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April is National Volunteer Month. The Auxiliary of Veterans Memorial Hospital is one of three volunteer branches of the hospital, along with the Veterans Memorial Health Care Foundation and the hospital greeters, which all continually support the services offered by Veterans Memorial Hospital (VMH). The Auxiliary recently made a sizable donation to the VMH Surgery Department for its new sterilizer. Pictured in the above photo, left to right, are Laura Wiltgen, RN; Jessica Jones, RN, Surgery Manager; Jackie Welch, RN; Lillian Larson and Mary Fink of the Auxiliary; and Brooke Weighner, RN, with the new surgery sterilizer equipment. The Auxiliary is a volunteer fundraising branch of Veterans Memorial Hospital that meets once a month. For more information on how to join the Auxiliary, call 563-568-3411. Submitted photo.
 

Local residents can make a difference by making a life-saving blood donation at the next Waukon Community Blood Drive. The next scheduled blood drive will take place Thursday, May 4 from 12 Noon to 5 p.m. at Waukon High School.

Donating blood is safe, simple and it saves lives.  Blood donors have a unique opportunity to contribute to their community by making a life-saving blood donation. Everyone who registers to donate blood goes through four simple steps during the donation process:  registration, donor history and mini-physical, blood donation and snacks.

The local Grief Support Group will be holding its monthly meeting at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon Tuesday, May 9 at 5 p.m. in the Meditation Healing Center, located just inside the main entrance of the hospital.

This informal meeting is open to anyone suffering from any type of loss, whether it be death, divorce, illness or some other grief.

Feel free to attend and bring a friend. This grief support group meets the second Tuesday of each month at Veterans Memorial Hospital.
 

Numerous students completed the recent Veterans Memorial Hospital Babysitting classes held Friday, April 7 at the hospital in Waukon. The classes were instructed by Corinne Cook, RN, and consisted of teaching the qualities of being a good babysitter, including basic child care, accident prevention, fire prevention and first aid. These new babysitters also learned CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) and the Heimlich Maneuver in the case of a choking child.

The students who completed the Veterans Memorial Hospital Babysitting classes included Izabella Kos, Finn Rounds, Thomas Wilkes, Connor Buhl, Ellsy Koenig, Mallory Howe, Madison Howe, Maxwell Moore, Sophia Welch, Arabella Jensen, Harper Horns, Lail Curtin, Teron Curtin, Emily Reinhardt, Emery Wadsworth, Addison Wagner, Genevieve McCormick, Hannah Weigle, Evangeline Kelley, Theodore Wilkes, Olivia Muse and Laney Hanson.
 

Memorials were recently received by the Veterans Memorial Health Care Foundation in memory of Roger Pladsen by Gordon and Darlene Kaeser, Jim and Jill Kiesau, Marlys Leiran, Mr. and Mrs. Patrick McMillan, Ernie and Donnalee Osland, Dave and Gail Prestemon, Eric and Stephanie Palmer, Chuck and Lois Votsmier, and Mary Fink.

Memorials were also received in memory of Bruce Jones by Marlys Leiran, Ernie and Donnalee Osland, Bryan Schulte, Kent and Rhonda Stock and Chuck and Lois Votsmier.

Additionally, memorials were also received in memory of Gary Lane by Mary Ann Hager, Chuck and Lois Votsmier, and Les and JoAnn Winters; in memory of Joyce Kuhse by Patsy Kerndt and Sigurd and Barb Ness; in memory of Sharron Kubitz by Mary Ann Hager; in memory of Janet Bechtel by Boyd and Constance Colby, Brian and Jean Krambeer and Mary Ann Hager; and in memory of the Everett Bollman family by Scott and Kim Bollman.

Mike and Virginia O’Hare of Lansing are celebrating their 55th wedding anniversary with an open house scheduled for Sunday, April 30 from 1-4 p.m. at the Allamakee County Fairgrounds Pavilion, located at 705 Allamakee Street in Waukon.

Lunch will be served. The couple requests no gifts.

Sandy and John Troendle of Waukon were joined in marriage Saturday, April 15 at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Waukon.

Mitchell Guese and Audry Fahey of Postville announce the birth of their daughter, Tatum Rae Guese, born April 12, 2023 at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon. She weighed 7 lbs. 15 ozs. and measured 21 inches in length at the time of her birth.

Upcoming Deadlines/Dates
May 14: CRP Mid-Contract Management
May 15 - August 1: Primary Nesting Season
June 2: ERP Phase 2
June 2: PARP
July 15: Spring Crop Reporting

Applications will be accepted through June 1 for awards honoring farm ownership of 100 years and 150 years