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NICC Opportunity Classes, located at Lansing High School, is looking for local individuals to share their knowledge and skills. Your interests and talents may be just what others want to know more about. Topics may include: music, crafts, exercise, foreign languages, computer, hobbies, dance, baking, animals/birds, writing, and more. We invite you to teach a class this fall/winter.

Waukon’s boys track and field squad competed in a pair of recent meets, although both events were quite different. Tuesday, April 12, the Tribe traveled to Decorah for competition. The Indians easily took second in the small competition. Later that week, April 14, Waukon faced some talented teams at the West Delaware Invitational. The Indians ultimately finished sixth in the 12-team field.

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Croell 38 14

Citizens State Bank 361/2 151/2

Bresnahan Oil 271/2 241/2

Echo Valley Speedway 231/2 281/2

S&D Cafe 18 34

Martha’s Tot Stop 121/2 391/2

HTS: Croell 2752

HIS: Amanda Shaffer 642

HTG: Bresnahan Oil 963

HIG: Linda Ryan (sub) 216, Amanda Shaffer 216

The Upper Iowa University football team will wrap up its spring drills with the Blue-White Spring Game Saturday, April 23 at 11 a.m. at Eischeid Stadium in Fayette.

2004 Waukon Senior High graduate Mitch Einck is a member of the Peacock football squad.

Tami Magner (Fr.) had an exceptional week at the plate for Luther softball, blasting a pair of homers and adding 4 RBI in 6 contests. The Norse split a pair with Cornell April 13, winning 7-2 before falling 5-10. April 14, Luther fell to Waldorf, 0-3 and 8-9, and then split with Simpson April 16, winning 2-1 and then losing 3-4 in a 9-inning game.

Josh Tweedy (Sr.) finished 14th in the 1500 meter run for Iowa at Saturday’s Tom Botts Invite at Columbia, Mo. He crossed the line in 4:00.38.

The Waukon Park and Rec Department has scheduled organizational meetings for adult softball leagues for next Tuesday, April 26. Anyone interested in having a womens, mens, coed, or 35 & older team should have a representative attend their respective meetings at the Waukon Park and Rec office. Womens league will meet at 6:30 p.m., coed at 7:00, Mens at 7:30, and 35 & older at 8 p.m. For more information, call 568-6420.

Ann Wild and Jason Miller would like to announce their engagement and upcoming wedding. Ann is the daughter of Richard and the late Diane Wild of Lansing. Jason is the son of Dean and Fran Miller of Cresco.

The bride-to-be is employed at Donaldson Company in Cresco and her fiancé is self-employed with Miller Painting in Cresco.

They are having a Saturday, June 4, 2005, wedding at St. Mary’s Lycurgus Church, rural Waukon.

Lloyd and Sheila Colsch of New Albin will celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary with an open house from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, May 1 at the New Albin Community Center. They will renew their vows in a 2 p.m. ceremony. All relatives and friends are invited to attend.

Hosts for the event will be the couple’s three children, Kenny (Wendy) Colsch, Beth (Neil) Galema, and Shelly (Alex) Galema. They also have eight grandchildren.

Lloyd Colsch and Sheila Fink were married Mary 15, 1965.

Melissa Zwiefka, daughter of Debra Taylor of Harpers Ferry and David Zwiefka of Trempealeau, Wis., is engaged to Nicholas Hammell, son of Mark and Renee Hammell of Lansing.

Melissa is a cosmetology student at the Iowa School of Beauty in Urbandale, Iowa. Nicholas is an industrial engineering student at Iowa State University in Ames.

A Saturday, June 18, 2005, wedding is planned.

The Allamakee County Board of Health was recently given $652 to be used for influenza prevention activities within Allamakee County. This project was supported in part by the Iowa Influenza Prevention Project, a collaboration of Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield and the Iowa Department of Public Health. The Board of Health could not think of any better use of the money than to share it with our community schools and truly help stop the spread of the flu.