SORRY..I GOOFED...

THE LAST REPORT WAS INCORRECTLY LABELED
AS WEDNESDAY REPORT...

TUESDAY REPORT IS BELOW...

THERE WILL NOT BE A WEDNESDAY REPORT, UNLESS
A BIG NEWS STORY DEVELOPS.

DENNIS VOY  

NICE, SUNNY DAY TODAY, BUT HIGH ONLY AROUND 40.

POOR DOGROOMER CONNIE (BELLER)IN RENO...BEING HIT BY ANOTHER WINTER STORM. WITHOUT POWER FOR 5 HOURS THIS MORNING FROM THE SNOW AND SLEET STORM THAT PASSED THROUGH. INTERSTATES 80 AND 395 CLOSED FOR A TIME. SHE REPORTS HER PARENTS, THE JIM BELLERS,FROM MAQUOKETA, ARE WARM AND SAFE FOR THE WINTER DOWN IN MESA.

DISAPPOINTING PLAY TODAY BY THE IOWA STATE CYCLONES IN THE BOWL GAME IN IDAHO.

THE JACKSON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT FACES A DEFICIT OF OVER $800-THOUSAND DOLLARS BY NEXT YEAR BECAUSE OF UNPAID BILLS OVER THE LAST 2 YEARS. JACKSON COUNTY SUPERVORS WERE RECENTLY MADE AWARE OF THE DEFICITS. SUPERVISOR J.C. ENGEL SAID WHEN THE FORMER CASE MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR DIAN BLACKBURN LEFT, THE NEW MANAGER SHARON BARNHART FOUND STACKS OF UNPAID BILLS ON HER DESK. I'LL KEEP YOU POSTED ON THIS STORY.

LONGTIME DEPUTY SHERIFF DICK WARD WILL RETIRE ON JANUARY 15TH. MIKE PETERS WILL MOVE TO FULL-TIME DEPUTY TO FILL WARD'S PATROL POSITION.
JERRY MANNING OF MAQUOKETA, JAIL ADMINISTRATOR, WILL RETIRE JUNE 1ST. KEVIN SCOTT, CURRENTLY A PART-TIME JAILER, WILL FILL PETER'S POST AND MARK PAPE OF MAQUOKETA, WILL BE THE NEW JAIL ADMINISTRATOR.

DAC, INC. IN MAQUOKETA, HAS A NEW DIRECTOR. HE IS TODD SEIFERT. HE PREVOUSLY WORKED AT COMMUNITY CARE IN CHARLOTTE, FOR 5 YEARS. SEIFERT REPLACES CASEY WESTOFF, WHO WAS IN THAT POSITION FOR SEVERAL YEARS. DAC, INC. IS AN EXCELLENT ORGANIZATION HERE IN JACKSON COUNTY PROVIDING WORK AND OTHER ASSISTANCE TO THE
MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HANDICAPPED.

IONE STARR, AGE 71, OF DEWITT AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY. SHE HAD BEEN A COOK AND WAITRESS FOR MANY YEARS. SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SON, RICKY OF MAQUOKETA.

A REMINDER, THE MONTHLY CLINTON COUNTY ARIZONA SNOWBIRD-RESIDENT BREAKFAST HAAS BEEN CHANGED TO AN ANNUAL EVENT. THE GET-TOGETHER THIS YEAR WILL BE AT THE SAME SUNLAND VILLAGE RESTAURANT ON JANUARY 18, 2003, AT 9 A.M. IF YOU ARE IN ARIZONA AND HAVE EVER LIVED IN CLINTON COUNTY, YOU ARE MOST WELCOME. I SUPPOSE JACKSON COUNTY SNOWBIRDS WOULD ALSO BE WELCOME.
JANUARY 18TH...DON'T FORGET...PUT IT ON YOUR NEW CALENDAR.

HAVE A SAFE AND FUN NEW YEAR'S EVE...

AND HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE.

DENNIS VOY



 

SUNNY AND WARM TODAY...HIGH OF 56. BUT, COLD WEATHER IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER AGAIN.

JUST RAN INTO ED TUBBS IN THE MSB BANK PARKING LOT NEXT TO KMAQ. HE CHECKS INTO THE BANK
ON A REGULAR BASIS. WILL BE CHEERING-ON THE IOWA STATE CYCLONES TOMORROW. HE GRADUATED FROM ISU AND HOPES THEY CAN GET A WIN AND MAKE IT KIND OF A REDEEMING GAME TO A DISAPPOINTING 2ND HALF REGULAR SEASON. WE'LL BE BROADCASTING THE GAME TOMORROW ON KMAQ-FM. ED WILL BE WAITING UNTIL LATE JANUARY BEFORE HE AND HIS WIFE GO THE PHOENIX AREA FOR A COUPLE MONTHS. HIS LONG- TIME PARTNER, JOHN FAGERLAND, HAS SOME HEALTH PROBLEMS, BUT IS UP AND OUT ALMOST DAILY, AND KEEPS UP-TO-DATE WITH LOCAL BANKING MATTERS.
BOTH GENTLEMEN HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS CARRYING-ON, BOTH HERE IN MAQUOKETA AND IN SOME OF THE OTHER BANKS THEY CONTROL IN THE AREA. ED AND JOHN HAVE BEEN GREAT BANKERS, CITIZENS AND FATHERS AND GRANDFATHERS.

ALSO RAN INTO LUCILLE SORENSEN IN THE PARKING LOT, AND GOT A PROGRESS REPORT ON HER HUSBAND, RICHARD. IT HAS BEEN ABOUT 3 MONTHS SINCE HE HAD HIS CAR ACCIDENT ON EAST PLATT STREET, THAT SENT HIM TO THE IOWA CITY HOSPITAL WITH BROKEN BONES AND OTHER INJURIES. FOR AWHILE, HIS SITUATION DID NOT LOOK GOOD, BUT LUCILLE TOLD ME HIS BONES ARE NEARLY HEALED AND THAT HE CONTINUES TO MAKE PROGRESS. THE MOST URGENT PROBLEM IS DEALING WITH HIS UNABILITY TO BREATHE ON HIS OWN. THE DOCTORS AND LUCILLE ARE HOPEFUL THIS ALSO WILL IMPROVE AND THAT HE CAN MAKE IT HOME SOON, WHERE HE WILL HAVE TO CONTINUE HIS REHABILITATION. HE WAS A LONGTIME
INSURANCE MAN HERE IN MAQUOKETA.

AZETTA CLARK, AGE 78, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED THIS MORNING AT THE CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME. SHE WAS A HOMEMAKER AND FARMED WITH HER HUSBAND,
RAYMOND, IN THE OZARK AREA FROM 1951-1975. HER HUSBAND DIED IN 1975. SHE IS SURVIVED BY 3 SONS, INCLUDING KEVIN OF MAQUOKETA .. ALSO 2 SISTERS, INCLUDING ALBERTA CLARK OF MAQUOKETA.

ALFRED LARRY RICH, AGE 86, OF MAQUOEKTA, DIED SATURDAY AT CRESTRIDGE. HE NEVER MARRIED.
HE FARMED MANY YEARS AND ALSO OWNED AND OPERATED A DUMP TRUCK. HE IS SURVIVED BY 1 BROTHER,
LLOYD RICH OF MAQUOKETA AND A BROTHER-IN-LAW, GERALD SMALLEY OF MAQUOKETA.

AND THAT'S IT FOR ANOTHER REPORT.

CHECK BACK TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY  

MOSTLY CLOUDY AND 37 FOR A HIGH...SAME AS YESTERDAY...ONLY MUCH LESS SUNSHINE TODAY.

THE MAQUOKETA POLICE DEPARTMENT WAS INFORMED OF A HIT AND RUN ACCIDENT. DEB BOWLING REPORTED YESTERDAY THAT SOMEONE HIT HER GREEN PLYMOUTH VAN WHILE IT WAS PARKED IN THE WALMART PARKING LOT. DAMAGES ESTIMATED AT $400.

A VANDALISM REPORT. BRIAN WATTERS OF RURAL MAQUOKETA SAID THREE WINDOWS WERE BROKEN OUT OF HIS HOUSE SOMETIME BETWEEN CHRISTMAS EVE AND YESTERDAY. VALUE OF THE DAMAGE, $750.

REBECCA BRANHAM, AGE 25, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH CRIMINAL MISCHIEF IN THE 4TH DEGREE. POLICE OFFICER PAT FIERSAID BRANHAM
WENT TO TIMBER CITY TRAILER PARK YESTERDAY TO SEE KEITH BRANHAM. HE WASN'T THERE. SHE GOT ANGRY AND THREW A CIMDER BLOCK THROUGH A CAR WINDSHILED OWNED BY DONALD CARSON, DAMAGES ESTIMATED AT $400.

BILLY BICKFORD, AGE NOT GIVEN, OF ALMOND,WISCONSIN, DIED AT HIS HOME DECEMBER 23RD.
THE FUNERAL WILL BE IN ALMOND. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, 3 SONS, 1 BROTHER, LEROY BICKFORD OF MAQUOKETA AND 3 SISTERS, INCLUDING DORIS YADDOF OF MAQUOKETA.

THE ORANGE BOWL IS GETTING CLOSE AND EVERYONE IS GETTING EXCITED ABOUT IT. THE HAWKEYES LEFT FOR FLORIDA YESTERDAY AND THE CLYCLONES LEFT FOR IDAHO. PAM AND JACK ROSENBERG ARE GOING TO THE GAME AND I'M SURE THERE WILL BE OTHERS FROM MAQUOKETA, BUT THOSE ARE THE ONLY TWO NAMES I'VE HEARD SO FAR.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY


 

SORRY...

BACK TO NEWS AND THE STORY OF A LEISURE LAKE LADY BEING KILLED IN A SINGLE CAR ACCIDENT CHRISTMAS EVE AT THE NORTHERN PART OF JACKSON COUNTY. DEAD IS DEBORAH CASHMAN, AGE 33, FORMERLY OF DUBUQUE. SHE WAS FOUND BY A PASSING MOTORIST CHRISTMAS MORNING AROUND 8. SHE WAS TRAVELING WEST, APPARENTLY LOST CONTROL AND THE VEHICLE ROLLED SEVERAL TIMES AND THEN CAME TO REST AGAINST A TREE. SHE WAS THROWN FROM THE VEHICLE. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND AND TWO SONS AND WORKED AS A TELLER FOR DUTRAC COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION HERE IN MAQUOKETA.

AROUND 100 PEOPLE ATTENDED THE COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS DINNER YESTERDAY AT THE SENIOR CENTER HERE IN MAQUOEKTA. PASTOR JIM LUCY OF THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH AGAIN ORGANIZED THE DINNER, AND RECEIVED HELP FROM ALVIN AND VERA BARTIN....MR. AND MRS. MARV MASSEY....TIM HIGGINES....LORRAINE STARMAN....AND MEMBERS OF THE IRON HILL CHURCH AND THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH.

FIVE VEHICLE-DEER ACCIDENTS IN JACKSON COUNTY DURING THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY.

SORRY TODAY'S REPORT...THE FIRST IN THREE DAYS... IS SHORT....BUT THERE JUST ISN'T MUCH GOING ON THESE DAYS.

CHECK BACK TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY


 

CHRISTMAS CAME AND WENT WITHOUT SNOW...BUT IT WASN'T FAR AWAY...CHICAGO HAD 3 INCHES.

SUNNY TODAY....ONLY 35,BUT SEEMS MUCH WARMER.



 

CHRISTMAS CAME AND WENT WITHOUT SNOW...BUT IT WASN'T FAR AWAY...CHICAGO HAD 3 INCHES.

SUNNY TODAY....ONLY 35,BUT SEEMS MUCH WARMER.



 

SUNNY AND COOL TODAY...LIKE YESTERDAY..A HIGH
OF 32. ONLY SNOW FLURRIES IN FORCAST FOR CHRISTMAS EVE AND CHRISTMAS DAY. IT WILL BE A BROWN, NOW WHITE, CHRISTMAS IN MAQUOKETA.

A MAQUOKETA WOMAN, HEATHER HAMILTON, AGE 24, WAS AIRLIFTED TO UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS FOLLOWING A TWO-VEHICLE ACCIDENT FRIDAY NIGHT.
THE OTHER CAR WAS DRIVEN BY A TEENAGER FROM MANCHESTER. HAMILTON WAS LISTED IN GOOD CONDITION TODAY AT THE HOSPITAL. THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED ABOUT A HALF-MILE WEST OF WYOMING.
THE MANCHESTER DRIVER WAS CHARGED WITH FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL.

A MAQUOKETA MAN DIED AS THE RESULT OF INJURIES FROM A TW0-VEHICLE ACCIDENT SATURDAY MORNING JUST SOUTH OF DEWITT. JOEL WYLIE, AGE 42, WAS TAKEN TO A DAVENPORT HOSPITAL WHERE HE DIED LATER. THE OTHER CAR WAS DRIVEN BY A DEWITT TEENAGER, WHO WAS TREATED AND RELEASED FROM THE DEWITT HOSPITAL. WYLIE WAS NOT WEARING A SEAT BELT AND WAS EJECTED FROM HIS VEHICLE.
JOEL WYLIE, OF MAQUOKETA AND FORMERLY OF OXFORD JUNCTION, WAS A PAINTER AT THE PRECISION METAL WORKS FACTORY IN MAQUOKETA. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS PARENTS, BOB AND BEVERLY WYLIE OF MAQUOKETA, ALSO A BROTHER JAMES, IN MAQUOKETA AND HIS GRANDMOTHER, ALICE GREEN-LINGEL, OF MAQUOKETA.
ALSO, A SPECIAL FRIEND, JULIE KUNDE, OF PRESTON.

SHIRLEY ROHR, AGE 61, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED SATURDAY AT FINLEY HOSPITAL AT DUBUQUE.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE 3 CHILDREN, A BROTHER, GOEN BODENHOFER OF MAQUOKETA AND A SISTER, CONNIE STUTTING OF MAQUOKETA.

JOE MCDERMOTT, AGE 82, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED THIS MORNING AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE CAECILIA AND NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
HE AND HIS WIFE FARMED IN THE DELMAR AREA FOR MANY YEARS.

THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS TOOK FIRST PLACE IN THE SABER INVITATIONAL AT DEWITT SATURDAY.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY

 

CLOUDY AND HIGH OF 35 TODAY.

THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS BEAT CAMANCHE LAST NIGHT,73 TO 3. THEY WRESTLE TOMORROW IN THE SABER INVITATIONAL AT DEWITT.

THE GIRLS HOST DYERSVILLE TONIGHT AND THE BOYS PLAY THERE.

JACKSON COUNTY'S FARMLAND VALUE WENT UP $199 AN ACRE THIS YEAR, TO $2,033 AN ACRES.

OLD CELLULAR PHONES NO LONGER USED BY INDIVIDUALS, STILL CAN BE USED AT NO CHARGE FOR 9-1-1 CALLS. NO MONTHLY FEE..AND THE ONLY CALL THAT CAN BE MADE ON THE PHONE IS A 9-1-1 CALL. THE JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE WILL DO WHAT CLINTON COUNTY STARTED EARLIER THIS YEAR....MAKE THE PHONES AVAILABLE TO SENIORS.
ANYONE WANTING TO DONATE A PHONE CAN LEAVE IT AT THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE.

