Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) back issues from February 2008:
Night clubs unsold at auction
Feb 01, 2008; ... With nearly 150 people in attendance for the liquidation sale ofthe Coliseum and The Arena, nobody was interested in bidding on thetwo buildings. The number of registered bidders reached 136, but all of themwere more interested in the walk away items from the popular bars.All of ...
Lifelink adoption meeting set for Davenport on Feb. 21
Feb 01, 2008 ... Lifelink's Davenport international adoption office is hosting afree information meeting at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 21 at EdwardsCongregational Church UCC ...
Immunizations clinic schedule announced
Feb 01, 2008 ... Immunizations will be available at the Jo Daviess County HealthDepartment on Tuesday, Feb. 19 from 9-11 a.m. and again from 2-5p.m. On Tuesday, ...
Mabel M.Graham
Feb 01, 2008 ... Mabel M.Graham, 100, died Thursday, Jan. 24 at the Galena-StaussSenior Care Community, Galena. Services were Monday, Jan. 28 at Miller and Steinke Funeral Homein Galena with the Reverend Stacy Cavanaugh officiating. Burial wasin Greenwood Cemetery, Galena. Mabel was born ...
Winter through a writer's eyes
Feb 01, 2008; ... What is winter? It often wears a different guise for differentpeople. Somehow, I feel that it often depends in large part on yourage and your inclinations. Webster defines winter as "the seasonbetween autumn and spring, comprising in the Northern Hemisphere themonths extending from the ...
Coaching certification clinic offered Feb. 15
Feb 01, 2008 ... American Sports Education Program will be hosting a CoachingClinic at the Quality Suites in Rockford on Sunday, Feb. 15. ASEP isthe IHSA required training for non-faculty coaches. Statewide, over3,000 coaches are certified ...
St. Mary's contest winners announced
Feb 01, 2008 ... Krista Weis and Erin Trannel took first and second places in acontest through the Dubuque Serra Club. This is an organizationthat promotes vocations in students. The students were asked towrite essays and design posters regarding their favorite Priest,brother, sister or deacon. They ...
Wild history day camp
Feb 01, 2008 ... Reservations are being taken for the Wild History Summer Day Campat Apple River Fort State Historic Site, where campers will feellike early settlers as they experience life in the 1800s. The Day Camp will be offered July 14-18 at the reconstructed1830's Black Hawk War fort in ...
Knights of Columbus crown free throw champions
Feb 01, 2008; ... Nine boys and girls from East Dubuque and Menominee, ages 10-14,were named local champions of the 2008 Knights of Columbus FreeThrow Championship and earned the right to compete at the districtlevel. Council 7527 in East Dubuque sponsored the local competitionat St. Mary's School. All ...
Wedding
Feb 01, 2008 ... Tiffany Koeller and Nicholas Heitkamp, both of East Dubuque, weremarried on Nov. 3, 2007 at Nativity of the Blesssed Virgin MaryCatholic Church, Menominee, with a reception following atBittersweet on the Bluff in East Dubuque. Parents of the couple are Mark and Michele Koeller and ...
Snowmobile club thankful for support
Feb 01, 2008; ... The East Dubuque-Menominee Trail Blazers Snowmobile Club heldtheir 27th Annual Chili Feed on Saturday, Jan. 26, at JM's Tap inMenominee. The club officers are President, Ron Anger; vicepresident, Doug Schneider; secretary, Rick Anger and treasurer, TimMartinek. There are thirty-one ...
Accident Report
Feb 01, 2008 ... An accident Thursday, Jan. 24, sent a Galena woman to thehospital and put local emergency response teams on the roads on oneof the coldest mornings of the season. Peggy S. Hughes, 37, Galena, was traveling westbound on US Route20 near Imbus Road, East Dubuque, when debris spilled ...
Community calendar
Feb 01, 2008 ... Feb. 1 Babytalk, 10:30 a.m., District Library, 350 Wall St., EastDubuque. Monday, Feb. 4 Applications for the low income heating assistance program, 9a.m. to 4 p.m., City Hall, 303 Sinsinawa Ave., East Dubuque. Dunleith Park District Board of Commissioners ...
