Veterans Memorial Hospital will sponsor a Babysitting Seminar Saturday, March 25, from 8:30 a.m. to noon. The class will be held in the Large Conference Room located on the lower level of Veterans Memorial Hospital.
Intended participants are individuals 10 years of age and older who are responsible for their own care after school until their parents come home from work, and individuals who care for other children in or outside of their own home. Pre-registration is required by March 22. Online registration is available at www.veteransmemorialhospital.com. Contact Corinne Cook, RN, instructor, at 563-568-3411 for more information.
Pictured are five generations of the Alberta Troendle family that span 99 years and five days in age. Alberta Troendle of Lansing is pictured in the center and will be celebrating her 100th birthday March 11 of this year. Pictured with Alberta, left to right, are her granddaughter, Melody Meyers; her daughter, Ann Delaney; her great-granddaughter, Jessica Dorney; and her great-great-granddaughter, Ana Dorney. Submitted photo.
Joe and Jenny Mohn of Harpers Ferry announce the birth of their daughter, Jaidyn Elizabeth Mohn, born February 11, 2017 at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon. She weighed 7 lbs. 5 ozs. and measured 21-1/2 inches in length at the time of her birth. She joins siblings, Austyn (6), Easton (5), Dylan (2) and Brooklin (1).
Grandparents are Nick and Lois Jones of Waukon and Ralph and Dianne Mohn of Harpers Ferry. Florence Jones of Harpers Ferry is a great-grandparent.
Brett Cota and Paige Nelson of Waukon announce the birth of their daughter, Everly Julaine Cota, born February 9, 2017 at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon. She weighed 9 lbs. 7 ozs. and measured 23 inches in length at the time of her birth.
Grandparents are Paul Nelson of Fredericksburg, Jamie and Penney Neuzil of Fort Atkinson and Brian and Karen Cota of Waukon. Great-grandparents are Rich and June Cota of Waukon, Mary and the late Gary Johnson of Waukon, Dale and Jan Nelson of Fredericksburg, Julie Nelson of Cedar Falls and Dan and Ethie Neuzil of Fort Atkinson.
Justin Jones and Brianna Halverson of Postville announce the birth of their son, Cyrus Walter Jones, born February 9, 2017 at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon. He weighed 7 lbs. 15 ozs. and measured 22 inches in length at the time of his birth. He joins siblings, Madyson (13), Haylie (10), Jayden (8), Dawson (4) and Wesley (2).
Grandparents are Sam and Nikki Jones of Waukon, Deb and Chris Funk of Elkader, Melody and Dennis Moose of McGregor, and Bill Halverson and Cathie McGuire of McGregor. Great-grandparents are Walter and Janice Kurth of Waukon.
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey, Iowa State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Associate Dean Dr. John Lawrence and Iowa farmer Larry Buss of Logan have announced the release of the Iowa Pest Resistance Management Plan. The full plan and additional information about pest resistance management efforts can be found at www.ProtectIowaCrops.org.
Steve Johnson, Farm Management Specialist and D. Allen Pattillo, Aquaculture Specialist will speak at the annual meeting of the Northeast Iowa Agricultural Experimental Association (NEIAEA) at the ISU Northeast Research Farm near Nashua.
The program starts at 9:30 am Wednesday, March 8 with the Association’s board meeting. From 10 a.m. to Noon will be key presentations from Steve Johnson and D. Allen Pattillo. Johnson will address “Crop Market Outlook: Strategies & Tools” for Iowa’s producers. Pattillo will discuss “Aquaculture Opportunities in Iowa”. After lunch, Ken Pecinovsky, Research Farm Superintendent, will review 2016 trial results conducted at the ISU Northeast Research Farm.
Provided free at the meeting is the 2016 Research Farm Report. CCA credits (2 CM) will also be offered complimentary. Lunch will be served by the Riverton Lucky Clovers 4-H Club. Following lunch and Pecinovsky’s presentation, the NEIAEA board of directors will meet.
Waukon High School 1981 graduate Robin Schoh recently returned to her native tri-state area to, among other things, celebrate the February 3 grand opening of a new La Crosse, WI franchise of the skyrocketing business she co-founded, Waxing the City. Pictured above at that grand opening event are, left to right, Waxing the City La Crosse franchise co-owner Daniel Kern, Waxing the City co-founder and Director of Sales Robin Schoh, Waxing the City La Crosse manager Maddy Brenny and Waxing the City La Crosse franchise co-owner Michael Tonsager. Submitted photo.
The road from smalltown rural Iowa to the Fortune 500® won't be found on any map or GPS unit, but Waukon High School 1981 graduate Robin Schoh may be a good one to ask directions from.
The former stand-out athlete for the Indians in her high school days, who may best be remembered locally for her athletic prowess that earned her All-Conference and All-State recognition in three different sports: basketball, softball and track, is now the co-founder of a steadily growing business that has been ranked among the business world elite on the Fortune 500® list compiled by Entrepreneur magazine. Making that prestigious list last year was only another step forward, however, as this year's list unveiled in January showed Schoh's 2003-founded Waxing The City body waxing company had zoomed from its initial #392 spot on that 2016 list to the even more elite top 100 at #89 for 2017.
The long-running television series "Finding Bigfoot" on the Animal Planet channel is scheduled to air an episode of that series this weekend that is reported to have been filmed in Yellow River State Forest in Allamakee County. The television series is described as "A team from the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) tracks the legendary beast using infrared and night-vision cameras, as well as information from firsthand accounts of alleged encounters."
A northern Allamakee County landowner recently reviewed trail camera footage from last fall and made a surprising discovery. An animal known as a fisher (pictured in lower half of photo at right) was discovered in a trail camera photo and confirmed by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR), a notable sighting since fishers have not been known to be in Iowa since the 1800s. This relative of the weasel is more common in the woodlands of Minnesota, but Furbearer Biologist Vince Evelsizer with the Iowa DNR out of Clear Lake has indicated that a southward trend has been recorded over the last five years for fishers in Minnesota, with a noticeable increase in numbers of the mammal in southeast Minnesota. Evelsizer believes the uneven terrain of northeast Iowa and southeast Minnesota, known as the Driftless Area, lends itself as an ideal habitat for fishers.