A GARAGE FIRE LAST NIGHT AT 317 N. ELIZA...CALLED IN BY A NEIGHBOR. WHEN FIREMEN ARRIVED, AT 9 LAST NIGHT, FLAMES WERE COMING OUT OF THE SOUTHEAST CORNER. NO ONE WAS IN THE BUILDING.

LONGTIME BUSINESSMAN RON KELLER DIED THIS MORNING AT HIS HOME AT THE NORTH EDGE OF MAQUOKETA, ACROSS FROM THE BALLPARK. I BELIEVE HE HAD LIVED THERE FOR AROUND 40 OR MORE YEARS. HE WAS 68. HE WAS IN THE DRAPERY BUSINESS MOSTLY AND ALSO WAS IN ANTIQUES. YEARS AGO, HE HAD A MUSEUM IN THE BASEMENT OF THE DECKER HOTEL, FEATURING ANTIQUE MUSIC BOXES.

THE MAQUOKETA COMMUNITY SERVICES STAR PROGRAM THIS YEAR SERVED OVER 680 IN NEED.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY

 

SUNSHINE THIS MORNING..CLOUDY THIS AFTERNOON.
IN THE 30'S. YESTERDAY'S HIGH WAS 52.

CITY COUNCIL HELD THEIR GOALS SESSION LAST NIGHT AT CITY HALL. FORMER CITY MANAGER, PAT CALLAHAN, CONDUCTED THE SESSION. HE HAS A CONSULTING FIRM. THE TOP 3 GOALS FOR 2003...1/ SETTING UP A STREET REPLACEMENT PROGRAM
2/ PURCHASING A JET VAC TRUCK FOR THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROGRAM AND 3/ MARKETING THE NEW INDUSTRIAL PARK SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA AND JOB RETENTION.

A MAQUOKETA SQUAD CAR HIT A VEHICLE DRIVEN BY A MAQUOKETA FIREMAN AS HE RAN A RED LIGHT WHILE HEADING TO THE FIRE STATION. NO ONE WAS INJURED. CHARGED WAS CRAIG MUHLHAUSEN, AGE 32,THE FIREMAN, WHO WAS CHARGED WITH FAILURE TO RESPOND TO A STEADY RED LIGHT. HE WAS DRIVING HIS OWN CAR RESPONDING TO A CAR FIRE. SOMEWHERE IN CITY. POLICE OFFICER TERRANCE PROHASKA, AGE 22, WAS ALSO HEADING TO THE FIRE, GOING SOUTH ONF MAIN STREET, WITH RED LIGHTS FLASHING AND SIREN SOUNDING. THE FIREMAN WENT THROUGH THE RED LIGHT AND WAS HIT BY THE SQUAD CAR. $3,500 DAMAGE TO THE CITY'S 2001 FORD AND $2,000 DAMAGE TO MUHLHAUSEN'S 94 FORD PICKUP.

HAROLD GISEL, AGE 75, OF DELMAR, DIED YESTERDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. HE WORKED AT CLINTON ENGINES FOR 28 YEARS....THEN FOR CATERPILLAR..AND LATER, HOOF PRODUCTS IN MAQUOKETA UNTIL RETIRING IN 1992. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE, EDNA, A SON, STEVE, IN MAQUOKETA AND 2 GRANDSONS.

THE NEW 60 PLUS ROOM MOTEL IN MAQUOKETA IS HOPING TO OPEN VALENTINES DAY.

SAW SANTA LAST NIGHT...IN BETTENDORF...AND HE SAID ALL OF YOU WILL GET SOMETHING THIS CHRISTMAS. I SURE HOPE HE'S RIGHT.

THANKS FOR CHECKING IN AGAIN.

DENNIS VOY



 

WE GOT RAIN!

LAST NIGHT, 1/4 INCH....TODAY, ANOTHER HALF-INCH...THE FIRST FOR DECEMBER. ON DECEMBER 2ND, WE GOT AN INCH OF SNOW. NOW, MID AFTERNOON, THE SUN IS SHINING..AND ITS 50.
TOMORROW, HIGH IN 40'S, FRIDAY, HIGH IN 30'S AND SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, HIGH IN 20'S. AND THEY ARE SAYING NOW.....A CHANCE FOR SNOW ON CHRISTMAS EVE.

ON THE POLICE BLOTTER...$150 IN CHAMBER BUCKS TAKEN FROM AN OFFICE AT THE HOSPITAL. POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING.

MAQUOKETA MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION SUPERINTENDENT TOM ALLEN HAS RESIGNED TO TAKE ANOTHER JOB. THE UTILITY IS ALREADY ADVERTISING FOR HIS REPLACEMENT. HE HAS DONE A GOOD JOB.

IN BASKETBALL LAST NIGHT HERE IN TOWN, MAQUOKETA
HOSTED RANKED WESTERN DUBUQUE, AND DOMINATED THE GAME...UNTIL THE LAST COUPLE MINUTES AND THEN LOST THE GAME ON A DUBUQUE BUCKET AT THE HORN.
A DISAPPOINTING LOSS FOR THE CARDINALS. ADAM HEPKER WAS LEADING SCORER WITH 25 POINTS.

BUT...THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS, PLAYING AT EPWORTH, DEFEATED WESTERN DUBUQUE, IN OVERTIME. BRITANY DAVIS WAS MAQUOKETA'S TOP SCORER WITH 25 POINTS.

VERDA K. YOUNG, AGE 83, OF MAQUOKETA AND FORMERLY OF SAVANNA, ILLINOIS....DIED TUESDAY AT THE JACKSON COUNTY PUBLIC HOSPITAL. THE FUNERAL SERVICE AND BURIAL WILL BE SATURDAY IN SAVANNA.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY TWO DAUGHTERS, TWO SONS, AND 9 GRANDCHILDREN. ALSO, A SISTER IN MAQUOKETA,
SANDRA COLLISTER AND A BROTHER, RON EVANS, OF PELLA AND FORMERLY MAQUOKETA.

HO HO HO...TIME TO GO.

DENNIS VOY

 

DARK AND DREARY NOW...WITH 80% CHANCE OF RAIN TONIGHT AND TOMORROW.

A SILENT AUCTION OF TREES AND WREATHS AT THE SEASON OF LIGHTS FESTIVAL LAST WEEKEND AT CLOVER RIDGE PLACE RAISED $1,200 FOR THE MAQUOKETA AREA FOUNDATION.

KEN HOSCH, LISA HOLTZ, CONNIE WILCOX, CAROL NAGEL, PAUL MESSINGER AND TONY BOCK.....ALL HIT A DEER RECENTLY IN JACKSON COUNTY.

CLINT AND ELLY POGEMILLER OF DAVENPORT ARE THE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN LAST FRIDAY AT A HOSPITAL IN DAVENPORT. MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE JACK AND MARY BECK OF MAQUOKETA AND MATERNAL GREAT-GRANDMOTHER IS MAXINE BECK OF MAQUOKETA.

OPAL STOLL IS 95 TODAY.

ELVA GRIFFIS, AGE 96, DIED SUNDAY IN SAN DIEGO HOSPITAL, SHE GRADUATED FROM MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL IN 1933 AND THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA IN 1939. SHE IS SURVIVED BY 2 DAUGHTERS, JOAN IN MARIETTA, GEORGIA AND LILA IN DOVE CANYON, CALIFORNIA AND ONE BROTHER, LYLE GRUENWALD OF MAQUOKETA.

THE BIG NEW MOVIE, 'THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS' STARTS TOMORROW NIGHT AT THE VOY 3 THEATRE.

LAST FRIDAY, MAQUOKETA, BOYS AND GIRLS, BEAT CAMANCHE IN VARSITY BASKETBALL. TONIGHT, THE GIRLS PLAY AT WESTERN DUBUQUE AND THE BOYS HOST WESTERN DUBUQUE.

40 YEARS AGO, THREE PONIES PURCHASED FROM WENDEL PONY RANCH IN MAQUOKETA, WERE GIVEN AWAY TO THREE LUCKY CHILDREN REGISTERED AT BILL MOLER'S B & B STORE. THE FIRST WEEK'S WINNER WAS BRENDA HEPKER, OF MAQUOKETA.

THREE TRAYS OF COOKIES AND ONE TRAY OF CANDY DROPPED OFF HERE AT KMAQ FOR EMPLOYEES...TODAY.
NO DOUBT, MORE COMING TOMORROW. HARD TO STAY AWAY FROM THAT FRONT COUNTER OF GOODIES.

NO DEATHS ALL THIS WEEK.

THE OPTIMIST CLUB SOLD OUT OF THEIR CHRISTMAS TREES EARLY THIS YEAR. BUT, THEY WERE HELPED BY THEISEN'S NOW SELLING TREES LIKE IN PAST.
THEISEN'S BOUGHT THE HOUSE NEXT TO THEM...IT WAS MOVED..AND NOW T'S HAVE A BIGGER PARKING LOT.

8 DAYS 'TIL CHRISTMAS.

DENNIS VOY



 

THIS IS PART 3 FOR MONDAY...

HOW ABOUT THAT...

THE BUTTON HIT BY MISTAKE...WAS THE ENTER
BUTTON. THAT HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE.

HAVE A GOOD NIGHT....

AND BE THANKFUL YOU ARE NOT IN THE RENO AREA WHERE FORMER MAQUOKETAN CONNIE BELLER LIVES...THEY HAVE HAD ONE HECK OF A WINTER STORM.

DENNIS VOY

 

JUST DID IT AGAIN...WAS NEARLY FINISHED DOING THE REPORT...HIT A WRONG KEY AND LOST IT ALL.

...WASN'T MUCH OF A REPORT ANYWAY...

HAVE NO TIME TO DO IT AGAIN...

SORRY...

AFTER DOING THIS FOR ABOUT 5 YEARS....I'M THINKING OF STOPPING THIS REPORT FOR GOOD
DECEMBER 31ST....

IF I DO...I KNOW SOME OF YOU WON'T LIKE THAT.

DENNIS VOY

 

SUNNY, WINDY, BUT COLD..HIGH IN THE MID 30'S.

A MAQUOKETA MAN IS LISTED IN FAIR CONDITION AT MERCY MEDICAL CENTER IN DUBUQUE AFTER HE WAS THROWN FROM HIS VEHICLE IN AN ACCIDENT OVER THE WEEKEND. JAMES NOONAN, AGE 54, OF MAQUOKETA WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL BY BELLEVUE AMBULANCE AFTER THE ACCIDENT WHICH HAPPENED AT 9 P.M. SATURDAY ONE MILE SOUTHEAST OF LAMOTTE. HE WAS CHARGED BY DEPUTY RUSS LONG WITH FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL. HE WAS GOING NORTH ON COUNTY ROAD Y61, CROSSED THE CENTERLINE, HIT AN EMBANKMENT, AND THE CAR FLIPPED COMING TO REST ON ITS TOP.

ON THE POLICE BLOTTER, DIANE FRETT OF MAQUOKETA REPORTED THAT SOMEONE TOOK HER WINNIE THE POOH ORNAMENT FROM HER LAWN......GREG KROGMAN REPORTED HIS CHRISTMAS LIGHTS ON WEST PLATT WERE VANDALIZED AND ANN FERGUSON OF WEST ANGUS, REPORTED HER SON'S VEHICLE WAS VANDALIZED.

THE MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT.

MATTHEW AND ALICIA HAYES OF CEDAR RAPIDS, ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN SUNDAY MORNING AT ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL IN THAT CITY. GRANDPARENTS ARE DAVID AND DARLENE HAYES OF MAQUOKETA. GREAD-GRAND PARENTS ARE LOLA HAYES OF MAQUOKETA AND MARV AND HELEN BRADY OF MAQUOKETA.





 

SUNNY THIS AFTERNOON....HIGH AROUND 30.

MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS WON AGAIN LAST NIGHT...BEATING ANAMOSA EASILY.

THE BOYS BASKETBALL TEAM PLAYS THEIR FIRST CONFERENCE GAME OF THE SEASON AT CAMANCHE TONIGHT AND THE GIRL'S PLAY THEIR 2ND CONFERENCE GAME TONIGHT, HOSTING CAMANCHE. GAME WILL BE BROADCAST ON KMAQ-FM TONIGHT, WITH BOB WARNER AT THE PLAY-BY-PLAY MIKE.

THE PUBLIC MEETING FOR FACILITY NEEDS OF THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL DISTRICT HAD A SMALL CROWD LAST NIGHT. THE USUAL THINGS BROUGHT UP....LIKE A MORE ACADEMIC SPACE, A NEW GYM, NEW
TENNIS COURTS, AND A NEW TRACK. SOME DISCUSSION ALSO ON MOVING THE FOOTBALL FIELD, GOODENOW FIELD, TO A SPOT NEAR THE HIGH SCHOOL WHERE THE TWO DIAMONDS ARE. AND PUTTING A NEW TRACK AROUND THE PLAYING FIELD.

TOMMY DAGUE, AGE 23, OF MAQUOKETA, HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO MORE THAN 6 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR SELLING DRUGS.

FOR THE 6TH YEAR IN A ROW, THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH IN MAQUOKETA WILL HOST ITS ANNUAL COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS DINNER, AT NOON CHRISTMAS DAY, AT THE JACKSON COUNTY SENIOR CENTER.

RUSSELL WEIMERSKIRCH, 75, OF MAQUOKETA DIED YESTERDAY AT THE JCPH. HE FARMED ALL HIS LIFE IN THE SPRAGUEVILLE AREA, RETIRING IN 1994.
HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, VIOLA, 1 DAUGHTER, AND 5 SONS, INCLUDING KEITH OF MAQUOKETA.

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY

 

NO SUN TODAY...CLOUDY AND AROUND 40.

THE IOWA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PLANS TO OPEN A TEMPORARY OFFICE IN SABULA CITY HALL TO HELP THOSE PEOPLE LAYED OFF FROM TYCO ELECTRONICS IN SABULA, CLOSE TO 100 PEOPLE. THE COMPANY,
MOVING TO CHINA, CLOSES DECEMBER 20TH.

A MEETING WILL BE HELD IN THE HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY AT 7 TONIGHT TO HEAR FROM RESIDENTS OF THE COMMUNITY WITH IDEAS THEY HAVE FOR FACILITY NEEDS FOR THE DISTRICT. ARCHITECTS HAVE ALREADY TALKED TO ADMINISTRATORS, TEACHERS AND STAFF FOR THEIR IDEAS.

SENATOR CHUCK GRASSLEY ANNOUNCED THAT PRESIDENT BUSH INTENDS TO APPOINT WYTHE WILLEY OF CEDAR RAPIDS AND FORMERLY OF BALDWIN TO SERVE AS A MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE FOR TRADE POLICY AND NEGOTIATIONS. HE IS A LIFELONG CATTLEMAN AND FARMER FROM JACKSON COUNTY AND CURRENTLY IS PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL CATTLEMEN'S BEEF ASSOCIATION. HE ALSO WAS PRESIDENT OF THE IOWA CATTLEMEN'S ASSOCIATION IN 1995 AND 1996. HE HEADS HIS OWN LAW FIRM IN CEDAR RAPIDS. ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO, HE WAS GOV. BOB RAY'S CHEIF OF STAFF IN DES MOINES.

