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The Golden Butter Knife Award was presented to Paddy McQ's of Waukon for their promotion of real dairy products.

Park & Recreation Staff

Chad Duerkop, Park & Recreation Director; Stacey Schellhammer, Aquatic Center Mgr.; Ray Shelton, Park & Maintenance Supervisor; Shari Lubahn, Concessions Manager; Softball Complex Supervisor to be announced; James P. May, Head Baseball Coach; Kerry Wacker, Head Softball Coach; Teen League Supervisor to be announced.

Various other individuals are hired for part=time work, throughout the year, to maintain facilities and grounds and to supervise and carry out park and recreation programs.

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City Park Campground Information

Ray Shelton, Park Maintenance Supervisor

Aryln and Kevin Fossum, of Waterville, won an award for high milk, fat and protein.

Their rolling herd average was 27,250 pounds of milk, 985 pounds of fat and 898 pounds of protein.

The Fossums also received the award for most improved certificate herd. Their milk production increased 4,127 pounds, fat production increased 122 pounds and protein production 122 pounds.

named outstanding dairy promoter was Nancy Wonderlich.

Nancy was not born a dairy farmer; in fact, she grew up in San Antonio, TExas. She attended Iowa State University to obtain a degree in animal science. At ISU she competed in a milking contest, and her coach became her future husband. Little did she know that she would be doing this the rest of her life.

The couple's first farm was in Southeast Iowa. They milked 70 holsteins and raised crops in partnership with her husband's father.

"I didn't like using chemicals on our land," stated John Gibbs when asked why he chose to become an organic farmer. "We were just trying to do what God wants us to do."

John, along with his wife Janet, daughter Jenny and son Jim, run a certified organic farming operation about three miles southwest of New Albin where they raise red and black angus cattle. They own 685 acres of land, with 190 acres of it being tillable, making it well suited for beef cattle production.

Organic farming in recent years has become very popular, especially in the Coulee region.

Newly crowned is Erin Schulte, named the 2000 Allamakee County Dairy Princess at the annual dairy banquet held June 1. Erin's parents, Keith and Jenette, Schulte, operate an organic jersey farm near Dorchester. Erin will spend the next year representing the dairy industry in various public events throughout Allamakee County. Her future plans include study at Iowa State University, Ames, this fall, where she plans to major in the fields of architecture and interior design. Rachel Reiser, the daughter of Mark and Nancy Reiser of Churchtown, has been named Erin's alternate.

Total natural cheese production expanded from a robust 418 million pounds in 1920 to a whopping 2.2 billion pounds in 1970. By the beginning of the '90s, production had exploded to more than 6 billion pounds a year. Sex billion pounds of cheese -- that's like 40 million averaged-sized people made out of cheese! In addition, consumer demand pushed processed cheese production in the early '90s to exceed 2 billion pounds a year.

Just the name “Fiji” conjures up image of a Pacific Paradise. We were to be at sea five days between the magenta coral lagoons of Bora Bora and our floral encased “islands of love”, Tahiti and Fiji. However, we entered Fijian waters long before we reached Viti Levu, the cigar shaped main island and Suva, the capital of Fiji.

Jingling bells, pounding drums, floating scarves, “hooting” owl sounds and little feet moving in time to music. These are just a few of the sights and sounds parents and children experience at Christine Enyart's Kindermusik class in Postville and Waukon. Parents with newborns, toddlers and four through seven year olds can participate in Kindermusik for a valuable learning experience for both the child and the parent or caregiver.