No, your eyes did not deceive you Friday, Aug. 30. There was a football game at Cornell College’s Van Metre Field. Both teams, however, were not from Iowa.

High school football teams from Pewaukee, Wis., and Moberley, Mo., held a game between their two teams at the geographical halfway point for both teams, Mount Vernon, Iowa.

Zach Schlabaugh said that Cornell had been contacted a month in advance about hosting the game.

“We always see this as positive to give two schools full of pro- spective students and their families an opportunity to see the campus and we had no conflicts,” Schlabaugh said.

The game kicked off at 7 p.m., with the Pewaukee Pirates topping the Moberley Spartans in a 36-18 game. That was just one of the activities in the area for Labor Day celebration.

The other was the annual pancake breakfast at the Lisbon Fire Station Monday, Sept. 2. The breakfast started serving at 6:30 a.m. and ran until noon.

By 8 a.m. the lines to get into the fire station were reaching outside the Lisbon City Hall building, and only getting longer into the late morning. Lisbon fire chief Brandon Siggins said the breakfast served more than 1,400 people and will raise over $15,000, records for both attendance and profit.

Numerous members of Lisbon Fire Department, their families and neighboring fire departments helped serving pancakes, eggs, sausage, hash browns, coffee, orange juice and milk and keep the line moving.

Following the breakfast, the Lisbon Public Library hosted their Touch a Truck event, with several of the Lisbon Fire Department vehicles outside for youth in the community to explore.