A MAN FELL ASLEEP AT 1 THIS MORNING AND TWO PEOPLE RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES IN THE ACCIDENT THAT OCCURRED....4 MILES NORTH OF MAQUOKETA.
DEPUTY RANDY MANNING CHARGED BRAD NESTEBY, 19, OF DUBUQUE, WITH FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL. BOTH NESTEBY AND A PASSENGER WERE TREATED AT JCPH. THE CAR ROLLED SEVERAL TIMES AND THE MAQUOEKTA RESCUE SQUAD WAS CALLED TO GET THE VICTIMS FROM THE VEHICLE.

THREE DEER ACCIDENTS IN CLINTON COUNTY AND 3 ALSO IN JACKSON COUNTY YESTERDAY AND LAST NIGHT.

MADALINE SCHURBON, AGE 95, OF MAQUOKETA DIED MONDAY NIGHT AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. SHE IS SURVIVED BY 1 DAUGHTER, HONOR CLARK OF MAQUOKETA, 2 SONS, ROGER OF TEXAS AND JOHN OF IDAHO...AND 1 SISTER, URSULA LUCFT OF MAQUOKETA. SHE HAD WORKED FOR 30 YEARS ON THE ASSEMBLY LINE AT CLINTIN ENGINES.

MR. AND MRS. TIM WELU OF COKATO, MINNESOTA,
HAVE A COMPANY CALLED WELUS' PAISLEY CONSULTING, THAT RECENTLY RANKED 254 ON INC MAGAZINE'S TOP 500 LIST OF AMERICA'S FASTEST GROWING PRIVATELY OWNED COMPANIES. THE FIRM, WHICH HAS NEARLY 50 EMPLOYEES, RECORDED $3.3 MILLION LAST YEAR, AND IS ON PACE TO POST $4.3 MILLION IN SALES THIS YEAR. MRS. WELU IS STACEY PAISLEY , AGE 36, WHO GREW UP IN THE MAQUOKETA AREA. LOCAL GIRL MAKES GOOD!

DALE KLOFT...OLE,OLE,OLE, DALE KLOFT, OF MAQUOKETA....BOWLED A 300 GAME ON MONDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 2ND...AT TIMBER LANES IN MAQUOKETA.
HE HAS BEEN BOWLING FOR 44 YEARS. ONCE BEFORE HE HAD A 298. GOOD GOING DALE!

A NICE TURN-OUT LAST NIGHT FOR RETIRING NANCY MOORE AT THE MAQUOKETA COUNTRY CLUB, HOSTED BY HER 4 KIDS. SHE HAS HEADED UP SUNSHINE DAYCARE AND PRE-SCHOOL FOR 30 YEARS,FROM ITS BEGINNING.
STARTED IN A HOUSE BASEMENT, THEN WAS LOCATED AT THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH FOR MANY YEARS, AND IN THE LATE 90'S, MOVED TO A LARGE BUILDING, SINCE ENLARGED MORE, BEHIND THE JACK AND JILL STORE IN MAQUOKETA. ITS IS ONE OF THE NICEST DAYCARE CENTERS IN THE STATE....IN FACT, CITIZENS OF OTHER TOWNS COME OFTEN TO LOOK SUNSHINE OVER TO GET IDEAS FOR THEIR TOWN. NANCY SAID SHE WILL HELP OUT IN FUTURE MAYBE, GOING ON CLASS FIELD TRIPS, SOMETHING SHE NEVER GOT TO DO MUCH BEFORE.
IT WAS MY PLEASURE TO SERVE AS THE EMCEE FOR THE SHORT PROGRAM HELD LAST NIGHT, THAT INCLUDED THE STAFF, HEADED BY LONGTIME EMPLOYEE, SUE HUTTON, SINGING THE FAMOUS SUNSHINE SONG....AND OF COURSE..ALSO ENJOYING FOOD AND CAKE. A COUPLE NICE GIFTS WERE PRESENTED TO NANCY. SHE WILL BE MOVING INTO A NEW HOME IN FEBRUARY. SHE HELPS PARTIME HER SON, KEN, IN HIS BIG BUSINESS, KEN MOORE CONSTRUCTION, WHICH INCLUDES APARTMENT RENTALS, STORAGE BUILDINGS AND MORE HERE IN MAQUOKETA AND THE AREA. A GREAT JOB .. WELL DONE IN MAQUOKETA FOR 30 YEARS...AND A HAPPY RETIREMENT TO NANCY. SHE HAS BEEN A WIDOW FOR MANY YEARS..PROBABLY AROUND 15. HUSBAND JAKE DIED AT A YOUNG AGE FROM CANCER AND NANCY HAS NOT REMARRIED. HER REPLACEMENT HAS BEEN HIRED AND IS WORKING ALREADY, BEING GUIDED BY NANCY.
SUE, BY THE WAY, HAS ALSO BEEN AT SUNSHINE SINCE NEARLY THE BEGINNING. SUE ALSO WORKS AT WAL MART.

THANKS FOR ANOTHER VISIT.

DENNIS VOY


 

HIT WRONG BUTTON BY ACCIDENT....

THEIR WEB SITE ADDRESS IS www.knotenoughthyme.com
THEY SELL HERBS FOR COOKING AND ALSO A NEW COOKBOOK AND CANDY MADE BY THE NUNS UP AT DUBUQUE. THEY SELL THROUGH INTERNET ONLY. THEY HAD AN ADD IN A POPULAR COOKING MAGAZINE RECENTLY AND SINCE THEN, HAVE BEEN VERY BUSY FILLING ORDERS. MOST OF YOU KNOW NADINE...SHE WAS A MCHS GRAD, AND OWNED A BEAUTY SHOP FOR QUITE A FEW YEARS. CHECK OUT THEIR WEB SITE...AND IF YOU PLACE AN ORDER, BE SURE YOU MENTION WHO TOLD YOU ABOUT THE WEB SITE.

MAQUOKETA BOYS PLAY AT DUBUQUE TONIGHT AND THE GIRLS HAVE THEIR FIRST CONFERENCE GAME TONIGHT AT DEWITT.

JACK AND PAM ROSENBERG ARE GOING TO THE ORANGE BOWL. I'LL PROBABLY HEAR ABOUT OTHERS GOING FROM MAQUOKETA IN THE DAYS AHEAD. OVER 20,000 TICKETS HAVE ALREDY BEEN SOLD.

RITA SCHNOOR HIT A DEER ON THE BELLEVUE-CASCADE ROAD AT 6:15 LAST NIGHT.

GOING TO THE ANNUAL SOUP SUPPER AND CHRISTMAS BASKET AUCTION AT THE MUSEUM TONIGHT.

THAT IT FOR ANOTHER DAY.

DENNIS VOY


 

SUNNY AND BRIGHT, HIGH IN THE 40'S.

AUTHORITIES ARE INVESTIGATING A THEFT AT THE RURAL MAQUOKETA HOME OF TOM PETAROS, WHO LIVES ALONG HIGHWAY 64 AT THE WEST EDGE OF MAQUOKETA.
HE REPORTED THE THEFT LAST NIGHT AT 10:15. ACCORDING TO THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT, SOMETIME BETWEEN 7:30 A.M. MONDAY AND 5 P.M.MONDAY, SOMEONE ENTERED THE HOME AND TOOK A PLASTIC BUCKET OF ASSORTED COINS, WITH AN ESTIMATED DOLLAR AMOUNT OF COINS IN IT AT $150. ALSO TAKEN FROM A BEDROOM, $18.00 IN LOOSE MONEY AND A NINTENDO SYSTEM WITH 11 GAMES. THERE WAS NO FORCED ENTRY. TIME IS A LONGTIME ELEMENTARY TEACHER AND SO IS HIS WIFE. HIS DAD RAN OWNED AND RAN THE GREEN MILL RESTAURANT.

TWO CAR ACCIDENT SUNDAY MORNING....DRIVER OF ONE CAR, SARAH TRUE, AGE 17, OF MAQUOKETA AND DRIVER OF OTHER CAR, SUSAN COOK, AGE 37, OF MAQUOEKTA.
NO INJURIES IN THE ACCIDENT AT CORNER OF EAST JUDSON AND SOUTH ELIZA. TRUE WAS CHARGED.

ADDITIONAL STEPS WERE TAKEN LAST NIGHT BY THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD TO BEGIN CONSTRUCTION OF AN ADDITION TO CARDINAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN MAQUOKETA. IT WILL BE A $325,000 PROJECT AND WILL ADD RESTROOMS AND 2 TO 4 CLASSROOMS ON THE SOUTHSIDE OF THE BUILDING AND BE COMPLETED BY AUGUST OF 2003, IN TIME FOR THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR.

NEW INTERNET BUSINESS IN RURAL MAQUOKETA-ANDREW, OWNED BY CONNIE TJARKS OF RURAL ANDREW, LINDA MCMURRY OF RURAL MAQUOKETA AND NADINE LUBBEN OF MAQUOKETA. NEAT NAME.....KNOT ENOUGHT THYME.
THEIR WEB ADDRESS IS




 

8 ABOVE THIS MORNING AND SUNNY AND COLD TODAY, A HIGH OF 34. WARMER WEATHER COMING SOON.

THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS TOOK FIRST PLACE IN AN 8-TEAM FIELD SATURDAY AT INDEPENDENCE.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS BASKETBALL TEAM LOST SATURDAY NIGHT AT BENTON COMMUNITY AND NOW HAVE AN 0 AND 2 RECORD.

YES, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUSE. DAC, INC. OF MAQUOKETA, CLIENTS AND EMPLOYEES, HELD THEIR CHRISTMAS PARTY FRIDAY NIGHT AT PEARSON HALL ON THE FAIRGROUNDS AND AFTER DINNER WAS SERVED TO ABOUT 400, OFFICIALS FROM ALLIANCE PIPELINE IN MAQUOKETA DROVE INTO THE HALL...A NEW VAN WITH WHEEL CHAIR LIFT, TO BE USED AT PRAIRIE HOUSE IN MAQUOKETA,A PART OF DAC. THE $36,000 VAN
IS THE GIFT FROM ALLIANCE, THEIR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORS IN THE INDUSTRIAL PARK. DAC HAS HAD HEADQUARTERS THERE FOR MANY YEARS, AND ALLIANCE PIPELINE HAS HAD THEIR MIDWEST HEADQUARTERS IN THE INDUSTRIAL PARK FOR SEVERAL YEARS, LOCATED IN A BEAUTIFUL BUILDING ON THE CORNER ON THE HILL IN THE PARK, NOT FAR FROM DAC.

THE MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL DANCE TEAM TOOK PART IN THE IOWA STATE DANCE COMPETITION OVER THE WEEKEND AT VETERANS AUDITORIUM IN DES MOINES AND BROUGHT HOME A DIVISION ONE RATING. OVER 500 HIGH SCHOOL DANCE TEAMS TOOK PART...AND THE MAQUOKETA SPONSOR AND COACH, MICHELLE JORGENSON, SAID THE TEAM REPRESENTED MAQUOKETA VERY WELL.
THERE ARE 16 GIRLS ON THE MAQUOKETA SQUARD.

ROSE MARIE SCOTT, DAUGHTER OF MICHAEL AND KINDRA WILLIAMS SCOTT OF MAQUOKETA, WAS STILLBORN FRIDAY AT THE CLINTON HOSPITAL. A PRIVATE GRAVESIDE SERVICE WAS HELD TODAY AT THE ONSLOW CEMETERY.

THANKS FOR MAKING ANOTHER VISIT TO THIS SITE.

DENNIS VOY  

SUNNY AND NICE...IN THE UPPER 30'S.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS WON THEIR FIRST GAME OF THE YEAR LAST NIGHT, BEATING NORTH CEDAR OF STANWOOD.

THE WRESTLERS ARE IN INDEPENDENCE TOURNAMENT TODAY AND THE BOYS BASKETBALL TEAMS PLAY AT BENTON COMMUNITY TONIGHT.

DUBUQUE'S NEW LUXURY HOTEL, WITH ADJACENT WATER PARK, OPENED YESTERDAY ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER NEAR THE CASINO. THE 25,000 SQUARE FOOT WATERPARK IS THE FIRST OF ITS KIND IN IOWA.

NICE FULL PAGE STORY IN QUAD CITY TIMES THIS WEEK ON THE OLYMPIC FLAME GREEK RESTAURANT IN SILVIS, ILLINOIS, OWNED FOR 35 YEARS BY FORMER MAQUOKETA COUPLE, HELEN AND CHRIS PETAROS. GOOD PICTURE OF BOTH. THEY CAME TO MAQUOKETA IN THE 60'S AND WORKED A COUPLE YEARS FOR GEORGE, BROTHER OF CHRIS, AT THE FAMOUS GREEN MILL RESTAURANT IN MAQUOKETA. CHRIS LOOKS JUST LIKE GEORGE. GEORGE PASSED AWAY MANY YEARS AGO, EARLY IN LIFE, AND HIS WIFE, SOPHIA, DIED NOT TOO LONG AGO, PROBABLY A COUPLE YEARS AGO AT THE MOST.
AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR, THE GREEN MILL CANDY KITCHEN WOULD BE MAKING TRAYS AND TRAYS OF HAND-DIPPED CHOCOLATES. THEY HAD TWO DAUGHTERS AND THE OLDEST DIED IN 1998 OF A LUNG DISEASE AND THE YOUNGEST IS MARRIED AND LIVES IN WASHINGTON, D.C. THEY HAVE 4 GRANDCHILDREN. THE RESTAURANT SEATS 175 AND THE SAME W0MAN HAS SUNG AT THE RESTAURANT EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT FOR 15 YEARS. THEIR MAILING ADDRESS IS 1443 1ST. STREET, SILVIS.

CATHY (CASTEEL) EASTERLY, WIFE OF CHARLIE, WON THE JACK AND JILL $6,000 BANKROLL THIS WEEK.
CHARLIE IS MAQUOKETA TEACHER AND VERY GOOD GOLFER, AND CATHY STILL WORKS AT THE MAQUOKETA STATE BANK. CHARLIE ALSO HEADS UP THE PALS PROGRAM IN MAQUOKETA.

