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Josh and Whitney Anderson of Waukon announce the birth of their daughter, Emery Elaine Anderson, born September 14, 2018 at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon. She weighed 8 lbs. 1 oz. and measured 21-1/4 inches in length at the time of her birth. She joins siblings, Jaxon (6), Braxton (5) and Tila (5).

Grandparents are Tom and Shawny Jones of Waukon, Matt and Dawn Teslow of Waukon and Joel Anderson of Decorah. Great-grandparents are Kate and Dayton Jones of Harpers Ferry, Richard and Elaine Anderson of Decorah, Sherri Lewey of Waukon and Darlene Hartkemeyer of Cedar Rapids.
 

by Jeremy Leitz, Allamakee County Executive Director 563-568-2148

Upcoming Deadlines and Important Dates
• September 28: ARCPLC signup deadline; MPP-Dairy premiums due
• September 30: Last day to remove bales for those who requested managed haying on CRP grounds; End of fiscal year for FSA

Market Facilitation Program
USDA announced the trade mitigation program (Market Facilitation Program, MFP) earlier this month. This program will aid farmers who were impacted from trade retaliation. The Farm Service Agency will administer this program and provide payments to corn, dairy, hog, soybean, wheat, cotton, and sorghum producers.

Allamakee County Farm Bureau (ACFB) members Don and MaryLou Billhorn were winners of the Iowa Farm Bureau drawing at the Iowa State Fair for a John Deere Gator valued at $23,000. The Gator give-away was a special State Fair contest for Farm Bureau members. Having been Farm Bureau members since 1979, the Billhorns live in Readlyn and own a Heritage Farm (owned by the family for 150-plus years) in northern Allamakee County. Submitted photo.
 

By Sara Berges, Allamakee SWCD

by Dick Schilling, "Editor Emeritus"

... that this old man does not appreciate night games featuring the Cubs or Iowa U. football.

The Iowa-UNI game started at 6:30, and the Wisconsin game was set for 7:30 p.m. Will the trend to lateness continue until we start one at midnight? Possibly, if television wants that!

I long for the good old days of Iowa football, when games started at 1 p.m. and were over before 5 p.m.

As a student, that gave us an opportunity to savor a victory or start to forget a loss as traffic began to leave Iowa City, and the city was returned to the students and faculty.

Then when I started work at the local newspaper in the early 1960s, and continuing ito the 1970s, the Iowa Press Association was able to reward member papers with a few tickets for each home game at much reduced prices. The university had some pretty bad football teams some of those years, and sellouts were by no means assured.

To the Editor:

My recent letter that I wrote to The Standard Viewpoints page was my experience at the Iowa City VA Hospital before I received my life-saving pacemaker and had nothing to do with the Allamakee County VA office in Waukon.

I wrote to Senator Ernst about the policy and decisions made by both Republicans and Democrats, including our current president, who are about my age and who beat the draft during the Vietnam war. My letter to Senator Ernst got me nowhere, as my words were wasted.

As I stated, it was the overall Veterans Affairs policy that I was questioning, and the Allamakee County VA had nothing to do with that policy or any decisions made.

As I also said, all veterans riding in those VA vans could be considered a liability. If not, then why are they going to the VA for their healthcare?

Pat Ward
Waterville
 

To the Editor:

This letter probably should be private and personal, but the event was so overwhelmingly nice I want to write it openly to all. September 15 our great-grandson Ian and Allison were married at St. Pat’s Catholic Church here in Waukon. This beautiful church was built in 1912 and it was filled with well wishers and supporters sending best wishes to the new couple.

Now, as a great-grandfather I feel I can give some advice. I want them both to pledge to honor God by attending church service every Sunday. If they do that it will become a natural habit and hopefully some of their friends will do the same. There is nothing nicer than seeing a young, newly married couple put our Lord Jesus in their lives. Health and happiness will be theirs. God bless them.

Ozzie and Phyllis Quandahl
Waukon
 

To the Editor:

The election is getting close, so let’s review. From my experience first-hand, I know there needs to be a change.

I know I have been through this before, and probably think I should move on and get over it. The move I have done, but the lies, the unfairness of not being treated equal and the disrespect I received looking for true answers stays with me.

Sure, the loss of that 25x152-foot section of property was hurtful, but we are all going to end up with the same little piece of land in the end anyway. The dishonesty, the unfairness, the inequality and the disrespect, was this because I was a woman, alone or was it because I had the courage to approach them with questions, trying to find the truth?

by Kelli Boylen

For many, the thought of the Allamakee Community School District closing the doors at Waterville Elementary School at the end of the school year earlier this spring meant the building would be left to its memories up on top of the hill and possibly fall into an undesirable existence. However, thanks to the generosity of people in the area, the school building will continue to serve “the town on the hill” as a community center.

Waterville city government has already moved its operations to the new Waterville Community Center and the Waterville Public Library has moved its more than 5,000 volumes and shelving to the new location. Work is also currently underway on a museum featuring the school and community.

The honor of a State Championship is something every school strives for but only a handful get to experience, so to have two schools within about a 20-minute drive of one another in the same county each achieve a State Championship on the same day is, indeed, a rarity.

That’s exactly what transpired for the FFA chapters at both Waukon and Kee High Schools Saturday, September 8, as they each had teams emerge as the best in the state of Iowa in their respective Career Development Events (CDE) held in conjunction with the 2018 Youth Dairy Classic at Manchester. The Little Switzerland FFA Chapter of Waukon High School was crowned the Iowa Champion FFA Dairy Cattle Evaluation Team and the Lansing FFA Chapter of Kee High School in Lansing was named the Iowa Champion FFA Milk Quality & Products Team.