Students attending need to register through online link
The Summer Prom event that several local parents have been working on since mid-April is being planned to take place Saturday, July 25 at the Allamakee County Fairgrounds Pavilion in Waukon for Waukon High School students who completed their junior or senior year this past school year, along with their guests. Committee members have been communicating with Allamakee County officials, who say that with the locations and events that have now been opened up and the easing of many restrictions in regard to the COVID-19 pandemic, this event should be able to happen as well.
With doors opening at 6 p.m., the evening will begin at 6:30 p.m. with a catered meal being provided at no cost to the students by Rich Schulte of Schulte’s BBQ & Catering of Waukon. The menu will include roast pork with cheesy potatoes. The committee is looking for parent volunteers to help provide salads and desserts.
Northeast Iowa Community College (NICC) and eight additional colleges in the Community College Alliance for Agriculture Advancement (C2A3) will receive $529,924.48 over the course of the next four years as part of a cooperative agreement issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS).
The nine Midwestern community colleges that comprise the Alliance boast strong agricultural programs and traditions. The consortium was developed under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the USDA-NRCS and USDA North Central Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (USDA-SARE). NICC is the only college in Iowa to be selected as an alliance partner.
This year’s General Election is scheduled for November 3, 2020. Most ballots cast in the June 2, 2020 Primary Election were by voters who voted absentee from home.
Due to an emergency proclamation for COVID-19 from the Governor, the Iowa Secretary of State’s office mailed an Absentee Ballot Request form to all active voters for the June 2 Primary. Legislation passed after the Primary now requires approval by a legislative council before the Secretary of State is allowed to do a similar mailing for any future election.
IMT Insurance, a provider of personal and commercial insurance products in the Midwest, recently collaborated with its Independent Insurance Agents to support COVID-19 relief efforts in their communities. Agencies made donations, across six states, ranging from $250 - $1,000. Through IMT’s Month of Giving program, Agency donations were matched by IMT, dollar-for-dollar, totaling more than $37,000.
Lansing Iowa Food Trust (LIFT), submitted by Gary DeVilbiss of Kerndt Brothers Insurance Agency (KBIA), was chosen as one of the 2020 IMT Month of Giving recipients. Pictured above at the presentation of a combined $1,000 donation are, left to right, Steve Sopha from IMT Insurance, Lansing Iowa Food Trust (LIFT) Board of Directors Vice President Chris McKee and Kerndt Brothers Insurance Agency President Gary DeVilbiss. The donation was made possible by a $500 grant from IMT Insurance and a matching donation of $500 from Kerndt Brothers Insurance.
Wisconsin Department of Transportation (DOT) officials opened Hwy. 82 (more locally known as the Dike Road) connecting Iowa and Wisconsin via the Black Hawk Bridge at Lansing to single-lane traffic as of Thursday, July 2 after several weeks of having the road closed for repair work on some of the smaller slough bridges along that route.
Officials advise that construction work that is part of the overall original project to maintain and upgrade those smaller slough bridges was scheduled to resume Monday, July 6 and will continue until the project’s completion date, which had originally been scheduled for July 31 and will likely need to be extended beyond that original date due to the unanticipated repair work on those bridges that resulted in the road’s complete closure these last several weeks. The remainder of the project will allow for single-lane traffic with a flagger system controlling that traffic until the project is completed.
The regular meeting of the Lansing City Council was held Monday, July 6, 2020. The meeting centered around the consent agenda and the city clerk’s report.
The consent agenda consisted of council meeting minutes from June 15 and June 17, payments of claims, and Expresso liquor license. A motion was made and seconded to approve the consent agenda with minimal discussion.
The City of Lansing is still looking to fill the deputy city clerk position. Interested applicants should email deputyclerklansing52151@yahoo.com or contact Lansing City Hall at 563-538-4757 to have an application mailed. Applications will be accepted until Noon this Friday, July 10.
