Area residents can mark their calendars for the fifth annual summer program series to be held in Ferryville, WI. This year’s three program Summer Series is sponsored by the Ferryville Tourism Council. Each program will be held at the Ferryville Village Hall and will begin at 6:30 p.m. Treats will be available.
The first program in this summer series will be held Wednesday, June 12 and will be entitled “Railroading along the Mississippi: Then and Now.” The featured speaker will be Ron Copher, who has had a lifelong interest in railroads and railroading. His grandfather worked for the Santa Fe Railroad for 50 years.
Copher began his career with the Chicago Northwestern Railroad in 1967 and switched to the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad in 1969. He began on the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad as a fireman and was promoted to engineer in 1971.
The Driftless Area Education and Visitors Center in Lansing will be hosting Gary Eldred of The Prairie Enthusiasts for an interactive flint knapping demonstration Sunday, June 9 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Along with Eldred will be other Driftless Area residents who share a passion for flint knapping and bow making in traditional Native American styles.
Flint knapping is the art of making arrowheads, knives and other tools using chipped rock and stones in the same manner Native Americans have done for thousands of years. The demonstration will be free of charge and will be ongoing throughout the day. Visitors to the Driftless Center are encouraged to ask questions and interact with the demonstrators while they are working.
The regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Eastern Allamakee Community School District (EACSD) was held at Kee High School in Lansing Monday, May 20. The meeting was called to order by Board President Heather Schulte. Board members present included Bobbie Goetzinger, Melanie Mauss and Heather Schulte, with board members Bruce Palmborg and Kelli Mudderman absent. Also present at the meeting were EACSD Superintendent Dr. Dale Crozier, New Albin Elementary Principal Chad Steckel and Board Secretary Marian Verdon.
After the agenda was unanimously adopted, the Board held a public hearing on the 2018-2019 budget amendment which increased the budget in the non-instruction program area. With no public comment on the proposed budget amendment for 2018-2019, the amendment passed unanimously during the regular session of the board meeting.
Waukon Middle School seventh grader Olivia Marti entered a drawing for the Iowa State Fair calendar contest hosted by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. The entry was to be an 8.5”x11”, horizontal, black and white drawing that represents agriculture in Iowa. There will be 12 winners selected this summer to be included on this year’s calendar. Submitted image.
Pinterest Projects Class is being held Thursday, June 13 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in the lower level of Robey Memorial Library in Waukon, featuring Paper Quilling for this session. This unique art form uses strips of paper that are rolled, curled, shaped and glued to create simple to intricate designs. This bi-monthly class features a project found on Pinterest and materials will be provided by the library.
Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool that helps discover and save creative ideas. Registration is recommended for this class; contact the library at www.waukon.lib.ia.us or 563-568-4424 to register.
Demonstrations to be part of VMH Safety Day Camp ... Veterans Memorial Hospital’s bi-annual Safety Day Camp will be held in Waukon Thursday, June 13 at the Allamakee County Fairgrounds. This event teaches all types of safety for children ages six to 14. Many large group demonstrations as well as 10 other small group sessions, such as the one pictured above, are taught throughout the day. To register for the June 13 Safety Day Camp, call Veterans Memorial Hospital at 563-568-3411 or log onto the hospital’s website at www.veteransmemorialhospital.com for a registration form. Submitted photo.
There are a few spots still available for any child age six to 14 years who would like to attend the Veterans Memorial Hospital Safety Day Camp. This camp will be held Thursday, June 13 at the Allamakee County Fairgrounds in Waukon from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The day camp is designed to increase children’s awareness of a wide variety of safety hazards, as well as provide them with hands-on, first aid training to help themselves or someone else survive an accident should one occur.
Individual topics covered at this year’s safety camp will include the following:
- ATV & Motorcycle Safety
- Farm Equipment Safety
- Electrical Safety
- Lawnmower/Weed Eater/Chainsaws
- Pinch Point Safety
- Bicycle Rodeo
- Grain Bin Safety
- Internet Safety
- Fire Arm Safety
- First Aid
- Water Safety
- Drone Safety
- Snake Awareness.
