Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) back issues from October 2008:
100 Men Who Cook
Oct 01, 2008; ... News You can use What: 100 Men Who Cook Where: Grand RiverCenter, Port of Dubuque When: 6-9 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 2 Cost: $30in advance at Dubuque Hy-Vee and Hartig Drug stores; $40 at the door The men love it! They get to show off their culinary talents. Andshow off they ...
Gathering the right grape for gumbo
Oct 01, 2008; ... Gumbo is Louisiana comfort food of the first order, a thick,stewlike dish that warms the soul as well as the tummy. Cold beer or a tall glass of sweet tea might be your firstchoice, but don't count wine out of the action. With care, you canfind just the right wine to match whatever ...
Chili fans, prepare for Saturday
Oct 01, 2008; ... News You can use What: Chili Cook-Off Who: Cable Car SquareAssociation When: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4 (with JayceesChili Trot 5K Run at 8 a.m.) Where: Cable Car Square (run begins atKerper Boulevard and Hawthorne Street) Cost: $5 per sampling spoon Runners can work up an ...
Letters to the editor
Oct 01, 2008 ... I am a liberal, proudly supporting Barack Obama. I also supportthe right of any citizen to vote differently. I have one condition:Challenge everything. Recent negative ads present bold statements often easilyidentified as untruths. Our problem lies in the task facing the ...
Letters to the editor
Oct 01, 2008 ... It's time for John McCain to start educating people about BarackObama's liberal-socialist economic policy. Obama's empty rhetorichides his socialist philosophical beliefs, and he needs to be calledout. He'd allow President Bush's tax cuts to expire. As a middle-class family with ...
Astrology
Oct 01, 2008 ... If your birthday is today: Your entrepreneurial skills could beheightened in the year ahead, and you might find yourself involvedin numerous ambitious undertakings. Follow your instincts to developthem, and chances are you'll do fine. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) You're in a ...
What's happening
Oct 01, 2008 ... Today -- Senior citizens activities: 9:30 a.m., Senior Citizien BoardMeeting (Oct.1), The Salvation Army, 1099 Iowa St. -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library Read-Aloud Crowd, 10:30-11 a.m.,360 W. 11th St. Stories, sing-alongs, movement activities, circlegames and lots of fun for ...
Waterskiing ... au naturel
Oct 01, 2008; ... Some people play field hockey, or hockey without skates. Somepeople play disc golf, or golf with clubs. Others play touchfootball, or football without the ... you know, violence. But JacobWeber, a 16-year-old student of Platteville High School, trumps themall. He waterskis without ...
Acupressure useful in waking up
Oct 01, 2008; ... Yaaawn. Find yourself fighting to keep your eyes open everyafternoon or even listening to your boss during a morning meeting(and not because you're daydreaming about your next vacation)? Trythis: Discreetly rub the back of your neck, massage each handbetween your thumb and index finger ...
Almanac
Oct 01, 2008; ... Today is Wednesday, Oct. 1, the 275th day of 2008. There are 91days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History One hundred years ago, on Oct. 1, 1908, Henry Ford introduced hisModel T automobile to the market. On this date In 1800, Spain ceded Louisiana to ...
Friends and neighbors
Oct 01, 2008 ... Galena chamber will hold Halloween raffle GALENA, Ill. - The Galena Area Chamber of Commerce is sponsoringa Halloween raffle Prizes include an LG 42-inch plasma flat-panel TV, chamber giftcertificates, chamber designer tote bags and other items. The cost of the tickets ...
Holocaust exhibit acquired
Oct 01, 2008; ... CHICAGO (AP) - The faded papers hint at stark details in thelives of Nazi concentration camp inmates. Letters secretly carried by children through the sewers ofWarsaw, Poland, during the 1944 uprising. A 1933 card from a Dachaucamp commander outlining strict rules for prisoner ...
Making a hobby out of a molehill
Oct 01, 2008; ... BELLEVUE, Iowa - Chris Reistroffer doesn't ask for much to ridBellevue yards of a burrowing pest. Bake him a rhubarb pie or fork over some dough for gas money,that's all the 84-year-old retired railroad track worker asks of hiscustomers. "I know it helps them out," ...
