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The Veterans Memorial Hospital Diabetes Support Group will not hold a regular meeting in July, but will resume its monthly meetings in August.

For more information on the Diabetes Support Group, call Angie Mettille, RN, Diabetes Educator, at Veterans Memorial Hospital at 563-568-3411.
 

from The Iowa Department of Public Health and Veterans Memorial Hospital Community and Home Care/Allamakee County Public Health

Allamakee County Public Health, a division of Veterans Memorial Hospital (VMH) Community and Home Care, shares these tips for cleaning and disinfecting after a flood, from the Iowa Department of Public Health.

Upcoming Deadlines/Dates
May 15 - August 1: CRP Primary Nesting Season
July 12: End of July Continuous CRP Batching Period
July 15: Certification/Acreage Reporting Deadline for FY24
August 1: Nomination Period for COC Election in LAA

Cost sharing available
Cost sharing on conservation practices is still available. Through the State of Iowa Division of Soil Conservation, IDALS, applications are taken continuously for terraces, grade stabilization structures (ponds), sediment basins (dry ponds) and waterways. The cost sharing is 50 percent up to the estimated cost.

Cover crops help prevent nitrate loss and protect soil from erosion, but they also add another step to plant in the fall. What if farmers could have a cover crop that they only had to plant once?

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach will examine this topic during three upcoming field days across the state in July and August.

Registration for all events begin at 11:30 a.m. with the program beginning at 12:30 p.m.

• Wednesday, July 24, Corning, Iowa
• Wednesday, Aug. 7, Nashua, Iowa
• Wednesday, Aug. 14, Boone, Iowa

Participants will learn about recent research on the use of perennial groundcover on farmland. The event is part of a program called “Regenerating America’s Working Landscapes to Enhance Nature Resources and Public Goods through Perennial Groundcover,” also known as Regen PGC. Regen PGC researchers are looking at ways to make year-round groundcover on cropland commonplace.

Awe. Awesome. Surprise. Overwhelming. The unknowable, inexpressible. Joy. Wonder.

What do these words mean to you? Old, confusing words? Something that takes your breath away. A beautiful sunset, a baby’s smile, ocean waves landing gracefully on the beach, a stranger who stops to help someone who has fallen, music that captures our attention with its beauty. Gazing at the Grand Canyon. All these things may bring, in us, a feeling of awe. They may be big things or they may be small. But we are changed by them.

The Bible abounds with awe. Glory to God in the highest! Praise the Lord! Fall on your knees in wonder. Moses at the burning bush that somehow doesn’t burn up. Water that flows from a rock. A blind man sees, a beggar is healed, an angel comes to Mary. These are all things that we can’t explain, even when they are right in front of us. Sometimes we take them for granted. We need to improve our seeing. We need to pay attention with open minds and hearts.

To the Editor:

Iowans value liberty and rights as reflected in the state’s motto “Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain.” Tragically, Gov. Reynolds and her legislators have relentlessly attacked our liberty and finally succeeded in stripping away women’s reproductive rights. By the narrowest of margins, Reynolds’ four hand-picked Supreme Court Justices ruled (4-3 decision) to allow the six-week abortion ban to take effect.

In a few weeks, abortions in Iowa will not be legal after six weeks. Abortion will be a punishable crime just like in Texas and Idaho, states with similar extreme abortion laws. Women, their daughters and granddaughters have fewer rights than they did two years ago when the U.S. Supreme Court’s radical extremist justices overturned Roe, rescinding 50 years of a woman’s right to an abortion.

The Waukon baseball team wrapped up its regular season winning two of its final three games of that pre-tournament slate this past week to bring its scheduled regular season games to a close. That final week in regular season play started with a road sweep of Crestwood Monday, July 1 by scores of 11-0 and 3-1 before Mother Nature forced a series of reschedulings that included cancellation of a Tuesday, July 2 home date with North Fayette Valley by rainy weather and a Wednesday, July 3 home game with Oelwein being called off in order to make up a final Northeast Iowa Conference game at Class 2A sixth-rated New Hampton that had been rained out as part of a Friday, June 28 doubleheader and ended up in a narrow loss, 3-1, for the diamond Tribe.

The Kee baseball team finished off its regular season this past week with three final wins before starting postseason tournament play. That final week of the regular season included an 8-3 win at Turkey Valley in the Hawks’ Upper Iowa Conference finale Monday, July 1 before Kee’s diamond dwellers wrapped up their regular season with consecutive non-conference victories at home, 10-2 over Riceville Tuesday, July 2 in a game that had been suspended from May 16 and an 8-4 triumph over Janesville Wednesday, July 3.

The Hawks wrapped up their regular season with a 24-10 overall record that includes a 13-5 mark in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play that placed them third in this season’s final UIC team standings. They then opened Class 1A District Tournament play Saturday, July 6 at home against Edgewood-Colesburg with a 6-1 victory.

The Kee softball team wrapped up its regular season schedule this past week with a busy final week of seven games. The Hawks put four of those seven games in the win column, with those four wins all coming in Upper Iowa Conference doubleheader sweeps at home, 7-2 and 13-1 in three innings over West Central Monday, July 1 and 7-3 and 11-1 in five innings over North Fayette Valley Wednesday, July 3. The three non-conference games the Lady Hawks played this past week all ended up in the loss column, including a 6-0 loss at home to Riceville in a rain-shortened game of five innings Tuesday, July 2 and a 7-1 loss at Jesup Friday, July 5 followed by a 12-2 mercy-rule loss at home in five innings to Class 3A seventh-rated Sumner-Fredericksburg Saturday, July 6.

The Waukon softball team played through a winless final full week of its regular season schedule this past week, falling in all four of its ballgames played to currently hold an 8-17 overall record that includes a 2-12 mark in Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) play. The Lady Indians opened the week with a 9-4 loss at home to Oelwein Monday, July 1 before being swept in a home NEIC doubleheader with Charles City Wednesday, July 3 in a date rained out from the night before, first falling by a 15-10 result in a marathon 12 innings in game one before also falling by a 19-4 result in six innings in the nightcap. The diamond Tribe wrapped its week with a 10-5 loss to Waverly-Shell Rock Friday afternoon, July 5 in a game rescheduled from Friday, June 28 and played at Decorah.