Bonnie Sanderman of Cedar Falls, originally of Waukon, will be celebrating her 90th birthday August 13. In honor of the occasion, cards and well wishes may be sent to NewAldaya, Apt. 212, 7511 University Avenue, Cedar Falls, IA 50613.
A family reunion will be held for the families of William and Ellen Manton Saturday, August 6 at the Wexford Hall. A luncheon will be held from 1-5 p.m.
The Manton ancestors came from Ireland in the 1850s. The Manton family included Mary, Sister M. Ramona, Catherine, Joseph, Martin, Thomas and William. All descendants are cordially invited to attend this family reunion.
Mass at the Immaculate Conception Church - Wexford, 1416 Great River Road, Harpers Ferry, will follow the reunion at 5:30 p.m. Contact info@greatriverit.com.
The 63rd Bulman reunion was held July 17, 2022 with Pastor Paul Burgess of Mt. Hope Presbyterian Church offering the luncheon prayer for the 21 attendees. The family is thankful for the organizers, Grace Bulman and Deb Harguth of Eitzen, MN. Bruce Bulman of Caledonia, MN continues to lead as reunion chairman. Historian Laina Ford suggested getting one email for each branch of the family and encouraging them to pass down the reunion information to their descendants.
There were no first-timers attending the reunion. Greetings were given from Ronda and John Opatt. Deaths reported were Betty Snitker, Merlyn Klocke, James Beardmore, Richard Anderson, Kolby Martin and Margret Herlig. One birth was reported for Hayden Bulman. One marriage was mistakenly unreported for Grace Bulman Manke and Nathan Holdbrook.
Ron and Nancy (Wirkler) Brandt of Waukon are celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary. The couple married August 12, 1962 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Monona.
Their family includes children Jim (Maggie) Brandt of Mesa, AZ and Susan (Jeff) Hand of Hiawatha, in addition to four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Cards and well wishes may be sent to 703 5th Street NW, Waukon, IA 52172.
After reading a letter to the editor in a previous edition of The Standard newspaper, where the writer needled the county about being coerced into taking over the city airport, I thought, you know, that might not be a bad idea. After all, the county actually did take over the Poor Farm, or as it was sometimes called the County Farm, and has been quite successful in realizing a respectable income from same.
Imagine, with 80 or 100 acres (I am guessing on acreage) of super prime Allamakee County farm land next to the fair grounds, what do you suppose they could do? With solar lights and all, crops could expect to nearly double all yields. Or as someone once said, “sell the airport, fix the streets and build some houses”.
The July 27 diatribe by Pat Ward in The Standard was another part of his political party deflecting attention away from what is happening to our country under the Biden administration.
Mr. Ward was obviously alluding to the sham “investigation” currently ongoing in Washington designed to try to bring criminal charges against former President Trump in hopes of preventing him from running again in 2024. Mr. Ward alleges, without proof, that Trump was responsible for the action at the Capitol January 6. What Mr. Ward does not do is mention that President Trump authorized the use of the National Guard to protect the Capitol and the current Speaker of the United States House of Representatives refused to call in those 20,000 troops that were available.
Upcoming Deadlines/Dates
September 1: Dairy Margin Coverage Premiums Due
October 31: Organic Certification Cost-Share and Transition/Education Certification Program
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig made a stop at the 2022 Allamakee County Fair in Waukon Friday, July 22. Secretary Naig visited with Allamakee County Fair board members and 4-H members during his stop, and also took time to speak with fair-goers, as pictured above. “Country fairs are always rewarding to celebrate #IowaAg traditions and interact with our future agricultural leaders,” Naig shared. Submitted photo.
Conservation planning is entering a new era of precision problem-solving with the Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework (ACPF), and its just-released Financial and Nutrient Reduction Tool (FiNRT).
“ACPF itself is a non-prescriptive conservation planning framework supported by high-resolution geospatial data and an ArcGIS toolbox,” said Emily Zimmerman, assistant professor in Iowa State’s Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management. “These elements are used to allow conservation planners and landowners to identify and evaluate conservation opportunities at different scales, from the field to the watershed.”
“With the recent addition of the ACPF-compatible FiNRT (pronounced fine-art) toolbox that incorporates financial information with environmental benefits, ACPF will be of even greater interest to stakeholders looking for information on the tradeoffs of implementing best management practices,” she said.
Standard photo by Standard Assistant Editor Joe Moses.
Standard photo by Julie Berg-Raymond.
Allamakee County greeted 18,000 bicyclists and also welcomed support crews and other visitors that pushed population estimates to nearly 25,000 people for the final day of RAGBRAI® XLIX Saturday, July 30, as the Des Moines Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI) came to a close for its 49th year. As depicted in the surrounding photos, bicyclists celebrated completion of this year’s RAGBRAI journey with the traditional dipping of their front tire in the Mississippi River in Lansing and some also raised their bicycles over their heads in triumphant celebration of their accomplishment (evident in the photos above and below taken by Julie Berg-Raymond).
