A harvest of kind hearts and helping hands

Last week, something special was taking place in a cornfield near Dows. Combines were rolling, grain carts were on the move and semis full of harvested corn were rumbling. Suggesting that a corn harvest in Iowa is noteworthy seems a little silly, but there was something different about this one. The farmer who planted the corn wasn’t participating in the harvest efforts. In fact, he was not even present. Instead, Jerry Butt is coping with a brain tumor.