A “grand” entrance ... Waukon baseball senior pitcher Levi McGeough approaches home plate to be congratulated by the three teammates he just delivered around the basepaths with a grand slam homerun late in the Indians’ 12-10 loss to Class 3A ninth-rated Waverly-Shell Rock in a home doubleheader sweep by the high-powered Go-Hawks Friday, May 31. McGeough’s fully-loaded roundtripper pulled the Indians within that 12-10 final margin in the seventh inning and capped off plate perfection for him of five hits in five at-bats that also included four singles and a team-high five runs batted in (RBI). Photo by Krystal Johnson. 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 played through a consistently busy week with five games played over four consecutive nights, with a single inning or play in a majority of those games making a difference between at least some of them ending up in the win column and the actual result of all five games missing that mark. Having the week book-ended with facing a pair of top 10-rated opponents in Northeast Iowa Conference play, the Indians began the week with an 8-2 loss at Class 2A 10th-rated New Hampton Tuesday, May 28 before falling in the final inning at MFL/MarMac by an 8-7 final result Wednesday, May 29. A third consecutive road loss for the week, 7-4 at North Fayette Valley Thursday, May 30 in a make-up game from May 21, then gave way to the completing half of that high-end NEIC book-end, a pair of home losses to Class 3A ninth-rated Waverly-Shell Rock by just a 12-10 result in game one but by a 15-0 final count in four innings in the nightcap.
Combine for a no-hit shut-out ... Kee baseball senior Josh Walleser (above photo) and freshman Jonah Reinke (photo below) combined for a no-hit shut-out of MFL/MarMac in the Hawks’ 4-0 first-game win in their doubleheader sweep of the Bulldogs Tuesday, May 28. Walleser threw the first six innings of the contest, striking out nine batters. Reinke came on for the final inning, striking out two of the three MFL/MarMac batters he faced. Photos by Macie Hill. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website.
The Kee baseball team played to a nearly perfect week on the diamond, opening its Upper Iowa Conference schedule with final result perfection in winning four of five games this past week. That initial Upper Iowa Conference sweep came at home against MFL/MarMac by scores of 6-0 and 6-3 Tuesday, May 28 before the Hawks ventured on an overnight road trip that began at AGWSR with a 6-1 victory Friday, May 31. That road trip wrapped up in Newell-Fonda Saturday, June 1, where the Kee baseball boys took on two other teams that had just one loss so far on this young season. The Hawks first fell to Kingsley-Pierson, 10-0 in five innings, before bouncing back with a 9-8 win over the host Newell-Fonda squad.
The Kee softball team ended up on differing sides of the win-loss spectrum in playing a total of six games on just three different days, picking up its first wins of the season before ending the week on the opposite end of that result in four weekend games, three of them played against teams ranked among the top 15 in their respective classes. The Lady Hawks’ week began with that high note of its first two victories of the season, a sweep of an Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) doubleheader at South Winneshiek Wednesday, May 29 by scores of 9-4 and 7-3 that kept Kee’s UIC winning streak alive and well at now 62 games. The Hawks then traveled to West Union for back-to-back days of softball action at the North Fayette Valley Tournament, where they faced those three highly-regarded foes in falling in all four games they played.
The Waukon softball team played to a nearly even second week of competition, winning three of a busy week of seven games played this past week. The Indians opened the week with a 4-1 loss at home to MFL/MarMac Tuesday, May 28 before being swept in a road Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) doubleheader at Class 4A fourth-rated Charles City Thursday, May 30 by scores of 13-3 in five innings and 13-1 in four innings. The softball Tribe got on the winning track with a 9-8 home triumph against South Winneshiek Friday, May 31 before returning to Charles City Saturday, June 1 for the annual Charles City Classic and winning two of three games there. That Classic experience began with a 7-5 win over St. Ansgar before the Indians erupted for a 17-4 triumph over West Hancock but then ended the Classic with a 5-0 loss to those same host Comets who had dealt them a pair of mercy-rule defeats just two days earlier at that same location.
