Rodney Howard, Burr Oak, prepares to drive his Farmall H in the 18th Glen Elder Lions Club Tractor Cruise on Saturday. The Cruise began at the Hopewell Church on the north side of Waconda Lake and stopped at the Fort Hays Tech North Central Campus in Beloit before returning to the church.
The Glen Elder Lions Club Tractor Cruise has been touring Mitchell County since 2006. On Saturday, 29 tractors, drivers and support personnel met for the 18th annual event at Hopewell Church on the north shore of Waconda Lake. The church has been the starting point of the Tractor Cruise for the past several years.
By 8 a.m., the area around the church was filled with tractors of many colors, Farmall red, Ford gray, Centaur yellow, Minneapolis Moline yellow, John Deere green, Oliver green and Case tan and orange. Some were shiny, some a bit rusty.
Most of the 29 drivers of those tractors have b...
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