VMH Auxiliary Pillow Perk set for Monday, October 16 ... The Auxiliary of Veterans Memorial Hospital is devoted to providing the hospital and its patients and visitors with many services. The Auxiliary meets monthly the second Monday of each month, at 1 p.m., in the ICN Conference Room at Veterans Memorial Hospital. In addition to their annual membership drive, they host several events each year including the Women’s Health Day which will be held Tuesday, September 26; the feather pillow Pillow Perk, pictured above, which is set for October 16; and a spring garage sale, in addition to the gift case items located just inside the main entrance to the hospital. The Auxiliary of Veterans Memorial Hospital’s annual membership drive is on now. New members are always welcome. Submitted photo.
The Auxiliary of Veterans Memorial Hospital is devoted to providing the hospital and its patients and visitors with many services. Their annual membership drive is on now. Auxiliary membership dues are just $10 for active members and $15 for inactive members.
The Auxiliary meets monthly the second Monday of each month, at 1 p.m., in the ICN Conference Room at Veterans Memorial Hospital. In addition to their annual membership drive, they host several events each year including the Women’s Health Day which will be held Tuesday, September 26; the feather pillow Pillow Perk which is set for October 16, as well as their spring garage sale, all in addition to the gift case items located just inside the main entrance to the hospital.
The free sports physicals that were offered at the Veterans Memorial Hospital Clinic-Waukon in July of this year served 196 area student-athletes who needed the physical for participating in school sporting events. For those who may have missed these free physicals, appointments can still be made at both the Waukon and Postville Medical Clinics to have the required paperwork completed before the start of the school year.
For school-aged children, most insurance companies will cover one well-child check-up per year, as long as it is scheduled as a well-child checkup and not a sports physical. For those who may not have the annual well-child visits covered on their health insurance plan, a sports physical can be held and will be charged a fee per appointment. These well-child check-ups will include a full-physical, plus will also include all necessary documentation, including a concussion screening, for participation in all school athletic activities.
The Veterans Memorial Hospital Diabetes Support Group will hold its next meeting Thursday, August 17 at 10 a.m. The meeting will be held at Veterans Memorial Hospital (VMH) in the Large Conference Room, located on the lower level of the hospital.
This diabetes class is open to everyone who has diabetes or who has a friend or loved one with diabetes. For more information on the Diabetes Support Group, call Angie Mettille, RN at VMH at 563-568-3411.
Jerry and Marilyn Troendle of Waukon are celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary. Jerry Troendle and Marilyn Meehan were married August 3, 1963 at St. Joseph’s Paint Rock Catholic Church, Harpers Ferry.
They will be celebrating their anniversary with an open house hosted by their family Sunday, August 13 at the Waukon Banquet Center from 2-4 p.m. There will be live music by the Toe Tappers and everyone is invited to celebrate the occasion with them.
The couple requests no gifts or cards. Prior to the open house, they will be celebrating with their family, including attending Mass and enjoying a family meal.
Their marriage has been blessed with five children: Jeff (Lisa) Troendle of Cedar Falls, Kerry (Tammy) Troendle of Waukon, Lori (Steve) Willemssen of Waverly, Jeremy (Lana) Troendle of Waukon, and Marcy Troendle of Mason City. They also have 12 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Sally Hagensick of Waukon will be celebrating her 85th birthday August 12. She will be celebrating the occasion with a family dinner.
There will also be an open house hosted by her children Saturday, August 12 from 2-4 p.m. at Walden Pond, located at 1432 130th Avenue near Castalia. For those who can not attend the open house, cards and well wishes may also be sent to her at the following address: 306 4th Avenue NE, Waukon, IA 52172.
Reid and Caitlin Mahoney of Waukon announce the birth of their son, Lincoln Brian Mahoney, born July 28, 2023 at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon. He weighed 8 lbs. 5 ozs. and measured 19-1/2 inches in length at the time of his birth. He joins siblings, Claire Johnson (14) and Bentley Johnson (10).
Grandparents are Tom and Laura Mellick and Brian and Suzette Mahoney, all of Waukon. Great-grandparents are Tom and Mary Mellick of Waukon, Linda Sanders of New Albin, Mike Mahoney and Maureen Mahoney of Waukon, and Gene and Marcia Rose of Decorah.
Cheyenne Freilinger of Waukon announces the birth of her son, Ledger David Freilinger, born August 1, 2023 at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon. He weighed 9 lbs. 2 ozs. and measured 21 inches in length at the time of his birth. He joins siblings, Dakota (7), Kaysen (3) and Parker (2).
Grandparents are Catina Dahlstrom of Waukon and Kale and Joan Freilinger of La Crosse, WI. Great-grandparents are Paul Dahlstrom and Jean Ann Fulmer, both of Waukon.
Katie Brennan, a 2019 graduate of Kee High School in Lansing and a senior on the 2023 Luther College softball team, was recently honored for her work both on and off the field this season. The Lady Norse third baseman was one of seven players from this past season’s Luther softball team named All-America Scholar Athletes by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Tuesday, August 1.
To earn All-America Scholar Athlete honors, a player must have achieved a 3.5 grade point average (GPA) for the 2022-2023 academic year. The seven Lady Norse to achieve that honor headlined an overall team effort that ranked Luther 124th among all Division III softball teams with a 3.07 team GPA.
The 2023 Waukon baseball season continued to build on a renewed foundation with a third consecutive season of 15 wins that marks the best consecutive season stretch for Waukon baseball since the two-year span of a combined 51 wins during the diamond Tribe’s 2007 and 2008 campaigns that included the program’s best-ever season record of 29-10 in 2007. This season’s 15 wins all came in the regular season, marking the most regular season victories for the Indians since 2008, and improves upon the 14 wins garnered during last summer’s regular season and another 14-win regular season from the Tribe’s 2011 campaign that marks the most recent best record during a 17-22 campaign that took the Indians to their last State Tournament appearance, that season grand finale coming amongst Iowa’s Class 3A ranks.
Despite fielding nearly an entirely new squad of varsity players this summer, the 2023 Kee baseball team played its way to an even season record of 19-19. Returning just one of its day-to-day players from the previous season that graduated nine seniors, and having just one senior headlining this season’s upperclassman leadership, that average season record included a well above average mark in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play of 12-6 that placed the Hawks in a tie for second place (record-wise) with an MFL/MarMac squad that played its to the brink of Class 2A State Tournament qualification but that Kee had beaten in two of the three games the two teams played against one another this year.
