Year: 2016

Those who attend the Bell Tower Festival parade next Saturday will find a close, convenient and comfortable place to feed their family after the parade. The veterans groups – VFW, American Legion, and VFW auxiliary – will host a spaghetti lunch at the VFW hall on the east side of the courthouse square immediately following the parade.

The Jefferson swimming pool will be closed for the mid-day lap swim this Saturday, June 11, because of the Bell Tower Festival parade. The pool will open at 1 pm for open swim.

Homemade ice cream will have center stage at an old-fashioned ice cream social Sunday, June 12, from 4 to 7 pm at the United Methodist Church in Rippey. Along with ice cream that will be made right there at the church Saturday, will be pies, cakes, sandwiches, and beverages. All are welcome.

Local Habitat for Humanity volunteers have begun another year of repairing homes across Greene County through the Helping Hands program. Several more low-income homeowners in Greene County will receive assistance this summer.

Once again, History Boy Theatre Co. brings professional theatre to the Bell Tower Festival with GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL!  In this two-man musical spoof, a pair of aspiring playwrights perform a backers’ audition for their new project – a big, splashy musical about printing press inventor Johann Gutenberg.

Field day will explore two farmers’ experience using a custom-built roller-crimper on cereal rye Cover crops are an increasingly common sight on Iowa farm fields, but roller-crimpers, an implement that can help extend some of the benefits of cover crops offer by letting farmers delay termination, are still a rarity in the Midwest.

Jefferson Garden Club has awarded June Yard of the Month honors to Doug and LeAnn Monaghan who live in the 700 block of S. Chestnut St. In their vast yard, of almost an acre of land, grow an abundance of flowers. A few of these in the front and side yard are salvia, lilies, dianthus, daisy, and honeysuckle bushes.

Both bike tours will overnight in Jefferson during the Bell Tower Festival ~by Chuck Offenburger for the Raccoon River Valley Trail Association Two organized bike rides will be held on the full length of the Raccoon River Valley Trail on Saturday and Sunday, June 11 and 12.  Both “Tour The Raccoon” and RAGBRAI’s Dream Team will ride from the Des…

Iowa Zika transmission threat is low; mosquitoes that carry the virus don’t live in Iowa DES MOINES – Gov. Terry Branstad and the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) at Branstad’s weekly press conference June 6 urged Iowans to remember to protect themselves against mosquito bites this summer, not because of a Zika virus threat, but because of the much…