THE CITY COUNCIL WILL SOON NAME A NEW COMMITTEE TO LOOK AT A NEW POOL. THE OLD ARC..(STOOD FOR AREA RECREATION CENTER)..COMMITTEE, I THINK, IS GOING TO PHASE OUT AND LET A NEW COMMITTEE GO ON WITH PLANS FOR A NEW POOL. THE ARC WOULD HAVE INCLUDED AN INDOOR POOL, SMALL GYM AND WORKOUT ROOM...AND COST $6-MILLION. THE CITY PURCHASED LAND FOR IT NEAR MOUNT HOPE CEMETERY FOR $135,000. I HAVE BEEN AGAINST THE ARC PLANS FROM THE START. DIDN'T LIKE THE LOCATION AT ALL..AND THE CONCEPT. MAQUOKETA DOES NOT NEED AN INDOOR POOL AND THE CURRENT OUTDOOR POOL MAY SOMEDAY HAVE TO BE IMPROVED OR REPLACED BY THE POPULAR WATERPARK TYPE POOL. WE HAVE 5 GYMS IN TOWN AND THREE OR FOUR ARE DARK MOST NIGHTS.
WE DO NEED A FACILITY FOR THE KIDS...THEY DO NEED MORE TO DO IN OUR COMMUNITY. I'D LIKE TO SEE A FACILITY THAT INCLUDES ONE, SOME OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING: ROLLER-RINK...POOL/PINGPONG ROOM...TWO OR FOUR BOWLING LANES(7 NIGHTS A WEEK, YOU CAN'T GO BOWLING UNTIL 9 P.M.)...
AN ICE SKATING RINK...TV ROOM...LOCKER ROOM...
AND RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT ALL...A SOCIAL ROOM
WITH COIN OPERATED POP AND NOW POPULAR WATER AND MILK MACHINES....THE ROOM DIVIDED FOR TWO AGE BRACKETS. AND THE FACILITY SHOULD BE ON A NICE WELL LIGHTED SITE NEAR DOWNTOWN ON EITHER PLATT OR MAIN STREET, WITH PARKING AND PARK LIKE GROUNDS. I'M GUESSING A COUPLE MILLION DOLLARS WOULD DO THE JOB, MAYBE LESS. I WOULDN'T MAKE IT FREE, BUT LIKE AT SWIMMING POOL, A SMALL CHARGE OR MEMBERSHIP AND THE REST NEEDS TO BE DONE WITH TAXES...YES TAXES. OUR KIDS, GRANDKIDS, NEIGHBOR KIDS...ARE WORTH A FEW DOLLARS A YEAR MORE ON THE TAX BILL. (PAUSE) SORRY I GOT OFF THE NEWS FOR A MINUTE. I'LL TRY NOT TO DO THIS AGAIN. WITH MY THEATRE, I'VE BEEN GIVING KIDS SOMETHING TO DO FOR OVER 30 YEARS, BUT KIDS NEED MORE THAN A THEATRE. AND THEY NEED LESS TIME...MUCH LESS TIME...IN FRONT OF BOTH THE TV TUBE AND THE COMPUTER SCREEN.

THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY CLUB IS OFF TO A HOLIDAY PERFORMANCE OF THE DUBUQUE SYMPHONY TONIGHT FOR A CHRISTMAS TREAT FOR THE SPOUSES. PENNY ROEDER, MRS. CORY, IS THE CEO OF THE SYMPHONY.
SHE IS DAUGHTER-IN-LAW OF DR. ROEDER (DDS) IN MAQUOKETA.

MARGARET HAHN, A RESIDENT OF MAQUOKETA CARE, TURNS 91, NEXT TUESDAY.

THE COMMUNITY IS HAVING A RETIREMENT RECEPTION NEXT WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE COUNTRY CLUB FOR NANCY MOORE, RETIRING AFTER 30 YEARS WITH SUNSHINE SCHOOL.

HAVE A NICE SUNDAY AND GOOD WEEK AHEAD.

DENNIS VOY





 

NICE TODAY...SUNNY AND HIGH OF 35.

THANKS TO THERESA AND DAVID OF KMAQ, FOR FILLING IN FOR ME AND PUTTING SOME NEWS DAILY ON THIS WEB SITE WHILE MY WIFE NANCY AND I HOSTED A KMAQ-TRAVEL BUS TO KANSAS CITY FOR 3 DAYS. WEATHER WAS GREAT...HAD A GOOD BUS DRIVER...AND SAW A BEAUTIFUL CITY AT CHRISTMAS TIME. STAYED AT THE WESTIN CROWN CENTER HOTEL AND SHOPPING COMPLEX AND VISITED THE COUNTRY CLUB PLAZA...ALL BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED. ALSO SPENT A FEW HOURS IN THE OLD UNION STATION, NOW RE-DONE AS TOURIST AREA WITH THEATRES, SHOPS, MUSEUMS AND MORE.

THE ANDREW COMMUNITY SCHOOL WAS FOUND NEGLIGENT AND THE FAMILY THAT BROUGHT ON THE LAWSUIT, WAS AWARDED $100,000. MICHAEL AND JULIE DELANEY OF LAMOTTE CLAIMED THEIR SON MICHAEL WAS INJURED IN SCHOOL AND ON A SCHOOL BUS BY OTHER STUDENTS.

THE CITY PARKS OF MAQUOKETA WILL BE GETTING SOME NEW PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT AND A NEW BASEBALL BACKSTOP THAT IS 23 YEARS OLD. QUITE A BIT OF THE MONEY WILL BE GIVEN BY THE KIWANIS CLUB OF MAQUOKETA.

MORE ON THE DEATH OF HOMER ULLRICH, A WELL KNOWN MAQUOKETA RESIDENT. HE DIED SUDDENLY IN HIS SLEEP WEDNESDAY MORNING, AT THE AGE 0F 84. HE WORKED MOST OF HIS LIFE FOR JOHN DEERE IN DUBUQUE AS AN ENGINEER. HE IS SURVIVED BY 4 CHILDREN, MARK OF CEDAR RAPIDS, KURT OF RURAL MAQUOKETA, AND ROSS OF COLORADO SPRINGS AND A DAUGHTER, LISA OF DES MOINES, AND 3 GRANDCHILDREN, 1 BROTHER AND 2 SISTERS.
HE WAS A PAST MEMBER OF THE MAQUOKETA LIONS CLUB,THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY AND THE JACKSON COUNTY FAIRBOARD. HE SPENT HIS WINTERS IN FLORIDA.
HE LOVED MAQUOKETA AND SERVED IT WELL. A NICE GUY!

DENNIS BARR, 61, OF DEWITT DIED SUDDENLY WEDNESDAY AT THE DEWITT HOSPITAL. SINCE 1971 HE HAS OWNED A WELL KNOWN CLINTON COUNTY BUSINESS, BARR SALES AND SERVICE, SELLING SNOWMOBILES, ATV'S AND WATERCRAFT.

LEROY SCHECKEL, AGE 91, OF SPRINGBROOK... DIED THURSDAY. HE WORKED AS A MACHINEST AT CLINTON ENGINES, RETIRING IN 1974.

A WELL KNOWN MILES MAN DIED YESTERDAY AT THE HOSPITAL IN MAQUOKETA. CARROLL HAMILTON, AGE 81. HE AND HIS BROTHER OWNED AND OPERATED HAMILTON'S GROCERY STORE IN MILES FOR 33 YEARS.

THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS LAST NIGHT,HERE, BEAT DYERSVILLE, 78 TO 0. YES, 78 TO 0.
THEY WRESTLE AGAIN IN A TOURNAMENT TOMORROW AT INDEPENDENCE.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS, 0 AND 3, HOST NORTH CEDAR TONIGHT.

VERY SOON, WE WILL FIND OUT WHAT BOWL GAMES, THE IOWA HAWKS AND IOWA STATE CYCLONES WILL PLAY IN.

10 ABOVE THIS MORNING. SUNDAY NIGHT, DOWN TO MAYBE 5 ABOVE. VERY COLD FOR THIS TIME OF THE YEAR.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY





 

A preston man (Douglas Schlarmann) was charged for leading Maquoketa Police and Jackson County Sheriff Deputies on a high speed chase.
Happened 1:52 AM Thursday morning. Stop Sticks stopped him.

Maquoketa City Couselman approved applications for a nearly $700,000 state grant to help residents spruce up their homes.

2 construction companies reported thefts from the job sites.
STAAB Construction as well as Terry and Son Painting, from the water treatment plant construction set.

more Deer hit again, all over Jackson County.

Deaths:

Mary L. Lindquist 66 of Maquoketa dies wednesday at Stonehill Care Center.

Homer O. Ulrich, age 84 of Maquoketa dies suddenly wednesday morning at his home.

sory for the short report.

Try and STAY WARM  

MAQ. CITY COUNCILMEN APPROVED MONDAY NIGHT WHAT THEY CALLED A RECONSTITUTED ARC COMMITTEE. THE RESOLUTION CALLS FOR THE COUNCIL TO APPOINT SEVEN MEMBERS OT THE COMMITTEE. ANYONE WHO WANTS TO BE ON THE COMMITTEE SHOULD SUBMIT AN APPLICATION TO CITY HALL.

TOW COUNCILMEN, JOHN RESSEY AND ALVIN BARTEN WILL ALSO BE ON THE COMMITTEE.

COUNCILMEN TALKED AT LENGTH MONDAY NIGHT ABOUT CHANGES IN THE ARC COMMITTEE AND A $6 MILLION PROJECT.

COUNCILMAN ALVIN BARTEN SAID THE CITY CANNOT FUND A $6 MILLION PROJECT. HE SAID THE CITY COULD MORE SUPPORT WSOMETHING BETWEEN $1 MILLION AND $3 MILLION.

COUNCILMAN JIM BOLLMAN SAID THEY HAVE NO MONEY AND DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO. MAYOR TOM MESSERLI SAID THE COMMITTEE NEEDS TO HEAR FROM THE COUNCIL WHAT THEY WANT THEM TO BUILD. DOES THE CITY WANT THE $6 MILLION FACILITY OR SMALLER PROJECT?

EARLIER IN THE EVENING, COUNCILMEN HEARD FROM CURRENT ARC CHAIRMAN JACK ROSENBERG AND FORMER CHAIRMAN BOB GAVIN ASKING THE COUNCIL NOT TO DISSOLVE THE COMMITTEE.

ROSENBERG SAID THE CURRENT ARC PROJECT IS STILL A POSSIBILITY. HE SAID THERE ARE SOME LARGE DONORS WAITING TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS BEFORE THEY ANNOUNCE A DONATION.

GAVIN SAID HE WISHED THE COUNCIL HAD BECOME INVOLVED 2 YEARS AGO BECAUSE IT WOULD HAVE SAVED A LOT OF PEOPLE TIME AND WORK IF THE COUNCIL WANTED SOMETHING DIFFERENT.

GAVIN ASKED THE COUNCIL IF A $6 MILLION FACILITY IS NOT POSSIBLE, THEN WHAT IS POSSIBLE.

COUNCIL MEMBERS TOOK NO FORMAL ACTION ON WHAT TYPE OF FACILITY OR COST THEY WANTED TO SEE IN THE PROJECT.

MAQ. MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC UTILITY BOARD MEMBERS ARE LOOKING FOR A NEW DISTRIBUTION SUPERINTENDENT.

TOM ALLEN HAS RESIGNED. HE HAS TAKEN A JOB WITH THE IOWA UTILITIES BOARD AS AN INSPECTOR. MMEU MANGER DOUG OWEN SAID ALLEN SAID HE WILL CONTINUE TO LIVE IN MAQ.

CLINTON COUNTY SHERIFF DEPUTIES RECEIVED SEVERSAL DEER ACCIDENT REPORTS.

NO ONE WAS INJURED IN A TWO-VEHICLE ACCIDENT WHICH HAPPENED TUESDAY AFTERNOON.

POLICE SAY 32-YEAR-OLD DUANE DURKOP OF MAQ. WAS DRIVING NORTH ON MATTESON AND GEERTZ WAS DRIVING SOUTH. AT THE PLEASANT ST. INTERSECTION, GEERTZ MAD A LEFT TURN IN FRONT OF THE DURKOP VEHICLE RESULTING IN THE COLLISION.

IN JACKSON CO. MAGISTRATE COURT

40 YEAR OLD MICHAEL ALLEN KUHLMAN OF MAQ. WAS CHARGED WITH OPERATING A VEHICLE WHILE INTOXICATED AND CHILD ENDANGERMENT.

THE MAQ. CITY FINANCE COMMITTEE WILL MEET AT 8 A.M. THURSDAY AT CITY HALL.

THE MAIN ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS A REQUEST FROM THE REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY FOR $9,000 TO SUBSIDIZE THE BUS SYSTEM IN MAQ.

ON THE STORK REPORT:

TERESA BLAKE AND BOB JOHNSON OF MAQ. ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL WHO WAS BORN AT 11:07 P.M. ON TUESDAY, NOV. 26TH AT JACKSON CO. PUBLIC HOSPITAL.

OBITUARY:

EDWARD L. MOORE, 78 OF CASCADE, AND FORMERLY OF CLARENCE, DIED TUESDAY AT SHADY REST CARE CENTER IN CASCADE.

FRIENDS MAY CALL FROM 4 TO 9 P.M. THURSDAY AT THE REIFF FUNERAL HOME IN CASCADE. WHERE A PRAYER SERVICE WILL BE HELD AT 7 P.M. WITH FLAG PRESENTATION BY THE CASCADE AMERICAN LEGION-POST #528.

 

WEATHER WAS LITTLE COLD, HIGH OF 26 TODAY.

FOUR ACCIDENTS WERE REPORTED IN MAQUOKETA MONDAY BECAUSE OF SNOWY AND ICY STREETS. NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED.

OFFICER PAT FIER SAID 19 YEAR OLD JOHN WILKE OF MAQUOKETA WAS PULLING FROM A STOP SIGN ON EAST MAPLE AT 1:38 P.M. HE SLID INTO A PARKED MAIL TRUCK.

DAMAGES WERE ESTIMATED AT $200 TO HIS 1998 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX AND $500 TO THE POST OFFICE TRUCK.

JACKSON COUNTRY SHERIFF DEPUTIES INVESTIGATED TWO ACCIDENTS BECAUSE OF SNOWY ROADS. NO ONE WAS INJURED. DEPUTY STEVE SCHROEDER SAID JULIE MILLER OF BELLVUE WAS DRIVING NORTH ON HIGHWAY 52 MONDAY MORNING. AT SCHOLTE HILL, SHE LOST CONTROL ON THE SLICK HIGHWAY, SPUN A COUPLE OF TIMES AND RAN INTO THE GUARDRAIL. DAMAGES WERE ESTIMATED AT $750 TO HER CHEVY BLAZER.

AND DR. JOHN BROWMAN OF MAQUOKETA SKIDDED OFF HIGHWAY 62 NEAR ANDREW DURING THE SNOW. HIS CADILLAC WENT INTO THE DITCH. THERE WAS NOT DAMAGES AND A FARMER PULLED HIM OUT ACCORDING TO THE DEPUTY.

ALSO MICHELLE EMPEN SAID SHE HIT A DEER ON HIGHWAY 64 AND RON SWARTZ SAID HE HIT AN 8 POINT BUCK ON THE CAVES ROAD.

TWO CHICAGO RESIDENTS RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES SUNDAY AFTER STRONG WINDS CAUSED THEIR VEHICLE TO CRASH.

CLINTON COUNTY SHERIFF DEPUTY SCOTT REYHONS SAID 21 YEAR OLD SARA WIECHERT OF CHICAGO WAS DRIVING NORTH ON HWY 61, 3.6 MILES NORTH OF WELTON AT 1:50 P.M. SUNDAY. THE WIND BLEW THE CAR ONTO THE LEFT SHOULDER. THE DRIVER OVERCORRECTED BRINGING THE CAR BACK ONTO THE HWY, BUT IT SPUN ACROSS BOTH LANES BEFORE ROLLING TWICE THROUGH THE DITCH AND LANDING ON ITS WHEELS IN A CORNFIELD.

WIECHERT AND A PASSENGER, 21-YEAR-OLD ELIZABETH FRUTH OF CHICAGO WERE TAKEN TO DEWITT COMMUNITY HOSPITAL WITH MINOR INJURIES.

