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At the 2000 Allamakee County Fair, Blair showed the Champion Middleweight Market Hog and the Reserve Champion Middleweight Pen of Three Market Hogs.

At the 2000 Allamakee County Fair, Dan showed the Grand Champion Lightweight Pen of Three Market Lambs.

At the 2000 Allamakee County Fair, Kati showed the Champion Breeding Pen of Three, Reserve Champion Breeding Ewe, and Reserve Champion Breeding Buck, and was also the Junior Sheep Showmanship winner.

At the 2000 Allamakee County Fair, Alexis showed the Champion Breeding Ewe and the Reserve Champion Breeding Pen of Three.

At the 2000 Allamakee County Fair, Brent showed the Champion Breeding Buck and the Reserve Grand Champion Pen of Three Market Sheep.

At the 2000 Allamakee County Fair, Kacie showed the Grand Champion Market Lamb, Reserve Grand Champion Market Lamb, and the Grand Champion Pen of Three Market Lambs, and was also the Intermediate Sheep Showmanship winner.

The following cases were heard in Allamakee County District Court Monday, July 10. Judge Margaret Lingreen presided:

Sanders -
Michael D. Sanders, 45, of New Albin, was charged with assault causing bodily injury (domestic abuse).

To the Editor:
This letter is directed to the person who threw our dog, Brown Bear, into the dumpster along the Upper Iowa River.
Even though she has been blind the past two years, she has been a close family pet since she was a puppy. We didn't realize she followed us out the driveway Friday morning, and she would have found her way home if you hadn't pulled your cruel stunt.
We don't blame the sheriff's office for shooting her. They were only doing their job.

What makes people do the unthinkable? I recently read a newspaper story about a mother who purposely drove her vehicle off a 25-ft. cliff and into the Mississippi River, killing herself, five-year-old twin boys and another eight-year-old son. This didn't happen in some far off place; it happened right here in Iowa.

. . . that there is a line in an old standard song that goes: "Don't you know that Sunday morning you can sleep late?
That was the case for the 36 years of my newspaper career. At least five, and sometimes six days a week, I got out of bed just before 6 a.m. so that I could be at work sometime between 7:30 and 8 a.m. With Sunday mass at 10 a.m., I could stay in bed an hour longer.