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Kee High School's Post Prom has been scheduled for April 23 from midnight until 4 a.m. for Kee High School juniors and seniors and their guests following the school's April 22 Prom. This event is a substance free celebration providing table games, raffles and silent auctions, snacks and drinks, and door prizes.

Hypnotist Blake Powers from Wand Enterprises has been booked and all guests will be entertained by his show. The committee is also providing a photo booth from Absolute Music Photo Booths at Prom so all guests will have souvenir pictures of their night.

The Post Prom Committee has been hosting Sunday Bingo events and has worked the brat stand at Lansing Fish Days to raise funds for Post Prom. The Committee is very appreciative to all area businesses and individuals for their continued support.  Adult volunteers are needed to help with games and activities, serve food and general supervision.

The Waukon boys golf team was able to begin its 2017 season, but only able to get in one of two scheduled meets this past week. That one meet was a home date with Charles City Tuesday, April 4, where the Indians fell by a 199-168 final result to the visiting Comets. The golf Tribe also had a Monday, April 3 home date scheduled with South Winneshiek postponed to April 21.

Against Charles City, the Indians were led by sophomore Michael Headington and his round of 44, with freshman Logan Houg next in line for the Tribe with his round of 48. Senior Logan Sullivan turned in a round of 50 and junior Jess Kloke wrapped up the Indian team scoring with his round of 57.

Ernie Palas of Waukon displays his winning bracket and prizewinnings of $50 in Standard Bucks for topping this year’s field of 285 entries in The Standard’s NCAA Basketball Bracket Challenge. Palas actually tied with Gregg Jones of Waukon with 136 points each at the end of the contest, but Palas’ choice of 161 points in the tie-breaker of total points scored in the championship game was closer to this year’s NCAA Basketball Championship game total of 136 points than Jones’ guess of 184 points, awarding this year’s contest championship to Palas. Palas and Jones were the only entries in the contest to choose North Carolina to beat Gonzaga in this year’s title game. The Standard appreciates all of this year’s entries and sponsors making this year’s contest possible.
 

The Waukon boys track team finally saw its first outdoor competition of the season, being able to get both of its scheduled meets in this past week, despite a one-day delay of one of those. That Tuesday, April 4 Decorah Early Bird Meet was postponed from Monday, April 3 but saw the Indians finish third in the final five-team standings before a more short-handed track Tribe worked its way to a second-place team finish out of 11 nearly all Upper Iowa Conference squads at the Postville Invitational Thursday, April 6.

The Indians were next scheduled to return to Decorah on back-to-back Monday evenings, including April 10 and April 17, with a co-ed invitational at New Hampton scheduled in between, Thursday, April 13. The track Tribe is then scheduled to host five other teams at its own Indian Relays Friday, April 21, beginning at 4:30 p.m.

The Kee boys track team was able to finally get on the outdoor track this past week, actually getting in a pair of meets within a couple days of one another. The Hawks finished 13th out of 15 teams at the Edgewood-Colesburg Invitational Tuesday, April 4 before placing 10th out of 11 teams at the annual Foster Kiesau Relays hosted by Postville High School Thursday, April 6.

The Hawks were next scheduled to compete in the West Central Invitational at Oelwein High School Monday, April 10 before taking part in the MFL/MarMac Invitational Thursday, April 13. Kee will then prepare to host its own home invitational Thursday, April 20, beginning at 4:30 p.m.

Norbert "Bud" E. Duffy, 94, of Waukon died Sunday, April 9, 2017 at Good Samaritan Center in Waukon. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, April 18 at 11 a.m. at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Waukon, with Fr. Mark Osterhaus officiating. Burial with military graveside rites will be held at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Waukon. Friends may call from 4-7 p.m. Monday, April 17 at Martin Funeral Home in Waukon where there will be a 3:30 p.m. scripture service.

A Memorial Service for Richard Hanson, age 73, of Victor, NY, formerly of Waukon, will be held Saturday, April 22 at St. John's Lutheran Church in Waukon. Family and friends may call from 10-11 a.m. and the service will follow immediately at 11 a.m. A luncheon will follow at the church after the service. Interment will be private.

Richard Hanson passed away November 3, 2016. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon.
 

Janice Karen (Piper) DeGowin, age 80, died in her sleep March 13, 2017. She was in Hospice Care at Oaknoll Retirement Residence in Iowa City after coping with cancer for a year.

Please join her husband, Richard; her son, Bill, and his wife, Carrie; her grandchildren, Thomas and Emily; and Karen’s  brother, Mark, and his wife, Cheryl, in services celebrating Karen’s life at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 29 in the Spring Street Community Room of Oaknoll Retirement Residence in Iowa City.

Karen Piper was born to Mark M. Piper, MD and Janice Marie (Nichols) Piper in Rochester, IN October 12, 1936 during the Great Depression. Her parents divorced when she was four years old, and Karen lived with her Grandmother Nichols in Clear Lake for two years. Then Karen’s mother placed her in foster care from age six to 10, with good friends, Charles and Helen Price of Mason City, who loved her like a daughter.

Joyce A. Haas, 68, of Waukon died Saturday, April 8, 2017 at her home. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, April 12 at 11 a.m. at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Waukon with Fr. Mark Osterhaus officiating. Burial will be at St. Mary's Lycurgus Cemetery, rural Waukon. Friends may call from 4-7 p.m. Tuesday, April 11 at Martin Funeral Home in Waukon, where there will be a 7 p.m. scripture service.

Joyce Ann Haas was born October 25, 1948 in Storm Lake, the daughter of Francis Charles and Marjorie Ann (Stoulil) Schott. She attended school in Cylinder until the fifth grade when she and her family moved to Waukon. In 1967, Joyce graduated from St. Patrick Catholic High School in Waukon.

December 27, 1969, she married Douglas Haas at St. Patrick Catholic Church, Waukon. From her home, Joyce ran a daycare and looked after hundreds of kids over the years. She considered the daycare kids her extended family and loved her job.