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Ferryville Vision and Promotion Board is hosting its monthly Soup and Salad Supper at Ferryville Village Hall Thursday, March 9. Doors open at 5 p.m. and the meal will be served until 7 p.m. or until food runs out.

All of the freewill donation proceeds will help fund upgrades to the bathrooms at the Village Hall. For more information, watch for advertisements in The Standard and Northeast Iowa Extra.
 

The 13th Annual Eagle Watching Day is scheduled for this Saturday, March 4 in Ferryville, WI at the Village Community Center located on State Highway 35, Great River Road. This program is sponsored by the Ferryville Tourism Council, co-sponsored by Friends of Pool 9, and free to the public.

Event activities are from 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m., with doors opening at 9 a.m. Returning to the program is the Decorah Raptor Resource Project Eagle Cam organization presenting at 12:30 p.m. on “Eagles of the Mississippi River”. John Howe and Amy Reis of the Raptor Resource Project and their team tell about eagle families and how they fly the Mississippi River Valley.

There are many eagle nests in the area, including a new one just south of Ferryville and another new nest on Hwy. 82 to Lansing. The Pool 9 section has more nests than in any other part of the Mississippi River.

Waukon Park & Recreation “A” League Volleyball Champions - Swat Team 2 ...  Pictured above, Left to right - Front row: Ryan Whalen, Brigid Berns, Brock Berns; Back row: Bethany Stock, Ellie Cooper, Morgan Van Ruler. Submitted photo.
 

The sport of wrestling for girls in Waukon has certainly had its moments in history, dating back as far as 1999 Waukon High School graduate Blair Young competing in the first-ever U.S. Girls Wrestling Association National Tournament. More recently, 2022 Waukon High School graduate Meridian Snitker competed in the first-ever Iowa Wrestling Coaches and Officials Association (IWCOA) Girls State Wrestling Tournament as a freshman in 1999, finishing as a State Runner-Up.

The Kee girls basketball team played through its 2022-2023 campaign to produce an overall record of 5-16 this winter, with all five of those wins coming in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play to place the Lady Hawks in sixth place in the final nine-team UIC standings. Those five wins came against four different Upper Iowa Conference teams throughout the season, including a season sweep of Postville by margins of five points or less in both of their match-ups and a pair of late-season victories by just a single basket each over Clayton Ridge and South Winneshiek teams the Kee girls had lost to by double-digit margins earlier in the season.

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The Waukon Park & Recreation Department is preparing for its summer baseball and softball programs. Registration forms are being made available early this year for fourth through seventh grade participants just to get a better idea of how many kids are planning to play through the Park & Recreation system this summer since participation numbers in these grades have been declining.

As in previous years, fourth and fifth grades will practice and play in town, with hopes of having practice during the day for this age group. It is desired to have three practices a week with Wednesday night games and all of that taking place at the softball complex. Practices will tentatively start the week of May 29 and games would start the week of June 5 and run five weeks, into mid-July, with parents helping coach during the games.

Mary A. Ward, 83, of Waukon died Saturday, February 25, 2023 at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, March 1 at 10:30 a.m. at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Waukon with Fr. John Moser officiating. Burial will be at St. Mary’s Hanover Cemetery in rural Waukon.

Friends may greet the family from 4-8 p.m. Tuesday, February 28 at Martin - Grau Funeral Home in Waukon, where there will be a 3:30 p.m. scripture service. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the American Lung Association (https://www.lung.org/get-involved/ways-to-give).

Mary Ann Ward was born July 4, 1939 at home in Dorchester, one of 12 children to Emmett and Lillian (Doubek) Schwartzhoff. In 1957, she graduated from high school in Spring Grove, MN and then moved to Rochester, MN with her sister-in-law, Shirley Schwartzhoff, to work as a nursing assistant at the hospital.

Rev. Sue Moline Larson died February 23, 2023 at University Hospital, Madison, WI. Her funeral service will be at Holy Wisdom Monastery, 4200 Hwy. M, Middleton, WI Saturday, March 4 at 1 p.m. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to the time of service. Interment will be Monday, March 6 at 1 p.m. at Oakland Cemetery, Waukon. In lieu of flowers, memorials will be directed to a scholarship fund to support students studying environmental justice and advocacy.

Sue was born February 20, 1947 in Waukon in the beautiful rolling hills of northeast Iowa near the Mississippi River Valley. She was baptized June 9, 1947 at Grace Evangelical United Brethren Church in Lansing. She attended the Ferring country school through fifth grade and then went to school in Waukon when her family moved due to father’s ill health.

Susan Stanton O’Connor, 83, of Bellevue, WA passed away peacefully in her sleep February 8, 2023 after battling lymphoma and dementia. A small private service will be held for the family. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to Old Friends Club (welcome@oldfriendsclub.org), a dementia support group.

Susan was born June 14, 1939 in Chicago, IL to Erma Beryl Jones and James J. Stanton. The family moved to Waukon, where Susan attended school through grade 11. She moved to California and graduated from Tustin High School in 1957. Susan went on to graduate from Bellevue College as a Registered Nurse. She also spent over 20 years working for Sno-Isle Libraries as a library assistant at Mukilteo, WA.

by Amy Rolfs, RN, VMH Cardiac Rehab Supervisor

If you have a heart attack or other heart problem, cardiac rehabilitation is an important part of your recovery. Cardiac rehabilitation can help prevent another, perhaps more serious, heart attack and can help you build heart-healthy habits. About 800,000 people in the United States have a heart attack every year. About one in four of those people already had a heart attack. Cardiac rehabilitation not only can help a person recover from a heart problem but can also prevent future heart problems.