The Allamakee County Conservation Board (ACCB) will be hosting a series of summer day camps for the youth of Allamakee County throughout the month of July. The camps will be held at parks throughout Allamakee County. The series will feature camps for all age levels from three to 15 years of age. All camps will be free of charge, however, participants must be pre-registered.
Children ages seven to 10 will be able to participate in Birds Camp July 27. Birds Camp will be from 9:30-11 a.m. at County Home Park. Participants will learn about kinds of birds in Iowa, what calls they make, and why they have different colors.
National Education Center for Agricultural Safety (NECAS) Director Dan Neenan presented to the Northeast Iowa Community College (NICC) Board of Trustees at its June 19 meeting to provide updates on successful outcomes of its farm safety programming and give an overview of services the center delivers to local, regional, national and Canadian communities. Neenan and his team coordinate a variety of safety training programs for fire departments, Emergency Medical Services, agribusinesses and independent farmers each year. NECAS is the only farm safety training center in the U.S.
The regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Eastern Allamakee Community School District (EACSD)was held Monday, June 19. Board members Melanie Mauss and Kelli Mudderman were not present at the meeting.
The board approved the following food service and registration fees for the 2017-2018 school year:
The Allamakee Community School District (ACSD) Board of Directors met in a pair of meetings this past month. Coverage of both meetings appears below.
MAY 25 SPECIAL SESSION
The Allamakee Community School District (ACSD) Board of Directors met Thursday morning, May 25 for a brief special meeting. In personnel matters, the board approved staff for the 21st Century After School Program.
Greg Criswell was hired as Middle School Physical Education teacher ($59,947) and head girls' basketball coach ($5,568). Andrew Turpen was hired as a fourth grade teacher ($33,304) and Bridget Dolan was hired as a sixth grade teacher ($33,304). Randy Nordheim was hired as head varsity volleyball coach ($5,714). Virginia Kurth was hired as the Middle School 21st Century Site Coordinator ($15 per hour). The board also accepted the resignation of Jackie Rubendall from her paraprofessional position.
The Allamakee County Board of Supervisors met in regular session Monday, June 26 to address a full agenda of items, including the need for a fireworks resolution or ordinance, the renewal of a Veterans Counselor's contract and bids for the County Line Bridge replacement on Ferris Mill Road. Chairperson Larry Schellhammer called the meeting to order.
During Public Comment, John Roe, head of maintenance at the Allamakee County Courthouse, discussed the retaining wall near the parking area by the Allamakee County Historical Society Museum. The Supervisors discussed the repair work needed and that Attorney Jim Garrett, President of the Allamakee County Historical Society, will be contacted and Allamakee County Auditor Denise Beyer will research the ownership of the retaining wall.
Tom Weighner (far right) of WW Homestead Dairy in Waukon describes the equipment used at the dairy's processing plant in south Waukon to members of the Northeast Iowa Food and Farm Network during a June 11 tour. The tour also included a visit to the Weighner dairy farm in rural Dorchester. Submitted photo.
During the June 11 gathering of the Northeast Iowa Food and Farm Network, 13 farmers and individuals involved in food businesses visited WW Homestead Dairy in Waukon. Network members took a break from their farms and businesses to learn about the dairy’s story and network with other farmers and business owners.
The gathering started at the Tom and Angela Weighner dairy farm in rural Dorchester with a tour led by Tom Weighner and his daughter, Stephanie Iverson. The Weighners are milking about 100 cows and hauling milk to the WW Homestead Dairy processing plant in town on a daily basis. The mix of farmers was able to tour the farm's milking parlor, loafing barn and calf shed. Some attendees had extensive backgrounds in livestock and dairy, but others hadn’t spent much time on dairies and had many questions about infrastructure, herd management and production systems.
Waukon baseball sophomore pitcher Levi McGeough unleashes a pitch in the first game of the Indians’ home doubleheader loss to the Cadets by scores of 9-5 and 17-3 Tuesday, June 20. McGeough threw six and two-thirds innings, striking out two batters and giving up eight hits, two walks and just two earned runs while also going two-for-four at the plate with two singles. Photo by Krystal Johnson. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website.
The Waukon baseball team picked up a pair of wins during this busy past week, including the baseball Tribe’s first Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) victory of the season. The Indians opened the week with a 13-0 loss at home to Waverly-Shell Rock in five innings Monday, June 19 before falling in a NEIC doubleheader at Crestwood that began Friday, June 16 but was suspended by rain to Tuesday, June 20, those losses coming by scores of 9-5 and 17-3. The Tribe also fell at home to Starmont in a non-conference contest Wednesday, June 21, 10-8, before picking up that first NEIC win, 7-4, at home over Charles City Friday, June 23. The Indians then pieced together their first win streak of the season by opening their own home Jeff Houg Tournament Saturday, June 24 with a 14-8 victory in eight innings over Kee before having the championship game against South Winneshiek rained out.
The Kee softball team swept through another week of undefeated results, chalking up another pair of Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) doubleheader victims to remain undefeated in UIC play at 14-0 before also winning a weekend tournament to climb to a 25-1 season record to help maintain its number-one ranking in Class 1A. The Hawks opened this past week with a sweep at Central Elkader Monday, June 19 by scores of 13-0 in six innings and 14-0 in four innings before doing likewise at North Fayette Valley Tuesday, June 20, 13-0 in three innings and 13-1 in four innings, in a date rescheduled from June 12. Kee then swept through the Decorah Tournament Saturday, June 24, defeating Waukon, 15-0 in four innings, and Osage, 8-1 in six innings, in a preliminary pool round before winning the tournament title with a 13-0 championship game victory over South Winneshiek in five frames.
The Waukon softball team added another game to the win column this past week, winning one game out of a total of seven played this past week. The softball Indians first stumbled through four Northeast Iowa Conference losses, falling at home to Charles City, 12-0 in six innings, Monday, June 19 before falling in a doubleheader at Decorah Wednesday, June 21 by scores of 9-1 and 9-2. A Thursday, June 22 home doubleheader with Oelwein was postponed to Monday, June 26 before the softball Tribe fell at Crestwood, 10-0 in five innings, in a June 12 game rescheduled to Friday, June 23. The softball Tribe then won one of three games at the Decorah Tournament Saturday, falling to Class 1A top-rated Kee, 15-0 in four innings, and to Osage, 10-4, in a preliminary pool round before pulling out a 5-4 victory over Central Elkader in the tournament’s fifth-place game.
Kee baseball senior shortstop Casey Carroll gets a hearty handshake from head coach Pat Heiderscheit after blasting a solo homerun to tie the game in the Hawks’ 14-8 opening-round loss in eight innings at the Jeff Houg Tournament in Waukon Saturday, June 24. Carroll launched the round-tripper in the bottom of the seventh inning to tie the game and send it to extra innings. Photo by Jordyn Burroughs. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website.
The Kee baseball team was finally handed its first Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) loss of the season before finishing third in win a weekend tournament in a week featuring four wins in six games played. The baseball Hawks opened the week with a home sweep of Postville Monday, June 19 by mercy-rule scores of 10-0 and 11-1 in five innings each before suffering that first UIC loss in a split of another home doubleheader postponed from Thursday, June 22 to Friday, June 23. Turkey Valley handed the Hawks that first loss, 10-0, but Kee earned the split with a 4-1 victory as well. Kee also split two games at the annual Jeff Houg Tournament in Waukon Saturday, June 24, falling to Waukon in the tournament opener, 14-8 in eight innings, before blasting Waterloo Columbus, 10-0 in five innings, in the tournament’s consolation game.
