The Allamakee Community School District (ACSD) School Board of Directors met for its regular monthly meeting Monday, August 19. Under the Consent Agenda, the following personnel hires were approved (pending satisfactory background check): Jacob Homp, Elementary Night Custodian; Randy Nordheim, Volunteer Volleyball Coach; Ashley Dougherty, Volunteer Volleyball Coach; Kate-Leigh Fossum, Volunteer Cheer Coach; Adam Sacquitne, Substitute Bus Driver; and 2024-2025 Kids Club Workers. The resignation of Stephanie Radloff from her High School Paraprofessional position was also approved.
Main Street Lansing and Locable have announced a joint initiative aimed at revolutionizing local digital landscape in the Lansing area. This partnership will empower local businesses, nonprofits, and civic organizations, enabling them to become more effective at marketing without having to be marketing experts themselves.
“Local businesses notoriously struggle with marketing, and it’s getting worse. However, at a time when nearly every tech company, start-up, and big business is working against local, against communities... We’re equipping community organizations, businesses, and nonprofits to #TakeBackLocal,” shared Brian Ostrovsky, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Locable.
The Celia Sander Garrett Foundation has announced a grant opportunity for up to $1,000 in gifted funding. Those interested should submit their written Request For Proposal or a one-page written summary of their project that should align with the mission of the Foundation.
Submissions should be made to Celia Sander Garrett Foundation, P.O. Box 414, Lansing, IA 52151 by August 31 of this year. Should additional information be required to qualify for the grant funding, the applicant will be contacted after that date.
Upcoming Deadlines/Dates
August 2- 31: Non-Emergency Haying of CRP
August 2 - September 30: Non-Emergency Grazing of CRP
Current – October 31: Organic Certified Cost Share Program (OCCSP)
December 2: Deadline to return COC ballots to FSA Office
Cost Sharing Available
Cost sharing on conservation practices is still available. Through the State of Iowa Division of Soil Conservation, IDALS, applications are taken continuously for terraces, grade stabilization structures (ponds), sediment basins (dry ponds) and waterways. The cost sharing is 50 percent up to the estimated cost.
Study the factors that make up your score now, before new policy becomes effective
Farmers who want to gain a better understanding of their Carbon Intensity Score can take advantage of a simple calculator developed by an economist with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.
The calculator relies on just five input numbers, according to Alejandro Plastina - corn acres, nitrogen use and corn yield with current farming practices, change in nitrogen use and change in yields under new farming practices.
The score is a calculation of how much carbon is used per bushel of crop production and is an important measurement used for selling grain to certain ethanol plants that plan to participate in the federally incentivized Carbon Intensity Score program.
Tatum Iverson, Social Worker at VMH ... Pictured is Tatum Iverson, Social Worker, at left, with Donna and Ernie Lubahn of Waukon. Tatum is assisting them in reviewing their advance directives paperwork. Tatum advises everyone to sit down and have the ‘hard’ conversations about each individual’s personal wishes in the case of a life-altering health event or even death, and having those Advance Directives filed in advance. Advance Directives forms are available at the front entrance to Veterans Memorial Hospital for anyone who would like to pick one up to use as a guide. Submitted photo.
Tatum Iverson is the full-time social worker at Veterans Memorial Hospital (VMH). Her role is very large, touching most every patient’s care who enters and leaves the hospital, working closely with hospital staff, patients, their families and their insurance companies to coordinate the proper levels of care needed and be sure these are approved. She can provide the assistance families need for taking the next steps following a hospital discharge and can also help with a referral to skilled care, even from another healthcare facility.
Auxiliary of VMH membership drive continues ... The Auxiliary of Veterans Memorial Hospital (VMH) is now holding its annual membership drive. The Auxiliary is devoted to providing the hospital and its patients and visitors with many services and needed equipment. Pictured above, left to right, are Auxiliary members Cindy Barness, Rose Ann Mark, Elaine Eadie, sitting, and Ann Roed. All the money the Auxiliary receives through memberships and fundraisers goes back to the hospital for equipment. Membership enrollment forms are available at the main entrance of Veterans Memorial Hospital. Submitted photo.
The members of the Auxiliary of Veterans Memorial Hospital (VMH) is actively recruiting new and returning members to join them during their annual membership drive which is going on now.
The Auxiliary of Veterans Memorial Hospital is devoted to providing the hospital and its patients and visitors with many services. The Auxiliary also holds annual fundraisers, such as the Women’s Health Day Luncheon each fall, the Pillow-Perk in October, a garage sale in the spring and the Auxiliary’s annual membership drive each July. All the money the Auxiliary receives goes back to the hospital for equipment.
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), vaccines help the body learn how to defend itself from disease without the dangers of a full-blown infection. The immune response to a vaccine might cause tiredness and discomfort for a day or two, but the resulting protection can last a lifetime.
Infections are unpredictable and can have long-term consequences. Even mild or symptomless infections can be deadly. For example, most people infected with the human papillomavirus (HPV) never show any sign of infection. But for some, the sign appears years later as an aggressive, life-threatening cancer. By then, it’s too late to get vaccinated.
Vaccines work by imitating an infection - the presence of a disease-causing organism in the body - to engage the body’s natural defenses. The active ingredient in all vaccines is an antigen, the name for any substance that causes the immune system to begin producing antibodies.
Did you know one in seven people entering the hospital will need blood? Did you know that only four percent of those eligible to give blood, actually do?
Give the gift of life and attend the next LifeServe Blood Center Blood Drive to be held Thursday, September 5, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m., at the First Baptist Church in south Waukon. Blood drives are held once per month in Waukon, the first Monday of the month, but due to the Labor Day Holiday the September drive will be held Thursday. The LifeServe Blood Center supplies Veterans Memorial Hospital (VMH) with its blood and blood products.
The LifeServe Blood Center is seeking donors to ensure a safe and plentiful blood supply in Iowa. Because there is no substitute for human blood, the need for donors is continuous. Blood donations are greatly needed.
Ervin and Barbara Borntrager of rural Waukon announce the birth of their daughter, Marnita Kaye Borntrager, born August 13, 2024 at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon. She weighed 8 lbs. 4 ozs. and measured 19-3/4 inches in length at the time of her birth. She joins sisters, Kaylene Rose (3) and Katelyn Fern (2).
Grandparents are Clarence and Ada Borntrager of Waukon. Great-grandparents are Amos and Mary Edna Lambright of Waukon.