Judge: Ladies' night is all right
Oct 01, 2008; ... NEW YORK (AP) - It's closing time for a lawsuit allegingladies'nights at nightclubs discriminate against men. Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum tossed the lawsuit out of federalcourt in Manhattan on Monday. She said nightclubs can price theirproducts as they wish because they're not ...
Corrections
Oct 01, 2008 ... Dave Zillig attended St. Patrick's Catholic School. A story inSunday's Tri-State Boomers magazine ...
DRA OKs $3 million boost to project
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Dubuque Racing Association Board unanimously approved a $3million increase Tuesday to the upcoming renovation project at theDubuque Greyhound Park & Casino. The project price tag is now $10 million and will include anoverhaul of the facility kitchen, the addition of a fine ...
Government meetings
Oct 01, 2008 ... Dubuque County Board of Supervisors - 9 a.m., supervisorschamber, fourth floor, courthouse. Clayton County Supervisors - 9 a.m., 200 E. Bridge St., Elkader,Iowa. Dubuque Community School Activities Council - 9:30 a.m., KeystoneRoom 3B, 2310 Chaney Road. Dubuque ...
Frances M. Wingert
Oct 01, 2008 ... Frances Mary (Schwartz) Wingert, 81, of Saylorsburg, Pa.,formerly of Dubuque, died Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008, in Muhlenburg,Pa. Services will be at 2 ...
Funeral services
Oct 01, 2008 ... Frank B. Bishop, Earlville, Iowa - Services: 11 a.m. today,Earlville United Parish, Earlville. Otto J. Bisinger, Maquoketa, Iowa - Graveside services: 10 a.m.today, Sacred Heart Cemetery, Maquoketa. Marjorie Brunscheen, Wyoming, Iowa - Services: 10:30 a.m. today,Zion American ...
Elaine A. Reuter
Oct 01, 2008 ... LANCASTER, Wis. - Elaine Anna Reuter, 85, of Lancaster, diedsuddenly Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008, at Grant Regional Health Center,Lancaster. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, at St. ClementCatholic ...
Ruth A. Hanchar
Oct 01, 2008 ... MAQUOKETA, Iowa - Ruth A. Hanchar, 92, of Maquoketa, diedsuddenly Monday, Sept. 29, 2008, at Mercy ...
Daniel J. Meyer
Oct 01, 2008 ... Daniel J. "Goof" Meyer, 57, of Dallas, formerly of Dubuque, diedpeacefully, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008, at home, of cancer. Services will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, at St. Anthony'sCatholic Church, with the Rev. Richard Schaefer officiating. Inkeeping with his wishes, his body ...
Maybe a better bailout awaits
Oct 01, 2008 ... Maybe this bailout wasn't right. All the rushing to bring this bailout measure to a vote wasreminiscent of some of the votes taken right after 9/11. The countrywas in crisis. Citizens were looking to Congress to make them feelsafer. Legislators felt compelled to take some action ....
Tri-state cities holding their own
Oct 01, 2008; ... As of now, city of Dubuque officials are watching Wall Street'sebbs and flows with interest, but they are not planning anyprotective measures of assets. Other area municipalities are not in panic mode, either, even asstates and cities elsewhere feel the bite of the credit ...
Mette decision expected today
Oct 01, 2008 ... DES MOINES - A controversial Dubuque case involving the sentenceof a former Chicago police officer convicted of assault is about toget some direction from Des Moines. The Iowa Court of Appeals is expected to announce its decisionthis morning in the appeal of Michael ...
Police
Oct 01, 2008 ... -- Buddy A. Brandenburg, 37, 1404 Lincoln Ave., reported thetheft of an Xbox 360, worth $500, from his home between 8 a.m. and8:30 p.m. Sunday. He also reported that over the past two months,more than $800 worth of items were stolen, ...
