Breaking a decade of drought ... Members of the Waukon girls cross country team display their State Meet qualifier banner earned with their third-place team finish and the certificate received by sophomore Katelyn Benzing for her All-District top-15 finish at the Class 2A State Qualifying Meet hosted by Dike-New Hartford Thursday, October 19. The team’s third-place finish marks the Waukon girls cross country team’s first State Meet qualification as a team since the 2006 season. Pictured above, left to right, are: Front row - Ellec Armstead and Regan Griffith. Back row - Madalyn Marti, Megan O’Neill, Gabby Marti, Katelyn Benzing, Bailey Shafer and Coach Brett Egan. Photo courtesy of Dave Davies.
Waukon girls scheduled to compete at 2 p.m. this Saturday among Class 2A elite
The Waukon girls cross country team was able to end a streak of 10 consecutive seasons without qualifying as a team for the State Cross Country Meet when the Lady Indians ran to a third-place team finish to earn the final qualifying spot at their Class 2A State Qualifying Meet hosted by Dike-New Hartford Thursday, October 19. Behind the strength of having all five of their scored runners place within the top 30 team-scored individuals, the Lady Indians claimed that third-place team finish with 96 team points behind third-rated Crestwood and sixth-rated Cascade.
First time in two decades ... Members of the Kee girls cross country team display their State Qualifier banner following their second-place team finish at the Class 1A State Qualifying Meet hosted at Solon Thursday, October 19. That second-place Lady Hawk finish marked the first time since the 1996 season that the Kee girls cross country program has qualified as an entire team for the season grand finale. Pictured above, left to right, are: Front row - Laura Colsch, Katie Brennan, Makayla Peters, Rachel Walleser. Back row - Nicki Wood, Makayla Walleser, Coach Pat Wagner. View and find out how to purchase this photo and more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website.
A goal was achieved and a resurrection 20 years in the making was accomplished as the Kee girls cross country team reached every high school cross country team’s ultimate destination by qualifying as an entire team for the State Cross Country Meet for the first time since the Lady Hawks were represented as an entire team at the season grand finale in 1996. The Kee girls accomplished that goal with a second-place finish at their Class 1A State Qualifying Meet held in Solon Thursday, October 19, with that second-place finish coming to the two-time Class 1A defending State Champion Central Elkader team the Hawks had beaten in seven of eight previous meets this season.
The Waukon football team will be returning to the Class 2A State Play-Off scene after just missing out last season, entering the season grand finale series as the District 4 runner-up with a 6-1 district mark after a 56-21 home victory over North Fayette Valley Friday, October 20. The Indians were about 30 seconds away from ending up as District champions, but a touchdown by Cascade with less than 30 seconds left gave the Cougars a 28-21 home win over Union Friday night, giving the Cougars the Class 2A District 4 championship with a 7-0 district record, 9-0 overall.
Elaine Ryan, 88, formerly of Lansing, passed away peacefully October 16, 2017 in Alexandria, MN. Mass of Christian Burial was held Saturday, October 21 at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Lansing with Rev. John Moser as the Celebrant. Burial followed at Gethsemane Cemetery, Lansing.
Elaine was born December 8, 1928 to Ken and Elaine Green and lived most of her life in Lansing. Elaine had many talents and interests. She loved to paint, bake, sew, read, travel, write and learn. Her adventurous spirit took her backpacking solo through Europe several times, always traveling by train and lodging in youth hostels. When she was 80, she rode an elephant in South Africa. She loved the mountains of Colorado and could often be found standing at the peak of Mt. Evans in shorts and a wool sweater. She loved family. She will be dearly missed.
Both the Kee and Waukon girls cross country teams have reached every team's ultimate destination with team qualification for this year's State Cross Country Meet to be run Saturday, October 28 at Lakeside Municipal Golf Course near Fort Dodge. The Kee girls ran to a runner-up finish at their Class 1A State Qualifying Meet in Solon Thursday, October 19 and the Waukon girls claimed the final qualifying spot from their Class 2A State Qualifying Meet hosted by Dike-New Hartford Thursday as well with their third-place team finish.
