Monday, July 19, 2010

Want Tractors?

Summerfest Fund Raiser at the Tractor Ride on Tuesday

The KGLO/KWMT Tractor Ride starts this week and they’re coming right through Franklin County!

The first stop on Tuesdays ride will be in Dows from 9 a.m. until 10:10 a.m. Latimer is up next, from 11:15 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. While in Latimer, the North West Franklin 4-H club will be serving lunch. The final destination before heading back to Iowa Falls on Tuesday is Beeds Lake. You will be able to see the tractors arriving there anywhere from 2 until 3:05 in the afternoon.

The Summerfest Committee will be selling ice cream sundaes and raising funds for Summerfest in August. So why not head on over to Beeds Lake on Tuesday, get an ice cream sundae and enjoy the tractors?

The tractor ride has over 200 riders who travel through the countryside of Northern Iowa or Southern Minnesota. Usually they are antique tractor enthusiasts and their tractors are over 20 years old. In a three day span they travel over 185 miles.

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