The featured musical performer for the seventh annual “Trails & Trills” bike ride on the north end of the Raccoon River Valley Trail on Saturday, September 3, was Marissa Miller (left), the two-time Iowa State Fair yodeling champion. Miller, 16, of Cascade in northeast Iowa, won the fair’s yodeling contest in both 2010 and this year. Despite it being a rainy morning, she performed briefly before the start of the “Trails & Trills” ride in Jefferson, and then gave a much longer performance during the lunch stop in Cooper, eight miles south down the trail. Here she is shown giving a yodeling lesson to several in the lunch crowd who said they wanted to learn – (left to right) Chuck Offenburger, of Cooper, a member of the RRVT Association board of directors; Von Ketelsen, farm broadcaster and musician from KWMT radio in Fort Dodge; young Claire Teusch, a cyclist from Jefferson, and Rachel Garst, of Coon Rapids. Ten musicians performed for the 50 or so cyclists who rode through the rain. And they had a fabulous lunch in Cooper of ribeye steak sandwiches grilled by the Greene County Cattlemen, five fresh salads and an amazing choice of dessert bars. Sponsors of the event were the RRVT Association, the Committee for a Super Cooper and the Cyclists Of Greene club based in Jefferson.