IN ANOTHER INCIDENT, 26 YEAR OLD JAMIE COLVIN OF WHEATLAND WAS CHARGED WITH FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL FOLLOWING A ONE-VEHICLE ACCIDENT AT 4:30 P.M. FRIDAY AT 215TH STREET AND 200TH AVE.

LT. LARRY GREENWALT SAID COLVIN WAS TURNING RIGHT AT THE INTERSECTION AND TURNED TOO SOON. THE TRAILER OF THE SEMI WENT INTO THE DITCH CAUSING IT TO ROLL ONTO ITS SIDE, WHICH ALSO CAUSED THE TRUCK TO ROLL. THE TRAILER WAS LOADED WITH CATTLE. SIX CATTLE WERE KILLED AND SEVERAL OTHERS HURT.

DAMAGES WERE ESTIMATED AT $25,000 TO HIS 2000 INTERNATIONAL SEMI-TRACTOR.

IN ANOTHER INCIDENT, 20 YEAR OLD MICHAEL EBERHART OF DEWITT WAS CHARGED WITH FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL AND STRIKING FIXTURES.

IT HAPPENED AT 3:40 A.M. THURSDAY THREE MILES NORTHWEST OF LOW MOOR ON 220TH STREET.

DEPUTY JEFF ERNST SAID EBERHART FELL ASLEEP, CROSSED THE CENTERLINE AND WENT INTO THE DITCH. HIS VEHICLE HIT A FIELD DRIVE EMBANKMENT AND THEN A FENCE.

DAMAGES WERE ESTIMATED AT $12,000 TO HIS 1998 CHEVY TRUCK AND $250 TO A FENCE OWNED BY GARY WING OF RURAL DEWITT.

IN ANOTHER INCIDENT, 39 YEAR OLD RANDALL VENS OF CLINTON WAS CHARGED WITH FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL FOLLOWING A ONE-VEHICLE ACCIDENT LAST WEEK.

DEPUTY SCOTT REYHONS SAID VENS WAS DRIVING WEST ON HWY 30, 3.5 MILES WEST OF LOW MOOR. HIS VEHICLE WENT INTO THE MEDIAN. DAMAGES WERE ESTIMATED AT $5,000 TO HIS 2002 CHRYSLER.

MAQUOKETA POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A VANDALISM REPORT. WILLARD KLINGENBERG, 414 CYNTHIA DRIVE SAID SOMEONE BROKE THE RIGHT MIRRO ON HIS 2000 TOYOTA PICKUP PARKED IN HIS DRIVEWAY.

IN JACKSON COUNTY MAGISTRATE COURT:

35-YEAR-OLD PAUL JOSEPH JESS OF BELLEVUE WAS CHARGED WITH OPERATING A VEHICLE WHILE INTOXICATED.

BELLEVUE POLICE OFFICER COREY KETTMANN SAID JESS NEARLY HIT THE SQUAD CAR AT 1:41 A.M. NOV. 30 AS IT TURNED. HIS BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL REGISTERED .229 WITH .10 AS THE LEGAL LIMIT.

21-YEAR-OLD KEVIN O’ROURKE OF MAQUOKETA WAS CHARGED WITH OPERATING A VEHICLE WHILE INTOXICATED.

MAQUOKETA POLICE OFFICER BILL COAKLEY STOPPED O’ROURKE’S VEHICLE FOR SPEEDING ON NOV. 28 AT 200TH AVE AND GENERAC DRIVE. HIS BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL REGISTERED .208 WITH .10 AS THE LEGAL LIMIT.

20-YEAR-OLD CHRISTIAN KONRARDY OF LAMOTTE WAS CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF ALCOHOL UNDER AGE.

JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF DEPUTY TERRY ROLING FOUND KONRARDY WITH A BOTTLE OF ALCOHOL NOV. 28 AT GERONIMOS BAR. HIS BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL REGISTERED MORE THAT TWICE THE LEGAL LIMIT.

CHARGES OF THEFT IN THE 5TH DEGREE WERE DISMISSED AGAINST 33-YEAR-OLD TRACIE CARR OF MAQUOKETA.

THE REASON LISTED IS BECAUSE RESTITUTION HAS BEEN PAID. POLICE SAY SHE WROTE A CHECK FOR $44.13 TO FAREWAY, WHICH WAS NOT PAID.

27-YEAR-OLD RON RIORDAN OF MAQUOKETA WAS CHARGED WITH TWO COUNTS OF THEFT IN THE 5TH DEGREE. POLICE SAY HE WROTE A CHECK FOR $75 TO RADIO SHACK AND $61 TO CAN CITY, WHICH WERE NOT PAID.

ABOUT 10 SENIOR CITIZENS SAT IN THE BACK OF THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR A REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY BUS IN MAQUOKETA.

A BUS BROUGHT THE RESIDENTS TO MONDAY NIGHT’S COUNCIL MEETING.

SENIOR CITIZENS NOW PAY BETWEEN $1.25 AND $1.50 PER RIDE. FUNDING FOR THE BUS SERVICE COMES FROM THE GOVERNMENTS, GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS. JACKSON COUNTY SUPERVISORS DIRECTLY AND INDIRECTLY PROVIDES $50,000.00

THE COUNTY DONATED THE LAND NEAR THE JACKSON COUNTY SENIOR CENTER FOR A NEW BUS GARAGE FOR THE VEHICLES.

WITH CUTS IN FEDERAL AND STATE FUNDING THE SERVICE NEEDS THE ADDITIONAL LOCAL FUNDING TO CONTINUE OPERATIONS. IF THE CITY DOESN’T PROVIDE THE FUNDING, JACOBS SAID THEY WILL HAVE TO REDUCE HOURS OF THE SERVICE.

SANTA ARRIVES IN MAQUOKETA THURSDAY EVENING. THE MAQUOKETA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WILL HOST AN OLD-FASHIONED CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION BEGINNING AT 4 P.M. THURSDAY.

SANTA ARRIVES AT 5 P.M. AT JACKSON COUNTY HOME FURNISHINGS. HE WILL BE THERE UNTIL 7 P.M. LISTENING TO THE WISHES OF CHILDREN. PICTURES WITH SANTA WILL BE AVAILABLE.

SANTA WILL ALSO BE IN MAQUOKETA FROM 11 A.M. TO 1 P.M. SATURDAY DEC. 7TH AND SATURDAY, DEC. 14TH.

A PORTION OF SOUTH MAIN STREET AND PLEASANT STREET WILL BE CLOSED TODAY SO CONTRACTORS CAN WORK ON THE SECOND STORY OFFICE BUILDING. MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCILMEN MONDAY NIGHT AGREED TO ALLOW TOM PECKOSH TO CLOSE MAIN STREET IN FRONT OF HIS APARTMENT BUILDING AT MAIN AND PLEASANT STREET.

OBITUARY:

STANLEY MERLE SMITH, AGE 66 OF SABULA DIED SUNDAY, AT THE MERCY MEDICAL CENTER IN CLINTON. THE FUNERAL SERVICE WILL BE AT 10:30 A.M. WEDNESDAY AT ST. PETER’S CATHOLIC CHURCH, SABULA.

RICHARD W. “DICK” FLENKER, AGE 56 OF LAS VEGAS, NEVADA AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA DIED SATURDAY MORNING AT HIS HOME IN LAS VEGAS, NEVADA.
 

A COUPLE INCHES OF SNOW FROM 9 'TIL 11 THIS MORNING.

CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT.

MAQUOKETA BOYS PLAY A HALF-GAME OF BASAKETBALL TONIGHT AT CLINTON.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS LOST BOTH WEEKEND GAMES AND ARE 0 AND 3...AND PLAY AGAIN THIS FRIDAY NIGHT.

JODI AND CHAD COAKLEY OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN NOVEMBER 25TH AT DUBUQUE HOSPITAL.
GRANDPARENTS ARE PAT DIESING OF MAQUOKETA AND BUTCH AND BONNIE COAKLEY OF OTTER CREEK AND MATERNAL GREAT-GRANDMOTHER IS NORMA DEHOOT OF MAQUOKETA.

JONATHAN AND AMY EGANHOUSE OF OXFORD JUNCTION HAD
A BOY YESTERDAY AT A DAVENPORT HOSPITAL. MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE LOWELL AND ARLENE TILL OF MAQUOKETA AND PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE LEE AND JEAN EGANHOUSE OF MONMOUTH.

DICK FLENKER, AGE 56, OF LAS VEGAS, DIED SATURDAY MORNING AT HIS HOME. HE IS SURVIVED BY 2 SONS AND 2 DAUGHTERS AND 2 SISTERS, INCLUDING DARLENE COOK OF MAQUOKETA AND A SISTER-IN-LAW, MARY KAY FLENKER OF MAQUOKETA.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY  

WINDY AND COLD TODAY.

MAQUOKETA GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL TEAM LOST TO NORTHEAST LAST NIGHT 63 TO 58. THEIR RECORD NOW IS 0 AND 2. THEY PLAY AT MT. PLEASANT TONIGHT.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS ARE IN THE CLINTON JAMBOREE MONDAY NIGHT....WHERE THEY PLAY JUST A HALF-GAME. THEY START OFF THE OFFICIAL SEASON TUESDAY NIGHT, PLAYING CEDAR RAPIDS JEFFERSON.

THE CLASS OF 72 AT MAQUOKETA HIGH IS HOME THIS WEEKEND FOR THEIR 30TH REUNION. DINNER TONIGHT AT MICHEL'S CATERING HALL. KANDY SCOTT FRANZEN IS IN CHARGE.

A FORMER MAQUOKETA MAN, LARRY EHLINGER, HAS BEEN NAMED DIRECTOR OF MANUFACTURING FOR THE PELLA CORP. IN PELLA, IOWA. HE JOINED THE COMPANY AFTER BEING EMPLOYED THE LAST 16 YEARS BY ROCKWELL AUTOMATION IN MILWAUKEE. HIS IS 42, A MCHS GRAD OF 1979, HIS WIFE KELLY AND 2 DAUGHTERS LIVE IN DES MOINES AND HE IS THE SON OF KEN EHLINGER, RETIRED INSURANCE MAN, IN MAQUOKETA.

ANN G. SMITH, A RESISENT OF MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER WILL CELEBRATE HER 101ST BIRTHDAY TOMORROW. SHE MARRIED ROY STREETS AND THEN WAS LATER MARRIED TO LEROY SMITH. SHE HAS A SON EUGENE STREETS IN MAQUOKETA.

THE MAQUOKETA OPTIMIST CLUB IS SELLING CHRISTMAS TREES AT THE WELCOME CENTER AGAIN THIS YEAR.
ALL ABOUT 6 FOOT TALL...YOUR CHOICE, $25 A TREE.

A NEW COFFEE SHOP OPENED LAST NIGHT IN MAQUOKETA. MORE DETAILS LATER.

AT 5:45 A.M. YESTERDAY, THE WAL MART LOT WAS FULL OF EARLY SHOPPERS. DOWNTOWN WAS BUSY YESTERDAY TOO.

TOOK THE GRANDKIDS TO THE BELLEVUE CHRISTMAS FIREWORKS AND PARADE LAST NIGHT....ENJOYABLE.
ONE OF THE FLOATS WAS PULLED BY A NEW BEAUTIFUL HUMMER. A MAQUOKETA RESIDENT IS ALSO DRIVING A NEW HUMMER.

ABOUT 125 ENJOYED THANKSGIVING DINNER AT THE COMMUNITY DINNER THURSDAY AT THE SENIOR CENTER.
PASTOR JIM LUCY ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY THAT HIS CHURCH WOULD AGAIN SPONSOR A CHRISTMAS DINNER AT THE SENIOR CENTER.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY


 

NO REPORT TODAY.

POSSIBLY ONE SATURDAY  

COLD TODAY, SOME SUNSHINE..HIGH OF 30.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS VARSITY BASKETBALL TEAM
LOST THEIR OPENING GAME OF THE SEASON LAST NIGHT AGAINST A GOOD CEDAR RAPIDS JEFFERSON TEAM. THEY WON BY ABOUT 8 POINTS.

THE TRUCK IS STILL IN THE HOUSE AT ELWOOD AND THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT WAS CALLED TO ELWOOD TO HELP DIRECT TRAFFIC ON HIGHWAY 136. SO MANY PEOPLE ARE DRIVING TO ELWOOD TO SEE THE HOUSE.
THE COUPLE HOPE TO REBUILD ON THE SITE, BUT FARTHER FROM THE HIGHWAY.

THE JACKSON COUNTY PUBLIC HOSPITAL BOARD HAS DECIDED THAT THE HOSPITAL SHOULD BECOME AN AFFILIATE OF FINLEY HOSPITAL IN DUBUQUE. A COMMITTEE LOOKED AT FINLEY, MERCY AND GENISIS. IT WILL COST JCPH $65,000 A YEAR TO FINLEY. NO LOCAL CHANGES ARE EXPECTED, JUST BETTER SERVICE FOR THE MAQUOKETA AREA SERVED BY JCPH. LOTS OF SMALL HOSPITALS HAVE DONE THIS AND HAVE HAD SUCCESS DOING SO.

CHERYL EVANS BROWNE, FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA AND LONG TIME RESIDENT OF PELLA, IOWA AND HER MOTHER, DORIS EVANS, FORMER MAQUOKETA RESIDENT AND NOW A RECENT NEW RESIDENT OF PELLA, BOTH WERE IN MAQUOKETA THIS MONDAY ON A BUSINESS AND PLEASURE TRIP AND BOTH STOPPED IN HERE AT KMAQ TO SAY HELLO. BOTH LOOKED GOOD...BUT OF COURSE, BOTH GETTING OLDER. RANDY BROWNE, HUSBAND OF CHERYL AND FORMER RESIDENT OF THIS AREA, IS STILL A SEMI TRUCK DRIVER WORKING OUT OF PELLA. RON EVANS, FORMER MAQUOKETA POLICE CHIEF, IS RETIRED AND WORKS PARTTIME IN PELLA AT A CARWASH AND IS BUILDING A SHOP ADDITION TO HIS HOME. DORIS AND CHERYL ARE BOTH REGULAR READERS OF THIS REPORT.

THE CITY COUNCIL MONDAY NIGHT WILL INTERVIEW FOUR ENGINEERING FIRMS AND ONE THE CITY WILL HIRE TO DEAL WITH THE RADIUM IN THE WATER PROBLEM HERE IN MAQUOKETA.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS LOCALLY FOR SEVERAL DAYS.

KMAQ IS BROADCASTING THE THANKSGIVING EVE SERVICE TONIGHT LIVE AND DIRECT FROM THE FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH IN MAQUOKETA.

THERE WERE 17 TURKEY WINNERS IN THE ANNUAL KMAQ OLD TIME TURKEY SHOOT. A RECORD.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING.

DENNIS VOY

 

NO REPORT TODAY  

SUNNY, BUT COLD, HIGH OF 33. DOWN INTO THE TEENS TONIGHT.

