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The Music Department in the Waukon High School and Middle School will be hosting its 15th annual Pop’s Concert Friday, February 23 at the Waukon Middle School gymnasium. Doors will open at 6 p.m. with concert time at 7 p.m.
The Pop’s Concert is an annual fundraising event sponsored by the Allamakee Music Boosters, and it features high energy musical numbers from the 1950s through today. Groups performing will include the Waukon High School and Middle School choirs, high school and middle school jazz bands, drumline, middle school rock band, featured soloists, song and dance skits, and emcees. The Pop’s Concert continues to feature new musical talents each year and has become a must-see event for the Waukon community.
The Improvisational Acting team pictured at right from the Kee High School Speech program was nominated as an All-State selection at the State Large Group Speech Contest held at Dubuque Senior High School Saturday, February 3. The team received a perfect score at State with “1” ratings from all three judges and was also selected by the judges as one of the top teams to be nominated for All-State honors. Pictured above, left to right, are team members Brendan Croft, Isaiah Wagner, Justin Wagner, Brendan Jones and Andrew Kolsrud.
One Act “Stopping at Ellis Island” received a perfect score of three “1” ratings. Left to right: Brendan Jones, Gabe Mattson, Sawyer Gramlich, Payton Becker, Zoey Timmerman, Ashlyn Henkes, Izzy Hammell, Austin St. Mary and Holden Welsh.
Radio “ZZZZ 101.1” received two “1” ratings and one “2” rating. Left to right: Jack Schweitzer, Cadan Evanson, Regan Troendle, Riley Troendle and Brendan Croft.
Ensemble “Yes Means No” received two “1” ratings and one “2” rating. Left to right: Isaiah Wagner, Ashlyn Henkes, Andrew Kolsrud, Cadan Evanson and Riley Troendle.
Improvisational Acting received two “1” ratings and one “2” rating. Left to right: Addison Winters, Izzy Mettille, Lilly Kolsrud and Summer Walleser.
Ensemble “14 Mores Ways to Screw up a College Interview” received one “1” rating and two “2” ratings. Left to right - Front row: Ashlyn Mohn and Nyomi Jones; Back row: Sawyer Gramlich, Jack Schweitzer and Daniel Jones.
Five additional teams from the Kee High School Speech program were selected to perform at the State Large Group Speech Contest held at Dubuque Senior High School Saturday, February 3, and each of them received at least one “1” rating from the contest judges. Those team members are pictured in the surrounding submitted photos.
The Kee High School Speech program will host its annual Speech Dinner Theatre Saturday, March 16 at TJ Hunters Banquet Hall in Lansing. The event offers the community an opportunity to watch these teams and others perform. Submitted photos.
Over the next three years, the Black Hawk Bridge, an iconic steel span that links Lansing and Crawford County, WI over the Mississippi River, will slowly be replaced by a wider, more modern structure that will improve traveler safety on the bridge and in Lansing.
As construction ramps up, workers from around the Midwest will settle into the area, calling this part of northeast Iowa their home away from home for an extended period. With this influx of temporary residents, Gundersen Lansing Clinic was called upon to partner with the Iowa and Wisconsin Departments of Transportation (DOT) to provide for the medical needs - both those related to the job and otherwise - of the crews.
Thursday, February 22 David Faldet will be at the Meehan Memorial Lansing Public Library to talk about and read from his book Oneota Flow: The Upper Iowa River and Its People. Faldet will be presenting his program at the library at 6 p.m. that Thursday.
The book, a natural history of the Upper Iowa River basin, is a nonfiction blend of history, environmental research, and personal experience that argues taking care of the rivers in the surrounding area is a necessary way to protect future. It was published by the University of Iowa Press as part of its American Land and Life series.
Oneota Flow is organized into chapters that follow the story of the river from its geological beginnings to the present. In each chapter Faldet surveys persons who are currently involved with resources of the river basin in ways that connect to that chapter of its history.
