Governor Terry Branstad and Iowa Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds have announced their upcoming weekly schedule, which includes stops in Atlantic, Audubon, Harlan and Council Bluffs. Governor Branstad will be in the area next Friday (July 8th), beginning with a 9-a.m. visit to AMVC Veterinary Services, in Audubon.

From there he will travel to Harlan, where Branstad will attend an Agriculture Industry Town Hall meeting hosted by the Shelby County Chamber of Commerce and Industry, beginning at 10:30-a.m.  Afterward, both the Governor and Lt. Governor will speak at the 33rd Annual Governor’s Volunteer Award recognition ceremony at Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs, beginning at 1-p.m.

The next leg of Branstad’s trip takes him to Atlantic, where at 3-p.m. next Friday, he’ll tour Rex Pharmacy, which the McKesson Corporation on June 27th, named Health Mart Pharmacy of the Year for 2016. The Governor’s last stop in Atlantic at 3:30-p.m., will be for a tour of the Historic Whitney Inn, the upper floors of which are being converted into mature adult apartments and living spaces. The three-story Victorian-era Boss Hotel was built in 1890, and is on the list of the National Register of Historic Places.