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On the Cover: 8 • Taste of Dubuque 12 • River Museum Expansion Mark "Mac" McClimon 15 • Dubuque County Fair 1952 - 2012 22 • Country Junction Restaurant To our friend Mac, this Bud's for you... issue #165 • july 19 - august 1, 2012 4 community briefs 25 sara from steve’s ace 6 recurring events 25 eating healthy with hy-vee 7 rock & soul beach party 26 bobs book reviews 10 the “tasteful” designer 26 millwork screening event 14 movies 27 pam kress-dunn 16 moon bar entertainment 28 leisure services / library events 17 budweiser nightlife 29 mattitude 18 local live music 30 365 finance 20 budweiser nightlife cont. 31 365 wellness 21 poker run / beach party 32 puzzles 22 country junction restaurant 34 the grand’s got talent 24 Rock & Roll Rewind 34 trixie kitsch 35 dr. skraps 365ink production staff 365ink contributing writers { bryce parks } { matt booth } [email protected] Mattitude Publisher, Everything Else [email protected] { mike ironside } { pam kress-dunn } [email protected] Feature Writer Feature Writer, Photography [email protected] { kristina nesteby } { bob gelms } [email protected] Bob’s Book Reviews Ad Designer [email protected] 365ink advertising staff { mayor roy buol } { shelley till } Buol on Dubuque 563-542-3801, [email protected] [email protected] { rich belmont } Argosy’s Food For Thought { kelli kerrigan } [email protected] 563-581-7014 [email protected] { l.a. hammer } Trixie Kitsch: Bad Advice For The Stupid { lisa stevenson } 563-580-1691 Sara Carpenter [email protected] Do it Yourself Advice [email protected] special thanks to: Brad Parks, Ric Woods, Jenni Welsh, Dick Landis, Margie Blair, Chris Wand, Neil Stockel, Ron Kirchhoff, Fran Parks, Christy Monk, Julie Steffen, Kay Kluseman, Ralph Kluseman, Ron & Jennifer Tigges, bacon, Steven Schleuning , Julie Griffin, Dave Haas, Tim Brechlin, Gen. Bob Felderman and all the 365 friends and advertisers. { dubuque365 / 365ink } 401 Locust Street, Dubuque, IA, 52001 Where’s Wando dubuque365.com | 563-588-4365 We’ve hidden Wando some- All contents © 2012, Community, Incorporated. where in this issue of 365ink. All rights reserved. Can you find him? 2 { july19 - august 1, 2012 } 365ink Magazine | issue #165 www.Dubuque365.com { bryce’s inkubator } smile, you’re on candid camera-phone! A few years ago I made a video with my young friend Jackson Hoeger that spawned the catchphrase, “If you don’t fight cancer, you don’t know Jack”, which itself started a whirlwind experience for Jack and his family, and making, no... enhancing the rock star status that Jack already deservedly had. Heck, even Lance Armstrong is tweeting about Jack this week. A few months ago I made a follow-up video with Jack, highlighting all of the amazing things he has done and the impact he has had since the first video won an award from Livestrong. The second video was based on Jack’s new catchphrase “show me your muscles,” because that’s what Jack uses to The family took a couple weeks to regain their fight cancer. breath and pulse before going back this week to re-attempt the anti-seizure surgery. For the first The truth is Jack is a much stronger kid than any time in five years, Jack had to miss the I Know Jack muscles can show. While Jack has been cancer free poker run in New Diggings, where he’s melted for quite a while, the toll taken by fighting Jack’s more than a few hearts in the tri-states. But the very rare form of brain cancer has had lasting ride went on without him there in person, but his effects, seizures being the most difficult of those. energy carried all the way there nonetheless. To address that issue, Jack has made many return trips to the Mayo Clinic where they are working to They induced seizures on purpose to map their remove a small part of Jack’s frontal lobe which is location, as they have had to do in the past. This triggering the seizures. The very notion just shoots time, the seizures don’t seem to want to stop. Jack fear and panic through me. I know it does the came out of sedation for a brief moment to tell his same to his family. Jack is the toughest little guy on mom in a confused, sleepy voice “It feels like the the planet. That must be because he comes from devil is in my head.” I cannot even fathom what it equally tough stock. The challenges that Marty felt like to hear her son say that. No words. But Jen’s and Jen, his parents, have to face and the decisions tougher than me, and through her own tears, she they have to make on a regular basis would crush told Jack, “Mine too baby, mine too.” lesser beings. Having read their