The Kee High School Post Prom Committee will host Bingo Sunday, October 14 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 local food banks 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 regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Eastern Allamakee Community School District (EACSD) was held at Kee High School in Lansing Wednesday, September 12 due to a scheduling conflict with its typical third Monday of the month meeting date of September 17. The meeting included both the board’s annual reorganizational meeting at the start of the new school year, as well as regular business.
The Northeast Iowa Community College (NICC) Waukon Center is celebrating its 10th anniversary. To celebrate, the center will hold an open house Friday, October 5 from 2:30-4:30 p.m., following the Waukon High School Homecoming parade.
At the open house, community members may tour the Waukon Center, meet with center staff, see the improved health lab and learn more about credit courses and programs available through NICC. Root beer floats will be served at the event for attendees. The Waukon Center is located at 1220 Third Avenue NW, Waukon.
Speaking on robotics research in security ... Waukon native and former St. Patrick School student Ruffin James White-Magner is pictured above making a presentation in Hamburg, Germany in 2015. He is speaking this week at two international conferences in Madrid, Spain on his robotics research in security. Submitted photo.
Ruffin James White-Magner, 27-year-old son of Mary Jane White and James W. Magner of Waukon who attended St. Patrick School in Waukon from Kindergarten through seventh grade, is speaking about his robotics research in security at two international conferences in Madrid, Spain held between September 29 and October 5.
His first presentation, “Leveraging Data Distribution Service Security in Robot Operating System 2,” was at the Robot Operating System Convention (ROSCon), an international annual gathering where he has presented earlier research in Vancouver, Canada (2017), in Seoul, Korea (2016) and in Hamburg, Germany (2015).
Morgan Bjerke, County Youth Coordinator at the Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Allamakee County office, brought five Allamakee 4-H County Council members, Taya Duehr, Allie Bieber, Faith Palmer, Diana Davison and Ashley Liddiard (left to right in back row) to visit the fourth graders at St. Patrick School in Waukon. The purpose of their visit was to educate the students about the benefits of being active in the 4-H program. Fourth grade is the first year that youth can fully participate in local 4-H programming as club members, so the County Council representatives shared which 4-H clubs they belonged to, and explained how students could join 4-H. Submitted photo.
Completes varsity effort ... Waukon boys cross country senior Michael Headington leads this Decorah runner in the Indians’ home invitational Monday, September 24. Headington completed the Waukon varsity effort with his 57th-place finish overall, 29th for team scoring, with a clocking of 21:40. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website.
The Waukon boys cross country team faced its busiest week of competition so far this season, taking part in two meets that book-ended the past week. The distance Indians first placed third at their own Waukon Invitational Monday, September 24, a meet rescheduled from Tuesday, September 18 due to rainy weather. The Tribe then finished second behind Class 1A eighth-rated South Winneshiek at the Crestwood Invitational Saturday, September 29.
The Indians were next scheduled to compete at the South Winneshiek Invitational Tuesday, October 2 before preparing for their Northeast Iowa Conference Meet Tuesday, October 9 at Waverly. The distance Tribe will then get ready for its Class 2A State Qualifying Meet to be held Thursday, October 18 at a site yet to be officially announced.
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Wraps up Indian efforts ... Waukon girls cross country freshman Madelyn Helgerson (left) and junior Ellec Armstead (right) help pace each other in the Indians’ home invitational Monday, September 24. Helgerson rounded out the Indian team scoring with her 25th-place team scored finish, 32nd overall, in 23:19 and Armstead completed the Waukon varsity effort, finishing 40th overall, 29th for team scoring, in 23:52. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website.
The Waukon girls cross country team took part in its busiest week of the season, competing in two meets to book-end the past week. The distance ladies first placed third at their own Waukon Invitational Monday, September 24, a meet rescheduled from Tuesday, September 18 due to rainy weather. The Lady Indians then finished second behind the Class 2A top-rated host squad at the Crestwood Invitational Saturday, September 29, where first-year high school cross country competitor, sophomore Maddy Waters, ran to a new school record time of 20:42.1, improving on the previous record of 20:52.67 set last season by teammate Katelyn Benzing in her sophomore season.
Wraps up Kee’s effort ... Kee girls cross country junior Laura Colsch keeps a slight lead over a Decorah runner along the course at the Waukon Invitational Monday, September 24. Colsch completed the Hawk effort at the meet with her 115th-place overall finish, 43rd for team scoring, with a clocking of 31:42. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website.
The Kee cross country team competed in a pair of meets to begin and end this past week’s competition. The Hawks first competed in the smaller Waukon Invitational Monday, September 24 before taking part in the much larger Steve Johnson Invitational at Wartburg College in Waverly Saturday, September 29. The Waukon meet had been rained out from Tuesday, September 18, and its postponement also resulted in the Hawks opting out of the Tuesday, September 25 Jesup Invitational, the Kee girls finishing second at Waukon and the Hawk boys coming in fifth. At Saturday’s Wartburg meet, the Kee girls finished 13th in a loaded field of 25 scored teams, with the Kee boys not fielding enough runners to compile a varsity team score.
Denied! ... Waukon volleyball senior McKenzie Cooper turns away this New Hampton attack in the Indians’ home loss to the Class 3A ninth-rated Chickasaws in three sets Tuesday, September 25. Cooper tallied three solo blocks and one kill in the match. View and find out how to purchase this photo and more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website.
The Waukon volleyball team played through a winless week of five matches, including a pair of Northeast Iowa Conference bouts against top 15-rated teams and a weekend tournament featuring another highly-regarded foe. The Indians first fell at home to Class 3A ninth-rated New Hampton Monday, September 24 and then at Class 4A seventh-rated Waverly-Shell Rock Tuesday, September 25 before being eliminated early from the Waterloo Columbus Tournament Saturday, September 29 with losses to Class 1A fourth-rated Starmont, Marion and Waterloo East.
Now with a 10-12-4 season record, 1-3 in Northeast Iowa Conference play, the Indians were next scheduled to play at Crestwood Tuesday, October 2 before playing in the Hudson Tournament Saturday, October 6. The net Tribe will then play at Charles City Tuesday, October 9 and then prepare for its Northeast Iowa Conference Tournament to be played at Decorah Saturday, October 13.
Setting up an attack ... Kee volleyball senior Meredith Gruber pops up a set in the Hawks’ home Upper Iowa Conference loss to West Central Thursday, September 27. The Hawks first fell by scores of 9-25 and 24-26 before winning set three, 25-22, but falling again in the fourth set, 16-25, to surrender the match. Photo courtesy of the Kee High School Yearbook. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website.
For the second consecutive week, the Kee volleyball team had just one match on its slate, as the Hawk netters played host to West Central Thursday, September 27 in just their second home match of the season. Still in search of their first win in Upper Iowa Conference play this season, the Lady Hawks fended off a three-set sweep but ultimately fell in four sets to the visiting Blue Devils.
West Central used a nine-point run early in the opening set to pull away to a 1-10 advantage, directly adding another six-point surge to dig the Kee deficit to 3-16. The Hawks could not manage any more than two points in their service series in the set, ultimately suffering the 9-25 defeat.
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