Brighton News

On Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, Free County hosted a supervisor forum at the Brighton Community Center in Brighton, at 6:30 p.m. Present at the forum were supervisor candidates Abe Miller (R) and Keith Cutkomp (D) from District 3 (Brighton, Crawfordsville and Ainsworth areas, or Iowa, Highland, Oregon, Crawfordsville, Marion, and Brighton townships), and supervisor candidate Richard Young from District 5 (Jackson Township and part of Washington Township). They answered questions from the audience.

Another supervisor candidate forum will be held at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 21, at the Conservation Education Center in Marr Park.

Winifred Fritz observed her birthday on Oct. 4. Her grandson J.D. Hollingsworth of Packwood had an evening meal and hayride for the occasion. Over 30 friends and relatives met at Winifred?s home. They arrived from Brighton, North Liberty, Lockridge, Keosauqua, Fairfield, Sigourney, Zearing, and Nevada in Iowa, and from Windsor Heights, Ill. She received phone calls from her children in Missouri and Fairfield, grandchildren in Missouri and Nebraska, her sister in Farmington, and her cousin in Renwick.

The Krony Krew Bridge Club met on Oct. 8 at the home of Louise Frakes. Liz Gegner, Dorothy Miller and Kathryn Dickinson took the prizes. Their meeting of Oct. 22 is pending.

Gerald and Rosemary Pacha met their daughter and son-in-law, Jennifer and Brian Phillips of Johnston, on Sunday, Oct. 5. Gerald built a corn shock in the yard for their grandchildren. In the afternoon, they all went to the Cedar Grove Orchard and Pumpkin Patch in Ankeny. It was the ?Country Celebration at the Farmyard? weekend. Their grandchildren, Aurora and Ames, got to pick out their pumpkins and play at the different games and rides with Mom and Dad Phillips and Grandpa and Grandma Pacha. Their favorite place to play was at the corn pool, a layer of shelled corn surrounded by straw bales. On Wednesday, granddaughter Aurora called to tell her grandfather that a reindeer was in their yard eating on the corn shock.

Rosemary Pacha gave a tea program for the Mayflower chapter of the DAR on Friday afternoon, Sept. 26, in Cedar Rapids.