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Ag Bytes
and Till’s Garage.
If you or your business would like to join
this great list of sponsors, please reach out
to committee members Ron Regenwether,
Charlie or Jenni Peters, or Skott or Chris
Gent.
Local match will help
Together We Build raise
final $600,000
After more than a decade of planning,
fundraising, and setbacks, the Together
We Build ag facility on the Jackson County
Fairgrounds is about to become a reality.
Donors to the Together We Build project
got their first sneak peek of the building in
late July at a special donor open house at
the site. Committee members representing
the Jackson County Extension Office,
Jackson County Fair, the county, and
other project volunteers led tours through
EASTERN IOWA FARMER PHOTOS / KELLY GERLACH
Alan Wood, left, leans on the sill of a newly
framed opening in the Together We Build ag
center now under construction on the Jackson
County Fairgrounds in Maquoketa. He talks
with Skott Gent, a co-chair of the project. In
late July, donors to the project received a
sneak peek of the building, which committee
members said should be completed by the
end of the year.
Dennis Wilcox sips a glass of water while
sitting near what will become the Jackson
County Fair Board office in the new ag hub
on the fairgrounds. Dennis and wife Connie
received naming rights to the office for their
contribution to the project.
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Left to right: Cathy
Meinsma, CPA and
President; Ashleigh
Determann; Carol
Schuster, CPA;
Susan Hunter,
CPA; Connie Beer;
and Sue Gravert.
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