Sharon A. Summers
Oct 01, 2008 ... MANCHESTER, Iowa - Sharon Ann (Soppe) Summers, 63, of Manchester,died Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008, at the home of her son in Masonville,following a brief illness. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 3, at St. Mary'sCatholic Church, Manchester, with the Rev. John Flaherty ...
Local markets
Oct 01, 2008 ... Peavey Closing prices at Peavey in ...
Dubuquer hurt in 2-vehicle accident
Oct 01, 2008 ... A Dubuque man was injured in an accident Monday afternoon inDubuque. Nicholas Burnett, 19, of 90 Main St., No. 408, was transported toThe Finley Hospital for minor injuries, where he was treated andreleased. According to police, around 1:30 p.m., ...
Births
Oct 01, 2008 ... Monday, Sept. 29, 2008 Imhof - Austin and Brittni Imhof, Dubuque, girl at The FinleyHospital, Dubuque. Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008 Sawyer - James and Rebecca Sawyer, Platteville, Wis., boy atMercy Medical Center-Dubuque. Lopez-Barrios - ...
Detours
Oct 01, 2008 ... West 32nd Street from North Grandview Avenue to Lemon Street isclosed. Traffic is detoured around the closure. Anticipatedreopening: Oct. 3. Cox Street is closed between Loras Boulevard and West 17thStreet. Anticipated reopening: Oct. 9. U.S. 52 (Central Avenue) between 32nd ...
Sister Florence Wiatrak, BVM
Oct 01, 2008 ... Sister Florence Wiatrak, BVM, (Ehrentrude), 84, of 1130 CarmelDrive, died at 1:55 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008, at Caritas Center,Mount Carmel. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, at Marian HallChapel, Mount Carmel. Burial will be in Mount Carmel Cemetery.Friends may ...
Nolan F. Fishnick
Oct 01, 2008 ... LANCASTER, Wis. - Nolan F. Fishnick, infant son of Peter andGreta (Glasbrenner) Fishnick, of Lancaster, was stillborn, Sunday,Sept. 28, 2008, at Meriter Hospital, ...
Springsteen, Joel team up
Oct 01, 2008; ... WASHINGTON (AP) - Rock stars Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel areteaming up for their first joint concert to benefit Democraticpresidential nominee Barack Obama. Obama plans to attend the concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom inNew York City on Oct. 16, the day after Obama's final ...
Robert O. Link
Oct 01, 2008 ... OELWEIN, Iowa - Robert O. Link, 82, of Oelwein, died Mondaymorning, Sept. 29, 2008, at Mercy Living Plus, Oelwein, after alengthy illness. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 3, at Sacred HeartCatholic Church, Oelwein, with the Rev. Harry Koelker officiating.Burial will be ...
Testimony turns to potato chips
Oct 01, 2008; ... GALENA, Ill. - Defense attorney Stephen Richards encountered someconfusion Tuesday when cross-examining the man who loaned an allegedhit man his car. Michael Biggles, of Waterloo, Iowa, took the stand as aprosecution witness to corroborate Bruce Burt's testimony that Burtpaid ...
Exercise aims to alter perceptions
Oct 01, 2008; ... NYCU For more on P.E.E.R.S go to Thonline.com (http://www.peerawareness.com) If it meant "hitting a police car" to bring home the point,Sister Joanne Burrows was willing to go the distance. There was really no accident Tuesday, and Clarke College'spresident never left the ...
James Healy IV
Oct 01, 2008 ... HANOVER, Ill. - James "Jim" Healy IV, 57, of Hanover, diedMonday, Sept. 29, 2008, at his home. Cremation Rites have been accorded. A Memorial Gathering will befrom 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, at the Hanover UnitedMethodist Church, where a memorial service will be at 1:30 ...
Dog-racing threats: Vote, low interest
Oct 01, 2008; ... BOSTON (AP) - Voters in Massachusetts will soon decide whethergreyhound racing should continue there, though the real questionmight be whether the once-popular sport dies a quick death or a slowone. Across the country, the legions of blue-collar fans the industryrelied on have ...