The State Cross Country Meet is scheduled to start at 11 a.m. October 28 with Class 4A competition, with the Lady Indians scheduled to run in their Class 2A season grand finale at 1 p.m. and the Lady Hawks slated to run at approximately 2 p.m. Complete coverage with photos of both the Kee and Waukon girls and boys State Qualifying Meet efforts from Thursday will appear in the October 25 edition of The Standard.
by Jeremy Leitz, Allamakee County Executive Director 563-568-2148
Upcoming Deadlines and Important Dates
• December 15: Acreages intended to be used for forage and pasture in 2018 need to be reported
• December 15: Sign up for, or opt out of, the Margin Protection Program
Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Payments
We began issuing payments for the Conservation Reserve Program the first week of October, and will continue through mid-October. CRP payments begin with those contracted prior to 2008. Remember that these take a few days to be deposited into your account.
ACR/PLC Payments
We issued payments for the Agricultural Risk Coverage/Price Loss Coverage program, more commonly known as ARC/PLC. These went out the first week of October, Allamakee County did receive an ACR-Co payment of $1.30 per base acre of corn. However, no payments were received for soybeans.
STRIPS Team assesses tile systems under prairies ... Tim Youngquist, an agricultural specialist and farmer liaison for Iowa State’s Science-based Trials of Rowcrops Integrated with Prairie Strips, known as STRIPS, is pictured above inspecting prairie growth.
An Iowa State University research project has found that prairies, known for an abundance of deep roots, don’t interfere with tile systems running under them.
Perforated tile are buried under cropland to remove excess water detrimental to crop production. Farmers and landowners considering installing strips of prairie plants in their fields have asked about the possibility of roots growing into tile lines, said Tim Youngquist, an agricultural specialist and farmer liaison for Iowa State’s Science-based Trials of Rowcrops Integrated with Prairie Strips, known as STRIPS.
Letters will be going out over the next year to farmers that have registered premises
The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship encourages all Iowa livestock farmers to make sure that all locations where they have livestock have a premises identification number (PIN) and to make sure their information is up-to-date.
“Being able to quickly identify any and all premises during an animal disease outbreak is a vitally important step as we work to stop the spread of the disease,” said Iowa Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig. “We do want to assure farmers that all the information in the premises ID database is completely confidential and protected under federal law and can only be used for animal health purposes.”
... that today (October 9) is listed as Columbus Day on calendars, but news stories today and this weekend describe cities which are changing that name to Indigenous Peoples Day. Government unions got the original October 12 date changed so they could get another long weekend.
The thought being that Christopher Columbus and his crews in 1492 arrived from Spain and interrupted the peacefully existing native population. That period of American history is variously represented.
In today’s Peanuts cartoon strip, Sally Brown is preparing an essay for school, and she describes how the queen said she could only afford three ships for Columbus Day’s trip. Under the impression Day was his last name.
The Veterans Memorial Hospital Monona Clinic will have an open house October 20. New signage has been installed with the opening of the new clinic. Submitted photo.
Veterans Memorial Hospital has set October 20 as the date for an open house at its new Monona Clinic. The event will be held from 1-6 p.m. that day with a ribbon cutting hosted by the Monona Chamber of Commerce at 1 p.m. Everyone from the area communities is welcome to attend.
The new clinic providers will be all be on site including Dr. Andrea Venteicher, Nurse Practitioner Krista Begalske and Nurse Practitioner Lori Vlazny. Dr. Venteicher is currently working at the clinic full-time. Begalske is scheduled to begin in mid-November. Vlazny will then begin working part-time hours at the clinic to help ensure two providers will be available most every day. Guided tours of the clinic will be available from the entire clinic staff.
Hospital staff will also be on hand to perform free blood sugar/diabetes tests. Hemoglobin tests and blood pressure checks will be provided by the Veterans Memorial Hospital Community and Home Care Department.