A SEMI-TRUCK GOING AT A GOOD SPEED AND LOADED WITH CORN PLOWED INTO THE HOME OF NEWMAN AND VICKI WASHBURN LAST NIGHT AT 7:40 P.M. AT THE WEST EDGE OF ELWOOD. THEY WERE HOME AT THE TIME AND LUCKILY ESCAPED WITH MINOR INJURIES. THE TRUCK IS STILL IN THE HOME.
IF IT WERE PULLED OUT, THE HOME WOULD PROBABLY COLLAPSE. THE 54 YEAR OLD DRIVER IS FROM CENTER JUNCTION. HE HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL. DAMAGES TO THE HOME, ESTIMATED AT $70,000 AND TO THE 96 FREIGHTLINER, $25,000. THE RED CROSS HAS STEPPED IN TO ASSIST THE WASHBURNS.

KATHERINE BLATCHLEY, 88, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED SATURDAY AT MILL VALLEY CARE CENTER IN BELLEVUE.
SHE WAS A HOMEMAKER AND NURSES AID AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. SHE IS SURVIVED BY 3 DAUGHTERS, ELOISE IN INDEPENDENCE MISSOURI, MARIAN IN KLAMOUTH FALLS, OREGON AND CAROLE IN KANSAS CITY, KANSAS.

RAN INTO MR. AND MRS. BOB HAYS AT NOON TODAY AT FLAPJACK RESTAURANT. THEY WERE WITH THEIR FORMER NEIGHBORS, THE J.A. BROMANS. BOB WAS CITY MANAGER MANY YEARS AGO (IN THE 60'S) AND THE COUPLE LIVED IN 3 OR 4 HOMES WHILE THEY LIVED HERE. THEY LATER LIVED IN DES MOINES AND WEBSTER CITY AND BOB IS NOW RETIRED AND THEY LIVE IN JOHNSON, JUST NORTH OF DES MOINES. HE RETIRED A FEW YEARS AGO, BUT IS STILL A GOVERNMENTAL CONSULTANT PART TIME. I HAVE HIS E-MAIL ADDRESS IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO CONTACT HIM.
THEY BOTH LOOKED GREAT. SORRY I DIDN'T GET TO VISIT WITH THEM LONGER. I REMEMBER HIS AS BEING A GOOD AND POPULAR CITY MANAGER FOR THE TIMBER CITY. WHILE IN DES MOINES, HE HEADED THE IOWA LEAGUE OF MUNICIPALITIES FOR QUITE A FEW YEARS.

HAD COFFEE THIS MORNING WITH MAYOR BOB BOLIN OF SATELLITE BEACH, FLORIDA. HE IS MARRIED TO MARY MCAREAVY, FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA. THEY WERE IN TOWN TO HELP HER MOTHER, IMOGENE, MOVE TO A HOME SHE RECENTLY PURCHASED ON THOMAS AVENUE. SHE HAS HER APARTMENT AND OFFICE BUILDING DOWNTOWN FOR SALE. BOB IS RETIRED FROM THE CIA AND IS A VOLUNTEER MAYOR, RECEIVING NO PAY. HE IS IN HIS 3RD YEAR AND HAS ANOTHER YEAR LEFT. THE CITY IS AROUND 12,000 POPULATION, WITH FEW BUILDING SITES REMAINING. SOUNDS LIKE A NICE PLACE TO LIVE.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK. HOPE YOU GET TO CONSUME ONE OF 60-MILLION TURKEYS TO BE DEVOURED THIS THURSDAY. IOWA HAS 87 TURKEY FARMS AND 3 TURKEY PROCESSING PLANTS. BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT.

DENNIS VOY

 

COOL TODAY.....HIGH OF 39....... SNOW FORCATED FOR MONDAY 50%

A MAQUOKETA MAN IS GOING TO FEDERAL PRISON FOR 5 YEARS ON CHARGES OF SELLING METHAMPHETAMINE IN JACKSON COUNTY.

27 YEAR OLD CHAD CURLEY OF MAQUOKETA PLEAD GUILTY THIS SUMMER TO 2 COUNTS OF DELIVERING METH.

CHARGES STEMMED FROM AN UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION BY THE BEAR CREEK NARCOTICS TASK FORCE.




MAQUOKETA POLICE INVESTIGATED 2 ACIDENTS, BUT NEITHER RESULTD IN SERIOUS INJURIES.

34 YEAR OLD KARLA ELLITHORPE OF MAQ. WAS CHARGED WITH STOP SIGN VIOLATION, FOLLOWING A 2 CAR ACCIDENT THURSDAY AT PLEASANT AND NIAGRA.

MAQ POLICE OFFICER KEN SPARKS SAYS 51 YEAR OLD DIXIE KARABIN OF MAQ. WAS DRIVING NORTH ON SOUTH NIAGRA WHEN ELLITHORPE RAN THE STOP SIGN AND THE 2 VEHICLES COLLIDED.

KARABIN WAS ALSO CHARGED WITH NO INSURANCE.

DAMMAGES WERE ESTIMATED AT $1000 TO KARABINS 1995 CHRYSTLER AND $5000 TO ELLITHORPES 1995 DODGE

IN ITHER NEWS THE HURST HOTEL IN DOWNTOWN MAQ. HAS BEEN SOLD. THE OWNER IS JIM SCHEBLER HAS NOT SAID WHAT HE PLANS TO DO WITH THE CENTURY OLD HOTEL. BUT LIKELY HE PLANS TO KEEP IT A RESIDENTIAL FACILITY.

SCHEBLER HAD LOOKED AT PURCHASING THE ADJACENT FRANZEN BUILDING ON MAIN STREET, BUT THATS BEEN PUT ON HOLD SINCE THE ROOF FELL IN LAST WEEK.


MCAFEES FAMILY RESTERAUNT IS FOR SALE , BUT ITS NOT CLOSING.

OWNER SUE MCAFEE SAID SHE AND HER DAUGHTER, VICKI SOMMERS HAVE PUT THE BUILDING AND BUSINESS UP FOR SALE.

THEY WONT BE CLOSING THE RESTERAUNT UNTIL SOMEONE EITHER BUYS THE BUSINESS OR BUILDING.

MCAFEE SAID SHE AND HER DAUGHTER HAVE OPERATD THE RESTERAUNT FOR EIGHT YEARS. SHE SAID ITS TIME FOR BOTHTO TAKE MORE TIME FOR THEIR FAMILIES.

JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF DEPUTIES ARE INVSTIGATING A THEFT OR STRING OF THEFTS RECENTLY.

WARREN JOHNSON, 17912 109TH AVE REPORTED THURSDAY THAT GUNS WEE TAKEN FROM HIS RESIDENCE. DETAILS NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME.


IN JACKSON COUNTY MAGISTRATE COURT
37 YEAR OLD MATTHEW REIFF OF SPRAGUEVILLE WAS CHARGED WITH 5TH DEGREE THEFT.
POLICE SAY REIFF WROTE A $74.20 CHECK TO BILL MOLERS WHICH WAS NOT PAID WHEN PRESENTED TO HIS BANK.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYONE
DENNIS  

SOME RAIN THIS MORNING, THEN CLOUDY, WINDY AND COLD FOR THE MOST PART. NOT A NICE DAY.
TOMORROW..SUNNY BUT STILL COLD.

THE SUNSHINE SCHOOL IN MAQUOKETA HAS A NEW DIRECTOR TO REPLACE LONGTIME DIRECTOR,NANCY MOORE. SHE IS THERESA HAUMANN OF DAVENPORT.
HER PAST JOB WAS THAT OF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CHILD CARE AND FAMILY SERVICES FOR THE SCOTT COUNTY YMCA. SHE IS MARRIED AND HAS 2 CHILDREN, A BOY, AGE 4 AND A GIRL AGE 2.
SHE WILL COMMUTE TO MAQUOKETA BUT THEY MAY LOOK AT RELOCATING IN A YEAR. SHE'S WORKING ALREADY AND I SUSPECT, ALREADY KNOWS THE SUNSHINE SONG.

MAQUOKETA WILL HAVE A COMMUNITY THANKSGIVING DINNER AGAIN THIS YEAR...AT THE SENIOR CENTER...AT NOON ON THANKSGIVING DAY. NO CHARGE, BUT A $3 DONATION IS SUGGESTED FOR THOSE ABLE. JIM AND MARILYN RANKIN ARE HEADING IT UP.

BETTY ULLENBERG, 79, OF MAQUOKETA AND FORMERLY OF MILWAUKEE DIED SUDDENLY AT HER HOME YESTERDAY. SHE HAD BEEN LIVING IN MAQUOKETA FOR ABOUT 7 YEARS AND SURVIVORS INCLUDE A BROTHER IN MAQUOKETA, GEORGE PICKUP.

THANKS.

DENNIS VOY  

NOT BAD TODAY...MORE SUNSHINE AND HIGH AROUND 50.
POSSIBLE SNOW TONIGHT AND TOMORROW.

LARRY HAMANN, 64, OF MAQUOKETA DIED SUDDENLY
YESTERDAY AT THE J.C.P.HOSPITAL. HE WORKED AS A PRESS OPERATOR AT CLINTON ENGINES, THEN FARMED AND ALSO WAS A WEIGHMASTER AT WENDLING QUARRY.
HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, MARY, A DAUGHTER JENNIFER HAMANN AND 2 SONS, LARRY,JR. AND JAMES, ALL OF MAQUOKETA.

THE REV. ROBERT PALEN, 86, OF OAK BROOK,ILLINOIS, AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED TODAY IN HOSPITAL AT HINSDALE, ILLINOIS.
HE WAS THE PRIEST AT SACRED HEART HERE IN MAQUOKETA FROM 1970 UNTIL 1982. WAS RESPONSIBLE AND SUPERVISED THE BUILDING OF THE CHURCH-RECTORY COMPLEX IN MAQUOKETA. HE IS SURVIVED BY ONE SISTER AND ALSO A BROTHER, BOTH IN DIXON,ILLINOIS AND HIS FUNERAL SERVICE AND BURIAL WILL BE HERE IN MAQUOKETA SATURDAY.

THE CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS ARE GOING UP IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA.

MAQUOKETA IS GETTING A PAWN SHOP. MORE LATER.

THANKS FOR CHECKING IN.

DENNIS VOY




 

NICE DAY IN THE TIMBER CITY....SUNNY...HIGH OF 52...HAD A LITTLE RAIN LAST NIGHT.

THE PARENT COMPANY OF DYNAGER OIL PUMPS HAS FILED BANKRUPTCY...AND SOME INVESTORS ARE TRYING TO WORK OUT FUNDING SO THEY CAN BUY ASSETS OF THE DYNAGER PLANT IN MAQUOKETA. THIS MATTER CAME UP AT THE MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL MEETING LAST NIGHT. THE INVESTORS...WHO HOPE TO COMPLETE THE PURCHASE BY THE FIRST OF THE YEAR ASKED THAT THE CITY OF MAQUOKETA APPROVE APPLICATION FOR AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT SET-ASIDE LOAN. COUNCILMEN APPROVED THE APPLICATION TO THE STATE OF IOWA FOR $200,000 DURING LAST NIGHT'S MEETING. THE
END RESULT IS TO PRESERVE THE 74 ACTIVE JOBS AND 20 ON LAY-OFF AT DYNAGEAR HERE IN MAQUOKETA.

BILL AND KATE MCAREAVY DAVIS OF CEDAR RAPIDS ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN YESTERDAY AT MERCY HOSPITAL IN CEDAR RAPIDS. THE MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER IS IMOGENE MCAREAVY OF MAQUOKETA.

NO LOCAL DEATHS AGAIN....ITS BEEN AWHILE.

SHORT REPORT..BUT THAT'S IT FOR TODAY.

THANKS.

DENNIS VOY

 

CLOUDY, SLIGHTLY WET AND COLD TODAY....BUT BETTER WEATHER IS IN THE FORECAST FOR NEXT 4 OR 5 DAYS.

A MAQUOKETA MAN HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH RUNNING HIS VEHICLE INTO THE SIDE OF THE OVERTURFF-SKELLY MEDICAL BUILDING ON NORTH ARCADE STREET...LAST MONTH. JAMES RALSTON, JR, AGE 40, HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH RECKLESS DRING, NO INSURANCE, FAILURE TO REPORT AN ACCIDENT AND DRIVING WHILE LICENSE BARRED. HE RAN INTO THE BUILDING EARLY IN THE MORNING ON OCT 6TH....DRIVING AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED IN A 78 BUICK. THE VEHICLE PENETRATED THE BUILDING IN THE SKELLY AREA OF BUILDING, BY 12 FEET. THE CAR IS REGISTERED TO ARCHIE RALSTON, A RELATIVE.
IT IS STILL NOT KNOWN IF JAMES TOOK THE VEHICLE WITHOUT PERMISSION. THE HOLE IN THE BRICK BUILDING IS STILL THERE, COVERED OVER WITH PLYWOOD, PLUS.

THE GROUNDBREAKING FOR THE RENOVATIONS AT THE JACKSON COUNTY PUBLIC HOSPITAL HAS BEEN POSTPONED. ADMINISTRATOR CURT COLEMAN SAID THEY HAD HOPED TO HAVE IT TOMORROW MORNING ON THE FRONT LAWN WHERE A NEW SKILLED NURSING UNIT IS EXPECTED TO BE BUILDT. HOWEVER, BIDS FOR THE ENTIRE PROJECT CAME IN OVER THE $7-MILLION-DOLLAR PLANNED BUDGET. THE MONEY IS ON HAND FOR THIS PROJECT, WITH NO ADDITONAL TAX MONEY TO BE NEEDED. COLEMAN STILL HOPES SOME CHANGES WILL LOWER THE BIDS AND CONSTRUCTION CAN START BEFORE THE GROUND FREEZES IN JANUARY. THE FIRST PHASE OF THE CONSTRUCTION IS TO TEAR DOWN PART OF THE ORIGINAL LATE 1940'S BUILDING AND BUILD A NEW WING AND REMODEL SOME EXISTING AREAS.
THE HOSPITAL'S NEW DIALYSIS UNIT IS NEARLY READY.... TO OPEN AROUND THE FIRST OF THE YEAR.

POLICE BLOTTER: SOMEONE TOOK $5 IN GAS AND LEFT WITHOUT PAYING AT KJ'S CONVENIENCE .. ON FRIDAY.

GERALD LAUGHLIN REPORTED A LARAGE INFLATABLE TURKEY WAS TAKEN FROM HIS LAWN AT 401 SOUTH VERMONT STREET OVER THE WEEKEND....VALUE LISTED AT $129.

LYNN HUEBBE, TODD MERRICK AND MINDY HUDRLIK ALL HIT A DEER OVER THE WEEKEND.

MAQUOKETA CITY COUNICL MEETING TONIGHT.

GERALDINE RUTH ROUSH HIGGINS, AGE 88 OF FLORIDA AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED FRIDAY. SHE WAS BORN IN MAQUOKETA AND GRADUATED FROM MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL. THE ROUSH FAMILY HAS BEEN WELL ESTABLISHED MEMBERS OF THE MAQUOKETA COMMUNITY FOR MANY YEARS. SHE SPENT MOST OF HER ADULT LIFE IN CHICAGO AND BURIAL WILL BE IN THE ESGATE CEMETERY, RURAL MAQUOKETA.

