Day: October 16, 2016

The Greene County FFA has had a busy schedule this past week. The chapter participated in a trapshoot contest in Denison, Deal’s Fall Festival with a petting zoo, a Livestock judging contest at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, and the Greenhand Fire-up in Atlantic.

Youngsters ready for the zombie apocalypse are invited to the Jefferson park and recreation department’s zombie run Tuesday, Oct. 25, at Daubendiek Park. Pre-registration is at 5 pm with the zombie run at 5:30. Pre-registration can also be done at the Greene County Community Center. Students in grades 4-8 are welcome.

The Greene County veterans groups will host a fundraising supper Saturday, Oct. 22, from 4:30 to 6:30 pm at the VFW hall on the east side of the courthouse square in Jefferson.

Animal Protection and Education (A.P.E.)of Paton will be at the Great Iowa Pet Expo next Saturday at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, varied industries building. A.P.E. will do a ‘neuter-a-tom” event. Cats will receive a neuter, rabies and FVRCP vaccines, flea treatments, microchip ID and ear mite treatment. Cost is $30.

Libby Towers (left) accepts a $400 continuing education scholarship from P.E.O. chapter CZ, represented by Elizabeth Guess. Towers, a PK-12 guidance associate at Paton-Churdan, is pursuing her masters of science in education, professional school guidance from Buena Vista University.

Jefferson residents had a bit of summer and a reminder of the coming winter during the week ending Oct. 14. KCCI’s SchoolNet 8 reports a high temperature of 81 degrees and the first freeze of the season – 32 degrees in the early hours of Thursday. Jefferson received just .09 inch of rain, allowing harvest to progress.