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Biosecurity and producer awareness are top issues

Avian influenza continues to be confirmed across Iowa and the nation. Here are some common questions and answers from Iowa State University Extension and Outreach to help inform consumers, bird owners and poultry producers.

To the Editor:

Here we go again, and I find it very hard work for me to write because of being 95. Age does something to you.

I have a few questions for you: Do you like what Putin has done to Ukraine? Yes or no? Is he a war criminal? Yes or no?

Do you like what Biden has done to our country with high-priced gas, much higher food prices, our open borders, our disastrous departure from Afghanistan, all paid by our dedicated, hard-working taxpayers? This list could go on and on. Biden’s been in Washington, DC for 47 years. Can you name one piece of legislation accomplished by him?

We are now in a severe downhill slide, and we could see $5 gas by the end of the year, food prices much higher, plus shortages, interest rates could go up, home heating bills up over $1,000 for winter. Older people with fixed incomes will suffer, and young working people that make our economy do well will be paying the bill.

Announcement was made Sunday, March 27 of the complete route of RAGBRAI XLIX that will traverse the state of Iowa July 23-30 this year. From the final overnight town of West Union, riders will make their way through Elgin, Gunder, Postville and Waukon on the way to the final tire-dipping destination of Lansing Saturday, July 30, as indicated in the map above. This initial map released is being further verified for accurate detail by Allamakee County officials.
 

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Melissa R. Collum
Postville Herald

Grace Howe, daughter of Rachelle Howe of Waukon and the late Matt Howe, has been interning with Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds’ office since January 2022. Howe, a junior at Iowa State University in Ames, is majoring in Agricultural and Rural Policy and Journalism and Mass Communications.

One of the biggest surprises for Howe is the atmosphere with the staff of the Governor’s office. “It is more of a laid back environment than I thought it would be,” commented Howe. “It is cool to watch them do their work; it is like a high school sports team how they all work together.”

The 2022 Allamakee County Dairy Banquet is scheduled to be held this Saturday, April 2 at the Allamakee County Fairgrounds Pavilion in Waukon. Food service will start at 7 p.m. and the program will begin at 8 p.m. Banquet tickets can be purchased at the door.

The annual celebration recognizes the importance of the dairy industry in Allamakee County and the contributions dairy families make to this important industry. Every year, top producers from the county are recognized at the banquet. In addition, several other awards are presented that evening, some of which include the following:

• Outstanding Young Dairy Family Award
• Pioneer Dairyman
• Distinguished Dairy Family Award
• Service to Dairy Industry Award
• Golden Butter Knife Award.

Friday, March 25 was the deadline for candidates to file petitions with the Allamakee County Commissioner of Elections Office to be listed on the ballot for County government offices in the June 7 Primary Election. The lone local Primary race to feature more than one declared candidate will be on the Republican ballot, where incumbent Larry Schellhammer and Dennis Keatley are each vying for party nomination in the Allamakee County Board of Supervisors race, which  features two Supervisors seats up for election in the General Election later this year.

Organizers of the Allamakee County Veterans Museum are seeking help from family members, friends and the general public in locating good quality photos of a number of Allamakee County Veterans who were Killed in Action (KIA) or held as Prisoners of War (POW) during World War I, World War II, the Korean War or the Vietnam War. A full listing of the photos needed can be found below.

The photos are needed to help create a “Roll of Honor” wall in the new Allamakee County Veterans Museum. The photos are asked to be good, quality photos that can be enlarged or reduced to a 5”x7” size to become part of that “Roll of Honor”.

by Joe Moses

The Allamakee County Board of Supervisors met in regular session Monday, March 28 to address a full agenda of items including the National Child Abuse Prevention Month Proclamation, the consideration of LED lighting quotes for the County Courthouse and discussion of Veterans Memorial Hospital ownership. There was no Public Comment during the time allotted for this agenda item.

The meeting moved into the review of plat requests. Allamakee County Zoning Administrator Stephanie Runkle provided an overview of the Doris Berns Estate plat and the Roger Matthew, Stephen E. and Michele M. and Chase S. Pladsen plat, with both requests being approved.

Allamakee County Treasurer Jennifer O’Neill would like to remind property owners the second installment of property taxes is due by Thursday, March 31. Payment of property taxes may be done in person at the Allamakee County Treasurer’s Office in the Allamakee County Courthouse at 110 Allamakee Street in Waukon, between the hours of 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Taxpayers are reminded to bring their tax stubs with their payment to ensure proper credit. To avoid penalty on the second installment, payment must be received in the Treasurer’s Office by Thursday, March 31. Penalty will apply Friday, April 1.

E-check and credit card payments are also accepted online at www.iowatreasurers.org. Taxpayers will need their receipt number to pay by E-check. This can be found on their tax statement.

by Julie Berg-Raymond

The Waukon Lions Club recently made a donation to the Wolfpack Theater Company toward its presentation of “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast,” which will be performed Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 6, 7 and 8 at the former Waterville School Auditorium in the Waterville Community Center.

Lions Club members presented the Theater Company with a check Wednesday, March 16 at Lid’s in Waukon and bought the actors dinner. Later, several Theater Company actors performed a mini-show for the Lions Club members in attendance.

The kids of the Wolfpack Theater Company came together when they were rehearsing for Waukon High School’s production of “West Side Story,” presented in April of last year. “After ‘West Side Story,’ about 12 kids from the show got together and said, ‘let’s do something that’s good for the town,’” Wolfpack Theater Company founder and artistic director Adam Hooten recalls. And a young person’s theater company was born.