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The Allamakee County Board of Supervisors met in a very short meeting Monday, March 28, taking care of a few formalities on the agenda. The Board considered and approved using Administrative Solution, Inc. and Cafeteria Plan. In E911 personnel matters, the board approved the resignation of part-time employee Wendy Bucheit. In a letter to the board, Bucheit cited an increased demand from her full-time employment that would no longer allow her to take on both positions.

The Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management Division and the National Weather Service have designated March 28 - April 1 as Severe Weather Awareness Week. During that week a voluntary statewide tornado drill is planned for Wednesday, March 30. The exercise will consist of a tornado watch being issued around 10:20 a.m., followed by a warning, and a

notification of the end of the drill at around 10:30 a.m. If severe weather threatens Wednesday the test will be delayed until Thursday.

A continued effort to control spending and other expenses has resulted in a third straight month of nearly $70,000 in profit for Veterans Memorial Hospital (VMH), according to a report given at the Tuesday, March 22 meeting of the VMH Board of Trustees. The last three months of December, January and February have averaged right in the neighborhood of $72,000 in net income for the hospital, currently boosting the facility past its fiscal year goal of maintaining a four-percent profit margin.

Allamakee Historical Society to hold March 31 meeting

The Allamakee Historical Society will open its 2005 season with a meeting Thursday, March 31 at 7:30 p.m. at Robey Memorial Library in Waukon. Rev Lonning is hostess for the evening and all interested parties are encouraged to attend.
Chad Burroughs of New Albin will present the program on the Oneota Culture and show artifacts from the Upper Iowa Valley near New Albin.


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Allamakee SWCD Commissioners meeting has been set for April 6

To learn more about grafting, attend the Iowa State University Extension Pruning & Grafting Apple Trees Workshop Saturday, Apr. 2 in Cresco. Participants will receive two dwarfing apple rootstocks they will graft to a popular apple variety. Extension staff will provide all the training and materials.

Gardeners who sign up for the grafting workshop can also attend a pruning workshop free of charge. The cost of the pruning workshop is $5. The cost of the grafting workshop is $25. Additional apple rootstocks will also be available for $5 each.

The newly formed Rivers and Bluffs Classic Tractors L.L.C. club will be holding a meeting Monday, April 4 in the Community Room of Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank in Waukon. The meeting will begin at 8 p.m.

Membership dues for the club are $25 per year for each participating family. Dues may be paid in person during the April 4 meeting or may be mailed to: Rivers and Bluffs Classic Tractors L.L.C., 1635 Hwy. 76, Waukon, IA 52172.

A fraud scheme making the rounds through Internet chat rooms and auction sites, in e-mail messages, and over the telephone is costing victims across Iowa and the Quad Cities time, money, and a not-so-pleasant chat with bank and law enforcement officials about passing counterfeit postal money orders.

According to a recent study, a well-designed and maintained landscape can add as much as twenty percent to the value of a property. It is one of the few “remodeling” projects where a homeowner can recoup their investment when the property is sold.

The Waukon Fire Department would like to remind area residents to use extra caution when burning items during this time of year. The burning of yard waste, ditches and trash that becomes prominent during this time of year has made springtime an extremely busy period for the local fire volunteers in the past, and some extra caution and common sense can help alleviate that problem.

March 14, Pastor Laura Gentry of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church of Lansing and Waterville Lutheran Church participated in an interfaith rally at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. to express opinions on the 2006 Federal Budget. Hundreds of people of faith gathered on Capitol Hill to express that the federal budget that has been proposed by the Bush Administration does not reflect their values.