Despite the warm temperatures, hundreds of people enjoyed the 37th Annual Bell Tower Festival in Jefferson.

Friday kicked off the festival with the opening ceremonies. One of the highlights were this year’s Tower of Fame Award recipients, Jack Lashier and Vernon Eagle. Vernon’s daughter Mary Eagle accepted the award on behalf of her father who died 45 years ago. She describes what it was like to accept the award for her father.

“Full-hearted delight on my father’s behalf. He would’ve been so proud. For this to come through was such a surprise. I love coming back to Iowa, although I live now in western North Carolina. I’m just so proud of this town. It’s been a marvelous festival.”

Other highlights include the winners of the Ding, Dong, Dash 5K and 10K runs. The winners in the different age divisions for the 5K include Will Stevens, Jenna Johnson, Dakota Mobley, Parker Johnson, Taylor Wessling, Logan Egelans, Emily Christensen, Tyler Hankel, Lisa Ebersole, Kirk Stevens, Patricia Jacob, Curt Hoff and Beth Adams. The 10K winners were Dylan Haven, Ashley Bauer, Tyler Hostetler and Adam Hamblin. Winning their second consecutive championship in the 3-on-3 basketball tournament was the 3-Peat Team of Chris Nelson, Scott Weber, Keith Peterson and Keith Van Beek.

The top three sculptures for Jefferson Matters: Main Street Ring Out for Art contest were also announced. The top prize of $2,000 from Home State Bank went to “We Are…Greene County” by Shane Olson and Jolene Peters. Second place and $1,000 went to Anna Modeland of Boone for “The Catch”. Receiving third palce and $500 was Zachary Bowman’s “Iowa” sculpture.

As for the motorcycle events, the People’s Choice Award went to Dana Gibson from Bagley, Dan Brubaker of Rippey won the Henry Golden Boy 22-cailber rifle, Kim Spain of Souix City won two VIP concert tickets from Wild Rose and Chris Milligan of Jefferson won a $100 gift card from Hy-Vee.

The parade results included Jefferson Library won the thematic float and Home State Bank won best commercial float.

Co-Chairs Brandon Gustoff and Delaney Gibson would like to thank everyone for attending the festival and all the volunteers and sponsors of the annual event.

A full list of motorcycle results can be found below.

Poker Run Winner: Ronnie Morris from Alta, IA

Poker Run 2nd Place: Cindy Rattenborg from Scranton, IA

Poker Run 3rd Place: Gary Barr from Osceola, IA

Cycle Show Results:

Peoples Choice: Dana Gibson from Bagley, IA -2017 HD Street Glide.

Vintage & Trike Classes: Gary Goodwin from Jefferson, IA -1979 HD FLH Electra Shriner’s Edition

Custom Class: Cory Brown from Rippey, IA -2012 HD Swithback

Late Model Class: Mike Bonnett from Johnston, IA- 1992 HD Fatboy

Metric Class: Todd Eipperle from Ankeny, IA- 2016 Kawasaki Vulcan

Bagger Class: Nick Crouse from Dana, IA- 2010 HD Street Glide

Raffle Prize Winners:

Henry Golden Boy 22 Rifle-Dan Brubaker from Rippey,IA

Donated by Wild Rose Casino Jefferson VIP Concert Tickets (2)- Kim Spain from Sioux City, IA

Donated by Hy-Vee $100 Gift Card – Chris Milligan from Jefferson, IA