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tri-state Got a tip? Contact usDustin Kass, Local Content Editor
dustin.kass@THmedia.com563-588-5663 or 800-553-4801
BY DOUG WAGENFor the Telegraph Herald
DARLINGTON, Wis. — Lafayette Coun-ty’s participation next year in the South-west Wisconsin Groundwater and Geology Study could be funded entirely through donations after supervisors balked at us-ing tax dollars for the effort.
The two-year well-water study would be conducted in Grant, Iowa and Lafayette counties. It will assess how widespread well contamination is, identify sources of contamination and analyze risk factors.
The Lafayette County Ag Stewardship Alliance paid $7,000 of the study cost af-ter it learned last month that the finance committee of the county board removed funding for the work from the county’s 2019 budget.
County supervisors this week unani-mously approved covering just more than $8,600 of the cost via a donation from the Lafayette County Housing Authority,
pending the approval of the housing au-thority committee.
The move came after nine residents, including Stephanie Eastwood, of Wiota, asked the county board to fully fund the study.
“Lafayette County is a county of dairy farmers, and I’m concerned how this makes dairy farmers look,” she said. “I think it’s embarrassing, and it makes us look like we’re backwards.”
Prior to the supervisors voting on a res-olution for next year’s budget, Supervisor Robert Laeser proposed an amendment that it include the $8,600 to fund the re-mainder of next year’s cost of the study. With the budget motion already made, su-pervisors voted it down on a vote of 9 to 7.
That led to the debate on how to fund the rest of the groundwater and geology study because county board Chairman Jack Sauer refused to recognize Laeser’s motion.
“For eons around here, the county
board rules have been when you make a proposal for spending money, you have to come up with a revenue source,” Sauer said. “You have to come up with $8,000 to consider your motion, and right now you don’t have that.”
Supervisors weighed a range of propos-als — from taking from the carryover funds from the veterans committee to borrowing money for the study.
Supervisor Bob Boyle suggested the housing authority, which has about $140,000 in its activities fund after it re-cently sold its apartments in South Wayne.
The housing authority budget is not part of the county budget, and it is a sepa-rate county entity.
Boyle’s motion for the donation was ap-proved and included a provision to set up a fundraising committee to reimburse the $8,600 with collected private donations. In addition, committee members will seek to collect another $15,400 to pay for the sec-ond year of the study.
Lafayette County supervisors: No tax dollars for groundwater study
BY BENNET GOLDSTEINbennet.goldstein@thmedia.com
Nostalgia for moptop hair, flared polyester pants and all things 1970s filled Dubuque’s Five Flags Cen-ter on Thursday night as rock band REO Speedwagon took the stage and jammed.
The group has sold more than 40 million records since its 1967 forma-tion. The concert was stacked with reams of hits.
LONGTIME FANSThe audience, which numbered
about 1,800, cheered for “Take It on the Run” and “Can’t Fight This Feeling.”
“Their songs are awesome,” said Kathy Anderson, of Oskaloosa, Iowa. “It brings back a lot of memo-ries from when we were young and healthy.”
Joan and Dale Dondlinger, of Bel-levue, are also longtime fans.
The spouses have made an ef-fort to see older artists who recently performed at Five Flags, including Chicago, Kenny Rogers and Willie Nelson.
“Just the chance to see them one more time,” Joan said.
DUBUQUE PRIDEThroughout the show, REO Speed-
wagon lead singer and guitarist Kevin Cronin chatted up the crowd.
“We have such a rich history with the people … of Dubuque,” he said after the band played the song “Keep Pushin’.”
REO Speedwagon last came to the city in 2016, when it headlined the annual America’s River Festival.
“You guys have always treated us well,” Cronin said. “We have been coming here since the early ’70s, man. … I believe that together, you guys and us are living proof that rock ‘n’ roll will keep you young forever!”
OPENING OPPORTUNITYThe originally scheduled opening
act, country artist Tony Joe White, died unexpectedly on Oct. 24.
REO Speedwagon requested that a local band fill in and selected Dubuque artist River Glen. It was lead performer River Breitbach’s first time performing on the Five Flags Arena stage alongside singer Megan Roeth.
“It is validating for the work … that we’ve been doing,” he said. “Hearing our voices bounce off these big walls and hearing that large murmur of that many people, it has that feeling
of arrival. We made it.”
MIDWESTERN GIRLSBefore playing “Son of a Poor
Man,” Cronin dedicated the show to the late guitarist Gary Richrath, who played in REO Speedwagon from 1970 to 1989.
“He came from small-town Peo-ria, Ill., and he had this thing for al-ways going after big-city women,” Cronin said. “I always told him, ‘Gary, find yourself a good, down-home, Midwestern girl.’ He should have come to Dubuque.”
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIALater, Cronin dedicated the song
“Time for Me to Fly” to the victims of a mass shooting that occurred Nov. 7 at Borderline Bar and Grill in Thou-sand Oaks, Calif. A gunman killed 12 people before fatally shooting himself.
“Their families grieve, and before they even had a chance to let it sink in, the Woolsey Fire struck and everyone in the whole city had to evacuate,” he said, referring to a Southern Califor-nia wildfire that already has scorched more than 150 square miles. “It’s
been a trying week for the people in my hometown. We pray tonight that those … young souls are being lifted up where they belong.”
WHAT’S NEXTTwo more musicians will take the
Five Flags stage this month.On Thursday, Nov. 29, Jewel will
appear during her Handmade Holi-day Tour. The following night, coun-try artist Cody Jinks performs.
Ticket are available at the Five Flags box office, by calling 800-745-3000 or at TicketMaster.com.
REO Speedwagon keeps on loving Dubuque
EILEEN MESLAR • Telegraph HeraldDave Amato (left) and Kevin Cronin, of REO Speedwagon, perform Thursday at Five Flags Center in Dubuque. Video: TelegraphHerald.com
Classic rockers roll into Five Flags Center, bring back memories.
news in briefResurfacing work underway on stretches of Heritage Trail
Heritage Trail users should use caution as six miles of it is resurfaced over the next week.
The Dubuque County Conservation Board took to social media to alert users to the work, in which portions of the trail are resurfaced with limestone.
The stretches on which work will be complet-ed are:
• Olde Hawkeye to Jamesmeier roads, be-tween Dyersville and Farley
• Stagecoach Lane to Asbury Road• Asbury to Budd roads
Galena chamber honors 5 with annual awards
GALENA, Ill. — The Galena Area Chamber of Commerce honored three individuals, one club and one business Thursday night.
The awards were given out during the organi-zation’s annual dinner at DeSoto House Hotel.
Those honored were:• Volunteers of the Year: Earl and Kimberly
Thompson• Ambassador of the Year: Jerry Howard• Nonprofit Business of the Year: Galena Elks
Club• Business of the Year: Jail Hill InnAbout 110 people attended the event.
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