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The doctors and staffs of Family Chiropractic Associates, Waukon Dental, and Veterans Memorial Hospital are proud to announce that they will be holding "Have a Heart Day" again this year. Area residents are encouraged to participate in the annual Have a Heart Day scheduled by area health care providers for the fifteenth year.
This event is scheduled during the Valentine's season as a community service project to provide services to those in need. The local healthcare providers appreciate the strong support they receive, so in turn look forward to this event each year.

The Auxiliary of Veterans Memorial Hospital will hold a Euchre Marathon Wednesday, Feb. 16. Anyone is welcome to attend, even if you are not an auxiliary member.
Euchre Marathons are held each month in the meeting room of the M&M Café on Rossville Road. The event begins at noon with lunch, if you chose, with card playing from 1 p.m. until approximately 3 p.m. Cost is $3 per person with all proceeds going towards the Auxiliary of VMH. Prizes will be awarded.

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Mike and Melissa Bechtel of Onalaska are happy to announce the birth of their daughter, Madeline Dee. Born Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2005, at Gundersen Lutheran Hospital in La Crosse, Wis., she was 9 pounds, 7.5 ounces, and 21 inches at birth.
Madeline joins two sisters, Alexandra, age 6, and Abigail, age 3.
Grandparents are Randy and Diane Sweeney and Dean and Sherry Bechtel. Great-grandmothers are Mildred Doubek, Neva Bechtel, and Virginia Halverson.

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Lois Ann Roepke of Guttenberg and Dennis Francis Garin of Lansing were united in marriage Dec. 28, 2004, in San Antonio, Texas. The 4 p.m. ceremony was held at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church.
The bride is the daughter of Julius and Verna Mae Steffen of Luxemburg. Parents of the groom are Leo and Mary Lou Garin of Lansing.
The bride was given in marriage by her father.
Maid of honor was Ashley Roepke. Bridesmaids were Rachael Schroeder and Jennifer McMahon.
Best man was Ryan Garin and groomsmen were Adam Roepke and Lee Schroeder.

Family and friends of Harold and Dorothy Borcherding gathered at South Crest Community Center Friday, Jan. 21, 2005, to help the couple celebrate their 63rd wedding anniversary. Avery Weymiller and Lorna Kolsrud served cake and coffee to those present.

Cletus and Coila Huffman, formerly of Waukon, will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary Sunday, Feb. 13, 2005. Please send cards to them at 221 Third Ave. SE, Oelwein IA 50662.

The Boy Scout program was first developed in England by Lord Robert Baden-Powell and was brought to America because a boy did a "Good Turn" - an act of kindness for which he sought no reward. It happens that an American named William D. Boyce lost his way on the foggy streets of London. A boy walked up and asked if he could be of assistance. Mr. Boyce told him where he wanted to go and the boy led him to his destination. But when Boyce offered him some money, the boy said "No thank you, I am a scout. I won't take anything for helping." Mr.

The Waukon Lion's Club is in the process of planning for their major annual fundraiser, the Lion's Variety Show. The show will be held Saturday, April 2, 2005, starting at 7:30 p.m. in the Waukon Senior High auditorium.
The Lions are currently looking for individuals and groups who would like to participate.

To the Editor:
The discussion on overpopulation of deer at the Gipp, Zieman meeting was reported incorrectly (Feb. 2 Standard). I stated that the present law allows all landowners, regardless of acreage size to get a free landowners license to hunt their own land. The new proposed law, House File 5, would require landowners to have at least 10 acres to get a free landowners license.

... that I paid a little more attention to the voting in Iraq Sunday than I intended to.
Not that I wasn't interested. I was just sort of trapped.
My back was still hurting from the effects of snow shoveling the weekend before, and Saturday evening, I sat on my glasses and ruined them. It happened as I was rushing around at the halftime of the Iowa basketball game to scare up something to eat and setting up a tray in the room with the TV set. The glasses apparently slipped off the arm of the lounge chair onto the seat, and I didn't notice.