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Colors in Motion Fall Quilt Show

Today and Saturday, Dubuque County Fairgrounds, 14569 Old Highway Road

Noon to 7 p.m. today and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Cable Car Quilters Guild will show-case the skills of more than 100 guild members as well as other regional quilters. The show in-cludes a silent auction, raffle baskets and quilt “shops.” Cost: $5 for adults and $3 for students with ID. Children 3 and younger admitted for free.

Polar PlungeSaturday, Schmitt Harbor

Boat Ramp, 2210 Chaplain Schmitt Drive

11 a.m. Teams will plunge into the Mississippi River to raise money for Special Olym-pics. Come and encourage par-ticipants, help raise funds and enjoy a post party with food and prizes. On-site registration and check-in from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. More information: https://bit.ly/3HclFig.

Fall Into the HolidaysSunday, Dubuque County

Fairgrounds, 14569 Old High-way Road

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Browse crafts, clothing, holiday decor, children’s toys and more from more than 75 vendors. Food and drink will be available for pur-chase. Free admission.

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BY ELIZABETH KELSEYelizabeth.kelsey@thmedia.com

GALENA, Ill. — A popular pizza restaurant is poised to reopen in Galena after closing more than two years ago.

Officials with Happy Joe’s Pizza & Ice Cream confirmed that the restaurant’s Galena location at 9919 U.S. 20 soon will be open again.

“I can confirm that we are com-ing back to Galena, and we’re super excited,” said Kristel Whitty-Ersan, the company’s vice president of marketing.

The restaurant closed in June 2019 after 35 years in business. At the time, a press release from Hap-py Joe’s cited several reasons for the closure, including “a downturn in tourism, demographic shifts and a lack of population growth.”

Roger Bussan, who owns the Happy Joe’s restaurant in Lancast-er, Wis., is the Galena location’s new owner. He said discussions to pur-

chase the restaurant began in July, when he learned that Happy Joe’s officials intended to begin selling the equipment and supplies from

the building that had been vacant for two years.

“We had taken looks at it prior to this, but that prompted us to once more take a look at it,” Bussan said.

Bussan’s connec-tions to the Galena

Happy Joe’s run deep. As a native of Menominee and a graduate of Galena High School, one of his first jobs was working at the pizza parlor. He continued to work there through college, becoming first the assistant manager and then the general man-ager before leaving to purchase the Lancaster Happy Joe’s in 2002.

In a final sweet touch, the Galena Happy Joe’s also was where Bussan met his wife.

“Once we had the opportunity to

bring it back to life, we jumped all over it,” he said.

Bussan is currently finalizing fi-nancial details of the purchase and hopes to reopen the Galena location in early January. He anticipates hir-ing 25 to 30 employees, including a manager, assistant manager, deliv-ery drivers and servers.

In 2017, the Galena restaurant had converted to a Happy Joe’s Piz-zagrille. Under the new moniker, the restaurant continued to offer traditional menu favorites as well as a tap room with craft beer and new entrees such as hamburgers, steak and fish.

Bussan said under his owner-ship, the restaurant will return to its original status as Happy Joe’s Pizza & Ice Cream.

“We’re going to refocus on what makes Happy Joe’s great, and that’s the pizza and the pasta and the ser-vice and all that good stuff,” he said. “We’ll focus on families and birth-day parties and the experience.”

Happy Joe’s plans new slice of life at Galena location

Roger Bussan

news in briefDubuque man accused of forgery

A Dubuque man is accused of forging an-other person’s checks and fraudulently depos-iting more than $4,000 into his own account.

Samuel L. Wickre, 37, of 2097 Broadlawn Road, was arrested at 5:56 a.m. Thursday

at Dubuque Law Enforcement Center on charges of second-de-gree theft and 10 counts of forg-ery.

Court documents state that Wickre is the adult son of a cou-ple who are neighbors of Roger C. Kauffmann, of Asbury, Iowa. Wickre obtained Kauffmann’s financial information from his

parents and used the information to cash checks in Kauffmann’s name during a two-year span.

Police reported discovering 10 such checks, totaling $1,710. Wickre told author-ities that he also signed and cashed another 13 checks from the Kauffmann account, to-taling an additional $2,610.

Samuel L. Wickre

Hanover man sentenced to prisonHANOVER, Ill. — A Jo Daviess County

man has been sentenced to two years in pris-on for leading authorities on a high-speed chase.

Craig M. Burns, 46, of Hanover, was sen-tenced this week in Jo Daviess County Circuit Court after pre-viously pleading guilty to aggra-vated fleeing/eluding, a felony. The prison sentence will be fol-lowed by one year of mandato-ry supervised release, formerly known as parole.

According to the Jo Daviess County State’s Attorney Office,

Burns fled from law enforcement on Aug. 28, 2020, in rural Galena and Elizabeth “at a high rate of speed, passing numerous mo-torists illegally, before he was apprehended in Hanover.”

Craig M. Burns

Telegraph Herald

Three people were taken to hospitals after a two-vehicle crash Wednesday morning in Dubuque.

Clen Wajer, 53, and Rebecca A. Stouer, 43, both of Dubuque, were taken by ambulance to Uni-

tyPoint Health-Finley Hospital, and Shanelle M. Scott, 46, of Hazel Green, Wis., was transported to MercyOne Dubuque Medical Cen-ter for treatment, police said.

The crash occurred at the inter-section of Locust and West Third streets at about 11:15 a.m. Wednes-

day. Police said Wajer was traveling west on West Third Street when he ran a stop sign at the intersection and struck Scott’s vehicle, causing it to roll. Scott was driving north on Locust with Stouer as a passenger.

Wajer was cited with failure to obey a stop sign.

3 people taken to hospitals after Dubuque crash