Business briefs
Oct 01, 2008; ... Paper exec moved to Canadian prison CHICAGO - Newspaper executive F. David Radler, who went to prisonfor joining Conrad Black in swindling the Hollinger Internationalmedia empire out of millions of dollars, has been turned over toCanadian authorities. Radler, 64, was released ...
Delbert R. Highstrom
Oct 01, 2008 ... PRESTON, Iowa - Delbert "Hans" R. Highstrom, 68, of Preston, diedMonday, Sept. 29, 2008, at Mercy Medical Center North-Clinton. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 3, at ...
Green company intrigues official
Oct 01, 2008; ... Flexible and intriguing is how city of Dubuque EconomicDevelopment Director Dave Heiar described an informational meetingMonday with Water-Smart Environmental, Inc. The company is seeking a long-term municipal partner with whichto unveil its extensive variety of environmentally ...
Dow surges 485 points on hopes of bailout
Oct 01, 2008; ... NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street snapped back Tuesday after itsbiggest sell-off in years amid growing expectations that lawmakerswill salvage a $700 billion rescue plan for the financial sector.But the seized-up credit markets where businesses turn to raisemoney showed no sign of ...
Ex-carrier accused of hoarding mail
Oct 01, 2008; ... DETROIT (AP) - In a case that echoes a "Seinfeld" episode, aformer postal worker has been charged with stealing thousands ofpieces of mail that authorities say she had kept in a storage unitnorthwest of Detroit. Federal investigators say they've recovered more than 9,000pieces of ...
Janet Jackson hospitalized
Oct 01, 2008; ... NEW YORK (AP) - A representative for Janet Jackson says thesinger has been hospitalized after falling ill shortly before aconcert. According to statement released by W&W Public Relations, thesinger canceled her concert in Montreal on Monday after she "gotsuddenly ill" ...
'Alligator Capital of Texas' hit hard by Hurricane Ike
Oct 01, 2008; ... ANAHUAC, Texas (AP) - In this town on the edge of Trinity Bay,alligators normally outnumber people three to one, and the annualTexas GatorFest draws 30,000 people - more than 10 times the town'spopulation. But not this year, not with Hurricane Ike. The storm forced ...
Bernard J. Ronnfeldt
Oct 01, 2008 ... EASTMAN, Wis. - Bernard J. "Bud" Ronnfeldt, 79, of Eastman, diedTuesday, Sept. 30, 2008, at the Prairie du Chien Memorial Hospital. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 3, at St ....
Joel aids clammer's kin
Oct 01, 2008; ... BAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - Billy Joel, who has championed the cause ofLong Island, New York, fishermen in songs like "The DowneasterAlexa," is helping with the funeral expenses for a clam-digger whosebody was found not far from the singer's mansion. The body of Edwin Flores was found ...
Annabell Mae Zittergruen
Oct 01, 2008 ... ELKADER, Iowa - Annabell Mae Zittergruen, 85, of Elkader, diedTuesday morning, Sept. 30, 2008, at Central Community Hospital,Elkader, following a long illness. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 3, at Peace ...
Still no decision in Nora dairy case
Oct 01, 2008 ... GALENA, Ill. - No ruling came from Circuit Court Judge Kevin WardTuesday. Attorneys and onlookers alike thought Tuesday might be theconclusion to a series of hearings that started in July on acontroversial dairy project in northwest Illinois. Several individual plaintiffs and ...
New Pakistan spy chief seen as tough on militants
Oct 01, 2008; ... ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's army chief named a generalconsidered a hawk in the fight against al-Qaida and the Taliban tohead the country's powerful spy agency, asserting his control at atime of U.S. concern that rogue operatives are aiding Talibaninsurgents in ...
International briefs
Oct 01, 2008; ... 168 die in Indian temple stampede JODHPUR, India - Thousands of pilgrims panicked by false rumorsof a bomb stampeded at a Hindu temple in western India on Tuesday,killing at least 168 people in the crush to escape. Television footage showed dozens of bodies lying on the ...
