The last weekend of August should provide plenty of things to see and do in and around Belle Plaine.

Friday afternoon, don’t forget to stop by the Jumbo Well Fountain area near the museum for the Rotary Rib Fest. Rib dinners will be served from 4-7 p.m. and frozen ribs will also be for sale. Proceeds benefit several projects of the Belle Plaine Rotary Club.

The Belle Plaine football team has just four road games on the schedule this season and the first one is less than 10 miles away, as the Plainsmen open the season Friday night at HLV. The Plainsmen are ranked seventh in one state poll and optimism is running high in the Plainsman camp for another great season.

On Saturday, the Belle Plaine Ambulance Service will host the annual Benton County Safety Fair at Franklin Park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be various safety demonstrations during the event, as well as a chance to see much of the apparatus and vehicles that are used in emergencies, including a scheduled landing of an air ambulance.

Saturday afternoon, the annual Iowa Lincoln Highway Association Motor Tour will stop in Belle Plaine. The group is scheduled to be here from 2-3 p.m., with stops at the Belle Plaine Museum and at Preston’s Garage. This will be day two of the three-day, cross-state tour. The group will spend Saturday night in Cedar Rapids before completing the tour on Sunday in Clinton.

Bingo will be offered at the museum on Sunday, starting at 2 p.m.