ROTARY WEEK

SILENT AUCTION THIS WEEK

FOR A $22 ADVANCE TICKET
TO JIM WAND SHOW
AT OHNWARD FINE ARTS CENTER

 

OPENING BID:    $5.00    563-689-5371

                               7.00    563-590-8837

                             10.00    563-652-3208 

                             11.00    563-340-9123

                             15.00    563-652-3198

                             17.00    563-689-5371

EMAIL YOUR BID TO kmaq@kmaq.com

DEADLINE TO BID, NOON MONDAY JAN 20TH

ROTARY PROGRAM JANUARY 14TH

ROTARIAN (TREASURER) ASHER SCHROEDER (AT THE URGING OF ROTARIAN

ROGER STEWART) GAVE TODAY'S PROGRAM AND IT WAS ABOUT ASHER'S

RECOLLECTIONS OF SERVING IN WORLD WAR II WITH THE FAMED 4TH

INFANTRY DIVISION.  HIS ENTIRE PROGRAM WAS ABOUT THE YEAR 1944.  

HE  WAS WOUNDED LATE THAT YEAR AND TAKEN PRISONER.   THIS WAS IN GERMANY AND HE SERVED WHILE GEN. GEORGE S. PATTON WAS THERE.    TOO BAD HIS  PROGRAM TODAY WAS NOT VIDEO RECORDED.       EVEN THOUGH THE PROGRAM RAN A LITTLE LONG,  EVERY ROTARIAN STAYED AND LISTENED TO THE ENTIRE PROGRAM AND GAVE HIM A "STANDING" THANK-YOU HAND AFTER.     ASHER WILL BE 89 THIS MAY 12TH.

 

NO ROTARY MEETING WEDNESDAY, FEB 5TH...

AND INSTEAD, IT WILL BE THE DAY AFTER, 

 FEBRUARY 6TH AT THE KMAQ FARM & HOME SHOW.

 

NEXT WEEK'S PROGRAM WILL BE GIVEN

BY MAQUOKETA ROTARIAN DAVE UPDEGRAPH, OF

DUBUQUE, LONGTIMNE MAQUOKETA BANKER AND FAMOUS DUBUQUE AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER.

HE RECENTLY PURCHASED A "DRONE" (ABOVE),

DESIGNED TO TAKE PHOTOS HIGH UP IN THE AIR.  

DAVE JUST POSTED NEW  ''EAGLE" PHOTOS HE

TOOK IN AREA.   JUST "GOOGLE" DAVE UPDEGRAPH TO TAKE YOU TO HIS GREAT SITE.

THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY WAS INFORMED TODAY THAT JOHN FRAMPTON OF CLINTON, MAQUOKETA ROTARY PRESIDENT 10 YEARS AGO, DIED MONDAY.  WHILE IN MAQUOKETA, HE WORKED FOR A MAQUOKETA INDUSTRY.   HE WAS A GREAT GUY AND WAS A VERY GOOD PRESIDENT.

BOB OSTERHAUS AND BUD BURNARD

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DR. BUD BERNARD....91 YEARS YOUNG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16TH.    THE MAQUOKETA RETIRED OPTOMITRIST HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY CLUB SINCE 1950.    HE ATTENDS THE WEEKLY MEETING EVERY WEDNESDAY NOON.    WAS BORN AND RAISED IN EAGLE GROVE AND WAS A TRUCK DRIVER IN WORLD WAR II.

BOB OSTERHAUS WILL CELEBRATE HIS BIRTHDAY

ON JANUARY 30TH.     WE ALL SANG HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BUD TODAY AND WILL ALL SING

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BOB AT JANUARY 29TH MEETING.   NOT THE BEST SINGING, BUT NOT THAT

BAD EITHER.