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Family caregiving is a growing responsibility for many Americans. Nearly 39% of U.S. adults provide care for a family member or friend with a chronic health condition. While caregiving can be rewarding, it often brings challenges that may affect caregivers’ physical health, emotional well-being and overall life satisfaction.

“Caregiving can be stressful, and many caregivers struggle to find the support they need,” said Barbara Dunn Swanson, a health and human sciences educator with Iowa State University (ISU) Extension and Outreach.

Friday, September 18, at 12 noon, the Lansing VFW Post and Auxiliary, along with Lansing American Legion Post #50, will host a special ceremony on Mt. Hosmer to mark National POW/MIA Recognition Day. The program will be held on the Ralph Bartels Patio, located next to the shelter atop Mt. Hosmer, and the public is warmly invited to attend. Guests are encouraged to bring a lawn chair for seating.

At the heart of the observance will be the solemn Missing Man Ceremony, a symbolic tradition that honors those who are still missing from this nation’s past wars and conflicts, as well as those who gave their lives in service but whose remains have not yet been recovered and returned home. The empty place at the table at the ceremony represents the absence of these heroes, while each element of the table setting carries deep meaning about sacrifice, honor, and remembrance.

Saturday, September 12, family and friends of lifelong resident and local “River Rat” Pat Sandry will be honoring his memory with the Ninth Annual Pat Sandry Memorial Fishing Derby and Friends of Pool 9 Fundraiser held on the Mississippi River. Sandry passed away in November of 2017 after a short, courageous battle with cancer. He thoroughly enjoyed the outdoors, had a great passion for fishing and hunting, and he truly treasured the beauty of Lansing and the surrounding area.

Entry fee is $50 per boat with 50% payback in prize money and 50% being donated to Friends of Pool 9. There is a limit of two adults and two minors per boat.

Hours of the tournament will be from sun-up through 1 p.m. with weigh-in by 1 p.m. at Shep’s Riverside Patio Bar. Categories of fish include Bass, Walleye, Bluegill, Crappie, Perch, Striper, Catfish, Northern, Pike, and Roughfish.

by Joe Moses

The Allamakee County Board of Supervisors met in regular session Monday, August 31 to address a full agenda of matters including the Public Hearing relating to the Amendment to Zoning Ordinance L, discussion of the Victim Witness Coordinator Grant and related Allamakee County Budget Amendment, and the Public Hearing for the Fiscal-Year 2027 (FY27) Allamakee County Budget Amendment.

The meeting was called to order by Board of Supervisors Chairperson Tom Clark with Supervisors Dennis Keatley and Dan Byrnes present. During Public Comment, Solid Waste Manager Dave Mooney provided a brief update relating to County Solid Waste and Recycling.

The meeting moved into the Public Hearing for the Fiscal-Year 2027 (FY27) Allamakee County Budget Amendment. The Public Hearing was opened with County Auditor Denise Beyer advising that this matter relates to the County Solid Waste Department’s purchase of a garbage truck. The Public Hearing was closed.

Waukon Golf and Country Club held its season club championships Sunday, August 23. Jeremiah Weighner won the Junior Boys championship nine-hole event with a score of 38. Tayla Berns won the Junior Girls championship nine-hole event with a score of 45. Dylan Stegen won the Men’s championship with an 18-hole score of 67. Ramsey Welch won the Women’s championship with an 18-hole score of 88. Individual scores from the event appear in the Wednesday, September 2 edition of the Standard.

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Being ranked second in the initial Class 2A rankings by the Iowa Track & Field Coaches Association, the Waukon girls cross country team took its first competition steps toward proving that high regard when the Lady Indians - literally - ran away with the team title at the Edgewood-Colesburg Invitational Tuesday, August 25. Placing four runners within the top 15 individual finishers and all five of their team-scored runners within the top-21 of that overall field of 130 runners at the all high school meet with just a single girls race, the distance Tribe tallied 53 team points to top the remainder of that field of nine scored teams by at least 20 points.

The Waukon girls were next scheduled to compete in the Charles City Invitational this Thursday, September 3. The Lady Indians will then take part in the North Fayette Valley Invitational at West Union Thursday, September 10 before competing at the Starmont Invitational scheduled for Tuesday, September 15.

The Waukon boys cross country team got its 2026 campaign started Tuesday, August 25 at the Edgewood-Colesburg Invitational that featured only high school competition, and also had all levels of that high school event compete in just one race. The Indians placed three of their runners within the top-15 overall competitors in the 114-runner boys field to help tally a team score of 112 points that placed the distance Tribe fourth in the meet’s field of 11 scored teams which was topped by a Waterloo United team that placed four runners within that same top-15 and all five of its scored runners within the meet’s first 16 individual finishers for a team total of 43 points.

Even with eight returning varsity letterwinners this season, the 2026 Kee volleyball team will still have an abundance of new faces - at least to the high school volleyball court - to try and make this fall’s campaign the best it can be. Coming off of a winless season last fall and in the grips of a five-season stretch with no more than two match wins during any of those campaigns, the combination of those varsity veterans and a renewed look from the top down for this season’s squad is looking to change that recent trend.

The change at the top for Kee volleyball comes in head coach Kelly Welsh. The former Kelly Dibert is a 2004 graduate of Kee High School, where she played volleyball for the Lady Hawks during her high school career. She also brings experience coaching youth volleyball within local programs to the helm of the varsity level of play.

Sharen Kaye Roth, age 79, went to be with the Lord August 27, 2026, surrounded by her husband and children at Northgate Care Center in Waukon. Funeral services will be held at First Baptist Church in Waukon Friday, September 4 at 11 a.m. with visitation at 10 a.m.

Sharen was born January 18, 1947, to Ben and Lydia (Lubben) Gruis in Forest City. She attended school and graduated in 1965 from the Buffalo Center School. After high school, she attended cosmetology school in Mason City.

Sharen met her future husband, Russell Roth, while he was working for her father. Their love story had a memorable beginning - Sharen was not impressed with Russell at first and thought he was trouble. Her first impression clearly didn’t have the final say, and April 9, 1966, Sharen and Russell were married, beginning a life together filled with family, love, and many treasured memories. They were blessed with four children, Peggy, Jill, Michael and Dawn.