Arnolds Park, Iowa — Here’s a sign of spring: the Rotary car has gone through the ice on Smith’s Bay of West Lake Okoboji. It had been leaning the past couple of days and finally went the rest of the way through Thursday evening.
The exact time the car officially went through will be determined by a specially rigged clock that will be retrieved when the vehicle is removed. That likely won’t happen until early next week. The person with the ticket with the minute of which the vehicle went through is the winner of the $1,000 prize. Erin Reed of the Iowa Great Lakes Rotary Club says ticket sales this year were brisk.
Reed says the Car Drop contest is one of their largest fundraisers of the year.
Even though the car is now at the bottom of the lake, there’s no need to worry about pollution. The vehicle, which is the same one used each year, has been completely stripped of its engine and components.
(Courtesy fellow Community First Broadcasting station KUOO in Spirit Lake)
