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The Kee baseball team got its 2017 season underway with what ended up being a pair of doubleheaders that resulted in just a single win, although the Hawks were on the brink of at least two more. The week began with the Hawks being swept at Decorah Tuesday, May 23 with a 3-2 loss in the final inning of game one followed by a 6-0 loss in the nightcap. Kee was then scheduled to host its annual Shooky Fink Tournament Saturday, May 27, but a scheduling conflict, instead, turned that date into a doubleheader with Waterloo West, which was split between a 6-0 Kee victory and an 8-6 Hawk loss.

A busy upcoming week for the Hawks begins with a home doubleheader against Edgewood-Colesburg Tuesday, May 30 before Kee travels to Clayton Ridge Thursday, June 1 and then hosts Riceville Saturday, June 3, both of those dates doubleheaders as well. That trend continues at home with Starmont Monday, June 5 before traveling to South Winneshiek Thursday, June 8.

The Kee softball team got its 2017 season off to a busy start with a series of six games in five days, but put all six of those contests in the win column for an undefeated start. The Lady Hawks began that busy, and successful, stretch with a 9-0 road win at Decorah Tuesday, May 23 before sweeping an Upper Iowa Conference twinbill at home over MFL/MarMac, 10-0 in five innings and 4-1, Thursday, May 25 and then blasting intra-county foe Waukon by an 11-0 count in five innings Friday, May 26. The Kee diamond dwellers continued their winning ways by sweeping a pair of contests in comeback fashion at the Jesup Invitational Saturday, May 27, defeating Sumner-Fredericksburg, 5-4, as well as the host school, 13-12.

Cecil J. Colsch, age 82, of Woodstown, NJ died Friday, May 26, 2017 after a brief but accelerated illness at Seasons Hospice in Christiana Hospital in Newark, DE. Friends are invited to visit his family from 6-8 p.m. Thursday evening, June 1 in the H.T. Layton Funeral Home, located at 102 South Main Street in Woodstown, NJ. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Friday, June 2 in the Catholic Community of the Holy Spirit Church, formerly St. Joseph's, 51 Broad Street in Woodstown, NJ. Burial will follow Mass in the church cemetery.

Randy Allen Reed, 56 years old, of Dunkerton died Sunday, May 21, 2017 at Allen Memorial Hospital, Waterloo after a short illness. Local survivors include his parents, Richard “Dick” and Donna Reed of Lansing.

Condolences may be left at www.White-MtHope.com. White Funeral Home, Jesup assisted the family with arrangements.
 

Authorities have confirmed a Lansing man has died in a crash following the washout of a portion of the highway between De Soto, WI and Lansing, just east of the Black Hawk Bridge Tuesday morning, May 30. James Walleser, age 59, of Lansing has been confirmed as the victim of the crash that took place as a result of the washout of the highway. In a report by WXOW television station out of La Crosse, WI, Crawford County, WI Sheriff Dale McCullick explained that a driver witnessed the washout when another driver ahead of them, Walleser, drove toward what is locally know as Henderson Bridge over Henderson Slough on Wisconsin Highway 82 and disappeared into the washout crater around 4:22 a.m. Authorities recovered the body of the victim inside the vehicle around 8:30 a.m. along Highway 82, approximately four hours after the initial incident.

Peter William Bieber, Jr. of Waukon died Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon, at age 81. A Celebration of Life will be held Wednesday, May 31 at the Allamakee County Fairgrounds Pavilion in Waukon. The ceremony will begin at 5 p.m. with Chris Leppert officiating, followed by meal and music/reception. The committal service is at Oakland Cemetery in Waukon.

Peter was born July 29, 1935 in Waukon, the son of Peter Sr. and Luella (Leppert) Bieber. He was baptized and confirmed in his faith of our Lord and Savior. He graduated from Waukon High School with the Class of 1952.

Peter was united in marriage to Lillian Kvamme November 7, 1954 at First Lutheran Church, Decorah. This union was blessed with six children: Susan Eileen, Daniel Peter, Thomas William, Judith Lillian, Charles Joseph and Mary Rachel.

National EMS Week honors the lifesaving care EMS providers offer nationwide, 24-hours a day, seven days a week

The area ambulance services who commonly arrive with patients at Veterans Memorial Hospital (listed in alphabetic order) includes the Caledonia Ambulance, Harpers Ferry Rescue Squad, Lansing Ambulance Service, Monona Ambulance Service, New Albin Fire, Postville Ambulance Service, Waterville Rescue Squad, all in addition to the Waukon Veterans Memorial Hospital service.

Parents can do more to ensure that accidents don’t become a part of their children’s childhood memories.  One way to start is by having their six- to 14-year-old children attend the Veterans Memorial Hospital Safety Day Camp.  This camp will be held Thursday, June 8 at the Allamakee Fairgrounds from 8:15 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The day camp is designed to increase children’s awareness of a wide variety of safety and farm hazards, as well as providing 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:

The next LifeServe Blood Center blood drive will be held Monday, June 12 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in south Waukon. The LifeServe Blood Center supplies Veterans Memorial Hospital with its blood and blood products.

Memorials were recently received by the Veterans Memorial Health Care Foundation in memory of Kenneth Fahey by Dave and Rita Newton, in memory of Mona Shelton by Jerry and Marilyn Troendle, and in memory of Olive Grinna by Rich and Carol Kendall and Gary and Carol Bahr.

Memorials were also received in memory of Jim Moose by Lesa Moose, in memory of Larry Johnson by Rick and Cathy Larson, in memory of John Harkins by Dan and Traci Byrnes and in memory of Helen Storbeck by Brad and Erin Berns.

Veterans Memorial Health Care Foundation is a 501C3 organization. All donations to the Foundation are tax deductible. Memorials and donations can be sent to 40 First Street SE, Waukon, IA  52172.