VOL 1 NO 52

NO SILENT AUCTION ITEM THIS WEEK

THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY 75TH 
ANNIVERSARY DINNER WILL BE ON
WEDNESDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 20TH.
LONGTIME ROTARIAN AND PAST DISTRICT GOVERNOR BILL TUBBS WILL BE THE GUEST SPEAKER.  HE IS
EDITOR OF THE NORTH SCOTT PRESS IN ELDRIDGE, WHERE HE LIVES.   
HE WAS RAISED ON A RURAL ELWOOD FARM AND HIS BROTHER ALAN  IS A LONGTIME MEMBER OF 
MAQUOKETA ROTARY.

OCTOBER 30TH
ROTARY PROGRAM 

THE GUEST SPEAKER WAS ANITA O'HARA OF DES MOINES, A VICE-PRESIDENT, WITH 28 YEARS OF
SERVICE,  WITH THE IOWA NATIONAL NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION, MADE UP OF 7,000 MEMBERS IN THE STATE.    THE FOUNDATION WAS ESTABLISHED TO PROTECT AND RESTORE IOWA'S LAND, WATER AND WILD.    IN JACKSON COUNTY, THE FOUNDATION HAS BEEN INVOLVED WITH 12 PROJECTS AND 1,800 ACRES.

GUEST AT ROTARY TODAY (OCT 30TH)....

BILLY COAKLEY.    HE WAS THE GUEST OF ROTARIAN KEN WRIGHT, A MAQUOKETA ATTORNEY FOR 45 YEARS.    BILLY IS KEN'S NEW ASSOCIATE.   HE IS NO STRANGER TO MAQUOKETA AS HE HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE MAQUOKETA POLICE
DEPARTMENT FOR 12 YEARS.    THE LAST 3 YEARS, PART-TIME WHILE GETTING HIS LAW DEGREE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA.   HE STARTED WITH KEN WRIGHT ATTORNEY EARLIER THIS MONTH.   HIS WIFE IS THE FORMER TINA TILL OF ANDREW, WHO IS WORKING TOWARD HER MASTERS DEGREE IN MEDICINE TO BE A NURSE PRACTIONER.    THE COUPLE HAVE NO CHILDREN.  KEN CAME TO MAQUOKETA TO JOIN ROTARIAN ATTORNEY J.E. GOODENOW IN HIS LAW OFFICE.  HE LATER WENT ON HIS OWN, WITH AN OFFICE ON THE CORNER IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA, NEXT TO WHERE BOB'S BARBER SHOP IS NOW.    THE BRICK BUILDING HE IS IN NOW HAS A  LAW FIRM HISTORY GOING BACK TO 1880 WHEN THE LATE AL KECK'S FATHER STARTED IN PRACTICE.    IT LATER WAS KECK AND KECK ATTORNEYS.   STILL LATER, THE FATHER DIED AND ALAN WAS NAMED A JUDGE.   HIS WIFE PHOEBE STILL LIVES IN MAQUOKETA AND RECENTLY TURNED 90.   NEXT CAME  THE LATE  DENNIS ROBERSON INTO THE BUILDING, ALSO A MAQUOKETA ROTARIAN.   WHEN HE DIED YOUNG, HIS DAUGHTER DEB, AN ATTORNEY, RAN THE PRACTICE AND WHEN SHE DECIDED TO LEAVE THE COMMUNITY, KEN PURCHASED THE BUILDING. 
GOSH, HOPE I GOT THIS ALL RIGHT.    ANYWAY,
NICE TO HAVE A NEW LAWYER IN TOWN AND NICE
TO KNOW KEN WILL CONTINUE AS A LAWYER AND
ROTARIAN.   WHO KNOWS, MAYBE BILLY WILL
JOIN.   THAT WOULD ALSO BE NICE.

ROTARY, THE CLUB THAT HAS THE BEST-IN-THE-
AREA TRASH COLLECTORS ALONG THE  HIGHWAY.
THEY DID THEIR TWICE-A-YEAR HIGHWAY 61 CLEANUP LAST SATURDAY.    ROTARY...GETS THINGS DONE AND SERVES THE COMMUNITY WITH HEART, HANDS AND SMILES. 
(ORANGE FOR HALLOWEEN AND PUMPKINS)