book, One Left Handed Hug, I know it crushes them too. But they The solution looks to be more drastic than at least keep getting back up. I thought I was going to be. On Wednesday, the day this goes to the press, he will undergo a total With the goal of stopping his seizures once and right frontal lobectomy. The expectation and hope for all, they retuned to Mayo last month for the is that the left frontal lobe takes over for the right surgery. While a mere mortal would go into a and they will resect anterior to the motorstrip. delicate medical procedure filled with every I have no idea what that means, but I believe it possible kind of fear and trepidation, Jack was involves tearing the hearts out of mom and dad actually high-fiving people in the hallway on his and family and stomping on them repeatedly. way to surgery. Unbelievable! With significant damage in the past to his left frontal lobe, the prayers now are that his unique It turned out the surgery never happened. brain will respond as yours or mine would and the Jack’s scan showed abnormal tissue in the left side will pick up the slack for the right. Jack will area of his previous cancer. The blow that that come out partially paralyzed for a few months on news brought surely floored everyone who his left side as his brain relearns control. But the ever met Jack, including the hospital staff. prayer is he will also come out seizure free, with a While looking to free him from the lingering long life to look forward to cancer and seizure free. effects of the fight of his life, it looked that the If we could each take a tiny bit of his pain onto fight had come back for another round. One ourselves to see him though this, I think it would which seemed insurmountable. If my own take a battalion to shoulder the burden. dread was any indication, Jen and Marty had to have been destroyed. Everyone waited for the Every finger you have to cross, every ounce of inevitable test results to come back. When they positive energy you have to cast Jack’s direction, did, the answer was nothing short of a miracle. and every prayer you have to put out there would It was not cancer. It was scar tissue. No Cancer! be welcomed right about now. Thank you to This is because Jack does not fear cancer, my dear friends for allowing me to retell their cancer fears Jack. I give some credit to sausage, story. I will share the family’s happy ending for bacon and whiffle ball, Jack’s favorite things. my readers real soon. Until then, Livestrong and show Jack your muscles. www.Dubuque365.com 365ink Magazine | issue #165 { july 19 - august 1, 2012 } 3 { community events } boyingtonnnnn! Music in Jackson Park with historical aircraft from July 19th – integrating the dance program and show- adult tournament, voted the best adult The Americana Band 22nd. During this period, over 40 WWII ing that it’s what is inside that counts. tournament in Iowa in 2009 and 2010. It Sunday, July 8 AT-6 Texans will operate from the ramp also holds the title of the 2009 best adult Music in Jackson Park, the free summer- at Dubuque Regional Airport. The AT-6 Rising Star Theatre Company will present tournament in the Missouri Valley (Iowa, time concerts in downtown Dubuque’s pilots are gathering in Dubuque for the Hairspray on Fridays and Saturdays, July 13 - Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri). North-end neighborhood are held on the yearly pre-Experimental Aircraft Associa- 14 & 19 - 21 at 7:30 p.m. Sundays, July 15 & 21 The tournament awards cash awards for second Sundays of the summer months, tion (EAA) AirVenture formation practice at 2 p.m. at Five Flags Theatre, 405 Main Street men’s and women’s singles and doubles. from 6 to 8 p.m. and feature a different and qualification. Although the Formation in downtown Dubuque. Tickets are $11 and Spectators are welcome. Matches take place style of music for each concert. The July Clinic is private and the airport ramp will can be purchased at the Five Flags Theatre throughout the city; the adult championship installment features patriotic marches and be closed to the public, there is an obser- Box Office, ticketmaster.com, all Ticketmaster matches are played at the Dubuque Golf and the classic tunes of Stephen Foster as per- vation area adjacent to the airport entry- Outlets, or by phone at 1-800-745-3000. Country Club on Sunday, July 22. formed by the brass American Band. The way for the public. For best viewing times, family-friendly event celebrating the diver- spectators can visit the area between 8 sity of downtown Dubuque’s North-end am and 6 pm to view some of the flights.