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Volunteers invited to take part in annual event

The sixth annual “Keep Waukon Beautiful Day” has been scheduled for Saturday, May 21 in the Waukon area, and volunteers can mark their calendars to help take part in the event in an effort to clean up and maintain the appearance of the community. Interested participants are asked to meet at 8 a.m. Saturday, May 21 at the front entrance of Waukon City Park.

Those participating are asked to bring with them garbage bags and work gloves. Raindate is scheduled for Saturday, June 4. Questions about the event can be answered by contacting Dr. Steve or Stefanie Perkins at 563-535-7019.
 

With Memorial Day approaching, the Allamakee County Veterans Memorial Committee would like to remind those interested that orders for individual memorial bricks are still being taken for placement within the Allamakee County Veterans Memorial at the Allamakee County Courthouse in Waukon.
This year, those interested in ordering a memorial brick should place their order no later than May 1. Every effort will be made to have the bricks ordered by that date in place by Memorial Day this year. If possible, orders received after May 1 will be placed prior to Memorial Day, but most likely will be put in place at a later date.

Waukon Dental donated over 375 toothbrushes and toothpaste for goodie bags given to kids at the Easter Egg Hunt held Saturday, March 26 at the Waukon City Park. Pictured above, left to right, at the donation presentation are Deb Hertges, Marketing Director of Waukon Dental; Mandy Halverson of Epic Wear in Waukon, who organized the Easter Egg Hunt; and Heather Moore, Registered Dental Hygienist of Waukon Dental. Submitted photo.
 

by Joe Moses

by Brianne Eilers

Despite winter weather making an early spring appearance just a couple days earlier, a lively collection of more than 250 area boys and girls took part in the Easter Egg Hunt held at the Waukon City Park Saturday morning, March 26, collecting their share of the 9,000 eggs that had been scattered for the event. The hunt was coordinated for the second consecutive year by Mandy and Tyler Halverson of Epic Wear in Waukon, with help from a variety of volunteers both prior to and during the event, as well as sponsorships received from local businesses and organizations.

The Waukon City Council met in a special session Monday, March 28 with just three business items on the meeting agenda. That brief agenda, however, took just over an hour and a half to wade through, with an hour of that timeframe centering around discussion about the street situation within the community and the need for a plan.

Brittany Coleman, Registered/Certified Dental Assistant at Waukon Dental for the past four years, will be taking the dental skills she has been performing on local patients to a more global level for a week this next month. Coleman will be joining several other dental and surgical professionals on a mission trip to Honduras through the Sharing Resources Worldwide (SRW) organization.
"I’ve always wanted to go on a mission trip and help provide for others," Coleman said of the opportunity. "I love to travel, and what a perfect opportunity to use my skills and training as a Registered and Certified Dental Assistant and go on a mission trip."
Coleman learned of the mission trip through the CEREC (One Appointment Crown) Study Club she is part of out of La Crosse, WI. She will be one of three registered dental assistants making the trip along with one dentist, three registered dental hygienists and a pediatric ocular plastic surgery team.

The Waukon City Council met in regular session Monday evening, March 21 to address a number of agenda items. Councilman Ben Rausch was not in attendance at the meeting.
During the Public Comment session that typically opens such meetings, resident Wayne Martin asked for the Council's assistance in determining how to handle a property access issue with his new neighbors for his seemingly landlocked property once accessed via the dead end portion of Eighth Street NW. Having had no such issues with previous neighbors in his 50 years of residing in that same location, the Martins are now met with No Trespassing signs on access property that, in essence, belongs to the new neighbors.

It was reported in the March 9 edition of The Standard that the Waukon City Council approved May 6 as this year's spring clean-up day. That May 6 date was, indeed, approved, but the actual pick-up day for those spring clean-up items will be Saturday, May 7, beginning early in the morning.
Waukon City Clerk Al Lyon explained that the May 6 date was approved by the Council because it is advised that those spring clean-up items be placed at the curb by that Friday evening, May 6 in order to be in place for the early morning pick-up Saturday, May 7. Additional details for this year's spring clean-up day will be advertised in a future edition of The Standard as the event becomes closer.