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Main Street Lansing held a ribbon cutting and First Dollar certificate presentation for Arla’s Sewing Room, located at 253 Main Street in Lansing. Owned by Arla and Paul Wagner of rural Lansing, Arla’s Sewing Room offers sewing machine service and sewing/quilting classes, and patrons can also purchase fabric, thread and Elna sewing machines. The business plans to offer a larger selection in the future, so customers should continue to stop in and see what’s new. While Arla’s Sewing Room will provide service for any brand of sewing machine, the business will only sell Elna machines. In fact, Arla’s Sewing Room is the only business within 100 miles of Lansing that sells Elna machines.

“I have sewn my whole life, and this store has been a dream for years,” said Arla Wagner. “I love to sew. I appreciate all of the support and well wishes. It’s terrific. When life gives you scraps, quilt.”

by Julie Berg-Raymond

The Lansing City Council received some encouraging new information about the new bridge project from a representative of the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) during its regular meeting Monday, June 6.

While estimates of a road closure while the new bridge at Lansing is being constructed had earlier been in the three- to five-month range, Brennan Dolan, cultural resources and team lead/tribal liaison with the Iowa DOT, told the council at its June 6 meeting the three- to five-month estimate is being considered a “worst-case scenario.”

Friends of the Meehan Memorial Lansing Public Library invite everyone to come celebrate the 107 years of the Dunlevy newspaper legacy and the life of John Dunlevy, past editor of The Allamakee Journal, Saturday, June 25 from 1-4 p.m. at Meehan Memorial Lansing Public Library, located at 515 Main Street. A short program will be held at 2 p.m.

John J. Dunlevy, 83, a lifelong resident of Lansing, died Saturday, December 4, 2021. John Dunlevy was the third generation of his family’s operation of the newspaper in Lansing. He held this position until 1988 when The Allamakee Journal was sold. This concluded 107 years of the Dunlevy legacy with The Allamakee Journal.

For additional information, contact Meehan Memorial Lansing Public Library at 563-538-4693.
 

A full slate of seven games in five days saw the Waukon baseball team put four of those in the win column to improve to a 7-9 season mark that includes a 3-7 record in Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) play. The Indians swept a home doubleheader from Turkey Valley Monday, June 6 by scores of 3-2 and 5-1 before splitting a similar match-up at home with Crestwood Tuesday, June 7 with a 6-2 loss in game one followed by a 10-0 triumph in five innings. The Indians then fell at home to Union, 8-4, Wednesday, June 8 and split another home NEIC twinbill Friday, June 10 against New Hampton, winning the first game, 1-0, in walk-off fashion before falling hard in the nightcap, 12-2, in five innings.

A full slate of seven games not only resulted in an undefeated week for the Kee baseball team but also included five shut-outs that helped produce a 70-3 outscoring of its six opponents, with two of those shut-outs coming against teams also rated within Class 1A’s top-10 teams to push the baseball Hawks to a 20-2 overall record that includes an unblemished, 10-0 mark in Upper Iowa Conference play. The Hawks first swept Clayton Ridge in a Monday, June 6 doubleheader, 16-1 in four innings and 10-0 in five innings, and defeated Nashua-Plainfield at Upper Iowa University in Fayette Tuesday, June 7, 7-2. The Kee boys then began a final string of four straight shut-outs that included an 11-0 win at South Winneshiek Thursday, June 9, a Friday, June 10 triumph, 6-0, over Don Bosco at Upper Iowa University in Fayette, and a sweep of two games at the Cedar River Classic at St.

The Kee softball team did the splits this past week, winning one game and losing one game in each of its three scheduled dates to currently hold a 6-8 overall season record that includes a mark of 4-2 in Upper Iowa Conference play. The Lady Hawks first took turns at North Fayette Valley handing each other a mercy-rule loss Monday, June 6, Kee accomplishing that first with a 16-6 win in five innings before falling in game two by a 20-8 result in three innings. The softball Hawks finished with a similar split result in their Wednesday, June 8 home double-dip with Turkey Valley, falling in game one by a 5-0 final before pounding out a 14-4 mercy-rule win in six innings in the nightcap. The Kee girls then finished the week with a runner-up finish at the Vinton-Shellsburg Tournament Saturday, June 11, playing to a 9-2 win over Belle Plaine in the opening round before falling in the tournament championship game by just a 3-2 result to English Valley.

A busy week of seven games saw the Waukon softball team put two of them in the win column this past week, the squad remaining in search of its first Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) victory of the season. The Indians opened the week winning a 5-0 home battle with Central Elkader Monday, June 6 before dropping both games of a doubleheader at New Hampton Tuesday, June 7 by scores of 12-0 and 14-2 in three innings each. The Tribe then fell at Charles City Friday, June 10 by a 12-1 result in five innings before winning one of three games at the Riceville Tournament Saturday, June 11, defeating MFL/MarMac, 6-2, before falling to both Osage and St. Ansgar by 7-6 final results to currently hold a 3-9 overall record that includes a 0-6 mark in Northeast Iowa Conference play.

Mary Rita Clauson Regan, 60, of Des Moines passed from this world Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Services were held March 26 at Ankeny Funeral Home in Ankeny with Fr. Jerry Blake officiating. Sympathy cards may be sent to Ron Regan and Family, 3906 Aurora Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50310.

Mary was born July 24, 1961 in Waukon, the daughter of John M. and Ruth Anne Clauson. She graduated from Waukon High School in the spring of 1979 and married her high school sweetheart, Ron Regan, October 13, 1979. Mary worked on the family farm and enjoyed raising her four beautiful children for the next 14 years, but her strong desire to help others compelled her to obtain a degree in Biology with minors in Chemistry and Psychology from University of Wisconsin - La Crosse in 1999.

Lynn A. Feuerhelm, 80, of Lansing passed away Sunday, June 12, 2022 at Gundersen Health System in La Crosse, WI. Memorial services will be held Saturday, June 18 at 11 a.m. at Christ Episcopal Church, 111 N. 9th Street, La Crosse, WI 54061, with Fr. Mike McElwee officiating. Inurnment will be in the columbarium in the Chapel of the Holy Sacrament in La Crosse, WI.

A visitation will be held from 5-7 p.m. Friday, June 17 at Thornburg-Grau Funeral Home in Lansing and one hour before the service at church Saturday. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to the Christ Episcopal Church music fund. Martin-Grau Funeral Home in Waukon is handling arrangements.

Alice Joan Rydz (nee Hawes), formerly of the Wexford area, passed away May 31, 2022. Funeral services will be held at St. Matthew’s Church in Schaumburg, IL Tuesday, June 28 at 10 a.m., gathering at 9:30 a.m. followed by a graveside service at Abraham Lincoln Cemetery in Elwood, IL at 1 p.m.

Alice was born October 12, 1935 in Wexford to John Hawes and Ellen Conway Hawes. She married Robert S. Rydz June 7, 1958.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 46 years, Robert; her brother, Gerald Hawes; her sister, Sister Therese Marie Hawes, PBVM; and a granddaughter, Nicole Nordlander.

She is survived by three brothers, Msgr. Cletus Hawes, Father Donald Hawes and Cyril Hawes; and her daughters and their partners, Cheryl Nordlander (Mickey Salerno), Valerie (Jeff Foster) and Michelle Rydz (Paul Sum). She was a proud grandmother of eight and great-grandmother to three. She greatly loved her many cousins, nieces and nephews, and friends.