Pages from the Past
Feb 01, 2008 ... 100 years ago Jan. 31, 1907 Mike Foht, Chas. Kleet and Otto Hier last Sunday went huntingthrough the woods near Menominee and entering a cave found a singlebarrl shot gun and a sack containing 16 shells, a vest and stripedjacket. The find was reported to Marshal Duffy who ...
'Round the Bend
Feb 01, 2008 ... A summary of upcoming events in the Tri-state area: Tuesday, Feb. 12: Dubuque Christian Women's Club "Heart to Heart"luncheon, noon, Midway Hotel, 3100 Dodge St., Dubuque. 563-583-1124or 563-583-1473. Tuesday, Feb. 12: After 5 Women's Connection, 6:30 p.m., MidwayHotel, 3100 ...
Middendorf receives Federation scholarship
Feb 01, 2008 ... A senior at East Dubuque High School has been selected as therecipient of a scholarship from the Jo Daviess County Chapter of theNational Wild Turkey Federation. Jill Middendorf, daughter of Harold and Vicki Middendorf of ...
Life in the trailer park: The Musical
Feb 01, 2008 ... News You can use What: "The Great American Trailer Park" Who:Touring group When: 3 and 8 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 10 Where: Universityof Wisconsin-Platteville's Center for the Arts Cost: $28 generaladmission, $26 for senior citizens, $20 for those younger than 18(performance is for mature ...
Menominee Notes
Feb 01, 2008; ... Nativity BVM School will dismiss at 11:30 on Monday, Feb. 4. EDschools also have early dismissal. Plans are being finalized for the Basketball Tournament hosted byNativity BVM School. Dates are the 8, 9, 10, 16, and 17 ofFebruary. Come and support the area students as they ...
Workshop will explore diabetes connection
Feb 01, 2008 ... Can you prevent the onset of diabetes and other diseases withwhat you do or do not eat? To help you learn about the relationship between food consumptionand chronic diseases, University of Illinois Extension is offeringthe workshop, Eating To Reduce Your Risk of Diabetes. The ...
Community Briefs
Feb 01, 2008 ... Program planned for teachers Sister Margaret Felder, Ph.D., former academic dean at ClarkeCollege, and friends will present an evening for teachers titled"Tools to Color a Teacher's Life" from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb.19, at Shalom Retreat Center, 1001 Davis St., in ...
Crackerbarrel session set for Saturday
Feb 01, 2008 ... The first of Dubuque County's 2008 legislative crackerbarrelsessions will take place at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, in theDiamond Jo Casino's second-floor Harbor View Room. Crackerbarrels are held on the first Saturday of each month thatthe Iowa Legislature is in session. The ...
What's happening
Feb 01, 2008 ... Today -- Senior citizens activities: 10-11 a.m., Senior Fitness Friendsexercise; 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., lunch, Hills and Dales LifetimeCenter, 3505 Stoneman Road. -- Senior citizens activities: 1 p.m., Rose Ramblers Square DanceGroup, 1099 Iowa St. -- St. Luke's ...
Carnival star takes aim at plastic surgery record
Feb 01, 2008; ... RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Brazilian model Angela Bismarchiwill dance nearly nude ahead of a 300-person drum corps in theCarnival parade, hoping her sculpted beauty as a "percussion queen"will lead her samba group to the championship. But she has another goal in mind as ...
Chlapaty's proposal a whole new ballgame
Feb 01, 2008 ... Joe Chlapaty is a businessman. Whether he decides to move forwardwith his idea of building a minor league baseball stadium in Dubuquewon't be determined on a whim. This isn't Ray Kinsella with a voicewhispering in his ear every time he looks at his cornfield. No one -in this world or any ...
Bin Laden's son offers hope for calm amid chaos
Feb 01, 2008; ... Omar Osama bin Laden, the 26-year-old son of the infamousterrorist leader Osama bin Laden, bears a striking resemblance tohis father. But thank goodness the son's attitudes about how to achievepolitical goals are in no way similar to those of the man who leadsal-Qaida, the group ...
