Silver City to host more than 100 times its population for breakfast [Video]

SILVER CITY, Iowa (KMTV) — The full route for RAGBRAI (Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa) was announced on Thursday morning. All the small towns that will host riders as they pass through on the way to overnight stops now know they have to start planning to host thousands of cyclists. Silver City is the first breakfast stop on the ride.

• City Councilwoman Rose Schoening has seen it all before: “Some people are excited and some people are like, “eh, we’ve been through this before, we’ll be fine.”
• “You know, what I’ve learned planning in Glenwood is that we need more volunteers up front for the planning process than we do the day of. Everybody wants to help the day of, so it’s not a big struggle to find volunteers who want to help that day. It is all the planning that goes into it,” said Jennie Davis, executive …