Great-great-grandmother Leonette Troendle is pictured above at a recent family gathering with many members of the fifth generation of her family. Leonette will be turning 100 years old April 23. In honor of that milestone birthday, cards and well wishes may be sent to 1971 Silver Creek Road, Waukon, IA 52172. Submitted photo.
Nick and Lexie Brink of Waukon announce the birth of their son, Beau Gary Brink, born April 5, 2024 at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon. He weighed 7 lbs. 3 ozs. and measured 21 inches in length at the time of his birth. He joins a sister, Huntley (2).
Grandparents are Ed and Amy Bieber of Waukon, Gerald and Laurie Brink of Waukon, and Lori and Cary Erickson of Decorah. Great-grandparents are Patrick and Mary Jo Liddiard of Waukon, Joan Bieber of Waukon, Lucy Brink of Postville, Vivian Guyer of West Union and Carol Erickson of Elgin, MN. Leonette Troendle of Waukon is a great-great-grandparent.
Upcoming Deadlines/Dates
April 29: Deadline to sign up for Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC)
May 14: Deadline to complete CRP Management Activities
May 15 - August 1: CRP Primary Nesting Season
May 31: Deadline to apply for a Marketing Assistance Loan (MAL) for 2023 crops
Prescribed Burning
Spring is here and we are seeing several people out and about conducting burns across the county in their road ditches, hay fields, CRP, and timber. Burns can be very beneficial if completed timely and conducted routinely every 3-5 years. One exception is woody vegetation. It may be necessary to burn two or more consecutive years to control undesirable sprouting of woody vegetation. Having a purpose or a goal in mind before you burn can dictate when your best burn window can be.
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig is encouraging school-aged Iowa students to participate in the 2024 Choose Iowa Calendar Contest hosted by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. Choose Iowa is the state’s signature brand for Iowa grown, Iowa raised and Iowa made products.
Submitted artwork should feature at least one aspect of Iowa agriculture, with an emphasis on food, livestock or crop production. Submissions will be judged on creativity and connections to agriculture in everyday life. Entries are due June 3, 2024, and winners will be announced at the 2024 Iowa State Fair.
“The Choose Iowa Calendar Contest is a fun way to showcase the importance of Iowa agriculture to all consumers while also recognizing some of our state’s most creative and artistic students,” said Secretary Naig. “We invite all students from across Iowa to submit their art for a chance to have it published in our popular statewide Choose Iowa calendar.”
There are some topics that are difficult to discuss. One of those topics is sexual assault. April is nationally recognized as Sexual Assault Awareness Month and provides an opportunity for us to embrace uncomfortable conversations to support victims of this crime.
Every 68 seconds, an American is sexually assaulted. Nationwide, 81% of women and 43% of men have reported experiencing some form of sexual assault and/or harassment in their lifetime. More than 736 million women and girls have experienced intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence worldwide. Sexual assault can happen to anyone, anywhere - from famous movie actors to college students.
The 2024 Waukon High School Prom is scheduled to be held this Saturday, April 20 at the Waukon Middle School gymnasium. Doors will open to the public at 7 p.m. for the Grand March, which is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. Parents, family and community members may view the Grand March either seated in the auditorium or standing in the gym.
Following the Grand March will be the coronation of this year’s Prom King and Queen. Visitors are asked to exit the building after the coronation in order for students to start the Prom dance, which is scheduled to begin at approximately 9 p.m. Students who signed up for Post Prom must be in the doors of the Waukon High School Cafeteria by 11:30 p.m. in order to participate.
The 2024 Kee High School Prom is scheduled for this Saturday, April 20. Pictured above are this year’s senior class Queen and King candidates for the annual event. Left to right - Front row: Queen candidates Evie Clemments, Ava Mahr, Riley Troendle, Anissa Stanley (inset photo); Back row: Austin St. Mary, Cadan Evanson, Jack Schweitzer, Brendan Croft.
The annual Prom banquet will be held at TJ Hunter’s Banquet Hall on Main Street in Lansing, beginning at 6:30 p.m. The Prom dance will also take place in the banquet hall this year following the Grand March and coronation of this year’s Prom King and Queen that will take place in the Kee High School gymnasium.