Letters to the editor
Feb 01, 2008 ... I recently received an e-mail announcing a new startingquarterback for the Green Bay Packers in the 2008 season: DeannaFavre stated in her press conference that she is qualified for thejob after spending the past 16 years married to Brett while heplayed quarterback for the ...
Ruth M. Moore
Feb 01, 2008 ... LANCASTER, Wis. - Ruth M. Moore, 98, of Lancaster, died Tuesday,Jan. 29, 2008, at the ...
Stimulus package embroiled in politics
Feb 01, 2008; ... WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Democrats are plotting to makeRepublicans cast tough election-year votes on whether to add checksfor disabled veterans, the elderly and jobless workers to aneconomic stimulus package. Republicans, in turn, say their political opponents risk ...
Wall Street
Feb 01, 2008; ... NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street ended a frenetic January with a hugeadvance Thursday after investors set aside worries about bondinsurers and grew more optimistic that the Federal Reserve'sinterest rate cuts will indeed help lift the economy. The Dow Jonesindustrials rose more than 200 ...
Letters to the editor
Feb 01, 2008 ... Something needs to be looked at to balance out attendance atHempstead and Senior high schools, but I cannot agree that it shouldbe attempted in one school year. My children are enrolled at Hempstead. The boundary changes meanthat we will be forced to change schools. I want to make ...
Alice C. Granet
Feb 01, 2008 ... EAST MOLINE, Ill. - Alice C. Granet, 91, of East Moline, diedWednesday, Jan. 30, 2008, at Trinity Pathway Hospice, Bettendorf,Iowa. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Anne's Catholic Church,East Moline. Entombment will be in St. Mary's Mausoleum, EastMoline. Friends may ...
Momentum swings to McCain, Obama
Feb 01, 2008; ... Heading into Tuesday's unprecedented day of voting in two-dozenstates, a degree of order finally is emerging in the dramatic racesfor the presidential nominations of both parties. Public opinion and leadership support are finding their way tothe same destinations, pointing to a ...
Leona Spease
Feb 01, 2008 ... PLATTEVILLE, Wis. - Leona Spease, 92, of Platteville, diedThursday, Jan. 30, 2008, at Southwest Health Care Center,Platteville. Services will be 1 p.m. Saturday at the Platteville UnitedMethodist Church, with the Rev. Wendy Christianson officiating.Burial will be in Hillside ...
Funeral services
Feb 01, 2008 ... Compiled from tri-state area obituaries appearing previously inthe Telegraph Herald. Valerie M. Bell, Prairie du Chien, Wis. - Services: 11 a.m.Saturday, Garrity Funeral Home Chapel, Prairie du Chien. Visitation:4 to 7 p.m. today and after 10 a.m. Saturday at the funeral ...
Guttenberg honors soldier for sacrifice
Feb 01, 2008; ... GUTTENBERG, Iowa - Funding and building the Stephen D. ShannonAthletic Complex has marked an era of civic progress for Guttenberg,but also a season of personal loss. On Thursday, nearly 200 area residents filled Clayton Ridge HighSchool for the dedication of the complex, named in ...
Republicans square off for Jo Daviess seats
Feb 01, 2008; ... Tuesday's Illinois Primary Election will be an especiallyimportant one in Jo Daviess County, where there are two contestedlocal races. In the race for county state's attorney, Republican Terry Kurt,the incumbent, will face Republican challenger Don Schweihs. The primary also ...
CBS special to feature Iowa soldiers
Feb 01, 2008 ... "CBS Reports," a national news program produced by CBS News, willfeature the deployment of the Iowa Army National Guard's 1stBattalion, 133rd Infantry on Sunday, Feb. 3, in "Fathers, Sons, andBrothers." The one-hour special will air at 6 p.m. Originally created by CBS'"60 Minutes" ...
Britney Spears taken by ambulance to'get help'
Feb 01, 2008; ... LOS ANGELES (AP) - Britney Spears was taken from her home byambulance early Thursday and escorted to the hospital by more than adozen police officers in cars, on motorcycles and in helicopters. The 26-year-old pop star was being taken to "get help," said aLos Angeles police ...
