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Le Mars — Jim Green loved ice cream. So it was appropriate that on Saturday, as riders on the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa gathered in Le Mars for Sunday's launch of the ride's 48th edition, a memorial to the late, longtime director of the world's largest annual bicycle ride was dedicated in the northwest Iowa city that claims to be the "Ice Cream Capital of the World." The Wells Visitor Center & Ice Cream Parlor in the heart of downtown, where the ceremony took place, represents the history of family-owned Wells Enterprises and its most famous product, Blue Bunny Ice ...

CHEROKEE — Foreshadowing a moment anticipated for nearly two years, about 30 riders in pedaled toward the morning sun, departing Le Mars in far northwest Iowa on Sunday for the first leg in a weeklong ride. Twenty-three months after the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa last set off on its cross-state trek, it was the start of the annual RAGBRAI pre-ride, a journey that gives the organizers the chance to inspect the route up-close and meet with representatives of the towns through which it will pass. Just seven weeks from now, 12,000 riders are expected to follow in the...