Join the International Crane Foundation and more than 1,800 volunteers Saturday, April 15 from 5:30 to 7:30 a.m. for the annual Midwest Crane Count. Each year participants travel to their local wetlands and favorite birding locations to survey the Sandhill and Whooping Cranes and report the data collected.
The survey takes place in more than 150 counties in seven states - including all of Wisconsin, and portions of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Ohio. Each crane count site will have a county coordinator who will assign a site and provide instructions on how to participate and report the data.
Visit cranecount.org to view the list of county coordinators and find other useful links on how to download the data sheet and enter data. The coordinator listed for Allamakee County is Lee Cox.
Meenah Keenan has been selected as a Certified Student Practitioner at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (HLAB), an in-house clinic of Harvard Law School in Cambridge, MA. Each year, HLAB selects 15 to 20 law students from across the country to participate in its summer program. Student practitioners provide legal services to low-income residents in the Boston, MA area while being supervised by HLAB’s clinical instructors.
Keenan is a second-year law student at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, MA where she is a teaching assistant and Co-President of the Child and Family Law Association. For the 2023-2024 academic year she will serve as Vice-President of the Moot Court Honor Board, Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy. She will also be a Certified Student Practitioner for the Juvenile Defender’s Clinic at Suffolk University.
Allamakee Scholarship Fund, Inc. will hold a Recognition Breakfast Thursday, April 6 at 7:30 a.m. in the Waukon High School cafeteria. Applicants and their parents will be special guests. The breakfast is being held to express appreciation to individual and group donors and to recognize student applicants.
Pledges from the recent scholarship fundraising mailing can be turned in at that time or mailed to Allamakee Scholarship Fund, Inc., P.O. Box 144, Waukon, IA 52172. Organizations and other scholarship donors need to have awards to Allamakee Scholarship Fund Treasurer Amy McCormick at Waukon State Bank by that date also, and Awards Program information can be verified with Guidance Counselor Amy Wasson at Waukon High School. Individuals, families and organizations awarding scholarships this May are encouraged to attend.
The Eastern Allamakee Community School District (EACSD) Board of Directors met at Kee High School in Lansing Monday, March 20 for its regular monthly session. The meeting was called to order by Board President Bobbie Goetzinger, with fellow board members Tony Becker, Melanie Mauss, Kelli Mudderman and Arla Wagner also present, along with EACSD Superintendent Dr. Dale Crozier and Kee High and Middle School Principal Dr. Sarah Murray.
The board held a public hearing on the 2023-2024 school calendar, with no public comments being made or received and the board approving the school calendar as presented. The public hearing for the 2023-2024 budget was scheduled by the board to take place at its April 17 meeting. The board also approved and filed the Fiscal Year 2022 audit report.
2023 Waukon girls golf team ... Left to right: Alyssa Connelly, Halea Corwin, Eva Whalen, Faith Cooper. Photo courtesy of Micah Lynn Photography, Micah Miller.
The Waukon girls golf team will return to the team competition level for its 2023 season, as its squad numbers grew four-fold from last spring. The 2022 Waukon girls golf season featured just one player last year, that being first-year varsity player Alyssa Connelly. This season, she will be joined by three of her classmates in fellow sophomores Faith Cooper, Halea Corwin and Eva Whalen.
Connelly may come into this season as the lone returnee from last spring - and thus, the lone returning letterwinner, but that’s certainly not all. She also brings back that experience at a high level as an All-Conference performer last spring.
The Lady Indians were scheduled to open their 2023 season with a home meet against Decorah and South Winneshiek Tuesday, April 4. They will then play back-to-back nights on the road, at Crestwood Monday, April 10 and at Luana against MFL/MarMac, Oelwein and Postville Tuesday, April 11.
2023 Waukon boys golf team ... Left to right - Front row: Hayden Palmer, Dylan Hogan, Evan O’Neill, Landon Burington, Luca Althof, Ryan Kolsrud, Rowen Althof; Second row: Michael Cushing, Drew Weymiller, Cody Huinker, Dalton Ellickson, Drake Hankes, Reid Deeney, Riley Miller; Back row: Dylan Stegen, Isaac Cooper, Carson Lonning, Trevor Peiffer, Mason McGeough, Cashton Lloyd, Cayden Kruger. Not pictured: Ishq Patel and Noah Hager.
The Waukon boys golf team will return a trio of varsity letterwinners from last season’s squad that played to a 3-15 dual meet record last spring. Those three will lead a team that Coach Tharin Benson says surprises him with the number of kids reporting for early-season duty, as 23 young men are playing golf this season.
That veteran trifecta includes senior Cody Huinker and the junior pair of Dylan Hogan and Cashton Lloyd. “I’ll look for them to be at top of the leaderboards, and help others make proper in-round decisions,” Coach Benson said of his experienced returnees.
The Kee girls track team’s first taste of outdoor competition was a bit shorter than originally planned, as the Tuesday, March 28 Frost Bite Open hosted by Sumner-Fredericksburg threatened to live up to its name. Coaches and meet officials agreed to call off the meet partway through the running events due to falling temperatures, but through the 12 events that were completed the Kee girls tallied 54 points to tie for fourth place with the host Cougars behind one event victory and two each of second- and third-place finishes.
Constance “Connie” A. (Wild) Gallagher, 83, of Waukon passed away peacefully July 23, 2022 after a courageous battle. A Celebration of Life for Connie is scheduled to take place Saturday, April 22 at the Waukon Golf & Country Club from 2-5 p.m. Refreshments will be served and all are invited to share their memories of Connie and the life she lived.
Reverend Monsignor Cletus J. Hawes, 96, of Wexford, rural Lansing died Saturday, April 1, 2023 at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon. A funeral mass will be held Wednesday, April 5 at 11 a.m. at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Wexford (eight miles south of Lansing on the Great River Road) with Archbishop Michael O. Jackels officiating and burial in the church cemetery.
Visitation will be held at Immaculate Conception Church in Lansing Tuesday, April 4 from 4-8 p.m., where there will be a 3:30 p.m. scripture service, and will also be held one hour before the service at Wexford. Martin-Grau Funeral Home in Waukon is handling arrangements.
Francis J. O’Regan, 88, of Waukon died Friday, March 31, 2023 at Green Lea Care Center in Mabel, MN. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, April 11 at 11 a.m. at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Waukon with Fr. John Moser officiating. Burial with military honors will be held at St. Mary’s Hanover Cemetery, rural Waukon.
Friends may greet the family from 4-8 p.m. Monday, April 10 at St. Patrick Catholic Church, where there will be a 3:15 p.m. rosary and scripture service. Martin - Grau Funeral Home in Waukon is handling the arrangements.
Francis James O’Regan was born May 12, 1934 in Waukon, the son of Maurice James and Mary (Bresnahan) O’Regan. He graduated from St. Patrick Catholic High School in Waukon. Francis served in the U.S Army from 1956-1958.
