Area high school students to share their messages as well
Students from Waukon High School will join thousands of other youth and many others on athletic fields across the nation Wednesday, October 6 to share their Christian faith with fellow students and the general public for this year’s Fields of Faith event. The local event is now in its 10th year and will start at 6:30 p.m. at the Waukon High School football field Wednesday, October 6, or in the Waukon High School gym in the event of bad weather.
Featured speaker for this year’s Fields of Faith event in Waukon will be Major League Baseball (MLB) legend Darryl Strawberry, a four-time World Series Champion with the New York Mets and New York Yankees, and an eight-time MLB All-Star. Though extremely successful in his baseball career,
NRCS advises of armyworm infestation in Allamakee County
by Virgil Schmitt, ISU Extension Field Agronomist in SE Iowa
The year 2021 has been an unprecedented year for fall armyworms, not just here in Iowa but other states as well. There have been many questions regarding how to manage fall armyworms in hayfields and cover crop fields.
Here is some background that may help explain some later comments.
• There are two strains of fall armyworms.
- The moths of the corn strain fly in from Texas and the Mexican Gulf Coast. Their favorite targets are corn, sorghum and cotton.
- The moths of the rice strain fly in from Florida and the U.S. Gulf Coast. Their favorite targets are rice, alfalfa, millets, forage grasses (including many cover crops) and turf. So, we have the rice strain this year.
Allamakee County is using a new emergency alert notification system called Alert Iowa, a multi-purpose emergency alert system that provides county specific information on weather and non-weather-related alerts to local citizens. The system allows county, city officials and the National Weather Service to communicate emergency information via a voice call, text message and/or email directly to those who are signed up. The system currently provides two alert options: weather and non-weather notifications with the ability to choose which alerts to receive.
Signing up for Allamakee County Alert Iowa is easy and can be found on the Allamakee County website at: https://allamakeecounty.iowa.gov. Look under the Departments tab for the Emergency Management page to locate the link and information on the system.
The Allamakee County Board of Supervisors met in regular session Monday, September 27 to address an agenda that included the Public Hearing for Private Burial Ordinance LX, consideration of signing 28E agreements with non-profits and discussion of an American Rescue Plan related funding request by Veterans Memorial Hospital.
The Public Hearing for Private Burial Ordinance LX was opened with Allamakee County Zoning Administrator Stephanie Runkle providing an overview of the matter. Runkle discussed feedback received from Director/General Manager Craig Lensing of Martin-Grau Funeral Home, with Lensing recommending that a concrete liner would be best to preserve property surrounding a private burial site.
King of Grace Lutheran Church in Waukon will be hosting a dedication service for its new location that has been recently remodeled at 635 Ninth Street NW. Although delayed from its originally planned date due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the church has now set the dedication service for its new church building for this Sunday, October 3 at 3 p.m. The event will include an open house and meal to follow, and all are welcome to attend.
Calling all student artists in kindergarten through twelfth grade. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is now accepting entries for the 2022 Iowa Federal Junior Duck Stamp (JDS) art contest.
While entering the JDS contest, students have the opportunity to learn about waterfowl and their habitat, and then create an image of an eligible North American waterfowl species. School groups and informal groups can enter this contest, or the student may enter individually.
Iowa entries for the 2022 Contest must be postmarked by March 15, 2022 and mailed to: DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge; ATTN: Junior Duck Stamp; 1434 316th Lane; Missouri Valley, IA 51555.
All information needed to participate can be found on the website: www.fws.gov/juniorduck.
Northeast Iowa Community College (NICC) Business and Community Solutions is offering a “Mosaic-Framed Mirror” class Thursday, October 14, from 6-8 p.m. at the NICC Waukon Center, 1220 3rd Ave NW.
Starting with a 12”x12” wooden-framed mirror, participants will learn to plan, arrange and finish a project using cutting tools, adhesives and basic grouting and sealing techniques. Personalizing a mirror with “tesserae” - china, stained glass, marbles and tiles - is easy with the selection of materials provided, but participants are also welcome to bring jewelry parts, beads or even grandma’s special china plate to use as well. Participants are asked to bring an apron or smock to protect their clothing and a pair of Playtex gloves to wear for grouting.
The deadline for paid registration is October 7. To register online, visit www.nicc.edu/solutions/83485 or call NICC Waukon center at 844-642-2338, ext. 6700.
The 2021 Iowa FFA Milk Quality & Products Career Development Event (CDE) was held at West Union Friday, September 17. Thirty-four teams and individuals participated in this year’s Career Development Event designed to provide students an opportunity to display their knowledge and skills in the area of milk quality and dairy foods.
A pair of FFA chapters from local high schools finished consecutively among the top 10 teams at the event. The Lansing FFA chapter from Kee High School finished seventh in the competition, with chapter member Annisa Stanley placing eighth among individual competitors to help lead the team to a Gold rating at the event. Team members included Cadan Evanson, Ashton Kolsrud, Riley Troendle and Anissa Stanley.
Fall fashions ... Leddia Tallman is wearing a fashion ensemble from Red Geranium at the inaugural Lansing Area Women in Business Fall Fashion Show. At left in the above photo, Kee High School vocal music instructor Ian Zahren emceed the event. Submitted photo courtesy of Riverside Studios Photography.
Nail fashions as well ... Kim Kozelka, owner of 2nd Hand Heaven in Lansing, makes her way down the “runway” at the Lansing Area Women in Business Fall Fashion Show. Donning an outfit from her own store, she is also showing off nail fashions created locally. Submitted photo courtesy of Riverside Studios Photography.
Helping a cause that may help her peers ... Lynzi Cade participated in the Lansing Area Women in Business fall fashion show, some proceeds of which will help establish a scholarship for high school or college students with entrepreneurial interests. She is pictured above wearing an outfit from Driftless Gypsy Boutique. Submitted photo courtesy of Riverside Studios Photography.
The Lansing Area Women In Business group will be working with the Eastern Allamakee Community School District (EACSD) to offer an entrepreneur scholarship in the 2021/2022 school year to a student endeavoring to begin a business either following high school or secondary education. The funds raised as a result of a fall fashion show event held Friday, September 17 at Coffee on the River in Lansing will help fund this effort.
Friendship Quilts on display ... Pictured above is one version of the Friendship Quilt that was this year’s challenge for the “Loose Threads” quilting group in the New Albin area. The Christmas quilt blocks pictured in the quilt above were distributed individually to 16 participating members of the group and they were then challenged to create their own Friendship Quilt which will now be displayed at the quilt show being held October 8-10 at the New Albin Community Center to benefit the New Albin Public Library. Submitted photo.
October 8-10, over 200 quilted items will adorn the New Albin Community Center, located at 137 Railroad Avenue SW in New Albin. There will be an array of quilts, including antique quilts, baby quilts, t-shirt quilts, wall hangings, table runners and wool work on display. Hours for the show will be Friday, October 8 from 4-7 p.m.; Saturday, October 9 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; and Sunday, October 10 from 12-4 p.m. All proceeds will benefit the New Albin Public Library.
New this year will be a variety of quilts for sale. A portion of the proceeds from those quilts sold will also benefit the New Albin Public Library.
“Loose Threads,” the local quilting group, has created a challenge for its group members for this year’s show. Sixteen participating quilters were challenged to each create a Friendship Quilt using Christmas quilt blocks that were shared with each of the quilting group members. All of those quilts will be on display throughout the event.