Sliding in safe ... Waukon baseball sophomore designated hitter John O’Neill slides in underneath a New Hampton defender at second base in the Indians’ 2-1 home loss to the Chickasaws in a Northeast Iowa Conference doubleheader Friday, July 3. O’Neill scored the game’s only run for the Tribe in that game-one loss, going two-for-three at the plate in that game and a combined three-for-five in the doubleheader loss. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website.
The Waukon baseball team not only picked up its first win of the abbreviated 2020 season this past week, but did so in a big way in posting a single win in its four games scheduled for the week. That win came in a Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) split at Decorah Tuesday, June 30, the Indians roaring to a 14-4 victory in game one before falling in the nightcap, 7-0. The Tribe then came within a half-inning and a clutch hit of recording a second win, falling in a home NEIC doubleheader to New Hampton by scores of 2-1 and 11-2 Friday, July 3.
Holding a 1-10 season record, 1-9 among NEIC opponents, the Indians were next scheduled to wrap up their regular season with a Tuesday, July 7 road trip to Oelwein before beginning postseason tournament play this Saturday, July 11 in New Hampton, with the Indians’ postseason possibilities printed elsewhere on the July 8, 2020 Sports pages in a shaded box.
Single connection ... Waukon softball sophomore first baseman Brenna Berns tags a pitch in the Indians’ 13-7 home loss to New Hampton Wednesday, July 1. Berns posted this single to drive in a run and also score one in the ballgame. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website.
The Waukon softball team continues to fight right up to the end of each of their ballgames, doing so again in three games this past week before having all three end up on the short side of their final results. That trio of losses included a 9-5 defeat at Oelwein Monday, June 30 before the Tribe suffered a loss of 13-7 at home to New Hampton Wednesday, July 1 and took Decorah right down to the game’s final out in a 10-9 road loss Friday, July 3.
Welcoming her home(run) ... Kee softball sophomore right fielder Haley Meyer is greeted at home plate by her teammates after blasting a three-run homerun in the Hawks’ 13-1 home victory over South Winneshiek Monday, June 29. Meyer drove in four runs and scored three more in the Hawks’ doubleheader sweep of the visiting Warriors. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website. Photo by Maggy Weymiller.
The Kee softball team posted an undefeated week this past week, with Mother Nature being the only one able to get the upperhand on the Hawks by postponing a Wednesday, July 1 Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) doubleheader at North Fayette Valley to a date likely to be played this week but yet to be announced. On each side of that postponement, the Lady Hawks swept a pair of UIC foes by a combined outscoring of 56-4, including wins of 6-1 and 13-1 in just three innings at home against South Winneshiek Monday, June 29 before routing Postville by tallies of 14-0 and 23-2 in just three innings each on the road Thursday, July 2.
Firing to first ... Kee baseball sophomore second baseman Landon Reams fires a throw to first base in the Hawks’ home doubleheader sweep of Clayton Ridge Tuesday, June 30. Reams scored two runs and drove in another in the two Kee victories. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website. Photo by Maggy Weymiller.
The Kee baseball team was within one final game of posting an undefeated week during a busy, seven-game schedule this past week, that lone loss coming to one of Class 1A’s most highly-regarded squads in sixth-rated Alburnett by a 12-3 result at home Friday, July 3. Prior to that lone loss of the week, the Hawks posted six straight wins that began with a 15-1 win at North Fayette Valley in five innings before game two of that Upper Iowa Conference doubleheader was suspended in the fifth inning with Kee holding a 14-4 advantage.
Kee also posted sweeps of 12-2 and 10-0 in five innings at home over Clayton Ridge Tuesday, June 30 and over Oelwein Wednesday, July 1 by scores of 5-4 and 10-0 in five innings in a non-conference doubleheader played at Riverfront Stadium in Waterloo. A 20-0 Kee win in four innings at Turkey Valley Thursday, July 2 kept the Hawks’ undefeated week going before Friday’s 12-3 loss at home to sixth-rated Alburnett.
