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Main Street Lansing is hosting Downtown Trick or Treating from 4:30-6 p.m. Halloween, Wednesday, October 31. Local residents can stop in at participating businesses to trick or treat. Also, there will be Halloweenies and Haunted Chocolate served at the Kerndt Brothers Community Center from 5-6:30 p.m. that evening.
 

Grants up to $500 available for eligible area non-profits

The Allamakee County Community Foundation (ACCF) is now accepting applications for its mini-grant program. The ACCF “Emerging Needs” Mini-Grant Fund was created to address funding needs for community projects outside of the regular grant cycle. The deadline for applications is Wednesday, October 31.
Grants up to $500 are available for eligible non-profits. The ACCF accepts applications for grants for community development, community promotions, community education and similar matters.   The grant shall be for the benefit of persons residing in Allamakee County.

Entities that have a 501(c)3 designation by the Internal Revenue Service or schools or municipalities are eligible to apply for these funds.  Non-profit groups may apply for up to $500 for their projects.

The Kee High School Post Prom Committee will host Bingo Sunday, November 11 in the Kee High School cafeteria in Lansing. Games will start at 4 p.m., with doors opening at 3:30 p.m.

Participants can bring a non-perishable food item to be donated to the Allamakee County Food Shelf and play an extra Bingo card free. All players will be eligible for a door prize drawing at intermission. Proceeds will be used to fund 2019 Post Prom prizes and entertainment.
 

The Waukon High School music department has selected “The Addams Family” as this year’s musical production under the direction of Louise Wild and musical director Sarah Palmer. Three performances are being planned for Thursday, Friday and Saturday, November 1, 2 and 3, all at 7:30 p.m. The  performances will be held at the Waukon High School auditorium.

The ghoulish Addams family is visiting the graveyard for an annual gathering of all family members (living, dead and undecided) to celebrate what it is to be an Addams. Uncle Fester (played by Sean Liddiard) stops the ancestors’ return to their graves to enlist their help. He explains that Wednesday (played by Oonagh Ahouse), under protest, has invited her new (normal) boyfriend, Lucas Beineke (played by Denzel Decker), and his parents, Mal (played by Robbie Drew) and Alice (played by Emily Kolsrud), to dinner.

The Kindergarten and Transitional Kindergarten classes at St. Patrick School in Waukon got the opportunity to go to the Waukon Fire Station (pictured at right) during National Fire Prevention Week, October 7-13. The students learned about the fire trucks, uniforms and safety procedures, and they also practiced Stop! Drop! And Roll! with the firefighters (pictured below). Submitted photos.
 

The Kindergarten and Transitional Kindergarten classes at St. Patrick School in Waukon have learned all about apples this fall. They learned about the apple life cycle, different colors of apples and what they need to grow, and they read lots of apple stories and got to eat some apple treats. To end their apple unit, the students visited Peake’s Apple Orchard (pictured in surrounding photos) and went on a hayride through the apple orchard, observed their sorting and cooling process, heard an apple story, sang some songs and even got to sample some apples. Submitted photos.

In a race featuring more teams ranked in the top 15 than any other Class 2A State Qualifying field, the Waukon girls cross country team proved they belonged among this season’s elite squads by earning advancement to the season grand finale Class 2A State Meet for the second straight year.

Competing in a field that featured four teams rated among Class 1A’s top 15 teams, including three in the latest top-five rankings, the Kee girls cross country team topped all that high regard to emerge as the team champion at its Class 1A State Qualifying Meet hosted by Cedar Rapids Kennedy Thursday, October 18.

Undoubtedly fueling the fourth-rated Lady Hawks’ title run was a runner-up finish at their own Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) Meet to a fifth-rated South Winneshiek squad that denied a Kee repeat UIC championship just a week earlier, an inspiration that Kee cross country coach Pat Wagner feels not only motivated his girls to not let that happen again at this next level but also catapulted his crew past a third-rated Denver team by a double-digit final margin of Kee’s 68 points to 77 for Denver.

Already knowing they had wrapped up a fifth State Play-Off berth since beginning play in the Class 2A field in 2012, the Waukon football team still had a great deal to play for when it hosted North Fayette Valley in the final game of the 2018 regular season and Class 2A District 4 play Friday, October 19. Regardless of the game’s final result, the Indians were going to have at least a share of this season’s district championship and guaranteed play-off qualification, but they also knew a win would give the program its first outright district championship and undefeated league mark since joining the Class 2A ranks, as well as the hosting of at least their first play-off game.

It might be said that the Kee football team saved its best for last, as the grid Hawks’ final game of the season looked to be an upset of Eight-Player top 10-rated Midland at home Friday, October 19. Unfortunately, the visiting Eagles also saved their best for last, as they scored a final touchdown with just 23 seconds left to play to avoid the upset loss, instead stealing a 46-44 victory away from the Hawks.