During its regular meeting Monday, February 5, the Lansing City Council approved entering into a contract with Altumint Services for the installation of four monitoring systems, commonly referred to as “speed cameras,” at two locations (each location will have two systems, one facing each direction on the roadway) in Lansing.
The vote to approve the contract with Altumint Services was split, with council members Steve Murray, Benjamin Ghelf and Lisa Welsh voting to approve; Council members Corey Richards and Mike Manning voted against the motion to approve.
Double-double leadership ... Waukon girls basketball junior Keira McCormick sends a shot toward the rim in the Indians’ 64-50 home win over Oelwein in the opening round of Class 3A Regional Tournament play Saturday, February 10. McCormick paced the Indians with her double-double effort of 22 points and 13 rebounds in addition to recording three assists and two steals in the postseason victory. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this webpage.
The Waukon girls basketball team played through a busy and successful week, taking on three opponents and posting wins over all three for an undefeated week that closed out the Tribe’s regular season with back-to-back victories and opened its postseason tournament trail in the same winning manner to continue the Indians’ season deeper into regional tournament play. That regular season finish on back-to-back nights at home included a 51-44 triumph over La Crescent, MN Monday, February 5 and 69-44 victory over Charles City Tuesday, February 6 in Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) play. After that regular season finish, the Lady Indians got their postseason off to an equally successful start with a 64-50 home win over Oelwein Saturday, February 10 in the opening round of Class 3A Region 6 Tournament play.
Wins the 106-pound title to earn State Tournament berth ... Waukon boys wrestling 106-pound senior Kale Berinobis maneuvers Forest City freshman Myles Henn for an opening-round pin at the Class 2A District Tournament at Osage Saturday, February 10. Berinobis pinned both of his opponents he faced in his five-man District Tournament bracket to claim the 106-pound championship and earn his first State Tournament qualification. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this webpage.
Senior Kale Berinobis is 106-pound District Champion; Juniors Jayden Mara and Holten Palmer also qualify as District Runners-Up at 113 pounds and 157 pounds
The 2023-2024 wrestling season came to a close for all but three members of the Waukon wrestling team Saturday, February 10 in the mat Tribe’s Class 2A District Tournament hosted by Osage High School. Needing a top-two finish in their weight class bracket to extend their season to this year’s State Tournament coming up this week, wrestlers from eight different teams were vying for those top-two qualifying finishes, with the mat Tribe earning three of those, each in various fashion, and having several others in position to do so on the way to scoring 151 team points to finish third in the final team standings.
Career-high scoring ... Kee girls basketball freshman Rylee Mudderman finishes off a lay-up in the Hawks’ 64-28 home win over Starmont in the opening round of Class 1A Regional Tournament play Thursday, February 8. Mudderman scored a career-high 28 points and also swiped seven steals and recorded five rebounds and one assist. Photo by Danielle Potter. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this webpage.
The lone game for the Kee basketball girls this past week was a start to their postseason tournament trail, and that path turned out to result in an easy stroll when the Lady Hawks hosted a winless Starmont team in the opening round of Class 1A Region 1 play Thursday, February 8. The bucket brigade jumped out to a 15-0 headstart to outshine the visiting Stars from start to finish on the way to a 64-28 first-round triumph.
Improving their season record to 17-5 with that first-round win, Kee’s girls were scheduled to advance to the Class 1A regional tournament second round at home Tuesday, February 13 against Central Elkader, beginning at 7 p.m. The winner of Tuesday’s contest will advance to the Region 1 semifinals this Friday, February 16 to be played at Edgewood-Colesburg at 7 p.m. against either the host Vikings or East Buchanan.
It was another game and another bit of program history for the Kee boys basketball team this past week, as the Hawks wrapped up their regular season with a win at Turkey Valley Tuesday, February 5. That 75-38 triumph in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play not only furthered Kee’s first-ever UIC season championship and first conference title since 1983, at a 15-1 UIC record, but the win also improved the Hawks’ season record to 19-2, breaking the program’s single-season record for wins that stood at 18 within an 18-3 season mark during the 1978-1979 Kee campaign that included a 10-0 championship result in the Upper Mississippi Conference.
