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Week ending Feb. 7

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Citizens Bank 14 6

Croell 13 7

Bresnahan Oil 12 8

Echo Valley Speedway 10 10

Martha’s Tot Shop 7 13

S&D Cafe 4 16

HTS: Croell 2770

HIS: Bev Bakkum 599

HTG: Croell 957

HIG: Bev Bakkum 212

Women 175 Games: Denise Wulner 189; Elaine Martin 176; Bev Bakkum 185, 202, 212; Bonnie Shaffer 180; Amanda Shaffer 177, 196; Deb Brink 210, 180; Linda Ryan 175; Linda Brink 199, 179; Mary Cuvelier 180.

The Allamakee County Conservation Board recently received a donation of over one hundred wood duck nesting boxes from the Allamakee and Jones County Chapters of Ducks Unlimited. Funds raised from the two Chapters of Ducks Unlimited were used to purchase materials to construct the nesting boxes. The two Chapters of Ducks Unlimited coordinated with Luster Heights Correctional Facility to construct the boxes.

The Decorah Athletic Booster Club will host its annual Junior Viking Wrestling Tournament on Saturday, March 12, at the Decorah High School.

Wrestlers in the beginners (K-2) and Pee-Wee (3-4) divisions will compete in the morning session. Weigh-ins for this session is from 7 to 8 a.m., with wrestling beginning at 8:30 am.

Grapplers in the junior (grades 5-6), senior (7-8), and novice (9-11) divisions will compete in the afternoon, with a weigh-in session from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. Wrestling will begin at approximately noon.

Paul Berland, Regional Watershed Coordinator, will be speaking at the March meeting of the Iowa Driftless Chapter of Trout Unlimited. The meeting is at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 3 in the basement of T-Bocks Sports Bar, 206 W. Water St., Decorah. Paul Berland is the watershed coordinator for the Upper Iowa River Alliance. He will be speaking on targeting water quality improvements in northeast Iowa streams. There is no charge. You do not need to be a Trout Unlimited member to attend. For more information contact Bill Kalishek at 382-0861.

Rates Stay the Same

There are no admission fees to Iowa’s State Parks. However, there are fees for camping and for reserving the shelter, which are staying the same again this year. The fee to reserve the stone shelter is $25 for the whole day.

Camping rates currently are $11 for electric sites and $6 for non-electric sites. And yes, we even had a tent in the campground anchored down in the snow just the other night! From May 1 (or when the shower facilities are turned on) through Oct. 31 the rates are $16 for electric sites and $11 for non-electric sites.

The MFL-MarMac Booster Club will be holding its annual three-on-three basketball tournament Saturday, March 5, at the Monona High School. A team will consist of three players (no substitutions). Every team is guaranteed two games. Individual medals will be given to first, second, and third place teams. Registration deadline is March 1. For more information, call Thea Wubbena at (563)539-4290 or check the school website at www.mflmarmac.k12.ia.us.

Final Standings

TEAM STANDINGS

Frankville 171

Vet’s Club 170

City Club 1 151

Brenda’s 1 142

City Club 4 129

City Club 3 128

Wild Willy’s 2 128

City Club 2 121

Wild Willy’s 1 108

Brenda’s 2 102

TOP SHOOTERS

Jim Broszeit 46/54 .852

Phil Norton 37/51 .725

Jared Kiley 36/51 .706

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Dave’s Crop Watch 30 3

Iowa Rotocast Plastics 27 6

Skyline Landscaping 24 9

Waukon Honda 21 12

Allamakee Arctic Cat 18 15

Kelly Concrete Const. 15 18

Superior Wood Floors 15 18

Farm Bureau 13 20

Hammer Construction 15 18

Waukon Power Sports 10 23

Unknowns 8 25

Wild Willy’s Pizza 3 30

Lifeguard training classes will be held March 30 and April 3, 6, and 10 at the Cresco Fitness Center. Re-certification will be available May 18 and 25, also at the Cresco Fitness Center.

Costs for certification is $80, although a $26 book must also be purchased. Cost for re-certification is $40.

Participants may register for either class by calling (563)547-3443. A copy of the class requirements can be picked up at the Waukon Park and Rec Office, located in the basement of City Hall.

Theodore “Ted” Troendle, age 89, of Lansing, Iowa, died February 15, 2005, at Thornton Manor in Lansing. Funeral services were held Monday at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Lansing with Fr. Daniel Knipper officiating. Burial was in Gethsemane Cemetery in Lansing. Thornburg Hanson Funeral Home in Lansing was in charge of arrangements.

Ted was born at the family home on Faegre Prairie (rural Lansing) on March 8, 1915, to George and Frances (Rettinger) Troendle.