Annual Firefighters' Pancake Breakfast

Rickets VFD Pancake Breakfast

Sunday, October 7

7:00am-12:30pm

Free Will Offering

Annual Ricketts Fire Dept. Breakfast

Pancake Breakfast

Sunday October 9

8:30am-12:30pm

Ricketts Community Building

Free Will Offering


Thank You for coming and for your donation. All proceeds from today's breakfast will be used toward the purchase and maintenance of out equipment.


We would also like to thank the following businesses for their contributions: Ampride, HyVee, WalMart, McDonald's and No Frills.


If you are interested in joining the Ricketts Volunteer Fire Department or have any questions, please feel free to contact Chief Bruce Meyer or Assistant Chief Steve Smith.

Showing out Pride for the 4th of July

The Ricketts Volunteer Fire Department participated in the Charter Oak parade on July 5 celebrating their 60th "Achievement Days" 4H/FFA fair. Above; Mayor Connie makes sure that the PRESS knows it's place. (I jumped about 10 feet when she honked the horn just as I was taking that first picture!)

Securing the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity (get it? the eagle is on the posterior of the fire engine? posterior/posterity? okay, never mind, I have a twisted sense of humor anyway.

Homecoming Parade

The Lills drove in the Charter Oak-Ute Homecoming parade Wednesday, September 12.
So did the guys in the Volunteer Fire Department. Believe me, that rig can make a lotta noise when it wants to!

Dedicated to... the Ricketts Volunteer Fire Depatrment

FIREFIGHTERS WHETHER VOLUNTEER OR PAID, HAVE A DEDICATION THAT JUST WILL NOT FADE

THEY HAVE TO CONTINUOUSLY LEARN AND TRAIN, AND FIGHT FIRES IN THE SNOW AND THE RAIN.

THEY DO THEIR JOB WITH HONOR AND PRIDE, THEIR FELLOW FIREFIGHTERS AT THEIR SIDE.

FAMILY MEMBERS WORRY AND PRAY, KNOWING THERE IS A CHANCE THEY WILL BE TAKEN AWAY.

PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE HOW MUCH THEY CARE, OR HOW MUCH OF THEIR LIFE THEY ARE WILLING TO SHARE

WHENEVER THEY ARE CALLED TO HELP THEY GO, EVEN IF ITS SOMEONE THEY DO NOT KNOW ,THEY FIGHT FIRES AND HELP AT ACCIDENT SCENES, WHETHER ITS SOMEONE ELDERLY OR IN THEIR TEENS

WHENEVER YOU SEE THESE MEN AND WOMEN GO OUT, PLEASE REMEMBER TO THINK ABOUT, THE THING THEY ARE DOING INTERRUPTS THEIR FAMILY LIFE, AND SOMETIMES CAUSES THEM TEARS AND STRIFE

SO THE NEXT TIME THEY PASS YOUR WAY, PLEASE TAKE A MINUTE TO STOP AND PRAY, THAT THEY MAKE IT HOME WHEN THE DAY IS DONE AND THAT THIS WON'T BE THEIR LAST RUN.

AUTHOR: KALLIE REHMEL, SECRETARY GREENE COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION AND WRIGHT TWP.VOL. FIRE DEPARTMENT.