Iowa briefs
Oct 01, 2008; ... DNR: Some water unfit for babies SHELLSBURG - Residents near Shellsburg are being told not to givetap water to children under 6 months old because of high nitritelevels. Officials with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources issuedthe warning Tuesday to residents of the ...
Official: Increase oversight of death penalty fund
Oct 01, 2008; ... ST. LOUIS (AP) - Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias called forstricter oversight of a state fund that helps pay expenses forlawyers and investigators in death-penalty cases, saying some haveregarded the fund as a "blank check." Giannoulias also wants to limit how much can be paid ...
Man gets 35 years in plot to attack mall
Oct 01, 2008; ... CHICAGO (AP) - A 24-year-old who admired Osama bin Laden wassentenced to 35 years in prison Tuesday for plotting to use handgrenades to attack a mall jammed with Christmas shoppers as part ofwhat he saw as violent Islamic jihad. Derrick Shareef, of Rockford, appeared calm as U.S ....
Judge not stepping down from case
Oct 01, 2008; ... DES MOINES (AP) - A federal judge has denied a motion asking herto remove herself from the case of a former Agriprocessors Inc.supervisor who is awaiting sentencing on immigration charges. Martin De La Rosa-Loera appeared in federal court in Cedar Rapidslast month and pleaded ...
Illinois/Wisconsin briefs
Oct 01, 2008; ... Insurer balks at covering district BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - The insurer of the Unit 5 school district isbalking at providing coverage in connection with a sexual abuselawsuit. Cincinnati Insurance contends in a federal lawsuit that an Urbanastudent identified as Jane Doe-2 and her ...
Candidates seek political gain in crisis
Oct 01, 2008; ... DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - White House rivals John McCain and BarackObama combined televised attack ads with statesmanlike appeals forbipartisanship on Tuesday as they vied for political gain in theshadow of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Both men spoke ...
Leaders seek 12 votes
Oct 01, 2008; ... WASHINGTON (AP) - Wanted: An even dozen lawmakers, willing tomake a really big commitment. Party affiliation no concern. Alarmed supporters of the multibillion-dollar economic rescuefought to bring it back to life Tuesday, courting reluctant Housemembers who smacked it down just ...
Simpson judge will release questionnaires
Oct 01, 2008; ... LAS VEGAS (AP) - The judge in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery-kidnapping case plans to release redacted jury questionnaires oncethe trial ends and is defending her decision not to release the fullsurveys immediately. "If juror questionnaires were released during this trial, ...
Plane crash victim still recovering
Oct 01, 2008 ... A University of Dubuque aviation student hurt last month in aplane crash near Cassville, Wis., remains in critical but stablecondition at University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics inMadison. UD junior Cory Alsip, of Glendale ...
Contractor testifies in Stevens case
Oct 01, 2008; ... WASHINGTON (AP) - They were friends once, the oilman and thesenator. Over 26 years, they shared a fondness for cigars and wine,for salmon fishing and Alaska politics. But when oil pipeline contractor Bill Allen entered a federalcourtroom Tuesday, Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens gave no ...
National briefs
Oct 01, 2008; ... College: 4 confess to Obama effigy NEWBERG, Ore. - A Christian university in Oregon said Tuesday ithas punished four students who confessed to hanging a likeness ofDemocratic presidential candidate Barack Obama from a tree oncampus. George Fox University broke the news to ...
Actuary: 1-in-4 chance McCain doesn't make it through a 2nd term
Oct 01, 2008; ... WASHINGTON (AP) - If John McCain is elected and goes on to win asecond term, there's as much as a one-in-four chance America couldsee its first female president - Sarah Palin. It's actuarial math. The odds highly favor either McCain or Barack Obama completing afirst term in ...
Totally opposite Septembers
Oct 01, 2008; ... A look at the best-of-five National League division seriesbetween the Milwaukee Brewers and Philadelphia Phillies: Schedule: Game 1, Today, at Philadelphia (2:07 p.m.); Game 2,Thursday, at Philadelphia (5:07 p.m.); Game 3, Saturday, atMilwaukee (5:37 p.m.); x-Game 4, Sunday, at ...