Apartment complex project part of proposed residential development near City Park ... The open area in the center of the photo below taken by Standard Assistant Editor Joe Moses just north of the Waukon City Park and west of the Waukon Mobile Home Community is anticipated to be the location for proposed residential development that will initially include the apartment complex pictured in the submitted sketched image above. A housing development agreement between the City of Waukon and Dexter Quandahl of Q4 Construction will be open for public comment at a public hearing scheduled for this coming Monday, April 22, beginning at 6 p.m. at Waukon City Hall. The agreement initially provides for the creation of two apartment complex buildings, similar to what is pictured above, with each structure housing 18 apartment units.
Photo above by Standard Assistant Editor Joe Moses.
Floor plan for ground floor ... The floor plan pictured below shows the ground floor of the initial apartment complex that will be part of the proposed residential development just north of the Waukon City Park campground area. The floor plan shows seven two-bedroom units and one single-bedroom unit, along with four garage stalls on that ground level, with the second floor of the apartment facility also including a very similar floor plan but adding two single-bedroom units above where the garage stalls are located for a total of 18 apartment units in the building. Submitted image.
View from the proposed parking lot ... The sketch pictured above of the apartment complex being proposed as part of the development of the western portion of what has been called the Pladsen Subdivision, just north of the Waukon City Park campground area, shows an abundance of parking for the initial 18-unit facility. This initial structure will house 14 two-bedroom apartments and four one-bedroom apartments, with garage parking available for four units in addition to numerous parking lot spaces pictured. Submitted image.
by Joe Moses
Waukon City Manager Gary Boden, Executive Director Val Reinke of Allamakee County Economic Development (ACED) and developer Dexter Quandahl of Q4 Construction met with The Standard Friday, April 12 to provide an update relating to the proposed apartment complex construction project at the southeast corner of the intersection of the new 8th Avenue SW and 2nd Street SW in Waukon within the area locally known as the Pladsen Subdivision, north of the Waukon City Park.
Providing concrete evidence ... The activity the engineers had planned for the monthly bridge talk held April 11 involved making concrete - using the exact materials being used for the concrete on the new bridge project. “Croell was nice enough to let us use samples of those materials from their plant,” bridge project engineer Clayton Burke said. Photo by Julie Berg-Raymond.
“Wood” you believe it? ... Clayton Burke, overseeing engineer on the bridge replacement project with the Iowa DOT, explained to Bridge Talk attendees why the new piers are better than the piers they replaced during repairs to the Black Hawk Bridge. “The pile (the new piers) are founded on extend all the way down to bedrock and they meet modern design standards,” Burke said. “The original piers were only founded on 40- to 50-foot-deep wooden pile and constructed in the late 1920s.” Burke is shown here holding some of the wood pieces retrieved when the original piers were demolished. Photo by Julie Berg-Raymond.
by Julie Berg-Raymond
Repair of the Black Hawk Bridge is moving along right on schedule, according to a statement posted on social media Monday, April 15, by the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT).
Most encouraging is the fact that all the spans are back in place on the existing bridge. While contractors still have to install approximately 400 bolts, and a thorough inspection needs to be undertaken to make sure the bridge is safe, the DOT statement concludes, “we are on pace to meet our goal of having the bridge back open by the end of (April).”
During the sixth monthly “Bridge Talk,” held Thursday, April 11 at the Meehan Memorial Lansing Public Library, spirits were higher among attendees than they had been in recent weeks, since the unexpected closing of the Black Hawk Bridge Sunday, February 25 because of safety concerns after reports were confirmed that the bridge had moved.
April 9 was a beautiful night for the Waukon Cub Scout Pack 64 to hold its monthly Pack meeting. This month, the Scouts had the privilege of having Val Miller from Steel Cow help them paint. Val showed the Scouts how she starts her paintings with the background and layers on as she paints. There were many different colors and themes in the paintings by the Scouts, including beautiful blue skies and green rolling hills, and even an ocean and pond made their appearance. The Scouts enjoyed their art lesson in the Waukon City Park and look forward to using their painting skills on the projects they do for Scouts as they progress. Submitted photo.