BOYS BASKETBALL PRACTICE STARTED AFTER SCHOOL TODAY AT THE MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY  

CLOUDY THIS MORNING...SOME SUN THIS AFTERNOON AND A HIGH OF 42 TODAY.

JACKSON COUNTY'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS LOOKING PRETTY GOOD. IN OCTOBER IT WAS AT 4.8....DOWN FROM 5.2 IN SEPTEMBER AND DOWN FROM 5.1 A YEAR AGO. THE IOWA RATE IN OCTOBER WAS 4.0 AND THE U.S. RATE IN OCTOBER WAS 5.7.

GALEN BARTELS, RETIRED FROM BEING A RETIRED RADIO OPERATOR FOR THE STATE, WORKS PART TIME AT THE TIMBER CITY AUTO SPA CARWASH ON EAST PLATT AND REPORTED TO MAQUOKETA POLICE THAT ONE OF THE VACUMN HOSES WAS CUT. NO DAMAGE ESTIMATE.
HIS PARTTIME JOB THERE WAS THE JOB A FEW YEARS AGO FOR RON EVANS. RON EVANS AND WIFE DORIS ARE NOW...SO I'VE BEEN TOLD....HAPPY NEW RESIDENTS OF PELLA, IOWA WHERE THEIR DAUGHTER AND FAMILY LIVE. AND GUESS WHAT...RON HAS A PARTTIME JOB IN PELLA AT ONE OF THE LOCAL CAR WASHES.

BOB KORANDA, DRIVING AN A-1 TV AND APPLIANCE
TRUCK ON 150TH STREET...HIT A DEER. DAMAGE NOT LISTED. BOB IS SON OF ARNOLD AND WORKS AT HIS DAD'S BUSINESS ON SOUTH JONES. ARNOLD HAS BEEN IN TV BUSINESS ALMOST SINCE THEY WERE INVENTED.

THERE'S A CONCRETE STREET TO DRIVE ON THESE DAYS...GOING FROM OLD HIGHWAY 61 SOUTH DOWN TO THE NEW MOTEL.

WENT TO A MEDIA SHOWING THIS MORNING AT THE NEW IMAX THEATRE IN DAVENPORT....WE SAW THE NEW IMAX THEATRE MOVIE ABOUT THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITI0N. EVEN MET ONE OF THE STARS. A VERY GOOD MOVIE. DON'T MISS IT. ABOUT 45 MINUTES LONG AND BEAUTIFUL SCENERY ON THE 6-STORY HIGH SCREEN. I HAVE YET TO SEE A BAD PRESENTATION AT AN IMAX THEATRE. YUP..THERE WAS FREE FOOD BEFORE THE SHOW....BREAKFAST BRUNCH..AND I SAT WITH LOWELL AND BRENDA CARLSON OF RURAL ANDREW. LOWELL RUNS THE BELLEVUE PAPER FOR THE MELVOLDS. THEY HAVE 3 CHILDREN...ONE STILL AT HOME GOING TO ANDREW HIGH SCHOOL AND THE OTHER TWO LIVE IN OREGON AND CALIFORNIA.

THE NEW HARRY POTTER MOVIE OPENED WITH A 4 P.M. SPECIAL MATINEE TODAY AT THE VOY 3 THEATRE.
IT WILL BE THE #1 MOVIE THIS WEEKEND...NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT. I'LL LET YOU KNOW MONDAY HOW IT DID HERE IN TOWN. ALSO IN THEATRE NEWS...THEY STARTED THIS WEEK ENLARGING THE 61 DRIVE-IN THEATRE CONCESSION STAND AND REST ROOMS.SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA. DALE SCHMIDT CONSTRUCTION IS THE LEAD CONTRACTOR. FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE IT OPENED IN 1950....IT WILL HAVE A HEATING/AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM. I'M GETTING SOFT IN MY OLDER YEARS. WHENEVER ANYONE COMPLAINED ABOUT THE HEAT IN THE CONCESSION STAND...I'D SAY....THIS IS A 50'S DRIVE-IN AND PEOPLE LIKE IT BEING OUT OF THE 50'S. AND IN THE 50'S...THEY DIDN'T HAVE AIR-CONDITIONING. EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE, A SMART GUY WOULD ADD...."THEN WHERE'S YOUR 50'S PRICES?"

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

IOWA NEEDS TO WIN TOMORROW TO GO TO THE ROSE BOWL. GO HAWKS.

DENNIS VOY

 

CLOUDY DAY TODAY

THE VANDALISM TUESDAY NIGHT NUMBERS ARE GROWING:
14 VEHICLES, TIRES SLASHED OR WINDOWS BROKEN...
7 MAILBOXES DAMAGED....DAMAGE ESTIMATE: $3,500.

A NEW SIGN WILL BE CONSTRUCTED IN FRONT OF THE MAQUOKETA MIDDLE SCHOOL, WHICH YEARS AGO WAS ALSO THE HIGH SCHOOL. THE STUDENT COUNCIL HAS RAISED NEARLY ALL OF THE $6,625 FOR THE LIGHTED SIGN. MORE MONEY IS BEING ACCEPTED. IT WILL GO ON THE CORNER OF MAIN AND LOCUST. THE SIGN MAY BE DELIVERED IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS AND LOCAL A LOCAL VOLUNTEER CREW WILL TRENCH-IN ELECTRIC WIRES TO THE SIGN.

FRED RUFF REPORTED HIS BROWN AND WHITE V-BOTTOM BOAT WAS TAKEN FROM WHERE IT WAS ANCHORED AT LAKEHURST DAM.

FLORENCE MEGGERS, 99, OF DEWITT DIED TUESDAY.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE A DAUGHTER, BETTY BRAMMERLO OF MAQUOKETA.

 

NOT BAD TODAY...SOME SUNSHINE AND HIGH OF 56.

MAQUOKETA POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A VANDALISM SPREE WHICH OCCURRED OVERNIGHT.
AT 6 THIS MORNING, COLE FELTON OF 415 SOUTH SECOND STREET, REPORTEDALL 4 TIRES ON HIS VEHICLE
HAD BEEN SLASHED. AND LATER IN THE MORNING, 11 OTHER CASES OF VANDALISM WERE REPORTED TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. ALSO SOME IN DELMAR.

ERIC NIMS, 28, OF MAQUOKETA WILL HAVE TO PAY $90 FOR ALLOWING HIS DOG RUN AT LARGE. MAGISTRATE KEN WRIGHT SET THE FINE.

GRACE STILLINGS, AGE 91, FORMERLY OF THIS AREA, DIED LAST SATURDAY AT APACHE JUNCTION, ARIZONA.
SURVIVED BY A SISTER IN DEWITT AND COUSINES IN AND AROUND MAQUOKETA.

IOWA BEGINS ITS BASKETBALL SEASON TONIGHT IN IOWA CITY IN AN EXHIBITION GAME AGAINST AN ALL-STAR TEAM. THE WIN OR LOSS WILL NOT COUNT IN THE STANDINGS.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY



 

NO REPORT TODAY  

NOT A VERY NICE DAY...DRIZZLE THIS MORNING..CLOUDY ALL DAY..HIGH OF 43.

NOT MUCH NEWS.

THE JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES INVESTIGATED 7 VEHICLE-DEER ACCIDENTS OVER THE WEEKEND.

FRIDAY NIGHT, I JUST MISSED A DEER COMING HOME FROM BELLEVUE ON 62. THEY DO APPEAR OUT OF NO WHERE.

THE FIRE SATURDAY MORNING THAT TOOK THE LIFE OF AN 8-YEAR (CORRECT AGE) MAQUOKETA GIRL, STARTED IN THE KITCHEN. A POT LEFT ON A STOVE OVERHEATED.
THE BURNER ON THE STOVE WAS LEFT ON AND THE POT OVERHEATED. THE BOTTOM OF THE POT HAD MELTED THROUGH COMPLETELY. SOME OVEN MITTS OR POT-HOLDERS OVER THE STOVE THEN CAUGHT FIRE AND DROPPED DOWN INTO A TRASH CONTAINER.
THE 8 YEAR OLD, ASHLEY YENS, WAS A 2ND GRADEER AT CARDINAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. THE FAMILY IS FROM MICRONESIA AND HAVE BEEN LIVING IN MAQUOKETA SINCE 1998. THEY ARE RELATED TO WIHDEN AISE. MRS. AISE IS A MAQUOKETA CHIROPRACTOR AND THEY BOTH RAN THE DEPOT RESTAURANT UNTIL IT CLOSED EARLIER THIS YEAR.
THE FIRE LEFT THREE OTHER FAMILIES HOMELESS. THEY RECEIVED ASSISTANCE FROM THE RED CROSS. THE 4-PLEX IS OWNED BY RANDY KUHLMAN OF MAQUOKETA. THE FUNERAL FOR ASHLEY YENS WILL BE WEDNESDAY MORNING AT 11 AT THE FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER PARENTS. SHE HAD NO BROTHERS OR SISTERS. AT CARDINAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TODAY, COUNSELORS WERE ON HAND TO TALK TO CLASSMATES OF ASHLEY.

MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD MEETING TONIGHT.

RAYMOND KONKLE, AGE 90, OF CLINTON DIED SUNDAY AT A CLINTON HOSPITAL. HE MARRIED ELIZABETH MILLER IN 1948 IN MAQUOKETA AND SHE DIED IN JUNE 2001.
HE WORKED ALL HIS LIFE FOR CENTRAL STEEL IN CLINTON AND IS SURVIVED BY NIECES AND NEPHEWS.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY


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SUNNY THIS MORNING....CLOUDY THIS AFTERNOON...MAYBE RAIN TONIGHT.

IOWA...10 AND 1....ANOTHER WIN TODAY.

SAGE ROSENFELS FROM MAQUOKETA MAY PLAY TOMMORROW NIGHT AGAIN WHEN MIAMI PLAYS THE JETS.

TRAGIC STORY TODAY.... LOCALLY.

A 9 YEAR OLD GIRL DIED EARLY THIS MORNING AT THE APARTMENT SHE LIVED IN WITH PARENTS. THE FOUR- APARTMENT BUILDING, 2 DOWNSTAIRS AND 2 UPSTAIRS APARTMENTS, IS AT 107 S. PROSPECT STREET, JUST NORTH OF SQUIRES MANOR BED AND BREAKFAST. AT ONE TIME THE BUILDING WAS A BARN OR LARGE GARAGE AND IT WAS CONVERTED INTO AN APARTMENT BUILDING.
MR. AND MRS. YENSTER YENS AND DAUGHTER LIVED IN ONE OF THE LOWER APARTMENTS AND A FIRE BROKE OUT AT AROUND 1:30 THIS MORNING. THE FATHER GOT OUT. THE GIRL DID NOT. THE MOTHER, MAUREEN, WAS AT WORK. WHEN FIREMEN ARRIVED, FLAMES WERE SHOOTING OUT BOTH THE FRONT AND BACK WINDOWS. A NEIGHBOR ACROSS THE STREET HAD JUST GOTTEN HOME, SAW THE FLAMES, AND CALLED 9-1-1. HE THEN WENT ACROSS THE STREET AND POUNDED ON DOORS TO GET RESIDENTS OUT OF THE FOUR APARTMENTS. THE FATHER, YENSTER YENS, CUT HIMSELF TRYING TO GO BACK IN TO THE BURNING BUILDING. HE WAS TREATED AT THE HOSPITAL AND RELEASED. HE HAD TO BE RESTRAINED BY POLICE SEVERAL TIMES DURING THE FIRE. THE 9 YEAR OLD GIRL, VICK-ASHLEY YENS, WAS FOUND FACE DOWN TRYING TO GET UNDER HER BED. SHE WAS COVERED IN BLANKETS AND CLUTHING HER TEDDY BEAR. DR. PAUL KOOB WAS CALLED TO THE SCENE AND THE GIRL WAS WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. I DROVE PAST THE BUILDING THIS AFTERNOON. DOUBT IF IT WILL EVER BE REBUILDT. THE FIRE MARSHALL IS HERE TO DETERMINE WHAT CAUSED THE FIRE.
ALL OCCUPANTS OF THE BUILDING HAVE BEEN RELOCATED AND THE RED CROSS WAS IN TOWN TO HELP WHERE NEEDED. THERE WERE NO OTHER INJURIES.
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR THE GIRL ARE PENDING AT CARSON'S.

CLAYTON AND LAURIE HELM OF TACOMA ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN WEDNESDAY IN TACOMA. MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE DON AND ELIZABETH MILLER OF MAQUOKETA.

GO CYCLONES TONIGHT.

HAVE A NICE SUNDAY.

DENNIS VOY
 

NICE TODAY...65

QUIET NIGHT..NO LOCAL SPORTS TONIGHT...WE ARE BETWEEN FOOTBALL/VOLLEYBALL SEASON AND BASKETBALL SEASON.

A MAQUOKETA MAN WAS CHARGED AFTER HE CRASHED HIS CAR INTO A BRIDGE TO AVOID A DEER. MARTIN CLARK, AGE 36, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH FAILURE TO HAVE CONTROL AND DRIVING WHILE LICENSE SUSPENDED. HE WAS DRIVING A 91 BUICK AND HE SAID A DEER JUMPED OUT IN FRONT AND HE HIT THE SIDE OF THE BRIDGE TO AVOID THE DEER. NO DAMAGE ESTIMATE ON THE CAR OR DEER. NO INJURIES. THIS HAPPENED ON ROCKDALE ROAD NORTHEAST OF MAQUOKETA.

THE LOCAL VFW ANNUAL VOICE OF DEMOCRACY RADIO SPEAKING CONTEST YESTERDAY WAS WON BY KATIE FULLER, A SENIOR AT MCHS AND DAUGHTER OF LARRY AND CHERYL FULLER OF BATTLES DRIVE IN MAQUOKETA. SHE RECEIVES A $100 SAVINGS BOND AND THE RIGHT TO ON TO FURTHER COMPETITION IN JANUARY. TAKING 2ND PLACE WAS ANDY KNOEBEL, A JUNIOR AT MCHS AND SON OF DAVE AND ROSE KNOEBEL OF MAQUOKETA. HE GETS A $50 U.S. SAVINGS BOND. THE EVENT CHAIRPERSON FOR THE VFW WAS MURIEL ALLEN OF MAQUOKETA AND THIS WAS THE 23RD YEAR SHE HAS HEADED IT UP SINCE SHE STARTED THE LOCAL COMPETITION IN 1979.

MAQUOKETA'S VETERAN'S DAY PROGRAM MONDAY WILL BE AT 8:45 AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL. BURTON ROMER OF THE VFW WILL GIVE THE VETERAN'S DAY ADDRESS.

A TWO CAR ACCIDENT YESTERDAY NORTH OF MAQUOEKETA WHERE THE HURSTVILLE ROAD RUNS INTO 4-LANE 61. IT HAS BECOME THE SCENE OF MANY ACCIDENTS. BRANDI LUCY,17, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS IN ONE CAR, ABOUT TO ENTER 61 AND THE OTHER VEHICLE DRIVEN BY A DUBUQUE MAN. THE DUBUQUE MAN AND A PASSENGER IN THE LUCY VEHICLE, HEIDI SCHIESS OF MAQUOKETA, WERE BOTH TAKEN TO THE JCPH HOSPITAL AND TREATED FOR MINOR INJURIES. LUCY WAS CHARGED WITH FAILURE TO YIELD.