Romney accuses McCain of using Nixonian tactics
Feb 01, 2008; ... LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) - Republican presidential candidate MittRomney on Thursday accused his rival John McCain of adoptingunderhanded tactics from Richard Nixon, the GOP president whoresigned in disgrace. "I don't think I want to see our party go back to that kind ...
Births
Feb 01, 2008 ... Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008 Bickford-Catharn - Kristina Bickford and Jeffrey Catharn,Monticello, Iowa, boy at The Finley Hospital, Dubuque. Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008 Gibson-Rausch - Jerika Gibson and Kasey Rausch, Potosi, Wis., boyat ...
Best Bets
Feb 01, 2008 ... Mardi Gras Merriment TODAY-SUNDAY The Galena Downtown Business Association hosts Mardi GrasMerriment, a three-day carnival of events. Tonight features a pubcrawl beginning at 6 p.m. at Boone's Place and ending at midnight atFried Green Tomatoes. Saturday's events include ...
Lawrence G. and Ruth Mahr
Feb 01, 2008 ... LANCASTER, Wis. - Lawrence G. "Jim" Mahr, 89, died Wednesdaymorning, Jan. 30, 2008, and his wife, Ruth Mahr, 86, died Wednesdayafternoon, Jan. 30, 2008, at Orchard Manor Nursing Home where theyshared a room in rural Lancaster. Services for Jim and Ruth will be at 10:30 a.m ....
Kids rock to schoolhouse tunes
Feb 01, 2008; ... What: "Schoolhouse Rock Jr.," musical Who: Eisenhower ElementarySchool fourth- and fifth-graders When: 9:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 7p.m. today Where: Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School Auditorium Cost:Free Move over, Artie Mentz. Fifth-grader Talon Zimmerman, 11, couldbe Dubuque's ...
John R. Horn
Feb 01, 2008 ... John R. Horn, 70, of 2767 Bankston Dr., formerly of 2632Garnavillo Drive, died at 10:18 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008, atManorCare Health Services. In ...
Joan M. Palen
Feb 01, 2008 ... Joan M. (Hoffmann) Palen, 85, of 1180 Cerro Drive, died Tues-day, Jan. 29, 2008, in ...
Alice R. Hrubes
Feb 01, 2008 ... MONTFORT, Iowa - Alice R. Hrubes, 78, of Montfort, died Thursdaymorning, Jan. 31, 2008, at Grant Regional Hospital, Lancaster. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at St. Mary's CatholicChurch, ...
Police
Feb 01, 2008 ... -- Hollie A. Carr, 23, 1397 Main St., Apt. 2, was arrested around10 p.m. Monday at her address on a charge of second-degree theft.She is accused of unlawfully using the credit card numbers ofcustomers at the Big 10 Mart, 897 Central Ave., for about the lasttwo months to make fake ...
Rosella Nierling
Feb 01, 2008 ... WAUKON, Iowa - Rosella Nierling, 87, of Cedar Rapids, formerly of Waukon, diedWednesday, Jan. 30, 2008, at Mercy Medical Center, Cedar Rapids. Services will be at ...
Dolores M. Schiltz
Feb 01, 2008 ... Dolores M. Schiltz, 83, of Dubuque, died Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008,at Ennoble Manor Care Center. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Sacred Heart CatholicChurch. Burial will be in Mount Calvary Cemetery. Friends may callfrom 4 to 7 p.m. today at Hoffmann-Schneider Funeral Home, ...
Corrections
Feb 01, 2008 ... The first name of Julie Craven, a spokeswoman for Hormel FoodsCorp., was ...
Finley, Mercy restrict visitors
Feb 01, 2008 ... Increased viral infection rates in the tri-state area haveprompted visitation restrictions at The Finley Hospital and MercyMedical Center (Dubuque and Dyersville). Children younger than 14 and individuals of any age withrespiratory or influenza ...
