALSO
HOW BIG A KILO IS.

THERE IS GOING TO BE A STATUE OF DON THOMAS, WHO STARTED CLINTON
ENGINES IN THE 50'S, AT THE CLINTON ENGINES MUSEUM. A GIFT FROM
HIS SON AND WILL BE PUT IN PLACE LATER THIS SPRING. MORE ABOUT THAT
LATER.

IN 1878, MAQUOKETA HAD 5 HOTELS.....SAYS THE JACKSON COUNTY HISTORY
BOOK OF 1878.
WE HAVE 1 HOTEL NOW, 2 MOTELS AND 1 BED AND BREAKFAST.

NO CHARGE FOR ALL THIS INFORMATION YOU ARE GETTING.

SEE YOU TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY