Monday, February 03, 2014

MONDAY DAILY REPORT

SUNNY TODAY AND HIGH OF 14.
COLD TONIGHT.
SNOW TOMORROW AND TOMORROW NIGHT, 2 TO 3 INCHES.
THEN COLD WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, THE TWO KMAQ FARM AND
HOME SHOW DAYS.

CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT.

A 35-YEAR OLD PRESTON MAN WAS KILLED INSTANTLY AROUND 2 SATURDAY MORNING WHILE DRIVING HIS SNOWMOBILE WEST OF MILES, OFF
HIGHWAY 64 IN A FARM FIELD.    HIS NAME, LUCAS STEPHANY.

THE 69TH ANNUAL MEN'S CITY TOURNAMENT CAME TO AN END SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT TIMBER LANES.   THE ODD MIXED TEAM WON  THE
TEAM EVENT WITH 3,619 PINS.    JARETT FRANZEN AND TYLER GARIEN
TOOK DOUBLES WITH 1,555 PINS.     MIKE WILLIAMS, SINGLES WITH 830 PINS.
AND ALL EVENTS, MIKE WILLIAMS WITH 2,324 AND SCRATCH ALL-EVENTS,
LOUIE CLASEN WITH 2,114 PINS.
IN THE WAMAC WRESTLING TOURNAMENT SATURDAY AT INDEPENDENCE,
MAQUOKETA FINISHED 12TH OUT OF 15 TEAMS.
FRIDAY NIGHT, MAQUOKETA GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAM LOST TO SOLON,
46 TO 36 AND THE BOYS ALSO LOST 54 TO 43 TO SOLON AT SOLON.
TONIGHT, BOTH TEAMS PLAY AGAIN, MAKE-UP GAMES.    THE GIRLS WILL BE AT CENTER POINT URBANA (MATT CLARK WILL DO THE GAME AT 7:30 ON KMAQ-FM AND ON OUR INTERNET SITE) AND THE BOYS WILL HOST C-P-U.

CHECK BELOW, THE PHOTOS I TOOK YESTERDAY AT ONE OF MAQUOKETA'S OLDEST 3-STORY BUILDINGS, OWNED BY THE ODD FELLOWS LODGE, NO
LONGER IN EXISTANCE.  

ALSO BELOW, A VIDEO OF RANDY McCUTCHEON SINGING  "KIDS" AT THE
TIMBER CITY TRADING POST YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.

A REMINDER, THE TALK BY ASHER SCHROEDER, RETIRED ATTORNEY IN MAQUOKETA, ABOUT HIS HORRIBLE ONE-YEAR IN GERMANY DURING WORLD WAR II IS 45 MINUTES LONG AND YOU CAN "GOOGLE" EITHER THE MAQUOKETA VFW WEB SITE OR THE DAVID UPDEGRAPH WEB SITE AND
SEE HIM DOING THE VIDEO DONE LAST FRIDAY MORNING AT A STAFF
MEETING AT THE MAQUOKETA STATE BANK.
ABOVE, RENAE LIETZ SHOWING HOW HIGH THE DRIFTS WERE LAST WEEK
ON HIGHWAY 136 ON THIS SIDE OF DELMAR.    RUSTY (KMAQ MORNING
ANNOUNCER) AND RENAE LIVE JUST UP THE ROAD  FROM WHERE SHE IS STANDING.

HAVE A NICE WEEK.

DENNIS VOY