Richard Bush
Feb 01, 2008 ... COLESBURG, Iowa - Richard Bush, 71, of Colesburg, died Thursday,Jan. 31, 2008, at the Guttenberg Care ...
'Rhapsody' in Dubuque
Feb 01, 2008; ... Waiting for the concert intermission to begin, Mitch Steinhauser,12, went over to one of two pianos on display and began to play hisoriginal composition, "The Spider's Dance." Although Mitch created the piece on his Dubuque family's uprightpiano, Thursday night he was playing it on ...
Consumer spending slows abruptly
Feb 01, 2008; ... WASHINGTON - Buffeted by soaring fuel prices and tighter credit,consumers increased their spending at the weakest pace in sixmonths. In other signs of trouble, applications for unemploymentbenefits last week soared by the largest number since HurricaneKatrina. The Commerce ...
Harlan C. Schellhammer
Feb 01, 2008 ... LANSING, Iowa - Harlan C. Schellhammer, 86, of Lansing, diedWednesday, Jan. 30, 2008, at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon. Services will be at 11 a.m ....
Pregnant woman injured in accident
Feb 01, 2008 ... A Wisconsin woman who is eight-and-a-half months pregnant wastaken to the hospital after a crash in icy conditions on U.S. 151/61 on Jan. 24. Alison A. Parkings, 25, Glen Haven, Wis., was taken to MercyMedical Center-Dubuque, where she was treated and released. According to ...
What makes walking so special?
Feb 01, 2008; ... ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - A proposal to make walking the officialexercise of Maryland could get the boot - again. A bill sponsored by Sen. Verna Jones was introduced Thursday, butsome lawmakers question what makes the activity so special toMaryland. A previous attempt at the ...
Scientists lob bombs at HIV fortress
Feb 01, 2008; ... WASHINGTON (AP) - The AIDS virus has hideouts deep in the immunesystem that today's drugs can't reach. Now scientists finally havediscovered how HIV builds one of those fortresses - and they'reexploring whether a drug already used to fight a parasite indeveloping countries just might ...
Bike parked in Goodwill sells for $6.99
Feb 01, 2008; ... SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Cody Young parked his bike in the wrong placeat the Goodwill store, where the rule is that anything on the floorgoes. He didn't have a lock, but friends said they had parked insidethe store before. On Sunday, though, the black BMX bike was sold. But the ...
'Cyber Storm 2' set for early March
Feb 01, 2008; ... WASHINGTON (AP) - In the middle of the biggest-ever "Cyber Storm"war game to test the nation's hacker defenses, someone quietlytargeted the very computers used to conduct the exercise. The surprising culprit? The players themselves, the samegovernment and corporate experts ...
Appeal filed in Finley negligence trial
Feb 01, 2008 ... Attorneys representing a Dubuque man in a negligence trialagainst The Finley Hospital filed a notice of appeal to the IowaSupreme Court on Thursday. Daniel Day and his attorneys originally filed a motion for a newtrial, which was denied by a judge on Jan. 18. The motion was ...
Guard preparedness attacked
Feb 01, 2008; ... WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. military isn't ready for acatastrophic attack on the country, and National Guard forces don'thave the equipment or training they need for the job, according to areport. Even fewer Army National Guard units are combat-ready today thanwere nearly a year ...
Army suicides jump 20%
Feb 01, 2008; ... WASHINGTON (AP) - As many as 121 Army soldiers committed suicidein 2007, a jump of some 20 percent over the year before, officialssaid Thursday. The rise comes despite numerous efforts to improve the mentalhealth of a force stressed by a longer-than-expected war in Iraq andthe ...
Business briefs
Feb 01, 2008; ... Google 4Q profit below expectations SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc.'s fourth-quarter profit missedanalyst expectations, signaling the crumbling U.S. economy hasdented the Internet search leader's money-making machine. The Mountain View-based company said Thursday that it ...
Snowstorm forces flight cancellations
Feb 01, 2008; ... CHICAGO (AP) - As a major snowstorm continued through northernand central Illinois on Thursday, more than 600 flights in and outof O'Hare International Airport were canceled because ofdeteriorating weather and low ...