Hiawatha Business Owner Loses Ragbrai Vendor Fee Case

CEDAR RAPIDS — A Hiawatha business owner has lost her lawsuit seeking a refund from a 2015 RAGBRAI event contending she was unfairly charged a $600 vendor fee by city leaders and event planners.Jennifer Goodlove, owner of Farmer’s Daughter’s Market, 495 Miller Road in Hiawatha, may not have profited when the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa stopped in Hiawatha on July 23, 2015, but she expanded her business with more tents, portable toilets, bands and food sheds, according to the June 14 ruling by Linn County Magistrate Robin L.