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Quilters’ Guild exhibit Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on display in Branson in Waukon this weekend A quilt exhibit created by members of the Northeast Iowa Quilters’ Guild is on the road again.

The show, inspired by the 2022 Seed Savers Exchange catalog, appeared at the NEIQG Quilt Show in October of 2022 and travelled to a number of locations during 2023 — the Seed Savers Visitors Center in April, the Minnesota Quilters State Show in St. Cloud in June, and at the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show in Madison that September.

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Waukon will be bustling with St. Patrick’s Day activities this weekend with entertainment planned for all ages.

Kicking off the weekend events, St. Patrick’s Church will hold a 4 p.m. Mass followed by a meatball dinner and music from 4:30-7:30 p.m. at the church hall.

A free will donation pancake breakfast will be held Sunday, March 16 from 8 a.m. to noon with all proceeds toward Allamakee County Fair free entertainment events. The event is hosted by the Allamakee County Fair Board.

After breakfast, all are welcome to join or watch the Irishthemed St. Patrick’s Day Parade beginning at 1 p.m. There is no fee to join. Music by The Toe Tappers will follow the parade from 2-6 p.m. at Uptown Grill.

A special exhibit of 22 of the quilts was selected to appear at the American Quilter’s Society QuiltWeek in Branson, Missouri. The show runs through March 15. The show is open to the public for a fee.

Local quilters who created quilts for the display are Marilyn Bassford, Margie DeBower, Mike Ellingsen, Cathy Evelsizer, Mary Glock, Jarret Johnson, Beth Landas, Carol Maki, Roxanne Schnitzler, Nancy Sojka, Karen Tjossem and Sweet Young from Decorah; Marty Berda from Elgin; Roberta Hass from McGregor; Elaine Kipp from Fort Atkinson; Arlene Klatt from Fayette; Peg Lerch from West Union; Connie Putnam from Monona; and Julie Rotach from Waukon.

Decorah Public Library and ArtHaus announce Coffee and Creativity programs Decorah Public Library and ArtHaus will be holding its next Coffee and Creativity program on March 18.

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Tree pruning, grafting workshops to be held Iowa State University Extension and Outreach is offering two fruit tree management workshops on fruit tree pruning and grafting.

A fruit tree pruning workshop will be held at 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday, March 19 at Dan and Mary Burkhart’s orchard, located at 28500 Granite Rd. in Ossian. Participants will hear from ISU Extension and Outreach Commercial Horticulture Specialist Patrick O’Malley as he explains both why and how to prune fruit trees.

O’Malley will also present during a fruit tree grafting

workshop on Tuesday, March 25 at Jim and Sue Updegraff’s home, located at 20315 Lincoln Rd. in West Union. Check in will start at 5 p.m. and the program will begin at 5:30 p.m.

Each participant will watch a grafting demonstration and then practice a whip and tongue graft with apple rootstocks, taking home two grafted trees.

“We will also provide information on how to care for grafted trees in your landscape.”

O’Malley said.

The grafting workshop’s $50 registration fee includes rootstocks, scions and equipment

needed to self-graft two apple trees to take home. Limited amounts of additional apple rootstock will be available for an additional cost.

Space is limited and preregistration is required before March 18. Attendees are encouraged to bring a lawn chair if they would like to sit.

To register, contact Deb Kahler at dkahler@iastate.edu or call 563-425-3331. For more information or questions about the workshops, contact O’Malley at omall@iastate.edu or call 319-337-2145.

Iowa DNR to conduct prescribed fires The Iowa Department of Natural Resources Upper Iowa Wildlife Unit plans to conduct prescribed burns this spring in the region. Locally, burns will occur throughout four of the counties managed by the DNR Upper Iowa Wildlife Unit. This will include burns in Winneshiek County’s Bluffton Fir Stand, Chimney Rocks, Cardinal Marsh, Coldwater Creek, Falcon Springs, Kendallville Complex, South Bear Creek, South Pine Creek and Upper Iowa River Seegmiller. Burns will also take place in Allamakee County’s Black Hawk

Point, Canoe Creek, Clear Creek, French Creek, Iverson Bottoms, Pine Creek and Waterloo Creek as well as Fayette County’s Shinbone Valley. Additional burns are expected in Howard County’s Crossman Prairie, Hayden Prairie and Turkey River wildlife areas. Most prescribed burns will take place between the months of April and May. Burns will be conducted on a day that meets the objectives and weather prescription defined in the burn plan.

