44th Annual Diabetes Trail Ride to be organizer’s last

When Butch Freeseman’s son Rodney was 1 ½, the boy was diagnosed with diabetes.
Soon after, in 1972, the elder Freeseman, of Allison, started an annual trail ride to raise funds for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).
The Annual Juvenile Diabetes Trail Ride, the 44th and which Butch says is his last, will be Saturday, Sept. 17 and Sunday, Sept. 18 in rural Clarksville. He says he’s “getting too old.”
The event is somewhat unique. “(JDRF has) different (fundraisers such as walks) but this is the only horse one in Iowa that I know of,” Freeseman said.
Monte Casler of Charles City has been assisting with the ride for nearly a decade with his wife, Laura.
Read the full article in the September 8 edition of the papers.