Raffle wights are packed & ready to go! (proceeds are going to the Rockford fire department)
While I don't like getting on a soapbox, this is the least I can do. In Iowa, typically small-town fire departments are underfunded. Being that Rockford's not the Floyd county seat doesn't help things. One of the things that help small town fire drpartments are fundraising, more fundraising and the state of Iowa looks more favorably on grants and such for equipment, and this is no small task. Iowa, like most of the midwest deals with the antithesis of everything that's right with the midwest, manufacture of methamphetimine. This is so because of the quantities of anhydrous amonia which in the manufacture makes a more "pure" mix, and all sorts of characters are attempting to cash in on this. The byproducts are toxic, not rat poison toxic, I mean lethal. These small fire departments are one of the few tools available to the govermnent to fight and help clean up the area. Having said that, there's no shame in not buying a raffle ticket, but support at least your local volunteer fire department, go to a chilli supper, a pancake breakfast, a fireman's ball, anything.
And for whatever it's worth, I'm buying raffle tickets as well, I'm not going to try to win back my own weights, but if I do win them back I'll give them to the youngest person plowing.