Prescribed burn units are typically burned every one to five years and vary in size from 1 to

100 acres or more. Prescribed burns are used to improve wildlife habitat, control invasive plant species, restore and maintain native plant communities and reduce wildfire potential. DNR officials said ground nesting birds such as pheasants, mallards, bobolinks, dickcissels and many others will benefit from habitat improved with periodic prescribed fire.

Questions may be directed to DNR Wildlife Biologist Troy Anderson at 563-546-7960.

They hold the Green’s Sugar Bush Pancake Breakfast the last weekend of March and the first weekend of April every year.

Melcher will answer questions after the program, which will be followed by refreshments and fellowship. The public is welcome to attend.

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Mexico and Cuba. He also photographed workers up and down the Pacific Coast as well as everyday experiences in Decorah and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Matteson died while climbing a Mexican volcano, five years before Porter’s South American trip.

Porter’s second local inspiration was Edward Holway, a banker from the same social group as Porter’s grandparents. The year Porter was married, Holway retired from banking and moved to Minneapolis, where he became a professor of botany at the University of Minnesota. Holway was

well-known for his collecting expeditions and his skill as a mountaineer, and his early love of plants led to his becoming a world expert on rust fungi.

Holway’s mountaineering skills allowed him to collect plants and fungi in remote reaches of Canada, the U.S. and regions of both Central and South America. A peak in Canada is named after him. He died in 1923, two years before Porter’s trip.

Faldet has previously lectured on Porter’s local photography, notable women of early Decorah and spiritualism in the era of the Porters.

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The Iowa Department of Natural Resources will host a public meeting at 6 p.m. March 20 in Room 101 of the Baker Hebron building on the campus of Upper Iowa University to discuss upcoming timber harvests in the Volga River State Recreation Area. Public parking is located just to the east of the Baker Hebron building, off of Union Street. Information on woodland management and associated impacts on the Volga River State Rec Area will be presented.

Local DNR parks management, DNR wildlife representatives and the DNR district forester will be available to address comments, questions or concerns. Interested members of the public are encouraged to attend to learn more about forest resources, forestry techniques and wildlife habitat/recreational impacts. For more information, contact Maison Hubrig, Iowa DNR district forester, at 563608-0086 or email at Maison.

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To mark the 100th anniversary of Bert and Grace Porter’s expedition to collect butterflies and moths in South America, David Faldet will lecture on two local explorers who inspired the Porters. The lecture will be given at 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Thursday March 13 at the Porter House Museum — 401 W. Broadway. The event is free and open to the public.

Bert Porter was a cousin to Sumner Matteson — a photographer, bicycle sales representative and traveling correspondent whose photographs chronicled the social life of indigenous peoples between 1888 and 1920 in the American West,

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Greens Sugar Bush is program topic at senior center The Senior Citizens Hospitality Center will hold its monthly event at 1:30 p.m. March 14 at 806 River St. in Decorah.

The program will feature Jeni Melcher from Greens Sugar Bush at Castalia.

Melcher, her husband Tom and four sisters are the sixth generation to operate the Sugar Bush, making it a family affair.

The family has been making maple syrup every year since 1851. The maple farm is 60 acres in size. They tap the trees every spring to begin making a deep and thick maple syrup.

Melcher will discuss the history of the operation and explain the process of making the maple syrup.

Pictured are Sumner Matteson, Edward Holway and Bert Porter. (Photo submitted)

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Justin’s (restaurant) open Sun-Wed 8a-2p and ThursSat 8a-7p. Root 43 (juices/smoothies/bowls) Sun 9a-5p and Mon-Sa 8 a- 5:30 p.

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T-Bock’s Sports Bar & Grill

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(Retired Lutheran Pastor Ole Winter reminisces on his 90-plus years of life, sharing past experiences and life lessons with Driftless readers.)

It’s all because of March Why are Iowans so “nice”?

The people who populate the state that abuts us to the north are said to be “Minnesota Nice.” Great! Wonderful! Nut I am convinced Iowans are as nice. Maybe nicer! And I think I know the reason for this “nicenest.” It is all because of the month of March!