RICH AND SHELLY HOOVER OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN TUESDAY IN DAVENPORT. MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE KEN SANGER OF MAQUOKETA AND RITA STERBENZ OF CLINTON. MATERNAL GREAT-GRANDPARENTS ARE MAYNARD AND HELEN BARTELS, AND MARY ROLING, ALL OF MAQUOKETA. PATERNAL GRANDFATHER IS DICK HOOVER, SR. OF MAQUOKETA.
THE NEW FATHER HAS A HEATING AND AIR-CONDITIONING BUSINESS IN MAQUOKETA.

DEWITT'S CHRISTMAS EXPO IS THIS SUNDAY...KICKING OFF THE CHRISTMAS SEASON IN THIS AREA. KMAQ WILL BE THERE AND HAVE A BOOTH.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TODAY TO DOROTHY RASMUSSEN.

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY






 

NICE TODAY..SUNNY AND 60 FOR A HIGH.

A DEWITT ELDERLY COUPLE KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT LAST NIGHT 3 MILES EAST OF DEWITT...HIT BROADSIDE BY A TRUCK. DEAD, RAYMOND ROWSON, AGE 87 AND HIS WIFE, ALMA, 83.

HILDA CRIST, AGE 84, DIED LAST NIGHT AT LOCAL HOSPITAL. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HER HUSBAND, ROBERT IN DELMAR, A SON, BOB, IN MAQUOKETA AND A SISTER, MARGAET GISEL OF MAQUOKETA.

WORD HAS BEEN RECEIVED OF THE DEATH OF MARADETH BECK HOUSTMAN, AGE 74, OF TUSCON. SHE WAS RAISED IN RURAL PRESTON AND GRADUATED FROM MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL. SHE WAS A TEACHER. AND IS SURVIVED BY COUSINS IN THE MAQUOKETA AREA.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY  

NO REPORT TODAY  

ROGER STEWART IS A NEW IOWA SENATOR.

THE RETIRED BANKER AND JACKSON COUNTY FARMER
WON THE ELECTION TODAY, 9,538 TO
7,567. HIS REPUBLICAN OPPONENT WAS JEROME BURKEN,A CLINTON COUNTRY FARMER.

THE YES VOTE WON IN JACKSON COUNTY FOR MORE
TAX REVENUE FOR THE EXTENSION DEPARTMENT OF ISU, WHICH INCLUDES THE 4-H PROGRAM IN JACKSON COUNTY.
A CLOSE VICTORY.

GOOD TURNOUT TODAY.

MORE DETAILS TOMORROW.

GOOD NIGHT.

DENNIS VOY

 

NO REPORT UNTIL TUESDAY NIGHT AT ABOUT 10 P.M.
FOR QUICK ELECTION RESULTS.  

PARTLY SUNNY,HIGH AROUND 45. 50-60 DEGREE WEATHER IS IN THE FORECAST FOR LATER IN THE WEEK.

CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT. THE CITY HAS SOMEONE INTERESTED IN RUNNING THE AIRPORT.
ED CURLEY HAS BEEN OPERATING IT ON A PARTTIME BASIS.

ON THE POLICE BLOTTER..A COUPLE OF MINOR FRONT YARD THEFTS OVER THE WEEKEND.

THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT HAS REPORTS OF 4 CAR-DEER ACCIDENTS OVER THE WEEKEND.

IN COURT NEWS: SCOTT YAROLEM, AGE 23, OF MAQUOKETA WAS CHARGED WITH BURGLARY IN THE 3RD DEGREE AND CREDIT CARD FRAUD.
CHRISTOPHER GANSEN, AGE 26, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE.
KATHY ROCKWELL, AGE 32, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH OWI, 2ND OFFENSE AND DRIVING WHILE LICENSE WAS SUSPENDED.

DULA BUDDE, 78, OF PRESTON, DIED SATURDAY.
SHE FORMERLY WORKED AT CLINTON ENGINES.
SURVIVORS IN MAQUOKETA INCLUDE DAUGHTER DELORES IRWIN.

NORM RENNER, AGE 71,OF MAQUOKETA, DIED SUNDAY AT HIS HOME. HE WAS A MARINE IN THE KOREA WAR AND EARNED THE PURPLE HEART. WORKED AT CLINTON ENGINES AND THEN WORKED AT KARTRIDG PAK IN DAVENPORT UNTIL RETIRING INN 1990. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, JEAN, SONS RANDY, BILL AND RICK ALL OF MAQUOKETA, SON JERRY OF ELWOOD, AND DAUGHTERS JEAN HAYES OF MONMOUTH AND LISA HORCHER OF MAQUOKETA.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY
 

NICE TODAY...HIGHH OF 45.

MAQUOKETA VARSITY LOST TO MARION LAST NIGHT IN THEIR FINAL FOOTBALL GAME OF THE SEASON. MAQUOKETA WAS FAVORED AND THE GAME WAS PLAYED AT HOME,BUT CARDINALS STILL LOST BY 3 TOUCHDOWNS PLUS. SO,THEY ENDED UP NOT HAVING A WINNING SEASON. THE SOPHOMORES WON THEIR 2ND GAME IN A ROW...AFTER LOOSING THEIR FIRST 7 OF THE SEASON.

THE ONLY TEAM FROM THE KMAQ AREA THAT HAD A CHANCE TO MAKE IT TO THE PLAYOFFS, WAS THE NORTHEAST REBELS OF GOOSELAKE. THEY NEEDED TO BEAT WEST BRANCH LAST NIGHT, BUT DIDN'T...SO NO TEAM FROM OUR AREA WILL BE IN THE PLAYOFFS.

IOWA BEAT WISCONSIN TODAY...GREAT WIN.

IOWA STATE BEAT MISSOURI IN THE LAST MINUTE. THE CYCLONES NEEDED THAT WIN TO HAVE A CHANCE FOR A BOWL GAME.

JIM RANKIN OF MAQUOKETA WAS HONORED BY THE AGENCY ON AGING WITH A GOVERNOR'S VOLUNTEER AWARD FOR HIS VOLUNTEER SERVICE. HE RECEIVED THE AWARD IN A CEREMONY AT CLARK COLLEGE IN DUBUQUE. BOTH JIM AND WIFE MARILYN HAVE BEEN ACTIVE IN THE COMMUNITY OVER THE YEARS. JIM IS A FORMER CITY COUNCILMAN IN MAQUOKETA.

HAVE A GOOD SUNDAY.

DENNIS VOY

 

NO REPORT TODAY  

MOSTLY CLOUDY TODAY...HIGH OF 40. EXPECTING TO GO DOWN TO AROUND 20 TONIGHT.

FIRST A CORRECTION. EARLIER THIS WEEK, I MENTIONED THAT THE MONA FOWLER SALE WILL BE THIS SATURDAY AT B & G AUCTION IN PRESTON. IT WILL BE SUNDAY....SUNDAY....STARTING AT 11 A.M.

VANDALISM AT THE FORMER KEY MOTEL, LOCATED ON MCKINSEY DRIVE. THE BUILDING IS OWNED BY ROY WARD OF MAQUOKETA. IT IS NO LONGER A MOTEL..BUT THE SIGN IS STILL THERE. THE MOTEL WAS CONVERTED TO APARTMENTS AND THIS WEEK, SOMEONE DAMAGED AN ENTRY DOOR IN A VACANT APARTMENT, CAUSING ABOUT $200 IN DAMAGE.

MAQUOKETA HOSTS MARION TOMORROW NIGHT FOR THEIR FINAL GAME OF THE SEASON. THEY SHOULD WIN IT AND IN DOING SO, THEY WOULD END WITH A WINNING SEASON.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS ARE IN TOURNAMENT VOLLEYBALL TONIGHT.

SANTA WILL ARRIVE IN MAQUOKETA THIS YEAR ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5TH.

AMANDA FELDERMAN OF MAQUOKETA, IS HOPING TO HAVE A BATTLE OF BANDS EVENT IN MAQUOKETA AT THE FAIRGROUNDS IN MID-FEBRUARY. SHE HOPES TO HAVE 10 TO 15 BANDS, INCLUDING POSSIBLY BANDS FROM DES MOINES, IOWA CITY AND THE QUAD CITIES. ALL PROCEEDS WOULD GO TO THE CANCER RESEARCH CLINIC AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA IN IOWA CITY. SHE WILL NEED UPFRONT MONEY TO PUT THIS ON...FOR HEAT, ELECTRICITY, OFF-DUTY POLICE OFFICERS AND INSURANCE. ANY QUESTIONS CAN BE EMAILED TO HER AT beavarf@hotmail.com

THANKSGIVING IS 4 WEEKS FROM TODAY.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY

 

I DID IT AGAIN...GETTING OLD...PUSHED THE ENTRY BUTTON BY MISTAKE.

CHERYL'S HUSBAND, GARY, WILL BE HERE LATER IN THE WEEK TOO. THEY HAVE A NEW GRANDSON IN KANSAS CITY, BORN ABOUT A MONTH OLD. THEY HAVE BEEN IN DRYCLEANING AND LAUNDRY BUSINESS DOWN THERE FOR AROUND 10 YEARS, BUT PLAN TO MOVE BACK TO IOWA SOMEDAY SOON.

KMAQ TRAVEL WILL BE VISITING KC IN EARLY DECEMBEER WITH A BUS OF MAQUOKETA AREA RESIDENTS.

SO MUCH FOR ANOTHER DAY. THIS IS DEFINITELY THE END OF TODAY'S REPORT.

DENNIS VOY

 

SORRY, ACCIDENTALLY PUSHED THE ENTRY BUTTON

RANDALL BECK OF WHITEWATER, WISCONSIN, WAS BORN IN MAQUOKETA TO PAUL AND LOIS BECK. SURVIVED BY A NIECE AND FRIENDS.
THE FUNERAL WILL BE FRIDAY NIGHT AT WHITEWATER AND BURIAL WILL BE AT SACRED HEART CEMETERY HERE IN MAQUOKETA. THE ACCIDENT WAS UP IN WISCONSON.

JOHN LEONARD, AGE 81, OF BELLEUVE WAS KILLED YESTERDAY IN AN AUTO ACCIDENT AT DUBUQUE.
HE WAS THE MEAT MANAGER FOR MANY YEARS AT THE BIG D SUPER VALU IN BELLEVUE. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, EDNA.

CHERYL FOWLER MEYER IS VISITING US THIS WEEK FROM NEW MEXICO. SHE'S HERE TO MAKE FINAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE SALE OF HER MOTHER'S PERSONAL PROPERTY THIS SATURDAY. HER MOTHER IS IN A NURSING HOME.  

SUNNY THIS MORNING, CLOUDY THIS AFTERNOON.
HIGH TODAY, 47.

THE KMAQ GUEST BOOK IS BACK IN BUSINESS.

KMAQ RECEIVED A STATE AWARD YESTERDAY. LEIGHTON HEPKER AND I WENT OUT TO RECEIVE IT IN AMES.
WE WERE NOMINATED FOR IT, BY JACKSON COUNTY EXTENSION EDUCATION DIRECTOR, LARRY MYERS. HE WAS UNABLE TO GO BECAUSE OF HIS BOUT WITH CANCER.
IN HIS PLACE, KATE CARINDER OF MAQUOKETA AND AN EXTENSION SPECIALIST HERE IN EASTERN IOWA,
SUBSTITUTED FOR LARRY IN PRESENTING THE AWARD TO US AFTER A DINNER ATTENDED BY AROUND 125 EXTENSION PEOPLE. A COMPLETE STORY AND PICTURE OF LEIGHTON, KATE AND I CAN BE FOUND ON THE HOME PAGE OF THE KMAQ WEB SITE. A NICE HONOR FOR KMAQ AND MY THANKS TO THE EPSILON SIGMA PHI FOR PRESENTING IT TO US.

TRUDY FROLANDER, OF SWEDEN, THE FIRST FOREIGN EXCHANGE STUDENT MAQUOKETA EVER HAD ... 1959-60 SCHOOL YEAR...IS VISITING MAQUOKETA THIS WEEK AND WAS THE GUEST SPEAKER AT ROTARY. WHEN HERE, SHE LIVED WITH MARV AND HELEN BRADY AND TWO DAUGHTERS ON THOMAS AVENUE. SHE CAME VIA SHIP AND BUS AS PLANE SERVICE THOSE DAYS WAS VERY EXPENSIVE. SHE WENT ON TO BE A DENTIST AND IS NOW RETIRED. SHE IS DIVORCED AND HER EX IS AN ATTORNEY. THEY HAD 4 CHILDREN.

RANDALL BECK, AGE 47, DIED FROM A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT ON OCTOBER 26TH.  

JUST A REMINDER,THERE IS A GUEST BOOK ALSO
AT www.maquoketa.com/guestbook.htm  

MOSTLY CLOUDY AND COOL....HIGH TODAY IN MID 40'S. TEMPERATURES LAST 10 DAYS HAVE BEEN 10-15 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL AND WILL GET WORSE.
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY THIS WEEK, THERE IS SNOW IN THE FORECAST AND HIGHS IN THE MID 30'S.
NOVEMBER WILL START OFF ON THE 1ST AND THRU THIS WEEKEND WITH HIGHS IN THE 20'S. EVERYONE IS STILL HOPING THERE IS AN INDIAN SUMMER STILL SOMEWHERE DOWN THE ROAD.

THEY STARTED SATURDAY ON AN ADDITION TO MY 61 DRIVE-IN THEATRE SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA. THE CURRENT CONCESSION STAND WILL BE MADE INTO A LARGER LADIES REST ROOM. A NEW LARGER CONCESSION STAND WILL BE BUILDT ALONG THE NORTH SIDE OF BUILDING. THE MEN'S ROOM WILL ALSO BE MADE LARGER, AND THERE WILL BE ADDITIONAL STORAGE ROOMS TOO, PLUS CENTRAL HEATING/AIR. DALE SCHMIDT CONSTRUCTION IN MAQUOKETA IS THE GENERAL CONTRACTOR. IT SHOULD BE ALL COMPLETED WHEN WE OPEN FOR THE 2003 SEASON....WEATHER PERMITTING...ON FRIDAY NIGHT, APRIL 4TH...OR APRIL 11TH. THE DRIVE-IN FIRST OPENED IN LATE AUGUST OF 1950 AND I HAVE OWNED IT SINCE 1972.
BOUGHT IT FROM THE LATE M.F."FAY","BUD" McKINSEY,WHO OWNED IT FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS. THIS WILL BE THE FIRST ADD-ON TO THE ORIGINAL BUILDING.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS FOOTBALL TEAM LOST AGAIN FRIDAY NIGHT AND WILL END THE SEASON WITH A HOME GAME AGAINST MARION AND THEY SHOULD WIN IT.
THE CARDINAL SOPHOMORES WON THEIR FIRST GAME
SATURDAY NIGHT AGAINST SOUTH TAMA.

LOOKS NOW LIKE THE ONLY FOOTBALL TEAM IN OUR AREA TO GO TO THE PLAYOFFS THIS YEAR WILL BE THE NORTHEAST REBELS OF GOOSELAKE AND THEY NEED TO BEAT WEST BRANCH THIS FRIDAY...A TEAM THEY CAN BEAT. IF TH