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Rock ‘n’ Ride for the fifth year in a row in Washington County this weekend. The annual bike ride and festival raises money for cancer research in honor of Kim Friese and Karen Van Osdol. Both women died of cancer in their 40s. The bicycle ride will start Saturday morning in Washington with cyclists going up Riverside Road to Riverside. It is a 35.2-mile round trip trek.

Another way people can take part is on Friday with the Rock ‘n’ Relax at the Washington Golf and Country Club at 6 p.m. The funds raised go to the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa for research, in the past four years over $150,000 has been gifted.