March is the meanest and most cruel of all months of the year. Usually, what snow is left is not just white, but black, brown, or gray. It’s ugly! March holds out to us the beginning of spring… but then the robins, dumb enough to come north early, get snow on their tails. There’s a March blizzard!

Just a few days ago one of my friends said, “It will soon be boys and girls state basketball tournament time… and we’ll probably have a blizzard.” Years ago, my wife and I attended one of those games and were driving back to Forest City on I35. As we drove past the city of Ankeny, suddenly the whole town was dark. We found out later that a mini-tornado passed nearby and tore down power lines. I think I recall Garrison Kiellor of “Prairie Home Companion”

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saying, “March is for people who don’t drink so they will know what it’s like to have a hangover!”

And then there is the “Church Year.” Lent usually covers much of March. It is a time of discipline to be “sorry for our sins.” And it has been said that for Lutherans (like me) “it’s always Lent!” Well, March makes us sorry for ourselves.

Many of you reading this will recall that years ago the first March was “moving day” for farmers who were to rent another farm. They needed to be there to settle in and then seed the oats to feed those horses. I wonder, how many of those farmers moved amidst a late winter storm.

Maybe God is saying to us, “Sorry my people… but to really appreciate the glorious springtime of April and May (Easter)… you must first endure (Lent) March.”

Any people who live through this 31-day month have either learned to be nice to each other or go “nuts!” The Japanese are known to be very courteous people. When they live as close to one another as they do… they have learned to be nice.

For the people of Iowa, it’s all because of the month of March.

Well… at least that’s my one of my reasons for “Iowa Nice.”

So, if you choose any special discipline for the season of Lent, how about making this the time to be really “nice” to everyone.

Happy Feet: Public Health clinic helps keep county residents on their toes County toenail clipping service growing with aging area population Winneshiek County residents are aging, and as a result, the number of clients using the Happy Feet Clinic — Winneshiek County Public Health’s foot-health service — has grown exponentially since 2023. Officials there say the steady growth in numbers demonstrates an increasing need and appreciation for the more-than-30-year-old clinic.

“Some people could argue that it’s not a required service, but it is a needed service in the community,” said Winneshiek County Public Health Administrator Krista Vanden Brink.

“The fact that we’re booked out two months really says something about the service we provide and how much it’s needed and appreciated.”

The foot-health clinic, which focuses on clipping toenails, originally began in 1994 through a collaboration with then-Public Health Administrator Marlene Fenstermann and Dr. Craig Sullivan, a podiatrist at Gundersen Clinic’s Decorah location.

“People needed their toenails clipped, but insurance wouldn’t pay for it,” said Lois Frana, who has been with public health since 1985. “Insurance will only cover the service at a doctor’s office if the patient is diabetic or if they have another foot condition, and that’s only

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a certain number of times per year.”

Happy Feet doesn’t provide the same service as a doctor — nor does it provide pedicures, Frana said, but for $30, clients can soak their feet and have their toenails clipped and filed before receiving a “minifoot-massage” over the course of one 45-minute session.

And, the clinic isn’t just about toenails, either.

Vanden Brink said public health’s nurses also assess a client’s overall foot health by checking under the toenails, looking for in-grown nails, swelling and ulcers.

“People like the attention,” Vanden Brink said. “They like the foot soak, they like how we trim their nails, but they also really like the mini-foot-massage afterwards. Our nurses do really well with that foot massage, so you feel really relaxed before you leave. It’s the whole package, and people appreciate that. Some people think they’re being pampered, but we’re really just providing a health service for them.”

The service is available to anyone of any age and any level of ability, Vanden Brink said, although those who typically use the service often have limited mobility, vision impairments or they’re just not as flexible as they once were.

“There are always a number of individuals who cannot get their toes to their nose,” she said. “Maybe they have some limited mobility issues — like

from a bad back or a new joint that’s been put in — so they just don’t have that flexibility. There are also individuals with visual impairments, and if they try to cut their toenail, they’re going to cut a chunk of their skin off, which opens it up to bleeding and possible infection.”

Vanden Brink said seniors often choose to retire in the Decorah area, which she said may contribute to the community’s aging population. She said many of those se-

niors b e c o m e Happy Feet clients, because Medicare and other insurance no longer pays for the service.

“Medicare has changed the rules about who can go to podiatry for their toenails and have it covered by insurance,” Vanden Brink said. “If you are diabetic and if you have a known foot problem, you can go to a podiatrist to have your toenails cut and have it paid for by Medicare — which means most of us can’t go doctor to have our toenails cut.”

Between July of 2023 and July of 2024, Happy Feet provided a total of 465 individual in-office foot-care sessions, generating almost $14,000 in revenue for Public Health. And those numbers are still increasing.

“We’ve talked about possibly increasing how much we charge,” said Frana, “but some of the people who come in are very, very poor, and they save so they can come in every two months, because they can’t afford coming more often.”

And Vanden

Brink indicated she and her staff wouldn’t want to see a decrease in the number of people they assist in staying healthy.

“I love my work,” said Mary Raatz, one of the Happy Feet nurses. “I’m helping people with a part of life they’re not able to take care of themselves.

It makes them feel good again, and that makes me feel good.”

For information, or to schedule an appointment, visit winneshiekhealth.org/happy-feet-clinics or call 563-3824662.

Decorah Human Rights Commission, Decorah Public Library to host panel discussion on immigration

The Decorah Human Rights Commission, in partnership with Decorah Public Library, will be hosting an educational panel discussion focused on immigration and individual rights. The discussion will take place from 6-7:30 p.m. March 18 at the Pulpit Rock Brewing Company’s event room.

Organizers aim to inform and empower the community by addressing key issues surrounding immigration, including changing regulations, legislation and the resulting

impacts.

Panelists Marty Steele, Ruth Palmer, Kathi Mitchell and Margaret Betteridge have spent years working alongside immigrants in northeast Iowa, advocating for justice, equality and opportunities for all. Their collective work spans local organizations and programs, such as the Northeast Iowa Peace and Justice Center’s Immigration Action Network, Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Path to Citizenship, Catholic Charities and many more.

The panel will explore topics, such as the identity and origins of immigrants in northeast Iowa, the pathways to citizenship, legal documentation and the DACA program. The panel will cover the history of immigration in the United States and provide valuable information about individual rights. Attendees will also be able to ask questions they may have.

For more information, contact Decorah Public Library at 563-382-3717 or visit decorahlibrary.org.

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St. Aloysius Chicken Dinner March 16 The St. Aloysius Parish of Calmar is hosting a dine-in or drive-thru chicken dinner Sunday, March 16 from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Fried chicken by local favorite Mike Reicks will be served along with U2 twicebaked potatoes, corn, a dinner roll and homemade bar.

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Irish ensemble at Luther Friday Luther College Center Stage Series will present the Irish ensemble, Danú, Friday, March 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the Center for Faith and Life. Tickets are available at tickets.luther.edu.

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band in 1997 to huge critical acclaim and in 1999 Danú signed a multi-album record deal with the US based recording label Shanachie Entertainment with whom they subsequently released five albums and a live DVD internationally between 2000 and 2006. Over the past few years Danú has added three independent releases to their discography.

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To apply send a resume and cover letter to Athletic Director Adam Riley at.adam.riley@decorah.school or apply at Teach lowa https:// tinyurl.com/HSABGWC.Application Deadline: By the end of the day on March 14, 2025, or until the position is filled.

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We provide ongoing training and certification as well as health insurance and benefits package. We are looking for candidates with the following skills/background: • Have reliable transportation and a valid driver’s license • Provide outstanding customer service AUTOMOTIVE • Be able to work outdoors and complete physical work • Preferred experience in the lawn care industry with close attention to detail safety, and accuracy • Prefer candidates with current Ornamental and Turf Pest Control applicator license (3OT) or willingness to obtain • Work schedule is consistent, with CARDS longer hours needed from MarchOF THANKSSeptember which may include select weekends.

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Deadline is April 4, 2025.

An Equal Opportunity Employer.

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In “Sculpted Strides,” Stauffer brings together ancient, fossilized forms and sci-fi-inspired digital aesthetics. Organizers said the work blends earthy, expressive forms with experimental mold-making techniques, which contrast against the precision of 3D printing and digital sculpting.

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